Kennedy Bennett is my best friend’s little sister and completely off-limits. I have fought the urge to have her for years. Even when she threw herself at me in nothing more than a few pieces of well-placed fabric. But my self-control is waning. My desire for her growing. The longer I resist the more I want her. My best friend will destroy me if he finds out. Our friendship will no doubt be over. Is sating my desire worth risking a lifelong friendship? For Kennedy Bennett it just might be. *This is a hot and steamy bad boy forbidden romance with a happily ever after ending and no cliffhanger.
Fake dating has one rule: Don't let feelings get involved. Callie Cartwright is about to lose her job. Either she cleans up her mounting debt, or her career in finance is over. NBA point guard Dean Kimball should be having the time of his life. But even his flourishing basketball career isn't enough to help him forget his feelings for his little sister's best friend. So when Callie decides to enter the date-for-hire world to relieve her increasing debt, Dean suggests an alternative option. Date him for money to help his image. Too bad the one rule they set for themselves is the one rule they can't follow. Fans of fake relationships, sports romance, and romantic comedy will love this sweet romcom. One-click now for laugh-out-loud romance!
Amber How do you politely refuse when the only guy to star in any of your dirty fantasies has just offered to put you up for the foreseeable future and your brother’s just accepted like you were in fact still thirteen and couldn’t make decisions for yourself? You don’t. And, you end up with a roommate who wears a very good elegant mask over the rough and tumble, bad boy core I remember far too well. Only, it’s ten years later and I’m even nerdier than I used to be. It’s ten years later and I couldn’t look worse. It’s ten years later and I can’t keep one guy. It’s ten years later and my brother still teases me mercilessly in front of him. It’s ten years later and Kit somehow looks even better than the guy I spent my formative years crushing on. So, there’s not only the issue that he’s my older brother’s best friend, but also a sex-god this virgin can barely talk to. But that certainly never stopped me from drooling over him and it wouldn’t stop me now. He’s so far out of my league, I wouldn’t even clean in his league. Except, there might just be a smouldering heat in Kit’s eyes that suggests he’s not quite as out of my league as I thought. Just maybe, this geek is about to get a whole lot of chaos. Kit When I find out about my best mate’s little sister’s situation, the offer is out of my mouth before I can stop it; Hawk’s like a brother to me even if Amber’s never looked twice at me. I could never tell if she was scared of me or hated me. But the deal is done. She’s going to bring her bedraggled self upstairs to my penthouse and live with me for as long as she needs. I see the pain she hides away, I see the lack of confidence despite how smart she is, how good. If there’s something I’ve learned, it’s that confidence makes all the difference. So, it becomes my mission to help Amber find her confidence. But I find more than confidence in her and suddenly I’m seeing my best mate’s little sister completely differently. I’ve never known what to say to her. She’s always been good and studious and sweet. She’s always been so far out of my league I wouldn’t even carry bags in that league. Her face is a mask that tells me nothing in between the sparse words that come out of her mouth. Except, there might be something in the way she smiles at me that gives me hope I’m not as far out of her league as I thought. It might just be time that this chaos gets a little geek. Please be aware that this story is set in Australia and therefore uses Australian English spelling and syntax.
Be transported to the luxurious worlds of American tycoons, ranchers and family dynasties. Get ready for bold encounters and sizzling chemistry. Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: The Rebel’s Return Texas Cattleman’s Club: Fathers and Sons By Nadine Gonzalez Eve Martin has one goal—find her nephew’s father—and her unlikely ally is hotelier Rafael Wentworth, who’s just returned to Texas and the family who abandoned him. Soon, she’s falling hard for the playboy in spite of their differences… and their secrets. Secrets of a Bad Reputation Dynasties: DNA Dilemma By Joss Wood Musician Griff O’Hare uses his bad boy persona to keep others at bay. But when he’s booked by strait-laced Kinga Ryder-White for her family’s gala, he can’t ignore their attraction. Yet as they fall for one another, everything around them falls apart… One Night Consequence Clashing Birthrights By USA TODAY bestselling author Yvonne Lindsay As the widow of his best friend, Stevie Nickerson should be off limits to CEO Fletcher Richmond, but there’s a spark neither can ignore. When he learns she’s pregnant, he insists on marriage, but Stevie relishes her independence. Can the two make it work? For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s March 2022 Box set 2 of 2.
Welcome to California University! Home of the Blood & Iron Warriors. Dreams are made and broken in the highly competitive world of college sports and it's no different here. So, what do you do when you fall in love in the spotlight? Rayne: I've got a dance scholarship and a new life. I get to start over, be new, and leave behind the ugly of my life. I'm not letting anything or anyone stop me. I earned this. Tyler: I'm a walk on, but the Blood and Iron wanted me, and they're my shot at a future in football. I won't let the pressure or my parents stop me. I can do this. They're both working under the bright lights of national sports and everyone wants a piece of them. It's a harsh and demanding road to their future, and they're becoming adults in the public eye. They're determined. Focused. But, the brightest futures cast the darkest shadows, and they'll need to work hard to hold on to their goals and their new love. Be aware that this book is the first in a series about the same couple. The story includes sexually explicit scenes, adult language, cheating, and issues related to abuse, violence, and sexual assault. Please keep this in mind as you purchase for yourself or others.
Nixon I'm a fighter. It's the only thing I've ever excelled at. Being the best takes more than skill and strength. Attitude and focus keeps me at the top of my game. No distractions are allowed. Not from a family that doesn't understand me. And especially not from some woman who walks into my gym and turns my whole damn world upside down. Brooklyn Nixon "Viper" Bennett is a cocky bastard who thinks he's God's gift to women and has the reputation to go with his inflated ego. He's also an amazing fighter and I'm in desperate need of his help. I have to learn to fight and quick. I will not take no for an answer and if necessary I can have a bigger attitude than his ego. It's a matter of life and death. Mine.... *This is a hot and steamy bad boy fighter romance with a happily ever after ending and no cliffhanger.
“Intriguing, delightful, and touching.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Creech’s best yet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family’s house, she realized that things were about to change. It was her chance to finally make people notice her, and to have a place she could call her very own. But more than that, Zinny knew that the trail somehow held the key to all kinds of questions. And that the only way to understand her family, her Aunt Jessie’s death, and herself, was to find out where it went. From Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech comes a story of love, loss, and understanding, an intricately woven tale of a young girl who sets out in search of her place in the world—and discovers it in her own backyard. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Interplanetary intrigue and romance combine in this electrifying finale to the Consortium Rebellion series. As the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination. Her enemies, blind to her true strength, do not suspect that Cat is a spy—which makes her the perfect candidate to go undercover at a rival House’s summer retreat to gather intelligence on their recent treachery. Cat’s overprotective older sister reluctantly agrees, but on one condition: Cat cannot go alone. Alexander Sterling, a quiet, gorgeous bodyguard, will accompany her, posing as her lover. After Cat tries, and fails, to ditch Alex, she grudgingly agrees, confident in her ability to manage him. After all, she’s never found a person she can’t manipulate. But Alex proves more difficult—and more desirable—than Cat anticipated. When she’s attacked and nearly killed, she and Alex are forced to work together to figure out how deep the treason goes. With rumors of widespread assaults on Serenity raging, communications down, and the rest of her family trapped off-planet, Catarina must persuade Alex to return to Earth to expose the truth and finish this deadly battle once and for all. But Cat can’t explain why she’s the perfect person to infiltrate hostile territory without revealing secrets she’d rather keep buried. . . .
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Firmly grounded in scientific research, this book reveals that women follow a predictable developmental course through adulthood. Work and marriage relationships, personal crisis, emotional states, and behavior can all be related to this grand pattern. But in the case of women, the situation is made far more complicated by gender biases.
