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Can two broken hearts make a whole? After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her sister left behind. Seventeen-year-old Cael Woods is angry. One year after losing his older brother his life has spiralled. Once the most promising hockey player in the junior league, Cael can no longer step onto the ice. When his parents sign him up for a trip abroad no part of him wants to go. As Cael and Savannah embark on a journey they begin to find solace in each other. As they start to heal piece by broken piece, could this be the start of a love they never thought they'd feel again? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781405962964 • Author: Tillie Cole  • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.7cm

The kingdom of Ilya is in turmoil… After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King, and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she’s running from the one person she had wanted to run to. Kai Azer is now Ilya’s Enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt, the new King. He has vowed to find Paedyn and bring her to justice.   Across the deadly Scorches, and deep into the hostile city of Dor, Kai pursues the one person he wishes he didn’t have to. But in a city without Elites, the balance between the hunter and hunted shifts – and the battle between duty and desire is deadly. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781398530126 • Author: Lauren Roberts  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions:  13 x 2.4 x 19.8cm

My best friend's brother, Dex Hardy, was my downfall - older, forbidden, and completely irresistible. Our relationship was a secret - and he knew it had to stay one. But when Dex betrayed our privacy, I had to leave him - breaking both our hearts. Now, he's back in my life, as the owner of the casino where I work. He's become a cold, ruthless billionaire, and he wants revenge. When he finds out I'm engaged, he offers me a deal. Leave the man I'm with and be with him instead. Or else. Six months of calling Dex my finace... even as he stares at me with hardened eyes. Six months of ignoring his electrifying touches and pretending I don't love him... when I still do. The problem with faking this engagement is I'm starting to believe in forever. And neither of us can afford to. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781399736695 • Author: Shain Rose • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 3.2 x 19.6 cm This is book 1 of 4 in the Hardy Billionaires series, click here to purchase the 3 book bundle!

OUR MARRIAGE ISN'T REAL. SO WHY DO OUR KISSES FEEL SO GOOD? Declan Hardy, heartthrob and retired billionaire, is my complete opposite. He's commanding: I'm cooperative. He's loud when I stay quiet. All we have in common is that both our names are on my father's will. He'll inherit an empire - and I'll keep the one thing I hold dear. But there's a catch: I have to marry him - or at least, pretend to. One year of fake marriage. One year of living together. But it's not that simple. Especially when I can't tell if his kisses are fake - and if I'm really still pretending when I kiss him back... There's a fine line between commitment and betrayal... and neither of us knows where it falls. Declan and I would never work for real - or would we? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781399736596 • Author: Shain Rose • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 13 x 3.4 x 19.6 cm This is book 3 of 4 in the Hardy Billionaires series, click here to purchase the 3 book bundle!

Independent, confident, and not held back by her disability, Winnifred McNulty has been determined to prove to herself and others that she can do anything without needing anyone. That all changes when Win meets Bo at a Halloween party, a charming boy in a pirate costume who has more in common with her than she realises. Bonding over the fact that they both have a visible disability, Win and Bo develop an electrifying connection with each other that they just can't ignore. After a one-night stand leaves Win with the biggest decision of her life, Bo is more than happy to join her in sharing this new experience - on the condition that they remain strictly friends. Win and Bo embark on a journey together, discovering more about themselves than they thought they knew. But the chemistry between them is unavoidable, and the plan they put in place soon gets thrown into question as feelings begin to surface. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781835010976 • Author: Hannah Bonam-Young • Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.8 x 19.7 cm

This is Jared's story . . . Have you ever been so angry that hitting things felt good? Or numb to all emotions? The past few years have been like that for me. Traveling between fury and indifference with no stops in between. Some people hate me for it, while others are scared of me. But none of them can hurt me, because I don't care about anything or anyone. Except Tatum. I love her so much that I hate her. I hate that I can't let her go. We used to be friends, but I found out that I couldn't trust her or anyone else. So I hurt her. I pushed her away. But I still need her. She centers me. Engaging, challenging, bullying her-it's the last part of me that feels anything human. But then she went and screwed everything up. She left for a year and came back a different girl. Now, when I push, she pushes back. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780349405940 • Author: Penelope Douglas • Publisher: Piatkus • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.8 x 2.8cm

They're your best friends. Lucy and her husband do everything with their closest friends Cora and Scott. They've even bought a beach house together to enjoy summers with their kids. They're more than friends: they're family. They're hiding something. When a colleague passes around photographs from her honeymoon in the Maldives, Lucy is shocked to see Scott in one of the pictures, his arm around another woman. The truth will change everything. Then news breaks that the woman from the photograph has mysteriously vanished. Why was Scott there and what is he hiding? As Lucy looks for answers, her whole life begins to unravel. If the lies start here, where do they end? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781399701051 • Author: Helen Cooper • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks • Format: Paperback • Pages: 323 • Dimensions: 12.6 x 3 x 19.6cm

One chance meeting. A night that changes everything. The Kennedy sisters, Molly, Alex and Sam, have a Christmas tradition – a night out, just the three of them, sisters together. Lewis Stone can’t face the work Christmas party, but as he’s one of the bosses, he has to put in an appearance.  He leaves as soon as he can politely get away, ready for the holidays to begin. When Lewis Stone meets the Kennedy sisters, a train of events begins that engulfs them all. One sister is left fighting for her life. One sister is left fighting for her marriage. And one sister is hellbent on revenge… Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781836178972 • Author: O. J. Mullen • Publisher: Boldwood Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 342 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.98 x 19.8 cm

Lost memories. Lost loves. Can they find their way back to each other? When Will wakes up after a car accident, he's lost three years of memory. All he wants is his girlfriend and childhood sweetheart, Gem, beside him. Instead, nothing is as he remembers. Gem has finally moved on from hers and Will's break-up. With a new life and boyfriend, the last thing she expects is a call to say Will needs her - the man who nearly destroyed her. As Will recovers, he is determined to prove to Gem that he is the man he once was. But by unlocking the secrets of his past, will he be able to piece together what caused him to change so dramatically? And, faced with the choice, will Gem continue with the safe new life she has built for herself, or will she go back to the man she used to love Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781804367742 • Author: Eve Ainsworth • Publisher: Canelo • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.6cm

Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me... 1932. Emily Blackwood, a young adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale. On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner haunted by the memory of a woman who disappeared five decades before.  And when she discovers the ripped pages of an old diary, crammed into the walls, she realises a dark secret lies here, waiting to entrap her too... Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781472276391 • Author: Freya Berry • Publisher: Headline Review • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 3.4 x 19.6cm

Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She’s also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween. Her tween charge isn’t the only one who could use some help fitting in, though. According to…well, everyone except Burgess, he needs to get back on the dating scene, and adventurous Tallulah is just the girl to show him how. But as boundaries are slowly crossed and Burgess finds himself pulled between his daughter, who wants her parents back together, and his insane chemistry with Tallulah, a huge rift is formed, and Tallulah does the “right” thing—breaks her own heart and walks away. Though Burgess knows it’s for the best—he’s too jaded, with too much baggage—a chance meeting, and a new push from his daughter, forces him to put everything on the line and fight to prove he learned his lessons well and is worthy of a happily ever after with Tallulah! Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780063374195 • Author: Tessa Bailey  • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 12.6 x 2.2 x 19.8cm

They are waiting for death. He is waiting to kill them. In August 2020, fourteen-year-old Andrew Golding went out for a walk following a row with his mum. He was never seen again. Four years later, when the press discovers police errors in Andrew Golding's case, DI Ridpath is called in to investigate. As Ridpath delves into the case, he slowly discovers something much bigger and far more brutal than he ever expected – a murderer from the past who threatens his career and the lives of those close to him. Can he unravel the secrets before the killer strikes again? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781804362556 • Author: M J Lee • Publisher: Canelo • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 12.85 x 2.18 x 19.84 cm

There's trouble in paradise... Moving home in her 30s was not the life plan Jas had in mind. So when her best friend gets in touch to say she's arranging a long overdue reunion with their high school friends, Jas is very much up for the escape. Oh, and it's all expenses paid to Italy - so that's a bonus! But while being whisked away to the beautiful Italian coast may seem idyllic, Jas has to come face to face with not only her ex-boyfriend, but the one that got away too! It's a week of sun, sea and unravelling secrets, and as the love triangle from the past starts to develop once again, this trip is not panning out exactly as Jas imagines... Should the past be left where it is, or could there be a second chance at love on the horizon..? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781836178965 • Author: Portia MacIntosh  • Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 414 • Dimensions: 15.6 x 2.6 x 23.39cm

Dominique Brady's life changed the day she met Brendan Delahaye. He was a man with big dreams and she was the girl he wanted to take with him. Madly in love, she married him without hesitation. Now she's half of one of the most powerful and glamorous of couples. Then suddenly Brendan disappears without a trace. As her world crashes around her, Dominique must find a way to hold it all together. Will Brendan ever return? And if he does, will Dominique stand by her man? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780755343843 • Author: Sheila O’Flanagan  • Publisher: Headline Review • Format: Paperback • Pages: 496 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 3.8 x 20.3cm

No body. No crime? Twenty years ago, Mari vanished while backpacking through Thailand with her boyfriend, Luke. He was accused of murder, but has always insisted he's innocent. Besides, her body was never found. Now, he's finally ready to talk. And filmmaker Cassidy Chambers wants to be the one to uncover what really happened, back then, in the dark of the jungle. But as she delves deeper into the past, Cassidy begins to fear what lies ahead, and the secrets buried along the way. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781529429046 • Author: Emily Freud • Publisher: Quercus • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  384 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.44 x 19.81 cm

Fierce, feminist and intensely gripping - Fair Rosaline takes everything you think you know about Romeo & Juliet and turns it on its head . . . The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different life. Soon though, Rosaline begins to doubt all that Romeo has told her. She breaks off the match, only for Romeo's gaze to turn towards her cousin, thirteen-year-old Juliet. Gradually Rosaline realises that it is not only Juliet's reputation at stake, but her life. With only hours remaining before she will be banished behind the nunnery walls, will Rosaline save Juliet from her Romeo? Or can this story only ever end one way? A subversive, powerful untelling of Shakespeare's best-known tale, narrated by a fierce, forgotten voice: this is Rosaline's story. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781786582676 • Author: Natasha Solomons • Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.2cm

The small, magical town of Moonville is the perfect place for flora fortunist Romina Tempest to expand her shop, where she uses the language of flowers to help the hopeful manifest their love lives. After giving up on her own big romance many years ago, at least she can bask in the promise of others'. So when the shop's potential financier shares news of his wedding, Romina jumps at the opportunity to discuss helping the business . . . even if it means she has to fake-date her chaotic colleague Trevor to get an invitation. But all hell breaks loose when she discovers Trevor's soon-to-be stepbrother is none other than Alex King: her high school sweetheart. Her greatest love. The boy who, eleven years ago, broke her heart. What starts as an innocent misunderstanding becomes a week-long fake-dating scheme, as Romina resolves to make Alex pay for breaking her heart. The only issue? She can't deny their still-burning connection. Caught between showing Alex what he lost and coming clean and risking her business, Romina must decide whether giving Alex another chance means going back on herself, or finally releasing her hold on the past. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349442433 • Author: Sarah Hogle • Publisher: Piatkus • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 12.4 x 2.8 x 19.6cm

Becca Taylor is having a bad summer. Her best friend is dead. Her good-for-nothing ex is back in her life. And her career is in freefall. So, when fellow writer Riley O'Connell invites Becca to the charming Irish countryside, she can't pack her bags fast enough, even though they have never met. But happily-ever-after isn't quite so simple. And Riley is not a sensitive female romance novelist like Becca assumed. No, he is definitely a man. A hot, six-foot tall, Irish man. But with their complicated pasts getting in the way, Becca and Riley just can't get on the same page. So can fate give their love story a rewrite? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781035412082 • Author: Breea Keenan • Publisher: Headline Accent • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.54 x 17.78 cm

In the gorgeous small town of Ivy Falls, Torran is putting all her passion into building her new career in house restoration, trying desperately to help the town keep its identity and charm. She has no time for love but when her childhood sweetheart, Beck, comes back to town and outbids her on her dream house at auction, sparks fly. This man broke her heart. Can she ever trust him again? For Beck, Ivy Falls means trauma and loss. He knows his sudden departure hurt Torran badly but there are things she doesn't know. He never intended to return to Ivy Falls so why is he there, bidding on his childhood home? His feelings for Torran are as strong as ever but Torran means Ivy Falls and Beck can't go back there. Can he find a way to heal his past and find his future? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781804366837 • Author: Amy True • Publisher: Hera • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 19.7 x 2.7cm

A vanished star. A haunted film. A mystery only love can unravel . . . 1968 Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom, now she's on the cusp of obscurity. When a radical new horror film offers her the leading role, her luck looks set to change. Until one dark night, Gemma disappears on set and is never seen again. But this is only the beginning... Gemma has been pulled into the film itself, where the script - and the horrors within it - are more real than she ever imagined, and she must play her role perfectly if she hopes to survive. 2007 Gemma Turner's disappearance is one of Hollywood's greatest mysteries - one that's captivated film student Christopher ever since he saw the infamous L'Étrange Lune for the first time. The film is screened just once a decade, and each time there is new, impossible footage of Gemma that simply shouldn't exist. Compelled by curiosity, Christopher dares to unravel the truth. But answers to the film's mystery may leave him trapped by it forever... Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780349426006 • Author: Constance Sayers • Publisher: Little, Brown • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 471 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.7 x 3.7 cm