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Bear by Kris Michaels
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn explosive blast from the pastA former mission rears its head and places Bear McGowen in the middle of an impossible situation. His old friend is missing, but he left a trail to follow. As Bear investigates, the twisting turns of the past meld with the present investigation. It necessitates specialized help from his employer, Guardian Security... -
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Myles by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFormer Delta Operator Myles Simms doesn’t know when to quit. The concept so foreign to him he can’t give up on Delilah Watts. A woman he’s never met—a woman who might be the enemy yet he’s compelled to save her. Intel Specialist Delilah Watts never imagined sending an email would be deadly. Kidnapped and left to die, yet she regrets nothing...Categorized as:
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![Happiness for Beginners by Carole Matthews]()
Happiness for Beginners by Carole Matthews
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMolly Baker is living her best life. Thirty-eight years old, she lives on the twenty-five-acre Hope Farm in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by (mostly) four-legged friends and rolling hills. There's Anthony the anti-social sheep, Tina Turner the alpaca with attitude, and the definitely-not-miniature pig, Teacup... -
![Finding Love at Mermaid Terrace by Kate Forster]()
Finding Love at Mermaid Terrace by Kate Forster
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLove comes when you least expect it...Tressa Buckland likes her quiet life in Port Lowdy, with its cobbled streets and colourful terraced houses overlooking the sea. Her job at the local paper allows her to pursue her art in her free time, with no one but her tabby cat Ginger Pickles to mind her in Mermaid Terrace...Categorized as:
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![Fortune's Ashes by Helen Harper]()
Fortune's Ashes by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA new power. A new threat. And some very new dangers.Everything is falling apart. I've been cursed with the ability to catch glimpses of the future. It's a power which Lukas despises but it's one that I can't seem to get rid of. I'm also in trouble at work. Somebody else is claiming that they are the one true phoenix and that my entire existence is built on lies...Categorized as:
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![Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson]()
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Costa First Novel Award winning author Caleb Azumah NelsonOne of the most acclaimed and internationally bestselling “unforgettable” (New York Times) debuts of the 2021, Caleb Azumah Nelson’s London-set love story Open Water took the US by storm and introduced... -
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A Summer of New Beginnings by Lisa Hobman
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeet Zara Bailey, a travel writer paid to cover some of the globe's most luxurious locations. Jetting from wooden huts on stilts in turquoise seas to boutique hotels with roaring fires to 7* penthouse suites with panoramic views of the world's most glamorous cities..Categorized as:
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![The Billionaire's Secret: Enemies to Lovers Fake Marriage Romance by L. Steele]()
The Billionaire's Secret: Enemies to Lovers Fake Marriage Romance by L. Steele
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"You are MINE..." Saint Jordan Killian CaldwellA gazillionaire with a panty melting smirk; and a soul as broken as my own.I wanted a child.He wanted a willing wife.I wanted someone to break me and build me up again...He wanted no emotions, no connection.A simple transaction, that's what he said it would be.I needed something in me to shatter, so I could finally live...Categorized as:
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Weapon of Seduction by Maureen Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWILL LOVE COME TOO LATE?It’s a good thing FBI agent Korrine Friday didn’t arrest that nosy stranger who appeared at the crime scene she was processing, because (A) he’s Rafe Santiago, her new supervisor at the field office in San Antonio, and (B) he’s gorgeous... -
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Masters and Mercenaries Bundle: 3 Stories by Lexi Blake by Lexi Blake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDungeon Games Derek Brighton has become one of Dallas’s finest detectives through a combination of discipline and obsession. Once he has a target in his sights, nothing can stop him. When he isn’t solving homicides, he applies the same intensity to his playtime at Sanctum, a secretive BDSM club. Unfortunately, no amount of beautiful submissives can fill the hole that one woman left in his heart... -
![Sticks and Stones by Katharine E. Smith]()
Sticks and Stones by Katharine E. Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe scene is set for the perfect summer. Business is booming. The weather couldn’t be better. Best of all, Sam is coming back to Cornwall. For good. A storm is brewing, however. It seems that somebody, somewhere, has it in for Alice, although it is not clear who, or why. As Julie tries to help her friend, she finds her own thoughts turning progressively towards motherhood...Categorized as:
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![A Summer Wedding for the Cornish Midwife by Jo Bartlett]()
A Summer Wedding for the Cornish Midwife by Jo Bartlett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt’s wedding day in Port Agnes!The venue is booked, the dress is picked, and Senior Midwife Anna Jones only has to say ‘I Do!’ to the man she loves! Theirs might have been a whirlwind romance, but Brae Penrose is everything Anna dreamed her husband would be and she can’t wait to start a new life with him...and if they are lucky, maybe even a family of their own...Categorized as:
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![Following You Through Time (Moonlight Wishes in Time Series) by Bess McBride]()
Following You Through Time (Moonlight Wishes in Time Series) by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook Three of the bestselling Moonlight Wishes in Time series, a historical time travel romance series set in England's late Regency/Georgian era Christopher Mason Denison is lost in time, lost in the twenty-first century... -
![Ravaged With You by J. Kenner]()
Ravaged With You by J. Kenner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRetired from the military and finally free of the demons of past missions, former Special Forces soldier Charlie “Red” Cooper leads a blissfully calm life running his successful distillery. At least until the day he finds his partner and best friend drowned in one of their best barrels of whiskey...Categorized as:
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![Kick Off: The District Line #1 by C F White, Rebecca Baker Fairfax]()
Kick Off: The District Line #1 by C F White, Rebecca Baker Fairfax
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when opposite sides of the track collide? East Londoner Jay Ruttman has only ever wanted one thing― to be a professional footballer. But after a disastrous brawl on the pitch gets him released from his pro-Academy, he has to follow plan B and enrolls as university Sports Scholar. Head down, train hard and get scouted is his motto... -
![Rough Around The Edges: A LESBIAN ROMANCE NOVEL by Crystal Chard]()
Rough Around The Edges: A LESBIAN ROMANCE NOVEL by Crystal Chard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Fresh, fab and funny. The characters leap off the page and swear at you until you love them while the sweet romance quietly captures your heart." CLARE ASHTON.Roxanne Mackenzie is not exactly living her best life. After moving to London to follow her dream of becoming a writer, she thought things would be different – better. Instead, they’re a whole lot worse... -
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Desperately Entwined by Emily Jane Trent
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDesperately Entwined, Book 8, is the dramatic conclusion of Touched By You: Natalie loves Tanner too much, and her heart might burst. If only he felt the same…. Her life has become inexorably entwined with his, and she’s desperate to have a future with him. Can Tanner make the commitment she longs for, or will the romance end? “She loved him so much she thought her heart might burst... -
![Kissing Father Christmas: A Novel by Robin Jones Gunn]()
Kissing Father Christmas: A Novel by Robin Jones Gunn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBestselling and award-winning author Robin Jones Gunn returns to the cozy English village of Carlton Heath, with a winter romance to melt your heart. A year-and-a-half ago, Anna flew from Minnesota to Carlton Heath to attend the wedding of her cousin, Ian, to an American woman named Miranda. The beautiful event ended with Anna receiving an unexpected, unforgettable kiss from groomsman Peter... -
![Clover's Child by Amanda Prowse]()
Clover's Child by Amanda Prowse
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction. Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife and What Have I Done? When eighteen-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last... -
![The Sunrise Sisterhood by Cathy Bramley]()
The Sunrise Sisterhood by Cathy Bramley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree generations of women, and the summer that saved them.The holidays are here, and in Salcombe, Liz longs for the arrival of her god-daughters, Skye and Clare and Clare's daughter baby Ivy. After years on her own, she needs help to save the catering business she built with Clare's late mother, Jen...Categorized as:
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![Star Crossed by J.S. Taylor]()
Star Crossed by J.S. Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final instalment in the bestselling Starlight Trilogy... A young singer and a dangerous mentor 'X Factor meets Fifty Shades - I can't get enough of this series!' Total Book Blog The last book in the Starlight Trilogy sees Summer and Adam explore the dangerous depths of their relationship. But when Adam opens his heart, a deadly threat could tear them both apart... -
![Like a Christmas Dream by Lindsay Harrel]()
Like a Christmas Dream by Lindsay Harrel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Follow your dreams” is not her family’s motto.But this Christmas, Sarah’s doing the unthinkable—defying her wealthy parents.Instead of fulfilling expected holiday obligations, she visits a quaint English village to help her estranged sister open her dream bakery. And yes, Sarah fully expects things to be awkward between them.What she doesn’t expect?Michael Hammett...Categorized as:
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![The Certainty of Chance by Jacquelyn Middleton]()
The Certainty of Chance by Jacquelyn Middleton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT DECEMBER…Madeleine Joy is feeling more meh than merry. When an Icelandic volcano erupts six days before Christmas, hazardous ash congests European airspace, canceling flights indefinitely—including the thirtysomething's connection to Paris... -
![The Inadequate Spy by Scarlett Haven]()
The Inadequate Spy by Scarlett Haven
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing the new girl on an all guys team is going to suck! There are Spy School agents, and there are Spy School Royals. My family, we’re the royals. I am fifth generation Spy School, the best of the best. My family started training me while I was still in the womb. Yet, despite all the training, I’m still a disappointment to them... -
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![What If I Never Get Over You by Paige Toon]()
What If I Never Get Over You by Paige Toon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne Day meets a contemporary Bridgerton in this high-drama, escapist wonder of a love story, Paige Toon’s best yet.Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget.Ellie didn’t expect to fall in love while interrailing through Europe. But she also didn’t expect to meet a man like Ash... -
![A Kiss Before Christmas by A.E. Ryecart]()
A Kiss Before Christmas by A.E. Ryecart
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristmas is looming and Jack De Lacy needs a solution to one hell of a fix. Dumped by his boyfriend in favour of his best friend, Jack's been busy bragging about a hot new man in his life. A hot new man who doesn't exist... -
![London, Can You Wait? by Jacquelyn Middleton]()
London, Can You Wait? by Jacquelyn Middleton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlex loves Mark. Mark loves Alex. But is love enough? Since moving to London from the US, twenty-four-year-old Alex Sinclair seems to have it all: a coveted job writing for the theatre, supportive friends, and the man of her dreams—gorgeous Irish actor, Mark Keegan. But in the year since the acclaimed debut of her play, Alex and Mark’s lives have been turned upside down... -
![Summer Secrets at the Apple Blossom Deli by Portia MacIntosh]()
Summer Secrets at the Apple Blossom Deli by Portia MacIntosh
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLily Holmes is ready for a fresh start. And there’s no better place to begin again than the idyllic seaside town of Marram Bay.All Lily wants to do is focus on making her new deli a success and ensuring her son’s happiness. Not the postcard creeping out of her handbag, and definitely not finding a new man in her life!But this isn’t going to be as easy as she first thought... -
![The Little Cornish House by Donna Ashcroft]()
The Little Cornish House by Donna Ashcroft
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStep into stunning Indigo Cove on the beautiful Cornish coast, where you’ll find sunshine, secrets, and a summer that will change everything for Ruby Caldwell.Thirty-year-old Ruby’s life is safe and predictable: no dramas, no complications, no men. And that’s just the way she likes it – there’s no way she wants to get her heart broken again...Categorized as:
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![The Stopping Place by Lily Morton]()
The Stopping Place by Lily Morton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSimeon Frith is recovering from a car accident at his house in Cornwall. He’s a successful man and usually very self-sufficient, but after attempting to open a can of baked beans with a brick, he realises that he needs help. However, he never imagined that putting an advert in the paper for an assistant would result in the gorgeous Ziggy Tuesday sauntering into his life... -
![One Dirty Scot by Donna Alam, Kellie Dennis]()
One Dirty Scot by Donna Alam, Kellie Dennis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s dirty, hot, and Scottish. Hear him speak and you’ll understand . . . So. Damn. Sexy. He wears a suit like a hooker wears lingerie. For the business of temptation. I’m not giving in. Even if his hands were in my panties the night we met . . . It won’t happen again. We’re too different—I’m a doctor. Professional. Sensible. While he seems to have stepped from my Tumblr feed... -
![Christmas by Candlelight by Karen Swan]()
Christmas by Candlelight by Karen Swan
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSnowed in for the holidays…It’s three days before Christmas and just starting to snow… Against her better judgement, Libby Pugh has been persuaded by her best friend to stop in on their university reunion on her way back from a wedding in North Yorkshire with her boyfriend, Max... -
![Christmas in the Snow by Karen Swan]()
Christmas in the Snow by Karen Swan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNo secret stays buried forever...In London, the snow is falling and Christmas is just around the corner - but Allegra Fisher barely has time to notice. She's pitching for the biggest deal of her career and can't afford to fail. And when she meets attractive stranger, Sam Kemp, on the plane to the meeting, she can't afford to lose her focus either... -
![The Holiday Cottage by Sarah Morgan]()
The Holiday Cottage by Sarah Morgan
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsUSA TODAY bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with a heartfelt story of friendship, finding yourself, and the surprising ties that bring us together.To the outside world, Imogen is a marketing dynamo. Her colleagues don’t know that while her high-achieving professional image is real, the happy childhood stories she spins are as fake as her pretend enthusiasm for Christmas... -
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![The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall]()
The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsMatrimony meets mayhem in a modern British romcom about a young woman charged with pulling off the biggest aristocratic wedding of the year––and the misadventures that ensue.Sophie Breeze is a brilliant bridesmaid. So brilliant, in fact, that she’s made it her full-time job... -
![Swan Song by John Galsworthy]()
Swan Song by John Galsworthy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1928. English novelist, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. To readers of Galsworthy there is a special significance in this novel for it marks the passing of Soames Forsyte and brings the annals of the Forsyte family to an end... -
![The Friendship Fling by Georgia Stone]()
The Friendship Fling by Georgia Stone
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this delightfully charming and heartfelt debut love story, two lonely and wildly different strangers embark on a short-term friendship over one London summer—only to discover they may be something more by the time the season ends.No one would ever call Ava Monroe a people person, which isn’t ideal for a barista in a busy London coffee shop...Categorized as:
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![Blue Murder by Emma Jameson]()
Blue Murder by Emma Jameson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTwo Dead Men In London’s fashionable Chelsea, a Halloween bash goes terribly wrong. Emmeline Wardle, daughter of a frozen foods baron, throws a party which results in the demise of two university schoolmates. Handsome golden boy Trevor Parsons is dead. So is pasty computer nerd Clive French... -
![The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]()
The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the author of The Lost for Words Bookshop, The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae will warm you from the inside out. Ailsa Rae is learning how to live. She's only a few months past the heart transplant that—just in time—saved her life. Life should be a joyful adventure. But . . . Her relationship with her mother is at breaking point and she wants to find her father... -
![She Wore Red Trainers by Na'ima B. Robert]()
She Wore Red Trainers by Na'ima B. Robert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Ali first meets Amirah, he notices everything about her—her hijab, her long eyelashes and her red trainers—in the time it takes to have one look, before lowering his gaze. And, although Ali is still coming to terms with the loss of his mother and exploring his identity as a Muslim, and although Amirah has sworn never to get married, they can't stop thinking about each other... -
![Capture & Surrender by L.A. Witt, Aleksandr Voinov]()
Capture & Surrender by L.A. Witt, Aleksandr Voinov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLambda Literary Award Finalist Ever since his partner died, Frank has resigned himself to staying single. He wards off the loneliness by spending time with friends on the paintball field and running his high-end brothel, the Market Garden. After one of his most lucrative rentboys quits, Frank is thrilled when a gorgeous replacement walks through the door... -
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Str8 B8 by K.C. Wells
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWork has been a little hard to come by recently for builder Tom Ryder. When a friend tells him about the wad of cash he got for starring in an adult video, Tom seizes the opportunity. Besides, his friend said his co-star was really hot, so Tom is definitely not seeing a downside.Until he arrives for the shoot and finds out his friend glossed over one important detail—Tom’s co-star is a guy... -
![Coming Home to Winter Island by Jo Thomas]()
Coming Home to Winter Island by Jo Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWrap up warm and explore the breath-taking beauty of a remote Scottish island and an old house waiting to unlock enchanting family secrets.Do you need to find out where you've come from before you can know what the future holds?Ruby's singing career is on the verge of hitting the big time, when her voice breaks. Fearing her career is over, she signs up for a retreat in Tenerife to recover...Categorized as:
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![Fever Dream by Annabel Joseph]()
Fever Dream by Annabel Joseph
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPetra Hewitt’s the top ballerina in the world, and The Great Rubio her obvious counterpart, so why does she want to strangle him whenever he’s around? He’s haughty, abrupt, demanding—and alarmingly sexy. Petra knows Rubio is dangerous to her heart, to her peace of mind, and worst of all, to her career, but his rough flirtation compels her... -
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![House of Secrets by Lynda Stacey]()
House of Secrets by Lynda Stacey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA woman on the run, a broken man and a house with a shocking secret … Madeleine Frost has to get away. Her partner Liam has become increasingly controlling to the point that Maddie fears for her safety, and that of her young daughter Poppy. . Desperation leads Maddie to the hotel owned by her estranged father – the extraordinarily beautiful Wrea Head Hall in Yorkshire... -
![Meeting Sang: Luke by C.L. Stone]()
Meeting Sang: Luke by C.L. Stone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLuke Taylor can’t seem to ever relate to his brother, North. They’re like night and day: North is rigid and intense where Luke is playful and a dreamer, his head often in the clouds. Being around each other too long can be difficult. The Academy and Luke’s friends helped to bring them together, and Luke will be forever grateful, but North is just no fun sometimes...Categorized as:
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![The Highland Crush by Amy McGavin]()
The Highland Crush by Amy McGavin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIona Stewart, the girl I grew up with, is back in Bannock, and it's like an old wound has been ripped open.Memories of our time together—our childhood mischief, the twilight talks by the loch, the nights we spent wrapped in each other's arms—come crashing back.Things between us couldn't be more different now. She avoids me at all costs...Categorized as:
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![September Ends by Hunter S. Jones]()
September Ends by Hunter S. Jones
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOverweight and dull. That’s how I felt.My grandfather and brother died. I hid inside a black cave deep in my soul, numbed for a decade on meds, booze, and bad love, married to my glorious career.My name is Liz Snow, from Atlanta, Georgia, and this is my story.One hot summer I fell hopelessly in love with successful attorney, Peter William Hendrix III, from Chattanooga, Tennessee... -
![Bound By Love by Emily Jane Trent]()
Bound By Love by Emily Jane Trent
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNatalie’s submission has Tanner’s desire spiraling out of control. She’s in touch with sexual pleasures she never dreamed of, and can’t imagine life without him. Tanner admits to his obsession with Natalie, but is that all it is? “I never met a woman I crave, like I crave you. It’s not so much what we do, as how we do it. There are no words. It’s different with you... -
![Playing It Close by Kat Latham]()
Playing It Close by Kat Latham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere do you go to escape everything when you're one of the most famous rugby players in the world? For Liam Callaghan, that place is a remote lodge on Venezuela's Caribbean coast. Perfect, except he doesn't exactly want to be alone with his thoughts. Enter Tess Chambers, the ultimate distraction...
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