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"All you need to do is--pretend to love me." The task should be easy for Laura Parker--after all, Gabriel Santos is outrageously good-looking, it's for one night only and he is offering her a million dollars.

Family was everything. Control was everything else. So when Lucas Demarco discovered he shared custody of his orphaned niece, he was determined to change the situation at once. Especially since the baby's aunt, Devin Hartley, despised all the Demarcos. Yet he'd underestimated Devin's devotion. She believed he only wanted the baby as part of a family power play. But Lucas had their niece's best interest at heart. Convincing Devin of that fact wouldn't be easy. Especially when his desire for her was out of control--and about to turn them from enemies into lovers.

He rescued hostage Talia Burke from his royal family's rival tribe and swept her into his strong embrace. But Prince Harres Aal Shalaan soon discovered there was more to the brave beauty than he knew. Talia held information vital to protecting his beloved kingdom, and she had every reason not to trust him.

The prim Paige Barnes becomes entangled with Russian prince Alexei Voronov, who happens to be her boss' biggest rival. Alexei has designs on laying bare Paige's business secrets--but the handsome prince never expected passions to ignite and cause his little game to spin out of control.

Cecilia is obsessively in love with her teacher, Mr. Dahl. Yet she never guesses that what she dreams of could actually happen. Cecelia's mother Dora wants the good life. She and her husband moved to Dartmoor so their children could run wild; free to make their own mistakes. But Dora discovers that there is more to the countryside idyll, and indeed her own marriage, than she assumed.

Fourteen years ago, Jinx's mother was brutally stabbed to death in their East London home. Haunted by this tragedy, Jinx is surprised one day when her mother's friend Lemon appears at her door. Over a tension-filled weekend, the two recount and examine this tragic event, each searching for a path to redemption.

After a personal tragedy, writer Ava spends the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee at the invitation of an old friend and his aunts. But Woodburn Hall is anything but quiet: ancient feuds and modern-day rivalries emerge as Ava stumbles onto the darker side of the family's history, and becomes tangled in their secrets.

A young woman goes missing, and her mother uproots her life to find her daughter. But it is not just the heartbreak or the deep mystery of the hunt for lost loved ones. Rather, with the help of an amazingly dedicated searcher, family and friends somehow learn to move past unspeakable horror and celebrate the tenacity of the human spirit.

First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in America. Larsen, a premier writer of the Harlem Renaissance, captures the rewards and dangers faced by two negro women who pass for white in a deeply segregated world.

Marie Charles' party-girl days come to a screeching halt with a DWI arrest and a totaled Jaguar. Sentenced to 500 hours of community service at a local women's shelter, her only bright spot is a fellow volunteer, TV star Devon Harris. But Devon wants nothing to do with Marie and her selfish ways--until her work at the shelter has her turning over a new leaf.