Tragic Love

Plus One – A Fake Dating, Opposites-Attract Romance 💖 One night. One deal. One unexpected love story. 💖 Gerald Harrison doesn’t do relationships. As a sharp, no-nonsense businessman, his focus is on securing a major investment—and to impress his potential partners, he needs a polished, sophisticated date by his side. Asia Gates is bold, confident, and completely uninterested in playing the role of anyone’s arm candy. But when her sister’s injury leaves an unexpected job opening for a pretend girlfriend, Asia steps in, thinking it’s just easy money and one awkward evening. ...

An inn keeper becomes involved in a game of espionage after picking up a mysterious hitchhiker. After surviving a nightmare of a date, Maxine Croft didn’t think her evening could get any worse…until she nearly hits a stranger on a dark back road. This unprecedented meeting would turn Max’s world upside down as she’s thrust into a world of murder, corruption, and deception within her own backyard. As she gets in deeper with an elite, special task force, Max inadvertently puts her sisters’ lives in danger. Will Max and her sisters become just more “collateral damage” to ...

“How much suffering can one heart endure?” That question may be answered in “Tears of the Marigold.” It didn't take long for Allison Mason to realize she had an adversary in Patti Sanders, but to what extent she had yet to learn. Romance, love, lust, death, revenge, kidnapping, forgiveness, and learning how to live again; this novel has it all. It is one with tears.

In the small coastal town of Clearwater, Aston Carter is looking for a fresh start. After moving here with his mother, he’s struggling to find his place, haunted by the loss of his father and unsure of where he fits in the world. Everything changes when he meets Eli Taylor—an introverted young man who is wrestling with his own inner battles, torn between crushing family expectations and the pull of his heart. Aston and Eli’s connection is undeniable, but it’s complicated by secrets, fears, and the pressures that threaten to tear them apart at every turn. As they navigate friendship,...

On a dusty, sweltering night, Noor Khan, a beautiful, headstrong Afghan refugee, comes face-to-face with Charlie Matthews, a brash, young American aid worker. To Noor's fury, Charlie breaks every cultural norm and pursues her. She wants nothing to do with him: her sole aim in life is to earn an overseas scholarship so she can escape the miseries of the refugee camps. However when Noor's brother threatens to marry her off, she is forced to seek refuge in Charlie's home, of all places, and suddenly everything Noor believes in is put into question. Set in the mystical and seething city of ...

"An emotional rollercoaster that transports the reader on an heartbreaking journey of love, loss, and family, and reminds you that going home doesn't always mean the place you lay your head." -Alyssa Drake, USA Today Bestselling author The Other Shore is an emotional love story that follows Angela and Mitchell Point, a power couple whose plans to build a family are torn apart. As they navigate their separate paths in life, their old and new worlds unexpectedly collide. With the help of friends and family, they unravel the mystery of their separation and rediscover the strength of their love...

Jason Davis is your average barista, wearing a green apron and working for the largest corporate coffee chain in the world. Smiling at impatient customers and making high-maintenance lattes, his daily routine of selling legal speed to the masses with his fellow baristas—a collection of hippies, hipsters, conspiracy theorists and a gluttonous lazy manager—involves everything from stopping fights between customers, kicking out sleeping bums, cleaning up bodily fluids and whipping out hundreds of espresso drinks. Located in the mall in downtown San Diego, Jason’s store has security on ...

A "heartbreaking, heartwarming" (Heidi McLaughlin, New York Times best-selling author) love story that asks the question: What do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps - but when tragedy strikes, everything changes. After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties.

A Tale of Passion, Poetry, and Rebellion in 10th-Century Persia In the grand palace of Balkh, where power is absolute and tradition unyielding, Rabia bint Ka‘b—a noblewoman of striking intellect and beauty—dares to dream beyond the gilded cage of her birth. A gifted poetess, she weaves verses of love and longing, secretly pouring her heart onto parchment. But when her heart finds its true muse in Baktash, a captured Turkish warrior, their love becomes a crime punishable by death. Baktash, once a slave in the palace, rises to power as a commander, his unwavering spirit earning the ...

We're not free to give into this. She's 19, and I'm 38. And I'm her boyfriend's father. Unfortunately, they both just moved into my house.

One desperate act. One life-or-death standoff. A love that will be tested beyond the breaking point. In the coastal city of Surigao, Liam, a retired Chicago SWAT officer, struggles to provide for his young Filipina wife, Sarah. The bills are piling up, his retirement check no longer stretches far enough, and now Sarah is expecting their first child. Joy battles dread in Liam’s heart as he faces the reality that he may not be able to afford the cost of bringing his son into the world. When Sarah’s labor turns dangerous and the hospital demands payment before performing an emergency C-...

Before their worlds collide in Book One of The Ranfurly Mysteries, Lord Robert Ranfurly and Courtney Drake lived very different lives. Could the past hold the keys to the future? Courtney never went looking for danger, but it managed to find her. Now while she awaits her unknown fate, she’d rather be trapped in thoughts of her past, than face the terrible reality she is living. Memories of her best friend and her earliest days with her husband, Keith, become her escape from present danger. In a different time and a different place, the antisocial Viscount of Knoxfordshire, Lord Robert ...

She awakens a passion he thought was gone. Showing her the love he feels without crossing the lines is not as easy as he thought. Cai Taylor is confident, bold, and single—with two kids. His wife died eighteen months ago to the day, and he should be ready to move on, according to his secretary, who’s been preparing him for a while to enter the dating world. He’s had his eye on Kate Windsor. She’s saucy, artistic, and just her walking toward him on the sidewalk gets him all hot under the collar. That won’t do when he’s the principal and she’s a frequent substitute teacher at ...

Grief-stricken widow Ella Marlowe never imagined a Christmas ornament would hurl her over two centuries into the past. Now, in the powderkeg of pre-revolutionary Charleston, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to James Hawthorne, a ruggedly handsome blacksmith with secrets of his own. As Ella navigates this dangerous new world, she discovers a passion she thought long dead, and a purpose she never knew she needed. But Ella's presence in the past comes at a price. A dark curse threatens to tear her from James, while the drums of war echo ever louder. With time itself as her enemy, Ella must...

As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston’s job - her calling, her purpose, her life - is to help terminally ill people make peace with their impending death. Unlike her business partner, who swears by her system of checklists, free-spirited Nova doesn’t shy away from difficult clients: the ones who are heartbreakingly young, or prickly, or desperate for a caregiver or companion.

A demolition of a building nearby causes Liam's office building to collapse. He is trapped inside and in his final moments, he can only think of one person—his husband, who is no longer in love with him. Maybe it was all in his imagination and it was all in his head, but it was too late now. Or was it? Note: This is a short, angsty romance with a happy ending. Trust the author :)

Having discovered her boyfriend is cheating on her, cake-loving Hannah decides she needs to lose weight and get fit to become more attractive to men. But her ill-fated plan soon lands her in hospital where she spots the enigmatic Matt, visiting his son. Matt thinks of her as his guardian angel - a hot one. His rock to cling to in a world of lies and doubt. She is his grasp on normality, as he is hers. But normality cannot last. She never meant to deceive him. She simply wanted to make him smile.

From the moment Elle James met Ben Miller, they've been best friends. Everything they did, they did it together, from late-night study sessions, family vacations, throwing bottles off the water tower, going to prom, and finally moving to California for college. However, after the almost-tragic accident where she nearly lost her twin sister, Elle's life hasn't been the same, and neither has her relationship with Ben. One fateful decision changes the scope of Ben and Elle's relationship. For one, it means a new beginning. For the other, it means change.

In 1840s New England, Syrie Marie Adams Boone lives a contented, quiet life. Surrounded by family and married to her best friend, Jedidiah, she lives in a neat cottage, tending to her chickens, milk cows and garden. She enjoys her neighbors, church on Sunday, their orderly village and regular visits with parents and siblings. When Jedidiah tells her that neighbors are selling out and moving to Oregon, Syrie is excited to expand their farm and income for the family she is anxious to start. Jedidiah has a different plan - telling her he wants to move to Oregon as well. So begins a life-...

Lola I’ve spent years running from the shadows of my past, but when Declan, a brooding biker with a tragic past, roars into my life, everything changes. He’s dangerous, reckless, and exactly what I should avoid—except he might be the one to heal the wounds I’ve been hiding. Declan I swore I’d never fall in love, especially with someone as fiery and fragile as Lola. But when the ghosts of my past come back to haunt me, I realize she’s the only one who can save me from myself. Now, I’ll risk everything to keep her safe, even if it means leaving everything behind.