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Falling In Love + Other Disasters
Updated at Nov 18, 2019, 21:43
I probably should have considered his marriage proposal for more than thirty seconds before I said yes. But I'd lost track of the number of times Brenton had bailed me out of sticky situations, so I figured pretending to be his fiancé to prove to his parents that he has his life in order and is therefore ready to take over the family company was the least I could do. Except that nothing in my life had ever gone according to plan, so I really shouldn't have been surprised that being in a fake relationship didn't work out the way I thought it would either. Problem Number One: Brenton's in love with another woman. He's been pining over her for years, but his parents would never approve, so he's kept his feelings locked up. And everyone knows that bottling up emotion never ends badly. Problem Number Two: Bodhi, Brenton's college roommate. Brenton begged him to move to town, partly because he needs a friend and partly because he hopes to use Bodhi's talents as a contractor to help him expand his family's company. Which I wouldn't have so much of a problem with if I didn't find Bodhi so damn irresistible. Looks like everything that can go wrong it about to go horribly, disastrously wrong.
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Written in the Stars
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 19:56
As the children of the members of internationally renowned rock band, Vertical Limit, navigate through their teenage years and into adulthood, they find growing up is much easier when they lean on each other.
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Ready Or Not
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 14:49
Jessamine Copeland is stuck. Professionally, personally, creatively - in every aspect of the word. She's been passed up for a promotion yet again, she can't remember the last time she actually had a good time, and to top it all off, she hasn't been able to come up with new designs for months. That is until her infuriating and admittedly gorgeous next door neighbor, Gage, takes it upon himself to bring some adventure to her life and get her creative juices flowing. Whether she likes it or not, Gage is determined to get Jessamine to relax, and she hasn't quite decided whether she enjoys the company. For Gage, it was love at first sight. The moment he opened his door to find all that annoyance emanating from Jessamine Copeland's petite frame, he was a goner. So of course he'll find any excuse to spend more time with her and he'll do pretty much anything to make her smile and along the way, he might just have her believing in love at first sight as well.
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Staccato Heartbeats
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 14:38
There isn't an instrument Piper Peters can't play. Ever since she was a child, she's been extremely musical, following in her famous father's footsteps, which also means she's always loved working with other musicians. So she's excited about the partner project her senior class is assigned to close out their final semester. And she's even more excited that her partner is someone as scrumptious as bad boy violinist, Rocky McIntire. Rocky, on the other hand, feels as though his entire life has been upended by Hurricane Piper. It's been so long since he let himself feel anything at all that he's not entirely sure how to react to the flood of new emotions that comes from being around Piper Peters. With just a few months until graduation, and more secrets than he's willing to admit, the last thing he needs right now is a distraction, even if it does come in the form of a girl with the prettiest smile he's ever seen. It's going to be a long semester.
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Mia Knows Best
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 14:16
After Mia kisses rockstar Hunter Caldwell at her office New Year's Eve party, she assumes she's never going to see him again. But when a picture of their kiss shows up the tabloids the next day, they both have some big decisions to make. Mia's been searching for the opportunity to move on from being an advice columnist for her magazine, so she's excited when her boss offers her the chance to write what she pleases. The only catch is that she has to get enough dirty details to write an expose on Hunter Caldwell first. Hunter has a crisis of his own. The press has labeled him a bad boy womanizer, which is starting to taint his band's image. Being seen kissing a random girl isn't helping that argument. Unless, of course, he does as his publicist asks and very publicly dates his new 'girlfriend'. Technically, Mia and Hunter haven't told each other any lies. But as they start to develop very real feelings for each other, they realize they haven't been telling each other the whole truth either.
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Finding Priya
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 13:58
Priya Biswas is happy being invisible. All she wants to do is make it through the next year of her life unnoticed and then she can graduate and maybe finally feel like an adult. But after she drunkenly bonds with Braden Harding, soccer captain extraordinaire, he seeks her with an unusual request: pretend to be his girlfriend to keep the girls away so he can focus on his game. It's a completely ridiculous idea, of course. But maybe a little ridiculousness is exactly what Priya needs in her life. So she agrees, thinking that maybe it's about time she did something out of the ordinary. Fake dating Braden Harding is definitely a whole new world, one filled with very real pressures and very real dilemmas and very real scrutiny and eventually, very real feelings. As Priya ventures outside her comfort zone on a mission to find herself, she must decide if she's willing to lose her heart in the process.
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Code Blue
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 13:50
Fresh out of the training academy for the National Intelligence Agency, Lexi Dupont is thrilled when she's tasked with her first undercover assignment: get close to Max Stafford, son of the leader of the country's most infamous crime syndicate. It seems simple enough and Lexi is determined to complete her mission, but the fact that Max is ten cups of charming and gorgeous is bound to make the job difficult.
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Disharmony
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 12:09
After her latest antic lands her on the front page of every tabloid in the country, singing sensation Kari Stevens's manager books Xavier Spiers as her opening act, hoping to salvage some of her reputation. According to the media, Xavier can do no wrong. He's pure and wholesome and entirely dedicated to his music: everything a singer/songwriter should be. Separately, they're superstars. Together, they have the potential to be either mindblowingly epic or entirely disastrous. The world tour is going to be a bumpy ride.
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Blue Plaid
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 07:15
Stella and Tyson's interactions generally consist of a lot of bickering and eyerolling. Which is fine, because they really only see each other when they're forced to do so by their respective best friends. But when unforeseen circumstances leave them as the guardians of a one year old boy, they must learn to coexist as they figure out how to raise a child. Stella plus Tyson plus baby? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Here's to hoping they don't royally screw him up in the process.
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Lost & Found
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 00:25
Tyler Copeland is a flirt, a fact that even he would own up to, so when he meets Cassandra Thompson, his sister’s roommate, during a visit to the university, the flirting starts completely naturally. As much as Cassie is drawn in by his twinkling eyes and dimpled smile, she’s aware that he has a bit of a reputation and is widely known to be afraid of commitment, and she’s not willing to make herself vulnerable to someone who could so easily break her heart. Despite Cassie’s attempts to distance herself from Tyler, it seems the fates have conspired to constantly throw them into each other’s paths. As Cassie fights her attraction, not wanting to ruin her relationship with Jessamine Copeland, the closest thing Cassie has to family, Tyler comes to the terrifying realization that he just might be in danger of losing his most sacred possession: his heart.
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Between the Lines
Updated at Oct 20, 2019, 00:04
Julianna and Tristan have been best friends since they were five years old. They played together and studied together and knew all of each other secrets and the fact that he was the future king of Astoria and she was a security guard's daughter had never been issue. That is, until the year Tristan turned twenty and his parents decided that it was time he started taking his princely duties more seriously, starting with finding a future queen. All of a sudden, ranking and station start to mean a lot more than they used to and as class boundaries test Julianna and Tristan's relationship, they start to wonder if they really can survive anything or if it's time to let go.
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Ruled by the Heart
Updated at Oct 19, 2019, 23:24
To fulfill her mother's dying wish, Giana, the newly crowned Queen of Izlia, agrees to marry Nico, the Crown Prince of Ravenna, a union which is meant to bring peace to two kingdoms which have been on the brink of war for centuries. It doesn't take long for Giana to realize she seems to be falling in love with her husband. But a new alliance means new threats and when their ideals clash, Giana and Nico must decide if having the most power is worth losing each other.
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Like Real People Do
Updated at Oct 19, 2019, 23:04
After the combination of too much coffee and just the right amount of nerves results in her epically choking during the most important interview of her life, Divya ends up jobless after graduation. Unsure of where to turn next, she jumps at the chance to join an agency which provides nannies to the rich and powerful. She figures it's new and exciting and will take her out of her comfort zone and she's not at all disappointed by her first assignment: taking care of the three year old twins of internationally renowned bassist Jaxon Rigali. The trouble is that Jaxon is a single father who is determined to prove that he can conquer parenting on his own, despite the advice of those at his side. So as Divya navigates the world of taking care of celebrity children, she sets out to show Jaxon just how much he needs her, but is surprised to find that in her quest to melt his heart, she ends up giving away her own.
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