ALEXA – ALESSANDRA Story of Love A Novel by Anita Sumariwalla Alexa is a Swiss student who won a scholarship to study music in Rome, Italy. She meets Munir, an Arab artist. Their love blossoms as they experience the joys of first love. Through deception and manipulation by others they are forcefully separated. They experience the profound sorrow of broken hearts. Alexa’s uncle recognizes her deep despair and invites her to go to England over New Year to meet his friends from Oxford. There, Alexa meets Gordon Charles, the only son of an Earl, a diplomat. The two fall in love and get married. Charles wishes that his wife be called by her real name Alessandra. He gets posted to Washington, DC where they live in an old Tudor house. During one of the diplomatic functions Alessandra meets someone from her past who will affect the rest of her life. She becomes Alexa-Alessandra.

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Get your drama on as the girls from the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, SOUTH BEACH, strut back into the limelight in another sizzling spring break tale of romance, friendship, and crushes gone bad.Two beautiful girls. One sexy city. Endless opportunities for l'amour.When ALEXA ST. LAURENT falls in love, she falls hard. Can she keep her cool after meeting a French guy who's too good to be true and too hard to resist? For HOLLY JACOBSON, being in love with her boyfriend, Tyler, is as natural as breathing. But there's no denying that Alexa's Parisian cousin Pierre takes Holly's breath away....On a whirlwind rendezvous in Paris, the City of Love, Alexa and Holly are about to discover that everything sounds sexier in French.

When Alexa is sent by a magazine to be an undercover contestant on the reality TV series "Falling For Mr. Right" she assumes the worst part of the assignment will be having to act like a brainless bimbo to win the affection of an arrogant guy out looking for his 15 minutes of fame. Color her shocked when it turns out not only are several of her fellow contestants intelligent, funny women...but Brandon – aka Mr. Right - isn't at all the kind of guy she thought he'd be.

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"A brilliantly juicy Cinderella tale."—Heat Beautiful but broke student Polly and scheming social climber Alexa may have grown up in the same place, but they couldn't be more different. Polly's just fallen for Max, a handsome country vet. But Alexa can't be bothered with love—any guy with a pedigree will do, mind you, as long as he comes with a title, a mansion, and a family tiara. Alexa wiggles her way into friendship with Florrie, a clueless aristocrat who could support entire countries with her spare change. Suddenly the grandest doors swing open for Alexa, and a new life is so close she can taste it. Polly could care less about Max's money, but his mysterious habit of disappearing scares her. What's he hiding? Razor sharp in its wit, and as fresh as newlywed royals, Marrying Up reveals how sometimes a rags–to–riches story can rip a girl to shreds—and how sometimes the rewards of love aren't always what you expect. "Holden's tale of social snobbery and bare–faced ambition is a modern fairy tale that chimes perfectly with our post–Will and Kate world."—Glamour

How do you escape a past you can't remember? 'Had me gripped from the start' 5* reader review 'An outstanding debut' 5* reader review 'Such a mega page-turner' 5* reader review Kate Sullivan has a beautiful home, a job she loves and a handsome fiancé: all she'd ever dreamed of since getting sober and painstakingly piecing her life back together. But a chance encounter with her old best friend Becky threatens Kate's newfound and fragile happiness. Kate remembers nothing of their last drunken night out, the night Becky broke off their friendship without warning or explanation. With Becky back in her life, Kate is desperate to make amends for the past. For the closure she craves, Kate needs to know what she did that ruined everything. But what if the truth is worse than Kate could have imagined? 'A clever tale of how our demons shape our lives' ALEXANDRA SHULMAN 'A cracking debut' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Gut-wrenching and powerful' CHARLOTTE DUCKWORTH '[An] emotional page-turner' WOMAN'S WEEKLY 'Beautiful writing and devastating twists' MIRANDA SMITH 'A real, clever page-turner. Dare I say addictive' TINA BAKER ***Previously published as Closure***

Sometimes the sharpest bite brings the sweetest pleasure… Alexa Dangelis has returned home after eight long years to attend her father’s funeral and take the throne as vampire queen of the East Coast. The public believes their king committed suicide, but Alexa knows better–he was murdered, and she’s determined to prove her half-brother did it. Werewolf Penny Seiler was once Alexa’s secret lover, until Alexa betrayed her to marry the vampire king of the West Coast. When they meet again, sparks fly. While Alexa focuses her attention on regaining Penny’s trust and love, her half-brother plots to wrest the throne from Alexa’s control. To stop him from destroying the capital city and her future with Penny, Alexa must broker a peace treaty with the werewolves and convince the vampire community werewolves are more than mere animals.

An enthralling novel of love and lost chances, perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley's THE PEARL SISTER, Dinah Jefferies THE SAPPHIRE WIDOW and Santa Montefiore. To find what she has lost, she must go back to the beginning . . . 1924 The First World War is over and eleven-year-old Alexa is growing up on the idyllic Cornish coast with her best friend Harvey. But she soon discovers there are secrets at the heart of her family that have been hidden for years. 1931 Alexa flees Cornwall for the intoxicating city of Venice. But her new glamorous life is not what she hoped for and, with dark shadows closing in on her, Alexa will question everything she thought she wanted . . . 'A touching tale of star crossed lovers' New Magazine on Map of Stars

Alexa Smith, Born in the early 1400s as a weak and sickly child, was not expected to reach manhood. It is now 2013 and Alec, (which he is now known as) has not aged past 23 years. After receiving his new life over 600 years ago, by the beautiful, but blood thirsty Angelica. Alec finds himself without a female companion, having killed Angelica 300 years prior. But Alecs trouble is not finding love, but keeping it. With only his friend Will, (a young man with problems of his own) Alec continues his search for real love. Natalie Valdez, a young women of 18, with already a difficult past is put through torment before her accidental rescue. Now that Alec has found real love, it might be taken from him as quickly as it came. Breath Taking, a story of friendship, love, jealousy, and ancient magic is truly breathtaking.