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A short steamy billionaire and strong curvy woman romance. Billionaire businessman, Alistair Harrington, needs to plan a last-minute engagement party for his estranged brother. With time running out, he enlists the help of a beautiful professional party planner, Anna. Can the two of them pull off the perfect party in such a short time period? And can they ignore the romantic tension that blossoms between them?

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We made the plans...I was retiring from the army and we bought a house and a business. And then the unthinkable happened and I couldn’t do it. What kind of man - what kind of husband or father - would I be if I walked away from my country when it needed me most. So I stayed - but I hurt the love of my life in the process.

A best friends to lover romance. Willow: I did it. I fell in love with my best friend. Should I mention he’s a player? So, I make a proposition - we be friends with benefits. Surely, it won’t backfire. Rider: I’m in a motorcycle club and my best friend is a girl. She wants to be friends with benefits. I want forever. Somehow, someway, I’m going to convince her how good love can be between friends.

"The Prisoner of Zenda" is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation, and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such, that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, who resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy, in effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum... Of course, complications along the way, plots and counter-plots will follow.

Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives and works at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel in Florida with a whole slew of characters: her dad, Art, the manager of the joint; Cheryl Lebeaux, the concierge and Goldie's best friend; and Walter Tooey, the hired hotel detective. Her mom, Sylvie, works nearby at the Mermaid Club. Prepare to be amazed by Goldie's second middle-grade adventure!

With the epic Garlucci family cruise adventure behind her, Millie is looking forward to smooth sailing on the Siren of the Seas' upcoming cruise to the ABC islands. Before they set sail, Andy calls the entertainment staff to the stage for an important announcement. The ship’s cruise director has managed to sign a wildly popular musical production for a monthlong gig. When the star of the show arrives and promptly produces a long list of “must-haves”, Millie believes this is just the tip of the iceberg of what could be a disastrous cruise.

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Assistant cruise director Millie Sanders is overwhelmed when her boss takes an emergency leave of absence to care for his ailing mother, and discovers she’s now in charge of the entire ship’s entertainment. As if she didn’t have enough on her plate, a family of special “guests” arrives for a last-minute cruise, which threatens to send Millie over the edge. Her anxiety turns to outright panic when the manager of the ship’s art gallery discovers several expensive pieces of art have been stolen, and she is pointing fingers at both Andy and Millie!

Have you seen Benjamin's belly button? He just discovered that everyone has one, except for him. With his trusted sidekick, Baxter in tow, Benjamin searches high and low for his missing belly button.

Jessica Blackwood is trying to make her architectural design firm a success, and she's off to a great start, thanks to a recommendation that leads to the job of the century-designing a house for a wealthy but reclusive bachelor. The only problem? Jessica's new client happens to be her old high school nemesis. The bigger problem? He's no longer the cocky boy who once tormented her, and suddenly she finds herself intrigued by her new client.

Breed, genetics, injuries, and traumas all play a part in the rate of a dog’s decline. Much like humans, dogs—even canine siblings—can age at different rates. Big dogs age more quickly than small dogs. Some breeds are more prone to serious illness than others. How will you know when your dog has reached their senior years?

Love Letters is a romance story featuring an alpha man and a curvy woman. I fell in love with her cupcakes...and then with her. But I screwed up. I didn't tell her I was leaving the next day. Now, I have to find a way to her heart, with love letters.

The Siren of the Seas sets sail for the much anticipated transatlantic repositioning cruise to the British Isles. It’s smooth sailing, until someone falls overboard. Millie jumps in head first to determine if the passenger's death was an accident, suicide, or murder.

Remi wakes up trapped in a cement room. She has no idea how she got there. Rayna doesn't know she’s missing. Turns out, Remi isn’t the only one who has been keeping secrets

"The Night Land" is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. When the book was written, the nature of the energy source that powers stars was not known: Lord Kelvin had published calculations based on the hypothesis that the energy came from the gravitational collapse of the gas cloud that had formed the sun and found that this mechanism gave the Sun a lifetime of only a few tens of millions of years.

Ava Miller disappeared five years ago. Her family thinks she's dead. But Greg Sanders isn't so sure...The Fate of Ava Miller is a suspenseful mystery novel by author Hope E. Davis about a woman the world forgot and the one man who isn't ready to let her go.

Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie, is a great trial to Lud, which had long rejected anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy, slightly melancholy man, not one for making waves, who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past: a secret he refuses even to acknowledge.

London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of Armistice Day with the burial of the unknown soldier. Many are still haunted by the war: Hettie, a dance instructress, lives at home with her mother and her brother, who is mute after his return from combat. One night Hettie meets a wealthy, educated man and finds herself smitten with him. But there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach. . . .

The story of "Rupert of Hentzau" is set in the kingdom of Ruritania, in Germanic Middle Europe. There is Rudolf Elphberg, the dissolute absolute monarch of Ruritania; Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who had acted as his political decoy, being his distant cousin and look alike; Flavia, the princess, now queen; Rupert of Hentzau, the dashing well-born villain; Fritz von Tarlenheim, the loyal courtier. Queen Flavia, dutifully but unhappily married to her cousin Rudolf V, writes to her true love Rudolf Rassendyll.