Résultats pour "Only One" dans Fiction

They called me the pretty boy on and off the ice. Hockey’s most eligible bachelor. When my teammate asked me to donate one date to his charity, I figured why not. Worst case, I’d spend the night with a fan. Best-case scenario, she would be hot. What I wasn’t expecting was for my dream girl to be the highest bidder. For years, she brushed me off, and now, I finally had a chance to take her out and show her who I really was. With only one shot at this, I really hoped I didn’t mess it up.

Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas - a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade.

Manny Grover is enjoying a peaceful life in a small North Texas town until an unexpected move to the big city turns his world upside down. As he navigates the challenges of his new environment, he encounters a cast of intriguing characters, including the scrappy and crude Jack Miller, who sticks by him through thick and thin. Manny’s growing confusion over Jack’s intentions adds to the complexity of his life.

From the USA Today bestselling author who is a "master of witty banter" (Entertainment Weekly) come a "perfect rom-com" (Refinery29) that proves when opposites attract, sparks fly. With her bridezilla friend on a DIY project rampage, bridesmaid Jane Denning will do anything to escape - even if...

My dreams came true when I was adopted at ten. I was the best on the ice. Living the life every kid dreams of. We’ve been best friends since then. Even when she was the annoying little sister following us around. I would do anything for her. It is another family vacation, except this time it feels different. Everything feels different.

Honor student, manager at the campus coffee shop, and owner of an impressive sweater collection, Melanie Wilder has it all together. Then John "John Boy" Walden strolls into her life wearing nothing more than an impish grin and all-too-revealing loincloth. Make-out sessions replace homework, and lust triumphs over work. To further crumble her perfect world, an unexpected phone call threatens to take away everything she's worked for. Now as Melanie struggles to pick up the pieces, she realizes that John may be the only one to put her life back together, unless he shatters it first.

He knows the value of life. She's still learning. What would you do if you had one last moment to say goodbye? Would you take it?

Keen to get away from her abusive father, Lydia happily accepts the post of housekeeper at the Jackson family home. But when William senses romance in the air between Lydia and his son William-Wetherby, he is determined to put an end to it. For good.

Relax with this uplifting love story that will tug at your heartstrings and keep you listening WAY too late at night.

A stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from the “invaluable” (George Saunders) author of How to Behave in a Crowd and The Material “These stories don’t close so much as continue inside you. They tilt the world and don’t set it back, leaving you to live...

“For readers eagerly awaiting the return of Yellowjackets, this novel from McKinnon blends the musical highs of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six with the darkness of The Girls by Emma Cline in a twisty thriller that is hard to resist.” —Library Journal "Rock’n’roll with...

A disgraced TV news reporter returns to her violent hometown to investigate a series of deadly shark attacks in this nail-biting suspense novel from the author of The Stranger Upstairs. “A gothic coastal noir about generational violence and the cyclical nature of predation, The Only One Who...

When a private plane whisks CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton to Washington, DC, for an urgent medical symposium, she knows something significant is underway - but she doesn’t expect to face the most disturbing medical mystery of her career. A debilitating neurological toxin has stricken the children of several political families, and one of them is the son of US President Anna Moreland.

A tsunami strikes a small island in the Pacific Ocean, leaving destruction, madness, and a deadly disease outbreak in its wake. Under quarantine conditions and without the help of modern equipment, epidemiologists Madeline and Quinn must make sense of the bizarre outbreak. What they discover and what they take home with them will change lives forever.

Ashanti is forced into a life of prostitution at a young age. It doesn’t take her long to learn her craft and become one of the best moneymakers in Las Vegas. Now known as Fantasy, Ashanti makes a great team with her pimp PJ. They plan on conquering the world together - that is until PJ betrays her. Now a woman scorned, Fantasy starts to question her position in life and her status in the game. She decides to leave the life behind, but before her exit, she vows to steal PJ’s riches for his betrayal. PJ is one deadly man, and all signs point to him being on to Fantasy’s plot.

Gray Fowler, star NFL tight end, is being pursued by a stalker, so his team hires a protection agency to keep Gray under the watch of a bodyguard at all times. When Gray meets Dru Porter, an agent assigned to him, he's indignant. How can an attractive young female half his size possibly protect him? But Dru's a former Marine, an expert markswoman, and a black belt. She's also ferociously determined to uncover the identity of Gray's stalker.

Danny Garvey was a 16-year-old footballing prodigy. Professional clubs clamoured to sign him, and a glittering future beckoned. And yet, his early promise remained unfulfilled, and Danny is back home in the tiny village of Barshaw to manage the struggling junior team he once played for. What’s more, he’s hiding a secret about a tragic night, 13 years earlier, that changed the course of several lives. There’s only one Danny Garvey, they once chanted...and that’s the problem.

A Best Historical Fiction of Spring Pick by Amazon, PopSugar, AARP, and BookBub! A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the terrible injustice that tears them apart, by the USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of...

Four well-known authors receive an email telling them they are responsible for a suicide. Their antagonist makes it clear she is out for revenge, and they have no option but to comply. Their task is to post the best story they can imagine online and await judgement. Filled with guilt, anxiety, and even a few murderous tendencies, each writer weaves their tale and hopes for the best. It’ll be the competition of their lives. Who’s story will win? Will anyone survive?

Readers can't get enough of this cosy festive love story... 'This book is so moreish - I kept reading and reading and the book only got better as I read on!' ❄️🎄 'I was desperate to read this and it did not disappoint. I loved it!' ❄️🎄 'The premise of this book had me chuckling...