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Everlee and her men are back!Everything is going great for them, but when a woman from the men's past enters the scene with a proposition that is hard to refuse, how will things change for our favorite quintet?If you like your books super spicy, then you will love this book. Don't let the cover fool you. Please check content warnings.This is book 3 of the holidate series and is strongly recommended you read Cupid's Contract and Bunnies and Bowties first.

"Lulu Moore created a perfect book boyfriend in OAR THAN FRIENDS. Oz is the very definition of boy obsessed and his pursuit of Kate is absolutely delicious! This book is sweet and sexy and I didn't want it to end!" ~ New York Times bestselling author Monica MurphyShe's rowing for Cambridge. He's rowing for Oxford. But they just can't keep one another at oar's length . . .Arthur Osbourne-Cloud has his future mapped out for him - graduate Oxford and follow his dreadful father into politics. Except Arthur wants anything but that. He'd rather spend his days rowing for gold at the Olympics,.And this year he has the Boat Race to win. Kate Astley also has her future mapped out. Fly half-way across the world, and win a scholarship at Cambridge University to study medicine. Oh, and crew for the legendary Boat Race. Seems simple enough. But then she meets Arthur. For Arthur, this feisty American challenges everything he's been taught to believe, while Kate battles between what she's expected to do, and what she wants to do. The bitter rivalry between their universities ought to destroy them. Or will it just be a matter of time before they surrender to the sizzling chemistry between them?But In The Boat Race, there can only be one winner. Who will sink and who will swim?PRAISE FOR OAR THAN FRIENDS:'I could not put this book down' Goodreads Reviewer'A breathtakingly unique take on the college rivals and sports romance tropes' Goodreads Reviewer'5+ stars!' Goodreads Reviewer'This book gives it all, and I'm not ashamed to say, I laughed, I cried, and I may have bit through my lip because of the tension in the end' Goodreads Reviewer'It's a 5-star read - if I could give more I would' Goodreads Reviewer

En uventet sms tikker ind på Cornelias telefon. Det føles som en mavepuster. Hun er klar over, at hun nu bliver nødt til at lægge alting bag sig.Lejligheden, jobbet og hendes ting betyder ikke noget længere. Hun må flygte til et sted, hvor afsenderen af sms'en ikke kan finde hende. Cornelia hopper på den første båd væk fra byen og går i land på Kanelholmen, en ø i Stockholms billedskønne skærgård. Uden hverken arbejde eller noget sted at bo, må dette blive hendes nye hjem.På øen finder Cornelia et fællesskab, som byder hende velkommen med åbne arme. Men hun støder også på udfordringer, som hun ikke havde kunnet forestille sig. Mens Cornelias brogede fortid spøger i baggrunden, falder hun selv over et mysterium. Et mysterium, som hun må forsøge at løse.Sommer på Kanelholmen er første del i en serie om livet, kærligheden og menneskene på den skønne ø Kanelholmen i Stockholms skærgård.YVONNE EHN er en svensk forfatter og bosat i Stockholm. Hun debuterede i 2019 og Sommer på Kanelholmen er hendes tredje bog. Yvonne elsker dyr og håber, at hun en dag kan adoptere en hund, som har brug for et nyt hjem.

Ava Mason is sassy and sure of herself. Everybody in Bellaire, a quiet, snowy hamlet in northern Lower Michigan, knows her by attitude if not the bright auburn color of her hair. She's been holding on to a specific dream since she was a teenager, and her chance to make it come true is finally here.There's just one problem...Griffin Holden was living a big city life full of glitz, glamour, and the accolades that come from associating with the richest businessmen in the state, and then it all came crashing down around him...literally. He decides he needs to take refuge in the one place no one will go looking for him: his grandfather's farm.Ava is just waiting for the Holden Farm to go to auction so she can build the bed and breakfast of her dreams. Griffin doesn't know what he wants to do with his late grandfather's property, but he does know that the woman who keeps hanging around telling him what to do with it is a mouthy nightmare.They're two opposites determined to take charge of the same property. What could possibly go wrong? More importantly, what could possibly go right?

When laid-back Max isn't running a little map shop, he's fostering the five kittens his ex abandoned when she left.While high-energy corporate trainer Tori is trying to stay fit and quit smoking, her condo floods and she has to find ashort-term place to live.Max has a basement suite available, but can two opposites get along under the same roof, especially when Max's ex threatens to return and reclaim the roof... and the rest of the house? "This contemporary rom-com is brimming with personality and snark, leading you on a skeptical journey filled with adorable kittens, and the revelation that you can never be too broken to find love, if you're willing to give it a chance."- Suzy Vadori, Author of The Fountain Series

"Nick Sorensen had once been one of the fastest men in hockey, until the devastating plane crash that took the lives of his best friends, leaving him the only survivor. Now he's physically ready to get back on the ice, but his coach is concerned Nick isn't doing as well, mentally, as he says he is. To prove he's fine, Nick hires Alyssa Compton, an up-and-coming interior designer, to decorate his apartment. But Nick turns out to be infuriatingly stubborn and impossible to work with, and just when Alyssa decides to throw in the towel on the whole thing, Nick shows up for her in a way she never could have expected"--

"Hazel Elliot never looks back. If a door closes, she burns the whole house down. But when she's invited to her father's wedding, she's forced to return to Lockett Prairie, Texas, for the first time since she fled for college. Ash Campbell has been in love with Hazel since she dated his best friend in high school. Now, Ash and Hazel's relationship is limited to playful feuding over the best chair in their favorite coffee shop, but his attraction to the prickly girl from home has only grown stronger. When Ash's car breaks down just as family obligations pull him home, only one person can get him there on time. But Hazel has a condition: Everything between them must stay the same. And if it doesn't? She gets the coffee shop. So the frenemies endure bad music, inclement weather, and B&Bs with only one bed-and that's just the drive across Texas. When they finally arrive, Hazel must face that, in a small town, there's nowhere to run . . . and maybe, for the first time, she's found a reason to stay."--

"A struggling writer who's worried she's running out of time to make her dreams come true is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend's wedding with a conflicted academic who gave her book a one star rating, from delightfully, witty author Laura Hankin. Natalie and Rob don't have much in common beyond their devotion to their respective best friends. Nat's a messy aspiring artist, trading stability for a chance to pursue her dreams. Rob's a rigid academic on a strict schedule. These two opposites are forced together not just as guests of the same wedding but also to walk down the aisle together--as Maid of Honor and Best Man. To make matters worse, just minutes before the ceremony, Nat discovers that Rob is responsible for the one-star review of her newly released novel. Nat believes the only possible explanation for Rob's bad rating? He's a snob who doesn't get her. Whereas Rob, who thought Nat a beautiful, intelligent creative, now thinks she's a selfish artist. Over the course of ten years, this Best Man and Maid of Honor are reunited each time their fast-track best friends celebrate another new chapter. Through christenings, housewarmings, and amazing job promotions, Natalie and Rob try to make sense of their own choices, changing dreams, and the real meaning behind the one-star review. Headed towards a crossroads, will they choose their own happy ending?"--

"Good villains make good TV. Romance novelist Jacqueline Matthis's big career has gone bust and she's ditched the bright lights of New York City for her more affordable South Carolina hometown. Desperate, Jac dreams up a comeback plan - she is going to be a contestant on the 1, the most obsessively watched reality dating show in the world. After all Jac is a romance writer - she knows how to pull off a meet-cute and create a spicy plotline. On set, Jac quickly establishes herself as a front-runner for bachelor Marcus's heart, but she's shocked to discover who's actually pulling the strings. How was she to know that Henry Foster, her last one-night stand before the show, was actually a longtime producer on the 1? Henry is just as horrified...but they can't seem to keep their hands off each other. As Jac plays the game and the show unfurls, she slowly discovers that she's getting the villain edit. They say there's no such thing as bad publicity, but as Jac's secret plan begins crumbling around her, she's not so sure. What happens if Marcus chooses her? Worse, what happens if her affair with Henry comes to light? What if, in trying to save her career, Jac has ruined her life? Heartbreaking, smart, and sexy, this novel is for anyone who has ever secretly rooted for - or felt like - the villain"--

If you're looking for a sweet, swooning heroine who loves first kisses, soul mates, and letting her hair blow romantically in the breeze...This ain't her.When the blunt, abrasive, sassy-as-hell-take-no-crap workaholic Aspen Haws is "promoted" against her will, she goes from constantly travelling to a small town in northern Ontario with a dating pool of approximately twelve eligible men.Luckily, Aspen has no time for love and no desire for commitment. Unluckily, she does have time for no-strings-attached hit-em-and-quit-em hookups... and there's not a lot of that going around Wakeham. -If you're looking for a cocky, confident, bad boy rock star who leaves a trail of broken hearts behind after every show and has a lover in every city...This ain't him.Theo Barker's fairytale came true. No one was more surprised than he was when the outcast loser turned world-famous rock star went from being bullied on the playground in Wakeham to the biggest stages in the world. But after his (now ex) girlfriend admits she's only with him for his money, the jaded rock star with a romantic streak decides it's time to go back home and take a break.-Both of these big personalities are immediately intrigued by each other when they collide in the small town of Wakeham: Theo by Aspen's self-assured sensuality and Aspen by Theo's charming smile and genuine kindness. But can these two very, VERY different people overcome the inevitable drama of having two very, very different lifestyles?This small town romance is intended for mature readers and includes strong friendships, rock stars, bad-ass women, boundaries, consent, healthy relationships, and a lot of spicy scenes and happy endings! Get Over It is part of the Love Across Canada series, a four-book series of interconnected standalones about three different couples.

It only took two weeks to upend Noelle Winston's irreversible life course. With no options, she did what she had to do. But she never stopped loving him.If you love something, set it free. After their one perfect night, Quinn Worthington never stopped believing in forever. He vowed to go to his grave staying true to the only girl he ever loved.They never had trouble loving each other.But timing was everything.And it was happening all over again.Can they stop history from repeating itself? Or would a second chance point them to their destiny?Will Noelle and Quinn find their second chance at forever?This is a love story about soulmates that get a second chance at happily ever after. A sweet wholesome romance.

A simmering slow burn bursting with banter... This is a romance for anyone who's ever felt too messy to be loved.' Rosie Danan, author of The RoommateIn this fierce and funny battle of the exes, Ashley Winstead's Fool Me Once explores the chaos of wanting something you used to have.Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks butt at her job as a communications director at a women-run electric car company (that's better than Tesla, thank you), and after work she is "Stoner,? drinking guys under the table and never letting any of them get too comfortable in her bed...That's because Lee's learned one big lesson: never trust love. Four major heartbreaks set her straight, from her father cheating on her mom all the way to Ben Laderman in grad school?who wasn't actually cheating, but she could have sworn he was, so she reciprocated in kind.Then Ben shows up five years later, working as a policy expert for the most liberal governor in Texas history, just as Lee is trying to get a clean energy bill rolling. Things get complicated?and competitive?as Lee and Ben are forced to work together. Tension builds just as old sparks reignite, fanning the flames for a romantic dustup the size of Texas.Don't miss The Boyfriend Candidate, Ashley Winstead's next laugh-out-loud rom-com about learning to embrace living outside your comfort zone!

Instant NEW YORK TIMES bestsellerOne of Barnes & Noble BEST BOOKS OF 2024 STYLIST Book of the Month: 'A gem'GUARDIAN Book of the Week: 'Wise and exquisitely written'ANN PATCHETT: 'Sandwich is joy in book form'NINA STIBBE: 'Funny, wise'RACHEL JOYCE: 'A piece of perfection'GRAZIA Book of the monthFor the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family's yearly escape. Their rustic beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, its quirky furniture and mismatched pots and pans greeted like old friends.Now, sandwiched between her children who are adult enough to be fun but still young enough to need her, and her parents who are alive and healthy, Rocky wants to preserve this golden moment forever. This one precious week when everything is in balance; everything is in flux.But every family has its secrets and hers is no exception.With her body in open revolt and surprises invading her peaceful haven, the perfectly balanced seesaw of Rocky's life is tipping towards change...Richard and Judy Book Club selected author for We All Want Impossible Things____________Praise for SANDWICH:'Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life' Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake'I stand in awe, it's just perfect' Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Swan Song'If you are after a book to pack on your next holiday, look no further. Here is a novel which will go down as easily as a chilled poolside drink' i Newspaper'I adored this novel and am forcing it on everyone I know - Jenny Colgan, author of The Summer Skies'Newman is truly a master of taking complex and chaotic human emotion and making sense of it' Guardian'If you want to laugh out loud, tear up and rush to pull out a book in the 35 seconds between subway stops, this sweet, savory, tenderhearted Sandwich fits the bill, and goes down like (bread and) buttah' New York Times'A wonderful book about how families love, disagree, fail one another - and endure' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry'Engaging, frank, funny and moving...in every sense the hot summer read' Daily MailNew York Times bestseller, July 2024

If you had the power to change the past. . . where would you start? Cassie has never really fitted in. She remembers everything. Understands nothing. And consistently says the wrong thing.So when she gets dumped, fired AND her local café runs out of banana muffins - all in one day - it feels like the end of the world.But then Cassie discovers she has the power to go back and change things.With endless chances to get it right, can she stop it all from going wrong?As featured on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 2 Book Club, The Times & Daily Mail_________________________'A time-twisting delight' REESE WITHERSPOON'Utterly brilliant!' ZOE BALL'Everyone should read it and everyone will love it' LINDSEY KELK'Totally absorbing' GRAEME SIMSION'Sharp, funny, quirky, insightful and so very, very relatable' JOANNE HARRIS'Hilarious and heartwarming' WOMAN'S OWN'Gut-warmingly funny' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH'Truly original novel' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS'Very clever' IRISH EXAMINER'IWonderful' DAILY MAIL'This is THE book for anyone who has ever wished life came with an undo button' SOPHIE IRWIN'Smart [and] funny' THE TIMES'A triumph' SUN'Clever [and] unusual' DAILY EXPRESS'Brilliantly clever' SARAH HAYWOOD'A witty read' SUN ON SUNDAYFirst published in the UK as The Cassandra Complex.Reese's Book Club Pick, June 2023

Das Freitagebuch ist ein gernegroßer Blick über alles überall am Niederrhein. Eine Quasselmappe in rotzigem Plauderton, ein Panorama der Wochen vom 9. August 2019 bis zum 28. Oktober 2022, jeden Freitag. Die Notizen dienen keinem erinnerungsseligen Zustand, und der Vorhang vor dem Privatleben geht auch nur einen Spalt weit auf, denn an diesem Buch hat eher die Sprache mitgeschrieben als das Leben.Wer zu Silvester Freude an "Best of Inas Nacht" empfinden kann, könnte sich die Wartezeit bis dahin mit diesem Freitagebuch vertreiben.

A woman with secrets. An alien on a mission. When their spaceships collide, explosive passions ignite.What genius thought disguising a spaceship like an asteroid was a smart idea? Of course, lucky me crash landed while trying to mine it. Now my crew needs to find a real asteroid fast, or my ship will be repossessed.And me? I'm stuck on the alien vessel until I repair my busted shuttle.It doesn't help that my new shipmate rubs me the wrong way. Lux is annoyingly handsome, unflinchingly arrogant, and loves ordering me around.Plus, he's convinced the crash was no mistake. How will I coexist with an infuriating alien who thinks I'm the enemy?Worse, what if I can't keep my strange obsession hidden while I'm trapped all alone with him?But then Lux's touch makes me see stars, and I'm left questioning everything...Bloodlust Voyage is book 1 in the Cosmic Lovers series by Leda Palmer. This interconnected standalone is packed with steamy sci-fi romance, enemies turned lovers, laugh-out-loud humor, cute alien pets, fast-paced space adventure, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

An ex-con, a baker, and a competition with stakes higher than either of them could have anticipated. Dirty Little Midlife Debacle is a hot, hilarious, wild ride. Kissing your coworker is a bad idea.Neurotic baker and business owner Jen knows this from experience. An even worse idea?Signing up for a televised baking competition and partnering up with said coworker. The treats they bake might be sweet, but the only thing they're planning on sharing is the trophy. Oh...and a bed. There's only one bed. All Jen has to do is make it to the end of the competition without letting her desires get in the way...until she discovers there might be more danger afoot than sharing a bed with a hot, hunky ex-con with a heart of gold. This competition is about to get very, very interesting...

Laugh-out-loud funny, with cover-to-cover banter and red-hot heat. Dirty Little Midlife Mess is not your typical fake relationship romance. It's better.Simone owes handsome, broody Wesley Byron a favor, and he's calling it in.He needs a maid.Yes, like the type that cleans a house. Black and white uniform not included (she asked).Except on Simone's first day, she finds herself wrapped up in Wes's muscular arms as he introduces her to his family using the word "girlfriend" instead of "maid".Then he ducks his head and whispers two words against her ear: Play along.For a woman who dealt with a difficult man for eleven years (and divorced him), those words are like throwing a lit match into a box of fireworks.She'll play along. She might even have fun with it.And when the explosions start, everyone will enjoy the show...

Hilarious, hot, and seriously refreshing. Dirty Little Midlife Crisis is the book you didn't know you needed.Forty-five, recently divorced, and a certified hot mess.The last thing Fiona needs to start her vacation is a flooded hotel room and a broken-down car...Alas, that's what she gets.She's ready to pack it all in and go home-wherever that is-when her knight in a wet T-shirt strides in to save the day. Jaw-dropping, panty-melting Grant Greene takes the "mess" out of "certified hot mess" when he walks up to Fiona and offers her a room to stay. No strings attached.Great, right?It would be, apart from the sparks that immediately start to fly. Sparks are bad. Sparks are dangerous. Sparks can cause a fire. And for a divorcee trying to start over, a fire is Really Bad News.But bad decisions can be fun...right? Just as long as you don't get burned...Intrepid heroine gets more than she bargained for. Hot hunk bares it all (literally). Skinny dipping. Shirtlessness. Meddling townsfolk. Vicious feuds. Hilarious banter. Twists, turns, and shocking developments. And heat, so much heat. More steam than a sauna. Well-earned HEA guaranteed.

Sizzling-hot and seriously funny. Who said your forties couldn't be both?There are three rules for a post-divorce rebound: Choose someone you won't ever see again.Don't let your nosey mother invite him over for a family dinner.Do not, under any circumstances, fall in love. Single mother of two, Katrina Viceroy, should really, really follow the rules, but when leather-clad motorcycle hunk, Mac Blair, walks into her life (and her bed), she knows she's in trouble. For once in her forty-two years, Trina's breaking all the rules......until she finds out Mac is her daughter's new second grade teacher. Two words: Off. Limits. And Mac's one unbreakable rule? Don't mix work with pleasure.Unlike Trina, Mac does, indeed, follow his own rules. Mostly.

A hot, hilarious fresh start! Nora's forties begin with a bang...or rather, a crash.What's worse than bumping into a parked motorcycle and tipping it over?Easy. It's bumping into a motorcycle, tipping it over, and sending it crashing into an entire row of bikes like horrible, slow-motion dominos.What's even worse than that?Doing it in front of the first bike's owner.Lee Blair looks like he wants to pop Nora's head off her shoulders like a champagne cork.Saying "oopsie daisy" doesn't calm him down. Go figure.When she gets the bill for her mistake, she nearly breaks down.In order to pay it off, she'll have to move back in with her mother and beg for her old job back.It's every forty-one-year-old woman's dream...not.Until Lee offers her a solution.He'll take on the debt and let her pay it off over time...if she agrees to work for him.What could possibly go wrong?

Holy heat! Dirty Little Midlife Mistake is packed full of the best kind of bad decisions.Candice Viceroy-widow, mother, business owner-isn't supposed to kiss anyone.Especially not Hollywood heartthrob and hunky silver fox, Blake Harding.Not in front of half a dozen cameras and a whole movie set's worth of lights.And not when, for the first time in nearly a decade, she gets certain special tingles in a certain special place.So, Candice does what any normal, rational person would do:She runs away. Literally.One thing she doesn't expect?For Blake Harding-actor, Adonis, ladykiller-to lay chase.That's when Candice finds out she has a very, very big problem on her hands......because when Blake catches her, he isn't planning on letting her go.

Secrets don't stay hidden for long in Heart's Cove... Lily has a secret, and it's about to come out. The forty-year-old free spirit will tell her family, deal with the fallout, and move on with her life.Within a year, she'll be back to normal, with the addition of a little bundle of joy. Then she meets Rudy. Handsome, charming, roguish Rudy.The man who drifts through life with a smile on his lips and sin in his gaze.The man who makes her body heat and her mind spiral into all the places that should be locked away. Because when the truth comes out, their romance is doomed.No man will stick around when he finds out she's pregnant...and definitely not when he finds out what she's really hiding.

The line between hate and love blurs when two exes still sizzle more than a Bunsen burner on full blast.I have two goals: Sign-off on the newest pill for-her-pleasure as a favor to the CEO and ferret out the mole selling company secrets to an investigative journalist. I didn't expect to find my ex-husband in the pharmaceutical lab where I'm assigned to work.Sam Grant: reserved, quiet, exceptional in bed. He's always been the stable and responsible one. I brought the chaos.But we're no longer who we were all those years ago.Every day of sparring and banter shows me what we could be. It's taking all I have to keep my hands to myself and not give in to our chemistry.My dream job is on the line, and I'm afraid if I let myself fall for Sam again, I'll lose everything.As the secrets start to mount, I have to figure out if I can trust Sam and...myself.Chemistry of the Heart, a steamy rom-com series set at a pharmaceutical company in Seattle, Washington, features second chance after divorce, opposites attract, women in STEM, and misguided matchmaking tropes. Find out what happens when a scientist must rely on the one woman he never got over, his ex-wife, to help him confirm the results on an important drug trial and to also clear his name.

A career woman. A divorced dad. And a connection they can't seem to break.Andie Werking has never worried about finding true love. She's been busy building a successful small business and a few tight friendships. But now, at thirty-eight, her "no kids" decision seems to have left her permanently single.Until Joe McIntyre walks into her life with a chance for that happily ever after...if Andie's willing to welcome the three kids, amicable divorce, and fifty-fifty custody split he brings with him. On one hand, there's Joe's kind, steady character, and his electrifying kisses. On the other, there's her terror of mothering anything more demanding than her beloved dogs. And just when Andie needs her friendships most, her best friend disappears as both her number one confidant and irreplaceable store manager...leaving Andie to wonder if she's capable of any long-term relationship.As Joe brings everyone together for soccer games, group outings, and family trips, Andie clings to the carefree life she once knew. She can't compromise on a "'til death do us part" decision, even for the sweetest man she's ever met...can she?