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For fans of The Seven Day Switch, The Mix Up, and Freaky Friday, a body-swapping comedy about what it's like to see the world through another's eyes . . . Beth Barony is content with her middle-class, Middle America life. Really, she is. But she makes a tiny, secret birthday wish for more excitement in her life . . . and wakes up the next morning as Regan Forrester, a troubled young actor known for her rebellious smolder and empty head. What could be more fun than playing a Hollywood princess for a day? But Regan's life isn't at all glamorous. Her boyfriend is controlling and her apartment is a dump. While Beth scrambles to preserve Regan's shaky career and tenuous relationships, Regan gleefully steals Beth's husband, students, kids, and friends. And as the spell that switched them starts to unravel, Beth realizes why Regan wanted to escape her life: someone is trying to kill her. If Beth doesn't find a way to save both their lives, neither woman will have a life to go back to. "e;Intriguing and wildly entertaining!"e; – The BookLife Prize

The Duke of Barkham is the last man a woman should trust.He's the only man who can save everything she holds dear.Lady Eloisa Grenay died, and Louisa Bickford rose from her ashes to become the matron of an institution devoted to the protection of women and orphans. Her reputation is revered, her influence absolute - as long as no one knows the truth about her.Gabriel Declan, the new Duke of Barkham, might be devotedly loyal to his friends, but he's notoriously untrustworthy for anyone else. Too busy keeping his own demons at bay, he's the last man to play knight in shining armor for anyone - much less a virtuous woman who finds the charitable work she'd devoted her life to under threat from an unknown attacker.A summons from the man who knows her secret leads Louisa to the masquerade. But she can't be sure if the stranger who lures her into his arms is the one man who can stop the threat to expose her - or if he's her blackmailer in the devilish flesh.All Louisa knows for certain: this wayward duke holds the power to destroy everything she's worked to protect ... including her heart.Secret identities, unrepentant rakes, and imperiled orphans collide in 1830 London in this tale of gripping emotion and steamy desire that will have you turning pages long into the night.

SCENE TWO: TAKE FOURDale's in New Mexico licking her wounds. It's hard getting over a broken marriage, but seeing her daughter move on with her dad and his new wife is so much tougher.When a stalker walks up the pathway of the inn where Dale's working as the landscape designer, she attacks him with a mega blast from the garden hose. Turns out he's a new guest, and instead of booking in, he decided to take a tour around the inn.She's not in the mood to play host, not even when she learns he's Timothy Kay, one of Hollywood's top film directors who's scouting for a new location for his next movie.When the need to make amends overtakes her good judgment, she offers to give him a tour of the town.As the saying goes: one thing leads to another.Getting close to the hot A-lister is cut short when social media explodes with death threats from leaked compromising pictures of her daughter and her best friend.Once catastrophe is averted, Dale doesn't know if fixing her relationship with Timothy a possibility or just another in a long line of disappointments and heartbreak.

EverlastingLove is in the air in Playa Negra, Costa Rica, and it's not only the couples who've been together for years who are enjoying the warm breezes and holiday spirit, it's their children too. And, as with everything that'd brought The Letter Club couples together, their kids' road to happiness is fraught with hurdles to overcome, and family complications.But these kids are lucky to have parents who know how to navigate the tumultuous waters of becoming a couple, and they were raised with the deep and abiding love that has kept their parents behaving like teenagers.Deep DiveOf all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, he walks into mine... Actually, it's a holiday resort in the Seychelles, and after what he did to Saba in Paris, Anton Olivier can get right back on that chopper and find another woman to make crazy.Saba Sweet doesn't feel any holiday good cheer toward the man who broke her heart, but he has other ideas, including making promises she wishes are true, and convincing her to believe in him.

In Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, editors Misty Urban, Deva Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes offer an invigorating international and interdisciplinary examination of the legendary fairy Melusine. Along with fresh insights into the popular French and German traditions, these essays investigate Melusine’s English, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese counterparts and explore her roots in philosophy, folklore, and classical myth.Combining approaches from art history, history, alchemy, literature, cultural studies, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster theory, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with twenty lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure’s multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time.Contributors are Anna Casas Aguilar, Jennifer Alberghini, Frederika Bain, Anna-Lisa Baumeister, Albrecht Classen, Chera A. Cole, Tania M. Colwell, Zoë Enstone, Stacey L. Hahn, Deva F. Kemmis, Ana Pairet, Pit Péporté, Simone Pfleger, Caroline Prud’Homme, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Renata Schellenberg, Misty Urban, Angela Jane Weisl, Lydia Zeldenrust, and Zifeng Zhao.

Who doesn't yearn for the exhilarating rush of falling in love? Alas, the more desperately you chase it, the more it slips through your fingers like grains of sand. Sometimes, all it takes is a fresh, new perspective. In the enchanting seaside town of Brighton, England, where the sun kisses the shore and dreams linger in the salty breeze, a vibrant tapestry of souls will gather: Vicar's daughters and country maides striving to ascend the social ladder, widows daring to seek a second chance at joy, and heartbroken singles clinging to the fragile hope of love. In this magical place, one daring choice can change everything. Cozy up with "e;What Happens in Brighton,"e; a heartwarming Regency and Victorian collection featuring eight exclusive, never-before-published stories from beloved authors, including Anna Bradley, Tracy Brogan, Kerrigan Byrne, Gayle Callen, Christy Carlyle, Sofie Darling, Eileen Dreyer, Barbara Russell, and Misty Urban. Don't miss out—just in time for Valentine's Day.

What happens in the secret pleasure club is never meant for the light of day.Effie Stanier has one summer of freedom before she must submit to her family's demand that she marry. One summer to explore her fantasies at Hedone, the secret pleasure club her friend runs in Brighton. When she meets a mysterious tradesman who stirs her as no man has, Effie gambles everything on the chance that he can awaken desires she's never dared to feel—though exposure will destroy her family and her future.Jay Burnham, heir to the Brickmaker Baron, has spent his life straddling two worlds and belonging to neither. The charming nymph he meets on the seashore awakens a longing he thought he'd buried. The masked siren he meets at Hedone lights a craving he can't deny. He doesn't realize they're the same woman—and he's falling for her twice.But Jay believes he's betraying one to have the other. And Effie has no idea the man behind the mask is the same one who's already stolen her heart.When their secrets surface, the cost won't just be scandal. It will be each other.A steamy Victorian romance of masked identities, forbidden pleasure, and two people falling in love twice—without knowing it. Set against the glittering backdrop of Brighton's Hedone club, this tale of forbidden pleasure and class-defying passion proves that sometimes the greatest mystery isn't who's behind the mask—it's recognizing the person you've already fallen for twice.