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My ex is sold at an auction. Next thing she knows, I buy her as my wife. She thinks I left her because of our age gap, that I’d been playing her. But I had to protect her from my dark Bratva world. I won’t make that mistake again. This time, I’ll buy her from the auction stage. This time, I’ll make her my wife, willingly or not. She’s been broken and neglected too many times. She’s been captured, mistreated, and sold off like a product. I’m the only one who can see behind her mask, who can touch her vulnerability. I’m the only one who will bring down the heavens to lay them ...

Dinner is served - with a little something on the side. A Brooklyn wife is too sharp to allow her husband’s wandering eye to get the best of her in this witty short story of a dinner party with a delicious comeuppance. Eleanor and Jonathan have joined a few of their most irritating best friends for an intimate catered gathering. Through all the intellectual chatter, Eleanor’s on watch. Jonathan has already confessed to wanting an open marriage, and tonight, Eleanor has decided to accommodate him. Just not quite the way he expects.

We were lovers once, then enemies. Now I have to marry him for an alliance. He never told me he was with the Bratva. When I found out, it was already too late. Our love was forbidden, and he became my enemy. It broke me, and he grew cold. Now I'm forced to marry him and give him my plus-size curves for the sake of my family. He's the only man I ever gave myself to, raw and vulnerable. After he became my enemy, my heart was never quite the same. Now I'm forced to walk down the aisle as he inspects me with his cold eyes. He makes it clear that I'll obey him, that I'm his alone. He controls my...

The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America," Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn is a classic of postwar American writing. Selby's searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is as fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as it was when it was first published more than fifty years ago. This explosive, transgressive best-seller created shock waves upon its release in 1964 with its raw, vibrant language and startling revelations of New York City's underbelly.

Tony Carter built an empire on blood money—controlling the city’s drug trade with ruthless precision while hiding behind the facade of a legitimate real estate developer. He has everything… Power. Wealth., Connections to a dangerous cartel. Everything except control over the one woman who controls his heart. The only person in the world with the capability to destroy him!

One passionate night with an irresistible alpha shattered all my inhibitions. I never thought I’d see him again, but I just found out he’s a doctor… and my new boss. And I have a secret he can never know about… Dr. Luke Jennings—a renowned neurosurgeon and billionaire—exudes magnetic charm. We met at a bar and shared an unforgettable night. But our connection abruptly ended, leaving me devastated. Seven years later, a twist of fate brings us back together when I discover I’m his new medical assistant. I can’t deny the electricity between us, but he’s off-limits—much ...

In the heart of Chicago, recently widowed forty-five-year-old Angie Sortino finds herself at a crossroads. After she discovers that her deceased husband has left her penniless, Angie's spirited niece, Gina, and Gina's best friend, Kim, approach her with the idea of starting a catering company targeting funeral parlors. Angie embarks on this new venture, discovering the challenges of the catering business.

"A gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel . . . Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special." —Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is...

Daddy’s best friend bought me like a commodity…and knocks me up. He’s a ruthless billionaire and almost 20 years older than me. When my family’s business spirals into bankruptcy, I am sold at an auction. That’s where he takes his chance…to make me his wife whether I want to or not. I grew up innocent and sheltered, never thrust into their dangerous world. But suddenly I’m sold and forced into a marriage to protect my family’s status. A marriage with a cold and intimidating billionaire. A marriage that is surely only for show…or so I thought. Because my new husband demands ...

Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It’s a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. Every day Iona, a...

One grieving heiress. One guarded single father. One unforgettable summer in New Orleans. Philip doesn’t do messy. At forty-one, he’s a disciplined consultant, a devoted single dad, and a man who believes control keeps life predictable until a deathbed promise pulls him to New Orleans to save a failing family business. The plan is simple: fix the books, honor the promise, go home. Then he meets Melissa. At twenty-five, Melissa is drowning in grief. Her father is gone, her family’s coffee empire is crumbling, and the weight of legacy rests squarely on her shoulders. She doesn’t need ...

Para comemorar seu aniversário de quarenta e três anos, Tati decide organizar uma festa em seu apartamento, na rua Maranhão, em Higienópolis, bairro nobre de São Paulo. Durante a celebração, ela recebe uma mensagem preocupada de uma amiga contando que errou o endereço e foi parar em "um lugar medonho": o Largo do Maranhão, no Tatuapé, bairro onde Tati cresceu. O pavor da amiga desencadeia em Tati uma crise de pânico, o que a obriga a deixar a sala, os convidados e a certeza momentânea de seu pertencimento de classe...

I was never supposed to be his wife. When my perfect older sister flees her arranged marriage, my father shoves me in her place—offering me up like a pawn to Dario Costa, the most feared Mafia Don in Philadelphia. Cold, ruthless, and eleven years my senior, he takes one look at me and sees nothing but a broken substitute. A wife unworthy of him. He refuses to annul the marriage but makes his stance clear—this will never be real. No love. No future. Just a one-year arrangement to save his reputation. But the more I push, the more possessive he becomes. The more I fight, the harder he ...

I’m Natasha Resnova. The miracle child. The one who lived when doctors said I wouldn’t. The one who hides behind a camera instead of facing my violent bloodline. The Resnov bratva thrives on brutality. I survive in stillness. Until one photo puts me in the path of Lachlan MacKenzie—Dodger’s star batter and son of a Scottish crime boss. Lach sees me. The broken parts. The girl behind the blood-soaked legacy. Then he appears, and everything unravels.

When Abbie and Tom cross paths traveling home after a night out, their eyes meet across a crowded carriage and their connection is unmistakable. What they don't know is that moments later they will both be caught up in an event that will change them forever. It's one that will bring them together. But it will also tear them apart. A lot can happen in seven seconds. A lot can happen in seven years. Can they find their way back to each other?

NOW A LILLY'S LIBRARY PICK! "The most heartfelt read...a surprising delight of a novel."--Shondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb. Widower...

One masked night. One earth-shattering release. One big damn mistake I never stopped craving. Four years ago, I let a stranger ruin me… Now, he’s my captor—and the only man who ever made me feel alive. He says I belong to him. That I should be grateful he’s the one keeping me safe. But his protection feels more like a cage. My body remembers him. Every inch. Every sin. I swore I’d never fall for a man like him. But when I find out I’m carrying his child—the heir to his bloodstained empire—it’s not just my heart on the line. It’s my life. Because The Commission wants ...

An aspiring artist gets a seven-figure offer that could change her life forever in this provocative and surprising short story of a woman torn between saying yes and saying no. Alicia could do a lot with a million dollars. But what’s she willing to do for it? Her top client, a billionaire hedge fund manager, has made a very intimate business proposal. In the world of finance, it’s just another transaction, right? An efficient supply-demand exchange. At least that’s what Alicia tries to tell herself.

The Bratva King forces me into marriage to make me his little pawn. He's fifteen years older than me, and he wants revenge on my family. So he orchestrates a fire, “rescues” me, and then forces me to sign the papers. Now I'm his wife. How much longer until he takes my virginity? I'm the good girl—sheltered and careful all my life. When I meet him in the dark corners of a club, I want to forget the rules for once. I didn't know he's my family's biggest enemy, that he's here to kidnap me. And that once he has me, he'll use me as he likes. He's a ruthless Pakhan, and Pakhans take ...

“'Fake' is great fun, offering a peek into a world of glitz that most of us will never glimpse firsthand." —Washington Post From the author of The Boys’ Club, a gripping novel set in the high-stakes world of art forgery that moves across the globe, from the trendy art galleries of...