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This is the story of Isobel and Emile. They wake up beside each other one morning, and they slowly get out of bed. It is the last time that they will sleep together. They know it. They do not want it to be the last time but they know that it is. They get out of bed and they go to a train station. Emile gets onto a train. Isobel does not. She stands on the platform and she watches him go. He is going to the city, where he will be an artist. He will make puppets, and films of puppets, that struggle to say something he does not have the words for.

A passionate love story unfolds between two young men in the 1930s in this "wildly sexy" New York Times bestseller and its two sequels (The Advocate). The Peter & Charlie Trilogy-with its explicit sex scenes and positive affirmation of coming out-is "one of gaydom's great guilty pleasures" (The Advocate). All three groundbreaking works of gay fiction are collected here, including The Lord Won't Mind, which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for sixteen weeks. The Lord Won't Mind: Charlie Mills wants to be a good boy.

Now in one volume: The complete historical romance saga-from the Scottish Highlands to the Court of Versailles-by an international-bestselling author. The Macdonald Romances collection brings together two Scottish tales of passion, intrigue, and love by Evelyn Anthony. Clandara: It's unthinkable-but beautiful, headstrong Katharine Fraser has fallen in love with the eldest son of her father's longtime enemy. Notorious nobleman James Macdonald of Dundrenan is ready to sacrifice all for the woman he loves.

Three love stories set against great American landscapes in an acclaimed series by a New York Times-bestselling author and "romance legend" (Publishers Weekly). With more than 300 million books sold, Janet Dailey is an icon of American fiction. In a romantic tour of the United States, the first lady of romance wrote fifty novels, one set in each state. The three enchanting installments of the Americana Series included in this collection tell heart-soaring tales of love and desire in Alabama, Alaska, and Arizona.

What sort of woman has a taste for middle-aged, married men' Ellie, twenty years old and living in Paris, leads a light and carefree life until she meets "Mister"-a married surgeon approaching middle age. Beginning with their frenzied affair in a hotel room in the fifteenth arrondissement, Monsieur details the clandestine Tuesday morning hotel meetings and fleeting phone calls spanning several months of sexual adventure.

A disaster in a Michigan mining town throws a close-knit community into chaos in this novel from an Edgar Award-winning author. The small mining town of Thor is nestled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. Its only source of income is the two ore mines-one to the east, one to west-that its citizens cling to for security. Then, one calm day, the town's routine is shaken. One of the mines collapses, and five men are trapped underground. They are the only survivors in the wake of the tragic accident.

An uncertain bride looks for love with a man as wild and mysterious as his Highland home in this new Scottish romance from a USA Today-bestselling author. Ordinarily, Lady Fiona Ormiston wouldn't think of forming an alliance with an ungroomed, barbaric Highlander, despite the protection he offers. But now, by request of the king, Sir Adham MacFinlagh, a brazen stranger and outsider unlike anyone she has met before, is to be her husband.

When jaded and overworked Los Angeles literary agent Daniel Ashe hires Annie Doherty, an Irish dog walker, he's simply looking for someone to care for his dogs so he can focus on landing a dream client and save his career. He certainly doesn't expect to come home each night to find Annie has left him a new and fantastical story about the secret lives of his dogs'or that she's cast him, a man who doesn't believe in love, as a romantic hero.

Beast Charming tells the story of Beauty, who works as a temp at an agency run by a high-tempered dragon. To avoid running into her conniving and desperately-craving-for-nobility father-conveniently named Noble-she takes on a peculiar job that will force her to converse with a violent beast named, well, Beast. The rest of the story develops into a hysterical tale of a classic fairy tale romance gone modernly awry.

At Café Hex, Samantha Henderson can imagine being the person she really wants to be. It's her place to daydream about going to art school and getting away from her politician father. It's her place to imagine opening herself up to a new kind of connection, away from her family and the drama of high school. Enter X-the boy she refuses to name. He's older, edgy, bohemian...'n short, everything she thinks she needs. Her family and friends try to warn her that there may be more to him than she sees, but still she stays with X, even as his chaos threatens to consume them both.