Ria Zen Knihy

BENJIThey say opposites attract, like hot and cold, or in my case... clean and dirty.With my plumbing ticket and heading closer to the big three-oh, I thought I came to grips with being single. That is, until I met the gorgeous, pale, icy blonde nurse who threw a wrench in my plans. Her name is Hannah, an angel to everyone except me.Don’t hit on the nurse, she’s nothing but trouble.Especially when your Indian mother has arranged other plans. Oh, I’m in sh*t—both literally and figuratively, only this time I have to figure out how to make my situation less messy.HANNAHThere’s always that one patient that gets under your skin... His name is Benji and he’s a disease. It’s like he has nothing better to do in this Canadian town than poke fun at me. Hey, I’m not the fool who ended up in the ER twice on the same day.I have this detailed checklist for attractive qualities in a gentleman, but now that I’ve met this unbearably handsome (emphasis on the unbearable) tradesman, I need to steer clear of that foul-mouthed plumber if I want to settle for Mr. Perfect.

He wrote a fake love letter, but her feelings were real. Jesse Thorne likes to push buttons, then put on a charming smile hoping to avoid the consequence. There is nothing more satisfying to him than getting a rise from his co-worker, Collette Walters. Sometimes it means rearranging her pens while on other occasions it may involve sneaking off with her delicious homemade treats. But when his co-worker’s long-term relationship ends shy of Christmas, his latest office prank has the opposite result than he expected. His phony love letter was supposed to put her on edge, only she is on the edge of her seat waiting for the next romantic surprise. He longs for her flustered reaction, but empathetic to her heartache, he delays, playing along until he is left with no other option. Jesse must take the rebound, setting her up... in person... on a date... with the make-believe Mr. Wright.

This holiday season, I am on the run. What does an ordinary girl like me do when she doesn't have the big bucks to purchase a ticket to an elite Christmas party? She sneaks in by any means necessary. Hey, I did not go to art school to clean offices. Nor do I sacrifice the limited free time I could be spending with my best friend, picking up random cash jobs, for this giant to stand in my way. I don't care if he is twice my size, pure muscle, and could knock me off my feet from one stoic look with those illustrious eyes. All I wanted was to create a few business connections with the guests then return to my hometown to spend Christmas with my family. Ha! That ain't happening no more. I'm being followed.

He swore off love, but she placed a warrant on his heart. Jaxson Thorne has made every mistake in the book and he has paid dearly for it. After getting bailed out of jail, his career options are limited, forcing him to landscape for an extremely wealthy family. Though he has cleaned up his criminal lifestyle and has no intention of stealing ever again, old habits resurface as the perfect woman falls directly into his arms at his brother’s engagement party. He promised himself one evening of fun and romance, but she wants more. Countless times he warns her of his past, but she looks beyond it, offering him hope of a second chance. Ashamed, he pulls a charade. This gardener thinks he can fool her with a rented tuxedo and a fake name, except she isn’t attracted to big money. She wants a happily ever after, but what if he can’t guarantee either?

He fell in love, but she only needed his help.Bryson Duong is an unstoppable prosecutor, winning case after case in court. He firmly believes the guilty must be punished according to the law, except the brute who wronged his pro-bono client dies unexpectedly, leaving Valerie, a pregnant woman, financially stranded.Lonely and attracted to her kindness, he offers to take on the responsibility of supporting her and her awaited child through a marriage in name, a name secretly worth well over a billion dollars overseas. With one of the most romantic days of the year around the corner and pressure from his family, could she become his Valentine?

She's the casualty of his lucrative kissing bet. Juan My brother thinks I'm a stick in the mud and that I need to socialize with other people, or people in general. I direct all my energy into my carpentry work unlike my coworkers. They're a bunch of cowards, running across the street to the air conditioned convenience store to buy their lunches. So when the opportunity to humiliate them arises, I join the bet and raise the stakes. All I have to do is trick Ashley into kissing me. Easy. Wrong. I never intended to gamble my heart. Ashley I thought I met everybody in this small Canadian town, until him. Juan Gakhar, hotter than the sun itself. I see him every day at the construction site across the street from the counter of Jackie's Grab-N-Go, Monday to Friday, with all the other eligible bachelors. If only I could take his mind off work... for good. Starring the industrious tradesmen at Jackson & Reiss Contracting Co. and their sassy counterparts, Your Blue-Collar Romance is plastered with puns and snark. Each fun and flirty, small-town Canadian love story can be read on their own, guaranteeing a happily ever after. This is a closed-door romance.

Fall in love… or die.Love is magical. Necklaces aren’t supposed to be. They can’t conjure someone to captivate Natalia’s heart, even if the cashier said so. She bought it anyway. It was cute and on sale, how could she resist? That’s when the alluring Dominic appeared. Unaware he is a menacing demon, she is tricked by his handsome appearance, and their kiss pulls her into his underwater world. Jamie, her secret admirer, has finally strummed up the courage to ask Natalia out on a date, except she is missing. He risks his bookstore, his health, and his sanity to rescue her. Unfortunately, Jamie discovers too late that reading about mystical leviathans and actually slaying them are two different things. He must compete against the inhuman, and if she doesn’t fall in love with him soon, they will be trapped forever.

This time, I have to disappear for good. When a world-famous musician proposes, I have to go into hiding... again. Not all women need a hero, not if they're purposely avoiding the spotlight caused by the mere presence of Magnus Martinez. I'm not the Iris Delavigne he fell in love with. I may have fudged my getaway story... but I needed time to think, and what better place than the Samoan Islands? All was going according to plan, until a Scotsman, who too closely resembles an even hotter version of an old flame appears, then demands I return home. Today could be just as deadly as the past, so I will hold my secrets to my grave and cherish any moment this soldier brings... Until I have no options left.