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He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing now.

Georgie York, once the costar of America's favorite television sitcom, has been publicly abandoned by her famous husband, her film career has tanked, her father is driving her crazy, and her public image as a spunky heroine is taking a serious beating. What should a down-on-her-luck actress do?

How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the president of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of first lady. Not for long, however, because she's made up her mind to escape - if only for a few days - so she can live the life of an ordinary person. All she needs is the perfect disguise...and she's just found it.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune writes, "Next to Tracy and Hepburn, no one does romantic comedy better than Susan Elizabeth Phillips." For proof, you need to look no further than Nobody's Baby But Mine. This classic comic love story from perennial New York Times best seller Phillips unites a beautiful, brainy scientist desperate to be a mom with a brawny, smoking hot jock who, though handsome enough to father her child, is nowhere near as stupid as she wants her baby’s daddy to be.

Instead of saying "I do" to Mr. Irresistible, Lucy Jorik hitches a ride on the back of a beat-up motorcycle with a rough looking, bad-tempered stranger who couldn't be more foreign to her privileged existence. While the world searches for her, Lucy must search for herself, and she quickly realizes that her customary good manners are no defense against a man who's raised rudeness to an art form. Lucy needs to toughen up - and fast. Her great escape takes her to his rambling beach house on a Great Lakes island. Here, she hopes to find a new direction...and to unlock the secrets of this man who knows so much about her.

Molly Somerville knows she has a reputation for trouble. She did give away her fifteen million dollar inheritance, but, hey, nobody's perfect. Yes, Molly's happy about almost everything...except her long term crush on the daredevil quarterback for the Chicago Stars. That awful, gorgeous Kevin Tucker, a man who can't even remember her name!

A British lady, Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistress of England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission - she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: complete and utter disgrace! A Texas rascal, world-famous playboy-athlete Kenny Traveler has kicked-up his boot heels one too many times, and now he's suspended from the sport he loves.

Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead. Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won't make that easy.

Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Markov, as humorless as he is deadly handsome, has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a spoiled little feather-head with champagne tastes. He drags Daisy from her uptown life to a broken down traveling circus and sets out to tame her to his ways.

Liebenswerte Chaotin mit einer Vorliebe für Schokolade trifft auf gefährlich heißen Sportagenten – köstlicher war "Enemies to Lovers" noch nie! Rorys größter Wunsch ist es, als Chocolatiere in ihrem eigenen Laden zu arbeiten. Doch der Traum liegt in weiter Ferne, das liebe Geld... Auf einer Party zu Ehren ihres Bruders Clint, einem millionenschweren Football Star, schaut sie tief ins Glas und landet mit einem gefährlich attraktiven Mann im Hotelbett – der am nächsten Morgen spurlos verschwunden ist, dafür 500 Dollar da gelassen hat – was für ein Idiot!

La guerra de Secesión podía haber terminado para el resto del país, pero no para Kit Weston. Disfrazada de muchacho, viaja a Nueva York para matar a Baron Cain, el hombre que se interpone entre ella y Risen Glory, su querido hogar en Carolina del Sur.

Bobby Tom ha nacido en Heaven, Texas, bendecido por los dioses: tiene cuerpo de modelo, los ojos azules y ha sido un legendario futbolista de los Chicago Stars, hasta que una lesión lo aparta de los terrenos de juego.

Cuando Dallas Beaudine encuentra a Francesca Day, ella está arruinada, furiosa y cojeando por una carretera remota con un vestido de época de dama sureña. La situación no hace sino empeorar para esta improbable pareja de amantes. Él es un tejano realmente atractivo, de carácter relajado. Ella, una belleza inglesa malcriada que ha tocado fondo.

Lady Emma Wells Finch, la más que virtuosa gobernanta del colegio femenino de Santa Gertrudis de Inglaterra, llega a Tejas con una misión: perder su reputación antes de dos semanas.

Annabelle ha perso il lavoro, ha rotto col fidanzato e anche i suoi capelli sono fuori controllo. Perdente in una famiglia di vincenti, questa volta ha l'occasione di rifarsi: ha appena ereditato l'agenzia matrimoniale di sua nonna e ha la fortuna di avere come cliente un vero e proprio scapolo d'oro, l'agente delle star sportive, il ricchissimo, fascinoso e arrogante Heath Champion, non a caso soprannominato Python. Lui desidera solo il coronamento di una vita di successi, e cioè una moglie perfetta.

Piper Dove è una ragazza ambiziosa e determinata: il suo sogno è diventare la migliore detective di Chicago e riscattare un passato difficile e tormentato. Il suo primo incarico consiste nel pedinare Cooper Graham, celebre ex quarterback dei Chicago Stars, una vera e propria star in città. Peccato che venga scoperta quasi subito... Ora che rischia di perdere casa e agenzia, Piper non ha altra scelta che accettare il lavoro nel club alla moda di Cooper, lo Spiral, ma la vita dell'ex campione negli ultimi tempi è diventata piuttosto movimentata e rischia di coinvolgere la ragazza in affari ben più pericolosi di una crisi finanziaria.

Francesca Serritella Day ha tutto, o così crede: gioventù, bellezza, denaro, la sicurezza che ogni suo desiderio sarà soddisfatto e una madre che, per quanto nevrotica e irresponsabile, l'ha introdotta fin dalla nascita nel mondo lussuoso e patinato dell'alta società europea. Nulla di ciò che ha vissuto l'ha preparata al mondo reale, eppure è proprio lì che viene scaraventata quando, a ventun anni, si ritrova di colpo orfana e sommersa di debiti. Per guadagnarsi da vivere tenta la carriera cinematografica negli States, ma la realtà si rivela più dura del previsto.

Blue e Dean: possono esistere due persone più diverse? Maldestra, malvestita e cinica lei; impeccabile nei modi e nell'aspetto lui. Pittrice svagata e nomade lei; atleta scattante che ha trovato una famiglia nella squadra lui. Eppure, il giorno in cui Dean raccatta Blue per la strada, quello che sta facendo salire a bordo è il suo destino.

Molly Somerville ha una vita (quasi) perfetta: adora il suo barboncino, il suo lavoro di scrittrice per bambini, il suo minuscolo loft. L'unico neo è la sua cotta storica per un quarterback scavezzacollo, quel detestabile e superficiale e irritante e... meraviglioso Kevin Tucker, che finora non ha fatto altro che ignorarla. Il talento di Molly per ficcarsi nei guai la porterà proprio tra le sue braccia, a farsi spezzare il cuore in una sola notte.

Annie Hewitt wollte nie wieder nach Peregrine Island zurückkehren. Und nun ist sie doch da - pleite, heimatlos und auf der Suche nach dem versteckten Nachlass ihrer Mutter. Dabei will Annie unbedingt ein Aufeinandertreffen mit Theo Harp vermeiden. Er war ihre große Liebe. Doch jetzt ist er der Mann, den sie am meisten fürchtet.