From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships. In ”After the Season,” a man falls quickly in love with a woman he meets on the beach but wrestles with his incongruous feelings of betrayal after he learns she’s rich. In “Johann Sebastian Bach on Ruegen,” a son tries to put his resentment toward his emotionally distant father behind him by proposing a trip to a Back festival but soon realizes, during his efforts to reconnect, that it wasn’t his father who was the distant one. A philandering playwright is accused to infidelity by his wife in “The Night in Baden-Baden,” but he sees her accusations as nothing more than a means to exculpate himself of his guilt as he carries on with his ways. And in “Stranger in the Night,” an obliging professor becomes an accomplice—not entirely unwittingly—to the temporary escape of a charismatic fugitive on a delayed flight from New York to Frankfurt. The truth, as once character puts it, is “passionate, beautiful sometimes, and sometimes hideous, it can make you happy and it can torture you, and it always sets you free.” Tantalizingly, so is the act of telling a lie—to others and to ourselves.

Her name is Grace Maddox, and everybody knows that she is a marked woman. And only Zack Richards, who has loved her since he was a kid, can protect her...

Enjoy this FREE steamy CEO billionaire series starter by USA Today Bestselling dark contemporary romance author Summer Cooper! In a world where everyone believed Chloe to be lost forever, there was one person who refused to let go—Lincoln, her best friend’s brother. Now, a decade later, as a triumphant tech billionaire, he stumbles upon a woman–a striper–who bears an uncanny resemblance to her. Yet, this woman–once an innocent ballet dancer–no longer responds to the name he once knew her by. She is a shadow of her former self, haunted by the past, and desperately yearning to evade discovery. As the memories flood back, the billionaire's heart skips a beat, transported to that unforgettable night. The night of the fire, the night her parents died, the night she was supposed to die with them and the night they shared together. Now, fate has reunited them under circumstances more extraordinary than any dream. Lincoln finds himself torn between the relentless pursuit of truth and the delicate boundaries of her shattered existence. Can he rekindle the flame that once burned between them? Will he unlock the secrets that lie beneath her fragile facade? Step into the hidden world of a billionaire and a sultry stripper as their worlds collide in a tale of love, loss and redemption. This smokin’ hot book is perfect for fans of Fifty Shades, Roxy Sloane, TL Swan, Sierra Rose and Ava Gray. Reading order: Book 1: Dancing With Lies (now FREE!) Book 2: Dancing With Temptation Book 3: Dancing With Doubt Book 4: Dancing With Guilt Book 5: Dancing With Redemption This is an adult only steamy contemporary romance, appealing to readers who love fated mates, billionaire romance, best friend's brother and sizzling hot romances with a twist.

Things heat up on the shores of Silver Beach. . . . Ethan Wells falls in love with Laura McIver, a beautiful, stong-minded girl who'll keep him out of Charlotte's clutches forever . . . or so he thinks. Elli Wells finally opens her heart to Sam DeWitt . . . until she unearths the shock of a lifetime. Charlotte Ransom, betrayed by Ethan, vows she'll sooner see Laura McIver dead than let her win Ethan's heart . . . and she means it. Sam DeWitt, desperate to keep Elli's love, hides a secret that could tear them apart.