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Eliza has a full house! When her three children grew up and moved out, she downsized to a smaller property...but now they're all back. Every room in the house is taken and Eliza finds herself sharing her bed with her eldest daughter and her daughter's pug. Combined with the online course she's trying to finish, plus her job to fit in, there just isn't the peace and quiet that Eliza needs.

Hudson Jennings wants to get away from the world of business his father is trying to trap him in. He’s seen what it’s done to his family, and to his ailing mother. Why not buy a house in a small town and move far away from it all? Shannon Kendrick is graduating college after six long years of putting herself through school and working at a country club. She’s ready to start her career and help people that are less fortunate. When she meets a guy who has it all and he’s rude to her, she chalks it up to being a rich, entitled, son of a billionaire.

Playing a mystery game seems the perfect way to celebrate Jamie Kydd’s promotion to detective sergeant rank. But the game turns real when a body turns up in the pretend crime scene. Perhaps worse than spoiling the party, the corpse is someone Jamie knows. Even though the police take on the case, Jamie asks his friend, former police detective Michael McLaren, to also investigate—concerned that the victim’s criminal past may dampen the Constabulary’s usual fervor to nab his killer. If the victim’s burglary partner, ex-wife, or childhood friend didn’t kill Dan, who did?

Doktor Proktor, a kétbalkezes professzor Párizsba indul, hogy megtalálja szerelmét, Juliette Margarint. De útközben szörnyű bajba keveredik: időviharba kerül. Képeslapon értesíti két tízéves segítőjét, a vöröshajú nagydumást és okos barátnőjét, akik nyomban útnak indulnak, hogy megmentsék.

The setup was simple. To ferret out a blackmailer, FBI agent Ryan Vail and his partner are going undercover as a couple at an intimacy retreat. But when Ryan wakes to find a replacement "wife" in his bed, he knows he's in big trouble…. FBI agent Angie Wolf is on the job. Sure, there's a wicked attraction between her and Ryan, but they're professionals. Touching, kissing - it's all part of the sting. But the intimacy retreat is doing its job, because each tension-filled night in bed is blurring the line between truth and lie. Now this investigation has turned into one irresistible temptation!

After a decade of building her career in the city, Beca is ready to escape the humdrum. When she sees her dream home for sale in her hometown, it starts to seem like fate. But when she arrives and visits her grandparents' ice cream parlour, Beca is horrified to find out that the new owner, her ex-boyfriend Ed, has stripped the heart out of it. Determined to honour her family's legacy, Beca decides to follow in their footsteps and make delicious ice cream with the help of a long-forgotten recipe book and boat house.

Harry Hole wird nach Sydney geschickt, um dort den Mord an einer norwegischen Schauspielerin aufzuklären. Doch der Mord bleibt kein Einzelfall. Scheinbar willkürlich werden blonde Frauen auf bestialische Weise erwürgt. Ist der Täter ein hasserfüllter Psychopath? Doch dann passiert ein Mord, der nicht in diese Serie passt. Da setzt Hole alles auf eine Karte. Er lässt seine Freundin Brigitta den Lockvogel spielen. Sie ist jung und sie ist blond.

One New Year’s Eve, Georgie James and her friends come up with a genius plan to help them stick to their resolutions… They all write down secrets, seal them in envelopes and then post them to each other. The secrets will be revealed at the end of the year if they haven’t kept their resolutions. It’s perfect. Except…Georgie's secret is BIG... and revealing it could destroy their friendships. She has no idea why she chose that one to write down. There are plenty of innocent things she could have said – even admitting she finds newcomer Raf incredibly annoying would have been better.

Cinematography student, Katie Bassinger, shoots a naughty video of her roommate, Monica, playing naked tennis – a gift for Monica’s boyfriend. But when Monica offers her bum for a spanking if she loses, things turn raunchy. And Katie gets it on camera! When Monica pulls a surprise win at the US Open, Katie finds herself in possession of the hottest porn-video in America. So, continue as a wannabe camera-gal? Or sell Monica out? As soon has Kate’s apartment is ransacked, things get rough for the enterprising Kate. A randy tennis champion playing in the nude; a studio owner with hidden ...

Jack Tarkington's life is in the toilet. He was supposed to be spending his junior year studying someplace cool, like Paris or Rome. Instead, after taking out his anger on the campus golden boy, whose dad ripped off his parents, Jack is facing possible expulsion. Sure, it's all his own fault, but coming back to the small Iowa town he thought he'd escaped, after crowing about his admission to a prestigious school, has been a humbling experience.

Ein verschlafenes Nest in Norwegen, vom Abstieg bedrohte Menschen - und zwei Brüder, die sich bis aufs Messer bekämpfen. In den norwegischen Bergen lebt ein Mann ein friedvolles Leben. Doch eines Tages kehrt sein jüngerer Bruder - schon immer der erfolgreichere und charmantere der beiden - in ihren Heimatort zurück, in Begleitung seiner neuen schönen Frau. Schon bald wird klar, dass er nicht so unschuldig ist, wie es scheint.

Former Black Ops soldier Logan McCabe is in high-tech heaven. The "smart" apartment he's staying at has it all - luxurious amenities, walls that change color, and a seductive and nearly naked woman in the living room. Now that's everything a man can ask for. Except Kensey Roberts is no pixel pinup...and the sexual tension between them is most assuredly real.

Tanyana is among the highest ranking in her far-future society – a skilled pionner, able to use a mixture of ritual and innate talent to manipulate the particles that hold all matter together. But an accident brings her life crashing down around her ears. She is cast down amongst the lowest of the low, little more than a garbage collector. Who did this to her, and for what sinister purpose? Her quest to find out will take her to parts of the city she never knew existed, and open the door to a world she could never have imagined.

The dark tale of Annania and Sophia and their journey into being immortal. An epic tale of love, lust, and cruel fates!

The smooth faces of boy soldiers stand out in Civil War photography. Yet until now, scholars have largely overlooked the masses of underaged youths who served as musicians, carried wounded from the field, ran messages, took up arms, and died in both the Union and Confederate armies. Of Age is the first comprehensive study of how Americans responded to the unauthorized enlistment of minors in this conflict and the implications that followed.

Oslo in den 1970er Jahren: Olav lebt das einsame Leben eines Killers. Als Killer ist es nicht leicht, anderen Menschen nahe zu kommen. Doch jetzt hat Olav die Frau seiner Träume gefunden. Aber: Sie ist die Frau seines Chefs. Und Olav wurde gerade beauftragt, sie zu töten.

When Rachel sets off, alone, for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, back to normal. But, from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected: along with the memories of her mother, there is something else, a presence - not quite tangible - trying to make itself felt.

Doctor Victoria Ward has been killing men for over 30 years. Her victims all have one thing in common: They’re abusive. Righteousness is a close companion - it helps her sleep at night - and she holds the virtue closely as she defends the innocent, upholding the law when it won’t rise to protect those who need it most. When she meets a young girl named Kelly and follows her down a twisted path of deception, Doc Ward finds herself face-to-face with a ghost from her past.

He’s sworn off women, she can’t risk falling in love… The only girl Austin “Spatch” Madden has time for is his service dog named Piper after his wife gave birth to a child belonging to someone else. A training accident makes him walk away from his career in the Rangers, leaving him a wandering nomad until meeting an up-and-coming CEO named Dillan Knot. Marisol Borrero is the princess in her story. Unfortunately, hers is a kingdom of evil. Her father occupies a high-ranking position in the Puerto Rican Mob. When her brother dies of a mysterious illness and her mother is murdered, ...

High in the mountains, Zel lives with her mother, who insists they have all they need - for they have each other. Zel's life is peaceful and protected - until a chance encounter changes everything. When she meets a beautiful young prince at the market one day, she is profoundly moved by new emotions. But Zel's mother sees the future unfolding - and she will do the unspeakable to prevent Zel from leaving her...