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What happens after the last concussion? How long does an engagement last without turning into marriage? Is an unplanned pregnancy a dream come true or a nightmare? Real life takes over for the Connecticut Kings when the football season ends. Catch the “play-by-play” for each Kings’ player in this audiobook, the final in the series.

Called “the Odd Couple” in high school, brainy Liz and athletic Nick hit it off. From tutor and pupil to lovers, they formed a tight bond - until college. Heading off in different directions, they agreed to cut their ties with no regrets. That was the last time they saw each other. Haunted by feelings of inferiority, the former lovers never pursued each other after college. Would a surprise meeting, 10 years later, give them a second chance or would it be too late?

Harry "Deke" Edwardss is a Hartford Husky defenseman known to be tricky, fast, and unbreakable. An amazing defensive lunge in a playoff game ends in a life-threatening injury. But Harry’d bounce back. He always did, didn’t he? Kitty, his wife, runs a successful art gallery in Washington, DC. Over the last three years, the couple agreed to live in different cities and be together whenever they can. Harry swears they make it work. Unwilling to face the truth about the damage he suffered, Harry hides his secret.

Auf mysteriöse Weise verschwinden in Boston immer wieder Frauen spurlos. Dabei gibt es jedoch weder Erpresserbriefe noch Leichenfunde. Nachdem zahlreiche Vermisstenanzeigen die gesamte Stadt in Atem halten, wendet sich Marshall Percy Morlock von der Polizei hilfesuchend an den Meisterdetektiv. Holmes und Watson reisen nach Amerika und treffen dort auf den Gatten einer der vermissten Frauen.

¿Acaso el amor significa siempre la verdad absoluta?. Evitar el foco de atención era una forma para que Megan Davis pudiera mantener a su familia en secreto. La prensa se entrometió en su vida cuando su hermano gemelo, Mark, se convirtió en el mariscal de campo estrella para los Demonios de Delaware. Sin sentir ningún respeto por las super-estrellas de tabloide, la asesora financiera Meg se sorprendió cuando se le asignó el lanzamiento de una departamento para celebridades en la prestigiosa firma de inversión, Dillon & Weed. Y la mayor sorpresa: el carisma de su primer cliente. El ...

Grace Brewster comete el mayor error de su vida con el sexy chico malo productor de películas, Gunther Quill. Humillada por Quill y Jake Matthews, el coprotagonista de Broadway de su hermana, Grace jura ajustar las cuentas con los dos hombres. Usando un alias en el Internet, ella ejecuta una ingeniosa venganza. Sus ataques golpearon en el blanco, hiriendo a sus objetivos. Pero no contaba con que sus agudas palabras se volvieran virales antes de que pudiera parpadear, elevando la venganza a un nuevo nivel.Su satisfacción es de corta duración cuando el plan se vuelve amargo. Su plan ...

Dejando a su amante, la ingenua actriz, Cara Brewster, obtiene su primer estelar en el rol de una película. Sola en Hollywood, Cara descubre que está embarazada. Asumiendo que su amante, Grant, esperaría por ella, lo contacta para darle las buenas noticias, solo para ser arrastrada por su repentino matrimonio. Separados por tres mil millas, Cara debe luchar sola. Incapacitada por una enfermedad después de que su bebe naciera, es forzada a dar a su hija a Grant y su esposa. Sola, Cara persigue una exitosa carrera como guionista.Desanimada por la pérdida de su hija, Cara le paga a un ...

¿Se puede ser feliz para toda la vida empezando por una lista? Después de diez años de trabajo, ahorrando e invirtiendo, Grey Andrews alcanza finalmente un nivel de riqueza que le permite hacer lo que le plazca en su vida. Necesita una mujer con quien compartir, pero no cualquier mujer, la mujer perfecta. La compañera que está buscando debe poseer las tres cualidades esenciales de su “Lista de Matrimonio”. Después de tres años de ardua búsqueda nunca estuvo tan cerca cuando todo comenzó. Carrie Tucker, una aspirante a escritora de misterio y divorciada, lucha por triunfar en el...

Sola en el mundo, Erica Wheeler necesitaba un trabajo o se enfrentaría a un desalojo. La aspirante a actriz siempre tuvo como meta de vida ser una estrella de cine. Ella sabía que tenía el talento, lo único que necesitaba era una oportunidad. Su compañera de habitación, Amy, planeaba una venganza en contra de su antiguo jefe, Gunther Quill, un productor sensual y con aspecto de chico malo, por despedirla. Juntas, ella y Erica torcieron la verdad como un pretzel para lograr conseguirle una posición trabajando para Quill. El la sorprendió. Era el mismo malhumorado que Amy había ...

¿Se puede volver al pasado? Dorrie Rodgers dejó atrás 3 hombres en Nueva York cuando se trasladó a Los Ángeles para ser la bailarina protagonista de una película. Prometida con un poderoso productor de cine, su vida era completa. Pero un accidente terminó con su carrera y su matrimonio incipiente.Después de intentar sobrevivir como profesora de yoga. Dorrie es contratada para coreografiar una película. Queriendo compartir su alegría ante esta oportunidad para resucitar su carrera, está determinada a terminar con su soltería. ¿Dónde encontrará al hombre correcto?...

An off-season adventure, driving his expensive, new car from LA to New York got Jake Lawrence’s motor running. Free from his snooty Park Avenue girlfriend, the third baseman hit the highway, ready for anything. Or so he thought. Kate MacKenzie, aspiring musical theater star, sneaked out of her motel room after her mother had gambled away all the young woman’s money. In the middle of nowhere, with less than four dollars to her name, the plucky actress planned to waitress her way to New York for a Broadway audition.

Matt Jackson, clutch hitter, fielder extraordinaire, and team captain, is dynamite on the baseball field, but a loser with women. Or is he? He makes a show of coming on to chicks in bars, but always strikes out. Convinced being dateless is safer, Matt keeps his distance from women. Is he simply an insensitive chauvinist, or a crafty man hiding a secret? Everything he believes in is challenged the day he walks in on a beautiful woman in the locker room. Dusty, the sharp-tongued spitfire, cuts the all-star pro down to size.

What would you do if the hottest new female country music singer asked you to come up to her place? Nat Owen, formerly nobody from nowhere, now World Series MVP, followed his instincts. The star first baseman fell under the spell of the singer the minute she batted her eyelashes at him. What about Nicki? Were they only friends, or about to become more? The female pro softball catcher and the first baseman had chemistry. Just as Nat made his move on Nicki, Lucy strutted into his life, offering stardom, glitter, and a lifestyle he could only dream about. What’s a man to do?

Blown apart by a heart-rending tragedy, Matt and Perri Jessup went their separate ways - he to Afghanistan and she to New York City. With loss and heartbreak coming between them, was there any reason to stay together? Would a chance meeting five years later bring back old recriminations or a renewal of past love, instead? Could they build a bridge between them or was the gulf to wide to cross?

After 10 years of working, saving, and investing, Grey Andrews finally achieved a level of wealth that allows him to do what he wants with his life. He needs a woman to share it with, but not any woman. The perfect woman. The mate he’s seeking will have the three essential qualities on his marriage list. After three years of searching, he isn’t any closer than he was when he started out.

Meet the men of the Connecticut Kings football team. Share their anguish and their triumphs as they strive for success in the game of football and the game of love. American football romance. This is a compilation of the first chapters of all nine books in the football romance series, First & Ten.

Harley Brennan and Shyla Hollings agreed to part company to follow their careers. It was a mutual decision. The star running back had no problem getting dates, but never the right dates. After one year spent trying to replace the only woman he’d ever loved, he declared defeat. Until the reality TV show Marriage Minded approached him.

Stress over making the playoffs at holiday time can’t compete with the tensions in the homes of the star players on the Connecticut Kings. From Trunk Mahoney’s shattered dream of a Currier & Ives Christmas to the secret Lauren is keeping from Griff, surprises abound in this last tale of the team. As the men and their women celebrate the holidays, bad news rivals good as accidents, breakups, and unexpected reunions strain love to the breaking point. Who will get their Christmas wish and who will not?

Marty McKay gives up on finding Miss Right in his small town. Dragged to the Pine Grove square dance by his brother, Marty meets gorgeous Jenny Whitman. A young widow with two kids isn’t exactly on Marty’s Christmas list, even if she is hot. And her being a rich city girl doesn’t fit his ideal either. But, damn, she has the most beautiful smile. Jenny hires him to print her brand-new small newspaper that reports only good news. But before the paper can hit the stands, disaster strikes. Suddenly destitute and alone, Jen turns to Marty for help. Is their mutual support simply a matter ...

Pourquoi le chat s'en va-t-il tout seul ? Les chats anglais sont-ils vraiment les plus distingués ? Par quel prodige cet animal maléfique est-il devenu, au fil du temps, l'ami incontournable du monde de la culture ? Vous trouverez réponse à ces épineuses questions, et à bien d'autres, dans notre sélection de 17 textes cultes commentés et mis en perspective. Une balade littéraire divertissante et instructive à travers les textes de Baudelaire, du Bellay, Dumas, Poe, Perrault, Carrol, Montaigne, Verlaine, Balzac, Renard, La Fontaine, Champfleury, Moncrif. Textes commentés par Sylvain Trias.