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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married Malcolm, a first generation Korean American with a lucrative job in banking. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. Georgiana, newly graduated...
Author
Language
English
Description
Presidents have come and gone, but Marjorie Merriweather Post has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie had an insatiable drive to live and love and to give more than she got. Her journey began gluing cereal boxes in her father's barn as a young girl. As the General Foods empire grew and reshaped the American way of life, Marjorie became its heiress and leading lady. But she dared to demand more, becoming...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Superbly tense and oozing with atmosphere, Anna Downes' debut The Safe Place is the perfect summer suspense; a deft examination of the lengths we'll go to protect the facade of a perfect life. Emily Proudman's life is in chaos. She's just lost her actingagent and her job in one miserable day. Scott Denny has a problem. Even though he's a successful CEO, neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can come close to fixing it. He's at a breaking point....
4) Final offer
Author
Series
Dreamland Billionaires volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tasked with selling his grandfather's Michigan lake house in order to receive his inheritance, CALLAHAN "CAL" KANE is determined to do right by his grandfather, but standing in his way is ALANA CASTILLO, Cal's childhood friend and now co-owner of the lake house. Alana's mother was the caretaker of the lake house and Alana share fond memories there, not only with Cal's grandfather but with Cal himself. While Cal's destructive ways stood in the way...
Author
Series
Calendar girl volume 1
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Mia Saunders just barely escaped a paltry life back home in Las Vegas until she gets the call that her father has been beaten to within an inch of his life for not paying his gambling debt. Problem is, the lone shark is her lousy, ruthless ex-boyfriend. Another guy in a long line of men she'd fallen head over heels for. Not anymore. Mia's mission is simple. Serve as a high-priced escort for her Aunt's company and pay monthly against her Father's bad...
Author
Series
Felix Castor volume 6
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"'London's exorcists! I have a reward for all of you, a job for one of you. Come to Brierley House, 20th April, 9.00am.' The newspaper ad is a baited hook and it smells like a three-day old corpse. But hey, it's a grand in hand just for turning up so Felix Castor goes in anyway, alongside the curdled cream of his dubious profession. And once he's in it's hard to get out again. Brierley House is the home of Russian oligarch Gavril Ustinov, now missing,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her caretaker father is wrongly blamed for a deadly house fire, Pearl befriends its only survivor and his friends in hopes of getting answers about what happened that night, but what she uncovers will change her life and the entire town forever.
Author
Series
Calendar girl volume 3
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Mia Saunders's journey continues in the third ... anthology of the Calendar Girl Series, when she visits Miami, Texas, and her hometown, Las Vegas. In July, she serves as the seductress in a music video for platinum-selling hip hop artist Anton Santiago. Still dealing with the trauma from June, Mia opens her heart and finds that taking risks in life and love can give her all she ever needed and more. Next, she heads to Texas in August to put on her...
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Language
English
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Description
"For fans of Parasite and Ready or Not--a destitute woman pretends to be someone else and moves into the lower floor of a Los Angeles duplex, and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs. All out of money and friends' couches to sleep on, Demi is desperate. Lucky for her, a stranger presents her with the chance of a lifetime: a new identity and the downstairs apartment in a secluded Beachwood Canyon duplex....
10) The fine print
Author
Series
Dreamland billionaires volume 1
Language
English
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He Falls First Romance
Opposites Attract Romance Trope
Secret Identity Romance Trope
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"Rowan: I'm in the business of creating fairy tales. Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels. Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland. My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her. Zahra: After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired. Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job. The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever...
Author
Series
Calendar girl volume 2
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Unwilling escort, Mia, heads to Boston, Oahu, and Washington DC. In April, she poses as girlfriend to philandering Mason Murphy, a professional baseball player who needs a better image, only to find he's not at all what she expected. May finds Mia turning up the heat with Samoan model and fire-dancer Tai Niko as she participates in a swimsuit campaign designed to prove that beauty really does comes in all sizes. Mia rounds out June as the arm candy...
Author
Series
Inheritance games volume 4
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Cuatro hermanos. Dos misiones. Una lectura explosiva. Vuelve al universo de Una herencia en juego con esta novela llena de riesgos e intriga. Grayson fue criado como el heredero de la fortuna de su abuelo, poniendo a su familia ante todo. Cuando parte de ella se meten en problemas, Grayson aparece para hacer lo que mejor se le da: ocuparse de ellos de manera rápida, sencilla y sin sentimentalismos por medio. A Jameson, en cambio, es un hombre de...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future--and his life as a man--and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old...
14) Save me
Author
Series
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Ruby Bell has two goals: to work hard to get into Oxford and to go unnoticed by all her elitist classmates at Maxton Hall College, where she attends as a scholarship student.
Author
Series
Calendar girl volume 4
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Calendar girl Mia Saunders has come a long way. She rounds out the end of her year-long journey in Hollywood, New York City, and Aspen"--Page 4 of cover.
The year is finally winding down, but unwilling call girl Mia Saunders is still paying off her father's gambling debt. In October she runs a segment on a celebrity TV show, helping a man deal with the aftermath of captivity. Then, in the Big Apple, Mia thinks things are finally straightening out...
16) Trust
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford--and it creates a dissonance in her best friend...
18) Calamity
Author
Series
[Uncharted hearts] volume 1
Publisher
Bramble, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can't refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She'll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward. She's got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest member... Temperance Reed, banished from the wealthy and dangerous Fifteen Families, just wants to keep her...
19) Mrs. England
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a house full of secrets, the nanny hides her own. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Distant...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall. Born in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she's not proud of to survive. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a...
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