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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. ...

In Second Firsts, Rasmussen walks you through her Life Reentry process to help you break grief's spiral of pain, so you can stop simply surviving and begin to live again. She shows you that loss can actually be a powerful catalyst to creating a life that is in alignment with your true passions and values. The resilience, strength, and determination that have gotten you through this difficult time are the same characteristics that will help you craft your wonderful new life.

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.

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...

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. ...

How do you hold on to a love that is slipping away from you? How do you cope when every kiss is a countdown to goodbye? The first time Molly kissed Ryan, she knew they'd be together forever. But now, six years later, when Ryan kisses her, Molly realises how many of them she wasted -because the...

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 ...

Abby and Mitch were inseparable during their high school years, bound by a sweet yet powerful romance that blossomed amid academic pressures and youthful dreams. Their connection filled rooms with warmth, and everyone could see the spark between them. However, their happiness was short-lived. Abby’s parents, wary of the intensity and distractions of young love, decided to intervene. They forced Abby and Mitch apart, believing distance and time would help them focus on their futures. Heartbroken but obedient, the two had no choice but to drift into separate lives, quietly carrying the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Three courts lit. One gone dark forever. Three brands on her hands, two on her heart she won't admit to — and a winter coming with no room left to keep a distance. Liora has saved the Wildwood and lost the Wickfen, and the losing has welded her into the one shape that frightens the people who love her: a woman who will pour herself out for the whole sky and refuse every hand that reaches to help her carry it. She has stopped lighting windows. Aurelian has stopped reaching through them — for reasons he still cannot tell her, the vision and the death-cost and now a fragile impossible hope...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of With a Kiss and a Prayer by Ellie Dean, read by Julie Maisey. Cliffehaven, May 1944 The tension is rising for Peggy Reilly and the inhabitants of Cliffehaven as the planes continue to roar above the town and there is still no news of the...

The gripping new Second World War novel from Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of While We're Apart. After the death of her parents in a bombing raid, Mary Jones discovers a secret in the pages of father’s diaries. Her search for the truth brings her to Cliffehaven on the south coast...

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...