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Everything is clicking for the Vengeance. We may be new, but we’re well on our way to winning the championship, and I’m having the time of my life headlining the sports media as the hottest goalie - hell, player - ever. I, for one, am going to live up to my name...because I am Legend Bay. Dragging my ass home from the gym, I’m blinded by some gaudy, glowing holiday lights. As usual, my hot-as-hell neighbor Pepper Nantais has gone way over the top. But just as I’m about to tell her off, something else catches my eye.

Maverick "The Avenger" Cage wants to rise to the top and become a legend in the ring. Though he keeps his identity well guarded, he's known on the fighting circuit as the new kid with a chip on his shoulder and a tattoo on his back that marks him as trouble. He's got a personal score to settle with the Underground's one and only Remington "Riptide" Tate.

Rocco de Marco. Legendary financier and billionaire. The most important man in the room. And he'd just witnessed her filching canapes from the buffet...If waitress Gracie O'Brien's first meeting with Rocco is memorable, the second is unforgettable. For when he finds her breaking into his office he doesn't believe her innocence - so he'll keep her close until he finds the truth. Yet it's impossible for Rocco to stay angry with the sparky redhead - she's making him feel emotions Rocco thought he'd buried for ever...And the sexual tension between them is reaching explosion point!

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.

In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation, and the toll it takes on their psyches. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (boar) on the haunted Pali highway portends one woman's increasingly fraught relationship with her body during pregnancy. A woman recalls an uncanny experience, in which Elvis impersonators take center stage, to an acquaintance who doesn't yet know just how intimately they're connected. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in the giant corpse flower a mourner has gifted her.

When Ashley Riveraine jumped at the chance to travel back in time to meet her hero, Alexander the Great, she never thought she would end up staying there.... Following Alexander the Great’s army on its journey across Persia, Ashley is walking the knife edge of history. As a presumed goddess, Ashley is expected to bless crops, make sure battles are won and somehow keep herself out of the history books. Can Ashley avoid the wrath of the Time Institute while keeping the man she loves alive?

Lily Mains, pregnant and distraught over the death of her fiancé, Konnor, goes home. She faces a mother intent on marrying Lily off to a socially acceptable man Lily knows is abusive and pushing her to abort her baby. Lily’s dad intervenes and sends Lily off to live with an old friend in his old home town. But what kind of welcome will single, pregnant Lily find among strangers in a small town in Montana? Amid COVID and a cave in, old secrets and new situations, revelation and romance, will Lily and her baby find peace?

Als Sarah wegen ihres Studiums nach Princeton zieht, geht für sie ein langersehnter Traum in Erfüllung. Wären da nicht diese seltsamen Träume von blutdurstigen Wesen und einer vergangenen Liebe, die auf tragische Weise geendet hat. Mit ihren Freunden begibt sie sich auf die Suche nach Antworten und stößt auf eine alte Legende, mit der sie mehr verbindet, als sie ahnt. Doch was, wenn diese Träume eigentlich Erinnerungen sind, und neben der Welt, die sie kennt, eine andere existiert, von der kein Mensch je erfahren darf?

When Rocco de Marco, legendary financier and billionaire, finds Gracie O’Brien breaking into his office he doesn’t believe in her innocence - so he decides to keep her close until he finds the truth. Yet it’s impossible for Rocco to stay angry with the sparky redhead - she’s making him feel emotions Rocco thought he’d buried for ever… And the sexual tension between them is explosive!

Hollywood is a cutthroat town. Nobody knows that better than the Landis brothers. It's time for them to step out of their parents' shadow. It's time for them to become legends. Looks can be deceiving. From the outside, Wyatt Landis seemed to have it all. Born to Hollywood royalty, he had forged a path that had taken him to the top of the movie industry. Again and again, he produced movies that did the impossible. The critics loved them as much as the public did. Wyatt had the looks, the success, and the money to make him the envy of millions.

Garrett Landis is Hollywood's golden boy. If he wants to make a movie, it gets made. If he wants a woman, he only has to snap his fingers. The moment he meets Jade Marlow he knows she's different. She's the first woman to get under his skin. The first woman he can't have. Jade Marlow is desperate to leave behind her tragic past. Her ex-husband wants her dead. Her father is her worst enemy. Jade wants Garrett, but she refuses to drag him into her mess of a life. The attraction is undeniable.

Willowvine yearns for inclusion. Banished by the elven community for bringing bad luck as an orphan, she wishes she could earn her way back in…just to have the pleasure of turning them down. So when a mysterious client hires her to save her race from extinction by recovering the stolen Stone of Power, the outcast elf leaps at the opportunity. Paired with a fellow orphan, Willowvine battles resentment at having to rescue the very people who shunned her.

Leilana Ito knew her family had a long history in the wrestling world, but she never knew how much had been kept secret from her. When Leilana wanted to follow in the family footsteps, she was shocked when her father adamantly refused to let her proceed with no reason why. Leilana couldn't deny the fighting spirit in her heart. Refusing his prohibition, she had no idea what terrible events her defiance would set into motion!

Erzsébet doesn’t want to start a revolution. She just wants to keep her head warm in the winter. When she goes against tribal tradition and refuses to shave her head, she learns of a history as twisted as her lengthy locks.