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Town ball-buster and reformed bad-girl, Kat Rhodes, has always had a love for trouble, not to mention trouble when it comes to love. Just last month she shared the most awkward, awful, terrible kiss in the history of kisses with the town’s most infuriating man—the straight-laced, stick-up-his-backside, golden boy. It was an experience she vowed never to repeat, until she does and, woah baby, it’s a fireworks, flutter-inducing, and all kinds of fanfare event. Which is ridiculous. He enforces laws, she breaks them.

A torching kiss on a long-ago high school dare just might flare up again. Swoony Award 2021 Winner: Best Medical Romance Dr. Jasher Hotchkiss, first rate knee surgeon, never wanted to return to his hometown of Mendon. Not after what happened years ago that made him the town’s most hated teenager. Nor did he want to practice general surgery. And he certainly doesn’t want to form any ties in Mendon. Except … Sage Everton appears at an ambulance call. Sage? Nurse-anesthetist Sage Everton is widowed and is convinced she carries a hex that ruins the lives of men she begins to care about. ...

Many clients take the first step to see a psychotherapist and do not return after the first session. Why do people disengage so early, when we have so much to offer? One of the key reasons is that we are too focused on conducting an intake instead of finding a way to give. We have to find ways to deepen the engagement with our clients right from the first session of therapy. The First Kiss is specifically for the discerning psychotherapist who is willing to challenge the status quo of our profession in the way we conduct our first sessions.

Struggling architect Lila Monroe needs a last chance to save her late father’s company. Her only shot? A high-stakes pitch to billionaire developer Damien Chase a man with every reason to hate her family. Damien remembers how her family’s company crushed his father's firm years ago. He wants revenge. But when he meets Lila again he was thinking that maybe she isn’t the spoiled heiress he imagined she’s smart, guarded, and unforgettable. Their business deal forces them to work together. And the closer they get, the more the lines between business, rivalry, and love blur until one ...

The last person she expected to see in the doctor’s office was the guy who broke her heart! Colleen I knew there was a reason my mother was pushing me to go get a physical – she had a plan to fix me up with my ex-boyfriend, the boy who broke my heart twenty years ago. Ben may be a handsome doctor now, but I don’t know if I can trust him when he says he wants a second chance. Ben When I moved back to the small town of Cedar Creek I figured there was a chance I’d run into Colleen, the only woman I’ve ever loved. One look at the curvy beauty and I’m head over heels in love again. I...

Two damaged souls. One Christmas miracle. Andrew Beaumont is a dominant Alpha male. Protective. Fiercely loyal. After losing his first mate, he swore off love. Until fate brings her to him. Sylvia Beaumont is strong and resilient. A mother to five Alpha sons. She buried her heart with her first mate. But Andrew ignites a bond she can’t deny. Their connection is instant. Their love is fated. Both are scarred by loss. Can they embrace a second chance this Christmas? Perfect for readers who love: Protective alpha males Fated mates Second Chance Romance Heart-racing suspense HEAs with heat ...

The time has finally come for Sang Sorenson to be formally introduced to the Academy. Protocol dictates the boys keep the details of Sang's official introduction to the Academy a secret from her. The only thing they can advise her to do is to work on what will become her mantra: She is determined to stay with her team, no matter what. Despite her wishes, the boys are second-guessing her place with them, concerned for her safety. With dangers all around and threats closing in, some of the boys are questioning if this is the right time to bring her to meet the Academy at all.

She came home to run the family bakery, not to fall for the boy next door. Mya Moving back to Cedar Creek after my divorce was supposed to give me a fresh start, not a new romance. I’m busy enough trying to save my family’s failing bakery and rediscovering who I am without a husband. The last thing I need is to fall in love with my old friend Patrick. Sure, he’s charming, steady, and way too handsome for his own good, but I’ve been burned before, and I’m not ready to risk my heart again. Patrick I’ve always liked Mya, but the moment I see her again for the first time since we ...

Enjoy billionaires and heroes as they journey to find love. ★★★★★Bonus—Lawfully Smitten, an all-new Lawkeeper romance and Disaster City Search and Rescue Prequel. Also included are 3 Sweet, Contemporary Christmas Romances. Celebrate the holidays by enjoying award winning and international bestselling author, Jenna Brandt's heartwarming collection. The Billionaire's Birthday Gift: Nate and Stella used to be in love, until Nate picked his career over her. He wants a second chance to prove he's changed but she's not sure she's willing to gamble her heart on the man who broke it. ...

Iris Patel didn't think inheriting a mansion meant getting stuck upside-down in a window while a grumpy contractor watched. But that's what happens when you trade designing for the wealthy to creating spaces for your community. Now she's covered in paint, learning that beautiful doesn't have to be expensive, and falling for Rowan Brennan—the builder who creates magic with reclaimed wood and believes her vision can transform their town. As the community center takes shape and her heart opens, Iris has to decide if she's ready to build something lasting with a man who sees the home she's ...

Dominique Barnes has successfully dodged her family's matchmaking schemes for years. But with her sister's wedding fast approaching and a "perfect match" being flown in just for her, she does the only sensible thing—she lies about having a boyfriend. Enter Oliver Stanley: the mysterious new bookshop owner with his own reason for needing a fake girlfriend. If the conservative town council is going to approve his children's literacy program, he needs to prove he belongs in Millbrook. Their arrangement is strictly business. A few family dinners. Some cozy autumn events. Nothing that should ...

Elle Takra is a princess, the last heir to the Takra throne in a far-off place known as the Second Land. Having grown up in the First Land, Elle doesn’t know she’s a princess. All she does know is that she’s in love with a man named Simon and she intends to make Simon her husband, whether he agrees or not! Elle’s best friend, Sasha, does know the truth—a truth she’s been keeping from Elle for the entirety of their friendship. Sasha isn’t the twenty-two-year-old she pretends to be. Instead, she’s an eighty-four-year-old elf who acts as Elle’s protector and has from the ...

Tara I stopped believing in fairytales after everything I loved was ripped from me. I'm an optimist in a raincoat now. Love, relationships, family, they're all a farce. Love left me broken, a shell of the woman I once was. And I know it's time to close myself off from the world. Jude To hell with eighty-twenty relationships. Why risk it, when I can avoid it? I rebuilt my life in another country, focusing everything I have on my career, But then a chance encounter with Tara Craig, the most stubborn, and frustrating woman alive, tests my limits, and as much as I want to keep a distance, I ...

Jesse Dylan was my best friend, my first kiss...and my first heartbreak. Watching him walk out of my life almost ruined me. But years have passed; the pain of losing him has long since faded. Or so I thought. One glimpse in his cobalt eyes and those old wounds reopened. Jesse wants a second chance at what might have been, but it's too late. I'm with someone new. Someone safe. Someone who can't break me. Yet the heart wants what it wants, and mine has only ever beat for the one who got away. I can't deny him. I can't resist him. He consumes my every waking thought and invades my dreams.

A heartwarming novella in the Sweetwater Springs series from USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains, perfect for fans of RaeAnne Thayne and Debbie Mason. If Lacy Shaw could have one wish, it's that the past would stay in the past. And with her high school reunion coming up, she has no...

Something Daisy didn't expect was for Molly Madison to walk back into her life, eight years after she moved away. They'd been best friends forever, or so she'd thought. But Molly is back in town and she's looking...really good, actually. And that reminds Daisy of that one time at a sleepover when they'd kissed during a game of Spin the Bottle. That one kiss has been on her mind since then, but it's irrelevant. Molly isn't into girls. But as Daisy and Molly spend more time together, feelings start to grow, and Daisy is wondering just how "straight" Molly really is...

One night. One kiss. A love they can’t escape. On New Year’s Eve, Emily Sinclair walks in on her boyfriend’s betrayal—and walks out determined to never be that woman again. No more playing it safe. No more waiting for love that may never come. So when a dangerously irresistible stranger catches her eye across a crowded ballroom… she decides to take control of her own desires. Marcus Winters is powerful, controlled, and completely unprepared for the woman who turns his world upside down in a single glance. Their connection is instant. Explosive. Unforgettable. At midnight, one kiss...

Kara and Yasmeen have been best friends since high school. Now in their early 20s, they're as radically different to one another in personality as they always have been. Both have overcome the loss of their respective mothers, in albeit different circumstances which helped cement the bond between them. Kara is a working class, out and proud lesbian, while Yasmeen is a spoiled, yet dutiful middle class Muslim on the verge of an arranged marriage.

Small town girl Grace Phillips thought she had gotten out of Whiskey Springs. Her parents certainly did. But when her grandmother takes ill, she is summoned home from graduate school to take care of her. She takes a job with St. Clair Enterprises to make student loan payments on a degree she did not get to finish. When newly licensed airplane pilot Austin St. Clair returns home for the weekend, he finds Grace working for his family. He knew her when they were in high school, but she had been too young for him at the time. It had not stopped him from crushing on her then and now that she was...

Jamie Penner is a runaway bride. Was it the biggest mistake of her life or will she finally reunite with the one man who can fully claim her heart? Jamie Rose Penner is moments from saying “I do” when thoughts of an old flame come rushing back. Jason Cassidy is a divorced dad juggling a life between New York and LA. They say timing is everything. After decades of finding and losing each other, will Jamie and Jason’s stars finally align? Please NOTE: Every Ten Years was previously released on the Kindle Vella Platform.