I'm good at hiding my feelings.Having to pretend I'm not in love with my best friend?Pfft. That's child's play.Here's how I do it: I avert my eyes when he walks out of his room, shirtless in all his toned glory. I squash the butterflies that fill my stomach every time he slowly unfurls a dimpled smile. And, most importantly, I keep an arsenal of "personal massagers" in my bedside drawer. Wink.Not to brag, but Aiden Smith isn't hard to resist if you've been doing it for as long as I have. In fact, we might have continued as best friends forever if not for the fact that I needed him to play the part of my fake boyfriend.Date me like you mean it, I told him. Nudge nudge. C'mon, just go along with a little lie, help a girl out, and then we can all return to life as we know it.Except he veered from the plan.He crossed the line.Flirting with me when no one else was around? Pinning me down and kissing me like that? Okay, how exactly is taking off my bra part of the ruse, Aiden?!I'd ask him about it if I could, but well...things got ugly and we're not best friends anymore.In fact, we're the exact opposite. Now, I have to play nice even though I want to crush his heart in the palm of my hand. Pretending not to love Aiden was the easy part.Pretending not to hate him?Well...I might need a little more practice.

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

My love is poison. His kiss is mine. “The first time he saw me I was shattered glass, and he was a shadow. If I had stayed, he would have just faded away.” It’s strange how easy it is to tell our stories to a stranger’s eyes. The truth about Connor Stratford and I had always been a sad tale. Over ten years of chasing, tears, lies, vows, and leaving. Two people who never loved each other at the same time, but couldn’t let each other go. Now here I was telling our story over drinks midday in an airport bar with my old diary clutched in my hand. Telling some version of our story, anyway. I left him once with no goodbye. Now I was returning home to give him what he needed to move on. “It’s important. It’s what you’re thinking.” I knew what his message meant, sent in the middle of the night after I woke from a fever dream. He was finally ready, and so was I. I just needed to finally give him the kiss he begged for. The one that meant goodbye.

Normal people eat ice-cream when they've had a bad day. Emma goes wedding dress shopping. Emma gets caught trying on wedding dresses in a bridal boutique by an old frenemy. Too ashamed to admit she's not actually getting married, she comes up with the lie of all lies, that spirals out of control–– with hilarious consequences. A fake fiancé, friends-to-lovers romantic comedy with all of the feels. Light, fun, sweet romantic comedy. HEA.

“Full of revealing, instantly applicable ideas for leveraging your strengths and overcoming your weaknesses.” —Adam Grant, author of Think Again and Originals, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife For many of us, listening is simply something we do on autopilot. We hear just enough of what others say to get our work done, maintain friendships, and be polite with our neighbors. But we miss crucial opportunities to go deeper—to give and receive honest feedback, to make connections that will endure for the long haul, and to discover who people truly are at their core. Fortunately, listening can be improved—and Ximena Vengoechea can show you how. In Listen Like You Mean It, she offers an essential listening guide for our times, revealing tried-and-true strategies honed in her own research sessions and drawn from interviews with marriage counselors, podcast hosts, life coaches, journalists, filmmakers, and other listening experts. Through Vengoechea’s set of scripts, key questions, exercises, and illustrations, you’ll learn to: • Quickly build rapport with strangers • Ask the right questions to deepen a conversation • Pause at the right time to encourage vulnerability • Navigate a conversation that’s gone off the rails Now more than ever, we need to feel heard, connected, and understood in a world that keeps turning up the volume. Warm, funny, and immensely practical, this book shows you how.

Dragan Carter isn’t good enough for his best friend, June. Growing up poor in Oak Valley, he kept his expectations low: teach himself computer programming and take care of his mom and four younger siblings when his dad went on a bender. No way was he good enough for beautiful, smart June Beaumont, even if she was his best friend. June Beaumont’s life was perfect. Or that’s what everyone else thought anyway. And with two doting parents, a prosperous family bookstore, and a group of close friends, who could blame them? Dragan, her best friend since kindergarten, was the only person who saw the real June, the person behind all the storybook stuff that made up her perfect life. Dragan was the one who let her be real, the one who helped her pick up the pieces after her parents were killed in a car accident. But when June’s grandparents pass the once-booming bookstore to her, the truth is irrefutable: the fairytale is over. The bookstore is deeply in debt, and June can’t seem to find her footing to save it. Still, Dragan is by her side, totally oblivious to the fact that she finds him impossibly hot, ambitious, and talented. While Dragan rushes to sell an app he’s been working on to help save the bookstore, he needs her help to deter his family from their over-bearing questions. The solution? Asking his best friend to be his fake girlfriend. As Dragan and June try to save the bookstore and give his family a reason to stop pestering him, their attraction becomes undeniable and their true feelings come to the surface. But when your best friend is the only thing you can count on with the sand shifting beneath your feet, is it worth the risk to follow your heart?

Every year, millions of men and women stand before friends and family to pledge their lifelong love to each other. Do they know what they’re getting into? Unfortunately, many people have a shallow, superficial idea of what marriage is. As a result, many marriages don’t last, and many more married couples are trudging along looking for something more. Love Like You Mean It gives husbands and wives a biblical understanding of what real love looks like in marriage by unpacking the ten attributes of genuine love listed in 1 Corinthians 13. Bob Lepine, marriage and family expert and host of the nationally syndicated radio program FamilyLife Today, helps husbands and wives discover that it’s not primarily emotions that define marital love, but actions and decisions that fuel emotions and cause marital love to grow. Every person who is married, would like to be married one day, or wants to understand more about the biblical vision of marriage will find what they’re looking for as they dive deep into Love Like You Mean It.

She's off limits, but that's the hottest setup of all. I want a bit of fun, not a relationship, and I've come to New York to find that. When a mix-up forces me to share an apartment with a sexy little American, it sounds like my dream come true. Except Arden Clover Pesti is my almost sister-in-law's best friend, and she's a virgin. And slightly insane. I shouldn't touch her. But when she purrs that she loves my British accent and sashays around in her skimpy underwear... Arden talks about auras and aliens and microwaves frying our brains. Still, she has the sort of body any man would kill to enjoy for fourteen whole days. And I'm starting to realize she might not be as barmy as I thought. Still, I shouldn't get naked with her. It would be wrong. When she begs me to be her first time, I forget all the reasons we shouldn't do this. After all, I'm the Dixon brother who does the wrong thing the right way. One Hot Roomie is the second book in the Hot Brits series from Anna Durand, author of the bestselling Hot Scots series. Don't miss the audiobook featuring Shane East & Vanessa Edwin!

Bad boy Brody Campbell won't let anyone stand in the way of his pursuit for a music career, nonstop parties and arena tours. But when he meets single mom, Leah Willett, his outlook on life and his future start to change. Leah falls hard and fast for Brody, even though she knows that a guy like him can never be who she needs at the end of the day. But she can't help herself. He makes life exciting for the first time in forever. But does she love him too much to keep him from his dreams?

Many couples find themselves at a point where they need a passion boost. How can husbands and wives break through the many obstacles and issues that have derailed their desire and get back on track to being the crazy-in-love couple they once were? Solomon had a few secrets up his ancient sleeves, and marriage therapist Dr. David Clarke helps readers learn why the passionate exchanges and God-inspired, 3,000-year-old techniques of Solomon and Shulamith worked then--and still work today. Readers will learn how to troubleshoot problems and conflicts, put each other first, employ praise, have fun, flirt, be more playful and sensual, and rediscover the lost art of a great kiss. Every married couple can experience exhilarating passion; Dr. Clarke and the Song of Solomon reveal how!