The Mansion of Mirrors

The Mansion of Mirrors

Per Jacobsen

Per Jacobsen

HELL ISN'T FIRE. HELL IS A HALL FULL OF MIRRORS.Psychology teacher Michael Bendixen knows it's not uncommon for people in grief to imagine seeing or hearing lost loved ones. So, when he hears his dead son's voice calling for him in the high school hallway, he chalks it up to just that. A hallucination born from his grief.Then a student tells him she heard it too.The student is Lisa Swan, a seventeen-year-old girl who, in the thirteen months since she suffered her own tragic loss, has had her own demons to battle.The meeting between the two marks the beginning of a long and nerve-wracking journey that leads them to Urari—a world parallel to ours. A world in which mirrors reflect far more than just the observer's physical traits.
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Dry

Dry

Per Jacobsen

Per Jacobsen

How far are you willing to go for the ones you love ... and how far are you able to go?For Nathan Bray, this philosophical thought experiment becomes brutally real when an inexplicable event causes the oceans of the world to disappear, leaving him stranded on the dried-out ocean floor with his seven-year-old daughter.
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Picnics and Promises at Strawberry Fields

Picnics and Promises at Strawberry Fields

Victoria Walters

Victoria Walters

A BRAND NEW heartwarming feel-good romance from the bestselling author of Love and Lattes at Pumpkin Hollow. Perfect for fans of Laurie Gilmore, Elsie Silver and Lucy Score ???????????? Strawberries and second chances... ????It's the last place Daisy Connor expects to spend her wedding day, but after ditching her fiancé at the altar, she's fled to Birch Tree Farm for some much-needed thinking room. Her cousin Willow's farmhouse is the last place Daisy truly remembers being happy – and herself.Blake Daniels is nursing his own broken heart after discovering his girlfriend's betrayal, and he's retreated to the same quiet farm for solitude, hoping to figure out his next move.With the strawberry pick-your-own season upcoming, there's no shortage of things to do to keep their anxious minds distracted – and if the success of Willow's pumpkin patch is anything to go by, there'll be plenty of...
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Rent-A Husband

Rent-A Husband

Piper Rayne

Romance / Contemporary / Humor and Comedy

When Camila Wright hired me to fix a few things around her house I didn't expect to find myself swindled into a fake relationship with her.Sure, my company is called Rent-A Husband but that's not what people actually hire me for.But when I find her elbow deep in a tub of ice cream with tears running down her face how can I turn down her proposition?Suddenly a fake relationship becomes a fake marriage that we have to keep up all summer. Which is all fine and good except for the part where we both agreed not to let anything 'real' creep into our arrangement.But then certain parts of me start to crave certain parts of her and things become even more complicated because we both have our own reasons for wanting what we have to remain make-believe only.
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Buy a Boyfriend

Buy a Boyfriend

Piper Rayne

Romance / Contemporary / Humor and Comedy

It wasn't my expectation to fall into bed with the woman who won me at the bachelor auction.I was only doing my grandma a favor, not looking for more than a shared dinner with the winner. Then again, I wasn't expecting someone as hot as Isla to be my date.She makes it clear that she's down for a night in the sheets but bolts, leaving me holding my junk—literally. Which I figure, in the end, is all fine and good because love burned me before, and I have no plans to repeat that soul-crushing heartbreak.I took a much-needed vacation from the handyman business I own with my brothers, Rent A Husband, only to return to find out they'd hired Isla, making me her boss.And now I have to see her every day, and it's getting harder to pretend I'm not still drawn to her. But I burned that bridge the night she was briefly in my bed, and any lust she had for me has turned to hatred.Which is for the best because she has a new boyfriend, which is all the motivation I...
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Royally Picked

Royally Picked

Pippa Grant

Pippa Grant

A hockey-playing prince, a most improper lady, and one accidental pregnancy...When you're an heir so spare that you're more likely to be struck by lightning than to ever wear a crown, you're allowed certain liberties.But after taking those liberties with the wrong lady, I've been banished to America for a year. The world thinks it's so I can indulge in my favorite pastime on a professional hockey rink, but really, I'm here while my father cleans up my latest mess.My orders are clear: be an ambassador for my country, make the family proud, and stay far, far away from women.No one ever said they had to stay away from me though.Which is exactly how Gracie Diamonte, the world's greatest baker, most adorable dinosaur-suit wearer, and the very model of kind innocence, sneaks past my defenses.And my guard.And how we end up facing a very unexpected pregnancy.Of course I'll stand by her while we navigate our newly entwined...
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Until It Was Love

Until It Was Love

Pippa Grant

Pippa Grant

There are a million reasons why I shouldn't date Fletcher Huxley.He's a growly-faced, stubborn-streaked, international rugby legend trying to revive his flailing career in the US after being canned by his team overseas.While he might have the good kind of thunder thighs, intriguing tattoos, and a booty of steel, he also holds the top position on my very short nemesis list thanks to what happened the first time we met.Plus, his mustache is as terrible as the reason he's picked me to be the woman he wants to date.But he has one big checkmark in the why this date is a good idea column: he's my brother's new teammate.They already hate each other.And my brother has made an unfortunate habit of interfering with my love life recently.So a revenge date with Fletcher to make my brother mad? While letting Fletcher think this date is merely for the good of the team?Yep.I'm in.I'm moving to London for work in a month. And it's just...
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The Secret Hook-Up

The Secret Hook-Up

Pippa Grant

Pippa Grant

Watching too many women settle for mediocre men has made me lose my taste for relationships, but when I see Duncan Lavoie again after all this time, suddenly I'm starving.An awkward chance encounter with my secret former fling in an upscale dressing room should've been the beginning and the end of having the green-eyed, curly-haired, dimple-cheeked, hot AF hockey captain back in my life, but it's not.Because he's just bid an unspeakable sum of money to win me in a charity auction. We're talking this woman is mine money. No one else can have her money. Touch her and die money.News flash, Lavoie: I'm not for sale, and that bid doesn't come with favors.But after the auction, the entire city is shipping us. Strangers are giving me knowing winks. My bosses want to use the publicity of our "Are they, aren't they?" gossip coverage for the benefit of the team.Which is the other problem. If I go along with this, I'm no longer professional baseball...
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Crazy For Loving You

Crazy For Loving You

Pippa Grant

Pippa Grant

Is there anything hotter than a growly, overprotective Marine cradling a baby? My melted ovaries don't think so.When you work hard and have the bank account to prove it, you're entitled to play hard. I've seen some crazy things. I've caused some crazy scenes. And there's no shame in my game.But I'm still knocked off my stilettos when an insane chain of events leads to me inheriting a baby. The craziest part? The baby comes with a by-the-books, no-nonsense retired Marine who's so regimented that I wouldn't be surprised if he irons his boxer shorts.Parenting? Bring it on. I don't need sleep—I once started my day with business meetings in Cairo and ended it three days later at a club in Melbourne. Changing diapers? Please. It can't be any more challenging than changing out of Spanx on the back of a moving motorcycle. Training the little guy to run the family's real estate empire? He'll be all our bosses by the time he's four.But living with...
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Charming As Puck

Charming As Puck

Pippa Grant

Pippa Grant

The man could charm the panties off a nun...Nick Murphy. Hockey god. My best friend's big brother. My friend-with-mindblowing-benefits. The best thing to happen to my nether regions since my subscription to the toy of the month club. The man I've been secretly in love with for years.And total ass.I am so done with him.Except there's one small problem.Now that I've cut him off, his hockey game is in the toilet. He's convinced I'm his good luck charm, and he wants me back. But only for his game.I'll be strong. I will. I'll resist.Asses don't change their stripes.Or do they?This plan would be so easy if the man wasn't Charming as Puck...Charming as Puck is a romping fun romance between a hockey player and his sister's best friend, complete with farm animals, epic birthday presents, and Berger Twin sightings. This romantic comedy stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers and ends with a pucking awesome happily ever after.
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Next of Kin

Next of Kin

Warren Murphy

Warren Murphy

Top-secret agents Remo and Chiun arrive at the vacation paradise of St. Maarten, only to find they're in deep trouble. The beautiful island has been the scene of some very ugly goings-on. Multiple corpses have been showing up, each bearing the unmistakable stamp of Sinanju, the ancient Korean martial art known only to two men – Remo and Chuin. Or so they thought. The trail of bodies leads to a strange castle and a young Dutchman – a man who has taken a blood vow to send both disciple and mentor to their deaths. A man who knows all their secrets . . . and has a few of his own. It's up to Remo and Chiun to stop him, but this time they're skating on thin ice. And if they slip, the whole world may go under.Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
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A Pound of Prevention

A Pound of Prevention

Warren Murphy

Warren Murphy

Something funny is going on in the East African nation of Luzuland...and it's more than just the usual civil unrest or military coup. Organised crime lords are converging for what looks like an underworld summit, and Dr. Harold Smith dispatches Remo for a look-see and quiet, effective neutralisation!Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
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