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Her mind should be on school — Cambridge! — and her grades — yikes! Instead all she can think about is him. Tristan Kingsley. It's not his money or his title.... It's not even his panty-dropping good looks. Kat loves Tristan because he's unguarded, sharing his emotions, his desires, and his dreams with her. But it seems Kat inherited the unlucky-in-love gene. Her father and Tristan's mother are now dating, which means she's spending Christmas break in the same London townhouse as Tristan.

The world is on the brink of war when Elizabeth Mowbray breaks her engagement with a tea planter in India and returns home to the English countryside. Desperate to escape a stifling life under her parents’ roof, she moves to London seeking adventure and excitement.

A daughter of rock ’n’ roll royalty has a secret crush. A lonely ticket-taker worries about his sister. An almost-famous songwriter nurses old wounds. A stage manager tires of being behind the scenes. A singer-songwriter struggles to untangle her feelings for her best friend and his girlfriend. In this live-out-loud anthology, the disparate protagonists of 16 stories are thrown together for one unforgettable event: their high school’s battle of the bands.

Kat Roberts thought she knew what heartbreak was—until Tristan Kingsley, the gorgeous, arrogant, future Earl of Pembroke, shattered her with one brutal choice: walking away. Their love was forbidden from the start, but losing him feels unbearable. And worse? She doesn’t even know why. Tristan swore he’d never let his father control his life. But when the Earl’s threats put everything—and everyone—he cares about on the line, Tristan made the impossible choice. He gave Kat up. Now, he’s losing himself without her. Until he decides he won't anymore.

Lady Rowena Pepperwirth is beautiful, wealthy, and can have any many she wants. Only, no man has ever caused her heart to flutter—until the holiday house party she agreed to attend at the last minute. One look at the brooding Lord Forres and Rowena knows exactly what she wants for Christmas: the dashing Scottish lord. Quinn MacCauley needs a wife for several reasons. When he meets the lovely Lady Rowena, he knows she'll be a good mother to his daughter and a capable mistress for his home. He'll even overlook her tempting beauty—because there's no way he will ever risk his heart again.

Owen Hadley is a dashing rogue, and one of no particular fortune. Hence his need for a wealthy wife. Determined to succeed, he sets out to charm one at a house party and makes his move. But a left instead of a right leads him to the wrong lady's bedchamber, namely the shrewish older sister of his intended paramour. This mistake casts him into a scandal of major proportions.

He is exactly the kind of man Brie Honeyweather swore never to love...or lust after ever again: a sexy, arrogant, British bad boy in a designer suit. Alec is the last person Brie wants to be stuck on an international flight to London with, but hey...at least they’re in first class. When their flight has to make an emergency landing in a snowstorm just before Christmas, Brie and Alec are thrown together in a single bedroom in a tiny English village.

How bad can a blind date with a vampire really be? The last thing Ryan Harding needs is his brother setting him up on dates with random women. Yes, he’s been avoiding relationships and burying himself in work, but come on, a blind date? Surely things aren’t that desperate. Still…the cute blonde at the bar is pretty amazing. Kind of sexy as hell. Why did he think a blind date was so bad again?Grace Stanhope has no interest in dating mortals, but she owes her best friend one hell of a favor.

Leopold Graham never expected to inherit his earldom so soon—or the massive debt his father saddled the title with. Forced to leave behind his pursuit of hedonistic pleasure and instead pursue a suitable, wealthy heiress, Leo sees nothing but a long, dull future ahead of him.

Un kilt para Navidad… Lady Rowena Pepperwirth es hermosa, rica y puede tener a quien quiera. Sin embargo, ningún hombre ha conseguido que su corazón se estremezca; hasta la fiesta navideña a la que aceptó asistir en el último momento. Una mirada al inquietante lord Forres y Rowena sabe exactamente lo que quiere para Navidad: un galante lord escocés. Quinn MacCauley necesita una esposa por varias razones. Cuando conoce a la encantadora lady Rowena, sabe que será una buena madre para su hija y una amante capaz para su casa. Incluso pasaría por alto su tentadora belleza, porque de ...

As one of London’s biggest heartbreakers, Derrick, Viscount Seabright, has all the freedom in the world to choose any woman he wishes to marry...someday...when he actually wishes to marry. But for now he’s content to seduce anyone at his leisure...anyone that is except for Arianna Asgil. Derrick has spent years trying not to admit his best friend’s little sister has grown up into a beauty...an infuriating one. He’s a damned saint for resisting the urge to silence her during an argument with a kiss, especially when she’s flushed and furious at him.

This prince charming has the world at his fingertips. Anything real estate mogul Thad Worthington wants, he gets—except true love. Until one cold night when he meets a woman with a warm heart. But his would-be princess has no desire to risk her heart for a second chance at a fairy tale, not when she’s already widowed and a single mother. After one scorching kiss that leaves him changed forever, Thad won’t let his princess run from him. When her wicked stepmother threatens to ruin this fairy tale, Thad is left holding a glass slipper and searching for the woman he can’t live without.

The Bite of Winter: She is theirs to claim. They are hers to save. Zoey finds herself caught in Ian's and Connor's web of seduction. But as Christmas draws near and her grief deepens, happiness seems far out of reach. And Ian and Connor join forces to prove their love is sacred, special...and forever. His Little Vixen: Sadie Harris doesn't like immortals. After vampires leave her an orphan, she's raised by her grandmother at the edge of a werewolf pack's territory. As a fox shifter she knows the rules about werewolves.

Bianca Wells, the President's daughter, experiences a close encounter with the aliens who invaded Earth five years ago. The Krinar are powerful, attractive, but also mysterious. There is one in particular she can't get out of her head - the seductive Krinar Ambassador named Soren. He came to Earth to ensure the survival of his people, but now he has one desire: to possess the brave and irresistible Bianca. Knowing he could destroy peaceful relations with the humans, he takes matters into his own hands, rescuing her from an assassin. After one kiss, he knows he can't let her go home.

Nathan Powell, the Duke of Hastings, broke the heart of the only woman he ever loved when he ended their engagement in order to save her family. He demanded one promise of her…that she marry another man and live a happy life. Now he’s desperate to avoid marriage to someone else at all costs. When his younger brother tricks him into attending a Christmas Ball, he discovers his beloved Thea will be there.

Royce Devereaux isn't your average sexy professor. He has a lot of rules in his professional and personal life. He keeps both worlds separated. He has to. He’s somewhat of a public figure - and he’s made enemies climbing to the top. He likes his sex rough, and a whole lot of naughty. Which means his students are 100% off limits. One problem. His new graduate student assistant, Kenzie. She looks at him like a kid looks at birthday cake, and he doesn’t like it. Except, he does. He likes it too much. But then an enemy decides to use Kenzie to force his hand....

He is a tempest with wild, dark, dangerous desires...Billionaire hotel developer Denver Ramsey’s life was destroyed 15 years ago and now he wants revenge and has just the means to get it, by seducing the daughter of the man who took everything from him. They say there is a fine line between love and hate...That’s more true than Blair Ashworth ever imagined when she comes face to face with a devastatingly gorgeous man who hates her with every fiber of his being.

When the infamously cold-hearted Duke of Helston decides to catch a gang of jewel thieves stealing from London's elite circles, he never expects the thief to be a woman. She's not just any woman either she happens to be the bewitching creature he met in the darkened corridor during a musicale who changed his life forever.

Felicity Hart has one goal: completing her masters in art. Falling in love isn't part of the plan. She reluctantly agrees to attend a Halloween party with her best friend. After sneaking away from the party and falling asleep in an unoccupied room, she wakes to the sexiest pair of eyes she's ever seen. Eyes that belong to the one man who could turn her well organized world upside down. When he flashes that wicked, panty-melting smile at her, the vow to not fall in love seems impossible.

Un beso con un extraño en una noche nevada hizo que su vida se saliera de control ... El plan lógico de Kat Roberts de ir a la universidad y luego tener su carrera se ha estrellado contra una pared de ladrillos ... una pared de ladrillos inglesa alta, oscura y hermosa. ¿Qué sucedió? El futuro conde de Pembroke, Tristan Kingsley, es lo que sucedió. Kat estúpidamente se dejó enamorar por él a pesar de saber que su padre preferiría bailar desnudo alrededor del Big Ben que aceptar a Kat como la novia de su hijo. Sin mencionar que el pasado mujeriego de Tristan hacía que su propio ...