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Product: The Play (Briar U Book 3)
Description: A brand-new standalone novel in the New York Times bestselling Briar U series!

What I learned after last year’s distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. No more screwing, period. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate…no matter how hard that makes things.

But there’s nothing in the rulebook that says I can’t be friends with a woman. And I won’t lie—my new classmate Demi Davis is one cool chick. Her smart mouth is hot as hell, and so is the rest of her, but the fact that she’s got a boyfriend eliminates the temptation to touch her.

Except three months into our friendship, Demi is single and looking for a rebound.

And she’s making a play for me.

Avoiding her is impossible. We’re paired up on a yearlong school project, but I’m confident I can resist her. We’d never work, anyway. Our backgrounds are too different, our goals aren’t aligned, and her parents hate my guts.

Hooking up is a very bad idea. Now I just have to convince my body—and my heart.
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Product: Bad Boyfriend (Billionaire's Club Book 7)
Description: Kelsey Scott never wanted anything more serious than a hookup. Work triumphed all, men were simply trainable orgasm machines, and her friends and family were everything.

But with her brother's wedding rapidly approaching and matchmaking ensuing from all angles, she decided she needed a buffer from all the “perfect Mr. Rights,” the white tulle and frumpy bridesmaid dresses, and—ick—the heart-warming vows.

What she didn’t need was Tanner. Her ex. The only man who had ever managed to weasel his way into her heart.

And by typical male progression, the only man to break it.

She was done with men. And certainly done with boyfriends. But when she and Tanner got paired up as a bridesmaid and groomsman at her brother's wedding, Kelsey found it hard to remember all her steadfast rules.

Especially when Tanner made her long for all those heart-warming feels.
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Product: RUSH: A Tortured Bad Boy Friends-to-Lovers Romance (Men of Rapture Book 1)
Description: The first standalone novel in the Men of Rapture series.
A toke, a snort, the swivel of a glass bowl. A blonde, a redhead, a brunette.
They're all the same.
A distraction.
Playthings designed to keep me from drowning in despair.
Rapture is my stomping grounds. The place where all my depravity originates. It isn't that I want to live this way. It's that my normal life disappeared years ago. I'm a hollow man, trying my best to fight off the nothingness that threatens me every waking hour.
But one night, it all catches up to me.
I barge into her life like a criminal on the run, pleading for her to tend my wounds. The pretty vet across the back alley from Rapture is everything I'm not.
Smart. Talented. Driven.
Good.
She's out of my league, yet I don't want to let her go.
Friendship it is.
Or is it?
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Product: Bad Boyfriend: A Bad Boy Fake Romance (Bad For Me Book 1)
Description: He might be bad news, but he’s also the story she’s looking for...

After five years of wasting my Journalism Degree writing an advice column, my editor offers me my first real assignment.

Too bad I’ll have to work alongside a Private Investigator from out of town.

Enter Grayson Cole.

The broody and secretive bad boy who took my V-Card eight summers ago then broke my heart.

After years of hating Grayson for leaving without saying goodbye, now I’m the only person who can pose as his girlfriend.

Between the long hours working together and the public displays of affection, it’s getting harder to tell what’s real.

I need to walk away before history repeats itself.

But when Grayson shows up at my door in the middle of the night and tells me why he really came back...

What started out as fake, becomes dangerously real…
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Product: One Night Flame (A Briggs Town Series)
Description: How did I end up in bed next to my brother’s best friend?
A one-night fling turned into more than I bargained for…

Five years ago, I found my fiancé in bed with another woman.
And in one reckless night , I gave Noah my virginity.
The next morning, I left for New York City.

Now I’m back for my mother’s wedding… to his father.
After losing my job, I’m back in town for good.
And somehow, I’ve fallen back into the arms of the man I ran from.
The man I can’t stand, yet I can’t stop dreaming about.
My best friend’s brother.
How do I tell him I’m pregnant?

One Night Flame is a standalone, full-length romance with burning passion, twists, drama, and a HEA.
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Product: Bad Boyfriend: Bad in Baltimore Series, Book 2
Description: Causing trouble has never been more fun.

Eli Wright doesn’t follow anyone’s rules. When he was 17, his parents threw him out of the house for being gay. He’s been making his own way for the past five years and he’s not about to change himself for anyone’s expectations. For now, romance can wait. There are plenty of hot guys to keep him entertained until he finds someone special.

Quinn Maloney kept the peace and his closeted boyfriend’s secrets for 10 years. One morning he got a hell of a wake-up along with his coffee. Not only did the boyfriend cheat on him, but he’s marrying the girl he knocked up. Inviting Quinn to the baby’s baptism is the last straw. Quinn’s had enough of gritting his teeth to play nice. His former boyfriend is in for a rude awakening, because Quinn’s not going to sit quietly on the sidelines. In fact, he has the perfect scheme, and he just needs to convince the much younger, eyeliner-wearing guy who winks at him in a bar to help him out.

Eli’s deception is a little too good, and soon he has everyone believing they’re madly in love. In fact, he’s almost got Quinn believing it himself....
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Product: The Confessions Of A Bad Boyfriend
Description: Lily leaves her home in Kenya to go and study medicine in India as a beautiful, bright, and jovial girl with a bright future. She does not know the mess that awaits her in India in the name of a boyfriend. By the time Lily who is the daughter of a Kenyan tycoon comes back after 1 year, she returns on a wheelchair as a drop out with a broken hip. The Confessions of a Bad Boyfriend is the story of her adventures as told by her Indian boyfriend.
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Product: Play Boy: A Bad Boy Friends-to-Lovers Romance (Blue Collar Bachelors Book 2)
Description: He's my best friend. He's a player...And now, he wants me in his bed.

Charlie Hartley is the thing that addictions are made of. At least that's what I've heard from the parade of desperate women who've gone through his bedroom's revolving door.

Brash and unapologetic, tattooed and insanely handsome. I'm sure there's a Charlie Addicts Anonymous meeting taking place somewhere in the great state of Illinois as we speak.

I've become really good at keeping him at arm’s length and keeping my silly crush under control. After all, it's a skill I've been perfecting since the first time he stood up to a bully for me back in the 8th grade.

But when he offers to escort me to my 83-year-old grandmother's wedding, I start seeing him in a new light. Maybe there's more to him than that smoking hot body and those playful, flirtatious eyes.

Now, we're growing closer, crossing lines, shattering boundaries. I've strutted out of the friend zone and straight into his bed.

But that's perfectly fine because I'm a tough girl. I can manage a juvenile, little crush. And there's no chance that a guy like Charlie will start catching feelings for me.

One drunken night of hot sex won't change our friendship...Will it?

Play Boy is a steamy, laugh-out-loud, friends-to-lovers romance set in small town Illinois. It is book 2 in the Blue Collar Bachelors series.

Play Boy is a full-length (60 000-word) romantic comedy standalone. No cheating. No cliffhangers. HEA guaranteed.
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Product: 101 So Bad, They're Good Dad Jokes
Brand: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Product: Empath: A Complete Guide for Developing Your Gift and Finding Your Sense of Self
Brand: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Product: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love
Brand: Tarcherperigee
Color: White
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find-and Keep-Love
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Product: Dad Jokes: Over 600 of the Best (Worst) Jokes Around and Perfect Holiday Stocking Stuffer (World's Best Dad Jokes Collection)
Brand: Sourcebooks
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Product: Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater
Brand: Flatiron Books
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Product: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin
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Product: I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends
Brand: Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central Publishing
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Product: Bad Boyfriends: Using Attachment Theory to Avoid Mr. (or Ms.) Wrong and Make You a Better Partner
Description: This book is intended to be a practical guide to using the modern science of attachment and relationships to guide the questioning toward a more fulfilling life.

If you were brought up in the Western world, you've been trained on fairy tales of love and relationships that are misleading at best, and at worst have you making mistake after mistake in starting relationships with the wrong kinds of people who will waste your time and keep you from finding a loyal partner. Science has the answer! Or at least a guide to save you the time and effort of discovering for yourself how many wrong types of romantic partners there are.

Reading this book will help you recognize the signs of some of the syndromes that prevent people from being good partners. We'll go through those syndromes and point out some of the signs. Those little red flags you sometimes notice when you are getting to know someone? Often they speak loud and clear once you understand the types, and you can decide immediately to run away or approach with caution those who show them.

This book outlines the basics (which might be all you need), and points you toward more resources if you want to understand more about your problem partner. If you're wondering if the guy or girl you've been hanging out with might not be quite right, this is the place to match those little red flags you've noticed with known bad types. And by getting out fast, you can avoid emotional damage and wasted time, and get going on finding someone who's really right for you. Study all of the bad types and you'll detect them before even getting involved. Or you could be one of the few people who recognizes their own problems in one of these types. There are study materials and plans of action for you, too. If you've had lots of relationships and they all seem to go wrong, the common factor is you! Your task is to make yourself into a better partner - a goal that even the most evolved of us can always work toward.
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