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The price of endless pleasure!
Clients, women, money...ruthless CEO Sev Derzhavin is a master at getting whatever - and whomever! - he wants. Rejected as a child, Sev has never been refused since.
So when his personal assistant resigns, Sev can't resist the challenge of enticing the beautiful brunette to stay....Naomi Johnson has to walk away before she gives in to the chemistry with her infamous heartbreaker boss and opens her heart to yet more bruises. But on their last business trip to Dubai, Sev makes a shocking suggestion to relieve the tension between them: enjoy some overtime - in his bed!
Kidnapped by her king!
As the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve, the fairy tale is over for all of Petras when Queen Tabitha - refusing to live in a loveless marriage - asks her husband for a divorce. But anger erupts into passion, and when Tabitha flees the palace she's carrying King Kairos's heir! Discovering her secret, Kairos kidnaps his wife. Against the backdrop of his secluded island paradise, he proves there's no escaping his royal reach. He will use the desire that's gone unsated between them for too long to ensure his wife returns to his side.
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Evie Crowe is starting over in a strange town with her newborn, and men are the furthest thing from her mind. If only the quiet, hulking farmer, Luke Ward, would stop coming into the thrift shop and piquing her reluctant interest. Evie wants to stay single all the way—she can’t trust anything more than friends-with-holiday-benefits. But Luke is in it for the long haul. He’s fixed on making this a Christmas Evie will remember forever. If she gives him a chance.
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An ode to his monster Yule log.
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 11-13-24
By: Tessa Bailey
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Drop Dead
- By: Lily Chu
- Narrated by: Phillipa Soo, John Cho
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn’t mind being called “Lady Death”. It suits the ice queen persona she’s cultivated to survive the fast-paced Toronto Herald. So when Nadine learns that famous (and reclusive) author Dot Voline has died, she doesn’t hesitate to run the obituary…only to discover that Dot is very much alive. Nadine’s screw-up has brought Wesley Chen of the rival Spear no end of joy—she’s been a thorn in his extremely ambitious side for years. But the renewed interest in Dot also surfaced chatter about a mysterious past scandal.
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Clean and sweet
- By Momma Nae on 08-02-24
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Holiday Hideaway
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- By: Mary Kay Andrews
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
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Tilly Farriday isn’t feeling very jolly this season. Recently divorced and broke, she’s squatting in one of her rental agency’s properties until her new home is ready. The sprinkles on top of the burnt Christmas cookie that is her life? The new owner shows up early, forcing Tilly to hide in the attic to save her job…and what remains of her dignity.
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I ain’t afraid of no ghosts
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 10-31-24
By: Mary Kay Andrews
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Nocticadia
- By: Keri Lake
- Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock, Stella Hunter
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
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After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her and leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I received an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before, those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.
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Good but a slight miss
- By Destinyreadsbooks on 01-17-24
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Mr. and Mrs. Christmas
- By: Michelle Stimpson
- Narrated by: Marcella Cox, Ian Hackney
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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There's no place like home for the holidays ... especially for Lesley Carver. Life in the big city just wasn't her jam and now she's back in Hickory Falls, working at the family diner and helping her mom after she took a tumble. Lesley longs to build a life here, working at the cafe, selling her handmade ornaments and ... er, apparently reviving her high school crush on her best friend’s older brother. Only one problem, her mom wants her to leave Hickory Falls far behind.
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Loved the book!
- By Amazon Customer on 11-15-24
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All by My Elf
- Under the Mistletoe Collection
- By: Olivia Dade
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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Nina and William are underpaid adjunct professors at the same university, where winter break is no break at all: ’tis the season to make extra money. When their holiday side hustle has them stranded by a blinding blizzard in the middle of nowhere, there’s nothing to do but cuddle up for warmth and play a game of Never Have I Ever to pass the time. But in the game of love, secrets never stay secret for long…
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A cool, considerate romance
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 11-13-24
By: Olivia Dade
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- Anonymous User
- 10-02-20
Enjoyed it tremendously.
Loved every single word. Would refer this book to everyone . Loved it. couldn't stop listening.
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- LaPhoenix334
- 05-05-19
A partially good read
The Cost of the Forbidden was really good. The narrator’s inflections can be annoying at times because it makes her sound repetitive in all the books she does. But it doesn’t take away from the book. The story achieves what I’ve come to love in a good Harlequin Romance (which I’ve been a fan of for over twenty plus years). It begins with an attraction that is further developed due to some constraint or character flaw. Then the undeniable romance wins despite the character’s misgivings, and after a nice heart wrenching moment you get your happy ending. I liked it quite a bit.
The Queen’s New Year Secret is actually pretty bad. Too much angst due to unspoken truths kills a good romance for me. Unless you’re 14 years old and still too immature to know your own mind, two adults have no reason to struggle communicating what they want from each other for the first third of the book. When you end up spending more time waiting for them to keep it real so they can find the love right in front of them rather than being swept away by the story it just begins to feel like work instead of a leisurely read. Maybe it feels like work because you turn into some quasi-shrink trying to figure them out. For me this isn’t very entertaining so I didn’t finish that book.
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- 02-15-20
The Cost of the Forbidden & The Queen's New Year S
I listened to this duo on Audio Amazon and enjoyed the stories. Written by Carol Mainelli. The first is the second book in that series. It is about Sev Derzhavin one of four 'brothers' who were raised in a Russian home for unwanted children. This is about his life in time with his new PA, Naomi Johnson. Both of them have problems with their past childhoods. He was unwanted and basically tossed away. She was unwanted by both of her parents and ignored. What happens when they travel the bumpy road towards happiness.
Written by Maisey Yates. Queen Tabitha has given her husband papers. They have been married for five years and only for the good of the country and children. But no child has been graced for them. King Kairos's is livid. But what has happened to them. This is their story. Will they have the happy ending that will smooth the hurt they both feel? Or will it end in divorce?
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