The Evie Effect


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It’s not every day that you get knocked off your moped by a rockstar. When avant-garde artist Evie Winters finds herself contracted to do a sculpture of rock star, Byron Logan, she almost refuses. After all their first meeting was hardly auspicious: a slanging match in a London street after his limo ran her off the road. Byron clearly has issues, but Evie desperately needs the money. And then there’s the minor complication of their chemistry. Despite his outrageous behaviour, Evie finds the wolfishly attractive Byron keeps hitting her hot buttons. Byron isn’t indifferent to Evie either. She may be a pink-haired she-devil, but she happens to be a gorgeous one. And she’s not afraid to stand up to his temper tantrums. With his life in chaos and his mood swings out of control, Byron soon finds that being around Evie makes him feel a whole lot better than the pills his psychiatrist keeps doling out. Thrown together to work on the project in Byron’s stately home hideout in Cornwall, sparks fly as they continually rub each other up the wrong way. But as they spend more time together, something changes: Byron and Evie soon find out that what draws them together goes way deeper than physical attraction. Because when you really get to know the essence of someone, there’s always a chance that hate will turn to love—and that opening up about their pasts could challenge both Evie and Byron to face up to a whole lot more than they bargained for.




The Alice Equation


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Three months of fake dating your best friend? No problem. Unless you are an anxiety-prone bookworm called Alice Montgomery, and you’ve had a secret crush on said best friend since uni. Aaron Blake has no intention of falling for anyone, he’s pretty sure he missed out on the love gene. And certainly never, ever Alice. She’s his only friend-who-is-a-girl, and no way is he going to mess that up. But when Alice agrees to fake date Aaron to help him land a top attorney job, (on the condition he teaches her how to flirt), Aaron soon finds out that friendship first and attraction second is an equation he’s never done the math on. And when secrets from the past surface with dramatic consequences, both Alice and Aaron will have to re-do the sums on this crazy little thing called love… A sweet and steamy friends-to-lovers romance about finding love and finding out who you really are…




The Prism Effect


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NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice brings you the final episode of the Psychic Solutions Mysteries—can Jax finally persuade Evie to the altar? What happens when the solutions aren't sensible? Head of the Sensible Solutions Agency Evangeline Malcolm Carstairs doesn’t have time to puzzle out why a film production’s animals have gone berserk. She is about to be married. In a week. Although she probably should find the film’s missing animal handler. That’s where her cousin, veterinarian Idonea Malcolm comes in. Iddy reads animal minds. Iddy has an animal clinic bursting at the seams and no patience with hysterical actors, until sexy Cade Garcia, the film’s annoying line producer, offers enough cash to expand her clinic if she helps find the missing trainer. But hardheaded Cade is skeptical when Evie and Iddy claim a poltergeist haunts the animals. . . With everyone on the crew, including Cade, a suspect, a wedding looming, and bulls on the loose, Evie and Iddy must rely on help from ghosts and sheep to sort through the lies of unreliable actors to discover the truth—before anyone else dies. PSYCHIC SOLUTIONS MYSTERY SERIES IN ORDER The Indigo Solution The Golden Plan The Crystal Key The Rainbow Recipe The Aura Answer The Prism Effect




A Merry Aussie Christmas


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Their relationship is so fake it comes with costumes… At seventeen, Jasper left Patterson’s Bluff so fast the dust cloud never settled. But when fate brings him back, he’s ready to prove he’s not a bad egg like his criminal father. So, he slaps some reindeer antlers on his Basset Hound and volunteers to be Santa for the festive season. Being her hometown’s official Mrs. Claus was supposed to be fun. Instead, Evie is stuck being “married” to the sexy bad boy she crushed on in high school. The same one who broke her heart when he left town. But she can’t deny their chemistry burns hotter than an open fire. It’ll take a holiday miracle for them not to ruin Christmas. Can the misunderstood bad boy and the town golden girl get a second chance at love? Or will Evie be stuck in Jasper’s rear-view mirror once more? A Merry Aussie Christmas contains Aussie slang, adorable dog-related shenanigans, second chances and the bedroom door is flung wide open! Yep, there's steam inside. Previously appeared in the Christmas Actually anthology, this story now contains 50% additional content.




Arcana Rising


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The Absent Father Effect on Daughters


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Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Clinical Book 2021 The Absent Father Effect on Daughters investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. This book tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice. Issues of fathers and daughters reach to the intra-psychic depths and archetypal roots, to issues of self and culture, both personal and collective. Susan E. Schwartz illustrates the maladies and disappointments of daughters who lack a father figure and incorporates clinical examples describing how daughters can break out of idealizations, betrayals, abandonments and losses to move towards repair and renewal. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, expanding and elucidating Jungian concepts through dreams, personal stories, fairy tales and the poetry of Sylvia Plath, along with psychoanalytic theory, including Andre Green’s ‘dead father effect’ and Julia Kristeva’s theories on women and the body as abject. Examining daughters both personally and collectively affected by the lack of a father, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters is highly relevant for those wanting to understand the complex dynamics of daughters and fathers to become their authentic selves. It will be essential reading for anyone seeking understanding, analytical and depth psychologists, other therapy professionals, academics and students with Jungian and post-Jungian interests.




A Kiss for Carter


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Sometimes Love is a Tall Story One kiss… one crazy week… is Carter Wells’ luck about to change? He’s six-foot-six of soft heart, bad hair days, and dating disasters. But now Carter (Carts to all his friends) has met his dream woman and he’s determined to make it work. Judith has always settled for sub-par love, played peacemaker between her mum and sister and baked brownies to keep everyone happy. But now she’s falling for Carts and she’s determined to put her own needs first. But when their first date turns into a disaster of gargantuan proportions and major family dramas erupt around them, it will take more than one magical kiss to save their budding relationship. Are Carts and Judith destined to be apart forever? Or will the universe take pity on them and intervene? Find out in this heart-warming third novel in The Laws of Love series.




The Polly Principle


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She’s running from love… He’s just running away. Social worker by day, sex siren by night Polly Fletcher has a clear set of principles that guide her life; her Tinder app, her Jimmy Choo shoes and a strict no-commitment rule. So when she meets a sexy, silver-eyed stranger at a friend’s wedding, all she’s after is a wild night between the sheets. Solo Jakoby has his Ducati motorbike, a backpack of his belongings, and a disaster he’s escaping in Sydney. And sure, he’s wildly attracted to the curvaceous beauty, but he has a job to do, and some unpleasant memories to forget. So what if their time together blew his mind? It was just one night, right? But when Solo and Polly are flung together in quite different circumstances, it seems the chemistry between them won’t let up. And as they start to uncover each other’s secrets, maybe this crazy attraction is set to turn into something deeper? Something that might just challenge Polly’s firmly upheld principle—to never, ever give away her heart? Find out in this steamy, heartwarming second novel in the Laws of Love series.




The Felicity Theory


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He’s grumpy… She’s sunshine… And they’re about to take a road trip across Australia. Successful, handsome, and a little bit OCD, finance guru Oliver Blake has the perfect life. Until his fiancée leaves him on their wedding day, and his carefully constructed world crumbles around him. Still trying to piece his life together six months later, the last thing Oliver needs at his brother’s wedding is a bubbly British bridesmaid plunging his life into more chaos. Felicity Green doesn’t believe in perfect. She’s had enough disappointments to prove dreams don’t come true. She has a theory— life is what you make it, and she’s determined to make her trip to Australia one big adventure. Somehow, Oliver and Felicity find themselves in a combi van traveling across Australia. As they share confined sleeping arrangements and nights under the stars, it’s not long before the chemistry between them is sizzling off the charts. En route to Sydney, it seems that Oliver and Felicity may have stumbled on something almost perfect after all. until they meet a hurdle that just might be too big for either of them to overcome. Will they find a way through this, or has their love met the end of a long dusty road? For fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey comes this steamy heart-warming fourth book in The Laws of Love series.




All the Birds, Singing


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From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is also Jake’s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back—a past that threatens to break into the present. With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.




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