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Adventures in Tuscany

by Judith Isacoff

From being caught in the Trevi Fountain and splashed on the front pages, to unwittingly bringing home a tasty wild boar, five American women in Tuscany have the unruly time of their lives.

1675 -- Plymouth Colony -- Verity Parker promised to look after her family. Raised among the bookshops and turmoil of Reformation London, Verity now finds herself in Puritan New England, where she must learn to keep her head down and her mouth shut, or risk dire consequences. The only person who values her tenacity is Kit, the heretical ironworker she has been forbidden to see. When King Philip’s War breaks out, Verity must stay silent as the Puritan elders spread hateful rhetoric about the ... more

1-800-NEW YEAR

by Josie Riviera

Her lost love is back in town. Is he back for a second chance…or closure? Holiday love and romance are in the air—but Shanice Williams will be spending the second most popular date night of the year alone, agonizing over selling the quirky old farmhouse she inherited from her beloved grandmother. The money would help save her struggling landscaping business, but emotionally she can’t bear to part with a place so filled with memories—especially of Lincoln Reid, her mad teenage crush. The... more

Crushed

by Isabel Jolie

He’s a hunted hacker and former international criminal. She’s a bookshop owner and heiress to one of Napa Valley's greatest wineries. Erik Lai is on the run from his murderous former business partner, hiding off-grid in a vineyard safehouse. He and his small team are building a black ops high-tech security firm because he doesn’t plan to play defense forever. Vivianne Rossi is happy to leave the vineyards to her sister and brother. Her bookstore and a secret side hustle exposing cheaters via ... more

Last Blue Christmas

by Rose Prendeville

Police partners for ten years, Maggie and Max respond to a bomb threat and find a child hiding inside a bus station locker. The case splits them up, as Maggie attempts to solve the mystery of who made the bomb and called it in, and Max tries to find the boy who left his little brother behind--all before Christmas, and before the case destroys the partnership that they both wish could be something more.

The Dark Horizon

by Liz Harris

Oxfordshire, 1919 The instant that Lily Brown and Robert Linford set eyes on each other, they fall in love. The instant that Robert’s father, Joseph, chairman of the family’s successful building company, sets eyes on Lily, he feels a deep distrust of her. Convinced that his new daughter-in-law is a gold-digger, and that Robert’s feelings are a youthful infatuation he’d come to regret, Joseph resolves to do whatever it takes to rid his family of Lily. And he doesn’t care what that is. As... more

Unturned Rubbles

by Sana Khatri

From International Bestselling author Sana Khatri comes a standalone contemporary romance novella where trust is tested, chances are burrowed, and hearts – they are unintentionally wounded.

What happens when a door opens somewhere, resulting in another to close elsewhere? What happens when the truth burns the very air one breathes, making it hard to maintain one's sanity? Promises, trust, and hope – they are all left unturned.

What happens when wal... more

Love and Honour? Marriage for Peace

by David Evans

Love and Honour? Marriage for Peace, exposes the ongoing phenomenon of Romeo and Juliet style romance tragedy; families killing their own and other families' daughters, sons, sisters and brothers in the name of family 'honour". Focused on Northern India and Nepal, the stories illustrate that despite India adopting a democratic constitution in 1950, the public murder of forbidden lovers continues. Media reports of this phenomenon did not surface until 1993, but have increased dramatically since t... more

Pride of a Warrior

by Andrea K. Stein

A diamond of London's glittering ballrooms must travel to the ends of the earth to find love... It's 1825, and Lady Lydia Howick has accepted that the love of her life, Royal Marine Captain George Neville, has been killed in action with the Men of the Squadron in fierce fighting on West African Sherbro Island. She's moved on with her life until one day while at a Royal Academy exhibition of art from the Holy Land, she sees her supposedly dead lover in a group of figures painted in a desert ca... more

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by Janet W. Ferguson

Animals always made more sense than humans did to marine biologist Skye Youngblood. After her mother's suicide, she left Alabama and never looked back. These days, she pours her heart into protecting nature's sea creatures. When she returns to Dauphin Island, Alabama, for a temporary manatee migration study, her dark past is much too close. She can't let her guard down. But how can she keep her heart hidden when a kind man with a genuine smile makes her want a fresh start?

Otherwise Engaged

by Avery Keelan

When Thayer Montgomery invents a boyfriend that doesn't exist, she lands in the crosshairs of her arch-nemesis and former childhood friend, ruthless businessman Bennett Bradford. Bennett will stop at nothing to save his business, and Thayer is desperate to prevent her mistruth from being revealed. They create an uneasy alliance, faking a relationship to save both of their reputations within their cutthroat elite social circle. Before long, old feelings resurface and new sparks threaten to ignite... more

Practicing Love

by Katie Sullivan

The quintessential love story of the new normal.

Avery Clark is fiercely loyal and independent. Dr. Luke Preston is charming and non-committal. The two have been bickering and bantering for several years.

Overtime, while working together at her late father’s medical practice, which Luke now owns, their relationship has evolved from co-workers to friends - sharing everything from achievements to romances to griefs.

However, as often happens in life, unanticipated circum... more

Cold Feet

by Francois Keyser

Viola is a wedding planner and Rick is a divorce lawyer. When they meet at a wedding they are immediately attracted to each other. But their attraction quickly turns to enmity as Viola realizes that their views on relationships, love and marriage differ substantially. As if this disappointment is not enough, the wedding turns into a disaster that destroys Viola's business overnight. She is offered a second chance in business and she happens to meet Rick again. He seems to have started to chan... more

Him and I

by Alyssa Milani

Daring story of one girl's love life turned upside down. Kyle Stanford is the love of Lyla's life, they've been best friends since they were kids and now have breached the surface from friends to lovers, however, there's still the aspect of Declan O'Connell, the crush Lyla's had since she was a teenager. Who will she choose and what steamy sacrifice will she have to make in order to save herself from heartbreak. Read this three-part romance drama in following Lyla's steamy love affair.

Malkah Job - Part Two - Eminence Grise

by Vasilissa Wladowsky

Leda, called Ice, is a Jewess, an ex-ballerina, master of martial arts and psychological manipulation, sharp thinker, humorous, and a contract hitwoman, spying for Mossad and the Reds. She is a fatal blonde and seductress, a friend of orthodox priests, rabbis, princes, presidents, possessing extraordinarily sensual and explosive libido on the edge of nymphomania. She heads to rescue her husband and the father of their children from Russians, who made him a Manchurian candidate, and slowly ... more

Dial E for Endearment: Sweet Christian Contemporary Romance Novella (You Are on the Air, Book 4)

by Heidi Gray McGill

Radio talk show host Everly Johnson is every man’s dream of the perfect date…until they see the white cane.

Everly wants a meaningful relationship with a man who will open her eyes to everything she cannot see and make her feel like more than just a voice behind the microphone. As WJOY’s Christian Singles Advice talk show host, Everly has discovered fulfillment, but she hasn’t found love, at least not for her—not even from her mother. Will... more

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