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When I lost my partner of eight years, I felt like my world was crashing down around me. In order to feel some relief from the overwhelming emptiness, I’ve found myself sending him texts every year on his birthday, even though I know he will never answer. That is, until someone responds to my text. Jace is charming, sweet, and everything I could ever want. But how can I accept someone new in my life when Daniel’s only been gone two years? Even so, Jace rewrites my entire world with every word and smile he gives me, and it’s becoming harder to not give in and hand him my heart.

Travis is my friend's little brother. I'm supposed to keep him safe. To be a man he can trust. But I haven't seen him in years. When he turns up hurt and needing a place to stay, protection is only one of the things I want to offer him. Because Travis isn’t a kid anymore. He’s all grown up now. And the way he looks at me tells me he feels the heat rising between us.

Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.

When the desperate needs of his family must come before his dream of finishing his degree, Kyle, feeling both guilt ridden and heartbroken, knows what he needs to do. But when his help isn't enough, a shady idea offered by his even shadier friend proves the only saving grace. Mergers, acquisitions, and philanthropy consume Maddox's days and nights prompting an overdue visit to his best friend's luxury resort. Finally enjoying some R&R, he meets an adorable botanist working there for the summer.

After Emery Hazard loses his job as a detective in Saint Louis, he heads back to his hometown - and to the local police force there. Home, though, brings no happy memories. Hazard's new partner, John-Henry Somerset, had been one of the worst tormentors, and Hazard still wonders what Somerset's role was in the death of Jeff Langham, Hazard's first boyfriend. When a severely burned body is discovered, Hazard finds himself drawn deeper into the case than he expects. Determining the identity of the dead man proves impossible, and solving the murder grows more and more unlikely.

Rafe Hawthorne is a master glassblower with a commitment problem. He loves his life of artistic and romantic freedom, but the older he gets, the more he realizes he needs help to reach the heights of the glass world. As much as he hates to admit it, his old rival, Jake Mathers, might be the only person who can help him level up his career.

Fire Captain Cassidy Harris is as dedicated to her team as they come. Proud, stubborn, and fiercely protective, she's not about to let anyone waltz in and mess with Phoenix Ridge Fire Department. Of course she clashes immediately with Evelyn Ford—a stone cold Ice Queen tasked with modernizing the fire department. Cassidy is ready to fight tooth and nail against Evelyn's changes, but then there is the one thing she didn't expect . . . the heated chemistry between her and her sworn enemy Evelyn.

Bijoux wird nach Unruhen in Kinshasa als Teenager zu ihrer Tante Mira nach London geschickt. Hier verliebt sie sich zum ersten Mal – in eine Frau. Vor ihrer religiösen Tante muss sie das verbergen, doch sie ahnt nicht, dass auch diese ein Geheimnis vor ihr hat: den wahren Grund dafür, dass sie vor vielen Jahren von Afrika nach Europa kam, in ein Land, in dem sie sich immer noch nicht zu Hause fühlt. Bijoux weiß: So wie Tante Mira will sie nicht enden. Und trifft eine Entscheidung.

Ceramic artist Robbie Hawthorne is dedicated not only to his art, but to keeping the arts center and school housed at his family's ancestral estate vibrant and flourishing. But when the family runs into financial trouble and a heartless corporation offers to buy the estate to turn it into an amusement park, Robbie has to get creative to try to stop them.

Ruby Riley is a struggling actress who finally lands a part playing a surgeon in a top medical drama TV show. She is sent to Forest Vale Hospital to shadow a surgeon and learn what real hospitals are like before filming starts. The only problem is, that she has an immediate attraction to this surgeon. This surgeon is a spoiled little rich girl with a guarded exterior. What is she hiding? The surgeon is super straight and Ruby doesn't stand a chance. Does she?

Nick Turner has always been the big, shy, silent type. He's always let his metalwork and blacksmithing skills speak for him. But now, as a widower with two small children to raise in the midst of the eccentric Hawthorne family and a sculpture that needs completing to make the deadline for a national competition, he knows he's in over his head.

As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex Goblin metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, and autofiction to present the real and the imagined as equally surreal possibilities. In the narrator's childlike voice, all things become both mundane and strange—a child and their dog fused after a car accident, moments of tenderness amidst frat hazing, witches, and hiking accidents.

Mazey Snow is Hollywood's top actress, but when a stunt on set goes terribly wrong, she finds herself in real danger—until firefighter McKenna Adams swoops in for the rescue. Mazey's used to the spotlight, but nothing prepared her for the heat she feels around McKenna. McKenna's all about keeping things simple—she's never imagined getting caught up with a celebrity, let alone one who is straight. As sparks fly, Mazey's drawn to McKenna in ways she's never felt before, but the paparazzi are circling, and the pressure of fame makes everything complicated.

Destiny and Faith were living and loving the life they'd created. They worked side-by-side at a thriving landscaping company by day and spent their nights together in a lavender haze of love. It was a happy life or so Destiny thought. One day Faith not only moved all her things out of their apartment, but she quit her job and opened her own landscaping company. On top of that the only explanation Destiny ever received was: you know what you did.

Dr. Amira Alvarez is a sports doctor heading up the new Forest Vale department specializing in female athletes. She has just been through a messy divorce and love is the last thing on her mind. She wants a new start. When she meets the super charming sports psychologist, Dr. Casey Rosen, she cannot resist the lure of her. But the handsome Casey is from a world of BDSM and Amira knows nothing about it. Will Amira get drawn into Casey's tangled web of sexuality? And if she does, will Casey break her heart?

Decades from now, two women sit around a fire on Beltane, May Eve, and reflect on their life stories. Activist Lucy's earliest memories are of living with her grandparents during the 2020 pandemic, and discovering her grandmother's love of birds. Filmmaker Hester, born on the day of the Chornobyl explosion, visits the plant in 2021 to film its feral dog population, and encounters the wilded Exclusion Zone—and a wolf-dog.

Outlaw Sarah Montgomery has spent her life robbing banks and trains along the untamed frontier of the 1870s. Known for her daring exploits and wit, she secretly yearns for freedom from the ruthless grip of her mentor, Henry Fairbanks, and the life of crime she can’t escape.

To his shock, Troy is no ordinary person. Born to incredible metaphysical powers residing in his mind, he comes to his own as they awaken. Determined to make good on them, he trains hard, only to discover that his powers come with a steep price. One born of his own reflection, one born to chaos. Can he undo the damage he is tied to or make amends to those affected by it? Will he find the love he so deeply seeks in those his literal mind is bound to? Who knows...

Years ago, Abi left Vancouver heartbroken. Now she’s back — older, wiser, and sexier. Tess won’t know what hit her. Abi Young is well acquainted with unrequited love and the void it leaves behind. While she had hoped moving to a different city would extinguish any residual feelings for her best friend’s older sister, it turns out absence really does make the heart grow fonder. As the maid of honor, all Tess Moore wants is to give her sister the wedding of her dreams. Even if it means stepping out of her comfort zone and organizing a pre-wedding bridal party adventure.

Tras el centenario de Proust, la quinta entrega del ciclo "A la busca del tiempo perdido", en una edición para hacer ya ineludible este verdadero reto lector. Guiados por la edición de Mauro Armiño, que culmina su trabajo de treinta años sobre este clásico, presentamos esta edición totalmente puesta al día del ciclo A la busca del tiempo perdido, de Marcel Proust, considerado una de las cimas de la literatura universal.