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Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth. These three women are strangers who have only one thing in common: They’ve all been stood up on the same day, the very worst day to be stood up—Valentine’s Day. And, unbeknownst to them, they’ve all been stood up by the same man.

Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He'll only ever be there when she's at the office. In fact, they'll never even have to meet.

What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand? Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend's daughter.

Three women. Three dates. One missing man. The No-Show is the brilliantly funny, heartbreaking and joyful new novel from Beth O'Leary about dating, and waiting, and the ways love can find us.

When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn 80. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. Once Leena learns of Eileen's romantic predicament, she proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love. Meanwhile Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire....

Lexi busca pasárselo bien con un completo desconocido. Se merece una noche para ella sola, ¿no? Zeke, en cambio, busca el amor. Pero por una noche con una mujer como Lexi, puede que esté dispuesto a romper todas sus reglas... Lo único que Lexi quiere es vivir una noche loca con un desconocido. Zeke, por el contrario, lo que busca es amor. Cuando se conocen en un pub y saltan chispas entre ellos, un beso los conduce a otro, y a otro... y, finalmente, al puerto.

Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rule book out the window.

Três meses após o término do seu relacionamento, Tiffy finalmente sai do apartamento do ex-namorado. Agora ela precisa para ontem de um lugar barato para morar. Contrariando os amigos, ela topa um acordo bastante inusitado. Leon está enrolado com questões financeiras e tem uma ideia pouco convencional para arranjar dinheiro rápido: sublocar seu apartamento, onde fica apenas no período da manhã e da tarde nos dias úteis, já que passa os finais de semana com a namorada e trabalha como enfermeiro no turno da noite. Só que tem um detalhe importante: o lugar tem apenas uma cama.

Charlie couldn’t be happier to take the job of farm-shop manager on the remote, wild Isle of Ormer. She’s grieving, a little lost, and in desperate need of a fresh start. Jones has come out of a difficult breakup and is looking forward to some peace away from the noise of his city life. Moving to Ormer couldn’t have come at a better time. But when Charlie Jones and, ahem, Charlie Jones both turn up at Ormer’s one and only farm shop, claiming to have been offered the role of manager, everyone is baffled. How could this have happened? And just who is the real Charlie Jones?

Charlie Jones has landed on the island to embark on her brand new life. Charlie Jones has also just arrived on the Isle of Ormer, to embark on his brand new life. This second chance is the best thing that could have happened to Charlie . . . and Charlie. That is, until they are introduced . . .

It’s the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the hotel’s front desk, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and see it through. The hotel won't stay afloat beyond Christmas without some sort of miracle. But when Izzy returns a guest’s lost wedding ring, the reward convinces management that this might be the way to fix everything. With four rings still sitting in the lost & found, the race is on for Izzy and Lucas to save their beloved hotel—and their jobs.

Leena Cotton tem 29 anos e sente que já não é mais a mesma. Eileen Cotton tem 79 e está em busca de um novo amor. Tudo de que neta e avó precisam no momento é pôr em prática uma mudança radical. Então, para colocar suas respectivas vidas de volta nos trilhos, as duas têm uma ideia inusitada: trocar de lugar uma com a outra. Leena sabe que precisa descansar, mas imagina que a parte mais difícil será se adaptar à calmaria da cidadezinha onde a avó mora. Cadastrada em um site de relacionamentos, Eileen por sua vez embarca na aventura com a qual sonha desde a juventude.

Dylan e Addie se apaixonaram há alguns verões, sob o sol da Provença, na França. Quase dois anos atrás, porém, o relacionamento acabou, e eles pararam de se falar. Às vésperas do casamento de uma amiga em comum, os caminhos dos dois se cruzam novamente. Ou melhor, colidem. Quando, logo no início da viagem para a festa, o carro em que Dylan vai com um amigo bate no que Addie está com a irmã e um sujeito que pediu para ir junto, os planos mudam. Addie se vê obrigada a oferecer carona para a dupla, e, espremidos no carrinho, os cinco retomam a jornada.

Addie og hendes storesøster, Deb, er på vej til bryllup i det skotske højland. Men turen når knap at begynde, før en bil kører ind i dem. Føreren er ingen anden end Addies eks, Dylan, som hun ellers har haft held med at undgå i to år. Dylan og hans ven, Marcus, er også på vej til brylluppet. Addie ved, at Marcus synes lige så lidt om hende, som hun gør om ham – og dét siger ikke så lidt. Til gengæld får hun stadig sommerfugle i maven, når hun ser Dylan.

Eileen er træt af at føle sig gammel. Leena er træt af sit usikre ungdomsliv. Måske kan de lære lidt af hinanden? Ambitiøse Leena Cotton har store drømme for fremtiden, og hun lever et travlt liv i London med et hektisk job og en smart kæreste. Men hun er også udkørt og i sorg efter at have mistet sin søster, og da hun efter en uheldig episode på jobbet bliver tvunget på orlov, flygter hun ud af byen og hjem til sin elskede bedstemor, Eileen. Eileen er for nyligt blevet single i en alder af 79, men det vil hun ikke lade sig begrænse af.

08.52: Siobhan har glædet sig til sin morgenmadsdate med Joseph. Normalt ser hun ham kun sent om aftenen på sit hotelværelse. Men en morgenmadsdate på valentinsdag må da betyde noget … så hvor er han? 14.43: Miranda håbede, at en valentinsfrokost med Carter ville være den perfekte anledning til at fejre sit nye job. En ny start og et tegn på at hendes voksentilværelse langt om længe er ved at falde på plads: Nu har de også datet i fem måneder, og det er ved at blive seriøst. Men hvor bliver han af?

TENÉIS UNA CITA CON JOSEPH CARTER. PERO PRIMERO TENDRÉIS QUE ENCONTRARLO... «Hoy es el día del amor, ¿no? Pues ¿sabes qué te digo? Que pienso hacer algo al respecto»

Drei Frauen. Drei Dates. Ein Mann, der nicht auftaucht. Drei Frauen. Drei Dates. Ein Mann, der nicht auftaucht... 8.52 Uhr: Shioban ist mit Joseph Carter zum Frühstück verabredet. Sie war überrascht, als er das Date vorschlug – sonst trifft sie ihn spät abends im Hotelzimmer. Frühstück mit Joseph am Valentinstag bedeutet sicherlich etwas. Aber wo bleibt er nur? 14.43 Uhr: Der Valentins-Lunch mit Joseph Carter ist für Miranda das Zeichen, dass die Dinge zwischen ihnen ernster werden. Wann er wohl endlich kommt?

Todo el mundo tiene un ex. El de ADDIE es Dylan: hijo de familia adinerada, poeta de mirada intensa y manos cálidas... y la persona que le rompió el corazón. Tras dos años sin verlo, está segura de haberlo superado, pero el destino no opina lo mismo. De camino con su hermana a una boda en Escocia, un coche choca con ellas. El conductor es Dylan, que también va con su mejor amigo a la celebración. Y ahora, si quieren llegar a tiempo a la ceremonia, tendrán que viajar juntos.

Leena Cotton es infalible, pero ha metido la pata. Sus jefes le ordenan tomarse dos meses de vacaciones y, agotada, decide escapar de la humeante Londres. Eileen Cotton es imparable, pero acaba de quedarse soltera a sus setenta y nueve años y no hay (a primera vista) ningún soltero adecuado para ella en Hamleigh, su pequeño pueblo.