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F the Fairy Tale: Rewrite the Dating Myths and Live Your Own Love Story
by Damona HoffmanFrom a popular dating coach and podcast host, a guide to dismantling the myths that get in the way of finding love Does dating feel like you&’re chasing a &“happily ever after&” that always seems out of reach? You&’re not alone: many modern daters are stuck following old rules, hung up on ideas like instant chemistry and &“the One.&” In F the Fairy Tale, love expert Damona Hoffman helps readers break free of those dating myths—and write their own love stories. Drawing on nearly twenty years of experience as a dating coach, Hoffman reveals the four pillars of strong relationships: goals, values, communication, and trust. And she doesn&’t just tell readers what to do or not to do—she explains why, exploring the psychological and societal factors behind our behavior to help us break free of old habits for good. F the Fairy Tale gives you the tools to create the happy ending to your love story that&’s just right for you.
Fa-La-La-La Faking It (Comfort Paws #3)
by Teri WilsonIt&’s beginning to look a lot like kiss…er…Christmas!Matchmaking services as a Christmas gift? No thank you! It&’s bad enough that, to save her grandmother's feelings, Adaline Bishop fibs and says she&’s seeing someone. It&’s worse when Jace Martin, her grade school crush turned nemesis, volunteers that he&’s the someone. Now Adaline will have to fake it until Jace&’s flannel-shirted, piney-scented goodness leaves town in a couple of weeks.Jace would like to make up for his past transgressions and for his elderly uncle&’s meaner-than-the-grinch behavior during Adaline&’s therapy dog visits. In the spirit of peace and goodwill toward all, Jace will happily be her fake boyfriend. It&’s just that what began as a lie as big as Texas is starting to feel like the magic of a Christmas wish come true.From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.A Comfort Paws RomanceBook 1: Dog Days of SummerBook 2: Fa-La-La-La Faking It
Fable for the End of the World
by Ava ReidThe Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything. By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks.When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she’s had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother she might stand a chance of staying alive.For Melinoë, this is a game she can’t afford to lose. Despite her reputation for mercilessness, she is haunted by painful flashbacks. After her last Gauntlet, where she broke down on livestream, she desperately needs redemption.As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, both girls begin to question everything: Inesa wonders if there’s more to life than survival, while Mel wonders if she’s capable of more than killing.And both wonder if, against all odds, they might be falling in love.
The Fabric of Our Souls
by K. M. MoronovaI'm twenty-six years old and I want to die.Waking up-alive-in the hospital with my brother weeping over me is the moment that everything changes. He has me committed to Harlow Sanctum, an unusual rehabilitation center with unorthodox methods and a storied past. There, I meet my roommate, a man with cruel eyes and a sense of humor even more morbid than my own. We're strangely drawn to each other.I crave death-he craves life.Can two people like us cure each other?Note: please check CW before reading.
The Fabric of Our Souls
by K. M. MoronovaTwo troubled souls find solace in each other at a rehabilitation facility in this spellbinding dark romance sizzling with angst. I&’m twenty-six years old, and I want to die. So when I wake up at the hospital with my brother weeping over me, I know my life is about to change. What I didn&’t expect was to get a nurse with cruel eyes and a morbid sense of humor that surpasses my own. I&’m even more surprised when I arrive at Harlow Sanctum and realize that my brother selected an unorthodox rehabilitation center that rooms people based on their treatment plan. And my roommate is none other than the man with cruel eyes I met the day prior. I crave death—he craves life. Can two people like us cure each other?
Fabricant de jeu (Prescott #2)
by Mignon MykelC’est un joueur de hockey à la réputation préétablie – en partie à cause de son nom et en partie à cause de son temps de jeu. Elle n’a jamais trouvé un foyer où elle pouvait laisser tomber ses défenses... ...bienvenue dans le combat de ta vie, Porter. Porter Prescott a passé sa vie à lutter pour se faire un nom dans le sport où sa famille brille, mais, le jour même où il part jouer pour une équipe sans lien avec le nom de sa famille, il la rencontre… et se demande soudainement s’il y a autre chose dans la vie que de sortir de l’ombre de sa famille. Asher Spence a appris toute sa vie qu’elle ne pouvait compter que sur elle-même et, encore là, on pouvait échouer. Puis, elle le rencontre et il fait renaître l’espoir en elle… en lui offrant enfin un foyer. Cependant, après une vie de chagrin et de regret, Asher ne peut s’empêcher de s’inquiéter que tout pourrait s’écrouler du jour au lendemain. Lutte. Et quand ce n’est pas assez ? Accroche-toi à la vie. Inclut l’histoire complète de Porter et d’Asher : Fauteur de troubles, L’échappée, Altercation et Retenue !
Fabricante de lágrimas
by Erin DoomLlega el nuevo fenómeno literario que ha arrasado en Italia.El libro más viral de los últimos años: Fabricante de lágrimas. En el orfanato en el que Nica creció, siempre se han contado historias y leyendas a la luz de la vela. La más famosa de todas es la del fabricante de lágrimas, un misterioso artesano culpable de haber forjado todos los miedos y las angustias que habitan en los corazones del ser humano. Para Nica ya es hora de dejar atrás los cuentos de la infancia y vivir lo que para ella es un sueño hecho realidad: ser adoptada. Pero no cumplirá su sueño sola ya que la familia adoptiva acogerá también a Rigel, un niño de rostro angelical pero que oculta algo oscuro en su ser. Aunque ambos compartan un pasado en común, la convivencia entre ellos parece imposible. Sobre todo, cuando la leyenda vuelve a aparecer en sus vidas y el fabricante de lágrimas se convierte en algo muy real. Fabricante de lágrimas es una dark romance trepidante y adictiva que deja huella.
A Fabulous Creature
by Zilpha Keatley SnyderFifteen-year-old James has just discovered the magnificence of nature—but can he protect it from the phoniness of the material world?When his academic-minded parents decide to forsake civilization for a wilderness summer in the Sierra Nevada mountains, James Fielding figures he&’ll be counting the minutes until it&’s over. But in the woods one day, he comes upon a magnificent deer and becomes fascinated by its majesty and beauty. Then he meets two very different girls. Thirteen-year-old Griffin Donahue is &“pure and free and beautiful.&” Diane Jarrett is a tanned, &“hot-pink-bikinied&” goddess. Griffin is at one with nature. Diane is slumming at the nearby exclusive camp, with its decadent luxury and A-list guests. When these two worlds collide, threatening the existence of the stag, James embarks on a quest to find a friend who&’s gone missing—and to save a life.This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
A Fabulous Husband
by Dianne CastellThe Colonel Has a Surefire Prescription for the Doctor Dr. Barbara Jean Fairmont desperately wants a baby in her life. Being forty and single, though, her hopes for adoption are fading fast. So when old high school flame Colonel Flynn MacIntire comes back to town, his career on hold unless he can get physically fit, and prescribes a mutually convenient marriage -- she'll nurse him back to active duty and he'll become her husband so she can adopt a child -- she's willing to give this antidote to her baby woes a try. Except... The colonel's prescription has unforeseen complications. Flynn soon loves Dr. BJ Fairmont as much as his army life, and BJ, in spite of knowing Flynn's great love of the military, wants to keep her fabulous husband in her life. Now what do these two do?
A Fabulous Wedding
by Dianne CastellHer Second Chance After a health scare leaves Dixie Carmichael shaking in her cowboy boots, she puts her deli job on the back burner and pursues a lifelong dream of becoming an ace reporter. Ready to make a flaming statement about her brand-new outlook, she hustles on over to the hair salon -- only to trip over Whistlers Bend's newest stranger and the hottest story in town. His First FBI agent Nick Romero has seen far too much action, and he knows the feisty, curvaceous woman with a talent for playing detective could get herself hurt. The longer he's undercover, the more he needs her help. But what he really needs is to convince her the big city isn't the place to be, that she should stay in Whistlers Bend, Montana, with him and give him his first -- and fabulous -- chance to settle down.
A Fabulous Wife
by Dianne CastellAs a Chicago cop, staring down a gun barrel had never fazed Jack Dawson, but it was more than his wife Maggie could bear.
A Fabulous Wife
by Dianne CastellThey Had Their Differences As a Chicago cop, staring down a gun barrel had never fazed Jack Dawson. But his being in constant danger was his wife's undoing. About a decade was all Maggie could handle before she left him for the safety of a Montana rancher's life. Now Jack's going to visit her, and he's accepted the fact that after his son's graduation ceremony he'll turn around and go home -- alone. At least, that's the plan until Jack sees his ex. Never one to be predictable, Maggie is not just thirteen years older since their divorce, she's better -- more of a knockout than ever. And Jack wouldn't say no to having fabulous Maggie as his wife all over again. But what about those differences? Will they matter the second time around?
Faça um pedido
by Stefania Gil Ju PinheiroLeah e Jonathan estavam realmente apaixonados. Noivos e planejando o futuro casamento. Mas um dia, ao chegar em casa após uma longa jornada, Leah descobre que Jonathan e toda sua família foram embora sem dar qualquer explicação. Deixaram apenas um vazio que ironicamente estava cheio de incógnitas que jamais conseguiu resolver e uma tristeza que parecia querer acompanhá-la por toda a vida. Ela decide se mudar para a grande maçã acreditando que esta cidade a ajudaria a começar do zero. Mas não. Todos os anos, na mesma época em que tinha acontecido tudo, Leah revivia cada momento daquele sofrimento. Era um luto que vivia ano após ano desde a partida misteriosa do seu noivo com toda sua família. Com o passar dos anos, compreendeu que em nenhum lugar do mundo encontraria a felicidade e decide voltar para Arlington. Ela precisava voltar para suas raízes e encontrar uma maneira de colocar um ponto final neste passado tão amargo que a seguia por todos os lados e não deixava que ela fosse feliz. É durante a mudança, quando sofre um acidente que lhe dá a visão que ela tanto procurava e então ela o encontra. Seu amor, finalmente, após tantos anos e por um segundo fugaz, ela o vê. Ela o reconhece e em um piscar de olhos, ela o perde de novo. Será a imaginação de Leah, movida pelo amor, que evoca a imagem de Jonathan? Ela terá de se resignar a nunca encontrar respostas e cederá a proposta de ser feliz que Ryan oferece? Ou ela tem razão e seu amado Jonathan volta para ela após todos estes anos para retomar o que o destino os obrigou a interromper?
Facade (The Games Series #2)
by Nyrae Dawn"Phen-om-enal! Nyrae Dawn paints with words in a way that made me drink Facade down in one big gulp. This is one of those books you can read again and again." --New York Times bestselling author, Courtney Cole on FACADE.From bestselling author, Nyrae Dawn, comes Book 2 in her New Adult, Games Series!Can love save them? After her father commits a crime that shatters her family, eighteen-year-old Delaney Cross is tired of pretending everything is alright. Packing up her car, she sets out to find the people her father hurt. Her search leads her to places she's never been--and into the arms of Adrian Westfall. To the outside world, Adrian is a sexy, charming ladies man. But his playboy persona is just an act. Secretly his soul is tortured by a memory too painful to share. Only Delaney seems to see through his façade to the real man underneath. And for the first time in his life, Adrian feels he can begin to open up about his past.Together, Adrian and Delaney share a passionate, carefree love they never expected to find. Yet both still harbor their own secrets. When the dark truth is finally revealed, will it bring them closer together, or tear them apart forever? 70,000 words.
Facade
by Zahra Owens...totally held my attention with its complex, organized plot, with its depth of characterization and, last but not least, its heart-stoppingly gorgeous sex scenes. Zahra Owens has done an exceptional job of developing the characters of these two men, plus a cast of secondary characters, against a complex and riveting plot. 5 of 5 Stars Carole @ Rainbow ReviewsJonas Hunter is a high-class body for hire with a small, exclusive, mostly male clientèle who pay big bucks for his undivided time and attention. Discretion is Jonas's middle name—he can play his role to the hilt for the client's benefit and at the same time disappear seamlessly into a crowd, safely anonymous.He's persuaded to take on a new client who is everything he despises in a man: the effeminate, tantrum-throwing, attention-seeking bad boy of Paris haute couture named Nicky Bryant. Nicky's shows are outrageous and always good for a front cover, and his appearance never fails to turn heads. But Jonas soon learns Nicky is a carefully maintained façade himself.As a fiery attraction grows, Jonas and Nicky have to find a way to walk the tightrope between their public and private personas. They'll need to learn to love and trust each other around the other people in their lives if they're going to share their hearts.
Façade: The Games Trilogy 2 (The Games Trilogy)
by Nyrae DawnIf you adore Jamie McGuire's Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster you'll love THE GAMES trilogy. BOOK 2 in THE GAMES trilogy. No one knows who twenty-one year-old Adrian Westfall is behind his façade. After what he's done, he deserves to live alone with his pain, even if he'd do anything to forget. Anything for a moment of quiet without his past haunting him.Eighteen year-old Delaney Cross wants nothing more than to absolve her family from her father's sins. To keep her suicidal mom off that ledge, and help her brother Maddox get the light back in his eyes. She thinks their road to freedom is through Adrian.Adrian and Delaney are bound together by tragedy... Only Adrian doesn't know it. As their lives intertwine, they find a solace in each other they never knew existed. Laney knows she needs to tell him-to come out from behind her smoke screen, but to say the words could mean losing him.Two people. Two disguises. True love. Will it be enough to save them when all secrets are bared?
A Façade to Shatter: A Facade To Shatter Never Underestimate A Caffarelli Marriage Made Of Secrets A Hint Of Scandal (Sicily's Corretti Dynasty #3178)
by Lynn Raye HarrisThe forgotten daughter of a Sicilian dynasty meets a handsome veteran with a painful past in this dramatic and sensual international romance.Air force veteran Zack Scott wakes from nightmares to the echo of gunfire. Suddenly, he finds himself not in his fighter jet but at a black-tie party in Sicily, serving a tour of duty as a Senator’s son. Confused and distressed, he rages against the soft caress of Lia Corretti, the young woman sweetly showing him pity. For years the forgotten Corretti has hidden her pain behind a façade. So Lia recognizes the shadows in Zack’s eyes. But the alluring heat she feels between them is unlike anything she’s experienced before. Can these two guarded souls lower their defenses long enough to find a lasting connection?
The Face
by Angela HuntBorn Without a Face...Orphaned and severely deformed, from her earliest moments Sarah Sims has been kept hidden away in a secret CIA facility-until an unexpected discovery gives her an opportunity to make a life for herself at last.Now Sarah has an ally, a long-lost aunt who has discovered her true identity. Aided by this brave psychologist, twenty-year-old Sarah must find the courage to confront the forces that have confined her for so long. And the strength to be reborn into a world she has never known.
Face
by Joma WestIn Joma West's Face, Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame.How much is your Face worth? Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs have the perfect Face—rich and powerful enough to assure their dominance in society.But in Schuyler and Maddie’s household, cracks are beginning to appear. Schuyler is bored and taking risks. Maddie is becoming brittle, her happiness ever more fleeting. And their menial is fighting the most bizarre compulsions.In Face, skin color is an aesthetic choice designed by professionals, consent is a pre-checked box on the path to social acceptance, and your online profile isn’t just the most important thing—it’s the only thing.An Amazon Editors’ Pick! A Polygon Most Anticipated Summer Read!A Buzzfeed Best Book of August!A Chicago Review of Books Must Read!At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Face The Fire: Number 3 in series (Three Sisters Island #3)
by Nora RobertsMia Devlin knows what it's like to love with all your heart - and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared a bond built on passion, legend and fate. Then one day Sam fled Three Sisters Island, leaving Mia determined to live without love. Now Sam has returned, with hopes of winning back her affections. Angry, hurt and deeply confused, Mia refuses to admit she still has feelings for him. But she will need his help - and his powers - to face a terrifying challenge. There is only one chance left to save the island from a centuries old curse. Mia and Sam must find a way back to each other again - or lose everything.
The Face Man (Long Con Adventures #6)
by Amy LaneTorrance Grayson has forged a solid independent journalism career with help from his friend and mentor, Felix Salinger, and he's relished being the face of the Salinger crew, exposing the corruption of the powerful while keeping his friends safe in their anonymity. But being face to face with the worst in the world takes its toll, and when Tor has a moment of weakness, it's the Salingers who come to bail him out. During his recovery, Tor makes friends with the household's confident, charismatic young chef, Marco. Their quiet conversations make Marco more and more reluctant to confront Tor on the grave mistake the man is about to make in his current exposé—a mistake that can harm Marco's loud, boisterous family irrecoverably. Tor is more than willing to listen—and to correct any mistakes. He's seen graphic proof that he's not infallible, and he'll go to any lengths to avert tragedy. But as Tor works toward the truth of what's happening with Marco's family, Marco begins to develop deep suspicions about the people they both work for. Torrance Grayson is in deep with the Salingers, and Marco isn't sure he should know any more than necessary about people who seem to be great bosses but shady citizens. In order to help Marco, Tor needs to trust him—and that means to trust him with the truth of the Salinger Crew, as well as with his heart. But in a world of capers and crimefighting, trust, it appears, is worth more than gold and jewels. Tor can expose crime and injustice with impunity, but can he expose his heart to Marco, a man who desperately wants in?
Face of Danger (The Guardian Angelinos #3)
by Roxanne St. ClairePrivate investigator Vivi Angelino loves living life on the edge, but stepping into the shoes of a movie starlet to bait a serial killer isn't just a thrill . . . it's a ticket to the big time for her fledgling security firm. That is, as long as a certain risk-averse FBI agent stays out of her way-and out of her fantasies.Assistant Special Agent in Charge Colton Lang isn't above using his well-worn rulebook to stop Vivi's latest walk on the wild side. But when they learn her client is involved in something far more insidious than bad acting, Vivi and Colt must work together despite the electrifying attraction arcing between them. For each new clue is bringing them closer to a high-profile crime with a dark and deadly truth at its core . . . and a cold, calculating murderer with nothing left to lose.
Face of Danger (Texas Ranger Justice)
by Valerie HansenAs a forensic artist and a Texas Ranger team up to catch a killer, their growing connection is threatened by deadly danger in this romantic suspense novel.Giving murder victims a face is forensic artist Paige Bryant’s specialty. She can always put the pieces together. But her work turns dangerous when Texas Ranger Cade Jarvis brings her a special project related to the notorious Lions of Texas. Identifying the victim could help with the ongoing search for the murderer of Cade’s boss . . . yet it also draws deadly attention to Paige. As Cape protects her through an escalating series of attacks, the two of them draw closer together, learn to open their hearts . . . and struggle to identify the face of danger before it’s too late.
The Face of Deceit
by Ramona RichardsHer parents had been killed before her very eyes, though Karen O'Neill could barely remember that childhood horror. Now an art buyer is dead and Karen's famous face" vases are being shattered. What about the vases led to the cold-blooded killing? Art expert Mason DuBroc believes the clues are in the clay. That the creepy face Karen molds is motive for murder. Has someone recognized himself in her work? Karen must know something she shouldn't. Something her subconscious has held on to for years. And something a crazed killer will do anything to keep buried. . . with Karen.
The Face of Deception: The first Eve Duncan novel (Eve Duncan #1)
by Iris JohansenAn unidentified skull...A trail of terrifying secrets...And a woman whose talented hands could reveal the shocking truth...As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan helps identify the dead from their skulls. Her own daughter murdered and her body never found, the job is Eve's way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts work from billionaire John Logan. Beneath her gifted hands a face emerges from the skull he has given her to reconstruct--a face no one was ever meant to see. Now Eve is trapped in a frightening web of murder and deceit. Powerful enemies are determined to cover up the truth, and they will make certain that truth goes to the grave...even if Eve gets buried with it.From the Paperback edition.