I've got forty days to find a fiance, move in with him and convince the powers-that-be that we're madly in love. Seems like a simple green-card plan until I meet Dr. Michael Kincaid. He's looking for the real thing: love, a baby, an actual ring. The whole shebang. I can't decide which of us is crazier. Maybe it's both--because I agree to his demands. Surely once we're living together he'll see how mad it is for an American doctor and a British girl who barely know each other to actually go through with this. I hadn't counted on our chemistry. There's no end to the inventive ways we find to flirt. Not to mention the rather pressing matter of sharing a bed. Maybe the doctor knows a thing or two about the science of love after all. Forty Day Fiance is a standalone romantic comedy with a smoking-hot doctor, a fast-talking English heroine, and a Happily Ever After.

“What would happen if Harry met Sally in the age of Tinder and Snapchat? . . . A field guide to Millennial dating in New York City” (New York Daily News). When New York–based graphic designers and long-time friends Timothy Goodman and Jessica Walsh found themselves single at the same time, they decided to try an experiment. The old adage says that it takes forty days to change a habit—could the same be said for love? So they agreed to date each other for forty days, record their experiences in questionnaires, photographs, videos, texts, and artworks, and post the material on a website they would create for this purpose. What began as a small experiment between two friends became an Internet sensation, drawing five million unique (and obsessed) visitors from around the globe to their site and their story. 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment is a beautifully designed, expanded look at the experiment and the results, including a great deal of material that never made it onto the site, such as who they were as friends and individuals before the forty days and who they have become since.

This is a woman's firsthand account of a Sufi halvet, a forty-day retreat conducted in complete isolation, along with strict fasting from sunrise to sundown. Voluntarily confined to a sparsely furnished room amid the bustle of Istanbul, Michaela Özelsel will occupy her time with reading the Qur'an and works of Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and with praying and practicing the powerful Sufi exercise known as zhikr, the rhythmic repetition of names of God or other sacred formulas, accompanied by movements of the head or body. In intimate detail Dr. Özelsel shares her experiences as she strives to attain true "Islam" in its meaning of surrender or unconditional acceptance of the will of God. Her daily journal ranges over the frustrations of noisy neighbors, power outages, and a poorly heated room; her inner longings, doubts, and memories of the life course that has brought her to this moment; and the most inspirational philosophical insights, dreams and visions, and ecstatic raptures. The second half of the book is devoted to the author's psychological and cultural commentary on her experiences, including observations about the methods of Sufi schooling, sexuality and spirituality, and the relationship with the spiritual guide. Forty Days is unique in the literature of spiritual education because it is informed by her knowledge of contemporary research from several disciplines, thus creating a bridge between ancient wisdom and scientific investigation.

Every date is my next chance to find love--but my brother’s best friend has his own plans for me. Every perfect rom-com has a twist that leads the heroine to her happily ever after. Me? Somehow, in any room full of Prince Charmings, I always manage to find the one frog. So this time, I’ve found my own twist. Four of my friends will each set me up. Four first dates. Four chances at my own happily-ever-after. My brother’s best friend even offered to watch my baby while I’m out finding true love. Only Maddox has seriously grown up since I saw him last. The guy next door now looks more like the guy on a magazine cover. He’s inked and sexy. Muscular. Utterly irresistible. And… big. Oh, and did I mention he’s now my roommate? Surely having a brother’s-friend-with-benefits won’t hurt my search for Mr. Right. Especially if he’s my fifth first date… Five First Dates is a standalone romantic comedy with a tattooed bad boy roommate, a feisty heroine, an adorable baby, and a Happily Ever After.

This collection of holiday rom com stories features the BRAND NEW never-before-published “Mistletoe Meet Cute,” featuring Angel O’Toole from the Tap That series. Mistletoe Meet Cute When Angel O’Toole runs into the boy— who is now very much a man— who saved her from drowning twenty years ago she’s hoping for a magical moment under the mistletoe. Drake’s grinch-like grumpy act may ice out other women but Angel has hot holiday plans designed to warm him up… You, Actually Josh Black is so in love with his friend Cassidy that he writes her into his cartoon strip, making Cassidy think he's fallen for another woman. Can two confirmed "friends" unwrap their true feelings in time to share a night of unforgettable holiday passion? Snowed Under Justin Fairbanks has always been attracted to Claire Robbins. When she gets soaked by a snowplow and asks him to help remove her wet clothes, well, what sane man could possibly say no? Blue Christmas While a blizzard blankets the world outside, Blue Farrow burrows into the arms of her highway hunk at the No Tell Motel. Nice and oh-so-naughty, Blue and her man open up to each other as they keep the Yule log burning… A Holiday Hookup has four steamy rom com stories with all your favorite grumpy/sunshine, friends-to-lovers, forced proximity fun! All deliver a holiday happily-ever-after. Three stories have been previously published.

A hot hockey player. His boss’s daughter. And a one-night stand ten years in the making… Astrid Anderson Bouchard, a creative free spirit, has one last item on her birthday bucket list before she starts graduate school. She’s determined to hookup with Jesse Lambert and get over her long-standing crush once and for all. No more fantasizing about the guy who saved her very clumsy teen self from public humiliation at hockey camp. No more comparing him to every man she dates. One and done, and she can move on with her life. Jesse Lambert has a plan. Sign a big contract with a new team for his remaining few seasons as a pro player, then retire back home to Beaver Bend, Minnesota. Find a nice woman, settle down, and start a family. No more one-night stands, no more casual sex with random women. The Tap That charity strip event weekend is his last chance to sew some wild oats, and the sexy stranger with the pink hair and the sweet laugh fits the bill. Only after a very hot night together, Jesse learns Astrid is his new boss’s one and only daughter. Which is bad. Plus she’s furious with him for not realizing who she was before he stripped her clothes off. Not good either. And she’s accidentally revealed the naked truth about them to her father. That’s even worse. There’s only one way out of this sticky situation and it involves convincing Astrid to pretend they’re in a serious relationship so he doesn’t lose his lucrative deal with her dad. But will she give him an assist or send him straight to the penalty box?