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         <title>Lost and Lassoed</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<strong>She thrives in chaos. He prefers routine. The only thing they have in common? How much they hate each other. From the author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the highly anticipated next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance featuring enemies to lovers and forced proximity."</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:38:23 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Haunting Adeline</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"The Manipulator<br><br>I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.<br>I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.<br>But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.<br>He's always there, watching and waiting.<br>And I can never look away.<br>Not when I want him to come closer.<br><br><br>The Shadow<br><br>I didn't mean to fall in love.<br>But now that I have, I can't stay away.<br>I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.<br>The way she undresses...<br>I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.<br>And once she is, I'll never let her go.<br>Not even when she begs me to."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:43:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Fourth Wing</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.<br><br>But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans; they incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.<br><br>Yet with every day that passes, the war outside grows deadlier; the kingdom's protective wards are failing; and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:43:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Iris Kelly Doesn&#39;t Date</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love, and she’s happy for all of them, truly. There’s only one problem — Iris is a romance author facing a deadline for her second book, and she’s completely out of ideas. Iris goes to a bar in Portland and meets a sexy stranger, Stefania, and a night of dancing and making out turns into the worst one-night stand Iris has had in her life. To get her mind off everything, Iris tries out for the lead role in a local play but comes face-to-face with Stefania, whose real name turns out to be Stevie. Desperate to save face in front of her friends, Stevie asks Iris to play along as her girlfriend. Iris is shocked, but she agrees. As the two women play the part of a happy couple, lines start to blur."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:46:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Flirting Lessons</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Avery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being so uptight and well-behaved. She wants to get a hobby, date around (especially other women), flirt with everyone she sees, all the fun stuff normal people do in their twenties. One Avery doesn't know how to do any of that. She doesn't have a lot of dating experience, with men or women, and despite being self-assured at work, she doesn't have a lot of confidence when it comes to romance.<br><br>Enter Taylor Cameron,&nbsp;Napa Valley's biggest flirt and champion heartbreaker. Taylor just broke up with her most recent girlfriend, and her best friend bet her that she can't make it until Labor Day without sleeping with someone. (Two whole months? Without sex? Taylor?!?!) So, she offers to give Avery flirting lessons. It will keep her busy, stop her from texting people she shouldn't. And it might distract her from how inadequate she feels compared to her friends, who all seem much more settled and adult than Taylor.<br><br>At first, Avery is stiff and nervous, but Taylor is patient and encouraging, and soon, Avery looks forward to their weekly lessons. She tells herself it's because the lessons are fun, not because she kind of might have a little bit of a crush on Taylor. Taylor doesn't even try to deny that she's intrigued by Avery, but she's still got a bet to win. With Taylor’s help, Avery is finally doing what she wants to flirting with lots of women, making friends, having fun! But after a while, it becomes impossible for Avery and Taylor to ignore their attraction to one another, despite them both insisting to themselves and everyone else that it isn't serious. When Taylor is forced to confront her feelings for Avery, she doesn't know what to do, how to deal with it, and most importantly, if she's already ruined the best thing she's ever had."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:48:28 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Lightening in Her Hands</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Teal Flores is desperate for two things—control over her gift of weather, and a date to her ex’s wedding. The first isn’t possible until she finds her long-lost mother, but the second has a very handsome last-ditch solution: Carter Velasquez.<br><br>Carter needs Teal too. His chance at receiving an inheritance is dependent on him being married by age thirty (blame his traditional Cuban grandmother), so who better to pose as his wife than Teal? But fake marriage and cohabitation prove tricky when mutual attraction charges the atmosphere—quite literally for Teal, whose volatile emotions cause lightning strikes.<br><br>Together, Teal and Carter embark on a quest to find her mother and the answers she’s searching for. But along the way, they’ll discover something even better: a love that can weather any storm."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:50:01 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Not in Love</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.<br><br>Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through - and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can't stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him.<br><br>Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business - one that plays for keeps."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:50:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Punk 57</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"In fifth grade, Misha’s teacher set him and his classmates up with pen pals from a different school. For the next seven years, Ryen was his everything. She kept Misha on track and accepted him as he was. They only had three rules: No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. There was no reason to ruin the good thing they had going … until Misha ran across a photo of a girl online named Ryen. He knows he has to meet her. Ryen has gone three months without a letter from Misha. She needs to know someone is listening to her. But really, Ryen knows this is her fault. She should’ve gotten his phone number, or picture, or something. As a mysterious vandal leaves messages in Ryen’s school, she’s possessed by the handsome new student who knows just how to hurt and heal her."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:53:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Ties that Tether</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"At 12 years old, Azere promised her dying father she would marry a Nigerian man and preserve her culture, even after immigrating to Canada. Her mother has been vigilant about helping — well <em>forcing </em>— to stay within the Nigerian dating pool ever since. But when another match-made-by-mom goes wrong, Azere ends up at a bar, enjoying the company and later sharing the bed of Rafael Castellano, a man who is tall, handsome, and … white. When their one-night stand unexpectedly evolves into something serious, Azere is caught between her feelings for Rafael and the compulsive need to please her mother.:</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:54:03 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Wedding Date</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn’t normally do. But there’s something about Drew Nichols that’s too hard to resist. On the eve of his ex’s wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend… After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she’s the mayor’s chief of staff. Too bad they can’t stop thinking about the other… They’re just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long-distance dating disaster of the century or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want…"</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:54:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>bared to You</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<strong>Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness...</strong><br><br>He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily...<br><br>Gideon <em>knew</em>. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private worlds...and desires.<br><br>The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart..."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:57:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Roommate</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"The Wheatons are infamous among the east coast elite for their lack of impulse control, except for their daughter Clara. She’s the consummate socialite: over-achieving, well-mannered, predictable. But every Wheaton has their weakness. When Clara’s childhood crush invites her to move cross-country, the offer is too much to resist. Unfortunately, it’s also too good to be true.<br><br>After a bait-and-switch, Clara finds herself sharing a lease with a charming stranger. Josh might be a bit too perceptive—not to mention handsome—for comfort, but there’s a good chance he and Clara could have survived sharing a summer sublet if she hadn’t looked him up on the Internet...<br><br>Once she learns how Josh has made a name for himself, Clara realizes living with him might make her the Wheaton’s most scandalous story yet. His professional prowess inspires her to take tackling the stigma against female desire into her own hands. They may not agree on much, but Josh and Clara both believe women deserve better sex. What they decide to do about it will change both of their lives, and if they’re lucky, they’ll help everyone else get lucky too."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 18:58:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Wild and Wrangled</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Camille Ashwood had always loved a plan. Her latest was her best yet. She was going to get married so she could secure her daughter’s future, get her overbearing parents off her back, and finally start building her own life in small town Meadowlark, Wyoming. Easy, right?<br><br>But when her groom doesn’t show up to the wedding, Cam’s life is turned upside down—she doesn’t even have a place to live. That is, until she finds out the house she’s loved since high school is available to rent. There’s only one problem: the neighbor.<br><br>Dusty Tucker has spent nearly all of his adult life running. Running from what, though? More like who: Cam Ashwood. But ever since he returned home last year, the girl who was his first, well, everything has become a woman seemingly determined to keep him at arm’s length. And he was okay with that—at least, that’s what he kept telling himself. She was getting married, after all. But now she’s single and living next door. Dusty wants to show her that they can be friends, and that he can stay put.<br><br>Despite her best attempts to stay far away from Dusty Tucker, Cam realizes that being close to him is like slipping on her favorite jeans. Easy. Comfortable. That is until past wounds start to open and feelings—both old and new—wreak havoc. Nearly ten years after they first met, Dusty and Cam begin to wonder if their first love can also be their last. And this time, will it be forever?"</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:00:36 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Swift and Saddled</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"She’s the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He’s the cowboy who wants her anyway.<br><br>The last thing Ada Hart needs is a man to take care of her. Not anymore. After failing out of her interior design program and the disaster that was her short-lived marriage, Ada clawed her way up from her rock bottom. Now, the only person she trusts is herself, and that has gotten her further than ever before. She has her own business, and one of the largest ranches in Wyoming just hired her for the most important project of her career.<br><br>When Ada arrives in Meadowlark, she finds herself in a dive bar where she can’t seem to shake the eyes of a handsome cowboy. When she leads him to the back of the bar, he leaves her with a kiss that most people can only fantasize about. She almost regrets that she’ll never see him again&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. except it turns out he’s her new boss.<br><br>Weston Ryder is a happy guy. Even happier now that the mystery woman from the bar is the interior designer for his dream project on his family’s ranch. He feels like he hit the jackpot. It’s too bad she wants absolutely nothing to do with him outside of work. Ada is convinced the pull she feels toward Wes will go away, but Wes can’t stop thinking about her. Even though walls are coming down around Rebel Blue, Ada’s walls are firmly in place.<br><br>Can they make it through this project without giving in? Or will they both put their dreams on the line for a chance at love?"</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:01:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Done and Dusted</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"She’s off-limits, but he’s never been good at following the rules.<br><br>For the first time in her life, Clementine “Emmy” Ryder has no idea what she’s doing. She’s accomplished everything on her to-do list. She left her small hometown of Meadowlark, Wyoming; went to college; and made a career for herself by doing her favorite thing: riding horses. But after an accident makes it impossible for her to get back into the saddle, she has no choice but to return to the hometown she always wanted to escape.<br><br>Luke Brooks is Meadowlark’s most notorious bad boy, bar owner, and bachelor. He’s also the unofficial fifth member of the Ryder family. As Emmy’s older brother’s best friend, Luke spent most of his childhood antagonizing her. It’s been years since he’s seen her, but when she walks into his bar and back into his life, he can’t take his eyes off her. Despite his better judgment, he wants to do a whole lot more than just look at her.<br><br>Emmy’s got too much on her mind to think about romance. And Luke knows he should stay away from his best friend’s younger sister. But what if Luke is just what Emmy needs to get her spark back? Or will they both go up in flames?"</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:02:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Summer in the City</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.<br><br>In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It’s the perfect place to write her screenplay…until she realizes her new neighbor is tech “Billionaire Bachelor” Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It’s been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.<br><br>When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he’s on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn’t like leaving her emotional support five block radius.<br><br>One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company’s precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city.<br><br>Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It’s all pretend. Promise.<br><br>Until it isn’t."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:03:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Caught Up</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Nico “Junior” Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. She is sweetness and laughter, whereas Junior exists in a world of violence and depravity. Men like him don’t get to have women like her. It’s why he pushed her away back in high school and kept his distance ever since.<br><br>But when Junior looks Lauren up online, he discovers the shy, bookish girl he remembers is gone. In her place is a strikingly beautiful woman whose social media is filled with scantily clad pictures of herself and a connection to a nearby play club. Junior’s innocent curiosity quickly turns into a dark obsession. Watching Lauren from a distance isn’t enough; he needs to<em> make her his</em>.<br><br><strong><em>“He’s ruthless; a walking red flag. Good thing red is my favorite color.”</em></strong><br><br>Lauren is intrigued by the mystery man who keeps showing up at her club, who tempts her white-hot desires. But as their flirty online messages stir up a deeper form of connection, Lauren worries she’s developing real feelings for this brooding stranger. As their combined desire ratchets up to a breaking point, who will seduce who?"</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:03:59 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Problematic Summer Romance</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life.<br><br>Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.<br><br>It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life.<br><br>But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists.<br><br>When Maya’s brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs—even if it’s a problematic one."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:04:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>King of Sin Series</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Steamy billionaire romances themed around the seven deadly sins.</p><p>*Do not have to be read in any particular order.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:06:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Great Big Beautiful Life</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.<br><br>When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.<br><br>One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.<br><br>Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication<br><br>Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.<br><br>But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.<br><br>And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:08:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Flirting with Disaster</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"It's been years since Meena has seen her husband, Nikhil . . . years since they first laid eyes on each other back home in Texas, years since they eloped in Las Vegas and she felt true happiness. A high-powered lawyer on Capitol Hill, ready to move on (or at least, she thinks so) with another successful lawyer, Shake, Meena has returned home. This time, finally, to obtain a divorce.<br><br>But there's one thing Meena couldn't have accounted for: a hurricane forming in the Gulf, veering right toward them, giving them no choice but to hunker down in the home they had built together. Suddenly, she finds herself trapped amid gale-force winds and pelting rain with the man she once loved.<br><br>As they spend more time together, Meena begins to remember everything that drew her to Nikhil: His small-town charm, his thoughtful nature. . . his absurdly good looks. But things make sense with Shake. He’s steady and ambitious and wants exactly what she wants. She’ll stick to her plan, come hell or high water. But will her windswept heart make the right choice, when the storm settles and the eye passes over?<br><br>With sharp observations about second chances at love, ambition and Indian American identity, and with characters who share an undeniable chemistry, <em>Flirting with Disaster</em> is a modern romance with the sensibility of a classic."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:10:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>First-Time Caller</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.<br><br>Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life-or lack thereof—she begins to question if she's as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn't be such a bad thing.<br><br>Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending... even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:11:56 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I&#39;m Trapped in a Rom-Com

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         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she’s attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she’s saved! On the not-so-bright side, it’s because they’re abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien planet that has...dinosaurs?<br><br>Dory and her new lion bestie, Toto, are saved in the nick of time by a mysterious and sexy alien, Sol. On their new adventure, they team up with the equally hot, equally dangerous Lok, who may or may not be a war criminal. Whether it be trauma, fate, or intrigue, Dory can’t resist the attraction that’s developing in their trio....<br><br>As this ragtag group of misfits explore their new planet, Dory learns more about how and why they’ve all ended up together, battles more prehistoric creatures than she imagined (she imagined...zero), and questions if she even wants to go back home to Earth in this hilarious and steamy alien romance adventure comedy romp."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:12:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Yours, Eventually</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/flmecale/54lgk5oqgnfaqri/wish/3525248545</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>"The Ibrahim family is facing a crucial moment: Their patriarch just lost his fortune as the result of a Ponzi scheme, and the family is picking up the pieces. At the family’s core is Asma—successful doctor and the long-suffering middle daughter who stepped into the family center after the death of her beloved mother years ago. Despite what the prying aunties think, Asma is living the life she has always wanted, fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a doctor . . . or so she thinks.<br><br>In walks Farooq Waheed, Asma’s college sweetheart whose proposal was cruelly rejected by Asma’s aunt and father. Now, eight years later, Farooq has made his fortune by selling his Silicon Valley startup and is widely considered one of the most eligible bachelors in California. As he enters Asma’s social orbit, she finds herself navigating a tricky landscape—her pushy sisters, gossiping aunties, and her father’s expectations—on her path to reconciling the past and winning Farooq back in the present. If there is still time.<br><br><em>Yours, Eventually</em> is a story about a young woman finding the courage to follow her heart and coming to the realization that living your life according to what other people think is no life at all."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:13:28 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Sweet Obsession</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<strong>He was mine to protect. Mine to adore. Mine to lose forever.</strong><br><br>Icarus may not have flown particularly close to the sun, but he has fallen…right into the rough hands of Olympus's own Poseidon. Being held captive by the gentle giant wouldn't be so bad if Olympus wasn't on the eve of destruction…or if Poseidon stopped looking at him with those irresistibly stormy eyes.<br><br>Poseidon doesn't have time to babysit his increasingly bratty prisoner, but he has no Olympus is officially at war, and someone has to keep their best bargaining chip out of harm's way. The thing is, the longer Poseidon is with Icarus, the more he starts to care for his sworn enemy...and the more he realizes that Icarus isn't the villain he's been made out to be. There's a warmth to him, a vulnerability, that Poseidon finds difficult to ignore or deny.<br><br>Now with Circe and the Aeaens at the gate and Olympus a hair's breadth away from falling, Poseidon will have to make a difficult about himself, about his allegiances, and about the man who woke his heart from its long slumber only to threaten to break it for good...<br><br><strong>A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Poseidon and Icarus."</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:14:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>One Golden Summer</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life.<br><br>Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she’s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry’s Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.<br><br>Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he’s all grown up—a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart.<br><br>Because Alice sees people—that’s why she is so good at what she does—but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:15:08 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Totally and Completely Fine</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/flmecale/54lgk5oqgnfaqri/wish/3525249229</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>"In her small Montana hometown, Lauren Parker has assumed a few different roles: teenage hellraiser; sister of superstar Gabe Parker; and most recently, tragically widowed single mother. She’s never cared much about labels or what people thought about her, but dealing with her grief has slowly revealed that she’s become adrift in her own life.<br><br>Then she meets the devilishly handsome actor Ben Walsh on the set of her brother’s new movie. They have instant chemistry, and Lauren realizes that it has been far too long since someone has really and truly seen her. Her rebellious spirit spurs her to dive headfirst into her desire, but when a sexy encounter becomes something more, Lauren finds herself balancing old roles and new possibilities.<br><br>There’s still plenty to contend with: small-town rumors, the complications of Ben’s fame, and her daughter’s unpredictable moods. An unexpected fling seemed simple at the time—so when did everything with Ben get so complicated? And is there enough room in her life for the woman Lauren wants to be? Alternating between Lauren’s past with Spencer and her present with Ben, <em>Totally and Completely Fine</em> illuminates what it means to find a life-changing love and be true to oneself in the process."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:15:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Love Unwritten</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/flmecale/54lgk5oqgnfaqri/wish/3525249769</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<strong>Rafael</strong><br>Ellie Sinclair is a hopeless romantic who writes love songs.<br>I’m a struggling workaholic who could inspire a hundred breakup albums.<br>On paper, we have nothing in common except for my son.<br>For eight months, I avoid her until our summer trip.<br>Fourteen days. Two islands. And one nanny I shouldn’t be attracted to.<br>Spending time with Ellie is expected, but enjoying her company?<br>That isn’t part of our travel plans.<br>After my divorce, I swore to protect my heart at all costs.<br>Even if it means breaking hers in the process.<br><strong>Ellie</strong><br>What’s worse than working for a grumpy single dad?<br>Admitting that I once had a secret crush on him in high school.<br>Thankfully, Rafael Lopez and I have changed since we graduated from Wisteria High.<br>He is a billionaire with a company to run and a child to take care of.<br>I’m an unemployed songwriter he hired to watch his son and teach music.<br>We coexist without any issues until a vacation changes everything.<br>Lines blur and old feelings for Rafael return with vengeance as I face a new dilemma.<br>Being his son’s nanny is one thing, but wishing for more?<br>Sounds like a heartbreak song waiting to be written."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:17:42 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Kiss Quotient</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/flmecale/54lgk5oqgnfaqri/wish/3525250712</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.<br><br>It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...<br><br>Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he's making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic..."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:20:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Love Arranged</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/flmecale/54lgk5oqgnfaqri/wish/3525250990</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<strong>LORENZO</strong><br>Five months. Two people “in love”. One fake relationship with an expiration date.<br>Sounds simple enough.<br>The problem is, Lily Muñoz and I have history.<br>So, when she volunteers to date me so I can improve my public image, I should say no.<br>Our past complicates everything, but since my future depends on her, I agree to her plan.<br>Faking it for the public is expected, but falling in love in private?<br>That isn’t part of our arrangement.<br><br><strong>LILY</strong><br>Using a dating app sounded like a great idea, up until I discovered Lorenzo Vittori was my match.<br>My sister’s boyfriend hates him. My mom is wary of him.<br>And me? I’ve spent the last year avoiding him.<br>But when my business is threatened, I’m forced into teaming up with Lorenzo to save it.<br>All I need to do is help him win the mayoral election, and he promises to protect my shop.<br>It doesn’t take me long to learn that I’m not cut out for fake relationships, but Lorenzo?<br>He isn’t capable of a real one."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:21:20 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Love Redesigned</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/flmecale/54lgk5oqgnfaqri/wish/3525251242</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<strong>Julian</strong><br>If I ever caught on fire, Dahlia Muñoz would fan the flames with a smile.<br>So, when she returns to Lake Wisteria, I fully intend to avoid the interior designer.<br>At least until my meddling mother exploits my savior complex.<br>The faster I help Dahlia find her creative spark, the sooner she will leave town.<br>But while I was busy getting rid of Dahlia, I overlooked one potential issue.<br>What happens if I want her to stay?<br><br><strong>Dahlia</strong><br>People say the devil has many faces, but I know only one.<br>Julian Lopez—my childhood rival and family frenemy.<br>I vow to steer clear of him while recovering from my broken engagement, but then the billionaire makes an irresistible offer.<br>Renovate a historic house together and triple our profits.<br>Our temporary truce becomes compromised as we face years’ worth of denied attraction and mixed emotions.<br>Giving into our desire is inevitable…but falling in love?<br>That isn’t part of the plan.<br><br><em>Love Redesigned is a steamy, small town romance about two family friends-turned-childhood rivals. It is the first book in the standalone Lakefront Billionaires series and has a happy ending."</em></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:22:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>All the Stars Align</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/flmecale/54lgk5oqgnfaqri/wish/3525251472</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>"All the women in Piper’s family know their true love at first sight, complete with butterflies, heart eyes, and a gut instinct. The kind of fated love that lasts forever. Piper grew up with her ancestors' epic love stories repeated like fairy tales, and yearns for the day she’ll start her own. Already singled out in her family due to her physical disability, Piper collects a second strike against her when her parents announce their divorce, which convinces her family that she’s doomed.<br><br>When she finally finds her true love at a party, she’s more determined than ever to attain her love story and earn a spot in her family. But after completely botching their first meeting, she realizes that she’ll need help from her best friend Leo, who is sort of a love expert. The catch—he and Piper haven’t talked in six months, since he needed a “break” from their friendship.<br><br>To win over the love of her life and a place in her family, Piper must convince Leo to teach her his ways. And it’s all going as planned…until Leo confesses his own love for Piper. Now, she must decide which fate to follow."</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:23:20 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Night Swimming</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/flmecale/54lgk5oqgnfaqri/wish/3525251667</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<em>It was just one swim… How could they know it would never end?</em><br><br>It's the summer of 1994 and Trevor can barely wrap his mind around the fact that he and his friends have graduated high school. The future is a murky thing, filled with a college experience he feels neutral about at best, endless mixtape relistens, and the growing realization that his crush on the enigmatic Sarah isn't going anywhere.<br><br>That is, until Sarah approaches him with a mission: they're going to swim in all the pools in the neighborhood. Soon, their quest leads to them sneaking into backyard pools every night and continuing to get closer. But not close enough for Trevor, who yearns for Sarah despite her college boyfriend, despite her "not yet"s, despite the way she keeps pulling away the moment things feel real.<br><br>So when they learn about a natural pool hidden deep in the woods, it starts off as just another spot to check off their summer bucket list. But once they get there, they soon realize the natural pool has a curious hold on them, and something very strange is happening…"</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:24:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>A Court of Thorns and Roses Series</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>A Court of Thorns and Roses is a fantasy romance series by American author Sarah J. Maas, which follows the journey of 19-year-old Feyre Archeron after she is brought into the faerie lands of Prythian.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:26:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Bride</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.<br><br>Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again...<br><br>Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was….<br><br>Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf."</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<strong>When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos</strong><br><br>As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships—but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.<br><br>That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor—and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. And when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding. . . six-pack abs.<br><br>Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope."</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"<em>I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.</em><br><br>Trauma nurse Aly escapes her hard-working days by thirsting after masked men online. To her, nothing could top the fantasy of her favorite tattooed and masked man hunting her down. But she never could have guessed that one drunken text would turn those dreams into reality . . .<br><br><em>I want things most people don't, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.</em><br><br>Josh has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans, until one follower catches his Aly.<br><br>Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone with far more sinister intentions. As Josh turns from predator to protector, he must ask himself how far he'll go for the woman he can't live without.<br><br><strong><em>Lights Out</em> is a fast-paced dark romance with a morally grey male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to listeners. Please check the content warning at the beginning of the book."</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:28:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Ruinous Love Trilogy</title>
         <author>flmecale</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"Dark romantic comedy series of interconnected stand-alone novels following the Kane brothers and the badass women they fall in love with. Expect dual POVs, happily-ever-after endings, and some pain, heartache, and comedy along the way. Please read responsibly and check TWs/CWs - these might be romantic comedies, but they are <strong>dark."</strong></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-21 19:30:14 UTC</pubDate>
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