Bare-Naked Lola

  “By more food?”

  She gestured toward the sand. “By everything. The beach is transformed with ferry and pony rides, balloon sellers, astrologers, contortionists, snake charmers, monkey-trainers, masseurs.” She snapped her fingers. “You name it, this place has it. Very entertaining to people-watch.”

  Glancing at the smallish crowd, most of them dozing in the shade of trees, I couldn’t imagine the carnival atmosphere she described. Would be well worth another visit.

  Yeah, for the bhel-puri, too.

  “Sounds great. What about tonight?”

  She shook her head. “No can do. Glee finale.”

  I stifled a grin at her addiction to TV, along with food.

  She rubbed her belly and winced—no great surprise considering what she’d stuffed in there. “Time to head home and rest.”

  Good. My mind spun with all I’d seen, and I couldn’t wait to fill Rita in on the gossip.

  Plus I needed to steel my nerves to meet the Ramas. My rapidly dwindling confidence had taken a hit following Anjali’s disclosures about Anu.

  This could get messy.

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  What would you do if your “what if” guy showed up at the lowest point of your life?

  (Autumn Cole clocked hers with an encyclopedia.)

  After losing her job at a swanky Seattle art gallery and finding out her father has been hospitalized, single mother Autumn Cole reluctantly returns to her tiny hometown of Fairfield, Washington to put the pieces of her life back together.

  Her disgruntled twelve-year-old son isn’t thrilled about going from hip to hick, but Autumn’s got it worse. She resumes her role as the daughter of the town drunk, promptly facing a crisis with her father that’s been decades in the making.

  Running into Henry Tobler, and nearly breaking his nose, is almost more than she can handle, but can rediscovering love–and herself–with her “what if” guy teach Autumn to forgive before it’s too late?

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  The object of every man’s fantasy just lost her wings…

  Kaia Verde is one of the four Faerie Handmaids of Zafira, Queen of the Fey. To redress an ancient wrong done to Zafira by a human king, the Handmaids make sport of mortal men, seducing and humiliating them. When Kaia sets out to seduce Garrett Jameson, but ends up being the one surrendering to pleasure, Zafira is furious. Kaia’s punishment is simple: make Garrett fall in love with her by the summer solstice, then break his heart, or face eternity without her wings—or her soul. To make the task harder, Zafira tells Kaia she cannot use her faerie magic or charm to lure Garrett into her bed.

  …and now she’s losing her heart…

  Kaia thinks her task will be relatively easy—as a faerie, she understands lust, and can love be much different? But once she is living among the humans, Kaia discovers the race she once disparaged is far more complex and beautiful than she imagined. She learns before she can break Garrett’s heart, she must find a way to heal it. And eventually, discovers that losing her wings may be a far easier price to pay than losing her heart.