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Nancy and Sam have no intention of playing nice. Each aims to win the bid for the abandoned Narragansett Island Lighthouse, and compromise isn't in the cards. It's preservation versus profit, but the lighthouse's dissatisfied governing board insists on better from both women. Ironically, a battered old book at the lighthouse just might provide the key to success. Inspiring parallels are discovered in the dog-eared pages: the struggles, dreams--and love--between two Danish women braving WWII's desperate days, guided by a valiant lighthouse they know well. The heroic tale could navigate Nancy and Sam to success, if they stop floundering long enough to see love coming to their rescue.

Seventeen-year-old Jen's best (let's face it, only) friend Deanna is five years older and big on parties. Jen has been trying to live in Deanna's world, but she's coming to realize guys, drinking, and drugs aren't really her thing. Just as she's figuring out how to tell Deanna the truth, tragedy hits, leaving Jen struggling to figure out who she is and what's important to her. Consumed by grief and guilt, Jen finds support in unexpected places. Stephanie's sociable, smart, and upbeat--all the things Jen is not. Yet she seems to want to be Jen's friend. Stephanie is also a lesbian, and when she takes Jen along to an LGBTQIA+ club, Jen starts to see not only her past with Deanna in a new light, but more importantly, her feelings about Stephanie.

When the Duke of Stanmere's will reveals a nasty secret, London Society is shocked--and so is his widow, Joan. Humiliated by the scandal, Joan flees to Inverley in disguise. Surely the quaint seaside town would be the last place anyone would look for a duchess on the run. After her mother's remarriage, fashionable spinster Miss Maeve Balfour must make a living with hands whose only labor has been arranging her hair into the latest style. With nowhere to turn and nothing to lose, she persuades mysterious newcomer Joan to let her stay in her manor house. Although entranced by worldly and seductive Maeve, Joan doesn't know if she can trust again. As Maeve learns Joan's secrets, she yearns to protect her from the men who have sought to destroy her. But can a spinster and a widow dare to defy a dukedom--and win each other's hearts?

Theater director and high school drama teacher Tessa Flowers is still carrying a torch for her old college roommate, Roxy Bright, despite not having seen her in years. When they end up in Provincetown over the winter, Tessa convinces Roxy to help her put on a Shakespeare production. What better way to fan the long-held spark of attraction into the roaring fire of passion? Cue the instant attraction they long to explore. But when Roxy unwittingly saves a stranded mermaid named Mo, things go off script. Mo is tall, curvy, and stunning, with long green hair and absolutely no clue about life on land. Lured into Cape Cod Bay by an evil spell, she cannot return to her true form. In gratitude to Roxy for having saved her, she vows to help Roxy find her true love. This would all be great, except that Mo doesn't actually know anything about human courtship, and her help creates more problems than it solves. Throw in Tessa's icy ex, who has the lead role in the play, and the stage is set for a comedy of errors that even the Bard could appreciate.

It's been almost two years since Sarah Osborn's wife, Julie, died. She never expects that the email she sends to Julie's old account, hoping for closure, would end up in someone else's inbox. Lindsey Cooper is deeply touched when she receives an email meant for someone else. She writes back, explaining the mistake and tries to ignore the immediate connection she feels to the sender. A handful of emails later, their growing online connection leads to a real-life meeting. Even though Sarah wants to be ready for her growing feelings for Lindsay, her guilt over moving on after Julie's death stands in her way. A simple mistake brought them together, but if Sarah is to embrace a future with Lindsey she never dreamed possible, she must find a way to let go of her lost love.

Cain Casey has much to be thankful for-a loving wife in Emma, three beautiful children, and an ever-expanding family. Her business continues to grow, giving her the power to keep it all safe, but is it? Unknown federal agents are not playing by the government's rules, and the Russian mob comes seeking revenge for the losses Cain's inflicted. Cain and Emma have agreed to partner with the local feds to root out their rogue agents, but their goals for the endgame are completely different. Cain wants to remove the threat the way she knows is best-permanently. There is also Nicola Antakov, who she plans to handle the same way.Cain Casey is the devil you know. She loves her family and will do anything to keep them safe and whole.

For most, the Colorado Amateur Street Sports Tour means a chance to see some local skateparks and fun antics as participants compete for some unusual point prizes. While he doesn't expect to go pro as a skateboarder or BMX biker, Arturo hopes winning will jump-start his career in media. To win, his team must snag one of the bigger prizes, which means marrying his best friend Thomas "Pirate" Jefferson. But every plan has its hiccups. With bigots, journalists, and pressure from sponsors and teammates, Arturo must perform his best to pull it off. The stakes are high for skateboarder and rollerblader Thomas. Invited onto the team because he's that good, Thomas must win to prove he deserves to be there. To secure the biggest prizes, he'll do almost anything, even marry his crush--Arturo "Uno" Ortiz. Although his feelings are a secret, his attraction gets harder to hide when the competition starts to push their relationship out into the open. When pressure drives a wedge through his team, Thomas is going to need more than a win to keep everyone he loves. Arturo and Thomas know falling can hurt, but they didn't anticipate marriage would be an extreme sport.

When Tamar Richler, an unlicensed necromancer, raises someone from the dead, she is forced to earn her license from researcher and top necromancy expert in the state, Maddy Wu. Maddy is both beautiful and unreachable, with lofty standards Tamar feels she can never meet. Maddy knows better than anyone the dangers of unlicensed magic. After an accident years before leaves one brother dead and the other mysteriously uninjured, Maddy attempts a resurrection herself before the ambulance and licensed necromancer can arrive. The result leaves her with chronic illness and fatigue, and her brother in a coma. Now her only goal is to right her wrong and bring him back. When Tamar connects the dots to what really happened, the two of them must fight against the most politically powerful necromancer in the state to save a life and prevent the threat to their own survival.

Sawyer Noel's car troubles leave her coasting into the dreamy town of Ladybug Junction, Alabama, on her way to the Fetch Veterinarian Conference. She tries to make the most of it, but cell phone signal is limited, and the library is the only reliable place for Wi-Fi. The attractive, carefree librarian with her wild, curly hair and infectious smile helps the time go by quickly, and suddenly Sawyer isn't in such a rush. Macey Burr loves helping people. She happily throws herself into her work solving problems and enriching the lives around her. When a sexy stranger rolls through town, Macey goes out of her way to make the doctor feel at home. It's easy to see past Sawyer's hard exterior and impossible to ignore her full lips, sparkling blue eyes, and brilliant mind. When life seems to be too good to be true and love is within reach, Sawyer and Macey discover the truth about Ladybug Junction, and the cold light of reality tests the hearts of these dreamers.

Alice Johns and Bridget Moore were young nuns when a forbidden spark lit between them. After being discovered, they were released from their convent and lost touch. But they never forgot their intense connection.Twenty-five years later, they meet again, and the old spark is just as strong. Outside the convent, they couldn't be more different from one another. Alice lives a quiet life, is active in her church, and doesn't talk about her past as a nun. Aside from the longing she has for her first and only love, her chosen family in Oceana is everything she needs to be happy. Bridge, an outgoing sales executive whose life has expanded in the years since they were together, has come to know that life is more than her job. She has also sworn off religion. When they reunite, their passion runs deep. But when they think about the future, they worry about how different they've become.For their love to survive, they must find a way to reconcile the most important passions in their lives-devotion to the church and each other.

Facing yet another failed relationship and a full-blown identity crisis after losing her job in a corporate merger, unemployed executive Amber Shaw realizes she hasn't been happy in a long time. Who is she if not a CEO, and if everything she's worked for hasn't made her happy, what will? Inspired after learning about the Appalachian Trail, Amber sets off in hopes of figuring it all out. Leslie Brown lives life on her own terms with nothing to tie her down. She's an experienced hiker and has one final trail left on her bucket list, the Appalachian Trail. Only problem, all her friends have settled down and started lives that don't allow for seven months away from responsibilities. She's out there alone. Amber and Leslie assume they are polar opposites based on their first impressions of each other, but the more their paths cross, the more this hike of a lifetime begins to look like a love of a lifetime.

Danica Wallace, one of southern Louisiana's top detectives, must solve a series of missing person cases in the small town of Sugar Mill Farm, and the lack of progress has her seeking answers from a bottle. Bones are discovered in a nearby sugar cane field and Danica fears the worst. When Lyra Aarden, a beautiful and accomplished bioarcheologist, stumbles upon the remains, she's sure the bones belong to more than one person. Desperate for answers, Danica asks her former lover, forensic anthropologist Dr. Eleanor Stafford, to consult on the case. As Danica, Lyra, and Eleanor work to uncover buried secrets, they're set on a dangerous collision course with a serial killer. Can they solve the case, or will unexpected feelings and unwelcome jealousies lead them straight into the crosshairs of a killer?

Cori Stratton's a small-town girl. She loves making candles, and her little gift shop is her pride and joy. But when the shop's building goes up for sale, she might lose her home and everything that makes her happy. The worst timing of all? Her landlord's daughter Elizabeth Brennan--popular, smart, and oblivious to Cori's existence in high school--has breezed back into town. Life has not gone according to plan for Elizabeth. Laid off from her job in the city, she's forced back home to help her mom run the family's B and B during a week-long wedding celebration...for Liz's ex. Not wanting the groom to know the shambles her life is, she grabs the nearest person--Cori and tells him how happy they are together. A chance to live out her high school fantasy of Liz as her girlfriend is unexpected, but it keeps Cori playing along. And helping her one-time crush survive this wedding? Just for the week? She can do that. Besides, there's no way this fake relationship will turn into the real deal.

Liberty Bell has been on her own for almost a decade after her father and his new family rejected her. With only one thing she cares about, there's no backup plan. She needs to sing. Her dreams could come true when she makes it onto the latest TV talent show where famous vocalists coach her as she performs a new song each week. Liberty doesn't trust easily, and she can be all thorns, which she proves when she is on the receiving end of the rude and sarcastic coach Palmer Elliston's scathing feedback. Palmer was one of the most sought-after producers and songwriters until she made a mistake that cost her everything. Now she leads a very different life. Jaded and disillusioned, she's persuaded by an old friend to coach on a new reality talent show in the hope it might rejuvenate her former career. What she doesn't expect is the prickly Liberty or the unexpected emotions that surge between them whenever Liberty sings. There's no way Palmer will ever act on her attraction. She's already made one career-ending mistake and isn't looking for an encore.

Would you want to forget the only woman you've ever loved? Marlie Rose does. Everyone thinks Broadway legend Marlie Rose has it all: a fabulous career spanning over five decades, all the major awards, and a lifetime in the spotlight. Only Marlie knows the heavy weight of her memories. When a new, experimental procedure promises to relieve trauma and heartbreak by erasing unwanted memories, Marlie signs up, desperate to let go of her tumultuous childhood, grief, and broken heart. As Marlie recalls her memories and decides which ones to keep and which to erase, she unexpectedly reunites with Eleanor Olson, the woman she's been in love with for forty-seven years. As her heartbreak fades and her heart races anew for Eleanor, Marlie discovers their love isn't as dead as she thought it was, and she starts regretting the procedure. Eleanor might be the only person who can help her restore her memories, but remembering might break her heart all over again.

Piper James was given a new lease on life when she received a heart transplant. She lives in the apartment above her art supply store, Rainbow Arts, with her cat. She has all she wants, except a woman she can love for the rest of her life. Her biggest problem? The rest of her life is on borrowed time and love isn't an option. Gillian Phillips moves into a new neighborhood for a new start after losing her wife in an accident two years ago. After taking advice to be more social, she decides on a pottery class at Rainbow Arts. There's something about her instructor, Piper, that seems so comfortable and familiar to Gillian, but she can't quite put her finger on it. When a tragic coincidence leads to an unexpected connection, revealing secrets neither wants to face, they realize that love never really dies.

The Dream: rich and famous screenwriter of hilarious sapphic rom coms.The Reality: pushing out trashy celebrity gossip for cash.The Grand Plan: advance career by engineering a celebrity takedown. Fran Underhill's adoration for the entertainment industry is in flames, transformed into a loathing of celebrity culture and all those who benefit from it. When a personal assistant gig for one of Hollywood's most popular actresses falls into her lap, Fran is determined to use the experience to her advantage with a series of tell-all articles. Just enough clickbait to get her next screenplay sold. Now if only she can ignore that ferocious and inconvenient attraction to her new employer. Chelsea Cartwright--actress, mother, and ex-wife to Hollywood royalty--is struggling. A competent new assistant will do much to ease her burdens, but who could predict the intense and long-buried feelings Fran would awaken. And what will the fallout be when she finds out Fran is a member of the gossip media--with Chelsea's public destruction in her sights.

Lace Reynolds has a three-month rule for a reason. Long-term romantic relationships get complicated. And Lace doesn't do complicated. She's had enough of that in her life. Besides, she's too busy running Frisky Business, just voted Best Sex Toy Shop in Arizona, and she's got big expansion plans in the works. If she's helping others find pleasure and connection, she's happy. Right? Tessa Williams has moved from California to Arizona wine country to escape a cheating ex and launch her own vineyard. When she's not battling wine snobs and fighting water wars, she's wrangling a sulky teenage daughter and an Australian Shepard named Bleu. She doesn't have time to go looking for love. Not that she could hold on to it, even if love found her. Lace and Tessa have been friends almost from the moment they met. But when Tessa opens a tasting room right next to Frisky Business, it gets harder to ignore the heat between them. The last thing they need is romance messing up a good thing. Maybe with a little help from their friends and the town's friskiest ghost, they'll be able to discover if love is a risk worth taking.

Chloe knew her future would be boring. Every job pales in comparison to the family legacy: hunting monsters and banishing ghosts. But that birthright belongs to her mother and sister, leaving Chloe forever outside looking in. Until her sister dies without warning. Chloe gets the family magic, a lack of self-confidence, a grieving mother, a sarcastic spirit guide, and room for nothing else, especially love. And lately, someone seems to be summoning ghosts and protecting monsters, and all clues point to one very famous face: Helen of Troy.Helen has spent hundreds of years running a sanctuary and rehab for the last mythical creatures on earth. And she has a huge chip on her shoulder about that whole Trojan War thing. Neither she nor Chloe has time for the other's philosophy or to see if their growing attraction is more than skin-deep, not when there are some monsters that won't be sent to the Underworld without a fight.

Returning home after years of living as far from her wealthy family as she can, Lucy wants her great American road trip before she settles down. The vintage VW bus her arrogant older brother Jordan is selling off seems like the perfect vehicle for it. But the bus in question is fiercely beloved by its real owner, Emma, Jordan's wife. She's not ready to let the bus go, but she is ready to get out of her marriage--and isn't above hijacking her own bus to make that happen. When Lucy's vacation to find herself becomes Emma's chance to remember herself, they realize that everything they're looking for might already be sitting right next to them--if they're willing to reach for it.

Emma Wilson has it all figured out. She's the starting point guard for the Alder Lions. She's got a post-grad job lined up. Every queer woman on campus wants her. And she's definitely over her old flame. The one she never even got to date. She's coasting. Until the new basketball coach arrives on campus and clearly dislikes her. So does Lake Palmer, the arrogant new player the coach brought with her. Sure, Lake's gorgeous, and Emma wants to kiss those annoyingly enticing lips, but she plans to steal Emma's spot. And that just can't happen. It won't happen. Their epic arguments are the stuff of courtside legend, but the more Lake pushes her to play better, the harder it is for Emma to resist her attraction. Oh, and maybe Emma's major makes her want to rip her own hair out as much as being Lake's teammate does. With her future anything but a slam dunk, coasting is beginning to feel a whole lot like crashing.

Zeddi's cursed with bad luck. A housing shortage in the Bay Area's Tres Ojos has left Zeddi and her nine-year-old daughter, Olive, living in a van. Working as a housekeeper, trying to save money, Zeddi worries about Olive's welfare. When she finds her friend and housekeeping client Mags dead--and something about her death doesn't sit right--she faces her biggest worry of all. Mags's longtime lover, Ida, confirms her suspicions of foul play, revealing that Mags served as high priestess to a dwindling coven of old witches--who are positive that Mags was murdered. Zeddi owes it to Mags and Ida to uncover the truth, but the more she digs, the more she fears that Mags's love for Olive may have unintentionally made Olive the killer's next target.

Lacey Heller is sure that nothing interesting could possibly happen at Camp Lavender, because it never does. Her parents have been running this Christian camp for girls ever since she can remember. Little does Lacey know that Jo Delgado is coming to camp this summer--and she's going to change everything. After the incident, Jo's aunt sends her to Camp Lavender instead of the science camp she desperately wants to attend. Her aunt hopes that Camp Lavender will put Jo on the "right path," influenced by nice girls like Lacey. The best Jo can hope for is to run a successful experiment so that she doesn't waste her whole summer. Lacey is a good Christian girl...or at least she thought she was. But Jo changes all that. There's something different about Jo--and that something could get Lacey into big trouble. Lacey and Jo must help each other untangle who they are from who everyone says they're supposed to be.

A body count is never a good vacation selling point. In a world of luxury and relaxation, the Ocean Summit stands out during its inaugural cruise, but not for reasons the cruise director would like. Forced by her agent and publisher to take a much-needed cruise vacation, investigative journalist Claire Mills finds work harder to forget than she anticipated when the cleaning staff discover her neighbor dead on the first day of sailing. The ship's authorities have ruled it a suicide, but Claire suspects murder. With the help of the delightful assistant cruise director Moira, Claire conducts her own investigation. But the deeper they get, the more clues they collect, and the danger escalates. With the killer on their trail, Claire and Moira must decide what's more important, finding the killer or surviving eight days together at sea.

In the final installment of Jenny Frame's Wild For You series, danger and desire are impossible to avoid in the end game of good versus evil. Eternity is a long time, but for Serenity Debrek, immortality has been one long party. As little sister to Byron Debrek, the leader of the Debrek vampire clan, Serenity has never wanted for anything. If only she could be useful to her sister and be taken seriously, especially as she accidentally endangered the clan during their last encounter with the dark witch Anka. Bhal has lived all eternity serving the Debreks. She has only one rule to avoid inevitable tragedy: never fall in love again. But Serenity haunts her dreams. Bhal shouldn't love, and Serenity hates her it seems. When Serenity falls into a path of self-destruction, only Bhal can save her and show her she has everything to live for. But in the end game of good versus evil, will they be able to find reasons to live, and love?

Leighton Vaughn's prestigious fine art atelier--and her life--appear to be settling down after a messy divorce. She prioritizes her daughter, art, and, teaching--that is until gifted Casey Norford joins the close-knit New York academy. Casey didn't receive the artistic education she expected from her degree, but a spot at Atelier Vaughn will remedy that. Even more than the opportunity to study with the famed Leighton Vaughn, Casey wants to give her son a stable childhood that won't resemble her own. She's not sure of the true extent of her artistic talent, but she's keenly aware of her attraction to her instructor, and that attraction appears mutual. Their sticky teacher-student relationship puts the future of the atelier in jeopardy, and Leighton's obsessive ex tracks her down. Will they sacrifice everything to be together?Content advisory: This book contains instances of domestic violence.

Burned-out chef Sy Travino never expected to wind up on a goat farm in rural Vermont, but that's exactly where she lands after leaving the restaurant world to become a cheesemaker. It's a great place to flex her muscles and make a name for herself, though. Too bad the house she bought is practically unlivable. Maddie Barrow can't believe anyone would be dumb enough to buy a house sight unseen, but she's not about to turn down the job of renovating it, especially since her best friend just hired Sy to turn Grumpy Old Goat into the chèvre everyone is talking about. When the estimate on the house exceeds Sy's budget, Maddie puts her to work. It doesn't take long for Sy and Maddie to admit their chemistry is off the charts, but having fun doesn't always lead to forever. Could it be a foundation for love or nothing but a teardown?

Ellie Efron is heartbroken when her best friend suddenly passes away. How can she possibly refuse her friend's last request to take care of her rescue dog, Atlas, so he doesn't end up back at the shelter? Ellie reluctantly agrees but ends up in over her head with the 100-pound, reactive Atlas. Desperate not to let her friend down, she seeks help from an animal behaviorist. For Hayden Brandt, impermanence is the only constant in life. She's already lost everyone important to her. Instead of dwelling on her losses, she focuses on helping animals overcome traumas so they can live their best lives. Content, she spends her evenings with simple pleasures such as a glass of wine, a good book, and the occasional no-strings hook-up. Ellie and Hayden's chemistry is instant, though neither is ready to make any promises. But Atlas knows a thing or two about grief, and he just might find a way to give this busy, hopeless romantic and commitment-phobic vet a roadmap to forever.

Violet Unwin is convinced she is invisible. Overlooked by her adoptive family, her only solace is her uncle's costume shop. By day, she's an assistant no one remembers, but after hours, in the wonder of her imagination, she becomes explorer, warrior, queen. Devastated by news of the shop's imminent closure, Violet finds comfort in an unlikely companion, the ghostly figure of her namesake, the suffragette Vi Unwin. Medical school dropout Phoebe Frink's life is in disarray. She has no idea who she is anymore, what to do about it, or how to tell her parents. Taken under the wing of the infamous drag king Mr. Duke, owner of the struggling Banana Bar, fate steps in when Phoebe seeks Violet's help with costumes for the bar's fundraising Christmas Ball. Phoebe is captivated by beautiful, shy Violet, and for the first time in her life, Violet experiences what it is to be truly seen. But for love to be possible, Violet and Phoebe must take a risk on a future they've never dared to imagine.