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He's the guardian I didn't ask for. I'm the temptation he didn't expect. Blunt, bossy and lethal, Jameson Reynolds is my older brother's billionaire business partner and a former Navy SEAL with a bitterly jaded heart. One smoldering gaze from him is enough to extract all your secrets and have you begging to surrender. He’s watched over me for years, determined to steer me out of trouble while being certain there are lines he will never cross with me. We’ll see about that. Before I head to grad school, I want to show him I’m all grown up now. Let’s ignore that tipsy kiss I gave him ...

Mark McGuiness has been working hard. As the number one firefighter on the Hot Shot Heroes calendar, he's always had his pick when it came to the dating scene, too. But there comes a time in every man's life where the allure of casual encounters starts to dim. Enter Zuzu, quirky catgirl on the run, bamboozled, sort of, into a contract with Maid For You. She's a whole bag of nerves and cuteness and questionable competency when it comes to maid duties—and now she's Mark's problem.

You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile - always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it's attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet - and inspired more than one copycat.

In the third romance anthology of The Quill Collective series, 16 celebrated Austenesque authors write the untold histories of Austen’s heroines, brave adventuresses, shy maidens, talkative spinsters, and naughty matrons. Rational Creatures is a collection of humorous, poignant, and engaging short stories set in Georgian England that complement and pay homage to Austen’s great works and great ladies who were, perhaps, the first feminists in an era that was not quite ready for feminism.

Roxy Stevens thought she had the perfect life complete with a Daddy and time to create beautiful paintings. Everything comes crashing down around her when her Daddy throws her out into the streets. Homeless and afraid, she takes shelter in the alley near a beautiful, old hotel. Miguel Herrera has been searching for his Little girl for a long time. The wealthy hotel owner follows his instincts to care for the homeless woman who sets off all his protective instincts. He will fight to make her his.

Yay, I'm engaged… to the biggest jerk in Hollywood. If Finn Lockhart ever wrote an AITA post, the answer would be a unanimous yes. Why am I engaged to someone I can't stand? Funny story. I work for Finn, the costume designer on his latest movie. One day on set, I dropped a box of cufflinks. Finn kneeled down to help. The paparazzi snapped a photo. Voilà—engagement. The fake news goes viral. Suddenly, Hollywood's most notorious (and hottest) bachelor is off the market. And his PR team? Obsessed.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Whisper Man by Alex North, read by Christopher Eccleston. If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken... Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to the sleepy village of Featherbank...

Craig is the best he is at what he does, even if what he does isn't very nice. Being a mob hit man isn't a glamorous life, but he enjoys it. He finds it...serene. But his world is turned upside down when a phone call alerts him that he has an infant daughter, and due to the unexpected passing of her mother, Craig is thrust into fatherhood more or less against his will... Because his Boss takes family very seriously. But the rising star company Maid For You has come to the rescue.

When Logan Greenwood is transported to another world, he thinks he's died and gone to heaven. Beautiful elves, nymphs, and other magical beings are drawn to him, and he feels the stirrings of a mysterious power within himself as well.

Tariqa, a fiery, red-haired dragoness with a spicy personality to match, seems to have leaped straight out of the fantastical stories Evan loved as a boy. With a fierce nature and a heart yearning for something—or someone—she never thought she'd find, Tariqa's only hope for release from the eternal task she's bound to is a love as legendary as she is.

At 24, Zoey has struggled for several years to pay off her mother's hospital bills. While living in her car and working at a restaurant have been challenges, Zoey maintains a cheerful and optimistic attitude. Two endearing customers alert Zoey Geller to a job opportunity that changes her life. Jon and Cecily have a very different relationship in which Jon appears to be more of a father than a husband. Zoey is the only waitress in the diner who enjoys serving them. The others are uncomfortable interacting with the age-play couple.

Could the man she’s fantasized about become her real-life Daddy? When Fiona is badly injured by an irate customer, she discovers the chef she’s ogled for months will step in to make sure that she is taken care of—completely. Georges LeDoux, the executive chef for the exclusive restaurant, Le Pamplemousse, immediately takes steps to make sure the injured produce delivery driver recovers. As she heals, Georges realizes just how special Fiona is.

A novel about life and death and a quest for moral purpose, by the acclaimed author of word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. "Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful." -- Kirkus "Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache." -- Sunday Times...

I have a confession. I hate bachelorette parties. A night of awkward dancing, penis-shaped straws and being told “you're next, Kaitlyn!” Even worse: It's hosted at a super swanky Miami club where I stick out like a sore thumb. Couldn’t get any worse, right?

Jay Morgan and his party have faced killer knights, twisted clowns, and a Mad King with more issues than a stock market crash—but they weren’t prepared for this: an accidental trip into an entirely different dungeon! Now, Jay, along with his fearsome fox-kin archer Lyra, hammer-swinging Barbarian Molly, shadow-wielding bunny girl Dahlia, unicorn portal sorceress Aurora, and their still-unconscious snow-leopard warrior Kalasi, are stuck. And they need to get back to the Ice Dungeon—fast.

Legends of the Imperial Knights are older than the Starfall Empire itself. Their titles have been passed down for thousands of years, from the mists of a forgotten era, one that gave rise to powers greater than anything seen today. While searching for the source, Verse discovers the ruins of the Italith and an even older civilization. One that reveals his true heritage.

A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by...

Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of being antiscientific. This is especially true in discussions of the nature of the human mind and its relation to the body (particularly the brain).

Meet the billionaires of the Jameson Ad Agency: Sam, Eddie, and William. These three brothers have advertising on their minds and love in their hearts. This three-book bundle includes The Billionaire's Ex-Wife, The Billionaire's Pregnant Fling, and The Billionaire's Sexy Rival.

When Jay Morgan and his bestie, Molly O'Brian, take "wrong turn" to a whole new level, they end up sucked into a world that makes the arctic look like a beach vacation. Even worse? After a bump on the head during their trip through the portal, Molly's taking an unplanned nap of potentially eternal proportions, and Jay has no choice but to carry her through a frosty wilderness that gets weirder by the mile.