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Fake friends. Hidden enemies. Trusted people who turned into quiet betrayers. Fake Friends: Prayers Against Betrayers is a powerful prayer manual for anyone who has ever felt the sting of betrayal—from friends, relatives, co-workers, church members, lovers, or seasonal people who pretended to care while working against you behind the scenes. These short, direct prayers guide you into emotional clarity, spiritual protection, and deep healing. Whether you’ve faced jealousy, gossip, copying, manipulation, ghosting, spiritual hypocrisy, stolen ideas, or broken trust, this book gives you the...

Five years ago, I ruined the best thing I had in my life and ran. Now, I'm finally back to make things right. I need Circus's forgiveness, and then I can finally move on. I'll leave Sunbury for good this time and never look back. Maybe then I can finally live life as an out gay man - without my family ever finding out. But earning his forgiveness isn't as simple as I hoped it would be. He's going to make me fight for it. And I don't blame him at all.

I’m fake-dating my brother’s best friend on national TV, because my bakery won’t survive if I don’t. Jake Mitchell—my brother’s best friend and my almost boyfriend—is back. He’s the NHL golden boy who walked away nine years ago when my brother forced a choice, for my sake. Business is bleeding; late invoices, quiet mornings, numbers that don’t forgive. But the Sweethearts Bake-Off is the only shot I have at keeping the lights on. The catch? It’s couples only. So I text Jake before noon, expecting silence... and he says yes. Now we’re a team: contracts signed and ...

Maddox - The reason I rarely go home is three simple words: I'm a liar. When the pressure to marry my childhood sweetheart became too much, I told her I was gay and then fled to New York like my ass was on fire. Now, five years later and after a drunken encounter, I find myself invited to her wedding. And I have to bring my boyfriend-the boyfriend who doesn't exist because I'm straight. At least, I think I am. Meeting the guy I'm bribing to be my boyfriend for the weekend makes me question everything about myself.

Confession: I’m known for writing the best happily ever afters… but I don’t believe in love. But you’re not allowed to say that on live TV when you’re promoting the movie based on your book. The movie producers will get really mad and threaten to cancel the sequel. Unless you can prove to the public that you have a boyfriend. A real one not nestled in the pages of a book.

A laid-back cop, a sassy lawyer, and a bet that changes everything. Link, my brother’s best friend, thinks my new client is a lost cause. When I mention my high school reunion is coming up and I don’t want to go alone, Link proposes a bet: Win this case, and he'll be my fake date for my reunion. But one bet isn’t enough. Next thing I know, we're stuck together, competing in challenges. And he can’t resist upping the ante. But beneath the playful banter, something shifts. A stolen kiss reveals there might be more to us than just friends. I never expected a bet to turn into love, but ...

Ten years ago, I gave him my V-card. Now we’re fake dating, but the feelings are real. For as long as I can remember, Grayson Nolan has been my safe haven. My charming, rich, and handsome best friend who knows me better than anyone. When his high-profile marriage ended in scandal, he turned to me with an outrageous request: pretend to be his girlfriend to salvage his reputation. I thought I could handle it, until our act sparks a chemistry that neither of us can deny. Nights acting the smitten couple blaze into real, tangled sheets. The lines between fantasy and reality blur as I find ...

Max has been in love with his childhood best friend, Ash, for years. The reason he has kept it a secret is because Ash also happens to be Max's brother's ex-boyfriend. Complicated doesn't begin to explain their relationship.

I came to London to plan a Christmas gala—not to end up half-naked under a streetlamp with a gorgeous stranger. And definitely not to find out, once the photos go viral, that he’s a member of the royal family. Now I’m a tabloid punchline, my client’s panicking, and my perfectly planned holiday has gone straight to scandal. The solution? Pretend we’re dating until the cameras lose interest. Simple. And nothing Emily Darling, social-media whizz, can’t handle. Except Oliver isn’t the snotty aristocrat I expected. He’s funny, kind, unfairly sexy—and a Christmas nerd just like me.

A New York Times bestseller! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies Lynn Painter comes a heartfelt and banter-filled rom-com about childhood sweethearts whose icy reunion in their hockey-loving hometown unexpectedly thaws when they fake a romantic relationship...

Want to know the fastest way to get screwed out of a football career? Get photographed in a compromising position in a gay bar. Yep, welcome to my life. My agent says he can fix my image. He wants me to become the poster boy for gay football players. Me? I just want back on the field. I'll do anything to play for the NFL again, even pretend to have a steady boyfriend. If only my fake boyfriend wasn't Noah Huntington III - the most arrogant, entitled rich guy in the world.

My brother’s best friend. A fake ring. Only one bed. I never stood a chance. Leo Rivera was supposed to be a harmless lie. The man who once broke me with one cocky laugh—off-limits, untouchable, infuriatingly gorgeous. But when a powerful investor questions my stability, I panic… and blurt out the biggest lie of my life. That I’m engaged. To him. Now Leo’s sliding a diamond onto my finger like he owns me. Whispering filthy promises I shouldn’t want. Touching me like he’s already claimed me. In public, he’s the perfect fake fiancé. In private, he pins me to the wall and ...

I'm one of the best wingers on the ice, but I'm through playing wingman for the woman I want. In college, Violet Tannehill dated one of my closest friends, but that moron left her behind when he graduated. Since then, she has focused on her career and her friends, and she says real relationships are something for later…or never. But while I caught feelings and ached for her, she’s kept us firmly friend-zoned. Until her ex-boyfriend, Nate, shows back up full of remorse. Nate wants to rekindle their relationship, but Violet doesn’t want to hear it. So she asks me to run interference for...

The world yearns for my billionaire's riches… But I'd trade it all for my first love, my sister's best friend. After an injury shattered her Olympic dreams, Emma Matthews is back in town to make a living from her family-owned skating rink. She didn’t know her father sold it to the hockey team owner: me. I didn’t know she’d returned with dark secrets and scars… Her presence reignites something inside me, a flicker of hope I thought long lost. Every glance, every shared moment, stirs up a storm of emotions I can't contain. She's back, and with her, the promise of something I've been...

Add one cocky hockey god, one feisty female, and many emotions left unsaid. Stir together in a fake engagement of convenience. Stand back… Max I’d never missed a beat when it came to women and hockey. But all my usuals fell by the wayside that night. I never intended to seduce Hailey Rogers, my best friend’s off-limits sister. Hey, that was a bro-code violation. But she was sizzling perfection, so I pulled her body in and took her—and her V-card. Then I ran… and Hailey’s plaintive question as the door slammed shut echoed in me for years: “Max?” Hailey Max Decker is back. Now...

Nerdy girls like me don’t stand a chance with hunky, billionaire hockey gods. Yet I’m dating one. And even though it’s a fake relationship, it sure doesn’t feel fake under the covers. I’ve never forgotten that deliriously sizzling night I met Noah Harrington. He rescued me from a wilderness car crash, and our physical connection alone electrified his cabin. He told me he'd never been married. But then I saw his wedding photos. No need sticking around for a liar. Years later, my brother gets me a job with his hockey team. And surprise. I meet his best friend, the team star: Noah, ...

Fact or fiction: proposing to your best friend so she can inherit her family business is a great idea. When Addison “Roe” Monroe tells me she’s going on a husband hunt at the local lumberjack competition so she can inherit her father’s lumberyard, desperate times call for desperate...

A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfect match. "Jimenez is a trule talent." —Emily Henry, NYT bestselling author Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother’s running out of...

Dating my small town's hottest billionaire seems like a fairy tale. But little do they know, it's all a charade… Struggling after my dream coffee shop in Seattle crashed and having my heart broken by my ex, I flee to my hometown, determined to buy back my former café and rebuild my life. Back in Cedarwood, I face a double blow: my possessive ex tracked me down, and someone just beat me to buying ‘Mocha Memoirs’—by a day. Worse yet, that someone is none other than Jake Rogers—my best friend’s brother and my old flame, whose body is one hot chiseled masterpiece with well-defined ...

Fake dating my brother's best friend was never part of the plan. But neither was falling for him. Cole Hamilton is Chicago's grumpiest billionaire. Twelve years older, infuriatingly hot, and dangerously obsessed with control. He's also the man who's made it his mission to sabotage my love life. I'm a journalist chasing the promotion of a lifetime. I don't have time for his games. But when I confront him, he introduces me as his girlfriend. Now we're locked into ninety days of pretending. What he doesn't know is I've got a plan of my own. Then everything changes... The gravel in his voice ...