Dating Age

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents.

Sage’s life as a teenage runaway in San Francisco is simple: Snatch a few hours of sleep on park benches and bus stops; dodge perverts, predators, and cops; and make enough as a street musician to eat. But her world flips upside down when she meets Derek – hot, tattooed, and charming, a singer from Seattle whose looks and talent take her breath away. What begins as a reluctant partnership quickly develops into a cross-country race against time - and awakens a hunger in Sage that’s unfamiliar and exciting. As they travel from coast to coast, Sage and Derek pursue their dream, only to ...

Lindy Johnson has been a widow for 15 years and still has a lot of life left in her. Things have really changed from the days when she dated, and you went with your girlfriends to an ice cream parlor where you giggled and laughed while trying to flirt with the cute guys! According to her daughter nowadays you needed to get on the internet and go to a dating app to find Mr. Right online! What would they think of next? Lindy decides to step into the 21st century and try to find her Mr. Right online! Boy...was she in for a surprise! You'll laugh, you'll cry, but mostly you'll enjoy Christy ...

This story inspired the movie "Burning Betrayal", which follows the emotional journey of Barbara and Marco in search of self-knowledge and new love, overcoming the adversities of betrayal and life. To take control... ...first you have to lose it Barbara is young, successful and in love with Caio, her fiancé. But everything changes the day she sees a photo of Caio with a woman who also claims to be his fiancée. In the blink of an eye, everything she believed turns out to be a lie and her world falls apart. Determined not to give up in the face of defeat, she decides to turn her life around...

Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his true love, but he’s plagued with the belief that he’s not enough for anyone: he’s recovering from an eating disorder and suffers from body dysmorphia fuelled by his father and can’t quite figure out his gender identity. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away from home and missing his sister, finding his squad and contending with his ex-best friend, Leila, who is gunning for the same exclusive mentorship.

Marry an old friend to save my family cafe? What could possibly go wrong? Running my family’s business, Bloomer's Café, was my dream. Now I don’t know if it will become a reality. My father left me our beloved coffee shop in his will - with a catch. I must get married within a year or say goodbye to Bloomer's forever. Enter Vince - a silver fox pro golfer, and the brother of my best friend and next door neighbor. He's back in Lavender Ridge and conveniently available for a fake engagement. Pretending is easy - until sparks fly hotter than my espresso drinks. Between planning our ...

"You want me to pretend to be your boyfriend, Cassie? Careful what you ask for...." Cassie: I brought Jack Phillips to this wedding to prove a point—not because I’m in love with him. He’s my boss’s older, off-limits brother, and he’s supposed to be my fake boyfriend. But somewhere between the staged kisses and the nights that feel all too real, pretending stopped being a game. Now, I’m tangled up in a man who kisses like he owns me. What happens when the lines between fake and real blur beyond recognition? Jack: She says I’m here to play a part. Smile, hold her hand, act the ...

This is a cutting-edge tour de force that traces human family life from its origins in Africa over 20 million years ago to the Internet dating sites and bedrooms of today. It's got it all: the copulatory gaze and other natural courting ploys; the who, when, where, and why of adultery; love addictions; Fisher's discovery of four broad chemically based personality styles and what each seeks in romance; the newest data on worldwide (biologically based) patterns of divorce....

Joy Hershberger wants to live up to her name, but joy is something she needs to fight for. Her entire Old Order Amish family is leaving the People. Joy visits the Secret Garden B&B in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, finding rest and guidance from Naomi and Micah Yoder, along with the women in the spinning circle. When she meets Nathan Good, his character outshines her fiancé back home in Sugar Hollow, Ohio. Will time away from home give her perspective? Can she hold firm to her Old Order Amish ways, helping her dear family see that they're blaming the Amish for a beloved family members death? ...

In the first installment of this series, the author focused on the practical aspects of online dating, offering readers a roadmap of tips, strategies, and guidance to navigate the often perplexing digital landscape. But now, in this deeply personal second volume, she shifts from the objective to the intimate, peeling back the layers of her own journey. No longer content with mere instruction, she unveils the raw, uncharted territory of her own heart—inviting readers to experience the vulnerability, uncertainty, and yearning that come with seeking love in an unpredictable world. What ...

She's my little sister's best friend. She calls me Daddy. She's completely off limits. And she's mine. I had one job: look after my sister's best friend while she's away at college. If only she knew the half of it. Yeah, I give Fiona a place to stay, somewhere to sleep. My bed. Clothing optional. Bed-shaking nights mandatory. She started it. By teasing me. By calling me Daddy. By telling me what a good girl she'd be for me. I finished it by staking my claim and making her mine. I'm risking hell from my little sister for sneaking around. Having my fill of her best friend night after night. ...

Romance is in the air - Tay and Toby are a couple now… but Third is feeling like the odd one out. What happens next? Summer after junior year should be full of carefree moments and fun—but for Tay and Toby, everything is changing. With their relationship officially on, the two spend their days together working at the local movie theater, navigating the highs and lows of being a couple. But as they grow closer, their once inseparable friend, Third, begins to feel like the odd one out. Struggling with his own identity, Third faces a long summer of soul-searching. As Tay and Toby’s bond ...

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren’t so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it.

Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter. But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia.

He is a bodyguard who never mixes business with pleasure—until her. Now, protecting her means risking not just his life, but his heart. Gabriel Ross, ex-military and now the city's most sought-after bodyguard, lives by one rule: no distractions. Love? Definitely not in the job description. But when fiery, secretive Lexi Flores crashes into his life, he's forced to break all his own rules. Lexi’s on a dangerous mission, hunting down the powerful family who destroyed hers. Trusting anyone—least of all Gabriel—was never an option. But she didn’t expect the smoldering tension between ...

If you like a little Veronica Mars mixed with your Nancy Drew check this book out! Sixteen year old Kait Lenox has a reputation as the weird girl in her high school, mostly because of her ex-best friend turned mean popular girl, Ariel, but maybe it has a little to do with the fact that Kait has a hobby crashing funerals. At one of these, Kait is outted by the most popular guy in school, Ethan Ripley. Yet, instead of humiliating her for all the world to see, he asks for her help, and Kait finds herself entangled in a murder mystery. Not only is the thrill of the mystery exciting, but more ...

Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer... everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun. When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a "reality version of Sex and the City," they can hardly believe their luck. Their own show? Yes, please!

Get a genealogy DNA kit for the holidays? Then this romance novel with a side of family tree hunting will be a fun fit for you. When a curious high school senior touches a mystic ring, she glimpses her own future—an impossible love with the bad boy star quarterback. Do you choose your fate, or does it choose you? That is the question Chelsea faces in Dating the Quarterback. Chelsea’s an achiever, aiming high, on track for valedictorian. No time for dating or hook-ups. If a guy isn’t “all in,” she doesn’t need him. Sterling’s angry. First to shrug, first to walk out, first to ...

Julián Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. And have the chance to move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that have forced Jules into an inauthentic life. Then in one reckless moment, with one impulsive tweet, his plans for a low-key nine months are thrown - literally - out the closet. The downside: the whole world knows, and Jules has to prepare for rejection. The upside: Jules now has the opportunity to be his real self. Then Mat, a cute, empathetic Twitter crush from Los Angeles, slides into Jules’s DMs.

Hannah: When you’re a girl like me, sometimes people think they get a free pass to be a jerk to you. Living in a big, mean city means dealing with some big, mean bitches. When a salesgirl shames me for asking about a dress in my size, I know to stand my ground. But I wasn’t expecting the billionaire CEO who owns the boutique to come to my rescue… Kyle: I didn’t make a fortune by having my staff condescend to my customers. The moment I attended to this problem, I was enchanted by the girl who wanted my dress. It’s not like me to want to tailor every action to suit her needs. But ...