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Second-marriage Husband is Unreasonable: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Wen XuYiYiYesterday, she had made every effort to love this cold man, but today, he had become the groom of her good friend. It was their romantic wedding. She could only wish him happiness with tears in her eyes!He took the bride's hand and greeted her as if he were a miserable stranger, and at that moment, she finally understood that there was only a contract between them, no love. However, the two-year deadline was drawing to a close, and the moment she was about to leave, he was like an enraged beast: "Woman, we will never, ever, ever meet!"
Second-marriage Husband is Unreasonable: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Wen XuYiYiYesterday, she had made every effort to love this cold man, but today, he had become the groom of her good friend. It was their romantic wedding. She could only wish him happiness with tears in her eyes!He took the bride's hand and greeted her as if he were a miserable stranger, and at that moment, she finally understood that there was only a contract between them, no love. However, the two-year deadline was drawing to a close, and the moment she was about to leave, he was like an enraged beast: "Woman, we will never, ever, ever meet!"
Second-marriage Husband is Unreasonable: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Wen XuYiYiYesterday, she had made every effort to love this cold man, but today, he had become the groom of her good friend. It was their romantic wedding. She could only wish him happiness with tears in her eyes!He took the bride's hand and greeted her as if he were a miserable stranger, and at that moment, she finally understood that there was only a contract between them, no love. However, the two-year deadline was drawing to a close, and the moment she was about to leave, he was like an enraged beast: "Woman, we will never, ever, ever meet!"
Second Marriage With the Prince: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Cha XiaoQiongIn her previous life, she had placed too much trust in the people around her, resulting in her mother's tragic death!Once she was reborn, she would definitely make those people pay the price!The stepmother was vicious? Good! Then she would be even more poisonous than she was!Proud Big Sister Shu has a venomous heart? Good! Then, she would peel off that beauty's skin and leave no place for that venomous heart to hide!His previous life had been hurt by love, and in this life, he had cut off all love in order to protect the people he wanted to protect.However, why was that man by her side always lingering around like a ghost? He would always appear wherever she went …
Second Marriage With the Prince: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Cha XiaoQiongIn her previous life, she had placed too much trust in the people around her, resulting in her mother's tragic death!Once she was reborn, she would definitely make those people pay the price!The stepmother was vicious? Good! Then she would be even more poisonous than she was!Proud Big Sister Shu has a venomous heart? Good! Then, she would peel off that beauty's skin and leave no place for that venomous heart to hide!His previous life had been hurt by love, and in this life, he had cut off all love in order to protect the people he wanted to protect.However, why was that man by her side always lingering around like a ghost? He would always appear wherever she went …
Second Marriage With the Prince: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Cha XiaoQiongIn her previous life, she had placed too much trust in the people around her, resulting in her mother's tragic death!Once she was reborn, she would definitely make those people pay the price!The stepmother was vicious? Good! Then she would be even more poisonous than she was!Proud Big Sister Shu has a venomous heart? Good! Then, she would peel off that beauty's skin and leave no place for that venomous heart to hide!His previous life had been hurt by love, and in this life, he had cut off all love in order to protect the people he wanted to protect.However, why was that man by her side always lingering around like a ghost? He would always appear wherever she went …
Second Marriage With the Prince: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Cha XiaoQiongIn her previous life, she had placed too much trust in the people around her, resulting in her mother's tragic death!Once she was reborn, she would definitely make those people pay the price!The stepmother was vicious? Good! Then she would be even more poisonous than she was!Proud Big Sister Shu has a venomous heart? Good! Then, she would peel off that beauty's skin and leave no place for that venomous heart to hide!His previous life had been hurt by love, and in this life, he had cut off all love in order to protect the people he wanted to protect.However, why was that man by her side always lingering around like a ghost? He would always appear wherever she went …
Second Marriage's Sweetness: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Bi MoshenghuaShen Mu's heart was filled with determination as he prepared his wedding ceremony. However, she didn't expect that this time, he would take such a risk and let her life drift off in a direction that she never expected …
Second Moon
by Theodora LaneRe-Release - Second Moon (Lynn Lorenz) ©2008Escape into a world of magic and moonlight as a dying wolf and a woman determined to live life on her own terms seek to find a magic strong enough to save them both. Theodora Lane weaves a stunning tale of second chances in the re-release of her passionate, paranormal romance, Second Moon.Duke Stevens is dying. Since he lost his wife and mate Grace, he's faced one certain fact, a werewolf without his mate will waste away and die. And for a man like Duke, that's no way to end his life. He doesn't have much time left and only two options - a slow death or a fast one at the end of his gun. His only hope is to find a new mate and the chances of that are slim.But on the night of the Second Moon, strange forces are at work, driving Samantha Waters toward her destiny and Duke.Duke knows the moment he meets Sam he's found his mate, he just has to convince her of two things, he's a werewolf and she's his mate. He needs her to fall in love with him and marry him as soon as possible, because every moment counts for Duke.But Sam isn't going to give in so easy. She's been down the rough road of love before and she won't be pushed or rushed into anything, especially marriage. Not by Duke, not by his dying wolf, or even Duke's desperate family.For Duke to win Sam over he's going to have to get her to open her heart to him and to accept her own truth - Sam is a witch.Content Notes: Hot, Paranormal, Contemporary, Wolves
The Second Mrs Adams
by Sandra MartonAn accident... Amnesia.... A chance to fall in love again! David Adams is going to have to let his wife back into his life. He'd been about to divorce Joanna, when she had the accident. True, she's undergone a complete personality change since then, and has turned back into the lovely girl he married. But does that mean he's going to fall right back in love with her? David is convinced that what he feels for Joanna right now is lust. But he must resist their reborn attraction... because, once Joanna's memory has returned, this pretense of a real marriage must surely be over...?
The Second Mrs. Adams (Mills And Boon Vintage 90s Modern Ser. #No. 710)
by Sandra MartonRead this classic romance by bestselling author Sandra Marton, now available for the first time in e-book!An accident… Amnesia… . A chance to fall in love again!David Adams is going to have to let his wife back into his life. He’d been about to divorce Joanna, when she had the accident. True, she’s undergone a complete personality change since then, and has turned back into the lovely girl he married. But does that mean he’s going to fall right back in love with her?David is convinced that what he feels for Joanna right now is lust. But he must resist their reborn attraction… because, once Joanna’s memory has returned, this pretense of a real marriage must surely be over…?Originally published in 1996.
Second Nature
by Nora RobertsRevisit this popular, wildly captivating tale of adventure and romance by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. For Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe, tracking down the world-famous, notoriously private, horror-story writer Hunter Brown has become a personal quest. Her carefully planned ambush finally pays off at a small writer's conference in Flagstaff, Arizona. But when the mysterious author turned out to be a dark-eyed master of seduction, Lee knows that it will take more than just good interviewing skills to get her an exclusive one-on-one. Digging into private lives is her business, but now Hunter Brown has turned the tables. With one smoldering kiss he has exacted his price. He doesn't offer her the logical explanations she wants, but the illogic he offers seems terrifyingly close to the truth. If she puts her trust in him, she has to turn her back on most of what she believes is fact. Lee begins to worry less about getting to the heart of the story...and more about what her own heart wants. Originally published 1997
Second Nature: Second Nature / One Summer (Celebrity Magazine Ser.)
by Nora RobertsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a classic story about love and adventure in the wilderness…For celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe getting an interview with the reclusive horror writer Hunter Brown has become a personal quest. Digging into private lives is her business, but now Hunter has turned the tables. He will only give the interview if Lee agrees to go on a camping trip. Lee knows that it will take more than just good interviewing skills to get her an exclusive one-on-one. But after spending some time alone with the seductively mysterious author, Lee discovers the only thing she wants exclusively is Hunter.Originally published in 1985.
Second Nature
by Nora RobertsFor Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe, tracking down the world-famous, notoriously private, horror-story writer Hunter Brown had become a personal quest. Her carefully planned ambush finally paid off at a small writer's conference in Flagstaff. Arizona. But when the master of the supernatural turned out to be a dark-eyed master of seduction. Lee knew that it would take more than just good interviewing skills to bet her an exclusive. Digging into private lives was her business, but now Hunter Brown had turned the tables. With one smoldering kiss he had exacted his price.
Second Nature: Second Nature Lessons Learned
by Nora RobertsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Nora Roberts, a tenacious journalist and a secretive author pen a new narrative between them when they discover their passion for one another is Second Nature…Legendary horror author Hunter Brown thrills fans with his tales of terror. But the master of macabre is also a marvel of mystery, maintaining a low—and reclusive—profile. It’s Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe’s job to lift the veil on popular personalities and she’ll stop at nothing to secure an exclusive one-on-one with Hunter. Intrigued by her relentless drive, Hunter agrees to an interview—but only if Lee joins him on a camping trip.Although out of her element in the wilderness, Lee is more than up to Hunter’s challenge. And together, they’ll discover that nature brings out their basic instincts and desires in unexpected ways.
Second Night: More Fairy Tales Retold
by Caroline AubreyWe all know the fairy stories from childhood...beautiful heroine meets handsome mysterious hero; they fall in love, marry, and live happily ever after...or do they? Even though times have changed, we still have the deep longing to be desired above all by a demon lover, the bad boy, the vampire, the one whom we are not supposed to find ultimate happiness with. In these retellings of The Goose Girl, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Beauty and the Beast, and a Selkie Legend, Caroline Aubrey re-imagines these stories for a modern world; the same horrors facing women in the old world face them in the new one, but this time there is a twist: to survive the horror of the Bloody Chamber, we must keep our wits about us and rely upon the strength of women to do so. From "A Fox's Tale": As he kissed her, he placed the keys in her hand. They were heavy and cold to the touch. Parting, he smiled. "These will open every door. Explore to your heart's content, dearest, however," his eyes shone with a bright light as he gazed upon her, "the room at the topmost height of the house, at the tip of the stairs, please do not enter. It is the one thing I ask of you. Can you do that for me, my darling girl?" Nodding, Miranda put the keys on the table. "Of course." Pointing to the keys, Kitsen separated them, until the lightest one stood out. "This is the key to my room. You will have no need of it, but it is here." Standing, he placed his hands on her shoulders, and kissed the top of her head. "My dearest love, I shall return in two days," he said. And then, he was gone.
Second Opinion (The Healing Touch, Book #1)
by Hannah AlexanderLauren McCaffrey, an experienced ER nurse, arrives in Dogwood Springs, Missouri, hoping for a fresh start in her career--and a convenient escape from her family's humiliating pressure for her to find a husband. Dr. Grant Sheldon transfers to the local hospital in search of a nurturing environment for his twins, who are still grieving the death of their mother. His idyllic setting is not free of all the problems he thought he had left behind. When the community's tranquility is threatened by a drug ring and a mysterious epidemic, Grant and Lauren find themselves racing the clock in a desperate search for answers. Second Opinion combines emergency medicine and small-town America in a story of love's discovery and a faith that lasts.
Second Position
by Katherine LockeFour years ago, a car accident ended Zedekiah Harrow's ballet career and sent Philadelphia Ballet principal dancer Alyona Miller spinning toward the breakdown that suspended her own. What they lost on the side of the road that day can never be replaced, and grief is always harshest under a spotlight...Now twenty-three, Zed teaches music and theatre at a private school in Washington, D.C. and regularly attends AA meetings to keep the pain at bay. Aly has returned to D.C. to live with her mother while trying to recover from the mental and physical breakdown that forced her to take a leave of absence from the ballet world, and her adoring fans.When Zed and Aly run into each other in a coffee shop, it's as if no time has passed at all. But without the buffer and escape of dance-and with so much lust, anger and heartbreak hanging between them-their renewed connection will either allow them to build the together they never had...or destroy the fragile recoveries they've only started to make.Book One of the District Ballet Company71,000 words
The Second Promise
by Joan KilbyPromises, promises... Maeve Arden had promised to love forever, but the marriage failed. Now, five years later, Maeve has finally found peace - peace she's promised herself to keep. The last thing she wants is a new man in her life. Her joy comes from her work - designing landscape gardens. Will Beaumont hires Maeve to design his garden. He, too, isn't looking to have anyone else in his life - no matter how much she attracts him. He's just agreed to a platonic marriage with another woman - and it's a promise he intends to keep. But circumstances conspire to remind Will of a second promise he's made. The most important promise of them all...
The Second Seduction of a Lady (The Wild Quartet)
by Miranda NevilleEnter the thrilling, sexy world of GeorgianEngland in this splendid Miranda Neville novella—and catch a glimpse of Caro, the heroine ofThe Importance of Being Wicked,on sale December 2012.Eleanor Hardwick and Max Quinton shared onenight of incredible passion . . . that was shatteredthe next day, when Eleanor learned of a bet placedby Max's friends. Now, five years later, Max stillcan't get Eleanor out of his head or his heart. He hasa single chance to make a second impression—onethat will last forever.
Second Self
by Chloë Ashby'Almost hypnotically perfect prose' Kate Sawyer | 'A thoughtful, tender and delicate consideration of life's choices' Huma Qureshi | 'Ashby handles her material lightly and atmospherically' Rowan Hisayo BuchananWhen Cathy and Noah first got together neither saw children in their future. Eight years later, they're happily married - and Cathy isn't so sure. With Noah's patience for his wife's ambivalence waning, her widowed mother in a world of her own and her best friend yearning for a second baby, Cathy feels increasingly adrift.Escaping into her work in the conservation studios of the National Gallery, she chips away at the layers of overpaint on a canvas from the collection. Will the discovery of an unexpected truth help her find the clarity she craves?SECOND SELF is a novel about confronting expectations, and learning to cope with the nagging, complex questions that shape a life. It's about minds and bodies at the mercy of natural forces and social pressure. Above all, it's an ode to big decisions, small, tender moments, and how we choose to be. This absorbing second novel from the author of WET PAINT is perfect for fans of EXPECTATION and SORROW AND BLISS.
Second Shot
by Adam CarpenterA long summer has kept Jimmy McSwain away from the city he loves, uncertain of what the future holds. But upon his return, tomorrow quickly becomes a deadly today.Jimmy has often done work for his sister Mallory’s law firm, and this time the new partner and his handsome associate want to hire Jimmy to solve the mystery of twin brothers. One of the twins lies in a coma, while the other has gone missing. Aiding Jimmy in this confusing case is Brenden Hendricks, the young lawyer who just happens to have a strong attraction to Jimmy. Then murder rocks the Portnoy clan.Meanwhile, there’s Jimmy’s lingering obsession with the criminal mastermind Mr. Wu-Tin. Jimmy is determined to bring him down, and the NYPD knows that. Brought in to assist the Special Task Force, Jimmy feels he’s being manipulated, but this is his best lead yet. The problem is his partner assigned to the case: his ex, Francis X. Frisano. Soon Jimmy and Frisano are setting traps for Wu-Tin, even as the cornered man is setting his empire ablaze.Complex, confounding, the duality in his life will test more than Jimmy’s loyalty. It could rock his very foundation. Deep down he knows that by solving both cases, he’s got a second shot at a new life.
Second Sight (Arcane Society #1)
by Amanda QuickIn financial straits and on a sure path to spinsterhood, Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House, far from society's prying eyes, would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. <P><P> She was there to photograph the relics and artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization, founded two centuries earlier by an eccentric alchemist. And the alchemist's descendant - her employer, Mr. Gabriel Jones - had the eyes of a sorcerer . . . <P> After a night to remember, Venetia is prepared to cherish the memories of her romantic encounter and move on, but she is shattered when, shortly after their night together, she reads of Jones's death in the papers. As a private tribute to her one-time lover, she adopts the name "Mrs. Jones" and the guise of a respectable widow, and embarks on a new career as a fashionable photographer in London, where her unique ability to "see" beyond her subjects and capture that quality in her photography makes her photographs highly prized. But her romantic whim causes unexpected trouble. For one thing, Mr. Jones is about to stride, living and breathing, back into her life. <P> And the bonds that tie them together include more than just the memory of passion; Venetia's special "double vision" has caught the attention of someone Mr. Jones is tracking - someone who will go to any lengths, even murder, to possess an ancient, extraordinary secret that has been lost for centuries. Someone who believes that as the "wife" of Mr. Jones, Venetia is the key. Now, as she introduces Gabriel about town as her miraculously back-from-the-dead "husband," Venetia must join him in a perilous quest to track down a dangerous opponent who manages to stay one step ahead. As they explore the darker, wilder underbelly of the modern, scientific Victorian world, they must see through society's illusions - or this time, Gabriel Jones may not be coming from the dead, and neither may Mrs. Jones.
Second Sight (The Jigsaw Files #2)
by Sharon SalaThe clock is ticking…When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult’s rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers. Once accepted into the cult, men are given a young girl to marry in exchange for one of their own daughters.The FBI has been monitoring the cult’s activities, but Charlie and his assistant, Wyrick, aren’t bound by the same rules as the feds. They head to the mountains of West Virginia to infiltrate the cult’s compound. The lives of children are at stake, and Charlie and Wyrick will risk everything to destroy the cult and its leader—no matter the cost—because this case is personal.
Second Sight
by David WilliamsThis classic, much-loved novel tells the story of Jennie Logan, a woman caught between two worlds, two times, and the two men she loves--one her husband and one an artist who may have died in 1899. David Williams' novel is a thrilling read, part love story, part mystery--a tale of time travel (or is it madness?) that keeps the reader guessing until the very end. Now back in print, this exquisitely written book is not to be missed.