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Gentle Fox is a small-town romantic suspense with a sexy dimple silver fox hero and a woman on the run from her wicked step family. One phone call changed everything. Some people believe in love at first sight, but can you fall in love with a voice? It only took one conversation for me to know I would do anything for the woman on the other end of the phone. Annalee was desperate to start over in Willow Creek. At least that’s what she told me when inquiring about the receptionist’s position for my company. So when she doesn’t show for her interview, I know something has to be wrong.

The crumbling Gothic mansion of Thornwalk, long-term home of the Gilbert family, is being handed over to a chain of luxury 'historic' hotels. Millions will be spent in its restoration. But for every 'improvement', what will be lost? What value can there possibly be in a threadbare carpet, a tarnished spoon and a thousand empty jam jars? Before the hotel people arrive, with their clipboards and their skips and their bottles of bleach, Maximus, loyal guardian of the Gilberts' legacy, invites us on a final tour of the once-stately home, where each room holds a secret.

Used to be, the family bar was hopping until last call every night. Now? If the bank doesn't take her away from me in the next two months, it'll be a miracle. All because some fatcat politician thought building a new highway would earn him a few more votes. The last thing I need? A firecracker who has curves in all the right places and a smart mouth, telling me what to do to save my own damn bar. I can do this alone; except I recognize the pain I see in those moss-colored eyes. Sure I don’t need any help, but it seems like she does.

Hierhin flüchtet sich Marketingexpertin Cornelia, als ihr Leben in Stockholm ins Schleudern gerät. Die Inselbewohner beharren darauf, Cornelia in ihre Gemeinschaft zu integrieren. So findet sie in der flippigen Lollo eine gute Freundin und durch den alten Ture ein neues Zuhause. Die sonst so verschlossene Cornelia taut langsam auf und stellt sich den neuen Herausforderungen.

Die Pfarrerstochter Luise träumt davon, das Fliegen zu erlernen. Gegen alle Widerstände gelingt es ihr, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen und Pilotin zu werden. Als die Nazis an die Macht kommen, muss sie die Fliegerei aufgeben und kehrt nach Franken zurück. Hier ist plötzlich alles anders: Alle schweigen, ganz egal, was passiert.

Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.

When Elara flees corporate life to open a coffee shop in the small southern town of Fairhaven Falls, the last thing she is looking for is a relationship. But when she meets Grondar, the gruff orc owner of the bakery next door, sparks fly. Literally. Grondar has been burned by human females before. He has no intention of letting the feisty little female next door get under his skin—no matter how attractive he finds her. And it certainly doesn't mean he's going to let her get away with sabotaging his business.

Harriet Main moves to the beautiful coastal town of Rivers End with a heavy heart. The bookstore she’s opening on the idyllic main street is a small distraction from the pain of her recent divorce, and the guilt over failing her daughter Olive when she needed her most. When Harriet finds an anonymous old diary in a collection of books donated to the store, she’s shocked when the donor refuses to take it back, wanting nothing to do with the tragic book.

Journalist Sadie is home for the first time in fifteen years, staying in her small childhood bedroom as she deals with her estranged father’s death and her surprising inheritance. When Sadie meets Rebecca, the reclusive new owner of the solitary cottage at the edge of nearby Whisper Lake, she’s taken aback by the older woman’s request for help: ‘I need to find my family. Will you help me?’. She’s even more surprised when afterwards, Rebecca acts as if she never made the plea.

Isolated farmer Ernie Bowles was found lying on his kitchen floor, gruesomely strangled. News of the murder came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning and he fears this case will not be simple. In his experience, most murders are straightforward: an explosion of family pressure, the loss of control in a fight. But Bowles seems to have kept himself to himself and had lived alone since his mother’s death. A seemingly unconnected women is then found strangled too, surely two such killings in the same locality are more than just chilling coincidence?

In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for 15 days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being Roy's wife.

An ailing farmer in rural Iran unearths an extraordinary find: two parsnips, grown together and looking for all the world like entwined lovers. For now, the sublime treasure is his secret. Wrapping it in a silk handkerchief, he nestles it away in a dresser drawer. Day after day, he gazes at their unmistakable rapture, reminded of the long-gone youthful passions he once shared with his wife. So, too, he mourns the inevitable - the eventual decay of the parsnips in love. When he decides to share his discovery with the world, his life and the lives of those around him connect and change.

I’ve had a crush on Dylan St. Clair ever since he climbed into my bedroom window ten years ago. Wrong window, Romeo. I was eleven. He was seventeen. A bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks with a chip on his shoulder and fresh bruises from his latest fight, he went on to play the starring role in all my teenage fantasies. But I always knew he was off-limits. So, over the years, I gave up wishing and hoping we could ever be together. Until he kissed me on a cold beach one starry winter’s night.

Emery Blackwood's life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. She'd once dreamt of running away with August, eager to escape the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and chase new dreams together. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence among this tight-knit community steeped in folklore and tradition, ruled by the seasons and ancient superstitions.

When Pixie Sampson's husband tragically dies, she inherits the beautiful Château Quiltu in Brittany, Northern France. But unbeknown to her, she also inherits a mysterious lodger, Justine Martin and her four-year-old son, Ferdie. Heartbroken and with her adventurous mum, Gwen, in tow, they travel to France to put the château on the market but are soon drawn into a quest to seek the château's secrets. Who is Justine? Why is she living at the château? How did she know her husband?

Calla Fletcher was two when her mother moved them both from the Alaskan wild to Toronto, leaving their extreme, rural lifestyle - and Calla's father - behind. But when Calla receives a call from her father with unexpected news, she makes the long trip back to the remote town where she was born. There, she meets Jonah: a quiet, brooding, proud Alaskan pilot who is convinced that before long, he will be flying a pampered city girl back to where she belongs. And whilst he is probably right, Calla is determined to prove him wrong.

1977, un soir de fête nationale dans un village du Cantal. Deux jeunes femmes débarquent en plein bal. Brunhilde et Mariella, deux Allemandes nimbées de mystère. Très vite, leur présence suscite fascination et méfiance au sein de la communauté paysanne. Retrouvant, au fil de son enquête, les lieux et personnages familiers de son enfance, Pauline Clavière restitue d'une plume magistrale la beauté et l'atmosphère d'une région hors du temps.

All Ellie ever dreamed of was the perfect vacation. Ellie Barrett’s first glimpse of the island resort is everything she dreamed when she planned her long-awaited tropical getaway—sun, sand, and miles of brilliant aquamarine water. She’d made it! Two whole weeks to explore paradise. What could possibly be better? Perhaps an athletic man in board shorts with a body to die for and a pair of stunning blue eyes? On her first evening, she meets William. Intelligent, amazing to talk to, and hot as sin, he’d never be interested in her, but it didn’t mean she couldn’t enjoy the view while it lasted!

In the charming coastal town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Kimmy is on the cusp of adolescence, dreaming of a summer filled with first love and unforgettable experiences. It's only the beginning of summer break and Kimmy is already bored, but things quickly turn when tragedy unexpectedly hits her best friend's family. Kimmy's world is shaken to its core, forcing her to navigate complex emotions and unexpected challenges that will forever change her perspective on life.

The brooding club owner next door just offered me a place to stay. There’s only one problem… He’s my best friend’s older brother. One busted pipe, and my life turned upside down. Now I’m living in Ethan Monroe’s loft—the small town’s most rugged, frustratingly unreadable man. He’s all broody silence, late-night playlists, and smoldering stares. I’m sticky notes, oversized cardigans, and coffee-fueled chaos. We don’t make sense. We shouldn’t even work. But the way his voice drops when he says my name? It sends my heart racing in all the wrong ways.