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The Kissing Quotient

A heartwarming and refreshing first novel that proves one factor: there is not sufficient knowledge on the planet to foretell what’s going to make your coronary heart race.

Stella Lane thinks math is the one factor that unites the universe. She gives algorithms to foretell buyer purchases – a job that has earned her extra money than she is aware of what to do with and much much less expertise within the courting service than a mean 30-something.

It does not assist that Stella has Asperger’s Syndrome and French kisses remind her of a shark getting its enamel cleaned by a pilot fish. His conclusion: it wants quite a lot of observe, with knowledgeable. That is why she hires an escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner cannot afford to show down Stella’s provide and agrees to assist her tick all of the packing containers on her lesson plan – from foreplay to greater than missionary place…

Earlier than lengthy, Stella not solely learns to understand his kisses, but in addition to crave all the opposite issues he makes her really feel. Their no-frills partnership is beginning to have a wierd which means. And the sample that emerges will persuade Stella that love is one of the best logic…

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Deliver down the duke

A shocking debut for writer Evie Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels, wherein the daughter of a fiercely impartial vicar confronts a duke in a fiery romance that threatens to upend Britain’s social order.

England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the sensible however destitute daughter of a rustic vicar, has earned a spot among the many first cohort of scholars on the well-known Oxford College. In change for her scholarship, she should help the rising motion for girls’s suffrage. His mission: to recruit males of affect to defend their trigger. His goal: Sebastian Devereux, the chilly and calculating Duke of Montgomery who directs British politics below the orders of the Queen. Her problem: to not give in to the highly effective attraction she can’t deny for the person who opposes all the things she represents.

Sebastian is dismayed to find {that a} staff of suffragists have infiltrated his ducal family, however the true menace is his inconceivable emotions for green-eyed magnificence Annabelle. He seeks a spouse of equal rank to safe the legacy he has labored so exhausting to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who might by no means be his duchess. However he would not be the Kingdom’s biggest strategist if he could not declare that alluring bluestocking with out the promise of a hoop… or might he?

Locked in battle with rising ardour and a will to match her personal, Annabelle will be taught what it takes to overthrow a duke…

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twice shy

Can you discover real love when your head continues to be within the clouds?

Maybell Parish has at all times been a hopeless dreamer and romantic. However dwelling in your individual world has lengthy been preferable to coping with the disappointments of actual life. So when Maybell inherits an enthralling house within the Smokies from her great-aunt Violet, she takes the chance to make a recent begin.

But when she arrives, it appears her troubles have solely simply begun. Not solely is the home collapsing round her, however she’s not the one heiress: she has to share all the things with Wesley Koehler, the grumpy but good-looking gardener – and it seems he has a very completely different imaginative and prescient of the way forward for the property.

Convincing the taciturn Wesley to cease avoiding her and compromising is a extra daunting activity than the opposite dying needs Nice Aunt Violet left behind. However when Maybell discovers one thing surprisingly candy beneath Wesley’s furrowed brows, and because the two slowly start to let their guard down, they may be taught that typically the smallest steps exterior of his consolation zone can result in larger ones. rewards.

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discover pleasure

As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Pleasure Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he has actively prevented for many of his life. For Desta, the capital of East Africa encompasses among the happiest and saddest elements of his life – his first house and the place the place his father died. When an unavoidable work obligation brings him there for twelve weeks, he can lastly get an opportunity for the closure he so desperately wants. What Desta did not anticipate was to get a glimpse of his future as he reconnects with the gorgeous nation and his household’s previous.

Elias Fikru by no means got here throughout a possibility he did not take. Besides, after all, for the life-changing one he is stubbornly ignored for the previous 9 months. It will be silly to not settle for the possibility to proceed his doctoral research in america, however saying sure means leaving his native nation, and Elias just isn’t able to make this dedication.

Assembly Desta, the Dominican-American rescue employee with the straightforward smile and unhappy eyes, makes Elias need issues he by no means imagined for himself. Rediscovering his nation by means of Desta’s eyes encourages Elias to goal for a future the place he may be open to each a part of himself. However when one thing threatens the longer term inside their attain, Elias and Desta should put all the things on the road for love.

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