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"Two people realize that it's no longer an act when they veer off-script in this sizzling romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory. Ben Stephens has never bothered with serious relationships. He has plenty of casual dates to keep him busy, family drama he's trying to ignore, and his advertising job to focus on. When Ben lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star Anna Gardiner, however, it's hard to keep it purely professional....

At the center are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after a devastating civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones and drenched in deep despair. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but theyre beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation;...

"Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring. A publisher has given him three weeks to rewrite his book, and he must immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed el Adl, E. M. Forster's secret lover, who, like Kip, was Black, queer--an other. The similarities don't end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by confrontations with Whiteness, their homosexuality, their...