The Boyfriend Gambit

The Boyfriend Gambit
Author: Elle Keaton
Publisher: Dirty Dog Press LLC
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

How do you repair a broken heart when you were the one who broke it in the first place? Charley It's been four years since Simon broke up with me, but who's counting? I'm fine these days, thank you very much. I don't need a man to make me happy. ♥ Simon Past me had to make a choice. Current me knows it was the wrong one. Future me hopes I can fix it. I've never stopped loving Charley this is my last chance; our last chance. ♥ The Boyfriend Gambit is first-person dual POV. Simon lays all his cards on the table in an attempt to win Charley's heart back. No cliffhanger, HEA guaranteed. Heat level, 4+. Can be read as a standalone but you may enjoy it even more if you read Feinted Heart and The Heart Heist first! second chance, love/hate/love, interfering friends, found family, feisty grandmother.

X-Men

X-Men
Author:
Publisher: Marvel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781302902483

The path of romance rarely runs smoothly for the X-Men, and that goes double for mutantkind's most ill-fated couple: Gambit and Rogue! The would-be lovers who dare not touch face ghosts from their pasts in adventures filled with thieves, assassins, reunions and revenge! Remy LeBeau returns to New Orleans when he hears rumors his late wife isn't so late after all. But the key to fully reviving Bella Donna lies within the Thieves Guild that Gambit turned his back on! Will Remy's father welcome him home with open arms? Or will his in-laws in the Assassins Guild meet him first with closed fists? COLLECTING: GAMBIT (1993) 1-4, ROGUE (1995) 1-4

The Husband Gambit

The Husband Gambit
Author: L. A. Witt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781730709920

*** LARGE PRINT EDITION *** Marry me for 1 year. Payment: $1.2 million.Hayden Somerset is convinced the ad is a joke, but he responds anyway because, hello, $1.2 million. He's broke, living in a tiny apartment with two roommates, and exhausted from praying his ancient car survives just one more week. His skyrocketing rent and crushing student loans aren't helping either. At this point, there isn't much Hayden wouldn't do for that kind of cash.The ad isn't a joke. Jesse Ambrose is absolutely serious. His father, the charismatic patriarch of a powerful Hollywood dynasty, has his eye on politics, and he's counting on California's liberals and progressives to elect him. But Jesse knows what his father believes when cameras and voters aren't around. As the election looms, he'll do anything to force the man's hand and show the public who Isaac Ambrose really is.Anything, including marrying a stranger so his father will make good on his promise to disown Jesse if he ever takes a husband.Now he just has to wait for his father to take the bait... and try not to accidentally fall in love with his fake husband.

The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit
Author: Boris Akunin
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2006
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 0812968786

In 1877, Erast Fandorin finds himself at the Bulgarian front in a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, where he assists a Russian woman who is risking her life for her fiancé, who has been falsely accused of espionage.

The Inheritance Games

The Inheritance Games
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1368053246

OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES! Don't miss this New York Times bestselling "impossible to put down" (Buzzfeed) novel with deadly stakes, thrilling twists, and juicy secrets—perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why—or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch—and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. **The games continue in The Hawthorne Legacy, The Final Gambit, and The Brothers Hawthorne!

The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 079534306X

Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction.​ When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. “The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient

Hunter's Gambit

Hunter's Gambit
Author: Brandy Ackerley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781999516529

Kuzunoha is running out of options. In just a month she'll be an adult but as the illegitimate younger daughter of a rich noble she can only see two possible futures. Both leave her a pawn in her elder sister's game as family matriarch, a future as unacceptable to Kuzunoha as it is unavoidable. That changes when Kuzunoha saves the life of a stranger. In return for her help, the stranger offers her a way to have a future that doesn't tie her to her family. He's heard of a forgotten treasure nearby and needs a guide to help him search for it. Her family and friends don't trust this dangerous man's offer, but Kuzunoha accepts, knowing that she can't live the life her sister wants for her anymore. Will she succeed in proving she can have a life outside of her sister's shadow? Or will it all fall to pieces around her?

King Thor

King Thor
Author: Jason Aaron
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302520083

Collects King Thor (2019) #1-4. One last ride with the almighty lord of Asgard! Jason Aaron reunites with Esad Ribi? to conclude the epic saga they began in THOR: GOD OF THUNDER! Seven years ago, Aaron and Ribi? introduced the Thor of the far future — All-Father of a broken realm and a dying universe — as he stood in battle against Gorr, the Butcher of Gods, wielder of All-Black the Necrosword. But now that nefarious blade has returned, in the hands of Thor’s all-time-greatest enemy: his adopted brother, Loki! It’s time for one final, cataclysmic showdown — but even worse is still to come as the ultimate end of all things grows near! A who’s who of Aaron’s past THOR collaborators, along with a few surprise guests, stop by to bring down the curtain on a glorious era in thunderous style!

The Boyfriend Hypothesis

The Boyfriend Hypothesis
Author: Susannah Nix
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2024-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1035025981

She swore off men – and fell in love. An ultra-smart chemical engineer meets an ultra-hot barista in The Boyfriend Hypothesis, an opposites-attract rom-com from Susannah Nix. After a string of lousy boyfriends, chemical engineer Penny Popplestone is developing a theory: boys are nothing but trouble! So she swears off men until she can figure out why they keep cheating on her. But her no-men resolution hits a snag when the mysterious and superhumanly hot barista at her favourite coffee shop strikes up a friendship with her. Penny strives to keep things platonic, but when Caleb gives her the kiss of her life, she realizes he wants to be more than just friends. Tired of always being "good little Penny," she throws caution to the wind and pursues a no-strings fling with the hottie barista. It's not like they have anything in common beyond scorching physical chemistry, so what does she have to lose? Her heart, it turns out. Now, this fanfic-reading, plus-size heroine faces an unsolvable problem. What do you do when being apart is unbearable...but being together is impossible? An #OppositesAttract STEM rom-com, and book three in the Chemistry Lessons Series, originally published as Advanced Physical Chemistry. Each book in the series features a brand new couple with their own HEA and can be read in any order.

Feinted Love

Feinted Love
Author: Elle Keaton
Publisher: Dirty Dog Press LLC
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

One hot Seattle summer. A half-baked revenge plot. A gambit for love. Arnie One minute I’m minding my own business enjoying the sunshine, next I’m wearing my iced coffee. Of course, the perpetrator is THE guy I’ve never forgotten—it seems though that he’s forgotten me. I’m awkward and generally have no clue what I’m doing, but this time Tobias isn’t brushing me off. Tobias I've never forgotten Arnie, or the night we had together. When I, er, run into him again, I realize want to get to know him—as more than a friend. I may come from a wealthy family and I know money can’t buy happiness. But brash, socially awkward Arnie Ferguson makes me think happiness is possible when you let your heart choose. nerd/geek, comedic elements, awkward, rich/poor, reunited, revenge-sort of, medium heat, shy lover, on the spectrum, loyal to a fault. Feinted Love is a first person, dual POV, following Arnie Ferguson and Tobias Barrington as they do their best to awkwardly fall in love. Standalone, No cliffhanger, HEA guaranteed. Heat level, 3+. opposites, awkward love, rich/poor, drama queen, comedic elements, second chance