Two feuding second-grade teachers (and neighbors) find themselves teaming up in this rivals-to-lovers romance set in Rome, Kentucky. Emily Walker writes romance novels, and Jack Bennett writes mysteries, and they really don't like each other. With their chemistry-fueled animosity at an all-time high, Emily must turn to Jack for help. Surprisingly, he agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?
A humorous debut novel about a young woman who tries to shape a sentient blob into her perfect boyfriend. Vi Liu has never quite fit into her Midwestern town. After being dumped by her boyfriend, she takes a job at a hotel. Her life changes when she goes out one night with a co-worker. In an alley, Vi discovers a blob--a small living creature with black eyes - and she takes it home. The blob responds to her commands, and she soon thinks she can turn it into the ideal mate, but can she really?
Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day, this place was once home to Vanessa, a famous artist whose unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge.
Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe and a passionate dislike of one another. All three are remarkable, spirited women, but they couldn't be more different. They have an understanding -- they avoid each other at all costs. But their detente threatens to come crashing down after Deacon's tragic death on his favorite place on earth: a Nantucket summer cottage.
After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success -- not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is. If Viv wants to make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone. The travelers she will meet along the way make for a bumpy ride.
Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's end-of-summer party. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames.
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they used to be murderers. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to rid from the world. Then Hazel got pregnant. Now, they're just another suburban family. Hazel soon finds her predictable life dull, and she begins to feel that murderous itch again. She does it; she kills someone without telling Fox. The police turn up at their door, and the couple must scramble to keep their family together.
New York City: Summer 1999. Sawyer, 20, is striving to make it in New York. Between her publishing job and her upcoming wedding, her is plate full. Only one problem: She is facing an incredibly lonely summer as her fiancé has been spending longer hours at work with a female colleague, Kendra. Her boyfriend, Nick, invites Sawyer to meet up and compare notes about their suspicions. Soon, she and Nick begin an unofficial ritual--exploring New York City together every summer Friday. But what happens when the summer is over?
In the fifth installment of the Hunger Games series, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes in honor of the Quarter Quell. Haymitch Abernathy cares only the girl he loves. When his name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants this fight to reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.
Minneapolis Star Tribune Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn't been invited to the spa day organized by the groom's mother. Then, Gail's ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max's past.