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A new romantic thriller—with a dash of horror—from Natalie D. Richards, the New York Times bestselling author of YA psychological thriller books.

Theo's always been impulsive. But telling Paige how he feels? He's obsessed over that decision. And it's time. Tonight. At the party on the riverbank, under the old walking bridge, site of so many tales of love and death.

Paige has had a crush on Theo since they first

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Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. Meet Cute is an anthology of original short stories featuring tales of "how they first met" from some of today's most popular YA authors.

Readers will experience Nina LaCour's beautifully written piece about two Bay Area girls meeting via a cranky customer service Tweet, Sara Shepard's glossy tale about a magazine intern and a young...

Set in the romantic and death-defying world of the international bestselling Die for Me trilogy, this digital original novella follows Jules, a brooding, immortal French artist who has fallen in love with his best friend's girlfriend.

Jules Marchenoir is a revenant—an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save human lives. He's spent the better part of the last century flirting his way through

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When everything falls apart... dreams can still come true... After Graham Daniels lands his dream job working as a park ranger in the coveted Rocky Mountain National Park, he finds trouble from the very beginning. And not the expected kind of trouble. Not wildlife… Not tourists… But a vision… Bailey Auclair flirts her way from beau to beau. Every single man in the little pioneer town of Whiskey Springs vies for her attention. But she will have...

The Highlander's vow versus the surgeon's oath…Angus MacLeod is always getting everyone else out of trouble. When a bonnie lass appears naked on the beach, he's compelled to rescue her. Only, Lila Salinas doesn't need saving. Her oath as a surgeon is to heal others, even when yanked back to 1692. Angus is immediately intrigued with the take-charge lass. His father gravely injured, so her appearance holds whispers that everything happens for a reason....

Bianca is a Trove. Her blood is so powerful it allows vampires to stroll in the sunlight. She lives a life of masquerade parties, governesses, and flirting with eligible men like the handsome thief, Nyro Stonehelm, who openly defies the vampire King and Queen. Soon a visit from the King brings Bianca face to face with a terrible reality-her father has gambled away everything, and still owes the King's Court more. To set an example, the King executes...

At the Cake-ily Ever After bakery in Kinship Cove, three sisters are about to meet their matches and prove that a man with a little silver in his hair can make one heck of a mate…if the fates allow it. * * * No more dating shifters-at least, that's what I promised myself after the last one met his mate while dating me. He wasn't the first-fate seemed to enjoy smacking me upside the head whenever I dared to cross the species line. So when a handsome...

Eya is done running from her enemy. Now, the very people who took her home and threatened her life should be scared of the exiled princess with newfound powers. Reunited with her brothers and bonding with new friends, Eya fights against the Pescelean invasion of Hicares with the might of Kandum's army behind her. Success in battle comes easy, but something doesn't sit right with her. She's not sure she's fighting on the right side. Is she truly fated...

Julie thinks it is her fate that she meets her holiday flirt again after some years and falls in love with him straight away. Mighty Dread, a Rastaman, takes the chance to escape the poverty of Jamaica and follows Julie to foreign, where he believes the streets are paved with gold. After initial enthusiasm he must realise that money in foreign doesnt come easy, at least not legally. He steals her money and goes back to Jamaica where he plays the rich...

Reeling from a divorce, a woman commits a brutal murder Anna's husband has left her, and he took their friends with him. Fifty years old and on her own for the first time in decades, Anna drifts through the world of Manhattan singles parties, where wrinkled women fight for the right to flirt with paunchy, middle-aged men. One night she lets herself be taken home by one of these flabby lotharios, but when the man wants more than ordinary sex, Anna...