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Autumn O’Dea has always tried to see the best in people while her big brother, Killian, has always tried to protect her from the worst. While their lonely upbringing made Killian a cynic, it isn’t in Autumn’s nature to be anything but warm and open. However, after a series of relationship disasters and the unsettling realization that she’s drifting aimlessly through life, Autumn wonders if she’s left herself too vulnerable to the world. Deciding some distance is exactly what she needs, Autumn takes up her friend’s offer to stay at a ski resort in the snowy hills of Montana.

Nora O'Brien chased a dream from Indiana to Scotland, so sure it was the right thing to do. Three years later she was left in her adopted country with nothing to her name but guilt and regret. Until Aidan Lennox entered her life. Older, worldlier, a music producer and composer, the sexy Scot should never have made sense for Nora. But somehow in each other they found the light they were looking for, the laughter and the passion - the strength to play on despite their past losses.

After narrowly escaping death, police officer Robyn Penhaligon leaves behind her life in Boston in search of some answers. Starting with Mac Galbraith, the Scottish father who abandoned her to pursue his career in private security. To reconnect with Mac, Robyn will finally meet a man she's long resented. Lachlan Adair. Hostility instantly brews between Robyn and Lachlan. She thinks the head of the Adair family is high-handed and self-important.

Four years ago, Jocelyn Butler left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well - until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.

When Hannah Nichols last saw Marco D'Alessandro five long years ago, he broke her heart. The bad boy with a hidden sweet side was the only guy Hannah ever loved - and the only man she's ever been with. After one intense night of giving in to temptation, Marco took off, leaving Scotland and Hannah behind. Shattered by the consequences of their night together, Hannah has never truly moved on.

Molded by a tragic childhood, 19-year-old Rogan finds it extremely difficult to trust people. Now Haydyn, her best friend and the one person she does trust, is dying and only Rogan can save her. Setting off on a journey to retrieve the plant that will cure Haydyn and subsequently the ills that will befall them all if she dies, Rogan is stuck in close quarters with a protector she distrusts above all others. Wolfe Stovia: The son of the man who destroyed Rogan’s family.

Johanna Walker is used to taking charge. But she’s about to meet someone who will make her lose control....

It has always been up to Johanna to care for her family, particularly her younger brother, Cole. With an absent father and a useless mother, she’s been making decisions based on what’s best for Cole for as long as she can remember. She even determines what men to date by how much they can provide for her brother and her, not on whatever sparks may - or may not - fly. But with Cameron MacCabe, the attraction is undeniable....

Dahlia McGuire likes her quiet life in Hartwell, Delaware. The small, friendly town is the perfect place to hide from her family and the tragic events that led to their estrangement. But when the person she loves most in the world, her father, needs her, Dahlia must return to Boston to face her ghosts. And that includes her ex-boyfriend's best friend, Michael Sullivan: the man she was never supposed to fall in love with.

Somehow, after everything they've been through, Jake Caplin and Charley Redford made their way back to one another. But finding each other and staying together are two completely different things.When Charley's world is flipped upside down, she begins to question the decisions she's made since her arrival in Edinburgh, and she believes that she must sacrifice her love for Jake to keep what she holds most dear.

I am Comet Caldwell. And I sort of, kind of, absolutely hate my name. People expect extraordinary things from a girl named Comet. That she’ll be effortlessly cool and light up a room the way a comet blazes across the sky. But from the shyness that makes her book-character friends more appealing than real people to the parents whose indifference hurts more than an open wound, Comet has never wanted to be the center of attention. When new student Tobias King blazes in from America and shakes up the school, Comet thinks she’s got the bad boy figured out.

It’s bad enough feeling different among the human crowd, but feeling different among wolves? No one said returning to her pack would be easy, especially after ten years without them, but 17-year-old Caia Ribeiro is unprepared for the realities of the transition. Raised in a world where kids aren’t scared by bedtime tales of the bogeyman but by the real life threat of enemy supernaturals who might come creeping into their community to kill them in their sleep, Caia is used to the darkness.

"Nicht schon wieder ein Bad Boy!" Als Shannon MacLeod zum ersten Mal Cole Walker sieht, weiß sie, dass Ärger in der Luft liegt. Cole ist an beiden Armen tätowiert, extrem selbstbewusst und heiß wie die Hölle. Und was noch schlimmer ist: Er ist ihr neuer Boss. Dabei sollte der Job als Assistentin der Anfang eines neuen Lebens werden. Ein Leben ohne Bad Boys, ohne Schmerz, ohne bittere Enttäuschungen. Shannon zeigt ihm die kalte Schulter. Womit sie nicht gerechnet hat, ist ein Mann, der es ernst mit ihr meint.

For Regan Penhaligon, there's no better place to run to than the exclusive Ardnoch Estate in the remote Scottish Highlands. Her impulsive behavior has finally caught up with her and Regan's visit with her sister, Robyn, is an opportunity to hide from someone who has grown dangerously obsessed with her. Determined to make amends for her mistakes, Regan plans to repair her relationship with Robyn by staying close. And when an offer of help comes from Thane Adair, Regan gratefully accepts.

Swept into the world of the Daylight Coven, Caia is caught between her loyalty to the Daylights and her new insight into the hearts of the Midnights. As more obstacles are thrown in her and Lucien's way, Caia is pushed further adrift from him and Pack Errante. With no one to turn to, Caia has to make the most difficult choice of all: Who does she truly belong with? The Daylights or the Midnights?

In the final installment of The Tale of Lunarmorte, Caia is caught between the most powerful beings in her world, and they are all desperate to use her for their own means. While Caia struggles to find her purpose, tragedy strikes close to home, and time runs out. Now she must decide if she will join the extremists she was trying to destroy...or bring them all down on her own terms....

What would you do if you were born to be a predator? Would you fight your natural instincts or give in to your nature? Eden is a soul eater closing in on her awakening. Her family has convinced her that soon she will have to take a life in order to save her own. It’s a decision Eden doesn’t want to deal with even as her hunger for souls grows stronger every day. To complicate her impossible position, new guy in school Noah Valois’ determination to befriend her puts Eden in touch with a humanity she’s never known. Addicted to his company, his friendship and affection, she becomes more and more terrified that giving into her hunger will mean losing him forever.…

In nur einer einzigen Nacht erlebte Hannah Nichols den Himmel auf Erden - mit Marco, ihrer großen Jugendliebe. Doch am nächsten Morgen war er verschwunden und ihr Herz gebrochen. Fünf Jahre sind seitdem vergangen. Trotzdem ist sie nicht darüber hinweggekommen. Hannah weiß nur eins: Sie wird ihm niemals verzeihen.

Da Shannon McLeod flytter til Edinburgh for at starte på en frisk, er hun fast besluttet på at holde sig langt væk fra mænd og dårlige forhold. Da hun møder Cole Walker, er hun overbevist om, at han netop er en af den slags fyre, som hun har utallige, dårlige erfaringer med: charmerende, kæk og fuld af tatoveringer. Og helt sikkert med en række af knuste hjerter i sit kølvand. Shannon afviser Cole kontant og utvetydigt, men jo mere hun lærer ham at kende, desto mere begynder hun at tvivle på, at hendes førstehåndsindtryk var korrekt.

Logan McLeod saß zwei Jahre im Gefängnis, weil er seine Schwester beschützen wollte. Jetzt ist er frei, hat einen guten Job und jede Menge Dates, die ihn seine Vergangenheit vergessen lassen. Auch Grace Farquhar weiß ihre neue Freiheit zu schätzen. Seit sie ihrer lieblosen Familie entkommen ist, genießt sie ihr Leben - wäre da nicht ihr neuer Nachbar Logan, dessen ausschweifendes Liebesleben sie jede Nacht um den Schlaf bringt.

So geht es nicht weiter! Erst wird Evie von ihrem Date versetzt, und dann erhält sie nicht die gewünschte Beförderung. Als sie im Internet auf die kleine Buchhandlung "Much Ado About Books" stößt, die sie als Urlaubserlebnis mieten könnte, ist dies wie ein Wink des Himmels für den Shakespeare-begeisterten Bücherwurm. Spontan bucht sie das Angebot und fliegt nach England. Die Bewohner des kleinen Dorfes empfangen Evie mit offenen Armen, und schnell findet sie Freunde. Vor allem der sexy Farmer Roane bringt ihren Puls zum Rasen.