An unexpected inheritance. A pesky clause in the will. And 25 days to avoid falling in love. Cassie Hayward hates Christmas. Especially this year. No job. Flat broke. And an ex most definitely on the naughty list. The unexpected inheritance of a charming Victorian cottage in the quaint town of Poppy Creek may be the Christmas miracle Cassie needs. Except for one itty-bitty problem: a clause in the will. To inherit the house, Cassie must complete a series of festive tasks every day in December leading up to Christmas. All overseen by the handsome, Christmas-loving lawyer Luke Davis. Luke is as strong as steady as the bespoke furniture he crafts as a hobby. He has to be. Stepping into his late father's shoes as the town lawyer comes with a sleigh full of responsibilities. Which means the captivating stranger collecting her inheritance is a distraction he can't afford. Opposites collide as the two work together to complete the daily tasks, and fighting their attraction becomes more futile than putting jolly ole St. Nick on a diet. But when Cassie's ex reappears with the offer a lifetime, Cassie will have to choose between love and the life she always wanted. Views: 205
Aaron George Randolph, ruling King of the Lycans, is hell-bent on revenge for his mother’s brutal death at the hands of Vampires. But when a suspicious student takes up resident on his turf, he can’t help but be drawn to her despite knowing what she is. Taken into custody by the ruling family of Brookedge, Mia’s life is complicated by the whole different world of mythical creatures living among humans. Now she must survive the impending civil war between old rivals, all the while learning about her true self and the power she holds. Torn between the nature of who she is and the overwhelming desire for the Lycan king, her choices are minimal. What begins as vicious hostility changes into defying desire as Aaron and Mia are brought together by an unforgiving grudge that miraculously blooms into something unexpected that neither knew they needed. With the war on the rise and a powerful enemy at the head of it, will their feelings for each other heal them in time? Or will they be forced to part ways and deny each other what was fated to be?
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Bailey
Thorne doesn’t hate Jake the Rake, just despises him. She blames the rumor mill
at her school…and, okay, him. His adorable son has only been in
preschool, but Jake has already made an impressive dent in
dating the unmarried faculty. She’s had to hear of his every exploit from the
broken hearts he’s left behind. She was fine to loathe him from afar, but now
his son has entered kindergarten—and she’s the teacher. It’s going to be a very
long school year.
Jake
Polaski was more than fine to avoid Ms. Thorne after it became clear she was
not amused by his very existence. But then they get stuck in an elevator for an
evening. He finds out that underneath that baleful glare she always
gives him, lies a warm, funny and sexy as hell woman. He does his best to not
be smitten after every exchange afterward. His son needs him rational,
steadfast...and love is the most uncertain thing.
It
was the elevator’s fault. Had it worked like it should, Bailey would have gone
on with her life without seeing why so many of her co-workers had fallen for
the grumpy single dad. (It’s his dry wit, his playful teasing and the
drool-worthy cut of his jawline.) And now she’s caught in the way he doles out
smiles and the dark depths of his secrets. If nothing else, she knows from
rumor there’s a clock ticking on their affair before it implodes, because
things always do with Jake the Rake, but she can’t seem to walk away first.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLERGood Morning America: "A psychological thriller that will keep you up all night...Get ready."CrimeReads: "The Most Anticipated Crime Books of Summer"TrulyBookish.com: Five Stars. "If you are a fan of Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies, then this book is for you!"Booklist: "Well-drawn characters... [an] absorbing page-turner."Library Journal: "A great beach read for those with a penchant for scandalous secrets and gossipy suspenseful mysteries."Bustle: "New Books Set At the Beach To Read When You Can't Be There Yourself"Publisher's Weekly: "Solidly plotted...Holahan does a fine job portraying fraying marriages and artificial friendships."Kirkus: "A domestic thriller that's actually filled with lots of secrets. Some of them pretty big."Everyone has a secret. For some, it's worth dying to protect. For others, it's worth killing.The glass beach... Views: 205
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation . . .
Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself – with only the company of her wolfdog, Girl – unconcerned by the world outside, or perhaps avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following her granddaughter, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will fight to save her as fiercely as her name suggests . . .
A richly imagined and mythic parable of home and kin that cements Lucy Treloar’s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists. Views: 205
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A devastatingly frank memoir that tears open the past to examine how circumstances—and the choices we make—dictate the people we become, for fans of Educated and The Glass Castle.Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, from early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum to teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her emergence as an award-winning author. As a child, Thanh embraced evangelical religion, only to rebel against it and her equally rigid parents, cutting herself, smoking, and shoplifting. At fifteen, the honour-roll runaway develops a taste for drugs and alcohol. After a stint in jail at sixteen, feeling utterly abandoned by her family, school, and society, Thanh meets the man who would become her pimp and falls in love.The next chapter of her life takes Thanh to the streets of Vancouver, where she endures beatings, arrests, crack cocaine,... Views: 205
