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Meet Me at the Lake
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A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After.
Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in the city. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didnât.
At thirty-two, Fernâs life doesnât look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fernâs back home, running her motherâs lakeside resortâsomething she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriendâs the manager, and Fern doesnât know where to begin.
She needs a planâa lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fernâs going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fernâs not sure she wants to know what it is.Â
But ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. Can she do the same for him?

The Resurrection of Wildflowers: Wildflower Duet (2)
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He lost everything. But I lost myself.
His heart was shattered beyond repair. My life was irrevocably changed. And so I left him. I started over. I married someone else. But I never forgot him. It's been six years since I last saw Thayer Holmes. Being forced to return to my hometown means confronting our past head-on and dealing with the fallout of my divorce. I'm now in the same spot he was when we metâstarting over. There are no secrets we can keep anymore. Not all love gets a second chance, but maybe we'll be the exception. Then again, maybe not.

The Confidence of Wildflowers (Wildflower Duet Book 1)
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For the most part.
When Thayer Holmes moves in next door, the grumpy landscaper both fascinates and amuses me.
When he asks me to nanny his kid, itâs a great way to make some extra money.
Itâs impossible not to fall in love with Thayer and his adorable son.
Thereâs a big problem though.
Iâm eighteen. Heâs thirty-one.
Falling for someone almost fifteen years older than me wasnât part of my plans, but sometimes things happen when you least expect them.

Things We Hide from the Light (Knockemout Book 2)
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Bestselling author Lucy Score returns to Knockemout, Virginia, following fan-favorite Things We Never Got Over with Knox's brother Nash's story.
Nash Morgan was always known as the good Morgan brother, with a smile and a wink for everyone. But now, this chief of police is recovering from being shot and his Southern charm has been overshadowed by panic attacks and nightmares. He feels like a broody shell of the man he once was. Nash isnât about to let anyone in his life know heâs struggling. But his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, sees his shadows. As a rule, sheâs not a fan of physical contact unless she initiates it, but for some reason Nashâs touch is different. He feels it too. The physical connection between them is incendiary, grounding him and making her wonder if exploring it is worth the risk.
Too bad Linaâs got secrets of her own, and if Nash finds out the real reason sheâs in town, heâll never forgive her. Besides, she doesnât do relationships. Ever. A hot, short-term fling with a local cop? Absolutely. Sign her up. A relationship with a man who expects her to plant roots? No freaking way. Once she gets what sheâs after, she has no intention of sticking around. But Knockemout has a way of getting under peopleâs skin. And once Nash decides to make Lina his, heâs not about to be dissuadedâŠeven if it means facing the danger that nearly killed him.

Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout Book 1)
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Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon.
Knox doesnât tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.
Naomi wasnât just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned wayâŠwith fists and beer. Usually in that order.
Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasnât changed at all. After helping herself to Naomiâs car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didnât know she had. Now sheâs stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of.
Thereâs a reason Knox doesnât do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomiâs life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life.
At least, thatâs the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.

Twisted Lies (Twisted, 4)
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The final book in the Twisted series from BookTok sensation Ana Huang, featuring fan favorites Christian and Stella.
Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman.
He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him.
She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can't refuse.
Every monster has their weakness. She's his.
His obsession.
His addiction.
His only exception.
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Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.
Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship.
But when a threat from her past drives her into the armsâand houseâof the most dangerous man she's ever met, she's tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.
Because despite Christian's cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she's with him.
Passionate.
Protected.
Truly wanted.
Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by liesâŠand when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything.

Twisted Hate (Twisted, 3)
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A diverse steamy enemies to lovers romance from BookTok sensation Ana Huang.
Gorgeous, cocky, and fast on his way to becoming a hotshot doctor, Josh Chen has never met a woman he couldn't charmâexcept for Jules Ambrose.
The beautiful redhead has been a thorn in his side since they met, but she also consumes his thoughts in a way no woman ever has.
When their animosity explodes into one unforgettable night, he proposes a solution that'll get her out of his system once and for all: an enemies with benefits arrangement with simple rules.
No jealousy.
No strings attached.
And absolutely no falling in love.
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Outgoing and ambitious, Jules Ambrose is a former party girl who's focused on one thing: passing the attorney's bar exam.
The last thing she needs is to get involved with a doctor who puts the SUFFER in insufferableâŠno matter how good-looking he is.
But the more she gets to know him, the more she realizes there's more than meets the eye to the man she's hated for so long.
Her best friend's brother.
Her nemesis.
And her only salvation.
Theirs is a match made in hell, and when the demons from their past catch up with them, they're faced with truths that could either save them âŠor destroy everything they've worked for.

Twisted Games (Twisted, 2)
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A steamy contemporary royal romance from BookTok sensation Ana Huang.
Stoic, broody, and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: 1) Protect his clients at all costs 2) Do not become emotionally involved. Ever.
He has never once been tempted to break those rules...until her.
Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak that matches his own and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She's nothing he expected and everything he never knew he needed.
Day by day, inch by inch, she breaks down his defenses until he's faced with a truth he can no longer deny: he swore an oath to protect her, but all he wants is to ruin her. Take her.
Because she's his.
His princess.
His forbidden fruit.
His every depraved fantasy.
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Regal, strong-willed, and bound by the chains of duty, Princess Bridget dreams of the freedom to live and love as she chooses.
But when her brother abdicates, she's suddenly faced with the prospect of a loveless, politically expedient marriage and a throne she never wanted.
And as she navigates the intricacies-and treacheries-of her new role, she must also hide her desire for a man she can't have.
Her bodyguard.
Her protector.
Her ultimate ruin.
Unexpected and forbidden, theirs is a love that could destroy a kingdom...and doom them both.
Do not become emotionally involved. Ever.

Final Offer (Dreamland Billionaires Book 3)
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I'm the Kane brother everyone gossips about behind closed doors.
Trust fund brat. Washed-up athlete. High-functioning alcoholic.
No one knows the real me but her.
Lana Castilloâmy childhood best friend and the only woman I ever loved.
When I broke her heart six years ago, I promised to never return to Lake Wisteria.
I kept my word until my grandfather's will changed everything.
To receive my inheritance, I was tasked with spending a summer at the family lake house
before selling it.
The request was simple in theory until my entire plan blew up on the very first day.
Turns out Lana doesn't just live at the house, but she claims to own it, too.
Alana
Falling in love with Callahan Kane was a mistake.
He told me so before destroying my heart and our friendship six summers ago.
When he promised never to come back, I foolishly believed him.
But then Cal showed up again, intending to sell his grandfather's lake house.
The biggest flaw in his plan?
My name is on the deed.

Terms and Conditions (Dreamland Billionaires Book 2)
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Iâm destined to become the next CEO of my familyâs media empire.
The only problem? My grandfatherâs inheritance clause.
Fulfilling his dying wish of getting married and having an heir seemed impossible until my assistant volunteers for the job.
Our marriage was supposed to be the perfect solution to my biggest problem.
But the more we act in love for the public, the more unsure I feel about our contract.
Caring about Iris was never part of the deal.
Especially not when breaking her heart is inevitable.
Iris
My plan to marry Declan was simple in theory.
Move in together. Throw a wedding. Have a baby.
We set rules to prevent any kind of issues.
Ones that were never meant to be broken, no matter how much Declan tempts me.
But what happens when our fake relationship bleeds into our real one?
Falling in love was never an option.
At least not for me.

The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires Book 1)
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Iâm in the business of creating fairy tales.
Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.
Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.
My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.
Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.
By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.
People like me donât get happy endings.
Not when weâre destined to ruin them.
Zahra
After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamlandâs most expensive ride, I should have been fired.
Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.
The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss Iâd ever met.
Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didnât care.
At least not until I discovered his secret.
It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldnât fix everything.
Especially not us.

Icebreaker: A Novel
Regular price $13.75
A TikTok sensation! Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink.
Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team.
Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins.
Nateâs focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating teamâincluding Anastasia, who clearly canât stand him.
But when Anastasiaâs skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot.
Sparks fly, but Anastasia isnât worriedâŠbecause she could never like a hockey player, right?

Dreamland: A Novel
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We donât always get to choose our paths in life; sometimes they choose us.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:Â PopSugar
After fleeing an abusive husband with her six-year-old son, Tommie, Beverly is attempting to create a new life for them in a small town off the beaten track. Despite their newfound freedom, Beverly is constantly on guard: she creates a fake backstory, wears a disguise around town, and buries herself in DIY projects to stave off anxiety. But her stress only rises when Tommie insists heâd been hearing someone walking on the roof and calling his name late at night. With money running out and danger seemingly around every corner, she makes a desperate decision that will rewrite everything she knows to be true. . . .
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Meanwhile, Colby Mills is on a heart-pounding journey of another kind. A failed musician, he now heads a small family farm in North Carolina. Seeking a rare break from his duties at home, he spontaneously takes a gig playing in a bar in St. Pete Beach, Florida, where he meets Morgan Leeâand his whole life is turned upside-down.
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The daughter of affluent Chicago doctors, Morgan has graduated from a prestigious college music program with the ambition to move to Nashville and become a star. Romantically and musically, she and Colby complete each other in a way that neither has ever known.
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In the course of a single unforgettable week, two young people will navigate the exhilarating heights and heartbreak of first love. Hundreds of miles away, Beverly will put her love for her young son to the test. And fate will draw all three people together in a web of life-altering connections . . . forcing each to wonder whether the dream of a better life can ever survive the weight of the past.

Book Lovers
Regular price $12.75
An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily â Today â Parade â Marie Claire â Bustle â PopSugar â Katie Couric Media â Book Bub â SheReads â Medium â The Washington Post â and more!
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...
Nora Stephens' life is booksâsheâs read them allâand she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sistersâ trip awayâwith visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who sheâs convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that theyâve met many times and itâs never been cute.
If Nora knows sheâs not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows heâs nobodyâs hero, but as they are thrown together again and againâin a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allowâwhat they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories theyâve written about themselves.

Secretly Yours: A Novel
Regular price $15.75
AN INSTANTÂ NEW YORK TIMESÂ BESTSELLER
From Tessa Baileyâ#1 New York Times bestselling author, TikTok favorite, and "the Michelangelo of dirty talk" (Entertainment Weekly)âcomes a spicy small town rom-com about a grumpy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn...
Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his familyâs winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley, and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. But the starchy professor isnât the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly.
One wine-fueled girlsâ night later, Hallie canât shake the sense that she did something recklessâand then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian. Oh shit.
On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. Sheâs eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirtâand so unbelievably beautiful, he canât focus on anything else. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past.
Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, heâs sucked further into Hallieâs orbit. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julianâs grayscale life. For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. But thereâs something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down.
"Tessa Bailey is the queen of rom-coms. Long may she reign!" â Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Meet Cute

Love Her or Lose Her: A Novel
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker returns with a unique, sexy rom-com about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation...Â
Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they used to be anyway. Now Rosieâs lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found. When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she decides to demand more out of love, too. Three words: marriage boot camp.Â
Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippie. Dom talking about feelings? Sitting on pillows? Communing with nature? Learning love languages? Nope. But to her surprise, heâs all in, and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation. As they complete one ridiculousâyet surprisingly helpfulâassignment after another, their remodeled relationship gets stronger than ever. Except just as theyâre getting back on track, Rosie discovers Dom has a secret... and it could demolish everything.
âHer voice feels as fresh and contemporary as a Netflix rom-com.â âEntertainment Weekly
*Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by Insider and Oprah Magazine + Marie Claire's Best New Books of 2020*

Never Never: A twisty, angsty romance
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Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us joins forces with Tarryn Fisher, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives. Together, they have created a gripping, twisty, romantic mystery unlike any other.
Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.
But the more they learn about the couple they used to be...the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.
Heart-stopping and utterly captivating, the complete Never Never series, now available in one volume, will leave readers breathless and believing in the power of love.

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
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Piper hasnât even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she wonât last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper canât do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? Sheâs determined to show her stepfatherâand the hot, grumpy localâthat sheâs more than a pretty face.
Except itâs a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but thereâs an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesnât want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendanâand this town full of memoriesâmay have already caught her heart.Â
Tessa Bailey is back with a Schittâs Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood âIt Girlâ who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesnât belong.Â

Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma
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Kareena Mann dreams of having a love story like her parents, but she prefers restoring her classic car to swiping right on dating apps. When her father announces heâs selling her motherâs home, Kareena makes a deal with him: heâll gift her the house if she can get engaged in four months. Her search for her soulmate becomes impossible when her argument with Dr. Prem Verma, host of The Dr. Dil Show, goes viral. Now the only man in her life is the one she doesnât want.
Dr. Prem Verma is dedicated to building a local community health center, but he needs to get donors with deep pockets. The Dr. Dil Show was doing just that, until his argument with Kareena went viral, and heâs left short changed. Thatâs when Kareenaâs meddling aunties presented him with a solution: convince Kareena heâs her soulmate and theyâll fund his clinic. Â
Even though they have conflicting views on love-matches and arranged-matches, the more time Prem spends with Kareena, the more he begins to believe sheâs the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. But for Prem and Kareena to find their happily ever after, they must admit that hate has turned into fate.Â

Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
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Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)
Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.)
Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?)
Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!)
Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasnât been on a date since, well, ever. Nobodyâs asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, thatâs for sure. Maybe if people think sheâs having a steamy love affair, theyâll acknowledge sheâs not just the âlittle sisterâ who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite?
Travis Ford was major league baseballâs hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now heâs flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he canât even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his⊠bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friendâs sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild schemeâthat they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new jobâhe agrees. Whatâs the harm? Itâs not like itâs real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and thereâs nothing fake about how much he wants her...

Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
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Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox's spare bedroom. She knows he's a notorious ladies' man, but they're definitely just friends. In fact, she's nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. Armed with a few tips from Westport's resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker's eye... yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can't deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost.
Living with his best friend should have been easy. Except now she's walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and... and... man overboard! He's fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he's all in, she'll choose him instead?
In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man...

The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
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She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family wonât be easy to fool.
Enter Aaron Blackfordâher tall, handsome, condescending colleagueâwho surprisingly offers to step in. Sheâd rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man.
But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.

Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Regular price $13.75
Christina Lauren writes a romance for the ages in Love and Other Words, reuniting childhood sweethearts who never forgot each other. Heartwarming, bittersweet, and captivating, Love and Other Words is a bookshelf staple for all romance readers.
The story of the heart can never be unwritten.
Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulosâthe first and only love of her lifeâthe careful bubble sheâs constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macyâs entire worldâgrowing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.
Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much moreâspending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macyâs decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazlewood
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Thereâs no denying the chemistry between Ph.D. candidate Olive and brooding professor Adam in this STEM-inspired romance. The bond pairing of a grump and sunshine is a surefire way to boost serotonin while accelerating the heartbeat of any science lover. Bonus points if youâre also a Star Wars fan!
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A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021
When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationshipsâbut her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.
That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professorâand well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs.
Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazlewood
Regular price $16.75
Our reading glasses immediately steamed up after hearing about this follow-up to the 2021 hit The Love Hypothesis. It's flirty, fun and full of the side of academics they donât teach you about in school. *Winking emoji*
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesisâwith explosive results.
Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering projectâa literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academiaâMarie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.
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Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad schoolâarchenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.
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Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. Perhaps itâs her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideasâŠdevouring her with those eyes. And the possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, thereâs only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?
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Regular price $15.75
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Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today â Parade â PopSugar â USA Today â SheReads â BuzzFeed â BookBub â Bustle â and more!
Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
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They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barryâs Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florekâthe man she never thought sheâd have to live without.
For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his familyâs restaurant and curling up together with booksâmedical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for herâPercy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
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When Percy returns to the lake for Samâs motherâs funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years sheâs spent punishing herself for them, theyâll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.Â
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
The American Roommate Experiment
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From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas MartĂn, who are forced to share a New York apartment.
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Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasnât told her family and now has terrible writerâs block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Linaâs spare key while sheâs out of town. But Rosie doesnât know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalkingâfor lack of a better wordâon Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.
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Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: Heâll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under controlâbut Lucasâs time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

The Soulmate Equation
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But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company thatâs predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands.
At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAllyâs founder, Dr. River Peña. This is one number she canât wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Peña. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get âto know him and weâll pay you. Jessâwho is barely making ends meetâis in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the âDiamondâ pairing that could launch GeneticAllyâs valuation sky-high, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientistâand the science behind a soulmateâthan she thought.
âLaugh-out-loud, sweet, charming, and humorousâ (Library Journal, starred review), The Soulmate Equation proves that the delicate balance between fate and choice can never be calculated.