Mara is a plus-size mermaid, mocked and rejected her entire life by her own family and an entire kingdom of the thin. When her envious sister offers her up as a sacrifice to the forbidden Abyss, Mara finds herself not among monsters, but in a world where fullness is true magical power — and falls in love with its beautiful queen. But the moment the legendary Heart of the Ocean awakens, capable of uniting two warring worlds, Mara has no choice left — she must protect her new love, her people, and herself from her sister's schemes and the cruel King of the Upper Sea, both willing to do anything to preserve an age-old lie.
I put a love note in a jacket pocket at a party. Wrong jacket.
It belonged to Logan McCallahan — captain of the Black Bears, the most photographed woman in the X League, and the one person at that party who could have read it out loud. So she did. To everyone.
And then she said: "I've liked you too."
She's lying. She'd just been dumped in front of four hundred people and needed a story, and I'm a walk-on receiver who has never taken a snap and waits tables until midnight. Three months. Fake. She makes her ex jealous, I get close to the woman I actually wrote the note for. Nobody gets hurt.
Except her father has her whole life planned down to the week. Except her ex is on my roster and knows which locker is mine. Except a magazine has decided what I am, and printed it under a photograph of me in my kit.
And except that when her shoulder went, she signed away the only future she had left — so that I could keep mine.
We agreed on three months. Nobody agreed on this.
June Sinclair has been invisible her whole life — a broke girl from Minnesota sweeping up spilled popcorn in the most beautiful theatre in the city, sleeping in its balcony because she has nowhere else, writing poems she has never shown a living soul. Roxane Sterling has never wanted for anything — the most famous woman in the American theatre, fifteen years the face of a role she made immortal, married to the man who made her and never lets her forget the invoice. Then, in front of nine hundred people, that husband takes the microphone out of her hand mid-ovation and announces he's replacing her — and hands her the girl with the broom to train as her own replacement. So Roxane's bargain sounds simple: total obedience for three months, and she will turn a nobody into a star. Her rules are simpler still — no kissing, no sleepovers, no sex. Business, never pleasure. But every lesson breaks the wrong woman — and it isn't the student. The girl learning how to be wanted can't stop looking at the one teaching her how to want, and the closer June gets to the stardom she came here for, the harder it is to ignore the thing neither of them agreed to: real, ruinous, career-ending love — the kind that costs Roxane her marriage, her name and her control, June the only future she's ever been promised, and both of them the lie that this was ever just business.
When her cheating husband and his mistress throw Emma and her eight-year-old daughter—who suffers from a congenital heart condition—out into the freezing cold, Emma begins a desperate fight to save her child's life. While little Lily, lost in the snow-covered city, becomes a target for cruel strangers, Emma endures a living nightmare in her relentless search for her daughter. And when the worst is finally over, she returns to reclaim, piece by piece, everything her tormentors stole from her: her family, her home, her business, and her reputation.
Liza Ricci, the daughter of one of the world’s most powerful tycoons, arrives in a wheelchair to meet her potential fiancé, Antonio Salvatore, determined to test his true character. Unaware of who she really is, Antonio, his mistress Samantha, and their wealthy friends brutally humiliate Liza and put her life in danger. What they don’t realize is that the seemingly helpless woman in the wheelchair has the power to destroy their entire world. But just when Liza believes she has left them behind, a ruthless act of revenge changes her life forever — at the exact moment her first love returns.
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