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Beau Hopper is good at good-byes. A minor-league hockey player, he goes where the league tells him. Former Marine Connor Casey's life revolves around his siblings. After Hurricane Harvey took their home and a car crash claimed their parents, Connor is determined to rebuild their house and their lives. When Beau learns Connor might lose custody of his siblings if he can't finish the rebuild in time, he volunteers to help in exchange for a place to stay, and it isn't long before he finds himself in Connor's bed.

“The best crime fiction I've read in twenty years.” — Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A masterpiece....Don Winslow remains one of my all-time favorite writers." —James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author #1 internationally bestselling author Don...

"Bootleg Springs" - die erfolgreiche Reihe der Bestsellerautorinnen Lucy Score und Claire Kingsley! Scarlett, die von ihren drei Brüdern aufgezogen wurde, hat eine harte Zeit hinter sich. Doch niemals lässt sie sich unterkriegen. Wie ein Wirbelwind sorgt sie überall, wo sie auftaucht, für Unruhe und reißt mit ihrem offenen Wesen alle mit. Ihre Lieblingsbeschäftigungen? Jeden Mann gnadenlos unter den Tisch zu trinken und Two-Step zu tanzen. Romantik oder gar tiefe Gefühle haben in ihrem Leben keinen Platz.

Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her twin. Too bad for Naomi, her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with a niece she didn’t know she had. Now, she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no home - and an 11-year-old to take care of. Since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least Knox can do is help her out. And just as soon as she's out of trouble, he can get back to his peaceful, solitary life. That’s the plan, until the trouble turns to real danger.

At twenty-eight years old, I thought I’d finally landed it—the assignment to cover the Seattle Hawkeyes' rise to Stanley Cup glory. It should be my dream come true—a career-making opportunity that could land me the head sports journalist position at The Seattle Sunrise. But instead of being handed the story of a lifetime, I’m facing my biggest challenge yet: Coach Bexley Townsend.

In this fabulous follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The Lazarus Effect, newspaper reporter Vee Johnson reprieves her role as Cape Town's most feisty female investigator. Vee and her ever-faithful sidekick, Chloe Bishop, have been banished from City Chronicle's newsroom to review a tourist lodge in sleepy Oudtshoorn. But Vee and Chloe are barely checked in to their rooms when the first body is discovered. hanging from a tree, with Vee's purple silk scarf used as a noose. But is it suicide or strangulation?

As the last line of defense for the Hawkeyes hockey team, I've mastered the art of keeping my guard up, both on and off the ice. But when Brynn Fischer, a determined romance author with a case of writer's block, shows up at my beach house in Mexico as a hurricane is headed straight for us, I'm forced to let her stay and confront emotions that I have no defense against. Now, we're stuck together while the storm rages outside and I'm faced with my own battle inside—keeping to my "no relationship" rule that's served me well over the last eighteen years.

You’ve heard of those kids who peak in high school? Meet my love life. Garrett Bradford was mine from the moment we saw each other in ninth grade. Even then, he was a six-foot-four mountain of muscles with bright blue eyes, a wide grin, and a way with his hands. He was the high school football star, and I was the dance team captain. We were the storybook cliché… until we weren’t. Now he’s the most famous offensive lineman in the league, and I’m a buttoned-up, ultra-professional lawyer.

La boda del año está a punto de celebrarse. La novia estará espectacular y el novio es el hombre perfecto para ella. Pero ¿qué hay de los invitados a la boda? Son una pesadilla. Y el padrino, el peor de todos.

Si hay algo que tiene claro, es que no es su tipo. Para nada. Knox prefiere vivir su vida tal y como se toma el café: solo. Pero todo cambia cuando llega a su pueblecito un terremoto llamado Naomi, una novia a la fuga en busca de su gemela, de la que lleva años sin saber nada. Lástima que su hermana le robe el coche y el dinero y la deje a cargo de una sobrina que no sabía que existía. Al ver cómo la vida de Naomi se va al traste, Knox decide hacer lo que mejor se le da: sacar a la gente de apuros. Después, volverá a su rutina solitaria… O ese es el plan.

Ridge Carter’s hockey career might be over but his purpose and passion are reignited when Calliope Porter leaves her past behind to start fresh in Knox Creek...This existence I’m surviving passes alongside the bars of an invisible cage. Until one night when there’s a choice I can take.

Los chicos malos no tienen finales felices, ¿verdad? Lucian Rollins es un despiadado hombre de negocios que no teme a nada ni a nadie, excepto a Sloane Walton, la descarada bibliotecaria de Knockemout. A ambos les une un antiguo secreto, pero las raras veces en que hablan, siempre acaban discutiendo. ¿Por qué se llevan tan mal? Ahora, el padre de Sloane acaba de fallecer y la bibliotecaria está devastada. Lucian deja a un lado su orgullo y acude a Knockemout para ayudarla a ella y a su familia en todo lo que necesiten.

Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson, private investigators in Asheville, North Carolina, are hired when a local environmentalist dies while monitoring water quality in the nearby Pigeon River. With no soil or water samples found near the body, his widow doesn't believe his death was an accident. In fact, witnesses reported a public altercation between the environmentalist and local mill heir Luke Kirkpatrick just two days prior. Could Luke or his father, Ted, have committed murder to secure their proposed business expansion?

"A hilarious, sexy debut from an author who truly knows her hockey." —Rachel Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Heated Rivalry on Shoot Your Shot "[Brown] rose to prominence on BookTok, specifically by dissecting hockey romances and what they got right or wrong." Expert source? Check...

When beautiful Jules Benton, a seventeen-year-old senior, goes missing after the spring formal dance in the small town of Watertown, Wisconsin, her father, Richard, becomes suspicious of Jules’ boyfriend, David Miller, and his involvement with her disappearance.

My brain is hard-wired to hockey. To train hard, to win, to be the best. I don’t date, I basically live and breathe hockey and I plan everything. Until I find a newborn baby outside my apartment. It’s like something out of a movie, except she’s mine and this is my life. I panic, the only person I know who can help is my neighbor Andi. But in doing so, I risk inviting her into my life. So far she’s just been a friend, but I’m out of my depth and losing control. Now with each late night together, we feel like a family and I can see the lines blurring.

Lorsqu'un terrible ouragan s'abat sur Merry, dans le Connecticut, Noah Yates, maire de la ville et père célibataire, doit informer les habitants déjà dévastés qu'il n'y aura pas de festival de Noël cette année... Un désastre pour la communauté! C'était compter sans la sublime Catalina King, experte en rénovation de maisons et star de la télé-réalité, déterminée à restaurer la ville à temps.

Fatal Score is a debut novel about big data, the future of medicine, the pain of loss, and the power of redemption. A few years from now, health care is rationed using HealthScore. When Joe Mayfield’s wife’s score is slashed, his frantic search to save her makes him a target of Phoenix, set to skim billions at the cost of thousands of lives.

Joe Mayfield’s happy, ordinary life comes apart when his wife’s HealthScore is slashed and she is denied cancer treatment. Frantic to save her, Joe hacks into the Yak - the national database the US created after CyberWar I.

As she prepares dinner for her husband andtheir extended family, Suzanne hears on the radio that a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead. Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor. Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied withher marriage to a composer whose music turns emotion into thought. Now, more alone thanshe’s ever been, she must grieve secretly.