Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through-and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can&# ... |
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Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships-at least, that's what she tells herself. Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It's how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips ... |
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Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange again... Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It's clear from the way he tracks Misery&# ... |
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The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig-until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite ... |
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Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious Kingkiller Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. Nolan's loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone. What's even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to ... |
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Under One Roof. An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell-a detestable big-oil lawyer who won’t leave the thermostat alone. Stuck with You. A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry-and love-to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator. Below Zero. A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station and the only person willing to undertake the dangerous rescue mission is her longtime rival. From the New York Times bestselling author of ... |
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Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia - Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the ... |
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When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive on her way to a happily ever after was always going to be tough, scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting woman, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and well-known ass. ... |
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Мизъри Ларк, единствената дъщеря на най-влиятелния вампирски съветник на Югозапада, отново е заложник. Животът ѝ сред хората, блажената ѝ анонимност - на всичко това баща ѝ слага край. Призована е да изпълни дълга си и да продължи вековна традиция, крепяща крехкия мир между вампирите и техните заклети врагове - върколаците. И друг изход няма - младата жена отново трябва да остави съдбата си в чужди ръце. Върколаците са непредсказуеми и безмилостни. А техният алфа, Лоу Морленд, не прави изключение. Глутницата му се подчинява безпрекословно, а той я води с твърда ръка. Но за разлика от вампирския съвет, ... |
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Многото лица на физика теоретик Елзи Ханауей най-накрая я застигат. През деня тя е асистент, който се труди върху оценяването на лабораторни упражнения и преподава термодинамика с надеждата да получи титулярно място в Масачузетския технологичен институт. Вечер младата жена компенсира липсата на заплата, като се представя за фалшиво гадже. Занимание, което ѝ се отдава, понеже с годините е усъвършенствала способността да се харесва на останалите, а това ѝ помага да бъде такава, каквато иска клиентът. Но не щеш ли, внимателно изградената вселена на Елзи се срива. Виновникът е Джак Смит - дразнещо ... |
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От автора на Хипотеза за любов - Али Хейзълууд. ... Животът на Бий Кьонигсвасер се крепи на едно просто правило: Какво би направила Мария Кюри? Ако от НАСА ѝ предложат позиция като ръководител на невроинженерен проект - истинска сбъдната мечта, - Мария би се съгласила на мига. На. Мига. Но майката на съвременната физика не е била принудена да работи в сътрудничество с Ливай "Отвуордкото" Уорд. Ливай е висок, мрачен и има пронизващи очи, досещате се - привлекателен е. Но също така много ясно е дал да се разбере още в университета, че към Бий изпитва единствено чиста неприязън. Оборудването ѝ обаче ... |
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Малори Грийнлийф е приключила с шаха. След като преди четири години любимият спорт води до катастрофа в семейството ѝ, днес единствените ходове, които Малори прави, са в реалността - предвижва се по черните полета между грижите за болната си майка, споровете с двете си по-малки сестри и работата в автосервиза, която гарантира оцеляването им. Докато приятелката ѝ не я убеждава да се включи в един последен турнир по шах. За всеобщо изумление никому неизвестната госпожица Грийнлийф побеждава Нолан Сойер - всеизвестния Цареубиец, любимото лошо момче в света на шаха и настоящ световен шампион. Загубата на Нолан ... |
