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Botanist Lily Strauss finds herself drawn to a neglected community garden in the heart of Chicago. With the help of her childhood friend Cathy and landscape architect Ryan Combs, Lily embarks on a mission to restore the garden to its former glory. As they work together, their shared passion for green spaces blossoms into a deep friendship and, eventually, a budding romance. But as they navigate the challenges of revitalizing the garden, Lily and Ryan must also confront their own vulnerabilities and past traumas.

In "Enlightening The Lady," the youngest Norrington, Sophia, longs for life's quiet joys, away from the season's clamor. Her retreat is a secluded stream, her solace found in books and quietude. But when Stephen, a viscount with a disdain for societal expectations, invades her sanctuary, they form an unexpected bond. As they share laughs and literary passions, Sophia's heart is drawn to possibilities she never dared to dream. But with her mother's ambitions and Stephen's aversion to marriage, their budding love faces a trial by society's gaze.

Für alle, die Cornwall und Liebesgeschichten lieben: Was macht man, wenn man seinen Job in der Windy City Chicago wegen noch windigerer Chefs verliert? Genau! Einen Urlaub in Cornwall! Das beschließt jedenfalls Sophie, nachdem das Schicksal ihr einen Aufenthalt in einem süßen Cottage am Meer ermöglicht. Voller Vorfreude macht sie sich auf den Weg, nur um feststellen zu müssen, dass das Häuschen bereits vermietet ist! Und zwar an einen arroganten Franzosen, der so charmant wie ein drei Tage altes Baguette ist! Lucien ist Pariser Spitzenkoch und braucht dringend eine Auszeit von allem.

Sir Callan Clanmor of Glenarchy has lost himself in war to forget a wife he does not love and douse the pain of love for another who can never be his. But as events unfold around him he is forced to confront both his memories and pain... The Old Woman of the Stones is a romantic fantasy novelette set in a fictional world comparable to fifteenth-century Scotland with mythic elements based in Scottish folklore.

I was heartbroken and oblivious the first time I met Warren Manning. I wasn’t a fan of country music, so I had no idea who he was. We had a brief but heartfelt conversation, and Warren left my life as quickly as he entered it. A few months later I discovered just how famous he was. It was cool that I had met him once, but I figured I would never see him again.

It started innocently enough with a harmless inquiry about a cute guy at a coffee shop. The goal was to get back into the romance game. The search turned into a social media frenzy. #DesperatelySeekingDane was not available. Talk about a buzzkill. Just when I thought things couldn't become more dramatic, a TV production company reached out to me as a last-minute contestant in a dating contest because of my five minutes of online fame. It was an instant yes because one of the three bachelors was a major movie star and my lifelong crush.

Beginning his second year as a tutor at the University of Eboracum, Dr Tom Frith is surprised to be paired as a ‘buddy tutor’ for a new member of staff. At first, Dr Rosie Tremaine appears staunchly independent, and even standoffish. But as Rosie and Tom navigate the trials and tribulations of life on campus, they soon become firm friends. Whether they’re investigating the shady practices of the new bursar or chasing down a rogue student suspected of being a Peeping Tom, university life is always full of surprises.

Falling in love with an officer is certainly worthy of Miss Mary Bennet's displeasure. Discovering it is her lack of dowery which stands in her way and not her own character or connections to trade is truly insupportable. Yet, how is such an obstacle to be breeched? And how is the Bennet family's wallflower to find love?

Ever since Kit Mathison took control of the modest estate he inherited, he’s had nothing but setbacks. When the roof of his house caves in and makes the place unlivable, he’s frustrated but not surprised. How much will this disaster cost? Where will he stay while repairs are made?

Mr. Bennet is dying. Can Elizabeth and her sisters find success and love in the midst of upheaval and sorrow? An urgent letter calls Elizabeth and Jane Bennet back to Longbourn from London. Mr. Bennet is dying, though Mrs. Bennet refuses to believe the terrible truth of his imminent demise. The master of Longbourn rests in the knowledge that his talented daughters will sustain the family when he passes.

When my brother’s best friend took me under his wing after my family was killed, the last thing I expected was to fall for him. He was older, more experienced—and to keep people from asking questions, he was also my fake stepbrother. Catching feelings for the man who’d become my protector wasn’t supposed to happen. Until it did. And he fell for me too. But I should have known better than to believe in fairytales. Because just six months after he proposed, Evan vanished into thin air.

Die Walforscherin Lilja kehrt für die Hochzeit ihrer Schwester nach vielen Jahren zum ersten Mal in das isländische Fischerdorf Akureyri zurück. Wie sehr sie die weite Fjordlandschaft ihrer Heimat und das magische Farbenspiel der Nordlichter vermisst hat! Doch der Ort hält auch schmerzhafte Erinnerungen und neue Herausforderungen für sie bereit: Kann Lilja das Erbe ihres Vaters bewahren, der kurz davor steht, seine Fischerboote an einen Großunternehmer zu verlieren? Dabei begegnet sie ausgerechnet Björn wieder, dem Mann, den sie wie keinen anderen geliebt hat – und wegen dem sie aus Island floh.

Only after his regiment is recalled to the Continent to fight the horrific battle of Waterloo does Captain Geoffrey Mantell at last see the truth: that Miss Emily Chandry, the unfortunate daughter of the miser next door, is more than his childhood playfellow. He comes back to England after the war to claim her hand, but he is too late—Emily is lost to him, the wife of a stranger who does not seem to care for more than her social connections. Reeling from this turn of events, Geoffrey must try to move on. But Emily's situation will continue to haunt him.

When Mabel Ryerson opens her social media to find a friend request from her grandmother, the seamstress’s simple life screeches to a halt. Grandma Betty died two years ago. Mabel suspects the old account must have been hacked. Still, curious to a fault, the thirty-something wants to go home to investigate. But her fiancé forbids it. Relations are strained among Mabel’s family, and her groom-to-be thinks it’s better that she focus on her new life, away from Prairie Creek and its memories and secrets.

When Isabel Cosgrove is informed by her father that he lost her hand in marriage while playing cards with Charles Galbraith—the gentleman she’s been admiring from a distance for years—she is filled with dismay. Charles Galbraith didn’t intend to become engaged as a result of a drunken wager at cards, but after the woman he loves spurns him, what does it matter whom he marries? But even Miss Cosgrove, the fiancée he won by wager, seems intent not to marry him—a fact that both relieves and piques him.

Cecilia Cosgrove’s beauty opens doors and hearts everywhere she goes. With a marquess courting her, the status and wealth her family is counting on her to obtain is finally within her reach—until she meets a French nobleman who immediately pegs her as affected and superficial. Poor émigré Jacques Levesque has been disguised as a French nobleman for almost as long as he can remember, trying his hardest to keep his head down in a society obsessed with rank and high birth. But when Cecilia Cosgrove comes into his life, he finds it hard to maintain his façade—or to want to.

Following her father's death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler reluctantly seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia's broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resists connecting with its inhabitants—especially Dusty Stoddard, the driven director of the Golden T's summer camp for at-risk youth. Karen is not the only one who has been wounded; Sophia, Dusty, and the boys have all suffered tremendous pain and loss.

After nearly ten years in the army, Hamish Campbell is ready to settle in and call a place home. His sights are set on Dalmore House, the Campbell family estate seized by the Crown after the '45 uprising. To have any chance at all of regaining it, he must not only find the money to pay off the estate’s debts but also persuade the man who has charge of it to relinquish the property into the hands of a Jacobite’s son.

The Honourable, excessively handsome, excessively wealth and perhaps a tad egotistical, Mr Malcolm is searching for a wife—but not just any wife. He's armed himself with a list of ideal qualities that his future wife will have to embody. After years of searching, he's beginning to despair of ever finding this paragon...until Selina Dalton arrives in town.

Someone wants Paige Bristow’s wolf sanctuary gone…and Paige dead. Officer Reece Campbell and his K-9 partner, Maverick, are the only ones she can turn to, but she never told him he was the father of her daughter. As the attacks escalate, Reece must uncover the perp and keep himself from falling for Paige all over again. But will the truth between them cost everything?