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The Bother with Hating You

Amusing-out-loud romantic comedy debut about first impressions, second probabilities, and discovering the love of your life in probably the most surprising method.

Liya Thakkar is a profitable biochemical engineer, takeout fanatic, and fortunately single girl. The second she realizes her dad and mom’ newest feast is a setup with the person they need her to marry, she’s out the again door in a flash. Think about her shock when the identical man reveals up at her workplace per week later — the brand new lawyer employed to save lots of her struggling firm. What’s not shocking: he’s not too thrilled to see her both after that humiliating fiasco.

Jay Shah seems good on paper…and off. Particularly should you like that entire beautiful, charming lawyer-in-a-good-suit factor. He’s additionally smug and infuriating. As their witty workplace banter turns into late evening chats, Liya begins to suppose he may be the one man who actually accepts her. However falling for one another means exposing their painful pasts. Will Liya preserve operating, or will she lastly give love an actual probability?

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The Different Miss Bridgerton

She was within the flawed place…

Fiercely impartial and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will solely wed a suitor whose eager mind and pursuits match her personal. Sadly, not one of the fools from her London season qualify. Whereas visiting a pal on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly shocked to find a smugglers’ hideaway tucked inside a cave. However her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her certain and gagged on the captain’s mattress…

He discovered her on the flawed time…

Identified to society as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew James Rokesby truly transports important items and paperwork for the British authorities. Setting sail on a time-sensitive voyage to Portugal, he’s shocked to discover a girl ready for him in his cabin. Absolutely, his creativeness is getting the higher of him. However no, she could be very actual—and his responsibility to the Crown means he’s caught along with her.

Can two wrongs take advantage of good proper?

When Andrew learns that she is a Bridgerton, he is aware of he’ll seemingly should wed her to avert a scandal—although Poppy has no thought that he’s the son of an earl and neighbor to her aristocratic cousins in Kent. On the excessive seas, their disagreement quickly offers solution to an intoxicating ardour. However when Andrew’s secret is revealed, will his declaration of affection be sufficient to seize her coronary heart…?

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A Spy within the Battle

The Washington Publish Featured Thriller That Will Have You On The Edge Of Your Seat
Bustle’s Most Anticipated Reads for December
Ebook Riot Featured Hispanic Heritage Month Ebook
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“A passionately felt stand-alone with an affecting private story at its heart.” – The Washington Publish

Winner of the Worldwide Latino Ebook Award, Aya de Leon, returns with an exciting and well timed story of feminism, local weather, and company justice—as one profitable lawyer should resolve whether or not to place all the things on the road to proper the deep inequities confronted in a single under-served Bay Space, California group.

Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has cast her need to flee poverty right into a laser-like focus that took her by means of prep college and Harvard Regulation. So when her prestigious New York legislation agency is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save lots of her profession—and goes to work for the Bureau. Quickly she’s despatched undercover at Pink, Black, and Inexperienced—an African-American “extremist” activist group again in her California school city. They declare a biotech company fueled by Pentagon funding is exploiting the neighborhood. However Yolanda is decided to place this task in her win column, head again to company legislation, and regain her comfy life…

Till an surprising romance opens her coronary heart—and a suspicious loss of life opens her eyes. Menacing darkish cash forces will do something to bury Yolanda and the motion. Fueled by reminiscences of who she as soon as was—and what as soon as actually mattered most—how can she inform those that’ve come to belief her that she’s been spying? Because the stakes escalate, and one misstep might value her life, Yolanda must select between betraying the reason for her individuals or invoking the wrath of the nation’s strongest legislation enforcement company.

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A Duchess in Title

Victoria Carson by no means anticipated love. An American heiress and graduate of Girl Grantham’s ending college, she’s been groomed since start to marry an English title—the grander the higher. So when the person chosen for her, the forbidding Earl of Dunnley, appears to hate her on sight, she understands that it may well’t matter. Love can haven’t any place on this association.

Andrew Hargrave has little use for his title and even much less for his chilly, disinterested dad and mom. Decided to make his personal method, he’s dedicated to his life in Italy working as an archaeologist. Till the collapse of his household’s fortune drags him again to England to a wedding he by no means needed and a girl he doesn’t care to know.

Wild attraction is an undesirable complication for them each, although it kinds probably the most fragile of bonds. Their marriage of comfort isn’t so insupportable in spite of everything—however it might not be sufficient when the deception that certain them is lastly revealed.

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