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Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of "pursuit of happiness"....

A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a prosthesis, she leaves him. A wife whose husband has just returned from the war struggles with the heartrending question: Can she still love a man who has no lips?

Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.

I’m fake engaged to my movie star boss. He’s a billionaire single dad with a secret. Now, we’re playacting the perfect Hollywood couple. He can’t know I’m falling for him. I know it’s just pretend. But all those delicious kisses feel so real. His divine body sets my panties on fire. Is he the perfect man to take my v-card? Everywhere we turn there’s damn paparazzi. If the truth comes out, we’re both ruined.

Everything comes easy to me now - too easy. I'm a famous fitness model/trainer with a booming supplement company, and more women than I know what to do with. But I'm also a man who loves a challenge - a man who needs to be challenged. When I first lay eyes on Emma, I know that I have to have her. She's drop-dead gorgeous and unlike any of the women who regularly throw themselves at me. The only problem is that she thinks I'm an arrogant alpha male jerk - which I am. I won't try to convince Emma otherwise. But I will do whatever it takes to make her mine.

Kayleigh Jacobs and Holden Rivers have gone through more than your average university couple - from eating disorders and drug addictions; to cheating scandals and secret texts. Everything came to a screeching halt when Holden betrayed Kayleigh by confiding in the one person who would do anything to break them up - Bianca Vanderlin.

Kayleigh Jacobs is determined to make college the best experience she can. It's freshman year, and she has everything under control. Well, except for her eating disorder and crippling anxiety. It probably doesn't help that her roommate is the textbook definition of perfect, or that she is dating the one guy Kayleigh cannot stand.

The last time Kayleigh saw Holden Rivers, was in front of a rehabilitation center in May. To say things ended badly between them would be an understatement of epic proportions. Now, three months later, everyone is returning to school - including the anxiety ridden anorexic and her gorgeous ex-boyfriend.

Falling for a man who only uses sex as a weapon won’t be easy. Trapped in a life of seduction and lies, Sal’s never had anything real. Sex was merely a weapon used to manipulate his family’s rivals. When Sal meets Bailey, everything changes. But when the intimacy and love Bailey offers is too much for Sal to take, he pushes her away.