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Investment banker Ash Taylor left her cut-throat world to set up a cool, cutting-edge tattoo studio. Her love life's been a lot bumpier, though. Ever since a heart-breaking affair with a straight colleague, she's vowed to steer clear of women unsure of their sexuality. Talent-agency executive Carmen Lyttleton is straight, career focused, and not prone to distraction from her occasional casual relationships. When her best friend gets a tattoo at Ash's studio, Carmen finds herself unexpectedly impressed by Ash and her business. 

02.11.2025 – Der Tag, an dem die Welt fast unterging... Die American White Natives hatten mit ihrem Plan Erfolg und stürzten die USA durch einen verheerenden Atomkrieg mit China in Chaos und Anarchie. Das Weltbild änderte sich schlagartig, doch aus der Asche der einst stolzen Nation erwacht ein neues Amerika! Die "NAP – New American Police", eine von Präsident Warren aufgestellte Miliz, gelingt es allmählich, die verbliebenen großen Städte und noch bewohnbaren Gebiete unter ihre Kontrolle zu bringen.

Tessa is a school teacher and single mom starting a new life in Paris, Tennessee. Romance is the last thing on her mind. Bishop is the leader of the Devil Chasers' Motorcycle Club and a single dad trying to rescue his son from the sins of his father. He doesn't have time to add a woman into the mix. Bishop's past won't let go, and soon Tessa is swept up in the powerful, intense biker's world - and all the danger that brings.

Agent Geena Fox is counting down the days to her retirement. On one bittersweet day six years ago, her team of superheroes defeated Jewel, the world's most evil villain - but Geena's secret lover died in the process. Now her boss has assigned her a rookie partner, Leigh Walker, and that's the last thing Geena needs. She sends the woman off on a wild-goose chase searching for a long-lost missing person to get her out of her sight. However, what Leigh finds will turn Agent Fox's world upside down.   

For many of the women who visit The Club, no-strings excitement is exactly what they are looking for and what they get. For others, however, with emotions running high, one night of sex changes their lives in ways they couldn't have imagined.

Abby Baxter's burning ambition to be a reporter gets a boost when her journalist friend offers her a deal: Fake-date a woman for a story she's writing on finding love, and she'll swing Abby a cowriting credit. It's a dream come true after so long looking for her big break. For years, life and raising her half-sister have gotten in the way.

Sometimes, going back is the only way forward. Punished for a crime she did not commit, Sadie is sent away to live with her grandmother in Sydney, Australia. Now, several years later, Sadie's an aloof, lone wolf cafe-manager who loves only her best friend, her gran, and her motorbike. Returning home to see her dying mother, she's forced to face her past. In the midst of family turmoil, she connects with the most unlikely of people. Holly, a beautiful hotel desk clerk, is Sadie's polar opposite and a beacon of warmth and light amidst Sadie's darkness.

Change is not Jenny Quinn's strong suit, but she's happy enough with her easy-going life, friends, and job as a TV production assistant. That is until a company shake-up foists the infuriating Olivia Sinclair on her. The woman is uptight, snobby, and has some perfect and famous motor-racing husband. TV and theater producer Olivia moved to New York from the UK to marry her longtime friend. It's a sham marriage, a favor to a man she loves as a brother, but the strain is beginning to take its toll.

Do you love sparkly vampires? Well, too bad, because you won’t find a single one of those fancy-dancy bloodsuckers anywhere in this collection! It Came from the Trailer Park began as a fun idea to revisit the classic horror and old-school creature feature genres, with a hefty helping of B-rate tropes thrown in for good measure. Who doesn’t love a good Bruce Cambell or classic Vincent Price flick on a dark and dreary night? Emmy award winner Bill Oberst, Jr. opens the collection and sets the stage for the stories to come.

Powerful venture capitalist Claire Pressley is done with stressful New York and has set her sights on a "treechange"—renovating a homestead in Eagle Cove, Oregon, to make a gorgeous guesthouse. Her plan isn't quite so simple when it turns out Eagle Cove's beloved town librarian Ruby Jordan had been saving to buy the homestead herself. Worse, Ruby had some grand, beautiful dream to turn it into an animal shelter.

Keira Miller, frisch von der FBI-Akademie, wird mit ihrem ersten Fall beauftragt. Ein brutaler Mord hat die Hauptstadt erschüttert, aber dank eines Videos, sitzt der Täter bereits in Haft. Die Sache scheint glasklar zu sein, doch die Agentin zweifelt an der Schuld des vermeintlichen Mörders. Ihre eigenen Ermittlungen führen die junge Frau schließlich immer tiefer in den Sumpf eines Hacker-Kollektives. Zusammen mit dem ehemaligen Black-Hat Steven Wong, macht sie sich auf, um den wahren Schuldigen zu fassen.

Talented golfer Morgan Spencer has never won a major but it's so close she can taste it - no thanks to her sexist father, a golfing legend who won't even give her the time of day. Television producer Adrienne Wyatt has thrown herself into her career after her lover left her a year ago. She has a brilliant new plan: a documentary featuring Morgan's rise and rise, capitalizing on the young woman's star appeal. The main problem is that the reserved golfer treats Adrienne's plan like an invasion of privacy. The other issue is her growing feelings for the irritatingly attractive woman.

When a storm wreaks havoc on bookish Lena's well-ordered world, her laid-back new neighbor, Megan, offers her a room. The trouble is they've been clashing since the day they met. How can they now live under the same roof? Making it worse is the inexplicable pull between them that seems hard to resist. A quirky romance, laced with classic British humor, about the power of opposites attracting.

Beloved famous British actress Tamsyn Harris is in her early fifties and works hard to prove she's still got "it", despite her age. That means never revealing she's a lesbian, for fear it would threaten her acclaimed career. After an on-set incident blows up, she disappears to a retreat to lay low for a while.

The past twelve months have seen Alex and her girlfriend, Terri, slowly drift apart. The awful revelation of Terri's one drunken night of betrayal shows Alex just how far apart they are. The more they fight, the less Alex even wants to try. On a business trip to Canada, Alex meets Justine and, over the course of one pivotal evening, a connection is formed that shatters everything Alex thought she knew about herself. Returning to London, she's faced with choices that will irrevocably change her life.

Welcome back to The Club. The rules are the same but the players have changed. Mandy still runs her unique nightclub. These days she's ready to bring love and passion back into her own life, but finding it? Well, maybe the universe has a sense of humor.

In "Got Me Twisted", New York diva Ebony Queen heads south after her mother's murder and tries to reinvent country bumpkin Reshunda - but it won't be easy! In "Arrested Development", Kelly joins the police force to get in the good graces of her love interest, Dante - but what happens when her brother gets out of prison and finds out her boyfriend is the same cop that brought him down? And in "Greed", Jackie and her parents escaped the projects and now live the high life - but what's going to happen to her if they get murdered?

Timid Californian, Cara, has rented a remote cottage in Scotland for a vacation before starting her new job. But her peace is shattered when an attractive stranger arrives unexpectedly. For the quiet Cara, Steph, whose buzzcut is as sharp as her chainsaw, is possibly the last person she wants to...

Dive into a delightful collection of classical nursery rhymes that will enchant young hearts. Featuring a blend of beloved favorites and some delightful surprises, this picture book is perfect for little ones, fostering early literacy and a love for storytelling.

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president of the United States. These achievements were not in spite of her background but rather because of it. She persevered by being steadfast in her political convictions and unwilling to compromise on the issues she believed in.