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Wenn Dr. Dreamy dein Mitbewohner ist - und einen englischen Akzent hat! Die letzten Jahre hat Bridget nur funktioniert und getan, was nötig war, um sich und ihren kleinen Sohn über Wasser zu halten. Doch jetzt, zwei Jahre nach dem Tod ihres Mannes, ist sie bereit, langsam ins Leben zurückzukehren. Allerdings hat die Krankenschwester die Rechnung ohne ihren neuen Mitbewohner gemacht. Der heiße Dr. Simon Hogue ist kein Freund von "langsam", und nach nur einem Blick auf seine Vermieterin weiß der junge Kinderarzt aus England genau, was er will, nämlich Bridget!

The one that got away. Every girl has one, right? Mine was a charming, British aristocrat who turned my world upside down one summer. From the moment I first spotted Leo in the distance through my binoculars, I’d been captivated. I certainly never expected to find a man showering outside of the property across the bay in his birthday suit.

Un homme et une femme que tout oppose. Une rencontre imprévue. Le début de la relation de Soraya et Graham est un peu chaotique : il ne lui a pas fait très bonne impression. Elle le trouve désagréable et arrogant, un homme d'affaires typique, tout ce qu'elle n'aime pas. Et quand elle va lui rapporter son téléphone qu'il a perdu dans le train, après avoir soigneusement exploré ses données personnelles, elle va constater qu'elle ne s'est pas trompée.

Ihre Liebesgeschichte beginnt mit einem Brief...einem Brief von einem kleinen Mädchen, das sich eine Freundin für seinen Vater wünscht. Sebastian Maxwell hat vor einigen Jahren seine Frau verloren und erzieht seine zehnjährige Tochter Birdie nun allein. Als die Fremde an seiner Haustür auftaucht, denkt er nicht an die Liebe. Doch nach einem Blick in ihre blauen Augen schlägt sein Herz schneller, und er beginnt das erste Mal seit Langem an ein neues Glück zu glauben. Aber dann muss er feststellen, dass alles auf einer Lüge basiert.

Finding a good roommate through a classified ad isn’t as easy as it sounds. I was starting to lose hope. Until a knock at my door came, and God answered my prayers. Except...uh...wrong prayer, God. I’d definitely requested the big guy find me a drop-dead gorgeous man on more than one occasion...just not as my roommate. Declan Tate talked me into interviewing him anyway. While he was amusing and charismatic, I wouldn’t have been comfortable living with a man, so I regretfully declined. Then, cupcakes showed up at my door.

It’s natural to want the one you can’t have. And for as long as I could remember, I’d secretly wanted my brother’s best friend, Jace. He was six years older and always treated me like the sister he never had. Fast forward a decade. We were all in our 20s now. Jace had moved in with my brother, Nathan, and me to help us make ends meet after our parents died. It was just the three of us - an odd family dynamic. Living under our roof, Jace was as bossy and protective as ever. But he certainly didn’t look at me like a sister anymore. That was what made things so complicated.

Deacon was rough on the exterior, but apparently on the inside? Mr. Single-and-Ready-to-Mingle was a baby whisperer. After that night, we became friends. He’d go for coffee runs. Come over to chat. Normal friend stuff. But over time, our conversations ran deeper. We got closer. Until one night we crossed the line.

My planned trip for two unexpectedly turned into a trip for one. Rather than let my breakup get me down, I packed my bags and decided a week at a luxury resort was just what I needed. But one calamity after the next, and suddenly I was stuck without a hotel room, along with a few hundred other people. It looked like my fancy vacation was about to turn into me sleeping on the hotel lobby floor. Until I overheard a gorgeous man pretending to be someone he wasn’t in order to steal a reservation from a guest who hadn’t shown up yet.

The beginning of my sophomore year in college was off to a rough start. On the first day of orientation, I had an altercation with an infuriating British dude in a campus bathroom. (The ladies’ room was out of order. So, I used the men’s room. Don’t judge.) I got home later that night and realized that the foreign student we were expecting to rent a room in my parents’ house was allergic to our cat. So, the spare room went to someone else: Caleb - the British guy from the men’s room. And so it began...my love-hate story with Caleb Yates. Or was it hate-love in that order?

New York Times best-selling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward bring you three sexy short stories to heat up your holidays: "Sexy Scrooge", "The Merry Mistake", and "Kissmas in New York".

Auf dem Weg zu einem Interview mit dem erfolgreichen Businessman Dex Truitt bleibt die Journalistin Bianca George zusammen mit einem heißen Typen im Aufzug stecken. Um sich von ihrer Panik abzulenken, erzählt sie dem vermeintlichen Fahrradkurier, wie sehr sie Männer wie Dex hasst: attraktiv, erfolgreich und davon überzeugt, dass ihnen die Welt gehört. Und ahnt dabei nicht, dass es ausgerechnet der mächtige CEO ist, mit dem sie festsitzt.

It started out like any normal day. Then the fender bender happened. The guy I collided with drove an expensive car and was drop-dead gorgeous. Too bad he was also a total jerk. We argued over whose fault it was and any other thing that came out of his condescending mouth. Eventually, the police came and we went our separate ways. The insurance companies would have to figure things out. I had a job interview to get to anyway - one I was excited about. Though that excitement changed to disappointment the moment the person interviewing me walked in. The guy from the accident.

It was the summer of my life. I’d met the guy of my dreams. Unfortunately, he was the son of my uppity employer - and very much off-limits. But Gavin was a rebel. He knew his mother would disown him if she found out about us; in his eyes, we just had to be careful. He never treated me as his mother did - like hired help. Instead, Gavin put me on a pedestal and loved me harder than I’d ever been loved in my life.

Das heißeste Date des Sommers! Carter Clynes ist Pilot und Playboy. In jeder Stadt hat er eine andere, etwas Festes sucht er nicht. Bis er Kendall trifft. Augenblicklich spüren die beiden eine magische Verbindung, und Carter überredet die junge Frau, ihn auf seinen weiteren Flügen zu begleiten. Es beginnt ein romantischer, turbulenter und herzzerreißender Trip, an dessen Ende Kendall die schwerste Entscheidung ihres Lebens treffen muss.

Es gibt Männer, die glauben, dass ihnen die Welt gehört. Graham Morgan, CEO von Morgan Financial Holdings, gehört zu ihnen. Wenn er etwas will, bekommt er es - so einfach ist es für ihn. Bis er Soraya trifft! Sie ist ganz anders als er und die erste Frau, die sich nicht von ihm einschüchtern lässt. Und so unterschiedlich sie auch sind, kann er sich doch nicht dagegen wehren, dass Soraya ganz unbekannte Gefühle in ihm weckt. Doch gerade als Graham beginnt, an eine gemeinsame Zukunft zu glauben, holt ihn seine Vergangenheit ein und droht, alles zu zerstören.

Neues Leben, neuer Job, neue Liebe - so lautet Aubreys Plan. Doch ein platter Reifen und ein kleiner Ziegenbock werfen alles durcheinander. Zum Glück macht der sexy Australier Chance nicht nur ihr Auto wieder flott, sondern überredet sie auch, die restliche Strecke nach Kalifornien gemeinsam zurückzulegen. Es folgen die glücklichsten Tage und aufregendsten Nächte, die Aubrey je erlebt hat, aber dann ist Chance auf einmal einfach verschwunden ...

We met in the least likely of places. It started out innocently enough. I was “ScreenGod”, and she was “Montana”, but of course those weren’t our actual names, just the virtual cloaks we hid behind. Logging in at night and talking to her was my escape - my sanctuary. Her real name was Eden, I’d soon come to find out. From the first time we connected online, I found myself transfixed. She was an addiction. At first, we knew nothing about each other’s real identities...and she was adamant that we keep things that way.

Growing up, the three of us were friends. He was the nerd. I was the playboy. She was the beauty. Deep down, I only ever wanted her. I kept it inside because Rory and I made a pact that our friend, Amber, was off-limits. He lied. I went off to college, and he got the girl. Amber never knew how I felt. They were together for years - before he broke her heart. Through it all and across the miles, she and I casually stayed in touch. When my job sent me to Boston for a three-month contract position, Amber let me stay in her spare room.

They called him Mack Daddy. No, seriously, his name was Mack. Short for Mackenzie. Thus, the nickname. Perfect, right? So was he: perfect. The perfect physical male specimen. At the private school where I taught, Mack Morrison was the only man around in a sea of women.

The first time I met Jade Jameson, I lost my words and accidentally dropped a beer bottle, smashing it to the ground. The Broadway star sister of my brother's wife had paid us a surprise visit on Christmas. Quite simply, she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen; I was mesmerized. I'd made a fool of myself, and to make matters worse, my girlfriend was standing right there when it happened. Jade went back to New York, and we didn't cross paths again for a year - until one night when a Facebook notification lit up my screen, setting off a chain of events that would change my life.