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Getting sexy with the enemy isn't her first mistake… But it might be her best one Chaz Warren may be completely gorgeous, but for fashion executive Riley Gold, he’s the enemy. Especially now that he’s working for his family’s business, King Designs. Then a New Year's Eve kiss in Milan turns into full-on red-hot passion, and Riley wants more—if their affair is secret. But can Riley keep her delicio…
USA TODAY bestselling author Christie Ridgway returns to Blue Arrow Lake with the dazzling story of opposites attracting in the rustic mountains of California.As live-in tutor to a headstrong teen, Shay Walker has her hands full–and the girl's absentee father doesn't help matters, either. All Shay wants is to let loose and indulge in a birthday fling with the hottest stranger who's ever caught her…
Salley Vicker’s sensational debut novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time.Julia Garnet is a teacher. Just retired, she is left a legacy which she uses by leaving her orderly life and going to live – in winter – in an apartment in Venice. Its beauty, its secret corners and …
She’s always called the shots… …but he makes her lose control. Alana Carter likes to dominate, in the boardroom and the bedroom. She hates that her employee Michael constantly challenges her, but their scorching chemistry is impossible to ignore – and Michael is irresistibly commanding between the sheets, too. They take their illicit affair to Cancun for Christmas, where their connection becomes m…
All she wants is a taste…But can she resist wanting more? Alessandra Baroni has had her fill of American men. So arrogant. Like handsome-as-the-devil Dante Donato, who's determined to buy back the winery his family once owned—even if it means playing deliciously dirty! But Dante's met his match in Alessandra. Now the stakes are getting wicked…and with this much heat even the coldest of hearts is i…
Захолустный Бьорнстад – Медвежий город – затерян в северной шведской глуши: дальше только непроходимые леса. Когда-то здесь кипела жизнь, а теперь царят безработица и безысходность. Последняя надежда жителей – местный юниорский хоккейный клуб, когда-то занявший второе место в чемпионате страны. Хоккей в Бьорнстаде – не просто спорт: вокруг него кипят нешуточные страсти, на нем завязаны все интерес…
From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English.A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains, and spend the day intoxicated by the tranquillity of the setting; a swimmer is paralysed by a sudden cramp and finds himself stranded far out to sea on a cold autumn da…
Journey into pleasure… The night before Lord Denham embarks on his Grand Tour, his childhood friend Lady Althea Curtiss—desperate to escape an arranged marriage—arrives, demanding free passage! But soon Rhys realises that with his new travelling companion he is in danger of awakening not only Thea’s sensuality, but also his own long-buried heart. … Anusha Laurens is in danger. The daughter of an I…
Set in an unnamed South American country, a narrator we know little about pieces together the story – from journals, interviews, gossip, second-hand reports – of a young man called Nelson who travels through the mountains with a playwright and a motley collection of actors, performing a play that years earlier upset the authorities and had the playwright imprisoned. Nelson regrets leaving Ixta his…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Edward Palgrove gets more than he bargained for when he buys a basket of fruit and a second-hand car…
From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist.Keystone, West Virginia, 1910In the hot August rain the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows are none other than poker player, Abe Baach, and his lo…
A spellbinding, epic novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution’s three protagonists – Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution’s ideals and brought them eventually to th…
Learning to LoveElizabeth Gentry put all her passion into her students. Educating them, encouraging them, reaching them—that was easy. It was the living that was hard. After the betrayal, the grief and the pain, there was a kind of peace in giving away her heart to her pupils. That was what made Todd Lewis so dangerous.With his dogged determination and rugged handsomeness, he had slowly staked his…
The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America – but behind the facade of fame and glamour lies a hidden web of blackmail, drugs and murder…When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe.At the family gathering following the fu…
A classic thriller featuring the most daring escape of the Second World War, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed.American Colonel Hugh Kelso is washed ashore on German-held Jersey in Spring 1944, with top-secret D-Day plans in his possession. To get him back, the most daring escape of the Second World War must be planned and executed.Harry Martineau, bilingual philosop…