February 2017 list by J. Yaka
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It Started with a Kiss
by Marina Adair
With a kidney transplant behind her, Avery Adams is determined to channel her inner adventurer and explore everything life has to offer. Only problem is, the closest she’s ever come to a real-life adventure was sixth-grade science camp. So to seize the summer in her rustic Sierra Nevada town, she takes a job as a guide at the local adventure lodge. But Avery doesn’t realize her biggest challenge will register at six-plus feet of rugged good looks and alpha-male charm.
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A Note Yet Unsung
by Tamera Alexander
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with A Lasting Impression follows the efforts of master violinist Rebekah Carrington to convince a skeptical conductor and his possessive mistress that women are not too frail for the rigors of an orchestra.
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Someone to Hold
by Mary Balogh
Declared illegitimate and without a title, Camille Westcott leaves London to teach at the Bath orphanage where she meets artist Joel Cunningham with whom she shares a mutual contempt until her sittings with him take a passionate turn. By the New York Times best-selling author of Someone to Love.
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| Rules of Contact by Jaci BurtonGold-diggers are part of the deal when you're Flynn Cassidy, the San Francisco Sabers defense end and budding entrepreneur. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to find a woman who wants Flynn for himself and not for his fame or his money. The notable exception is his new restaurant's head chef, Amelia Lawrence. But Amelia, still reeling from an ugly divorce, has no plans to get involved with anyone -- especially not her boss. Fans of sizzling sports-themed romances (such as Bella Andre's Bad Boys of Football series) should enjoy this 12th Play by Play novel. |
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The Duke
by Kerrigan Byrne
A nurse by day, but a fallen woman and a spy by night, Imogen Pritchard is thrown back together with the Duke of Trenwyth, the man who seduced her on the job years ago, and is forced to play a dangerous game for both her heart—and her life.
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One More Kiss
by Samantha Chase
MATT REED IS HIDING ...from his fans ...from his past ...from a failure too painful to contemplate
VIVIENNE FORRESTER IS A WOMAN WHO GIVES HER ALL ...to her friends and family ...to her online food blog ...to the man she loves
Vivienne will try anything and everything to coax Matt out of his self-imposed exile. But for this to work, Matt is going to have to meet her halfway...
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My Fair Duchess
by Megan Frampton
Receiving orders for his most challenging mission yet—turning Genevieve, Duchess of Blakesley, into a perfect duchess—Archibald Salisbury, son of a viscount and war hero who is proficient in the proper ways of aristocratic society, is unable to concentrate on business when she entices him towards pleasure.
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Into the Fire
by Jeaniene Frost
When an enemy finds a way to use his new bride, the beautiful Leila, against him, vampire Vlad Tepesh must find a way to break the spell that links her to a powerful—and deadly—necromancer who is determined to turn everyone against them and tear them apart..
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Devil in Spring
by Lisa Kleypas
Strong-willed Lady Pandora Ravenel meets her match in Gabriel, Lord St. Vincent, one of London's most notorious—yet irresistible—rakes.
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Sinful Scottish Laird
by Julia London
Widowed and forced to remarry in three years' time or forfeit her son's inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick, has plenty of suitors vying for her hand…and her fortune. But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young son to her Scottish Highland estate to buy time for his return. Along the way she encounters the powerful Cailean Mackenzie, laird of Arrandale and a notorious smuggler, and she is utterly—though unwillingly—bewitched.
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A Million Little Things
by Susan Mallery
Finding herself completely alone after a breakup and the birth of her best friend's baby, Zoe Saldivar emerges from isolation only to stumble into a series of wacky relationships. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Friends We Keep.
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Starlight Bridge
by Debbie Mason
The second novel in a contemporary romance series set in Harmony Harbor.
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Paws for love : A Novel for Dog Lovers
by Dana Mentink
There's no quiet on the set when over-the-hill screen star Lawrence Tucker brings his naughty terrier, Jellybean, on location to the beachside town of Albatross, California. When Jellybean develops a rapport with Tucker's violin tutor, the painfully shy, socially awkward Misty Agnelli, her arm is twisted into minding the obnoxious animal. Trailing Jellybean leads Misty into the candy store of Bill Woodson, a handsome chocolatier with a painful secret and a three-year-old niece to raise. Misty must deal with the unstable Tucker, a temperamental Jellybean, her budding feelings for the mysterious Bill, and the high-pressure atmosphere on the set.
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Close Enough to Touch
by Colleen Oakley
A young woman with a rare and debilitating allergy to other humans is forced to venture out into the world after the death of her abandoning mother before forging an unusual bond with a struggling single dad. Book-club materials available online.
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Starting Over on Blackberry Lane
by Sheila Roberts
Stefanie has a husband with renovation ADD. He can't seem to finish anything he starts and her house is littered with his "projects." Her friend Griffin is suddenly single and thinking about selling her fixer-upper to follow her career up the ladder of success, even if that ladder is across the country. Getting her place ready to sell proves harder than she originally thought. She needs help. She's not the only one. Cass, their neighbor, has an empty nest with a leaking roof. When her ceiling crashes in, she knows it's time to do something. When Grant Masters offers his handyman services at a fund-raiser auction, the three women go in together to outbid the competition and win their man. (Cass's friends think she should win Grant in a different way, too!) Now it's time to make some improvements…in their houses and their lives.
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The Inheritance
by Rochelle Alers
Four friends from very different backgrounds find new beginnings amid the sultry beauty of New Orleans.
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Breathless
by Beverly Jenkins
A highly respected manager of one of the finest hotels in Arizona Territory, Portia Carmichael refuses to get involved with the wrong type of man until Kent Randolph, an old family friend, rides into town determined to win her trust—and her heart. By a USA Today best-selling author.
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| My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas The illegitimate daughter of an English adventurer and a Chinese courtesan, Bai Ying-ying -- a.k.a. Catherine Blade -- grew up unwanted and unloved in Chinese Turkestan; to survive she became a martial arts expert and a spy. During an undercover mission that takes her into London society, she encounters her former lover, Leighton Atwood. Eight years ago, she left him to die in the Takla Makan Desert after he betrayed her. Not only is he alive and well, he's just become engaged to another woman. This discovery complicates matters, to say the least. Readers interested in the couple's (rather tumultuous) history should check out The Hidden Blade, a full-length prequel to this novel. |
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