Contemporary Romance

Contemporary Romance

When you’re looking to download free and discounted contemporary romance ebooks, this is the place to go. Satisfy your inner passion for bestselling romance in this category, and never pay more than what you should. We routinely feature the best authors of contemporary romance ebooks, and they always promote their ebooks to you--for free or for a discount.

 

Definition of "Contemporary Romance": While technically a subgenre of the Romance category, that category is much too large to not be broken down. Contemporary Romance, by definition, is set in the time in which it was written.  The ebooks in this category are largely focused on the relationship and romantic love shared by two people.  Typically, ebooks in this category reward characters that are good people, punish those that are bad, and end with an upbeat, positive conclusion.  But, that "formula" is always being altered by excellent authors--which is why we read their ebooks, right?

 

Some examples of the best Contemporary Romance ebooks past and present include Nicholas Sparks (The Longest Ride), Tracy Brogan (Crazy Little Thing), Jojo Moyes (Me Before You), Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook), Lisa Kleypas (Blue-Eyed Devil).

Whispers Among the Prairie: A Western Historical Romance

by Michelle Roberts


***Winner of the 2019 Book Excellence Award in the Western category***


Journey back in time to the American West, where the ancient prairie lands are stained with blood from the battles being waged between the Indians and White Man.

The Indians wish to continue living in freedom as they always have, but the White Man see them as savages who need to be eradicated.

Chief Black Kettle, of the Southern Cheyenne Indians, and his adopted daughter, Morning Dove, try and keep the peace with the Whites, wishing to protect their people from the needless bloodshed sweeping across the land.

Enter Clinton McKay, a veteran of the Civil War, who re-enlists in the cavalry and crosses paths with Morning Dove. The pair soon develop feelings for one another but fight against them, knowing society wouldn’t allow them to be together, as they are on opposite sides of a war.

What will happen? Will they bow to an unjust society? Will their love flourish? Will Black Kettle keep his tribe safe? Join the adventure on the Great Plains in Whispers Among the Prairie.

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The Billionaire's Intern (The Intern Book 1)

by Lia Hunt


The Billionaire’s Intern is a classic virgin-meets-billionaire romance - if your idea of classic is scorching hot angst with a plot twist that’ll leave you begging for more...

No one’s ever called me friendly.

You don’t get to where I am by being approachable.

I’m used to seas of people parting for me. Especially in the lobby of the building I own, filled with people who work for me.

Guess no one told the new marketing intern:

She spills her coffee all over me and then offers to replace my custom couture with Kathy Ireland.
Emery is a sweet little blinky-eyed Kansas girl. A kitten in the middle of our shark tank. It’s just common decency to protect her. Take her to lunch and get to know her. Wonder why she looks at me like she wants me to eat her alive, but pulls back every time I’m ready to bite.
Okay, so that last one isn’t decent at all. In fact, every fantasy I have about her is downright filthy.
Discovering I’m her first?

Well, it gives me even more wicked thoughts about the big... city I can show her.

I’ve been burned before. Fool me once, right? I built a billion-dollar company by planning for every possibility. Making sure nothing gets past me again.

But I sure didn’t see this one coming.

Book one of three in The Intern Trilogy.

 
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Cold Cruel Kiss: Cold Justice - The Negotiators Book 4

by Toni Anderson


When the daughter of the US Ambassador to Argentina is kidnapped in broad daylight on Christmas Eve, the FBI sends one of its best negotiators to investigate.

Supervisory Special Agent Max Hawthorne arrives at an embassy thrown into chaos as US and local law enforcement hustle to track the young woman. Is this a simple kidnap for ransom, or part of a political agenda? Could it be something more sinister?

Lucy Aston has something to hide. Preferring to stay in the shadows, the lowly, fashion-challenged office assistant resents being assigned to help Max. But Max can’t resist a puzzle…he’s starting to suspect Lucy Aston is not what she seems.

When rumors emerge of a suspected Russian spy operating out of the embassy, Lucy’s carefully constructed life begins to crumble. As she and Max race to rescue the ambassador’s daughter, Lucy has to do whatever it takes to keep her cover from being blown—even if that means betraying the man she’s falling for.

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Worst Date Ever (A Time For Love Book 1)

by J. S. Cooper


“Go on a date,” she said. “You’ll love it,” she said. She was wrong!

It had been one year, two months and seventeen days since my last date. So my best friend Abby decided to sign me up for a dating app. She guaranteed that she could get me the best date of my life within one week. I didn’t really want to do it, but I figured what did I have to lose?

Turns out that I had:

1. $500

2. My dignity

3. My patience and

4. My innocence to lose

OK, so I didn’t really have my innocence to lose, but believe you me, Jack Morrison was my worst date ever. And I’ve been on a lot of bad dates. Trust me when I say that that was the longest ten hours and 33 minutes of my life. I never wanted to see or speak to him again.

But it turns out you don’t always get what you want in life, because Jack showed up the very next day at a family gathering I was attending as a fake plus one. As you can imagine that was a real pickle, Jack wanted to know why I went on a date with him when I’m dating someone else. But he can’t know the whole complicated truth of the matter. I’m in a fake relationship and now I’m being blackmailed by the worst date ever.

That’s not even the worst part. I decided to log onto this new app called “confession board” to seek some advice, but it turns out Jack Morrison is absolutely everywhere and he’s not going to leave me alone until I submit to his demands.

 

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Gamed (Minnesota Caribou Book 4)

by Colleen Charles


She's my tempting but temporary boss.

I always want what I can’t have... but I won't be denied.


What does the most notorious playboy on the Minnesota Caribou professional hockey team do when everything blows up in his face?

Right, I've sworn off women because my multi-million-dollar NHL contract is on the line. If I lose my dream because of my own screw ups, I might never recover.

I've never known a goal I couldn't score - or a girl I couldn't score with.

Until she tumbles from a ladder and straight into my arms.

She's my boss. She's older. She's off-limits.

Sue-Ann Johnson is lush, smart, more determined than I am, and one hundred percent taboo. For the first time in my life, I want someone who’s not a sure bet.

She's the successful business owner who obeys every rule. I'm the guy who breaks them.

Not since college have I shown a woman the real me beneath my reckless charm.

Until now... and there's no going back.


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GAMED is a full-length steamy age-gap sports romance from USA Today Bestselling Author, Colleen Charles. It has a small-town feel, a redemption theme, and giggles with blazing heat until the very last page. It's the fourth book in the gripping MINNESOTA CARIBOU hockey series but can be read as a standalone.

"What a great book! Gamed had a little of everything. Heat and romance, belly laughs and hockey hotties. And don’t forget the psycho Roomba!” ~ Marni K. Reads

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Yours For the Holidays Boxed Set: Four First-In-Series Contemporary Romances

by K.M. Scott


Includes a brand new, never-before-published Club X Christmas Story!

Get FOUR contemporary romances FREE in this special boxed set today and fall in love with stories that are fan favorites around the world!

Notorious

The kids of the Club X couples are all grown up and getting their own stories beginning with Cade March, Stefan March's son. He's a player like his father, but a sweet baker named Hailey might change all of that. She just has to believe he's changed his ways.

If I Dream

Ryder is a guy from the wrong side of the tracks, and Serena lives the life her crime boss father dictates. Can they find a way to be together and get a happily ever after?

Crash Into Me

The USA Today bestseller that begins the Heart of Stone series! Fall in love with Tristan and Nina's story and see why readers around the world made this series their favorite.

Crave

Ian is a bestselling author with an obsession. Kristina is an actress who loves being idolized. Their love is intense and combustible, but it's definitely unforgettable.

A Club X Christmas

Join the couples from Club X and their children for a Christmas celebration and see the NeXt series heroes when they're little boys. This is an exclusive story to this boxed set and never published before!

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Rough Hard Fierce: A Boxed Set

by Skye Warren


FIRST 3 BOOKS IN THE CHICAGO UNDERGROUND SERIES! Over 400 pages long!

“…emotional, dark, erotic, suspenseful, traumatic and raw. It will have your heart hurting yet you will laugh plenty too. I can highly recommend this series.” ~ TotallyBooked Blog

ROUGH

I have a dark secret, a pressure valve, a rare moment just for myself. On these nights I visit a club. There I find men who give me what I need. Men who aren’t afraid to take what they want. Men like Colin.

HARD

What Colin doesn’t know can’t hurt him. At least that’s what I tell myself about the secrets I keep. I don’t have a choice, not if I want to keep my daughter safe. There are enemies in the shadows waiting to strike from all sides. I’m holding them out with my bare hands, but it’s hard not to get crushed in the process.

FIERCE

I’m torn between what I want and what I need. Between the men in my past and the man by my side. Colin has tried to control me, to use me. He also guards me so fiercely my heart aches. But there’s no protection left for me. This is my battle, and I’ve already lost.

"heartbreaking, and dark, and very emotional" ~ Rhonda, Sam E and R’s Awesomeness!

Books in the Chicago Underground series:

  1. Rough
  2. Hard
  3. Fierce
  4. Wild
  5. Dirty
  6. Secret
  7. Sweet
  8. Deep

Or you can get the bundled versions:

  1. Rough Hard Fierce
  2. Wild Dirty Secret

 

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Finding Mr. Wrong (The Right Guy Book 1)

by Stella MacLean


Single mom Maggie Kincade had a bad habit of falling for bad boys, but that’s all behind her... or so she thought. In order to prove she can handle raising her son without interference, Maggie is counting on collecting a debt owed from an old boyfriend. Too bad he’s gone, and in his place, is an infuriating hottie biker with plans of his own for the money.

Notorious playboy Tom Rawlins knows all too well how dangerous a pretty face can be. He’s only in town long enough to collect his money and move on. Everything is riding on him walking away with what he came for, and the gorgeous stranger with a smart mouth and a stubborn streak is an entanglement he can’t afford.
Maggie and Tom have a thing or two in common— getting their money and not falling into bed together.

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Fall for Me (Everhart Brothers Book 1)

by Claudia Burgoa


He has it together.
I’m falling apart.


I came to the City with the dream to make it on Broadway.

But instead of hitting it big, I couldn’t be at a bigger dead-end if I tried. I’m a receptionist at my little sister’s company and living with my grandfather. If it wasn’t for my family, I’d be destitute.

When Hunter Everhart walks into my office, my life goes from bad to humiliating.

He saved me on the worst night of my career. And for some reason, the big shot lawyer thinks he can actually fix my life.
But he’s only seen the veneer. There are so many cracks, I can’t let him get too close.
But for some reason when I’m with him, I feel something other than numb.
And I’m starting to believe that he would do anything for me...if I let him.
Even fall for me.

Fall for Me is an inspiring contemporary romance of finding love and starting over after your world has fallen apart. This page-turning love story will break and mend your heart as Willow and Hunter fall in love and fight to stay together. This is the first book in the Everhart Brothers series by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa.

(Previously released as Flawed)

 
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The Curacao Christmas

by Lisa Chalmers


I’m in love with my best friend.


I’ve loved Abbie since I met her years ago. But she’s friendzoned me for years.

When a client offers his Curacao house to me for Christmas, I can’t say no. There’s only one person I want to take with me.

Could this trip lead to a Christmas miracle of my very own - Abbie and I getting out of the friendzone we’ve found ourselves in?

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The Christmas Package - His First Time (Nick) and Holly's Fake Date for Christmas

by Ann Omasta


Heat up the season with a sexy Santa Claus and a gorgeous fake date for Christmas.

HIS FIRST TIME: NICK -

When I get tricked into playing Santa Claus for a charity event, I decide to make the most of it by spending a steamy night of passion in a lonely single-mom’s bed.

Freckle-faced Tyson and his gorgeous, skittish mother, Kelsey, are trying to wiggle their way inside my ice-cold heart, but even the real Santa couldn’t create that kind of Christmas miracle.

Will a special Christmas wish help me find true love, or am I too far gone for holiday magic to work?

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HOLLY’S FAKE DATE FOR CHRISTMAS -

My life never goes quite right. The pink positive sign on the pregnancy test is even more proof of that.

A fake date for the holidays will solve some of my problems. But there’s more to sexy Zane than I imagine.

Will I be able to let Zane go when the time comes? Will his surprising secret ruin everything?

Enjoy all the feels with two delightful holiday romances in The Christmas Package.

 
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Dark Desire (Dark Desires Book 1)

by Summer Cooper


Tall, dark and dangerous…
That’s what I want for my birthday this year!

None of my family seems to remember my special day.
Not that I care about gifts or parties.
But a simple “happy birthday” would have been nice!

I’m not usually one to complain, I swear.
Taking it on the chin and burying it deep down is much more my style.
But this year, I want a little more.
I want to lose my virginity!
I want to live out my deepest, darkest desires.
Now I just need the perfect man who knows how to please me…

 
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The Cowboy's Runaway Bride (Wyoming Matchmaker Series Book 3)

by Kristi Rose


She’s not meant to be a bride…

At least not to the man her parents picked out. Ellie Greene wants a quiet life with Grams on the Wyoming farm, and quiet could happen if someone would stop sabotaging them. Each week something more dangerous happens and Ellie doesn't know how much more she can stand. Forced to seek help, Ellie would prefer anyone else other than the tall, dark, sexy-as-sin cowboy with the knight-in-shining-armor complex she gets stuck with. While the chemistry between them flares brighter than fireworks, Ellie knows they want different things from life. She wants an easy-going farm boy, and nothing about Shane is easy. Besides, soon he’ll be moving on. 


He’s not meant to be a civilian…

Shane Hannigan doesn’t know how to be anything but a Marine sniper.  Honestly, he’s not sure he’s good at anything else. Since the IED explosion took his leg—and most likely his career—he’s not sure where he belongs. As a man whose job is to protect others, coming across the blonde-curly haired beauty with a flat tire is a nice distraction, that is until he finds out the flat was no accident. Someone is out to get Ellie, and even though she’s the most stubbornly competent woman he’s ever met—and damn if that’s not a sexy trait—he knows she's in danger and he’s going to help her, despite her obstinate objections. 


Can they work together to find who is determined to destroy Ellie before it’s too late?  Or will Ellie lose her heart and her farm

 

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Runaway Alex (Alex and Alexander Book 1)

by Natalie Keller Reinert


If you could escape the life your parents chose for you, would you do it?

Horse racing isn’t for nice girls like Alex. She’s been told again and again: stick to horse shows, stick to riding lessons, stick to the relative safety of the suburban equestrian center where she has been a working student since grade school.

But Alex can’t shake the conviction that the Thoroughbred life is her destiny.

When her unstable trainer cuts her off from horses, Alex finally has to obey her instinct to run away from the safe version of life. She heads to Ocala, where horse racing is king, with no plan and no leads on jobs. When she meets handsome, successful racehorse trainer Alexander White, she feels an instant connection with him. Could this be her dream come true?

Falling for Alexander and learning to stay on young racehorses all at once: that’s risky business. But it’s a risk Alex is willing to take — until a storm of emotion threatens to founder her new life. Nothing at Alexander’s gorgeous Thoroughbred farm is as simple as it seems, and she’s not the only one lining up for Alexander’s affection — or his horses.

How many times will Alex obey her urge to run away when things get too real? And what happens to her dreams if she can’t stay the course?

Gallop headlong into a world of beauty, love, and risk with this stunning women's fiction novel!

The Alex & Alexander Series

First published in 2011, the Alex & Alexander Series explores the hearts and minds of the people who make a living in Thoroughbred horse-racing. Originally beginning with a short novel entitled The Head and Not The Heart, the series was expanded in 2020 to provide a smoother reading experience.

The series includes:

1. Runaway Alex

2. The Head and Not The Heart

3. Other People's Horses (Semi-Finalist for the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, for horse-racing literature)

4. Claiming Christmas

5. Turning for Home (Finalist for the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, for horse-racing literature)

Praise for The Alex & Alexander Series

“[Alex is] easy to relate to–equal parts doubt and hope, insecurity and confidence. I think she’s inspiring, and will nudge her readers to face their own crises.”

– Melaina Phipps, Saratoga.com

“The writing is beautiful, and if you love horses, she doesn’t dumb it down. She concentrates what makes horses so compelling.”

– Alexa Shelton, Amazon review

 

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Saved by the Princes: (Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance Series Book 1)

by Charmaine Ross


I had to wonder about my sanity when I was coerced to try out for a reality TV show called “If the Shoe Fits.” That should have been my first warning.

My second warning should have been when I was the only girl whose foot actually fit the shoe amongst all of the stunning beauties.

There wasn’t a third warning.

Just my friend’s glee when she tapped me on the head with a magic wand and I was transported into a fairy tale castle and came face to face with three of the most handsome men on which I’d ever laid eyes. You might think that would be a fairy tale come true for a down-and-out waitress like me. But you’d think wrong, because as soon as I was introduced to the Queen, she accused me of high treason.

My Princes broke me out of the castle and now we’re on the run, hunted by the Queen’s guards and horrifying magical abominations. They told me I was the only one strong enough to bring magic back to their dying kingdom, but I can’t even light a candle. They told me I was their Fated Mate, but I don’t feel any bond. They told me they were all mine, but how could three stunning men want me?

And now, my Princes have been taken. I have no magic – and I’m the only one who can save them from the terrible wrath of the Queen. They put their faith in the wrong girl. I should have heeded the first warning.

If you like why-choose, fairytale retellings for adults filled with action, adventure, steamy scenes mixed with a dollop of humour, one click Saved by the Princes today.

 
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Rediscovering Us : A Second Chance Christmas Romance Novella (Havenport)

by Daphne Elliot


Josh and Maggie both want a second chance at their marriage. Will one magical Christmas in Havenport be enough to mend their hearts?

Josh took his family for granted and lost the love of his life along the way. Now he’s pulling out all the stops for a second chance with his wife.

Exhausted and heartbroken, Maggie agrees to a last-minute weekend away in the mountains. After getting snowed in, the sparks fly as their emotional walls begin to crumble.

Can they rekindle their fire and rediscover the love between them?

Author’s Note: Rediscovering Us is a standalone, Christmas-themed, marriage in crisis, small town novella featuring a sassy heroine and a lovable nice guy hero. May contain adult language, snowstorm sexy times, lots of holiday cheer and a heartwarming HEA.

 

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Master Class: First Three Lessons

by Raven Jayne


“Dark, delicious, and damn near addictive! Don't keep The Master waiting." - USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone


Ten lessons are all that stand between me and my future…
My entire life has been determined for me.
I will be the trophy wife of a powerful man.
But another powerful man stands between us.
The first lesson he teaches me is obedience.
The second, patience.
My third lesson is supposed to be learning to control my mind.
But maybe I’d prefer he do it for me...

 

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Shifter Dating Agency: The Complete 12 Book Box Set

by Haley Weir


Experience the Rush of True Love Twelve Times Over.
Live In The Drama That Comes When You're Bound To Your Perfect Match Through Fate.

Share a bed with Giddeon Black. As the Alpha and creator of Kismet Dating Agency, he's always the first to indulge.

Take a trip to Haden Springs and meet true, unbridled masculinity. Michael Adair, head of Kodiak Dating Agency, offers something much more than just love and pleasure.

Get your happily ever after through Prince Dating Agency, known for helping even the most stubborn playboys find love.

Your destiny awaits with these 3 Best-Selling Shifter Series:

Kismet Dating Agency
Kodiak Dating Agency
Bears with Benefits

All 12 Titles Box Set Inside the Boxset Include:

Mason's Match
Liam's Lust
Will's Destiny
Noah's Secret
Dorian's Reward
Anders' Allure
Brock's Pleasure
Michael's Secret
An Alpha's Fortune
Caleb's Destiny
Seth's Bounty
Balor's Premonition


This collection of box sets is only being offered for a limited time. See inside for a special first date gift.

Packed with stand-alone paranormal romance stories with no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a HEA! Strictly for those who love alpha protectors, shifters, and steamy adventure.

Story contains mature themes and language, and is intended for 18+ readers only.

 
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Woman EX: The Death of Patriarchy

by Real Laplaine


Two back to back apocalyptic incidents change the world; the first, a nuclear war between America and North Korea, and then, as the world is still reeling from the consequences of that debacle, two pieces of space rock the size of Manhattan slam into the Earth, wiping out billions of people in just minutes, one of them unleashing a deadly pathogen that scatters into the atmosphere. Within months, men are dying off by the millions, and within a year, they are an endangered species. Women, their physiology unaffected by the virus, are forced to take over. They not only save what little remains of the male species, they start to rebuild a new world, a new paradigm, one entirely dominated by women. New international laws are established forbidding men from ever gaining positions of power again, for it is men who are seen as the toxic element, who failed to prevent a nuclear war, who built the war machines, who waged war against one another, and who subjugated women in their patriarchal society. Sixteen years have passed since the first bombs were dropped and the asteroids fell from the sky, when Tanner McNeal, and his intrepid team of space voyagers, return from their mission to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. When they step back on Earth, they are shocked to find a different world. Tanner and the men of his crew are promptly arrested under the new mandates, and the women of his crew are taken away to be indoctrinated on their roles in the new Utopia. With so few men left alive, most of them in work camps or farm collectives, relegated to laborers for the most part, Tanner discovers who he is up against, Lady V, the President of New America, a woman who hates men so deeply that she has developed an entirely new gender, Woman Ex, and her goal is to eliminate all men forever. Tanner is racing against the clock, as he organizes a grassroots rebellion, a seemingly impossible uprising against Lady V's army, but he soon discovers that many women are on his side, and the battle ensues to save the race of humanity.


Real Laplaine takes you on another rollercoaster ride into a dystopian world of the near-future in this high-concept thriller.
Charles Freedom Long, author of Alvar's Spear

Chock full of great characters, lively action, and adroit narrative, Woman EX is a novel you won’t want to put down.
Ken Dickson, author of The Road to Amistad

Woman EX, by Real Laplaine, is a wonderfully written dystopia.
Russell Warnberg, author of 2064

Here is another fascinating book from an author I came to enjoy so much. You know you are reading a great book when it sounds less like fiction and more like hypothetical truth.
A.G. Mogan, author of The Secret Journals of Adolf Hitler

If you want to read a book that is so close to the reality and full of action and also makes you think of what could happen in our lifetime, you won't want to miss this one.
Marina Osipova, author of The Cruel Romance

An utterly captivating and quickly-paced thriller with a clear message behind.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels - author of Cheerleading for Writers

 
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The Doherty Mafia Series: Books 1-6

by Savannah Rylan


The Doherty Mafia is led by six brothers you don’t want to f*ck with.
Especially when it comes to the women they love.

Authors Kasey Krane and Savannah Rylan bring you this hot AF six book set of interconnected Irish Mafia Romances.

Featuring:

Killian
Aidan
Colin
Brendan
Tristian
Nolan

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