Julia Wright couldn’t be more content with her job at the local library, nestled in placid, picturesque Serenity Falls. Until her wacky mother, petty-thief sister, and little niece “Toni the Biter” decide to crash her quiet party of one . . . and a new guy roars into town on his Harley, shaking up more than just the books on her shelves. Luke Maguire never thought he’d set foot back into the dull town where he'd spent his youth. But when his abusive father dies, he’s forced to return and take care of the family bar. While trying to get the people of Serenity Falls to lighten up a little, he makes an unlikely alliance with a feisty librarian, whose pages he’d really like to turn. The battle lines are being drawn and Luke may have an uphill fight on his hands, but he's determined to come out on top, tempting this good girl to be very bad. “Readers are going to love this!”—Susan Elizabeth Phillips “The author that readers of romantic comedy have been waiting for.”—Jayne Ann Krentz

In the second book of The Fancy Lives of the Lear Sisters trilogy, a former beauty queen's perfect life comes crashing down...but unexpected love may lift her right back up. To the outside world, former Miss Texas Rebecca Lear has the perfect life -- until her husband leaves her for another woman. Now Rebecca's life is a perfect mess, one she's determined to dig herself out of without a cent of her overbearing father's money. She heads to Austin to start anew, volunteering for a friend's political campaign to bulk up her nonexistent resume. Only Rebecca never counted on working with a hotshot attorney who makes her see red -- and feel sexier than she has in years. When Matt Parrish agreed to help out with his former fraternity brother's campaign, he wasn't signing up to babysit a former beauty queen. True, he can't deny she's beautiful...and sweet and funny and smarter than anyone gives her credit for. But men like Matt don't fall in love with women like Rebecca Lear. No matter how hot the passion burning between them...

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Lê. In a thorough investigation of the authors’ linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences. One of the few books to focus on Vietnam’s position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between “French” and “francophone” literature.

Single dad and television producer Logan Kilgarven finds his life turned upside down when his quirky new neighbor, Melody Seabright, who is rumored to be a witch, gets a job at his TV station, where she wreaks havoc on the set and on his heart. Original.