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Landon Michaels is on a mission to fulfill this grandmother’s request for a one-of-a-kind Black angel ornament. With dementia setting in, this might be the last Christmas she remembers. Gina Christmas is the gatekeeper of unique handcrafted ornaments. It’s tax season, and the accountant is too busy crunching numbers to track down an ornament, especially since the holiday is months away. When Granny Lonna wants something, Landon, her favorite and only grandson, is determined to make it happen. But what she really wants for Christmas is for Landon to find the perfect love.

Type-A mathematician Catherine Lipton’s carefully calculated life goes awry when a university’s human resources system rejects her employment paperwork. Soon after, her credit card is declined. At the Social Security office, Catherine makes a shocking discovery—she’s disappeared from the government’s records, and there’s no evidence she exists at all. The one person who offers to help is Luca Morelli, her attractive but aggravating doorman who spends more time flirting with Catherine’s neighbors than he does enforcing the building rules.

My family is gone. My parents. My twin sister. All of them murdered by the man who has stalked me for years. He nearly killed me, too. But I got away and he’s still out there, searching for me. He won’t find me. At least, I hope not. Thanks to WITSEC, I’ve been given a new life with a new identity. I know my future will be hard and lonely. I must stay strong and focus on the good. I’m getting a second chance at life. I am safe. My new home is beautiful. The four brothers who live next door are even more so.

As the plane surges up into the clouds, Stevie finds herself clutching the hand of the stranger sitting in the seat next to her. It is a moment that will change everything. But Ned is heading to see his dying mother, and Stevie is returning to France to escape a terrible loss in her past. Neither of them can think about that tiny flame that just flickered between them. But then their paths keep crossing, leading them both to the same beautiful community garden in a small French village; run by a mysterious old man named Zach – a man with many of his own secrets.

Seit Stella denken kann, hat sie Gefühle für Heath Holiday, den besten Freund ihres großen Bruders. Doch der hat sie immer nur als kleine Schwester gesehen. Als sie einen vielversprechenden Job in der Baufirma von Heaths Vater ergattert, sieht Stella ihre Chance, endlich beruflich durchzustarten. Sie nimmt sich fest vor, ihre Gefühle beiseitezuschieben. Heath aber bringt sie immer wieder aus dem Konzept. Denn was sie nicht weiß: Auch er fühlt sich schon lange zu ihr hingezogen - doch hat er seinem besten Freund versprochen, Stella niemals näherzukommen.

Es gibt nichts Heißeres als eine zweite Chance in diesem erotischen nächsten Teil der Reihe "Unerwartet Milliardär" von New York Times Bestsellerautorin J.S. Scott. Aiden Sinclair hat als Fischer gearbeitet, bevor er unverhofft eine milliardenschwere Erbschaft gemacht hat – nicht dass er sich beschweren würde. Ein Sinclair zu sein hat auch seine Vorteile. Und doch waren die Dinge einfacher, bevor er dieses Geld besaß.

Criar a una niña de tres años y sobrevivir en la gran ciudad eran los dos únicos objetivos de Lydia Martins, una joven camarera sin más familia que sus compañeras de trabajo. Conseguir el puesto de socio de uno de los mejores bufetes de abogados de Chicago y huir de cualquier compromiso emocional eran las principales metas de Austin Gallagher, el mayor seductor del estado de Illinois.

Weihnachten im winterlichen Nirgendwo. Tief im verschneiten Wald, weit weg von anderen Menschen. Allein und ungestört, ohne Feiertagstrubel und Stress. Genau so stelle ich mir meinen längst überfälligen Urlaub vor. Dass mein Auto im Schnee liegenbleibt, war nicht vorgesehen. Dass die luxuriöse Blockhütte sich als Bruchbude erweist, auch nicht. Durch einen Blizzard stolpernd, finde ich im letzten Moment eine Zuflucht. Doch die gehört drei furchteinflößenden Kerlen! Drei kernige Holzfäller, kein Gepäck und kein Ausweg.

When Clara signs up for a month of chocolate-making in Switzerland, she imagines the stunning scenery of the magical snowy Alps, a cute chalet and a cosy workshop like something from a Christmas advert. What she isn’t expecting is chocolate-making bootcamp! In this stark laboratory, chocolate is everything. It’s a very serious set-up, with master chocolatiers to be revered and where favouritism and fanaticism, subterfuge and scandal are rife!

Kate seems to have it all – wonderful friends, a successful career, and an idyllic life in the quirky Yorkshire town of Essendale. But under the surface, Kate is lonely and yearns for family – especially at Christmas. With the holidays approaching and the town desperate to attract more visitors, Kate plans an enchanting living Advent calendar to feature the local businesses. But Kate’s picture-perfect plans take an unexpected turn when her ex-boyfriend returns, determined to create the pivotal Christmas Eve display. Will she let go of the past and embrace the future she dreams of?

Ash Campbell has been in love with Hazel Elliot since high school. Now, at the same college, their interactions are limited to playful feuding over the best chair in their favourite coffee shop. But Ash’s attraction to the prickly girl from home has only grown stronger. And when these frenemies are forced to drive back to their hometown of Locket Prairie, Texas, together for Christmas, the pair must endure not only each other but bad music, inclement weather, and B&Bs with only one bed …

Christmas in Copenhagen is a magical time of year but Darcy Cotterell isn’t feeling festive. Newly single, again, she's not even going home for Christmas. Instead she will be spending her holiday finishing her art history PhD. Her best friend, Freja, has other ideas. She signs Darcy up to a dating app, determined that she won't be lonely this Christmas.

Julie Parker’s children are her greatest gift. Still, she’s not exactly heartbroken when they ask to skip a big Christmas. Her son, Nick, is taking a belated honeymoon with his wife, while Julie’s daughter, Dana, is recovering from another breakup. Julie feels practically giddy for one-on-one holiday time with Heath, the (much) younger man she’s secretly dating. But her plans go from cosy to chaotic when Nick and Dana plead for Christmas at the family cabin in memory of their late father, Julie’s ex.

Carrie Morgan expects trouble when she returns to Woodsmoke after ten years. What she does not predict is the beautiful stranger who walks into her life with the first frost and with whom Carrie begins to fall in love. Bound to her family’s book of spells and a deep magic that flows from the mountains, Carrie’s family warn that her new love is a curse who will disappear when the frost thaws.

As the sun rises over the little Provence village where single mother Adeline has escaped with her little girl Lily, she breathes deeply. This is their new beginning. Here, she can forget the lies her family told her. Here, she can start her story again. Later she opens the door to the town’s tiny bookstore, where she is to work, ready to meet the mysterious owner Monique for the first time. She expected an ordinary bookshop. But this bookstore feels somehow different… magical. Breathing in the smell of books, she feels a jolt of something. It feels like a new chapter beginning.

I met him when my ship was sinking, and I clung to him through the storm. Little did I know he needed me as much as I needed him. The first time I saw Roman Dante King, he stuck out like an odd puzzle piece that got mixed up in the wrong box. It wasn’t his blue eyes in the dim light of the bar, the tattoos that covered his arms and hands, or even his arrogant personality. It was something else—something I couldn’t see—that told me he didn’t belong in our small beach town on the Oregon coast.

My older sister ran away from home to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage with the mafia family blamed for her mother's death. Now, that burden has fallen to me. Eighteen and sheltered, my life has only ever revolved around the familiar comfort of the tennis court. I've always been shielded from the brutal realities of my father's world, protected from his enemies. Enemies like Lochlan Dunne, who my father now wants as an ally.

"Oh my God, Briar! Where did you get that prosthetic leg?" Things as a parent Lane thought he'd never say for four hundred, Alex. But that's par for the course in Lane Ashbury's life considering everything is on the verge of falling apart. He not only has a toddler building her skills as a professional klepto, but he's also on the verge of divorce, and hoping desperately to save his business before it goes under. Luckily, the owner of the stolen leg might just be an angel in disguise when he offers to be Lane's new nanny instead of pressing charges.

A vida mais invisível de Maria das Dores promove uma empregada doméstica a protagonista de uma saga familiar que atravessa quase um século de história brasileira. Maria das Dores viveu uma existência “invisível”, lutando de maneira obstinada para vencer na vida e criar seus três filhos.

Helfen Nordseeluft und Yoga gegen schlechtes Liebeskarma? Bei Louisa sieht es nicht danach aus. Die gestresste Rechtsanwältin hat bei ihrer dringend benötigten Auszeit auf Sylt ausgerechnet den Mann ständig vor der Nase, dem sie unbedingt aus dem Weg gehen will. Plötzlich ist sie nicht nur unwissentlich eine heimliche Geliebte, sondern auch unfreiwillige Ermittlerin in einem Fall von Wirtschaftsspionage. Und dann ist da noch David.