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With her newly completed PhD in astronomy, twenty-six-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls trip to Las Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever who is not the kind who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know, until she does exactly that. As reality comes crashing in, Grace must face the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal, and the need for connection in the messiness of adulthood.

Eve, the flightiest Brown sister, finds it's time to grow up and prove herself, even though she's not entirely sure how. But when she crashes into the life of Jacob Wayne, an uptight B&B owner, she has him falling hard, literally. Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to "help." Before long, she has infiltrated his work, the heat between them is impossible to ignore, and it might just be melting Jacob's frosty exterior.

"Position Vacant: Two old women residing at Providence Retirement Villa seek male assistant for casual exploitation and good-natured humiliation. The salary is generous, how hard could the job be?" Well, none have lasted longer than a week. Most boys leave in tears. Ruthie Midona works in Providence's front office, and if she can run the place well, she has a shot at being the new manager. Then Teddy Prescott arrives in town. Ruthie knows how this sweetly selfish rich boy can earn his keep-and be out of her hair in under a week. After all, there is a position vacant.

When a scandalous murder shocks London high society, seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seizes the opportunity to prove herself, despite the interference of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the stern young heir to the prestigious firm Pemberley Associates. Convinced the authorities have imprisoned the wrong person, Lizzie vows to solve the murder on her own. But as the case, and her feelings for Darcy, become more complicated, Lizzie discovers that her dream job could make her happy, but it might also get her killed.

Maeve loves her job at a senior care center. Gage, who works with Maeve's brother-in-law, loves Maeve with all his heart. But as they grow closer, both sense they haven't been forthcoming about their pasts.

Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, and move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine. So when Clementine deviates from their master plan right after Waylon gets dumped, he creates an audition tape for his favorite TV drag show. What he doesn't count on is the tape getting accidentally shared with the entire school. So Waylon and Hannah decide there's only one thing to do: run for prom court.

Kara Sullivan, bestselling romance novelist, has a deadline looming and she hasn't written a single word. When her infuriating first love, Ryan Thompson, suddenly appears, his arrival sparks a creative awakening in Kara. With her deadline getting closer, Kara knows there's only one way for her to finish her book and to give her characters the ever-after they deserve. But can she embrace the unlikely, ruggedly handsome muse in order to save her career and, just maybe, write her own happy ending?

Nothing will stop Madeline Moore from taking over her family's independent bookstore after college. Nothing, that is, until a chain bookstore called Prologue opens across the street and threatens to shut them down. Madeline sets out to demolish the competition, but the guy who works over at Prologue seems intent on ruining her life. Not only is he taking her customers, he has the unbelievable audacity to be extremely cute.

Makeda Hicks has lost her job and her girlfriend. The last thing she's in the mood for is the story of her grandmother's infamous summer fling with a runaway prince from Ibarania, or the investigator from the World Federation of Monarchies tasked with searching for Ibarania's missing heir. Yet when Beznaria Chetchevaliere crashes into her life, the sleek and sexy investigator exudes exactly the kind of chaos that organized and efficient Makeda finds irresistible, even if Bez is determined to drag her into a world of royal duty Makeda wants nothing to do with.

Kit Webb has left his thieving days behind him, but when a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop needing his help, Kit realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this man desires.