Download or read book Taming the Grump Complete Series written by Ada Stuart and published by Ada Stuart. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when an ill-mannered grump stands in the way of your best friend’s happiness? Straight-laced Emmie has the perfect solution: Distraction, play dumb and a lot of fake support calls. Easy-peasy. There’s only one downside: Emmie has to put herself directly in the line of the fire, making Jake turn his attention to the shy termagant ruining his day. But what happens when Jake sees through her shenanigans and decides it’s payback time? Particularly when he turns his revenge into a sexual battle, leaving Emmie so hot and bothered that she can’t see straight. Still, losing is never an option. Even if Emmie must step out of her comfort zone and use every dirty trick she can think of. But in the end, will she be able to tame the beast – or will he tame her? ————— “Taming the Grump - Complete Series” is a steamy hot Enemies to Lovers Erotic Romance. Full length, explicit sex scenes, standalone, no cheating or cliffhangers - and Happily Ever After. NOTE 1: This book contains the complete series. NOTE 2: Explicit content. For adults only. Themes: Protector, Enemies to lovers, Happily ever after, Opposites attract, Wallflower, Grumpy, Alpha male, Fling, Love triangle, Unrequited love, Relationship coach, Last to know, Disguise, Revenge Note: This is an extended and edited version of a previously published story, “Seduction”. ————— Excerpt: “Haven’t you fixed it yet?” Irene asked as she hurried to her desk, deliberately ramping up the pressure. “Sure. It’s user-related,” Jake said in a bored tone. “No, it’s not!” Emmie said. “It’s that stupid piece of junk ruining my day.” “Man, you really need a reboot,” Jake sighed. “I’m not a man, Jake. And don’t try to blame this disaster on me!” Emmie snorted. The nerve of the man. How dare he talk to her like that? “Have fun, you two,” Irene said quickly. “I’m heading out for lunch. See you later.” She winked at Emmie as she passed her. “Thanks,” she whispered. “Okay,” Jake said as if he tried to regain his patience. “Let’s remove the clutter and start with the obvious.” He stepped closer to her. Emmie eyed him suspiciously. What was he up to now? Without saying a word, he held her waist and lifted her as if she were light as a feather. She felt his body against hers as he pulled her toward him. She gawked at him, suddenly unsure what was happening. But just as quickly, he sat her down at the far end of her desk before turning toward her computer. “I beg your pardon! You could have asked nicely instead of moving me around like furniture.” Emmie spluttered in indignation. She felt like spouting fire at the man. How dare he touch her? And with apparent ease. He’d even called her ’clutter’. How could he? Jake grinned at her, enjoying her indignation. "You took too long." "I hope you strained a muscle. Or hurt your back." Emmie glared at him as she wrapped her arms in front of her chest, gasping for breath at her unexpected treatment. She refused to acknowledge that she enjoyed being swept off her feet by this strong and handsome man. Jake roared with laughter. Emmie had seldom heard him laugh before, and she was momentarily shocked. She liked the sound of his laughter, even though it was at her expense. Jake turned and looked at her, his eyes sparkling with laughter. "Don’t count on it, Miss Precious. With a featherweight like you? I’m not a weak computer geek who can barely lift a mouse." "Says who?" Emmie challenged him. ——————

Download or read book Tempting Taste written by Sara Whitney and published by LoveSpark Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All she wanted was some cake. She didn’t mean to flambé his life. Josie Ryan didn’t intend to drag the hot wedding cake baker into that teeny little fight she picked with his boss. And she definitely didn’t expect him to lose his job over it. Oops. To make amends, she’ll just have to help the charming grump open his own bakery. (What, like it’s hard?) Josie knows Erik Andersson craves stability and quiet, while she's three chaos raccoons in a trench coat and kick-ass heels. But she also knows that Erik needs her business savvy almost as much as she needs him to ditch his iron control, bury his hands in her hair, and kiss her until they both forget about rental agreements and gluten-free flour sources. Just as they start exploring their chemistry outside of the kitchen, the bakery’s growing pains threaten their partnership. If Josie wants forever with Erik, she’ll have to come up with a new recipe for success—one that tastes sweet to both of them. "Definitely one of my top 10 favorite book boyfriends of all time.” Laurie, Laurie Reads Romance Grab this steamy opposites-attract romance about a quiet baker who saves his hottest, sweetest words for the feisty PR whiz he never saw coming. Tempting Taste is book 1 in the award-winning Cinnamon Roll Alphas series, which delivers all the playful banter, upbeat vibes, and HEAs your romance-loving heart craves.

Download or read book Didn t Expect You written by Claudia Burgoa and published by Claudia Burgoa. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestselling author brings you a new romantic comedy

Download or read book Temptation written by Kris Bryant and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie Miller is broke. Her parents cut off all funding when she dropped out of medical school, and graduate school is expensive. A full-time nanny job at the Wellington estate is the answer to her problems, except working for beautiful, successful Brook Wellington wasn’t in the job description. Brook has always had a head for business. Born into a global shipping empire, she sits at the helm running it with skill and savvy. But success comes at a cost. Her priority is her six-year-old son, but she can’t be in two places at once. Hiring a nanny isn’t the perfect solution, but it would certainly help, and Cassie came highly recommended. If only she wasn’t so damn attractive. Can Cassie and Brook deny their growing attraction and keep things professional? Or will they sidestep propriety and give in to temptation?

Download or read book Against All Odds written by Claudia Burgoa and published by Claudia Burgoa. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Against All Odds series is a romantic comedy saga with lots of humor and some angst. Wrong Text Right Love Didn't Expect You Love Like Her

Download or read book The Temptation to Be Happy written by Lorenzo Marone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Sad, funny, wise and unblinkingly honest, this is truly wonderful.’ Daily Mail ‘I like the smell of pines and the aroma of freshly washed laundry. I like the rattle of hail on windowpanes and the texture of volcanic rock. I like the light in the sky when the sun has gone down.’ Cesare is an unlikely hero. As he says himself, ‘I am seventy-seven years old, and for seventy-two years and one hundred and eleven days I threw my life down the toilet...’ Is it too late for him to rediscover his passion for love and life? Already an international bestseller, The Temptation to Be Happy is a coming-of-age story like no other. 'Immensely charming... Uplifting and very much on the side of life.' Mail on Sunday

Download or read book The Dom Next Door written by Michelle Love and published by Blessings For All SC. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this bad boy billionaire romance. I used to know exactly what I would do with my life, and why. I planned to devote myself to God. I was in the middle of my novice training a little over a year ago, when someone blew up my parents' car. They were the kindest people in the world, and their deaths shook the foundation of my faith. Now I'm lost, knocking around in a half-furnished new house with no family left but a sister who hates me. No one has ever found the people responsible for my parents' murder, and the police don't seem interested in trying to find them, either. The only bright spot in my life is the man who lives next door with his baby daughter. I look at him and remember that I'm a woman, not just a failed novice. He gives me one smile, and I feel some of the glacier of grief inside of me melt away. I can only imagine what a kiss from him would do. Keywords: Billionaire romance, bad boy, new adult, instalove, age gap romance, alpha male, new adult romance, steamy romance, age gap romance older man younger woman, sweet romance, romantic novels, love, action, adventure, sexually romantic books, hot, alpha hero, contemporary romance, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, sweet romance, love books, love stories.

Download or read book The Boy with the Bookstore written by Sarah Echavarre Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a baker meets the bookshop owner of her dreams, and he turns into her nemesis, they’ll both have to read between the lines to avoid a career-ending recipe for disaster. Max Boyson looks good...from a distance. But up close and personal, the tattooed hottie Joelle Prima has been crushing on for the past year and half has turned into the prime example of why you shouldn’t judge a book by his delectable cover. When she first learned about the massive renovation to the building they share, Joelle imagined that temporarily combining her Filipino bakery with Max’s neighboring bookstore would be the perfect opening chapter to their happily ever after. In her fantasies they fed each other bibingka and pandesal while discussing Jane Austen and cooing over her pet hamster, Pumpkin. Reality, however...is quite different. Her gallant prince turned out to be a stubborn toad who snaps at her in front of customers, dries his wet clothes in her oven, and helps himself to the yummy pastries in her display case without asking. But beneath Max’s grumpy glares, Joelle senses a rising heat—and a softening heart. And when they discover the real reason for the renovation, they’ll have to put both their business senses and their feelings for each other to the test.

Download or read book Tempting Auzed written by Victoria Aveline and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Primary Eureka 4 written by Diana Tham and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest edition to the Primary Eureka series features outstanding primary school compositions written, selected, compiled, and edited by English Language standout pieces by her students, providing model structures and valuable tips to help primary school pupils crystallise their ideas and maximise their creative potential for writing stellar compositions in everyday schoolwork, examinations and beyond.

Download or read book Ice Cream Lover written by Jackie Lau and published by Jackie Lau Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sexy romantic comedy with a grumpy hero who hates ice cream and a heroine who owns an ice cream shop...

Download or read book Billionaire Grump written by Willow Fox and published by Slow Burn Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Levi Luxenberg. 40-year-old billionaire. CEO of Luxenberg Enterprises. And apparently, father of one. A week ago, having kids wasn’t even in my 10-year plan. Now, I have a 5-year-old daughter who will hardly look in my direction. I am aware that Amelia is grieving her mother’s death, and I swear I’m not a complete jerk, but I jumped on a private jet to Chicago at a moment’s notice, and the kid won’t even say a word to me. As if that wasn’t bad enough, our pilot just got sick and I have to fly commercial for the first time in years. You’d think that would be the end of it, but no. The cherry on top? Amelia would rather interact with Clare, the divorced, jobless, tipsy woman sitting right in front of us, than me. She chats with her, she smiles at her—she even draws her a freaking picture. I would be really mad if I didn’t actually need a nanny. Urgently. Since my assistant screwed my ad over and made me look like a grumpy billionaire desperately looking for a wife, Clare suddenly seems perfect for the job. She has no place to live, no idea who I am, and no qualms about being my live-in nanny on a trial basis. The problem is, I think I might want to keep her around longer…

Download or read book A Brush with Love written by Mazey Eddings and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine out of ten dentists agree, Mazey Eddings's rom-com A Brush with Love makes your smile brighter!* *not scientifically proven Harper is anxiously awaiting placement into a top oral surgery residency program when she crashes (literally) into Dan. Harper would rather endure a Novocaine-free root canal than face any distractions, even one this adorable. A first-year dental student with a family legacy to contend with, Dan doesn’t have the same passion for pulling teeth that Harper does. Though he finds himself falling for her, he is willing to play by Harper’s rules. So with the greatest of intentions and the poorest of follow-throughs, the two set out to be “just friends.” But as they get to know each other better, Harper fears that trading fillings for feelings may make her lose control and can't risk her carefully ordered life coming undone, no matter how drool-worthy Dan is. Blood, gore, and extra-long roots? No problem. The idea of falling in love? Torture.

Download or read book The Lady of a Grump written by Linda Rae Sande and published by Twisted Teacup Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a grouch. She's the reason. Having said her farewells to her son when he departed for his Grand Tour of Europe, Patience Grayson, the newly widowed Marchioness of Billingsley, heads for the country. She intends to spend at least a year living by herself in the Grayson family estate in Shropshire. If only her traveling coach could make it that far. When a wheel breaks, it does so in a most inconvenient location. Saddled with an earldom left nearly bankrupt by his late father’s gambling and drinking, Max Higgins, Earl of Greenley, hasn’t had a good day for over twenty years—not since the woman he was supposed to marry threw him over for another. Ever since, his bitterness has him known throughout Staffordshire as the Earl of Grump. Although he found another to be his countess, the poor woman died giving birth to his heir, some say to escape his surly moods. Max’s solitude in his Staffordshire country manor house is about to be shattered when the cause of his grumpiness invades his home—and his bedchamber—on a late winter night. Will life ever be the same?

Download or read book Tempting Lies written by Sara Whitney and published by LoveSpark Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She can’t stop thinking about her fake boyfriend’s filthy mouth. Thea Blackwell never commits to anything. Not jobs, not hairstyles, and especially not men. But she does dream about putting down roots in the cute fixer-upper she’s always loved, and when her dreams get a little, ahem, sweaty, she even lets herself picture the sexy contractor she wants handling the renovations. Aiden Murdoch. Town playboy and Thea’s former neighbor. (You know, the one who still thinks of her as the little kid next door.) Although she can barely afford the house, let alone the cost of renovations, Thea offers to hire Aiden on a whim, and he shocks her with a counterproposal: He’ll fix up her house if she'll fix up his wild reputation. Pretend to be Aiden’s girlfriend and get her dream house on the cheap, with no messy emotional entanglements? She can’t say yes fast enough. But when her fake boyfriend’s kisses start feeling a little too real, Thea has to decide whether to dig up her fragile little roots and flee—or stay and work on the future Aiden wants them to build together. “Sweet and funny and sexy all at once. I couldn't put this down.” Mari, Mari Loves Books Blog Pick up this hot fake-relationship romance featuring competency catnip, a rescue dog with the worst (best?) timing, and a charismatic contractor who's great with caulk. Like all Sara Whitney books, Tempting Lies delivers playful banter, steamy encounters, upbeat vibes, and a verrrry happy ending.

Download or read book The Billionaire Next Door written by Jessica Lemmon and published by Forever. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can't Buy Me Love It's Tag Crane's job to be the life of the party. Traveling from one exotic locale to another is just part of running the luxurious Crane Hotel empire. But even paradise isn't perfect. Devising a new business strategy is keeping Tag up at night-and so is the Great Dane barking at all hours in the apartment below his. To muzzle the problem, Tag charges downstairs . . . right into the most beautiful, blond distraction he's ever seen. Dog-sitting by day, bartending by night. It's not exactly the life Rachel Foster dreamed of. But when Tag Crane rushes in, all mountain-man shoulders and obscenely sexy smile, needing her help for the Crane Hotels, it's a fantasy come true. What's the harm in a fun no-strings fling? Only a fool would give her heart to a billionaire player like Tag-until suddenly the one man who can't be caught is the one flirting with forever . . .

Download or read book Too Much Man written by Katy James and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grumpy former hockey player and a bisexual coffee-shop owner refuse to commit—to themselves or each other—in this fun, flirty debut Piper Welborn has created a warm, welcoming space for all in her queer-inclusive coffee shop, even if the long hours came at the cost of her love life. But she’s not ready to welcome one man in particular—a grumpy, muscular former hockey player. His smoldering presence is a temptation and a challenge to her long-standing vow not to date cis men. Gavin Williams has no business starting a relationship, least of all with a woman he’s not sure even likes him. He can’t resist the Friendly Bean’s hot, pink-haired owner, but a casual fling is all he can commit to. He’s hoping to leave town for the next stage in his career…if he ever gets the call with the job offer. A friends-with-benefits arrangement is perfect for them both—but neither is ready for the feelings that hit. When the post-hockey life Gavin always dreamed of is suddenly within his grasp, they’ll both have to make a choice: hold tight to what they thought life should look like, or work together to build something new. Firebirds Book 1: Too Much Man