Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced twenty New York Times bestselling novels. Their books have been translated into 30+ languages. (Some of these books have kissing. Some of these books have A LOT of kissing.)We don't respond to private messages here, so please contact us on instagram. Thank you!!
Beautiful (Beautiful Bastard, #5)
Christina Lauren
After walking in on her boyfriend shagging another girl in their place, Pippa Bay Cox ditches London for the States to go on a drunken road trip with Ruby Miller and some of her Beautiful friends.
Scaling the career ladder is the default way to deal with heartbreak—and to just deal—for Jensen Bergstrom. Absolutely buried by his drive and workload, he rarely takes time for himself. But when his sister Hanna convinces him to join the gang on a two-week wine tour, he has a rare moment of cutting loose. Of course, it’s only once he’s committed that he realizes the strange girl he met briefly on the plane is coming along, too. She might be too much for him…or he might realize his life has become too small and needs her to make it bigger, crazier.
With this circle of friends there’s always something going on: from Chloe and Sara’s unexpected personality swaps to Will’s new domestic side to Bennett’s text message barrage and George’s own happily-ever-after. In short, their adventures in love, friendship, and hilarity are nothing short of Beautiful.
Sweet Filthy Boy (Wild Seasons, #1)
Christina Lauren
One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him.
But after a crazy Vegas weekend celebrating her college graduation—and terrified of the future path she knows is a cop-out—Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life: follow Ansel Guillaume—her sweet, filthy fling—to France for the summer and just…play.
When feelings begin to develop behind the provocative roles they take on, and their temporary masquerade adventures begin to feel real, Mia will have to decide if she belongs in the life she left because it was all wrong, or in the strange new one that seems worlds away.
Autoboyography
Christina Lauren
Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.
But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.
It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.
Dating You / Hating You
Christina Lauren
All’s fair in love and work. The first standalone romance by New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Beautiful Bastard) is a sexy, compulsively readable romantic comedy that dives headlong into the thrill and doubt of modern love.
Despite the odds against them from an embarrassing meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s Halloween party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Even the realization that they’re both high-powered agents at competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to squash the fire.
But when their two agencies merge—causing the pair to vie for the same position—all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Carter and Evie are both thirtysomething professionals—so why can’t they act like it?
Can Carter stop trying to please everyone and see how their mutual boss is really playing the game? Can Evie put aside her competitive nature long enough to figure out what she really wants in life? Can their actor clients just be something close to human? Whether these two Hollywood love/hatebirds get the storybook Hollywood ending or just a dramedy of epic proportions, you will get to enjoy Christina Lauren’s heartfelt, raucous, and hilarious romance style at its finest.
Beautiful Player (Beautiful Bastard, #3)
Christina Lauren
A bombshell bookworm. A chronic Casanova. And a lesson in chemistry too scandalous for school.
When Hanna Bergstrom receives a lecture from her overprotective brother about neglecting her social life and burying herself in grad school, she’s determined to tackle his implied assignment: get out, make friends, start dating. And who better to turn her into the sultry siren every man wants than her brother’s gorgeous best friend, Will Sumner, venture capitalist and unapologetic playboy?
Will takes risks for a living, but he’s skeptical about this challenge of Hanna’s…until the wild night his innocently seductive pupil tempts him into bed- and teaches him a thing or two about being with a woman he can’t forget. Now that Hanna’s discovered the power of her own sex appeal, it’s up to Will to prove he’s the only man she’ll ever need.
Beautiful Stranger (Beautiful Bastard, #2)
Christina Lauren
Escaping a cheating ex, finance whiz Sara Dillon’s moved to New York City and is looking for excitement and passion without a lot of strings attached. So meeting the irresistible, sexy Brit at a dance club should have meant nothing more than a night’s fun. But the manner—and speed—with which he melts her inhibitions turns him from a one-time hookup and into her Beautiful Stranger.
The whole city knows that Max Stella loves women, not that he’s ever found one he particularly wants to keep around. Despite pulling in plenty with his Wall Street bad boy charm, it’s not until Sara—and the wild photos she lets him take of her—that he starts wondering if there’s someone for him outside of the bedroom.
Hooking up in places where anybody could catch them, the only thing scarier for Sara than getting caught in public is having Max get too close in private.
Wicked Sexy Liar (Wild Seasons, #4)
Christina Lauren
When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything can—and does—happen. Book Four in the New York Times Wild Seasons series that began with Sweet Filthy Boy (the Romantic Times book of the year that Sylvia Day called “a sexy, sweet treasure of a story”), Dirty Rowdy Thing , and Dark Wild Night .
For two people ambivalent about dating and love, they sure get naked around each other an awful lot . . .
London Hughes is very content to surf daily, tend bar, hang out with her group of friends, and slowly orient herself in the years after college. Everything’s going great and according to the non-plan.
But when a wave knocks her for a loop one morning, then Luke Sutter’s flirtatious smile knocks her for another that evening, she veers slightly off course…and into his path. Sure, he’s a total player, but the Why not—it’s only one night is a persistent voice in her ear.
For his part, Luke’s been on hookup autopilot for so long that he rarely ever pauses to consider what he’s doing. But after an amazing time with London, he realizes that he hasn’t been moving on from a devastating heartbreak so much as he’s been drifting to wherever—and whom ever—the current takes him. With London he wants more .
Every relationship involves two people…plus their pasts. And as much as she enjoys her fling with Luke, when London learns about his past—more specifically, who’s in it—everything becomes the brand of complicated she strives to avoid. It’s up to Luke then to change some things in order to try and ensure he’s not something she’ll outright avoid as well.
Twice in a Blue Moon
Christina Lauren
Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only the way that first loves do: sharing all of their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets along the way. Sam was the first, and only, person that Tate—the long-lost daughter of one of the world’s biggest film stars—ever revealed her identity to. So when it became clear her trust was misplaced, her world shattered for good. Fourteen years later, Tate, now an up-and-coming actress, only thinks about her first love every once in a blue moon. When she steps onto the set of her first big break, he’s the last person she expects to see. Yet here Sam is, the same charming, confident man she knew, but even more alluring than she remembered. Forced to confront the man who betrayed her, Tate must ask herself if it’s possible to do the wrong thing for the right reason… and whether “once in a lifetime” can come around twice. With Christina Lauren’s signature “beautifully written and remarkably compelling” (Sarah J. Maas, New York Times bestselling author) prose and perfect for fans of Emily Giffin and Jennifer Weiner, Twice in a Blue Moon is an unforgettable and moving novel of young love and second chances.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the “delectable, moving” (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it…
The Honey-Don't List
Christina Lauren
Carey Douglas has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, Carey started in their first store at sixteen, and—more than anyone would suspect—has helped them build an empire. With a new show and a book about to launch, the Tripps are on the verge of superstardom. There’s only one problem: America’s favorite couple can’t stand each other.
James McCann, MIT graduate and engineering genius, was originally hired as a structural engineer, but the job isn’t all he thought it’d be. The last straw? Both he and Carey must go on book tour with the Tripps and keep the wheels from falling off the proverbial bus.
Unfortunately, neither of them is in any position to quit. Carey needs health insurance, and James has been promised the role of a lifetime if he can just keep the couple on track for a few more weeks. While road-tripping with the Tripps up the West Coast, Carey and James vow to work together to keep their bosses’ secrets hidden, and their own jobs secure. But if they stop playing along—and start playing for keeps—they may have the chance to build something beautiful together…
Beautiful Secret (Beautiful Bastard, #4)
Christina Lauren
AN UPTIGHT BRITISH EXECUTIVE. AN ADVENTUROUS AMERICAN NEWBIE. A SEXY INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL IN THE MAKING.
New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Christina Lauren’s Beautiful and Wild Seasons series hook up in Beautiful Secret for an erotic intercontinental romp that celebrates the best of both worlds!
When Ruby Miller’s boss announces he’s sending her on an extended business trip to New York City, she’s shocked. As one of the best and brightest young engineers in London, she knows she’s professionally up to the task. The part that’s throwing her is where she’ll be spending a month up close and personal working alongside—and staying in a hotel with—Niall Stella, her firm’s top urban planning executive and The Hottest Man Alive. Despite her ongoing crush, Ruby is certain Niall barely knows she’s alive…until their flirty overnight flight makes him sit up and take notice.
Not one for letting loose and breaking rules, recently divorced Niall would describe himself as hopeless when it comes to women. But even he knows outgoing California-girl Ruby is a breath of fresh air. Once she makes it her mission to help the sexy Brit loosen his tie, there’s no turning back. Thousands of miles from London, it’s easy for the lovers to play pretend. But when the trip is over, will the relationship they’ve built up fall down?
Something Wilder
Christina Lauren
Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession… or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke’s coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. Frankly, Lily would like to take him out into the wilderness—and leave him there.
Leo Grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. Ready to leave the past behind him, Leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love. Unfortunately, Lily Wilder is all business, drawing a clear line in the sand: it’s never going to happen. But when the trip goes horribly and hilariously wrong, the group wonders if maybe the legend of the hidden treasure wasn’t a gimmick after all. There’s a chance to right the wrongs—of Duke’s past and their own—but only if Leo and Lily can confront their history and work together. Alone under the stars in the isolated and dangerous mazes of the Canyonlands, Leo and Lily must decide whether they’ll risk their lives and hearts on the adventure of a lifetime.
Dirty Rowdy Thing (Wild Seasons, #2)
Christina Lauren
Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.
From the New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Bastard, Beautiful Stranger, and Beautiful Player, Book Two of the brand-new Wild Seasons series that started with Sweet Filthy Boy - a story of friends, love, and lust.
Despite their rowdy hookups, Harlow and Finn don't even like each other... which would explain why their marriage lasted only 12 hours. He needs to be in charge and takes whatever he wants. She lives by the Want-something-done? Do-it-yourself mantra. Maybe she's too similar to the rugged fisherman - or just what he needs.
Beautiful Bombshell (Beautiful Bastard, #2.5)
Christina Lauren
The gentlemen from Beautiful Bastard, Beautiful Stranger, and Beautiful Player are out for a wild night on The Strip.
When Max, Henry, and Will steal Bennett away for a weekend of shenanigans and strippers in Vegas, the first stop of the night doesn’t go at all as planned. With their scheme for a Guys Weekend completely derailed anyway, Max and Bennett begin to play a wild game of stealth and secrecy in order to have their bombshells all over Sin City.
Beautiful Bitch (Beautiful Bastard, #1.5)
Christina Lauren
Picking up where Beautiful Bastard left off, Chloe Mills and Bennett Ryan continue their steamy, combative relationship.
Just when Chloe’s career starts to take off, Bennett wishes it would all slow down long enough to spend a wild night alone with his girlfriend. But after he refuses to take no for an answer, Chloe and Bennett find themselves with two plane tickets, one French Villa, and a surprising conversation that, predictably, leaves them wrestling under the covers.
Beautiful Bastard (Beautiful Bastard, #1)
Christina Lauren
An ambitious intern. A perfectionist executive. And a whole lot of name calling.
Whip-smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, Chloe Mills has only one problem: her boss, Bennett Ryan. He's exacting, blunt, inconsiderate—and completely irresistible. A Beautiful Bastard.
Bennett has returned to Chicago from France to take a vital role in his family's massive media business. He never expected that the assistant who'd been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative—completely infuriating—creature he now has to see every day. Despite the rumors, he's never been one for a workplace hookup. But Chloe's so tempting he's willing to bend the rules—or outright smash them—if it means he can have her. All over the office.
As their appetites for one another increase to a breaking point, Bennett and Chloe must decide exactly what they're willing to lose in order to win each other.
Originally only available online as The Office by tby789 — and garnering over 2 million reads on fanfiction sites — Beautiful Bastard has been extensively updated for re-release.
Roomies
Christina Lauren
From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s romantic novel.
Marriages of convenience are so...inconvenient.
For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. Lacking the nerve to actually talk to the gorgeous stranger, fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions.
Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway—until his reason for disappearing earlier becomes clear: he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago.
Seeing that her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, a wild idea takes hold of her. Impulsively, she marries the Irishman, her infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves and Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway—in the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting—will Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?
Dark Wild Night (Wild Seasons, #3)
Christina Lauren
Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
But what didn't happen in Vegas seems to follow them everywhere.
Lola and Oliver like to congratulate themselves on having the good sense to not consummate their drunken Las Vegas wedding. If they’d doubled-down on that mistake, their Just Friends situation might not be half as great as it is now.
... Or so goes the official line.
In reality, Lola’s wanted Oliver since day one—and over time has only fallen harder for his sexy Aussie accent and easygoing ability to take her as she comes. More at home in her studio than in baring herself to people, Lola’s instinctive comfort around Oliver nearly seems too good to be true. So why ruin a good thing?
Even as geek girls fawn over him, Oliver can’t get his mind off what he didn’t do with Lola when he had the chance. He knows what he wants with her now ... and it’s far outside the friend zone. When Lola’s graphic novel starts getting national acclaim—and is then fast-tracked for a major motion picture—Oliver steps up to be there for her whenever she needs him. After all, she’s not the kind of girl who likes all that attention, but maybe she’s the kind who’ll eventually like him.
Sometimes seeing what’s right in front of us takes a great leap of faith. And sometimes a dark wild night in Vegas isn’t just the end of a day, but the beginning of a bright new life...
Beautiful Boss (Beautiful Bastard, #4.5)
Christina Lauren
One Player tamed. One nerd girl satisfied. And one more major life decision to make. When Will fell for Hanna, her quirky sense of humor and fierce dedication to her career were part of the attraction. (Not to mention her coy newbie attitude toward sex and her willingness to let him teach her everything.) But when the job offers start rolling in for her—and oh, they do—Hanna has trouble deciding what she wants, where they should live, and how much she should burden Will with the decision. Magic between the sheets is only one part of a relationship...getting on the same page is quite another altogether.
Beautiful Beginning (Beautiful Bastard, #3.5)
Christina Lauren
Back when not being able to stand each other also meant not being able to keep their hands off each other in Beautiful Bastard, neither Bennett nor Chloe could have seen this day coming.
An exasperated bride who just wants to elope. A determined groom whose only focus is getting to the wedding night. And—of course—a whole lot of name calling.
Tangled Up in You (Meant to Be, #4)
Christina Lauren
She has a dream. He has a plan. Together they’ll take a leap of faith.
Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books she’s read, Ren has never found one that’s taught a woman raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her twenty-two years how to live in the real world. So when she finally achieves her lifelong dream of attending Corona College, it feels like her life is finally beginning.
Fitz has the rest of his life mapped out: Graduate from Corona at the top of his class, get his criminal record wiped clean, and pass himself off as the rich, handsome player everyone thinks he is. He’s a few short months from checking off step one of his plans when Ren Gylden, with her cascading blonde hair and encyclopedic brain, crashes into his life, and for the first time Fitz’s plan is in jeopardy.
But a simple assignment in their immunology seminar changes the course of both their lives, and suddenly they’re thrown out of the frying pan and into the fire on a road trip that will lead them in the most unexpected directions. Out on the open road, the world somehow shifts, and the unlikely pair realize that, maybe, the key to the dreams they've both been chasing have been sitting next to them the whole time.
Sweet Filthy Morning After (Wild Seasons, #1.5)
Christina Lauren
Listening length: 30 minutes
This audio exclusive short tells of events from Sweet Filthy Boy from a new perspective.
Beautiful Beloved (Beautiful Bastard, #3.6)
Christina Lauren
The seventh work in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling series that started with the Beautiful Bastard, Beautiful Stranger, and Beautiful Player novels. Featuring all the Beautiful characters...plus one tiny new addition to the group.
In Beautiful Stranger, finance whiz Sara Dillon met the irresistibly sexy Brit, Max Stella, at a New York City club. Through the series we’ve watched them learn to balance commitment with their less than private brand of playfulness. In Beautiful Beloved, Max and Sara take it to the next step. But the question is: Will they be able to find a balance between the wild sexcapades they aren’t ready to retire, and the demands of parenthood that come along with their new Beautiful bundle of joy? Parenthood: it’s not for the weak of heart
Love & other words. L'amore e altre parole
Christina Lauren
Macy Sorensen ha ventotto anni ed è una donna ambiziosa quanto abitudinaria. Lavora sodo come tirocinante in pediatria e sta per sposare un uomo più grande di lei, separato e finanziariamente stabile. Ma quando si imbatte in Elliot Petropoulos, il primo e unico amore della sua vita, le sue certezze iniziano a vacillare. Un tempo Elliot aveva rappresentato tutto il suo mondo: prima il migliore amico con cui condividere libri, parole preferite, delusioni e scanzonati pomeriggi estivi, poi l'uomo che, dopo la morte di sua madre, aveva convinto il suo cuore ad aprirsi di nuovo, per spezzarlo la notte stessa in cui le aveva dichiarato il proprio amore. Undici anni dopo, Macy è una donna riservata, che tiene le persone a distanza e si dedica anima e corpo alla professione, ma il caso per lei ha in serbo altro, e rimette Elliot sul suo cammino... Ormai estranei l'uno all'altra, con i ricordi oscurati dalla sofferenza per ciò che è successo molti anni prima, entrambi hanno la possibilità di riscoprire le emozioni travolgenti del primo amore, quello che non si dimentica mai, a patto però di superare il passato e andare oltre sé stessi...
The House
Christina Lauren
Gavin tells Delilah he’s hers—completely—but whatever lives inside that house with him disagrees.
After seven years tucked away at an East coast boarding school, Delilah Blue returns to her small Kansas hometown to find that not much has changed. Her parents are still uptight and disinterested, her bedroom is exactly the way she left it, and the outcast Gavin Timothy still looks like he’s crawled out of one of her dark, twisted drawings.
Delilah is instantly smitten.
Gavin has always lived in the strange house: an odd building isolated in a stand of trees where the town gives in to mild wilderness. The house is an irresistible lure for Delilah, but the tall fence surrounding it exists for good reason, and Gavin urges Delilah to be careful. Whatever lives with him there isn’t human, and isn’t afraid of hurting her to keep her away.
The Soulmate Equation
Christina Lauren
Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. After all, her father was never around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before her daughter was even born. Jess holds her loved ones close but working constantly to stay afloat is hard...and lonely. But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands. At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. River Peña. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Peña. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we’ll pay you. Jess—who is barely making ends meet—is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the “Diamond” pairing that could launch GeneticAlly’s valuation sky-high, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist—and the science behind a soulmate—than she thought. The Soulmate Equation proves that the delicate balance between fate and choice can never be calculated.
The True Love Experiment
Christina Lauren
Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next level—but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off script.
Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she’s asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn’t been practicing what she’s preached.
Fizzy hasn’t ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can’t-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she’s spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie?
Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard pass—unless he agrees to her list of demands. When he says yes, and production on The True Love Experiment begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too.
The True Love Experiment is the book fans have been waiting for ever since Fizzy’s debut in The Soulmate Equation. But when the lights come on and all eyes are on her, it turns out the happily ever after Fizzy had all but given up on might lie just behind the camera.
Extrait offert - Josh & Hazel ou Comment ne pas tomber amoureux
Christina Lauren
Juste amis. Juste amis. Juste amis. À force de le répéter, ça va bien finir par être vrai.Hazel sait qu'elle n'est pas facile à vivre – et franchement, la plupart des hommes ne sont pas prêts à relever le défi. Si son armée d'animaux domestiques et son goût prononcé pour l'absurde ne les font pas fuir, son absence de filtre la conduit systématiquement à dire ce qu'il ne faut pas dans les moments délicats. Tant pis pour eux. Hazel est une belle personne. Josh connaît Hazel depuis la fac, à un moment où son allégresse loufoque était totalement incompatible avec son caractère à lui, calme et dans la retenue. Depuis le premier soir où ils se sont rencontrés – quand elle lui a avoué de but en blanc qu'elle " serait honorée de (lui) offrir (son) corps " – jusqu'au jour où elle lui vomit avec grâce sur les chaussures, Josh a toujours pensé qu'Hazel relevait plus du spectacle que de l'être humain. Cependant, dix ans plus tard, après une relation houleuse avec une fille qui l'a trompé, sortir avec Hazel est une vraie bouffée d'air frais. Non que Josh et Hazel sortent ensemble. Du moins, pas ensemble ensemble. Parce qu'organiser en duo une série de " double dates " de plus en plus terribles, signifie bien qu'il n'y a rien entre eux... n'est-ce pas ?
The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5)
Christina Lauren
4 hours, 47 minutes
A perfectionist maid of honor and a carefree, surfer-bro best man team up to plan a wedding and end up finding a spark of their own in the first audio original from author duo Christina Lauren, a full-cast sequel to their New York Times bestseller The Unhoneymooners.
Ami is determined to break the Torres family wedding curse. Her own disaster of a reception ended with all the guests getting food poisoning, and she left her cheating husband soon after. But even though she’s still processing her own divorce, Ami won’t let her twin sister Olive’s day be anything but perfect. Olive may think she wants a private ceremony in Maui, where she and her fiancé Ethan first fell in love, but Ami knows better and secretly flies the whole Torres family out to surprise the couple. Now she and her meticulously organized binder have less than two weeks to get everything together for the big day, thousands of miles from home.
Enter Brody, Ethan’s best man, who happens to be living in Maui and insists on helping with the preparations. His playfully elaborate schemes and happy-go-lucky attitude are the last thing Ami needs. When sparks start to fly, could it derail all her carefully laid plans?
Equal parts hilarious and swoon-worthy, this full-cast production is your ticket to the ultimate destination wedding, bringing to life both a captivating couple and an unforgettable family. The Honeymoon Crashers is Christina Lauren at their charming, hilarious best.
My Favorite Half-Night Stand
Christina Lauren
Millie Morris has always been one of the guys. A UC Santa Barbara professor, she’s a female-serial-killer expert who’s quick with a deflection joke and terrible at getting personal. And she, just like her four best guy friends and fellow professors, is perma-single.
So when a routine university function turns into a black tie gala, Mille and her circle make a pact that they’ll join an online dating service to find plus-ones for the event. There’s only one hitch: after making the pact, Millie and one of the guys, Reid Campbell, secretly spend the sexiest half-night of their lives together, but mutually decide the friendship would be better off strictly platonic.
But online dating isn’t for the faint of heart. While the guys are inundated with quality matches and potential dates, Millie’s first profile attempt garners nothing but dick pics and creepers. Enter “Catherine”—Millie’s fictional profile persona, in whose make-believe shoes she can be more vulnerable than she’s ever been in person. Soon “Catherine” and Reid strike up a digital pen-pal-ship...but Millie can’t resist temptation in real life, either. Soon, Millie will have to face her worst fear—intimacy—or risk losing her best friend, forever.
Imperfeitos
Christina Lauren
Olive se sente como a gêmea azarada da casa: dos acidentes estranhamente inexplicáveis ao fracasso na vida profissional e amorosa ― nada dá certo para ela. Porém, parece que o jogo vira quando sua alergia a frutos do mar a protege de um desastre, já que todos os convidados da festa de casamento da irmã sofrem com intoxicação alimentar. Na verdade... nem todos. Ethan, o irmão do noivo, também ficou de fora desse pesadelo. Então, a irmã de Olive, sempre muito prática, propõe a eles que aproveitem a viagem de lua-de-mel, que não é reembolsável, para uma ilha do Havaí.
Mas há um “pequeno” problema: Olive e Ethan são inimigos mortais. Há um passado entre eles que tornou a convivência impossível. Mas quem vai dizer não para essa viagem? Ainda mais de graça? Nem pensar! A ideia de ambos era ficar bem longe um do outro, mas a situação muda quando uma mentirinha boba vai crescendo e não podem voltar atrás. E dividindo a mesma suíte, entre farpas e sarcasmos, já se pode desconfiar.... onde tem raiva tem fogo?
Com diálogos inteligentes e divertidos, dois personagens cativantes, e cenários de tirar o fôlego, Imperfeitos é o livro ideal para rir sem parar e ainda ver uma história de amor nascer no lugar mais improvável.
Un Noël sans fin
Christina Lauren
Parfois les miracles se produisent ...
Maelyn Jone (en pleine crise de la quarantaine), vit avec ses parents, déteste son job-qui-ne-mène-nulle-part, et sa dernière bourde sentimentale a pris des proportions épiques. Mais le pire de tout : ce sera le dernier Noël qu'elle passera dans le lieu qu'elle aime le plus au monde : la cabane enneigée de l'Utah où chaque année depuis sa naissance elle célèbre Noël en famille, et avec ses deux autres familles de coeur.
Au volant de sa voiture alors qu'elle s'éloigne de la cabane pour la dernière fois, des pneus crissent, un bruit de tôle retentit...puis Écran noir. Elle se réveille à bord d'un avion bondé à destination de l'Utah, où elle recommence les mêmes vacances encore et encore. Comment briser le cycle infernale de cette boucle du temps ? Et finalement rencontrer le véritable amour sous une branche de gui ?
L'anti lune de miel
Christina Lauren
En amour, ne jamais se fier aux apparences
Quand deux ennemis jurés partent en (faux) voyage de noces à Hawaï, tout peut arriver... même de trouver l'amour.
Olive Torres méprise totalement et de longue date, Ethan, le témoin de mariage du (futur) époux de sa soeur jumelle. La bonne nouvelle ? Tous les invités tombent malades à cause d'une intoxication alimentaire. La mauvaise : les mariés ne peuvent pas partir en lune de miel, ce qui signifie qu'Olive et Ethanennemis jurés prendront leur place et prétendront être mariés. Que les frasques et l'inévitable tension sexuelle commencent !
Amor y otras palabras
Christina Lauren
Macy Sorensen cree tener las riendas de su vida: está a punto de casarse con un hombre que le aporta seguridad, cuando se reencuentra con su primer y único amor. Entonces, la burbuja que había construido con tanto empeño, empieza a disolverse.
AMISTAD INCONDICIONAL, UN AMOR PERDIDO Y LA OPORTUNIDAD DE ARREGLAR LOS ERRORES DEL PASADO.
El experimento del amor verdadero
Christina Lauren
Cuando una escritora de literatura romántica y un realizador de documentales unen fuerzas para crear la historia de amor definitiva de Hollywood saltan chispas, pero... ¿serán capaces de evitar que la química que existe entre ellos les haga salirse del guion?
Felicity Chen, Fizzy para los amigos, está perdida. Tiene una carrera increíble como novelista romántica, con una gran cantidad de superventas en su haber, y sus seguidores la adoran, pero cuando le piden que dé un discurso de graduación, se da cuenta de algo: no practica lo que predica.
Fizzy jamás ha estado realmente enamorada. ¿Lujuria? Por supuesto. ¿Pero ese sentimiento que todo lo abarca, que te hace suspirar, que no te deja pensar en otra cosa que no sea él? Nunca. Nada. ¿Qué sucede cuando el optimismo que ha fomentado entre sus lectores a lo largo de toda su carrera empieza a parecerle una gran mentira?
Connor Prince, realizador de documentales y padre soltero, adora su trabajo, pero cuando su jefe, a quien solo le interesan los beneficios, le ordena que cree un programa de telerrealidad y lo amenaza con despedirlo si no lo hace, se ve obligado a salir de su zona de confort. Un encuentro casual con una desesperada Fizzy le ofrece la solución perfecta. ¿Qué pasaría si pudiera mostrar en pantalla cómo se enamora la reina de la literatura romántica para que todo el mundo lo vea? Ella no se lo pone fácil y le presenta una lista interminable de condiciones. Tras aceptarlas todas, comienza la producción de El experimento del amor verdadero y Connor se empieza a preguntar si puede que en sus notas también haya algo de esa combinación perfecta para él.
Cuando los focos se encienden y todas las miradas se centran en ella, ese final feliz que tanto le gusta a Fizzy podría estar ante sus ojos.
The Exception to the Rule (The Improbable Meet-Cute, #1)
Christina Lauren
On February 14, an accidental email to a stranger opens the door to an unexpected relationship in a captivating short story by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners.
One typo, and a boy and girl connect by chance. Wishing each other a happy Valentine’s Day isn’t the end. In fact, it becomes a friendly annual tradition—with rules: no pics, no real names, nothing too personal. As years pass, the rules for their email “dates” are breaking, and they’re sharing more than they imagined—including the urge to ask…what if we actually met?
Christina Lauren’s The Exception to the Rule is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute, irresistibly romantic stories about finding love when and where you least expect it. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren
The story of the heart can never be unwritten.Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
Love, loss, friendship, and the betrayals of the past all collide in this first fiction novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren (Autoboyography, Dating You / Hating You).
Josh & Hazel's Guide To Not Dating
Christina Lauren
Hazel Camille Bradford knows she’s a lot to take—and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don’t send them running, her lack of filter means she’ll say exactly the wrong thing in a delicate moment. Their loss. She’s a good soul in search of honest fun.Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved completely incompatible with his mellow restraint. From the first night they met—when she gracelessly threw up on his shoes—to when she sent him an unintelligible email while in a post-surgical haze, Josh has always thought of Hazel more as a spectacle than a peer. But now, ten years later, after a cheating girlfriend has turned his life upside down, going out with Hazel is a breath of fresh air.Not that Josh and Hazel date. At least, not each other. Because setting each other up on progressively terrible double blind dates means there’s nothing between them...right?
Jogador Irresistível (Beautiful Bastard, #3)
Christina Lauren
Uma Leitora Compulsiva que é uma Bomba. Um casanova incorrigível. E uma Lição de química demasiado escandalosa para ser ensinada na escola.
Quando Hanna Bergstrom ouve um raspanete do irmão superprotector, por estar a negligenciar a sua vida social para se dedicar apenas aos estudos, decide aceitar o desafio implícito que ele lhe lança: sair, fazer novos amigos, namorar… E quem melhor para a transformar na mulher fatal, que todos os homens irão desejar, do que o melhor amigo do irmão, Will Sumner, investidor de risco, sedutor, bonito e playboy sem cura?
Will corre riscos na profissão, mas tem reservas quanto ao desafio de Hanna… Até que, numa noite louca, a sua inocente mas sedutora aluna o leva para a cama - e lhe ensina uma ou duas coisas sobre como estar como uma mulher que ele não conseguirá esquecer. Quando Hanna descobre o seu próprio poder de sedução, é a vez de Will provar que é o único homem que ela precisa.
No terceiro livro da série Irresistível, um acordo entre um investidor de risco e uma grande apreciadora de livros transforma-se rapidamente numa versão pouco recomendável de My Fair Lady.
Una luna sin miel
Christina Lauren
Olive está acostumbrada a tener mala suerte. Ya sea en el amor, el trabajo o cualquier otro aspecto de su vida, esta siempre está al acecho. En cambio, Ami, su gemela, tiene tanta suerte que ha conseguido organizar su boda a base de sorteos. Pero lo que es un sueño para su hermana es sinónimo de pesadilla para Olive, que tendrá que pasar toda la ceremonia con el detestable Ethan Thomas, el hermano y padrino del novio.
Lo que nunca hubiese podido imaginar es que el enlace acabaría con una intoxicación alimentaria que afectaría a todos los invitados salvo a ellos.
Animada por Ami y decidida a evitar que Ethan disfrute solo de unas vacaciones gratis, Olive está dispuesta a olvidar las diferencias que los separan y zarpar hacia el paraíso. Después de todo, no puede ser tan difícil ignorarse durante diez días mientras fingen ser dos enamorados en una idílica luna de miel en Hawái, ¿no?
Minha Versão de Você
Christina Lauren
Os fãs de Fangirl e Simon vs. A agenda Homo Sapiens vão se deliciar com esta incrível e divertida história da autora best-seller Christina Lauren.
Os fãs de Fangirl e Simon vs. A agenda Homo Sapiens vão se deliciar com esta incrível e divertida história da autora best-seller Christina Lauren. Há três anos a família de Tanner Scott se mudou da Califórnia para Utah, fazendo com que sua bissexualidade voltasse para o armário. Agora, com apenas mais um semestre até o fim das aulas no colegial e seu tão sonhado futuro em uma universidade longe da família, ele só deseja que o tempo passe mais depressa. Quando Autumn, sua melhor amiga, se inscreve na aula de escrita e o desafia a participar, Tanner não consegue recusar o convite, afinal de contas, quatro meses é tempo mais do que suficiente para escrever um livro, certo? O garoto está mais certo do que imagina, pois leva apenas um segundo para que ele note Sebastian Brother, o prodígio mórmon que, nas aulas de escrita do ano anterior, escreveu e publicou o próprio livro, e agora orienta a turma. Se quatro meses é muito tempo, um mês pode não ser. E é exatamente esse tempo que leva para Tanner se apaixonar por Sebastian. Mais uma vez assinando como Christina Lauren, Christina Hobbs e Lauren Billings (The House) abordam religião, identidade e sexualidade, entrelaçando perfeitamente as aulas de escrita de Tanner, sua paixão por Sebastian e os problemas surgidos quando os sentimentos de Sebastian entram em conflito com o que a igreja espera dele. Uma emocionante história de esperança e amor. – Publishers Weekly
Christina Lauren vai fazê-lo se apaixonar por Minha versão de você. Fãs de Fangirl e Simon vs. A Agenda Homo Sapiens vão enlouquecer ao acompanhar as aflições de Tanner Scott, um garoto bissexual que descobre o amor e enfrenta uma jornada de autodescoberta. O romance gay de Christina Lauren é muito bonito e sincero. Os dilemas de Tanner fazem o leitor acompanhar a história com um lenço para secar as lágrimas. Se estiver em busca de um livro que aperte o seu coração e o faça torcer pelo amor verdadeiro, Minha versão de você é a sugestão perfeita para você. – Christin Gest, RT Magazine
Un tipo odioso (Beautiful bastard, #1)
Christina Lauren
Una becaria ambiciosa. Un ejecutivo perfeccionista. Y una tensión sexual insoportable. Descubre la novela que ha cosechado más de dos millones de lecturas online.
Chloe Mills se ha relacionado con los Ryan desde que era una mocosa, así que cuando necesita una beca para finalizar su tesis en empresariales enseguida recurre a la Compañía Ryan Media. Lo que no se imaginaba es que tendría que trabajar para Bennett, el atractivo hijo de los Ryan, que se comporta como un perfecto imbécil con Chloe… hasta que una tarde, repasando una presentación, acaban sucumbiendo a la pasión encima de la mesa de reuniones.
Tratando de mantener el equilibrio entre la profesionalidad y la lujuria, descubrirán con pavor que no es solo el sexo lo que les une: están perdidamente enamorados. Pero todo es tan complicado... y los continuos malentendidos a los que tienen que enfrentarse no van a facilitarles nada la tarea…
In a Holidaze
Christina Lauren
Alternate cover edition can be found here
One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners..
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.
But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy.
The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop—and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.
Jam-packed with yuletide cheer, an unforgettable cast of characters, and Christina Lauren’s trademark hijinks, this swoon-worthy romantic read will make you believe in the power of wishes and the magic of the holidays.
Extrait offert - Roomies
Christina Lauren
Par l'auteur de Dating you Hating you et Beautiful Bastard. Les mariages de convenance font tellement fi... des convenances !Attirée par les mélodies d'un musicien de rue qui lui a tapé dans l'oeil, Holland Bakker se rend depuis des mois dans la station de métro proche de chez elle. Elle n'ose pas adresser la parole au guitariste qui la fascine, mais un agresseur ivre précipite leur rencontre. Calvin McLoughlin vient à son secours, puis disparaît instantanément. Pour s'acquitter de sa dette envers le brillant musicien, elle lui obtient une audition avec son oncle, le producteur de musique le plus en vogue de Broadway. L'audition se passe encore mieux qu'elle ne l'imaginait, quand Holland réalise pourquoi il a décampé devant les policiers : son visa d'étudiant a expiré depuis plusieurs années et il vit aux États-Unis dans l'illégalité. Comprenant que son oncle a autant besoin de Calvin que Calvin a besoin de lui, Hollande prend la folle décision d'épouser l'Irlandais. Ses sentiments ne sont un secret que pour... ce dernier. Peu à peu, leur relation évolue et Calvin devient l'enfant chéri de Broadway. Entre les feux de la rampe et les faux-semblants, que faudra-t-il pour qu'Holland et Calvin prennent conscience qu'ils ont tous les deux arrêté de jouer la comédie depuis longtemps ?
The Unhoneymooners: Luna di miele... no, grazie!
Christina Lauren
Per due acerrimi nemici, tutto può succedere durante il viaggio della vita alle Hawaii... Olive è sempre stata sfortunata: nella sua carriera, in amore, in... be', in tutto. D'altra parte, Amy, sua sorella gemella, è probabilmente la persona più fortunata al mondo. L'incontro fortuito con il suo fidanzato sembra uscito da una commedia romantica (ugh) ed è addirittura riuscita a finanziare il loro matrimonio vincendo una serie di sfide online (doppio ugh). Ma la cosa peggiore è che sta forzando Olive a trascorrere quella “giornata indimenticabile” con il suo peggior nemico, Ethan, che, guarda caso, è il testimone. Olive deve quindi cercare di superare le prossime ventiquattro ore di inferno prima di poter tornare alla sua confortante e sfortunata vita. Ma quando tutti gli invitati – eccetto Olive e Ethan – hanno un'intossicazione alimentare, c'è in palio una luna di miele già pagata alle Hawaii. Mettendo da parte il loro odio reciproco per il bene di una vacanza gratuita, Olive e Ethan partono per quel paradiso, determinati a evitare l'un l'altro a tutti i costi. Ma quando Olive incontra il suo futuro capo, la piccola bugia che dice diventa molto più grande: sono lì in luna di miele e devono far finta di essere dei novelli sposi...
L'Anti-lune de miel (Unhoneymooners, #1)
Christina Lauren
« EN AMOUR, NE JAMAIS SE FIER AUX APPARENCES »
Pour deux ennemis jurés, tout peut arriver pendant un voyage de rêve à Hawaï même trouver l'amour. Une comédie romantique sexy, hilarante avec une immense famille mexicano-américaine pour décor. Ce roman explore la relation entre deux jumelles et prouve que les liens du sang sont plus forts que tout. Une comédie romantique pleine d'humour !
Josh y Hazel: Guía de fracasos amorosos
Christina Lauren
Josh y Hazel se conocieron en la universidad y no se parecen en nada. Para ella, Josh es el modelo perfecto para medir a los chicos con los que sale. Para Josh… ella solo es una chica. Diez años más tarde, se reencuentran y reinician su amistad que da paso a relación más profunda, más cercana, en la que incitan al otro a salir con nuevas personas y se preparan citas a ciegas. ¿Pero qué tan buena sería la idea de salir ellos dos?
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
Christina Lauren
Hazel Camille Bradford knows she’s a lot to take—and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don’t send them running, her lack of filter means she’ll say exactly the wrong thing in a delicate moment. Their loss. She’s a good soul in search of honest fun.
Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved completely incompatible with his mellow restraint. From the first night they met—when she gracelessly threw up on his shoes—to when she sent him an unintelligible email while in a post-surgical haze, Josh has always thought of Hazel more as a spectacle than a peer. But now, ten years later, after a cheating girlfriend has turned his life upside down, going out with Hazel is a breath of fresh air.
Not that Josh and Hazel date. At least, not each other. Because setting each other up on progressively terrible double blind dates means there’s nothing between them...right?
The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
Christina Lauren
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.
Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister, Ami, is an eternal champion . . . she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas.
Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there’s a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo.
Agreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. After all, ten days of bliss are worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is . . . Olive doesn't mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be.
Amor & Ódio Irresistíveis
Christina Lauren
Carter e Evie sentem uma afinidade imediata e uma forte tensão sexual ao conhecerem-se, embora o despontar de um romance seja pouco provável em virtude de ter lugar numa festa de Halloween. No entanto, nem o facto de ambos serem agentes de talentos de firmas concorrentes em Hollywood é suficiente para apagar o fogo.
Porém, quando as duas agências se fundem - fazendo com que os dois concorram ao mesmo cargo -, tudo se torna imprevisível. O que poderia ter sido o nascer de um belo romance transforma-se numa guerra declarada de sabotagem mútua.
The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance.
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways.
Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.
Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.
But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.
Noivos à Força (Unhoneymooners, #1)
Christina Lauren
Umas férias de sonho… na pior companhia possível!
Olive está habituada a não ter sorte. Seja no amor, na carreira ou em qualquer outro aspeto da sua vida, o azar está sempre à espreita. Já Ami, a sua irmã gémea, é tão sortuda que conseguiu organizar toda a sua festa de casamento com os prémios que ganhou em concursos online. Só que a boda de sonho da irmã é sinónimo de pesadelo para Olive, que terá de passar toda a cerimónia com o detestável Ethan Thomas, irmão e padrinho do noivo.
Mas a sorte de Olive parece estar prestes a mudar, já que todos os convidados apanham uma intoxicação alimentar e só ela e Ethan não são afetados. E com o casal doente, há uma lua de mel no Havai com tudo pago… e sem noivos!
Encorajada por Ami e determinada a impedir que Ethan goze umas férias gratuitas sozinho, Olive decide esquecer as diferenças que os separam e embarcar rumo ao paraíso. Afinal, será assim tão difícil evitarem-se um ao outro durante dez dias? Até nem seria, se Olive não desse de caras com o seu novo patrão e não precisasse de se fingir apaixonada numa idílica lua de mel.
O problema é que essa mentira inocente ganha contornos mais graves e o infortúnio de Olive parece agravar-se cada vez mais. Mas Olive não se sente azarada. Na verdade, começa até a sentir-se… uma felizarda.
Mijn versie van jou
Christina Lauren
Tanner Scott is drie jaar geleden met zijn familie verhuisd van Californië naar Provo in Utah. De meeste mensen in Provo zijn strenggelovig, dus samen met zijn familie heeft de biseksuele Tanner besloten niet openlijk voor zijn geaardheid uit te komen. Zodra hij zijn diploma heeft, wil hij gaan studeren aan een universiteit buiten het religieuze Utah.Tijdens zijn laatste semester worden Tanner en zijn beste vriendin Autumn toegelaten tot een speciale werkgroep waarin alle leerlingen een boek moeten schrijven. Bij de eerste bijeenkomst wordt bekend dat de klas dit jaar een speciale mentor Sebastian Brother. Hij heeft afgelopen jaar de werkgroep gevolgd en zijn debuut wordt binnenkort uitgegeven. Sebastian is de zoon van bisschop en erg geliefd in Provo.Tanner heeft vier maanden om een boek te schrijven. Dat lijkt hem een makkie. Maar nog voor zijn eerste zin op papier staat, is hij stapelverliefd op Sebastian…
Not-Joe Story (Wild Seasons, #4.5)
Christina Lauren
Quand trois meilleures amies fraichement diplômées, rencontrent à Végas, un trio de séducteurs sexy...Tout peut arriver..." Comment éviter de tomber amoureux de l'ex- copine d'un de ses meilleurs amis ? " Not-Joe (surnom de Dylan), c'est le pote disponible et attentif, qui réconforte. Quel que soit le nom qu'on lui donne, il est le personnage aussi hilarant que mystérieux du groupe d'amis de la série wild Seasons. Pour la première fois, découvrez le monde de Not- Joe ? son univers burlesque, aussi drôle que tendre ? lorsqu'il rencontre, Perry, qui n'est autre que... l'ex d'Ansel, le beau Frenchie.
Різдвяні кружляння
Christina Lauren
Мейлін Джонс мешкає з батьками, ненавидить свою роботу, в особистому житті — хаос і помилки. А найгірше те, що цьогоріч її родина востаннє відзначає Різдво в найкращому місці на світі — зимовій хижці у штаті Юта. Тут Мей змалку проводила свята з друзями сім’ї та їхніми синами Ендрю і Тео, але тепер ті в скруті й мусять продати хижку. Доходить кінця маленька епоха, і від цього безмежно сумно. Повертаючись додому машиною, дівчина подумки благає всесвіт показати, що може зробити її щасливою. Аж раптом автомобіль вдаряють збоку — скрип металу, тріск скла — і все поглинає темрява. Мейлін розплющує очі в літаку на шляху до Юти. Далі катастрофи одна за одною повертають її до літака. Живучи в різдвяному «дні бабака», дівчина повинна з’ясувати, як вийти з цієї часової петлі, і заразом знайти своє справжнє кохання.
Wicked Sexy Liar / Not Joe’s Not So Short Short
Christina Lauren
Only at Find the exclusive edition of Wicked Sexy Liar! This Only at Target limited edition is a signed copy with a note from the authors and includes bonus Not-Joe story - first time in print! When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything can—and does—happen. Book Four in the New York Times Wild Seasons series that began with Sweet Filthy Boy, Dirty Rowdy Thing, and Dark Wild Night.
Apenas Amigos
Christina Lauren
Holland Bakker foi salva de um ataque no metrô pelo musicista irlandês Calvin McLoughlin. Como agradecimento, Holland o apresenta a um grande diretor de musicais e o que era uma tentativa despretensiosa se transforma numa chance inimaginável, pois, antes mesmo de perceber, Calvin foi escalado para um grande musical da Broadway! Ou quase… Até admitir que seu visto de estudante expirou e ele está no país ilegalmente. Sem titubear, e com uma paixão crescente pelo rapaz que só ele ainda não percebeu, Holland se oferece para casar com o irlandês a fim de mantê-lo em Nova York. Conforme a relação dos dois se desenrola de “apenas amigos” a ”casal apaixonado”, Calvin se torna o queridinho da Broadway. No meio de tanto teatro e do gostar-sem-se-envolver, o que fará esse casal perceber que há muito amor verdadeiro em cena?
Cretino Irresistível (Beautiful Bastard, #1)
Christina Lauren
Uma estagiária ambiciosa. Um executivo perfeccionista. E um relacionamento ardente e totalmente perigoso!
Esperta, dedicada, prestes a cursar um MBA, Chloe Mills tem apenas um único problema: seu chefe, Bennet Ryan. Ele é exigente, insensível, sem consideração - e completamente irresistível. Um belo cretino. Bennet acaba de retornar da França para assumir um cargo importante na empresa de comunicações de sua família. Mas o que ele não poderia imaginar era que a pessoa que o ajudava enquanto ele estava no exterior era essa criatura linda, provocadora e totalmente irritante que agora ele tem de ver todos os dias. Ele nunca foi do tipo que se envolve em relacionamentos no ambiente de trabalho, mas Chloe é tão tentadora que ele está disposto a flexibilizar essa regra - ou quebrá-la de uma vez - para tê-la. Por todo o escritório! Mas o desejo que um sente pelo outro cresce tanto que Bennet e Chloe terão de decidir o que estão dispostos a perder para ganhar um ao outro.
O amor e outras coisas
Christina Lauren
Mais um sucesso de Christina Lauren, o renomado romance O amor e outras coisas veio para aquecer o coração de todos os leitores e fãs da dupla de autoras
Macy Sorensen se acomodou em uma rotina ambiciosa e pouco emocionante: trabalha duro como residente em pediatria, planeja se casar um dia com um homem mais velho e financeiramente estável, mantém uma postura discreta e o coração resguardado.
No entanto, quando se encontra por acaso com Elliot Petropoulos – primeiro e único amor da sua vida –, a bolha cautelosa que criou para si começa a se dissolver. No passado, Elliot representou o mundo inteiro de Macy – transformando-se do amigo magrelo e amante de livros desajeitado no homem que a convenceu a abrir seu coração... até parti-lo na mesma noite em que declarou seu amor por ela.
Nesta narrativa alternada entre presente e passado, os adolescentes Elliot e Macy vão de amigos a muito além – passam horas a fio devorando livros juntos, partilhando suas palavras prediletas em meio a diálogos sobre sofrimentos e êxitos da vida. Na fase adulta, porém, eles permaneceram afastados até o reencontro inesperado.
Embora as lembranças estejam encobertas pela agonia dos acontecimentos do passado, caberá a Elliot compreender a verdade por trás da década de silêncio de Macy, tendo de superar o passado e a si mesmo a fim de reavivar a crença dela na possibilidade de um cálido amor.
Sublime
Christina Lauren
When Lucy walks out of a frozen forest, wearing only a silk dress and sandals, she isn’t sure how she got there. But when she sees Colin, she knows for sure that she’s here for him.
Colin has never been captivated by a girl the way he is by Lucy. With each passing day their lives intertwine, and even as Lucy begins to remember more of her life—and her death—neither of them is willing to give up what they have, no matter how impossible it is. And when Colin finds a way to physically be with Lucy, taking himself to the brink of death where his reality and Lucy’s overlap, the joy of being together for those brief stolen moments drowns out everything in the outside world. But some lines weren’t meant to be crossed…
La ecuación de las almas gemelas (DNA Duo, #1)
Christina Lauren
¿Y SI EL SECRETO DEL
AMOR VERDADERO ESTUVIERA
EN TU ADN?
Jess es madre soltera y una brillante analista que no tiene ni tiempo ni ganas para el amor. Pero cuando descubre que hay una empresa que empareja a personas basándose en su ADN, decide arriesgarse. Después de todo, los números no mienten.
O eso pensaba, hasta que resulta que su supuesta alma gemela es el Dr. River Peña, un hombre arrogante y testarudo al que Jess no soporta. Ella se niega a creer lo que la ciencia le está diciendo, pero, cuando le proponen hacer de embajadora de la empresa, tiene que aceptar, a pesar de que eso signifique fingir que ella y River están hechos el uno para el otro.
De evento a evento, Jess irá descubriendo que el amor es una ciencia que no se puede calcular.
Traviesa criatura sensual
Christina Lauren
Harlow ha viajado a Las Vegas junto a sus dos mejores amigas, Mia y Lola, para celebrar su reciente graduación. Después de una noche fantástica con Finn y de un matrimonio tan inesperado como alocado que ha durado apenas 12 horas, su intención es seguir adelante con su vida.
Tanto Finn como Harlow saben que es muy probable que vuelvan a verse ocasionalmente, puesto que tienen amigos en común, pero lo que ninguno de los dos sospecha es que lo que sienten el uno por el otro va más allá de una divertida e irrefrenable pasión.
Cuando ambos se enfrenten a los serios problemas que sus obligaciones familiares les plantean, descubrirán que la necesidad que siente el uno por el otro es más profunda que la simple sensualidad y que quizás ansíen estar juntos de mil maneras posibles.
Beautiful Player. Un seductor irresistible (Saga Beautiful #3)
Christina Lauren
Hanna llega a Nueva York para trabajar en un respetado laboratorio. Tiene veinticinco años y se ha pasado la vida estudiando para construir su brillante futuro profesional. Se podría decir que es una rata de biblioteca, ensimismada en la ciencia y sus estudios. Como es de esperar, no tiene vida social Nueva York es el lugar perfecto para encerrarse aún más en su torre de marfil.
Su hermano, Jensen, está muy preocupado y quiere ayudarla para que se relacione con más gente. Por suerte, Will Summer, uno de sus mejores amigos, está trabajando en Manhattan y las cosas le van muy bien. Le pide que introduzca a Ziggy, así es como siempre han llamado a su hermana pequeña, en su círculo de amistades. Will acepta a regañadientes. No le apetece tener que cargar con aquella mocosa empollona a quien recuerda vagamente, pero lo hace por Jensen. Hanna tampoco está demasiado conforme. Recuerda a Will como un chulo engreído, un ligón sinvergüenza, un mujeriego sin escrúpulos... en definitiva un donjuan de poca monta que nunca la impresionó.
No podrían ser más distintos, pero poco a poco se irán descubriendo mutuamente y entablarán una relación muy especial.
Dulce chico indecente
Christina Lauren
Primera entrega de «Wild Seasons» la nueva serie romántica erótica de Christina Lauren, la autora de Beautiful Bastard.
Cuando tres amigas conocen a tres chicos en Las Vegas...
todo puede -y todo acaba por- pasar.
Mia Holland y sus dos mejores amigas han decidido celebrar su graduación pasando una noche inolvidable en Las Vegas antes de emprender una nueva etapa de sus vidas. Pero lo que no podían llegar a imaginar es que una noche de diversión cambiaría su destino para siempre.
Porque después de una noche desenfrenada, Mia descubre que lo que debería haber sido una apasionada y, en teoría, pasajera aventura, se ha convertido en un flamante esposo que responde al nombre de Ansel Guillaume y que le invita a acompañarle a París para pasar el largo verano a orillas del Sena.
¿Podría Mia resistirse a la tentación de esa promesa de noches apasionadas de la mano de ese chico tan perfecto?
Lo que empieza como una pura diversión, pronto podría convertirse en algo más, algo muy real, como la vida misma.
Dragoste și alte cuvinte
Christina Lauren
„Ştii că eşti îndrăgostit când nu poţi să adormi pentru că, în sfârşit, realitatea e mai frumoasă decât visurile tale.”
Macy şi Elliot iubesc jocurile de cuvinte. Dar când inimile încep să vorbească, singurul cuvânt important rămâne dragostea.
Macy Sorensen are o viaţă ordonată şi programată până în cel mai mic amănunt şi totul pare să fie minunat: ture îndelungate, în care se implică plină de entuziasm în calitate de medic pediatru rezident, o relaţie previzibilă cu un bărbat matur, stabil financiar, ieşiri agreabile la cafea cu prietenele şi un sentiment general de armonie.
Și totuşi, nu aceasta e viaţa după care tânjește inima ei.
Într-o zi, îl întâlneşte din întâmplare pe Elliot Petropoulos. Prima ei iubire. Singura ei iubire. Apoi, tot universul pe care şi l-a construit cu atâta grijă se dizolvă treptat.
Pe când erau adolescenţi, Macy şi Elliot au fost cei mai buni prieteni. Ani în şir, el a fost lumea ei. El a consolat-o după ce mama ei a murit de cancer. El a ajutat-o să descopere farmecul jocurilor de cuvinte şi magia primului sărut. Şi tot el a trădat-o în modul cel mai sfâşietor cu putinţă.
Va exista o a doua şansă pentru Macy şi Elliot? Vor reuși ei să găsească acele cuvinte care au puterea să-i aducă înapoi împreună?
Beautiful Boys (Beautiful Bastard, #1, #2, #3)
Christina Lauren
Millions of readers worldwide have fallen for the sexy, hilarious love stories of Christina Lauren’s New York Times and #1 international best selling Beautiful series. Discover the first three novels—Beautiful Bastard, Beautiful Stranger, and Beautiful Player—from the author duo Kirkus Reviews calls “the It Girls of Romance.”Beautiful Whip-smart, ambitious intern Chloe Mills is so tempting that her completely infuriating and utterly irresistible boss Bennett Ryan is willing to bend the office rules—or outright smash them—if it means he can have her—all over the office. Beautiful All of New York City knows Max Stella loves women. Despite pulling in plenty of lovers with his Wall Street bad boy charm, it’s not until finance whiz Sara Dillon—and the wild photos she lets him take of her—that the ex-pat Brit really thought of keeping someone around. Hooking up in places where anybody could catch them, the only thing scarier for Sara than getting caught in public is having Max get too close in private. Beautiful Lectured by her brother for neglecting her social life in favor of grad school, bookish Hanna Bergstrom challenges her brother’s best friend, unapologetic playboy Will Sumner, to turn her into a sultry siren. It’s not long before the innocently seductive pupil is teaching the venture capitalist a thing or two he can’t forget. But now that Sara’s discovered the power of her own sex appeal, it’s up to Will to prove he’s the only man she’ll ever need.
Un desconocido encantador (Beautiful bastard, #2)
Christina Lauren
Sara Dillon llega a Nueva York huyendo de una relación infeliz totalmente decidida a sacar el máximo partido a la vida en la Gran Manzana. La única regla que se ha impuesto es no establecer lazos con nada ni con nadie. Por ese motivo, cuando un playboy inglés, misterioso, sexy y juguetón se cruza en su camino en un club nocturno, no duda en olvidar todas sus inhibiciones... Pero la forma en que éste la desarma hará que pase de ser la diversión de una noche a convertirse en su desconocido encantador.
Max Stella es un rompecorazones algo sinvergüenza. Su fama de seductor es mítica en la ciudad. Por esta razón, Bennett Ryan, su amigo de la universidad, se niega a ayudarle a conquistar a Sara, íntima amiga de Chloe. Sin embargo, la atracción que Max siente por ella es casi insoportable, y lo que empezó como la distracción de una noche se vuelve un idilio adictivo, rebosante de adrenalina y con un sexo alucinante...
My Favourite Half-Night Stand
Christina Lauren
Millie Morris has always been one of the guys. A UC Santa Barbara professor, she’s a female-serial-killer expert who’s quick with a deflection joke and terrible at getting personal. And she, just like her four best guy friends and fellow professors, is perma-single.
So when a routine university function turns into a black tie gala, Mille and her circle make a pact that they’ll join an online dating service to find plus-ones for the event. There’s only one hitch: after making the pact, Millie and one of the guys, Reid Campbell, secretly spend the sexiest half-night of their lives together, but mutually decide the friendship would be better off strictly platonic.
But online dating isn’t for the faint of heart. While the guys are inundated with quality matches and potential dates, Millie’s first profile attempt garners nothing but dick pics and creepers. Enter “Catherine”—Millie’s fictional profile persona, in whose make-believe shoes she can be more vulnerable than she’s ever been in person. Soon “Catherine” and Reid strike up a digital pen-pal-ship...but Millie can’t resist temptation in real life, either. Soon, Millie will have to face her worst fear—intimacy—or risk losing her best friend, forever.
The Honeymoon Crashers: An Audio Original
Christina Lauren
A perfectionist maid of honor and a carefree, surfer-bro best man team up to plan a wedding and end up finding a spark of their own in the first audio original from author duo Christina Lauren, a full-cast sequel to their New York Times bestseller The Unhoneymooners. Ami is determined to break the Torres family wedding curse. Her own disaster of a reception ended with all the guests getting food poisoning, and she left her cheating husband soon after. But even though she's still processing her own divorce, Ami won't let her twin sister Olive's day be anything but perfect. Olive may think she wants a private ceremony in Maui, where she and her fiancé Ethan first fell in love, but Ami knows better and secretly flies the whole Torres family out to surprise the couple. Now she and her meticulously organized binder have less than two weeks to get everything together for the big day, thousands of miles from home. Enter Brody, Ethan's best man, who happens to be living in Maui and insists on helping with the preparations. His playfully elaborate schemes and happy-go-lucky attitude are the last thing Ami needs. When sparks start to fly, could it derail all her carefully laid plans? Equal parts hilarious and swoon-worthy, this full-cast production is your ticket to the ultimate destination wedding, bringing to life both a captivating couple and an unforgettable family. The Honeymoon Crashers is Christina Lauren at their charming, hilarious best.
Not Joe’s Not So Short Short (Wild Seasons, #4.5)
Christina Lauren
A Not-Joe Not-So-Short Short
Not-Joe. Dylan. Goofball. Heartwarming pal. Whatever you call him, he’s been a man of comic mystery to the Wild Seasons group. Now, for the first time, enter into Not-Joe’s world—his glorious, fun-loving world—as he meets none other than Perry... Ansel’s ex.
Surprise!! *confetti cannon* Some of you might remember this little short that appeared in the back of the Target edition of Wicked Sexy Liar. We feel very fortunate to have readers that span the globe, and know that not all of you have access to certain stores. Because of this, our awesome team at Gallery Books made it possible for us to share this little glimpse into Not Joe with you, here.
We hope you enjoy getting into Not Joe’s head a little and getting another glimpse of some old friends. We never intended to write Not Joe’s story, or have him be anything more than a fun little side character, but as sometimes happens, he sort of took on a life of his own.
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