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What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand? Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend's daughter.

Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He'll only ever be there when she's at the office. In fact, they'll never even have to meet.

Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rule book out the window.

When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn 80. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. Once Leena learns of Eileen's romantic predicament, she proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love. Meanwhile Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire....

Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth. These three women are strangers who have only one thing in common: They’ve all been stood up on the same day, the very worst day to be stood up—Valentine’s Day. And, unbeknownst to them, they’ve all been stood up by the same man.

When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some long-overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn 80. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. So they decide to try a two-month swap. But stepping into one another's shoes proves more difficult than either of them expected. Will swapping lives help Eileen and Leena find themselves...and maybe even find true love?

Tiffy Moore necesita un piso barato, y con urgencia. Leon Twomey trabaja de noche y anda escaso de dinero. Sus amigos piensan que están locos pero es la solución ideal: Leon usa la cama mientras Tiffy está en la oficina durante el día y ella dispone del apartamento el resto del tiempo. Y su modo de comunicarse mediante notas es divertido y parece funcionar de maravilla para resolver las vitales cuestiones de quién se ha acabado la mantequilla y si la tapa del váter debería estar subida o bajada.

Four years ago, Dylan and Addie fell in love under the Provence sun. Wealthy Oxford student Dylan was staying at his friend Cherry’s enormous French villa; wild child Addie was spending her summer as the on-site caretaker. Two years ago, their relationship officially ended. They haven’t spoken since. Today, Dylan’s and Addie’s lives collide again. It’s the day before Cherry’s wedding, and Addie and Dylan crash cars at the start of the journey there.

It’s the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the hotel’s front desk, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and see it through. The hotel won't stay afloat beyond Christmas without some sort of miracle. But when Izzy returns a guest’s lost wedding ring, the reward convinces management that this might be the way to fix everything. With four rings still sitting in the lost & found, the race is on for Izzy and Lucas to save their beloved hotel—and their jobs.

Leena Cotton es infalible, pero ha metido la pata. Sus jefes le ordenan tomarse dos meses de vacaciones y, agotada, decide escapar de la humeante Londres. Eileen Cotton es imparable, pero acaba de quedarse soltera a sus setenta y nueve años y no hay (a primera vista) ningún soltero adecuado para ella en Hamleigh, su pequeño pueblo. Al enterarse del problema de su abuela, Leena propone una solución drástica: durante ocho semanas, Eileen se irá a Londres a buscar el amor mientras ella se ocupa de todo en Hamleigh y aprovecha para desconectar.

Bienvenidos al hotel Forest Manor, un encantador establecimiento en el que tanto los huéspedes como el personal son como de la familia. Excepto Izzy y Lucas, claro, pues la rivalidad que hay entre ellos es tal que incluso les han prohibido coincidir en el mismo turno. Tras dos años de penurias, tal vez haya llegado el momento de que el hotel cierre sus puertas para siempre. Pero entonces Izzy devuelve un anillo perdido a su dueño y la recompensa que recibe convence a la dirección de que tal vez hayan encontrado la solución a sus problemas...

Three women. Three dates. One missing man. The No-Show is the brilliantly funny, heartbreaking and joyful new novel from Beth O'Leary about dating, and waiting, and the ways love can find us.

TENÉIS UNA CITA CON JOSEPH CARTER. PERO PRIMERO TENDRÉIS QUE ENCONTRARLO...

It's the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the hotel's front desk, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and see it through. The hotel won't stay afloat beyond Christmas without some sort of miracle. But when Izzy returns a guest's lost wedding ring, the reward convinces management that this might be the way to fix everything. With four rings still sitting in lost property, the race is on for Izzy and Lucas to save their beloved hotel - and their jobs.

Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in rural Scotland. The playlist is all planned, and the snacks are packed. But, not long after setting off, a car slams into the back of theirs. The driver is none other than Addie's ex, Dylan, who she's avoided since their traumatic break-up two years earlier. Dylan and his best mate are heading to the wedding, too, and they've totalled their car, so Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride.

Três meses após o término do seu relacionamento, Tiffy finalmente sai do apartamento do ex-namorado. Agora ela precisa para ontem de um lugar barato para morar. Contrariando os amigos, ela topa um acordo bastante inusitado. Leon está enrolado com questões financeiras e tem uma ideia pouco convencional para arranjar dinheiro rápido: sublocar seu apartamento, onde fica apenas no período da manhã e da tarde nos dias úteis, já que passa os finais de semana com a namorada e trabalha como enfermeiro no turno da noite. Só que tem um detalhe importante: o lugar tem apenas uma cama.

Todo el mundo tiene un ex. El de ADDIE es Dylan: hijo de familia adinerada, poeta de mirada intensa y manos cálidas... y la persona que le rompió el corazón. Tras dos años sin verlo, está segura de haberlo superado, pero el destino no opina lo mismo. De camino con su hermana a una boda en Escocia, un coche choca con ellas. El conductor es Dylan, que también va con su mejor amigo a la celebración. Y ahora, si quieren llegar a tiempo a la ceremonia, tendrán que viajar juntos.

Lexi is looking for no-strings-attached fun with a stranger. She deserves one night for herself, doesn't she? Zeke is looking for love. But for one night with a woman like Lexi, he'll break his rules ... Sparks fly at the pub - one passionate kiss leads to another, and they soon end up stumbling home to the marina together. But the next morning, they're unable to part ways as planned. The houseboat they stayed on last night has been swept out to sea. How long can Zeke and Lexi survive on a drifting houseboat? Will search and rescue find them?

Dylan e Addie se apaixonaram há alguns verões, sob o sol da Provença, na França. Quase dois anos atrás, porém, o relacionamento acabou, e eles pararam de se falar. Às vésperas do casamento de uma amiga em comum, os caminhos dos dois se cruzam novamente. Ou melhor, colidem. Quando, logo no início da viagem para a festa, o carro em que Dylan vai com um amigo bate no que Addie está com a irmã e um sujeito que pediu para ir junto, os planos mudam. Addie se vê obrigada a oferecer carona para a dupla, e, espremidos no carrinho, os cinco retomam a jornada.

Leena Cotton tem 29 anos e sente que já não é mais a mesma. Eileen Cotton tem 79 e está em busca de um novo amor. Tudo de que neta e avó precisam no momento é pôr em prática uma mudança radical. Então, para colocar suas respectivas vidas de volta nos trilhos, as duas têm uma ideia inusitada: trocar de lugar uma com a outra. Leena sabe que precisa descansar, mas imagina que a parte mais difícil será se adaptar à calmaria da cidadezinha onde a avó mora. Cadastrada em um site de relacionamentos, Eileen por sua vez embarca na aventura com a qual sonha desde a juventude.