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Bea can’t believe her luck when handsome and well-heeled Jake spots her at a bar, a meeting that which blooms into coupledom, and soon …
For the past ten years, Kaya has lived with her adopted brother, Wes, in a compound called Attica, with no memory of her past …
It may claim to be set in contemporary Vienna, but this novel reverberates far more with hotels–and their staff—from years ago. Visitors arrive at …
Harriet is a mess. She has just been fired from her job at HUMANS magazine (think People, with more scandal) and is forced to …
In an unlikely combination of coming of age, family saga, gay romance, and cold-case mystery, we have Mikey (what almost 30-year-old is still called …
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