Gigi Bassano Young. Beautiful. Idealistic. Proud. Gigi was raised outside the Andrade clan, but it has left her with an ache she cannot deny. When she’s invited to her brothers’ weddings, she refuses at first, then changes her mind and attends without telling anyone. She won’t let herself love them, but she can’t stay away. It’s a recipe for disappointment and heartbreak. Especially when she throws herself at her brother’s best friend, Kane. Kane Sander Sexy, rich, loyal, protective. He shouldn't want her. But he will. He should stay away from her. But he won’t. Love doesn’t follow anyone’s rules. Deny it. Run from it. Love always finds a way. The Andrades: A spin off series of the Legacy Collection with cameos from characters you love from that series. Book 1: Come Away With Me (Free Download) Book 2: Home to Me Book 3: Maximum Risk Book 4: Somewhere Along the Way Book 5: Loving Gigi Other Contemporary Romance Titles by Ruth Cardello: The Legacy Collection Where my billionaires began. Book 1: Maid for the Billionaire (Free Download) Book 2: For Love or Legacy Book 3: Bedding the Billionaire Book 4: Saving the Sheikh Book 5: Rise of the Billionaire Book 6: Breaching the Billionaire: Alethea's Redemption Recipe For Love: A Hot Andrade Christmas Novella Book 7: A Corisi Christmas Novella (available on pre-order now) A new, seven book series about the Andrade’s Boston cousins. The first series in the Barrington Billionaire WORLD. Book 1: Always Mine Book 2: Stolen Kisses Book 3: Trade it All (Coming soon) Book 4: Let It Burn (Coming 2016) Book 5: More Than Love (Coming 2016) Book 6: Forever Now (Coming 2017) Book 7: Never Goodbye (Coming 2017) *Look for a linked series set in the same world, written by Jeannette Winters (my sister) and Danielle Stewart (my niece). You won’t have to read the other series to enjoy mine, but it sure will make it more fun. Characters will appear in all three series. Author Jeannette Winters Book 1: One White Lie Book 2: Table for Two Danielle Stewart Book 1: Fierce Love Lone Star Burn Series Fun, hot romances that roam from the country to the city and back. Book 1: Taken, Not Spurred Book 2: Tycoon Takedown Book 3: Taken Home Book 4: Taking Charge (Coming soon) Temptation Series Bundle Guaranteed to put you on Santa's Naughty List. Book 1: Twelve Days of Temptation Book 2: Be My Temptation Taken by a Trillionaire Ruth Cardello, JS Scott, Melody Anne. Three hot fantasies about alpha princes and the women who tame them.

A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife – she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn't cover divorce, which is the way Agnes' life is headed after she comes home one day to find her credit cards cancelled and the security passwords to get into her enormous LA home changed. Oh, and there's a guy there whose job it is to tase her if she tries to enter...which she does. Needless to say, Agnes' husband is dead set on making sure she loses big time, but Agnes isn't the type to just lie down and take it. In a world of fremenies and hot nannies,...

I looked after Lara. We both looked after Sophie and her baby. We had to. It's not like Sophie was going to look after that baby herself. All she was interested in was weeping and wailing for her dead husband. She was so busy weeping and wailing for her dead husband that she rejected his baby who was right in front of her. When Olga's friend Lara becomes a grandmother, Olga helps out whenever she can. After all, it's a big imposition on Lara, looking after her bereaved daughter and the baby. And the new mother is not exactly considerate.But smoldering beneath Olga's sensible support and loving generosity is a deep jealous need to be the centre of Lara's attention and affection—a need that soon becomes a consuming, dangerous and ultimately tragic obsession. Gigi Fenster's A Good Winter is an enthralling psychological thriller, a dark and complex portrait of a troubled mind.Gigi Fenster has two previously published works with Victoria...

Find a match for the most eligible man in showbiz?Challenge accepted.Emma Woods is Hollywood's brightest star, but she's got more brewing behind the scenes than the movie musical she's rehearsing. Determined to find the perfect soulmate for her new friend, she hasn't any time to think about her own love life--even when director Jaxson Knightly occupies all her daydreams.Will Emma find a happily ever after for everyone including herself?Or will Jaxson remain in the friend-zone?Secrets of a Hollywood Matchmaker is a zany, modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma.

"Fans of Elizabeth Peters will adore following along with Jaya Jones and a cast of quirky characters as they pursue a fabled treasure" (Juliet Blackwell, New York Times–bestselling author). You can practically hear the Indiana Jones theme song when you crack the first page of this USA Today bestseller. The suspenseful, mysterious, and romantic come together in the exotic world of treasure hunts . . . When historian Jaya Jones receives a mysterious package containing a jewel-encrusted artifact from India, she discovers the secrets of a lost Indian treasure may be hidden in a Scottish legend from the days of the British Raj. But she's not the only one on the trail. From San Francisco to the Highlands of Scotland, Jaya must evade a shadowy stalker as she follows hints from the hastily scrawled note to a remote archaeological dig. Helping her decipher the cryptic clues are her magician best friend, a...

For fans of Lessons in Chemistry, a based-in-fact novel imagining young Renaissance noblewoman Bianca Capello's experiences as she pursues a cure for malaria in the Medicis' Florence.Florence, 1563. Forbidden from practicing her herbal cures in Venice, the young noblewoman Bianca Capello flees to Florence, where the ruling Medici family practices alchemy. There, she wins herself an invitation to their palace, and, as it turns out, a path to the duke regent Francesco's bed. The impassioned bond between Francesco de Medici and Bianca is at the core of this fact-driven dive into medicine, politics, love, and ultimately death in Renaissance Florence. Malaria killed many of the Medicis, but traces of the poison arsenic were recently found in Francesco's remains. Even more sinister: Bianca's remains have never been found. To this day, what happened to Bianca and Francesco remains one of the greatest mysteries surrounding Renaissance Italy's legendary...

Multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian is one of the best locked room mystery writers working today. Her newest heroine, Tempest Raj, returns in The Raven Thief, where sliding bookcases, trick tables, and hidden reading nooks hide something much more sinister than the Secret Staircase Construction crew ever imagined.One murder. Four impossibilities. A fake séance hides a very real crime.Secret Staircase Construction just finished their first project with Tempest Raj officially a part of the team—a classic mystery novel-themed home interior. Their client is now ready to celebrate her new life without her cheating ex-husband, famous mystery author Corbin Colt. First up, a party, and Tempest and Grandpa Ash are invited to the exclusive mock séance to remove any trace of Corbin from the property—for good. It's all lighthearted fun until Corbin's dead body crashes the party.The only possible suspects are the eight people around the...

An MM fantasy romance with friends to lovers, pirates, nymphs, hurt/comfort, found families, and lots of pining.   Levrith is a pirate on the Naiad’s Revenge. He loves the sea, adventure, and the life of a sailor. He also loves his naiad crewmate, Ceto. They’ve been friends for years, and through all that time, Levrith has longed for more. Unfortunately, Ceto only has eyes for one human, the captain of their ship.   Ceto was rescued from captivity by the captain. Since then, he has always tried to prove himself to the man, hoping that one day he would return Ceto’s feelings. But the captain rejects Ceto, and soon afterward, Ceto is wounded in battle. Heartbroken and injured, Ceto leaves the ship to recover.   In Ceto’s darkest hour, it is Levrith who accompanies him off the ship and brings Ceto to Levrith’s island home. There Levrith nurses and cares for him when all Ceto wants is to wallow. As Ceto heals, desires grow, and passions ignite. But is there something more than friendship between them? And will Ceto see what is right in front of him before it is too late?   -   NAIAD'S KISS is the fourth novel of the A NAIAD ROMANCE series. Each book contains a HEA with no cliffhangers and can be read as a stand alone.   Content notes: sexual content, swearing, captivity and abuse of nymphs, and violence.

"Surprising plot twists, several cliffhangers, and vivid magical imagery will keep fans of paranormal cozies turning the pages."—Publishers Weekly The latest alchemical adventure from Gigi Pandian, USA Today bestselling author and winner of the Agatha Award Centuries-old alchemist Zoe Faust is tired of running from her past. She's finally got her life on track in Portland, Oregon, gardening and cooking in her fixer-upper house with her mischievous best friend, Dorian the gargoyle chef. It seems like the perfect life for Zoe, until she discovers that her old mentor Nicolas Flamel, who she thought had abandoned her, has been imprisoned. A local artist holds the secret that could lead Zoe to her mentor, but the artist is murdered and the painting containing the hidden clue is stolen. To rescue Nicolas, Zoe and Dorian must explore art forgery, a transformative process that has much in common with alchemy and cooking—but one that proves far more...

Ethan Andrews never saw Justin Halstead coming. A broody jock with a propensity for studying. A hot-mess conundrum who, for some reason, continues to show up at Ethan's dorm room door.Something is happening between them, but one particular sport stands in the way. Ethan never imagined falling for an overbearing, overprotective athlete with a Hall of Fame future and a secret heart of gold.Taking the giant leap out of the closet nearly killed Ethan, and no one seems to understand his desire to close that door and stay inside his safe place. Strangely, Ethan finds he's not alone, and it's with the last person he ever expected to be his biggest supporter...Future NFL Quarterback—Justin F**king Halstead.(A trope-bending love story)

Alchemy and an art heist in Paris are on the menu in the new Accidental Alchemist novella from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award winning author Gigi Pandian.Alchemist Zoe Faust and her impish gargoyle sidekick Dorian Robert-Houdin travel to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to investigate a mysterious discovery found in the wreckage of the tragic fire: a long-lost gargoyle illustration drawn by Victor Hugo himself.When the work of art is stolen under impossible circumstances, Dorian must use his "little gray cells"—not to mention his culinary skills—to solve the crime and discover the true origins of where he came from.Includes delicious vegan recipes!The Lost Gargoyle of Paris is an Accidental Alchemist Mystery novella and is less than half the length of the novels in the series. It stands alone, but if you want to read more about Zoe, Dorian, and their misfit friends back in Portland, Oregon, check out The Accidental Alchemist,...

Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave readers enchanted.An impossible crime. A family legacy. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases.After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj's career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather's Indian home-cooked meals. Though she resists, every day brings her closer to the inevitable: working for her father's company. Secret Staircase Construction specializes in bringing the magic of childhood to all by transforming clients' homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks.When Tempest visits her dad's latest renovation project, her former...

A riddle, a game, and a clue in the garden. Don't miss the page-turning sixth book in the award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series, perfect for fans of cozy mysteries and urban fantasy. When Zoe Faust sees the ghost of a murdered young woman, is it really a spirit—or a flesh and blood woman who stopped aging because she's a fellow alchemist? Sixteen years ago, high school student Ridley Price discovered a secret she planned to reveal through a party game—but someone killed her first. The baffling crime was never solved. Zoe's friend Heather has always wondered: which of the seven guests at the party killed Ridley? When the newly-appeared ghost turns dangerous, threatening people they love, Zoe teams up with her gargoyle roommate Dorian to unmask the supposed specter.

In heroine Tempest Raj, modern-day queen of the locked room mystery Gigi Pandian has created a brilliant homage to the greats of classic detective fiction. Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business—known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls—is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish and Indian meals from her grandfather can distract Tempest from the truth: they're being framed.When Tempest receives an urgent midnight phone call from Julian, she decides to meet him at the historic Whispering Creek Theater—only to find his dead body, a sword through his chest. After a blade appears from thin air to claim another victim, Tempest is certain they're dealing with a booby trap... something...

A locked-room mystery at a Paris mansion. A supposed ghost haunting a French family who looted treasure from Cambodia. A reclusive thriller author writing a novel in honor of historian Jaya Jones—is it a work of fiction or a devious device to lure Jaya into solving a chilling mystery? Three unsolved murders spanning seventy years have befallen the same French family, each taking place two nights before Christmas at their Paris mansion—and blamed on the family ghost. When Jaya realizes the truth hits closer to home than she realized, she must risk everything as she flees San Francisco for France and Cambodia to find a missing sculpture known as the Serpent King and stop a flesh and blood killer. - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE GLASS THIEF by Gigi Pandian | A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you'll probably like them all. Praise: "Exciting, engrossing, and evocative....

The new girl in town is having trouble fitting into a community that believes there’s a secret Satanic cult conducting rituals in the woods. When her crush goes missing, she starts to wonder if the town’s obsession with evil isn’t covering up something far worse. Perfect for fans of Fear Street!From the moment Audre arrives in rural Pennsylvania, it’s clear she won’t fit in. After all, her nose ring, her horror movie obsession, and her family’s Ouija board collection aren’t likely to endear her to a town convinced there’s a secret Satanic cult conducting rituals in the nearby woods.When the preacher’s daughter and Audre’s crush, Elle, goes missing on Halloween weekend, the town is quick to point fingers in Audre’s direction. With the cops busy harassing her family for being nonbelievers and everyone else convinced demons are to blame, Audre realizes she might be the only person who can find her...

Coming soon to Netflix, The Empress is a captivating, vivid and remarkably modern tale about falling in love and finding one's voice. The year is 1853, and Princess Elisabeth "Sisi" of Bavaria has been very clear: She will wait for the head-over-heels love the poets speak of, or she will have no love at all. Just because her older sister, Helene, is eagerly heeding their mother's advice and preparing to marry Emperor Franz of Austria does not mean Sisi must also subject herself to such a dutiful existence. Sisi knows there is more to life than luncheons and corsets—if only someone would let her experience it all firsthand. Meanwhile, in Austria, the emperor is recovering from an assassination attempt that left him wounded and scared. In a bid to keep the peace, Franz has recommitted himself to his imperial duties—and promised to romance the pliant Helene of Bavaria at his upcoming birthday celebration. How better to unite the...

The Goonies meets Charade in the latest Accidental Alchemist Mystery A blackmailer obsessed with gold. A boyfriend who's more than he seems. And a treasure hidden on the Oregon coast. Alchemist Zoe Faust's mentor Nicolas Flamel is back in her life, but catching up with him will have to wait. An elusive blackmailer has threatened to expose a dangerous alchemical secret. Zoe's boyfriend is out of town protecting secrets of his own. So when rumors of a treasure map reach Zoe, she turns her back on what sounds like no more than a game. Zoe's mischievous living gargoyle best friend Dorian, who thinks of himself as a modern-day Poirot, is convinced the map is real—and that it's the key to proving himself as valuable to Zoe as her human family. With the help of the neighborhood teenagers, Dorian sets out to find the treasure, risking more than he planned in the process. Rumors, treasures, and secrets intersect to unearth more than Zoe...

"Completely charming!" —Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer AfterFans of Sophie Kinsella and Christina Lauren will adore this touching and witty novel about a woman who takes an impulsive trip to England to meet the man behind the audiobook narrator she's fallen for. Gigi Rutherford loves love stories. She reads them, she sells them at her romance bookstore, and she could spend hours imagining the meet-cutes of every couple she encounters. But when it comes to her own love interests, Gigi is out of stock. Instead of enduring bad date after bad date, these days she'd rather curl up with her favorite audiobook and the only man who makes her heart skip a beat: Zane Wilkenson, the smooth-voiced narrator Gigi is convinced is her soulmate. Then, she's presented with the chance of a lifetime: a ten-day bus tour through the English countryside, an ocean away from her bookstore—all in the...

Murder in a conservatory of carnivorous plants. Bewitching topiary terrors. A sabotaged tea shop. Can Zoe untangle the truth before someone close to her takes the blame? Alchemist Zoe Faust is no stranger to magical mayhem, but when her boyfriend's new tea shop is vandalized and his special tea blends stolen, she plunges into a baffling mystery to save him. The clues lead Zoe and her gargoyle sidekick Dorian to an eerie mansion high in the Portland hills, filled with creeping carnivorous plants and enigmatic topiary monsters. When they stumble across a corpse in the conservatory that appears to have been killed by sinister shrubbery, an estranged member of the family is implicated in the murder. Can Zoe use her alchemical skills to catch the real killer while navigating crafty alchemists and killer plants? The seventh installment in the multi-award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series finds Zoe and Dorian battling carnivorous...

Ryan is stubborn, he always has been. Patience has never been Thomas's best trait. It's been nine lonely years. Ryan thought Thomas was dead. Some secrets can't be told. There are rules and laws that can't be broken and often unreasonable Gods enforcing them. It's going to be an uphill climb to fight for Ryan's forgiveness. All Thomas wants is to spend the rest of his life with his soulmate (even if he is a fugitive), for them to have the picture-perfect life they always dreamed of together. They've finally got their chance to have it all, but... The Bellum Pack is coming, and that can only mean one thing. Thomas doesn't have time to plan a war, win back his soulmate, and worry about his best friend, Penn, and whatever he's got going on with the worst Pillar of all. How does the sweetest guy fall for their most feared God? Thomas has to figure out how to keep Ryan safe and protect his entire pack from the encroaching war-hungry Wolves....

Why settle for billionaires, when you can have Royals? For five years, one decision has haunted Baron Caden Hargrove. But, Caden knows that he can never be with the woman he loves. He'd accepted that long ago; at least, he thought he had. Just one look at her, and his barely submerged feelings immediately gush to the surface and engulf his senses. Hot, dark, and strong like a cup of the finest coffee, she stood with surprise in her eyes and an adorable child in her arms, a child with features uncannily similar to his own. Now, the Baron must decide which is more terrifying: losing his second chance at having the one woman he knows he's meant to be with and the family he desperately wants or finally telling her the truth and admitting why he left in the first place. Will love prevail? Or will secrets continue to keep them apart? When her former love is unexpectedly thrown back into her life, Kenya Morris realizes her long denied feelings were not buried as deep as she'd thought. He is as charming and, annoyingly, even sexier than when he first loved…and suddenly left her, broken and alone. Well, he didn't leave her quite as “alone" as she'd first thought, and Kenya refuses to fall for Caden again. She’d worked too hard to succeed in her career and be a good mother to be made a fool twice. But, their chemistry is still undeniable, their desire for each other more palpable, and Caden hadn't lost his ability to stoke the fires of her emotions like a furnace-master. Can she risk trusting him again when it's not just her heart that might be broken this time? Her mind says to run as far away from him as fast as she can. Will Kenya’s heart decide that there's more than one thing that makes her… Bound to the Baron? ***Welcome to the Royal Revels series! This first book is a full length (approximately 65,000 words), standalone story!! No cliffhangers!!! HEA!!*** This story contains a few steamy scenes that might just set your Kindle on Fire!! As such, it is intended for a mature audience.

3 days til Christmas2 unlikely traveling companions1 zippy little dogGeorgia Darcy never asked to be a movie star's little sister but nothing will keep her from getting to her brother's wedding on Christmas Day. Even if Mother Nature thwarts her traveling plans.When all flights cancel, she's unexpectedly paired with a chronically unlucky rideshare and his overly cute dog, finding that turbulence isn't exclusive to airplanes. Especially when it comes to her heart.Wyatt Silva, flat broke and fresh out of options, embarks on a detour road trip alongside delightfully sweet Georgia, who not only stumbles over his dog, but also into his life.Doomed with nutty disasters of ridiculous proportions, the cockeyed couple is forced to find creative means to trek it across the country.Sleet, snow, and a Winnebago. It'll take a Christmas miracle to navigate their stormy attraction to one another and reach Pemberley for Christmas.

A treasure trove of nine locked-room mysteries from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Gigi Pandian, all set in the Jaya Jones world. Appearing here for the first time, novelette The Cambodian Curse: When an ancient and supposedly cursed Cambodian sculpture disappears from an impenetrable museum, and the carving's owner is killed by an invisible assailant while a witness is a few feet away, historian Jaya Jones and her old nemesis Henry North team up to solve the baffling crime. Stories included: "The Cambodian Curse," "The Hindi Houdini," "The Haunted Room," "The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn," "The Curse of Cloud Castle," "Tempest in a Teapot," "A Dark and Stormy Light," "The Shadow of the River," plus bonus novella Fool's Gold. With an Introduction from New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King addressing why we love locked rooms, and a Foreword from impossible crime mystery historian Douglas G. Greene, teasing out the...

"A powerful novel set in a Hong Kong that feels remarkably universal." —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West"A dazzling, page-turning novel...Gripping, specific, important, and highly satisfying.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/OrA powerful, award-winning novel that follows the lives of two women as democracy starts to crumble in Hong KongOn a weekend morning, college roommates Ah Lei and Panda wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Lei can’t get out of bed, her heart heavy with the lingering images of the police and the violence on the streets, and her worries about the future of her hometown. Panda, whose resistance is no less ardent, puts on a sundress, lines her eyes, and...

Persephone "Persi" Sinclair has always lived a principled and disciplined life—with one exception. She's in love with a married man. She can't help herself; she's had a crush on Brad Shelton since high school. When Brad finally dumps her to rekindle things with his wife, Persi gathers her shattered pride, dusts off her old dreams, and moves to Paris. Persi reconnects with Nick Betancourt, a former college classmate of Brad's who's playing saxophone at Bricktop's Jazz Club. Reluctantly, Persi begins to date the free-spirited Nick, and is slowly seduced by his charm. What begins as a carefree adventure through the French countryside with no past, no future, and no designs on permanence, turns into something much deeper. The couple gets married in Monte Carlo and returns to their Paris flat. Persi settles into the role of Mrs. Nick Betancourt and deems herself fulfilled, content, and happy—until Brad shows up at their front door one day, announcing that he's left his...

"THE MOST SURPRISING BOOK OF THE YEAR." —ROBIN SLOANA cozy noir for fans of Knives Out!, time loops, and old-time whodunits. Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are on the trail of the killer of Five the No Longer Alive. But as the numbers and the clues stack up, One the Gun realizes that today is exactly like yesterday—in fact maybe actually is yesterday—and he's pretty sure that at the end of yesterday he was shot to death. It's a dilly of a pickle as time continues to loop back on itself, one murder case becomes two, and the gumshoe races against the clock to smoke out his own killer—before that killer can stop his clock for keeps. Gigi Little's noir-soaked and delightfully surreal debut pays homage to the radio classics of the forties and fifties while investigating themes of greed, sexism, and the consequences of unchecked power.

GIGI TRANSLATED BY ROGER SENHOUSE, THE CAT TRANSLATED BY ANTONIA WHITEGigi's days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions: the education of a future courtesan. Bored and unconvinced by what she's taught, Gigi surprises all with her approach to love. In this classic turn-of-the-century novella, Colette unveils Gigi's journey into womanhood in rich and supple prose. This edition includes The Cat translated by Antonia White.

He's a brooding cowboy in need of a wife. She's a virgin stripper who might just fit the bill...Her stage name is Buttercup, and she's coming home with me. She needs to buckle up, because I'm about to throw her over my shoulder and breed a baby in her belly. My ex drove her out of town, but I'm going to haul her ass back. Two years later, Buttercup is back, and she's sweeter than ever... With a little surprise who has my smile and my eyes. I'm not buying her bullshit, I know Noah's my son. And she's my woman - always has been. I'm going to take my family back, one way or another. Whatever it takes, I'm getting my happily ever after. Buckle Up, Buttercup is a steamy novella about a sexy-as-hell ripped cowboy and his innocent virgin who just happens to be a stripper. If you like alpha men, not-so-accidental secret babies and sweet-as-pie love makin', you've found your perfect read. Written by USA Today bestselling author Isabella Starling.

Tempest Raj's latest puzzle is wrapped in a festive, Scottish Yuletide package. The Christmas Caper is a locked-room mystery short story from multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian, and includes two holiday recipes! A baffling art heist. A mysterious Christmas Market. A thief in the shadows of Edinburgh Castle.With Secret Staircase Construction taking well-earned time off for the holidays, Tempest Raj travels across the pond, looking forward to a renewed family tradition: celebrating Christmas in Scotland. Tempest's grandmother has even booked an artist's flat with a stunning view of Edinburgh Castle. But in the city's snow-covered, historic Old Town, a recent museum art heist has made chilling headlines. No one can figure out how the thief pulled off the crime. When a family friend asks for help, Tempest agrees to look into the impossible theft—before the festive city's holiday mood darkens and the Christmas lights fade for good.

A sequel to Chancey of the Maury River, this heart-tugging story focuses on Macadoo—the gentle giant of the Maury River Stables. When Macadoo is just a colt, he challenges his father—a huge Belgian stallion—in order to protect his dam. From that moment on, Mac knows that his purpose in life is to help others. From surviving a kill auction to learning how to be a vaulting horse to giving therapeutic riding lessons, Mac is always patient and never loses hope in his mission to serve others—and he finds the courage to "walk on" through even the most difficult circumstances. Told with insight and compassion from Macadoo's point of view, this is a story that all horse lovers will cherish.

Dorian Robert-Houdin, the three-and-a-half-foot gargoyle chef who fancies himself a modern-day Poirot, is slowly turning into stone, and it’s up to Zoe Faust to unravel the alchemical secrets that can save him. When they discover that a long-lost stone gargoyle with a connection to Dorian has reappeared in Europe, the stakes are even higher. From Portland to Paris, Zoe searches for the hidden knowledge she needs, but a cold case that harkens back to 1942 throws her off course. With an ailing friend desperately trying to discover his own elixir of life and a new romantic interest offering the first chance at love she’s had in nearly a century, Zoe is torn between a dangerous form of alchemy and her desire for a safer life. Praise for the Accidental Alchemist Mysteries:“A cast more fun than an episode of Portlandia.”—RT Book Reviews (1/2) “Hits high marks for a modern twist on an ancient practice. Amusing supporting characters and historical...

A new hero emerges in a divided world as one of sci-fi's most beloved series—Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern—relaunches with this original adventure from Anne's daughter, Gigi McCaffrey. In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dragonriders of Pern series, Gigi does her mother proud, adding to the family tradition of spinning unputdownable tales that recount the adventures of the brave inhabitants of a distant planet who battle the pitiless adversary known as Thread. The last time Thread attacked Pern, the world was unprepared for the fight—until the Oldtimers appeared. These courageous dragonriders arrived from the past, traveling four hundred years to help their descendants survive. But the collision of past and present took its toll. While most of the displaced rescuers adapted to their new reality, others could not abide the jarring change and found themselves in soul-crushing exile, where unhappiness and resentment seethed.Piemur,...

Jake Oliver, a typical guy, never expected to fall in love with his best friend’s girl. Jake learned to love her from a far, he watched her constantly and supported her endlessly. Trish Wilson thought she found the love of her life in Dylan, until tragedy struck and fate decided for her when Dylan died in Afghanistan. Will she survive and get over her fear to love again? Will she find her one? Will her heart ever truly heal? The tragedy that caused them great sadness also brought them together. Jake’s love for Trish gave her the strength to overcome her fear to love again, while Trish’s love pushed Jake past his guilt. However, when your soul mate’s life is at stake, will they fold in fear or stand their ground? Will they fight to live or prepare to give up? Will they allow fear to break them or will they let love make them UNBREAKABLE. “Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:12

"A beautifully complex, fast-paced mystery—a well-crafted blend of modern magic and ancient secrets, full of compelling characters and set in one of Japan's most beautiful—and mysterious—locations." – Susan Spann, Author of the Hiro Hattori Mysteries A fabled illusion performed by a stage magician who claims to possess real supernatural powers. A treasure from the colonial era in India when international supremacies vied for power. A phantom trading ship lost over 200 years ago. And a ninja whose murderous intentions in present-day Japan connect the deeds of a long-dead trader who was much more than he seemed... When Jaya travels from San Francisco to Japan with her stage magician best friend Sanjay—a.k.a. The Hindi Houdini—for his Japanese debut, she jumps at the chance to pursue her own research that could solve a tantalizing centuries-old mystery. With the colorful autumn leaves of historic Kyoto falling around her,...

Who is Gigi Monroe?Waking up in a magical flare called the Circle, Gigi has no real memories and the lies placed in her mind are fading. Whoever stole her memories has also created rules in her mind.Live in the CircleWork at The Moon RisesDon’t get angry.Hide.Hired as a waitress at The Moon Rises, an upscale club for the supernatural elite in the Circle, Gigi makes many new friends including feuding alpha Weres, a devious master vampire, troublemaking witches, bubble loving ghouls, and a human waitress named Sara.When Sara is taken by a creature stealing away the human waitresses at the club, Gigi decides to find her friend. Yet facing the monster awakens something in Gigi which might have better been left to rest.Maybe the question isn’t who Gigi Monroe is, but what is she and what might she unleash on the Circle?

According to her colorful Mami Dearest, the life of young Gigi Anders will be simple if she can remember three maxims--be pretty, get married, and always drink TaB. Thus begins her instruction in the art of being a lady and the side effects of falling in love. As the granddaughter of Eastern European and Russian shtetl-reared grandparents who immigrated as teenagers in the early 1920s to the fierce tropical beauty of Cuba, Anders is heir apparent to a legacy of transatlantic alienation. With dazzling wit and hilarity mined from the depths of loss and yearning, Anders chronicles her journey from beach baby to ostracized exile to vibrant intellectual, along the way balancing her obsession with killer outfits and zaftig, orgasmic meals--always with a can of TaB!--with the more serious pursuits of love, sanity, and lipstick in perfect siren red.

When Dante's Inferno is born early, on a February night, there are already great expectations for him. He may be the grandson of the greatest racehorse in modern times, but Dante's start proves a rough one, both in life and on the track. When Dante fails as a racehorse, he ends up at a Thoroughbred rescue facility run by rehabilitating prisoners before being adopted as a project horse at the Maury River Stables. It's not easy for Dante to make friends—horse or human—but slowly horses Daisy and Napoleon let him into the fold, and a student named Ashley begins to work with him to learn dressage and jumping in hopes that he'll find redemption as an eventing horse. Can Dante put his fears aside and succeed on the cross-country course? Narrated from Dante's point of view, this is a story that animal lovers will cherish.

Henry Whiskers must face his fears and rescue his little sister from the scary Rat Alley in this fun, fast-paced debut chapter book set in Queen Mary's historical dollhouse at Windsor Castle.Twenty-five generations of Whiskers have lived in Windsor Castle's most famous exhibit: Queen Mary's Dollhouse. For young, book-loving Henry Whiskers and his family, this is the perfect place to call home. But when the dollhouse undergoes unexpected repairs and Henry's youngest sister, Isabel, goes missing, he risks everything in a whisker-whipping race against time to save her. His rescue mission will take him to the murky and scary world of Rat Alley, and Henry will have to dig deep and find the courage he never knew he had in order to bring his sister back home.

From BooklistPsychiatrists, counselors, and the like are in a unique position. They are in possession of incredibly interesting stories, yet the constraints of confidentiality and ethical concerns make sharing them difficult. Balancing the maintenance of privacy with the urge to tell—what are stories for, if not for sharing?—is a tricky matter. Small achieves that feat in this collection of “his most bizarre cases.” This is not a metaphor. While working a psychiatric ward shift as a new doctor, he is faced with an unresponsive client who is naked and standing on her head. Another client seems obsessed with having an arm amputated. A couple faces conflicting dreams and nightmares of a Disneyland wedding. Small’s stories cover the entire range of his more than 20-year career, from his fumbling attempts at looking professional with a client who is certain he’s trying to seduce her, to a recent encounter with a mentor who feels that his career has been a fraud. The stories are witty; the clients are treated respectfully, and the reader reaps the reward. --Matthew Tiffany Product DescriptionTrue stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best. After thirty distinguished years of psychiatry and groundbreaking research on the human brain, Dr. Small has seen it all—now he is ready to open his office doors for the first time and tell all about the most mysterious, intriguing, and bizarre patients of his career. The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head is a spellbinding record of the doctor's most bewildering cases, from naked headstands and hysterical blindness to fainting schoolgirls and self-amputations. It is an illuminating journey into the mind of a practicing psychiatrist and his life in medicine as it evolves over time—a behind-the-scenes look at the field and a variety of mental diseases as they've never been seen or diagnosed before. You'll find yourself exploring the puzzling eccentricities that make us human.Often funny, sometimes tragic, and always compelling, Dr. Small takes you on a tour of his career that moves from the halls of a crowded inner-city Boston emergency room to the multimillion-dollar ski lodges of the nation's elite. In between, Dr. Small introduces a strange cast of true-life characters and conditions, while dealing with mysterious hysterical blindness, a man convinced that his penis is shrinking, secret double lives, and frighteningly psychotic romantic desires. His career and personal life come full circle when his own mentor becomes his patient, making Small realize that no one is beyond mental exploration—not even himself.

As incoming Head Hottie of the exclusive clique called Hot Spot, Gigi Lane knows it is her right to see that the ducklings at Swan's Lake Country Day school fall into line. But when one classmate exposes her as a "mean girl," Gigi slowly and wretchedly falls to the bottom of the high school social ravine. Gigi's first-person account of her plummet from popularity is insightful yet naïve, set in a humorous, satiric world.

New York Times - bestselling author Gigi Levangie Grazer returns with Seven Deadlies, a witty and wildly different novel set amid the sinful reaches of Beverly Hills, narrated by a captivating, gimlet-eyed Mexican-American heroine.

I fall in lust for the hottest guy I ever met at the midway. Then I see him again, looking hot as hell as he leans against a motel ice machine. We have one perfect night. That's supposed to be all there was. But there's just one problem. The next time I see my smoldering one night stand, it's in the wrong place at the worst possible time. He's standing at the front of my history class on the first day of my senior year of high school.Well, two problems: He's my teacher, and I'm still hot for him.Author's note: Hot for my teacher is a naughty short romance story with a happy ending that'll make you blush.

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "Charming characters, a hint of romantic conflict, and just the right amount of danger will garner more fans for this cozy series." – Publishers Weekly on Quicksand "Pandian's sprightly prose celebrates the pleasures of Italian painting, food, and landscape. The light touch, swift pace, and verve maintained throughout the novel disguise the deeper thought and scholarship underpinning the story, which like the stage props of a conjurer, make the magic happen."– Linda Lappin, Author of Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery Can treasure-hunting historian Jaya Jones unmask a killer ghost? A lost work of art linking India to the Italian Renaissance. A killer hiding behind a centuries-old ghost story. And a hidden treasure in Italy's macabre sculpture garden known as the Park of Monsters... Filled with the unexpected twists, vivid historical...

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Isabel Carver never should have come to my ranch. But now that she’s here, I’m going to take her for a ride. I shouldn’t even look at her. Not now. Not ever. My best friend’s little sister has always been off-limits. I’ve done my level best not to notice her. I’ve never noticed her innocent blue eyes. I’ve never noticed her pouty lips. And I’ve never noticed the way her curves beg for my hands. So when she offers herself up to save my ranch? Well. I was blind and now I see. I see everything. And I’m going to make her mine. Every sweet, delectable inch of her. To hell with the consequences. She’d better get a tight grip on the reins… Because this cowboy’s a hard ride. Hard Ride is a steamy novella featuring a rugged cowboy hero and his best friend’s little sister. It’s a little bit angst, a little bit sweet, and all Gigi Thorne. Written by Amazon bestselling author Amelia Wilde.

No artists, no smokers, no men with beards... Manhattan real estate broker Lottie Langerman feels confident that if she follows her long list of dating rules, she'll meet The One and her life will unfold exactly as planned. Everything changes when her best friend decides to throw a fake bachelorette party—just to see what all the fuss is about—and Lottie reluctantly agrees to play the role of bride-to-be for a night. Faking an engagement turns out to be more fun—and trouble—than Lottie could have imagined. Not only does her dream man think she's taken, but Lottie keeps running into bearded Brooklyn jewelry designer Tyler, who breaks every single one of her rules...yet manages to get under her skin like no one else. Soon, Lottie finds herself at a crossroads where she must decide: Play it safe—or ditch the rules and follow her heart?A HeroesandHeartbreakers.com Original Novella!

She's a walking felony, and I should know better. Hot as hell. Forbidden. Barely legal. My best friend's daughter. And my student.These are all the reasons I shouldn't look at Coco Garber twice. Coco's the perfect mix of innocent and sexy, and now I've found out she runs a blog called Teacher's Pet where she tells her readers all about her inappropriate crush. And guess what... the teacher in question is me.Now the little minx is making passes at me, both as the online stranger who wants to f*ck her into submission and her totally off-limits English teacher. Coco has no idea I'm both of the guys she's crushing on. What am I going to do?What I shouldn't do is act on it. Tell her to put a blindfold on and call me Daddy. Bend her over my desk at school and spank her. Order her to stop acting out, because now, she belongs to me.But I never was good at following the rules...Teacher's Pet is a steamy novella about a hot teacher and his best friend's daughter who just happens to be in his class. If you like dirty talking, dominant older men and feisty virgins, you've found your perfect read. Written by USA Today bestselling author Isabella Starling.