A mystery and contemporary romances

love on the mind

A STEMinist romantic comedy by which a scientist is pressured to work on a venture together with her nemesis, with explosive outcomes.

Like a vengeful, purple-haired Jedi bringing stability to the inhuman universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a easy code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA supplied her the management of a neuroengineering venture – a dream come true after years spent on faculty crumbs – Marie would settle for with out hesitation. Uh. However the mom of recent physics by no means received to co-lead with Levi Ward.

Positive, Levi is engaging in a giant, darkish, and piercing manner. And positive sufficient, he caught her in his powerfully roped arms like a romance novel hero when she by accident received damsel in misery on her first day on the lab. However Levi made his emotions for Bee very clear in grad college – sworn enemies work greatest in their very own galaxies far, far-off.

Now his gear is gone, the employees ignore him, and Bee finds his profession in bother. It may be her occipital cortex taking part in tips on her, however Bee may swear she will be able to see Levi softening into an ally, supporting her performs, seconding her concepts… devouring her with these eyes. And the chances make all his neurons explode. However when it comes time to get transferring and put your coronary heart on the road, just one query issues: what is going to Bee Königswasser do?

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You had me at Hola

RITA ® Award-winning writer Alexis Daria brings readers an unforgettable and hilarious romantic comedy set within the dramatic world of telenovelas, excellent for followers of Joan the Virgin And The Kissing Quotient.

The Main Girls do not find yourself on tabloid covers.

After a messy public breakup, cleaning soap opera sweetheart Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed throughout the tabloids. When she returns to her hometown of New York to movie the lead in a bilingual romantic comedy for the nation’s primary streaming service, Jasmine thinks her new “Main Girl Plan” ought to be straightforward sufficient to observe – till till a solid shakes-up the couple with telenovela observe Ashton Suárez.

The main girls doyou do not want a person to be glad.

After his final telenovela character is killed off, Ashton fears his profession can also be useless. Becoming a member of this new solid as a last-minute addition will give him the prospect to indicate off his appearing chops to American audiences and ping the radar of Hollywood casting brokers. For this to work, he’ll must generate some smoldering on-screen chemistry with Jasmine. Simpler mentioned than finished, particularly when a dire first impression smothers any embers of sexual heat they could have had.

The Main Girls aren’t bouncing round with their new costars.

With their careers on the road, Jasmine and Ashton conform to rehearse privately. However repetition results in kissing, and kissing results in behind-the-scenes cleaning soap opera romance. As their on-screen performances enhance, the media highlight on Jasmine quickly threatens to destroy her new picture and expose Ashton’s best-kept secret.

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The Violin Plot

HELLO AMERICA BOOK CLUB CHOICE! • Ray McMillian is a rising black classical musician, undeterred by the stress and prejudice of the classical music world—when a stunning theft sends him on a determined quest to get well his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the world’s most prestigious music competitors.

“I liked The Violin Plot for precisely the identical causes I liked The Queen’s Wager: a startling, fantastically rendered underdog hero I cared deeply about and a captivating, unforgiving world I knew nothing about — on this case, classical music. —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Occasions bestselling writer of The stewardess And witch’s hour

Rising up as a black man in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. However Ray has a present and a dream: he’s decided to grow to be a world-class skilled violinist, and nothing will stand in his manner. Not his mom, who needs him to cease racketeering; not the truth that he can’t afford a violin suited to his skills; not even the racism inherent on the planet of classical music.

When he discovers that his outdated household violin is definitely a priceless Stradivarius, all of his goals instantly appear inside attain, and collectively Ray and his violin take the world by storm. However on the eve of the well-known and ruthless Tchaikovsky Competitors – the Olympics of classical music – the violin is stolen, a ransom of 5 million {dollars} left as a substitute. With out it, Ray seems like he is misplaced part of himself. Because the competitors approaches, Ray should not solely retrieve his prized violin, however show to himself – and the world – that regardless of the result, there has all the time been a really nice musician inside him.

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Meet me within the margins

Savannah Cade is a low-level editor at Pennington Publishing, a prestigious writer producing solely probably the most scholarly titles. And when modifying the final version of Anthology of medieval didactic poetry possibly her day job, she has two secrets and techniques she hides.

Un: She’s writing a romance novel.

Second: she found the E book Nook, a secret room within the publishing home the place she finds inspiration for her “lowbrow” interest.

After leaving her manuscript behind one afternoon, she returns to the nook to search out that somebody has written notes within the margins. Savannah’s first response to criticism is defensive, however occasions happen that pressure her to confess that she wants that shadowy editor’s assist in spite of everything. Because the notes take a romantic flip and Savannah’s loopy life turns into extra sophisticated than ever, she makes use of the method of elimination to establish her mysterious editor – solely to search out out that what she actually needs and what she ought to simply possibly not need the identical factor. Melissa Ferguson’s newest – a love letter to books, readers and romance – will go away followers laughing out loud and fainting in the identical breath.

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