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MJ Jassemolada is a big girl, and has been a big girl her whole life. Living in LA all her life, she feels like she's surrounded by the thin and beautiful of the world, and having a widower father who tells her she's beautiful every day just doesn't help. She can see her reflection in the mirror, after all, loud and clear. After graduation from UCLA, she gets a coveted job as personal assistant to superstar singer Meredith Renner, who's leaving for a world tour with Heath Spencer, who's even more popular than Meredith, if such a thing is possible.

They're going out on tour together to support individual albums, and have hired the wonderful Archie to be their nanny so their twin daughters can go with them. But they don't realize they've hired a snake to travel with them, a young keyboard player who wants Heath for herself, and will do whatever it takes to get him. MJ and Heath are settling in to the second half of the first decade of their marriage, going through some strains in the ties that bind them together. Heath has become moody, irritable, critical of MJ for the first time ever. He's almost a stranger to MJ.

Being a nanny for a hot, wealthy, single New York photographer definitely has its benefits. Henry is rich. Henry is successful. Henry is handsome. But Henry is a widower with a small child who needs help, pronto. He and especially his son, Leo, are struggling, and need someone who can make sense of their topsy-turvy life. Mouse is like a breath of fresh air, and she gets Leo, who really likes her as well. What Henry didn’t count on was that he would really start to like Mouse, and find himself unable to live without her. His girlfriend and Mouse’s ex aren’t particularly happy about ...

Discover the extraordinary life of Mitsuko Hanamura, affectionately known as Obachan, in this poignant and powerful memoir. Born in 1916 in rural Japan, Obachan was determined to carve out a life of her own, despite the odds stacked against her. From a young age, she faced poverty, family debt, and limited opportunities for education and independence. Through Obachan's own words, author Tani Hanes brings to life the story of a young girl's unwavering resilience and courage in the face of adversity. Filled with never-before-seen photos from the period, this memoir is a testament to the ...

“Who the f--- are you?” “I’m Andrew—“ he stopped before saying his last name. “I own this place. Who the f--- are you?” Andrew Pennington realizes that his new gardener has no idea who he is, how rich, how famous. Not an auspicious beginning for a good personal working relationship. Chiara doesn’t want the new owner of the estate where she works mucking around with her work, and is resentful of his vague threats to rip out the rose garden and put in a tennis court. And Drew, for his part, doesn’t like how Chiara acts like she owns the place, or at least the gardens. ...

Who would voluntarily sign up to be a nanny to three babies? When Jeffrey Ormonde, recently widowed and left single dad to adorable triplets, finally decides to ask for help, he’s not sure who will show up. Enter Goldie Sorenson, an answer to a prayer, who actually likes babies and learns all of the girls’ names right off the bat. She’s kind, young, energetic, and beautiful, the perfect nanny for Genie, Jemma, and Pippa. But is she too good to be true? Goldie is hiding a secret: She’s been hired by a lawyer who works for the babies’ maternal grandparents, who are getting ready to ...

Penny can't stand her new co-star, but the stage has a way of melting even the hardest hearts. Penelope Patrick is a talented stage actress with a masters degree from Yale drama. She wanted to be in films, but was told she didn't have the face or body for it. Now she's set to star in a new dramatic play starring opposite her boyfriend, acclaimed Tony winning actor Frederick Berenson, who's reputation is even more acclaimed than hers. When she finds at the last minute that the role of the leading man has been offered instead to Cameron Aldobrandeschi, a playboy prince turned model with no ...

Whoever said “boyfriending is hard” clearly didn’t have the right tools for the job. What do you do if you’re a fifteen-year-old girl whose much older (eighteen) boyfriend breaks up with her because you won’t “go all the way?” What do you do if you live in the smallest town in the world, where everyone knows your business before you do, and it’s the first day of school, and you just want to hide under the covers and pretend you’re dead? What do you do if you love theatre more than anything, and you want to go to New York to study and be on Broadway, but your dads named you...

Birdie’s life is nearly unrecognizable from what it was when she met the boys of UK Crush. What was once a fairy tale, a love story, a romance worthy of being a movie, has morphed into a nightmare, an unending stream of one trauma blending into another. Her dreams of being a concert pianist, a mother, even a happy person, have been crushed, possibly forever, by the appearance in her life of monsters she didn’t even realize existed in this world. And Teddy, and to a lesser degree the other boys, too, have to deal with the guilt of having brought these people into contact with her. Birdie...

Birdie has come such a long way from the shy and introverted young woman who met Geth, Ronan, Matthew, and Teddy on that fateful day in Tokyo so long ago. She’s traveled the world, auditioned for music school, gotten engaged on a world-famous landmark, and been happier than she ever imagined she could be. She’s also endured more suffering and misery than she could have imagined existed in the world. She and Teddy have adjusted and come to terms with the harsh reality dealt to them, and moved on with their lives. Birdie and the boys have, at long last, come to the end of their youth, and...

Birdie has met the boys of UK Crush, fallen in love with Teddy, and become engaged to him in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge. She’s accompanied the boys to the Bahamas while they write their new album, and settled in to her new life as the significant other of a world famous rock star. Now, due to cataclysmic events beyond her control, she finds herself alone and adrift in a foreign land, living a life she no longer recognizes as her own. She has to learn to love Teddy all over again, not to mention Ronan, Geth, Matty, and even herself. She has to come to terms with a terrible world and...

Can she love a haunted man? Fans of Manderley should visit Farraway Mist, and discover for themselves why this book has been called a “modern spin on DuMaurier’s classic Rebecca.” Scout Lawson is fleeing an unhappy past, and thinks she's run as far as she can from Yale University when she lands a job restoring a library in Cornwall, England for reclusive rock star George Wilder, who dropped out of sight after the death of his beautiful wife the year before. As soon as she arrives at his estate, Farraway Mist, strange things start to happen. As the couple's feelings for each other grow...

Learning to live can be difficult. Aileen Foster, aka Tinker Bell the Bitchtastic, aka Birdie, has come to London to live with Theo Shelley, who is one quarter of UK Crush, the most popular boyband in the world, while she prepares for her piano audition to Hamilton Conservatory in New York. She's new to England, to relationships, to love, to life, really. But she's trying.

This contains both books from New York Nanny Series in a single convenient collection. Book One: Nanny For Two Martha “Mouse” Cameron has always felt she comes by her nickname honestly; she is quiet, shy, mousey in every way. But as soon as she meets Henry, she feels anything but mousey. Henry is the wealthy widower father of the boy she’s going to nanny for the summer in the heart of New York City, and sparks fly immediately as she feels things she’s never felt before. As her feelings for Leo, the little boy, grow, so too do her feelings for Henry, his father. Is it possible that ...

This is a two-book collection of the A Whole Lotta Cake Duet released in a convenient standalone volume. Book One: MORE THAN CAKE It's a big world, and MJ is a big girl trying to find her place in it. Can she handle a secret romance with the hottest rock star in the world? MJ Jassemolada is a big girl, and has been a big girl her whole life. She’s been called all the hurtful names: Hefty heifer, dump truck, fat, porky pig, she’s heard them all. Living in LA all her life, she feels like she’s surrounded by the thin and beautiful of the world, and having a widower father who tells her ...

This is the story of Peppermint Silk, a New York band on the verge of making it big. When their lead singer suddenly decamps in favor of another band, they need a new singer, pronto. When Momoko shows up, she’s the answer to their dreams, in every sense of the word. With a huge gig coming up, and emotions overflowing all over the place, can there be a happy conclusion to their story? How long can Momoko keep her future plans secret from these wonderful guys? And what about Momoko’s crazy ex, who can’t seem to let her go, and begins stalking her all over the city? All of the guys want ...

Aileen Foster, poor, orphaned, musically gifted, never imagined her life could change so much, so fast, but getting a job as interpreter for boyband UK Crush pitched her headfirst into tumult and a glamorous life she never thought she’d have. Now, engaged to band member Theo Shelley, and having survived her audition to Hamilton Conservatory in Manhattan, she’s off to the Bahamas with the boys while they write their new album. Life has never been easy for her, but she’s trying.

Being a nanny for a hot, wealthy, single New York photographer definitely has its benefits. Book two of the New York Nanny series finds Mouse preparing for graduation from NYU as she, Henry and Leo prepare for a wedding, and becoming a family at last. A pregnancy, kindergarten for Leo, and many changes are on the horizon for the Gardeners. Following a romantic honeymoon in Bora Bora, however, they’re hit with devastating news that rocks their fledgling family to its foundations, and threatens its very existence. A partially closed door and a conversation overheard at an inopportune moment...

Aileen Foster, a shy, 22 year old student from LA, thinks she has landed a dream job as an interpreter for some actors making a film in Japan. She gets a surprise when she arrives in Tokyo and finds out that they are UK Crush, the hottest boyband around. She has been orphaned for most of her life, and it's a shock for her to enter their world of frank physicality. The boys come to love her, and Aileen is forced to look at her life and choices, and decide if she's ready to be brave and start living.

This is a two-book collection of the Sexy Swimmers Duet released in a convenient standalone volume. Book One: GLIDE Jack LaGuardia is a serious swimmer, a serious student, a serious person. He eats, swims, studies, repeats. He has no time for frivolous things like dating, drinking, or parties. He certainly doesn’t have time for supermodel turned movie starlets like Kelsey Carlisle, who is basically a Victoria’s Secret underwear model party girl. Just because she thinks she’s now an actress doesn’t mean the world is going to think so, or take her seriously as one. They meet one hot ...