Download or read book The Frenemy Zone written by Yolanda Wallace and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olly Smith-Nakamura had it all until an unexpected financial setback forces her dads to leave their idyllic life in San Francisco behind in search of a fresh start. Relocating to a small West Virginia town where families like hers are considered an anomaly was not how she planned to spend her senior year of high school. Her grandmother tries to sell her on the merits of her new home, but she just sees more reasons to leave than to stay. No one knows Ariel Hall has a secret. No one except the BFF who broke her heart. Sharing her truth isn’t on her agenda because unless she’s throwing strikes on the softball field, she prefers to fly under the radar. Olly Smith-Nakamura is everything she’s not: out, proud, and in your face. They don’t get along at all. So why does kissing her seem like more fun than butting heads?

Download or read book Partnering with the Frenemy written by Sandy Jap and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2015-11-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as a finalist for the 2018 Leonard L. Berry Marketing Book Award! Why do crucial business partnerships and alliances fail so often and how can you keep it from happening to you? Partnering with the Frenemy answers these questions, helping you anticipate, prevent, and solve the problems that lead close business relationships to implode. Drawing on cutting-edge research, Sandy Jap illuminates the widespread “frenemy” phenomenon in organizational partnerships, where partners who start as non-competitive “friends” become “enemies” over time. She identifies key economical and structural causes of “frenemization,” in which success creates imbalances in power dynamics, leading partners to generate resentment, contempt, and often direct competition. She also illuminates crucial social causes for partnership failure, where seemingly innocuous acts of interpersonal opportunism and “sins of omission” gradually poison collaboration. To support her insights, she offers numerous case studies, both ongoing and historical, including Samsung/Google, Martha Stewart/Macy’s, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, Best Buy/Apple, Calvin Klein/Warnaco, and Nike/Footlocker. Most important, she offers specific recommendations for avoiding problems, revitalizing weakening partnerships, and recognizing when a partnership can’t be saved. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT CONTRACTS AND MONEY Understand how to better manage emotions, suspicions, and expectations from Day 1 WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM OTHERS’ FAILING PARTNERSHIPS Anticipate, prevent, and mitigate the core causes of business relationship failure RECOGNIZE PARTNERING “OPPORTUNISM” BEFORE IT DESTROYS COLLABORATION Fix partnering problems while you still can IT’S NOT A MARRIAGE: HOW TO BECOME COMFORTABLE SAYING GOODBYE Know when to end a partnership, and how to part as “friends”

Download or read book E steem Blast From The Past written by Shawn James and published by Shawn James. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Girl gone good! Good Girl fights her Demonic Doppleganger! When Decadia’s plan to kill a teenage John Haynes in ancient Egypt fails, she sends the evil E’steem of the past to attack John and E’steem in the present day. Can Hell’s aspiring Angel and John Haynes overcome the most powerful she-demon in All Hell?

Download or read book The Frenemy Mistake written by Laura Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We should have started, and ended, with sex. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that crap. Instead of being a fun stress relief, rock climber Grant turned out to be the most boring date in the history of the universe. I wanted to scratch that itch, not bore it to death. Lesson learned. If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s taking life lessons to heart. One problem remains: His best friend and my best friend are engaged. It’s why we waited as long as we did for that awful date. Now we need to team up to help plan a quickie wedding, because when your bestie needs a favor, you come prepared, no matter who you have to team up with. If only the attraction didn’t spark back to life, making this planning business a whole lot more fun than expected. It’s hot as hell, and Grant’s climbing all my walls, right into my heart, until I discover the addiction in his past. I’m not sure of the details, but my parents were addicts, teenage addicts at that, and I can’t afford any more of that in my life. Only he’s gotten under my skin, and ending as friends no longer looks like an option. **Mistaken Hearts is a standalone series. Each book can be read out of order, though may encounter spoilers for previous books**

Download or read book An Epic Guide to Go into Depression written by Ashish Cecil Murmu and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you alarmingly content or dangerously optimistic? Do you find yourself smiling for no reason at all? Fear not — “An Epic Guide to Go into Depression” is here to douse those sparks of happiness with a cold, hard shower of sarcasm and self-sabotage. This guide is an essential toolkit for anyone looking to master the art of misery, teaching you how to cultivate a life rich in despair and devoid of joy. Learn how to alienate friends, alienate potential lovers, and sabotage every good thing that dares come your way. With our expert advice on embracing solitude, ignoring self-care, and nurturing grudges, you’ll go from well-adjusted to wonderfully wretched in no time. So why settle for happiness when you can have so much fun being miserable? Dive into this guide, and let’s turn that smile upside down!

Download or read book Redeeming the Cowboy written by Lisa Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a cowboy know when to hang on …and when to let go? Five years ago, bull rider Bear Stone lost everything. His best friend. His fiancée. His career. And Piper Healy, his best friend’s wife, never forgave him for the rodeo accident that killed her husband. Now they’re working together to save his family’s ranch. But can this cowboy choose between his last chance at the rodeo…and the woman he’s falling for? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. Stone River Ranch Book 1: Rescuing Her Ranch Book 2: Redeeming the Cowboy

Download or read book Love Inspired October 2023 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Jackie Stef and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: TRUSTING HER AMISH RIVAL (A Bird-in-Hand Brides novel) by Jackie Stef Shy Leah Fisher runs her own bakery shop in town. When an opportunity to expand her business comes from childhood bully Silas Riehl, she reluctantly agrees to the partnership. They try to keep things professional, but will their past get in the way? REDEEMING THE COWBOY (A Stone River Ranch novel) by Lisa Jordan After his rodeo career is ruined, cowboy Barrett Stone did not expect to be working with Piper Healy, his late best friend’s wife, on his family’s ranch. She blames him for her husband’s death. Can he prove he’s more than the reckless cowboy she used to know? THEIR SURPRISE SECOND CHANCE by Lindi Peterson Widower Adam Hawk is figuring out how to parent his young daughter when an old love, Nicole St. John, returns unexpectedly—with a fully grown child he never knew he had. Nicole needs his help guiding their troubled son. Can they work together for a second chance at family? For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired October 2023 Box Set – 1 of 2

Download or read book Never Close Your Heart written by Monica F. Anderson and published by TyMAC Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unless it's under reconstruction...never close your heart. Essence best-selling author Monica F. Anderson delivers a delightful, stand-alone sequel to her acclaimed novel “When a Sistah’s Fed Up” in this humorous and heartfelt story about love, family, and the power of forgiveness… Ambitious and beautiful, Faith Henry is a savvy woman. By all measures—her career, friendships, and financial accounts—she is certifiably successful. Right? Not so fast. She’s hopelessly entangled in the ties that bind: Her millennial daughter, Sloane, has returned to the nest with an electronic ankle monitor, gender-fluid child, meek husband, and very bad attitude. Her son, Trey, is in a relationship with an older woman who has questionable motives. Friends are tsk tsking Faith’s choice to replace her decades-long significant other with a series of online mismatches—and that longtime manfriend is wasting no time moving on. Things are so bad, even her ex-husband is a friend. And she’s tempted to grant him benefits. How did this happen? Ten years ago, vowing to control her own destiny, she left her marriage and career in politics. She strategically crafted and executed a fail-proof plan to build a new life. Her life. On her terms. Those goals are almost within her grasp. As the talent behind the popular Never Close Your Heart podcast, Faith’s insightful advice is increasingly going viral. She’s attracting the potentially lucrative attention of a media conglomerate—complicated by the not-so-welcome overtures of a menacing superfan. As her followers can attest, Faith’s superlative advice about relationships is unequaled. Amid the swirl of drama, controversy, and danger that threatens her and her family, will she heed her own words? Connect with the author Monica "Dr. mOe" Anderson at https://linktr.ee/drmoea

Download or read book Honeybees and Frenemies written by Kristi Wientge and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Flor faces a bittersweet summer with a pageant, a frenemy, and a hive full of honey in this “sweet and satisfying read about friendship, sisterhood, and change” (Kirkus Reviews). It’s the summer before eighth grade and Flor is stuck at home and working at her family’s mattress store, while her best friend goes off to band camp (probably to make new friends). It becomes even worse when she’s asked to compete in the local honey pageant. This means Flor has to spend the summer practicing her talent (recorder) and volunteering (helping a recluse bee-keeper) with Candice, her former friend who’s still bitter about losing the pageant crown to Flor when they were in second grade. And she can’t say no. Then there’s the possibility that Flor and her family are leaving to move in with her mom’s family in New Jersey. And with how much her mom and dad have been fighting lately, is it possible that her dad may not join them? Flor can’t let that happen. She has a lot of work to do.

Download or read book Drifting written by Lyn Hemphill and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tessa has always pushed her emotions away where they can’t hurt her. She always does the right thing, or she tries to. So, when she jumps into the ocean after Jet, she thinks she’s saving her life. Of course, she can’t possibly know Jet is actually a mermaid. Jet is desperately trying to get her tail back after a devastating battle saw her cast out of the water for her own safety. The last thing she expects is a beautiful human floundering after her determined to get in her way. Jet must work out how to get home to her people before her mistakes cause her clan’s demise. Tessa wants to help Jet, but how can she if she doesn’t accept the truth? As they fall for each other, they discover that love can teach you what is truly important even when facing the impossibility of blending two very different lives.

Download or read book Finding Fault written by Annie McDonald and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two immutable forces are destined to clash in the Canadian prairies. Dr. Evie O’Halloran is a geologist and a lifelong environmental activist. Her current focus is one of Saskatchewan’s chemical manufacturers, Farmexal, whose toxic products have been mysteriously showing up in local farmers’ fields. Merritt Shepherd, an investigator with the Ministry of Environmental Resources committed to changing environmental policy, is undercover at Farmexal in the middle of a potentially catastrophic situation and directly in Evie’s sights. Evie and Merritt have radically different ideas on preventing environmental disaster, and neither is looking for love. Evie is struggling to manage her PTSD, and, as an undercover investigator, Merritt risks upending her case if she shares the truth with Evie. But when they develop an attraction stronger than they’ve ever known, Evie and Merritt must risk their hearts to save their love and the environment.

Download or read book Playing Love s Refrain written by Lesley Davis and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drew Dawes’s life revolves around fantasy. She’s the geeky owner of a comic book store, cosplays at conventions, and loves her superheroes. Her life is a million miles away from the one her parents envisioned for her as a musical prodigy. They expected fame, fortune, and headlining the stages in Nashville. Drew never wanted the life they forced onto her as a child, and their deaths changed her world forever. Since then, the songs in Drew’s heart are silent. Wren Banderas has her career planned out in minute detail. Becoming head chef at a very popular restaurant is just another step closer to her biggest dream: a restaurant bearing her own name. Her star is rising, yet self-doubt plagues her. Drew and Wren couldn’t be more different, but each still carries wounds from the past. Falling in love was never part of the plan, but they just need each other to heal and make their dreams come true.

Download or read book Triple Dog Dare written by Georgia Beers and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sasha Wolfe has been talking up her new girlfriend to her overbearing mother for months, and when her skeptical sister dares her to invite this new squeeze over for family Christmas, Sasha accepts the challenge. After all, how hard can it be to bring your nonexistent girlfriend home for the holidays?

Download or read book Enigma written by Suzie Clarke and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a time for courage, a time for sacrifice, a time for love. In the fall of 1941, the United States Office of American Defense summons agent Polly Silvester to find an elusive spy. Critical information about aircraft designs, production numbers, and flight schedules vital to America’s safety are being stolen from the Portage Aircraft plant in Barberton, Ohio. And the spy is most likely a woman. Polly’s orders are simple. Find the spy—whatever the cost or sacrifice. Polly has taken an oath to protect and serve her country, but the spy she’s hunting may be the love of her life. Desperate times and impossible choices skew the line between what’s right and what matters. Can Polly do what she must when everything is on the line?

Download or read book Profile written by Jackie D and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Derby is crass, bossy, and unrelenting. She’s lived in her father’s shadow during her tenure with the FBI, and she wants nothing more than to be free of it once and for all. She’s been sniffing around a case that seems to be connected to others and, if broken, could make her career—or maybe destroy it if the insider corruption she uncovers is divulged too soon. The clock is ticking, and each passing day leaves her caught in the cross hairs. The last thing she wants is to ask for help, but she’s running out of options. Cassidy Wolf has made a name for herself within the FBI Behavior Analysis Unit. Her empathetic and level-headed nature makes her a poster child for recruitment brochures. She’s shocked when the beautiful and tenacious Alex Derby comes to her for help but finds it’s difficult to say no. Life, death, and careers hang in the balance as Alex and Cassidy inch closer to the truth. Falling for each other is the last thing either of them needs. It could be what saves them or finishes them for good.

Download or read book Securing Ava written by Anne Shade and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava Prescott has had one goal in life, to carry on the Prescott legacy by taking the reins of Diamond Unlimited Wealth Management. Her father’s determination to uphold the company’s wholesome family image propels Ava into a reluctant fake relationship with Kyle, a man she’s sure is a threat to the business. When her father is the victim of a suspicious accident, Ava believes Kyle is responsible and has no choice but to run. Paige Richards saw enough violence to last a lifetime during her years as a counterintelligence specialist. She’s ready for some peace on her ranch in Oklahoma and is paying the bills as a private investigator. Paige takes a case to locate and bring back runaway heiress Ava Prescott. It seems simple enough, until she stumbles upon a bungled kidnapping attempt and her peaceful life is turned upside down. Now she must use every skill she has to secure Ava. As they try to figure out who is out to hurt Ava and her family, Paige and Ava fight to stay one step ahead of the threat and resist their growing attraction. But ignoring their feelings may prove impossible when their hearts and lives are at stake.

Download or read book Craving Cassie written by Skye Rowan and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siobhan Carney and Cassie Townsend are opposites. Siobhan’s struggling in her marriage but keeps things together for her two children. Cassie’s a charming investment banker and infamous flirt who just won’t commit. When Siobhan arrives as a trainee at Cassie’s firm, desperate to shake up something in her life, she doesn’t expect their connection to change their lives forever. Siobhan and Cassie are instantly drawn to one another, but far too much stands in their way, including Siobhan’s children and Cassie’s fear of falling in love. Try as they might, it’s impossible for them to keep away from each other. They relish the time they spend together and find they appreciate one another in ways they had never expected. This leads to a calculated proposal neither woman can resist, and their attraction grows deeper and more intense despite everything holding them back. But are they brave enough to give up everything they have ever known to be together?