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Life has become a farcical mess for icy British A-lister Elizabeth Thornton. America's most-hated villain stars in a top-rated TV medical drama that she hates. Now, she's been romantically linked to her perky, new co-star, Summer, due to the young woman's clumsiness. As a closeted actress, that's the last thing Elizabeth needs. If she could just get her dream movie role, life would be so much better. The only problem is that the eccentric French film-maker offering it insists on meeting her "girlfriend", Summer, first.

LA-based English indie filmmaker Alex Levitin reluctantly takes a job in New Zealand to save the "worst movie ever", Shezan: Mistress of the Forest. Things might go easier for her if she didn't almost run over the standoffish, beautiful local cop on her first day in town. And it'd really help if her film set wasn't being mysteriously sabotaged. When Ika Whenu's Senior Constable Sam Keegan isn't trying to stamp out a motorcycle gang drug problem afflicting her town, she's publicly slamming everything about the exploitative film and the Hollywood blow-ins making it.

Australian crime reporter Maddie Grey is out of her depth in New York, miserable, and secretly drawn to her powerful, twice-married media mogul boss, Elena Bartell, who eats failing newspapers for breakfast. As work takes them to Australia, Maddie is goaded into a brief, seemingly harmless bet with her enigmatic boss - where they have to tell the complete truth to each other. It backfires catastrophically.

Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chaffing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival - the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace, and her acerbic, vicious tongue keeps everyone at bay. Everyone, that is, except knockabout Iowa girl King, who is undaunted and unimpressed and gives as good as she gets.

Muffin maker Olivia Roberts has had it with her awful exes taking advantage of her good nature. The theft of her nana's beloved stuffed penguin is the absolute last straw. She puts up an ad at her local crime bookstore for a henchperson to help her enact a little mild revenge. To her astonishment, Margaret Blackwood, the mysterious, icy, and annoyingly opinionated bookstore owner, applies.

Ambitious ice queen and corporate lawyer Felicity Simmons has spent her life focused on one thing: scuttling up the career ladder. She's achingly close to taking charge of a media empire for her boss when she's sent to investigate a South Bronx charity that helps homeless people's pets. Has the charity made off with her boss's generous donation? And, who on earth is that gorgeous soft-butch veterinarian who looks as if she could toss a Shetland pony over one shoulder? Not that Felicity has any interest in some opinionated Amazon or her adorable fleabag of a dog.

CEO Michelle Hastings has foolishly promoted a kind, clueless activist to her full-time staff. Now, on top of fighting her inconvenient feelings, Michelle must hide the evil they do. Eden Lawless relishes her new job, the hot boss who gives her butterflies, and her eccentric workmates who tell weird jokes about their day. Blackmail? Hacking? Doxing? Hilarious! But what if it's not a joke? Would that mean Eden has to fight the boss she's falling for?

Ten short stories based on Lee Winter’s fierce and unforgettable ice queens and villains have been gathered into one anthology containing lesbian love, lust, friendship, and romance. Find out what happened after Lee’s stories ended, and in one case, before it began. Iconic characters revisited include Elena Bartell (The Brutal Truth), Elizabeth Thornton (Breaking Character), Monique Carson (Hotel Queens), Natalya Tsvetnenko (Requiem for Immortals), Catherine Ayers (The Red Files), and Cynthia Redwell (Under Your Skin).

What do a stolen food-delivery robot, a woman from the past, and a bizarre scheme to microchip military veterans have in common? The infamous Caustic Queen, Washington DC bureau chief Catherine Ayers, would love to find out but she has a lot on her plate right now. She and her fiancée, reporter and Iowa girl Lauren King, are busy wedding planning in Lauren’s home town.

Muffinbäckerin Olivia hat es satt, ständig von anderen ausgenutzt zu werden. Als ihre Ex dann auch noch den geliebten ausgestopfen Pinguin stiehlt, den Olivia von ihrer Oma geerbt hat, ist es mit ihrer Gutmütigkeit vorbei. Genug ist genug! Entschlossen hängt sie am Schwarzen Brett ihres örtlichen Krimi-Buchladens eine Anzeige auf: Gesucht wird eine Komplizin für eine kleine Racheaktion. Zu Olivias Erstaunen meldet sich ausgerechnet Margaret Blackwood, die mysteriöse, eiskalte und nervtötende Besitzerin des Buchladens.

Wenn zwei ehrgeizige Frauen, so verschieden wie Feuer und Eis, das Gleiche wollen, ist die Leidenschaft nicht weit. Ein Liebesroman, so vielschichtig, frech und intelligent wie seine Protagonistinnen. Als sie in einer Hotelbar in Las Vegas aufeinandertreffen, ahnen Amelia Duxton und Kai Fisher nicht, dass sie dasselbe Ziel haben: den Deal ihres Lebens zu machen und das luxuriöse Mayfair Palace Hotel zu kaufen. Doch damit enden auch schon die Gemeinsamkeiten.

Lauren King ist jung und ehrgeizig. Liebend gerne würde sie ihren Job als Klatschreporterin beim Daily Sentinel aufgeben und in die Politikredaktion wechseln, aber ihr Chef lässt sie über Hollywoods Promis und die Partys in L.A. berichten. Schlimmer noch: Ihre direkte Kollegin ist die eiskalte und einschüchternde Catherine Ayers, eine ehemals sehr erfolgreiche Politikkorrespondentin in Washington, die nach einem Skandal strafversetzt wurde und Lauren drangsaliert, wo sie nur kann. Bei einer Business-Party stößt Lauren auf eine richtig gute Story.

Was haben ein gestohlener Lieferroboter, eine bei Jugendlichen angesagte App und der Plan, Kriegsveteranen einen Mikrochip mit ihren Gesundheitsdaten zu implantieren, gemeinsam? Das würden die beiden preisgekrönten Journalistinnen Catherine Ayers und Lauren King gerne herausfinden, aber daneben haben sie noch mit ihren Hochzeitsvorbereitungen zu tun. Als die beiden nach Iowa zu Laurens Familie fahren, um die Feier zu organisieren, muss sich Catherine nicht nur mit Laurens anstrengenden Brüdern und einer äußert dominanten Großmutter herumschlagen.

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