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Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped between the life she is expected to live and the life she longs to lead, will Edna find happiness?

Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families. He is arraigned to be married to May Welland. Newland is pleased with the prospect, under he meets Countess Ellen Olenska, May's older cousin. Suddenly, Newland begins to doubt his arranged marriage and society's shallow rules as his attraction to Ellen increases.

Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her.

When a life-saving procedure gives Kimi a new lease on life, she and Rahul, the boy she befriended in her illness, must navigate their undeniable attraction, their lost friendship, complicated family dynamics, and a web of lies to learn the real meaning of courage, loss, and love.

Hockey player Ben Westmore has some serious skills--on and off the ice--and he's not above indulging in the many perks of NHL stardom. When a night in Vegas ends in disaster, he realizes two things: 1) it's time to lie low for a while, and 2) he needs a lawyer--fast. But the smoking-hot woman who walks into his office immediately tests all his good intentions.

There are a lot of things Ali Marshal doesn't do: pink anything, a day without chocolate, and Hawk, her sister's ex-husband. Sure, he's a sexy former NHL star who can make her pulse pound with just a wink. But he belonged to Bridget first. And no matter how long she's had a crush on him, how great he's always been to her dad, or that her sister is engaged to someone else now and Ali needs a date to their engagement party, she can't give in to temptation. Can she?

In 1812, when rugged English soldier Gabriel Forrester learns he has inherited a Scottish estate, he resists giving up the battlefield--until he meets raven-eyed Fiona Blackstock. But Fiona, like any good Highlander, despises the English. A battle of wills ensues--or is it a battle of passion?

Heiress to Seattle's most powerful shifter clan, Alice Corbette's destiny is set. But from the moment she encounters Brand, she will break every rule to make this dragon-shifter hers--plunging them into the middle of a ruthless power play.

For nurse Kayla Friday, Seattle is a place of eerie loss and frightening memories. Now the only clue to her sister's murder reveals a secret battle between two ancient mythologies--and puts Kayla in the sights of lethally sexy werewolf-mercenary Hart.

Brendan has it all-captain of the basketball team, good friends, a beautiful girlfriend and a loving family -- until he is diagnosed with leukemia. Terrified and convinced that no one understands what he is going through, Brendan faces chemotherapy alone, until he meets Lark. She is also in treatment, although her condition is much worse, and yet she remains positive and hopeful. Brendan is torn between feeling sorry for himself and the love for life that Lark brings to even the simplest thing. Through Lark, he discovers the strength to go on, to fight for survival and to love.