With This Kiss: Part One Lady Grace Ryburn, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Ashbrook, has fallen wildly in love with Colin Barry, a dashing young lieutenant serving his country in the Royal Navy. When he returns home to exuberant celebrations, will he even notice the quiet wallflower he grew up with … or will he fall for Grace's sparkling, gorgeous sister? Author's Note: Lady Grace is the eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Ashbrook, from The Ugly Duchess, and Colin is the eldest adopted son of Sir Griffin Barry, from Seduced by a Pirate. In its entirety, With This Kiss is a 200-page double-length novella.

A brand new timeless romance with a sprinkling of magic from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author 'A complete joy to read, and once I'd started I genuinely couldn't stop. I was entranced and beguiled from start to finish by this beautiful story. Carrie has single-handedly converted me to magic realism' Jill Mansell 'Carrie Hope Fletcher is not afraid to tackle big themes in this ambitious story, and the emotional pay-off cuts deep' Heat, Book of the Week 'A spellbinding and enchanting read with a charming cast of characters, With This Kiss is guaranteed to sweep you off your feet...I adored it' Holly Miller, The Sight of You 'Spellbindingly romantic - With This Kiss is utterly captivating. A feat of magical and mystical storytelling' Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop 'A gorgeous story with plenty of heart' M. A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood * * * If you knew how your love story ends, would you dare to begin? From the outside, Lorelai is an ordinary young woman with a normal life. She loves reading, she works at the local cinema and she adores living with her best friend. But she carries a painful burden, something she's kept hidden for years; whenever she kisses someone on the lips, she sees how they are going to die. Lorelai has never known if she's seeing what was always meant to be, or if her kiss is the thing that decides their destiny. And so, she hasn't kissed anyone since she was eighteen. Then she meets Grayson. Sweet, clever, funny Grayson. And for the first time in years she yearns for a man's kiss. But she can't...or can she? And if she does, should she try to intervene and change what she sees? Spellbinding, magical and utterly original, With This Kiss is one love story you will never forget. * * * Readers are spellbound by With This Kiss 'A five-star read . . . Fun, enjoyable, funny and sweet with characters I absolutely loved' NetGalley Reviewer, 'This book was everything I didn't know I needed' NetGalley Reviewer, 'Beautiful writing [that] captured me from the start. 5 stars' NetGalley Reviewer,

RUBY CRANE IS a rising star. At 15, she sold her first book, got a movie deal, scored the hottest guy in school, and became the most popular student at Frasier High. Now, as a soon-to-be junior and published author, she's ready to make waves in New York's literary world. But every star falls back to earth one day. Ruby's accused of plagiarism - on national television. And the worst part is that the proof of her literary lies is indisputable. Her friends won't return her phone calls. Her boyfriend's gone AWOL. The media vultures are flying low, and they want answers. So Ruby does what any self-respecting headline would do. She disappears. And that's when her story really begins.

Kisses from Nick Flynn, Rebecca Makkai, Pico Iyer, Ilyse Kusnetz, Andre Dubus III, Christian Kiefer, Camille T. Dungy, Major Jackson, Bich Minh Nguyen, Terrance Hayes, Ada Limón, Honor Moore, Téa Obreht and Dan Sheehan, Kazim Ali, Beth Ann Fennelly, and others In this wide-ranging collection of essays, stories, graphic memoir, and cross-genre work, writers explore the deeply human act of kissing, and share their thoughts on a specific kiss—the unexpected and unforgettable, the sublime and the ambiguous, the devastating and the regenerative. Selections from beloved authors “tantalize with such grace that they linger sweetly in your mind for days” (New York Times Book Review), as they explore the messy and complicated intimacies that exist in our actual lives, as well as in the complicated landscape of the imagination. This is a book meant to be read from cover to cover, just as much as it’s meant to be dipped into—with each kiss pulling us closer to the moments in our lives that matter most.

A little bear collects a day's worth of kisses, including a shaving-cream kiss from his father and a soft-feather kiss from a bird.

In Wild and Wonderful, Glenna Reynolds joins forces with a handsome but tough businessman to save her father's coal mine from being shut down by the government, and in Beware of the Stranger, a gossip columinist must hide her true identity from a sexy investigative reporter. Original.

She’d Come to Him for Help? The Capriottis and Fegans were more Hatfield and McCoy than Montague and Capulet. Still,there was that one night when chief of police Jericho Capriotti had spotted Rayne Fegan in a reddress—a vision that still haunts him. Yet despite that one look, he’d never expected to have Rayne—a mousy, shy, completely sensible woman—ever needing to turn to him for help. With every reason to pull away, Jericho and Rayne are drawn to each other. The heat is rising andJericho is faced with a choice: loyalty to his family—or waking the sleeping beauty in Rayne….