{"product_id":"love-bites-steamy-shorts-paperback","title":"Love Bites Steamy Shorts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatilda Martel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree friends: Gia, Stella and Lucius discover love and find their happily ever afters in the city of brotherly love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOVE HATE: \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat do you do when the only person you've ever loved is the person you hate the most? Love doesn't warm my heart. It doesn't fill my spirit with joy. It infests me like a plague and try as I might, I can't find the damn cure.\u003cbr\u003eAll my life I've loved one girl, Gia Jeffries.\u003cbr\u003eOnce we were friends-- best friends. And then one day we weren't. Since then I've loved her from afar, admired, fantasized, lurked behind every corner, followed her to college and waited for the day she'd look deep into my eyes and know what I've known all along--we belong together.\u003cbr\u003eBut I'm a fool. She's not mine and she never will be. And for that, I hate her.\u003cbr\u003eI hate her for casting me aside. I loathe her for never loving me. She consumes my thoughts, my dreams and inspires every work of art I paint. But every day she looks right past me.\u003cbr\u003eUntil, one day I get everything I've every wanted.\u003cbr\u003eHow the hell do I keep from ruining everything?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOVE NEST: \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCarter \"The Beast\" Jameson is past his expiration date. Ten years into his hockey career as the Philadelphia Furies number one Enforcer, he's had enough fights and confrontations to last a lifetime. He wants peace. He wants joy. And more than anything, he's ready to settle down with the right woman and start his family. He's just bought the house of his dreams and started renovating it for the perfect girl.\u003cbr\u003eBut there's no girl. Not yet. That's only a technicality. He's asked the universe to send him the right woman and he's open to receive her as soon as she shows up.\u003cbr\u003eStella Franklin is a children's librarian who once vowed she'd wait until marriage before diving into the sheets. She was wrong. She's twenty-two and time's up. Stella needs a man. But she wants the right one. Thanks to bickering parents, her family life is a mess. She'll do better and choose wisely. She couldn't possibly choose Carter Jameson. He's too tall, too big and people call him The Beast. His relentless stalking infuriates her as much as it turns her on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe swears she's the one and won't take no for an answer.\u003cbr\u003eWhat's a girl to do when one of the hottest guys in Philadelphia swears you're his soul mate and wants to fulfill every dream you've ever had?\u003cbr\u003eMAKE. HIM. BEG\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOVE MATCH\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cbr\u003eLucius Fox has a problem. His mother. Mildred \"Muffin\" Fox still holds the purse strings to his multi-billion-dollar inheritance. And Muffin wants grandchildren. Fed up with her only son's dawdling, she gives him an ultimatum. Marry her best friend's eldest daughter or lose everything--his money, his company, his life's work. With so much on the line, he gives in. He's 42 and hasn't dated in over a decade. One woman is as good as any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuby Wilder's world is crashing down around her. Her eldest sister and nemesis just accepted an arranged proposal with the only man she's ever loved--- Lucius Fox. She must stop it. A life without Lucius is hard enough to bear but watching him marry her horrible sister is unacceptable. She attends their wedding weekend with plans to object at just the right moment, but fate intervenes. When Rebecca refuses him, 19-year-old Ruby volunteers as tribute and steals the man of her dreams.\u003cbr\u003eLucius believes they'll have a marriage of convenience, but Ruby has other plans. She'll do whatever it takes to make him fall head over heels in love with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Ruby always gets what she wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 172\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53042408751411,"sku":"9798201935269","price":25.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ePeqgrX3zx9798201935269.webp?v=1770836798","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/love-bites-steamy-shorts-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}