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An unidentified woman is found murdered on the North Norfolk Coastal Path and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Kate Brannon and Kings Lynn's CID have the task of figuring out whom, how, and why. A job that's made more difficult when every one of the 40 residents in the village has something to hide and answers her questions with a string of lies. Georgina Temple has her own secrets to keep, and her own reasons to keep them. But her growing attraction to Kate makes it increasingly difficult to keep them.

Uptight, icy Ava Harris, rocked by grief and terrible romantic decisions, moves to Melbourne for a new university job. She definitely doesn't expect to encounter the ghost of a dirty weekend in her first week there. Kind, charismatic Sofia Juma, who runs a campus tutoring program for migrant students, barely recognizes Ava as the charmer she met months ago, given the woman's frosty brush-offs.

A protagonista deste romance vai do paraíso ao inferno em poucas páginas. Casada com a mulher que ama, ela suspeita de que tenha sido traída durante uma de suas viagens de negócios. A angústia de não saber o que se passa, o medo de perguntar, a desconfiança e a dúvida, que nunca tiveram espaço na relação–considerada perfeita pelos amigos–agora rondam o casal. Mas será mesmo que a traição existiu? Ou era o amor que estava minguando?

In this sequel to Future Leaders of Nowhere, Finn and Willa come home from camp to find everything is different. Even as they grow more sure of their feelings for each other, everything around them feels less certain. When Finn gets involved in a new community project, she's forced to question where her priorities lie at school. Meanwhile, her dad has moved interstate, her mother is miserable, and her home feels like a ghost town.

Sex. Drones. Rock and roll. Aidan Headly never wanted to be the man giving orders. That's fine with the Democratic State Force base he's been assigned to command: they don't like to take orders. Nicknamed the Wildcards, they used to be the most effective base against the seven Corporations owning the former United States in a war that has lasted over half a century. Now the Wildcards are known for creative insubordination, chaos, and commanders begging to be reassigned. Aidan is their last chance.

Gabriel adora pintar. E odeia o lugar em que trabalha atualmente. No borrão de baixar imagem – colar imagem – copiar texto, ele tem pouco tempo para fazer as coisas de que gosta. As coisas começam a mudar quando conhece Leo: o garoto que trabalha no terceiro andar. Autista, Gabriel vai precisar lutar contra a ansiedade social para puxar conversa com o garoto e, quem sabe, ver se rola alguma química.

City girl Luce May's first year out of high school has been the worst. When she escapes her turbulent life in Sydney to start over at a university in the middle of nowhere, the last thing she wants is anyone in her new life to know of her past. Especially that to escape her chaotic, alcoholic mother, Luce also had to abandon her teenage sister. As Luce slowly starts to find another version of herself in this place, she also finds a new family in her eclectic group of friends.

On a rainy hike by Loch Lomond, Eve Waldman stumbles upon a perfectly preserved journal in a hidden cave. The time-worn lettering details the illicit affair of two Jewish lovers that sent a shiver of shame through a Scottish family — and echoes down the bloodlines.

Uma história de existências que, oprimidas pela violência e pelo preconceito, reivindicam seu direito à felicidade com fúria e ternura inesquecíveis.

I’m tainted by darkness. There’s no color in my life—it’s all just shades of black and gray. But the moment I lay my eyes on Gabriel, I know he’s different. He’s scared of his own shadow. He needs someone to take care of him. And despite the fact that I was the one kneeling in front of him, threatening to end his life, he clung to me and the tiny shred of hope I somehow gave him.

Neste minilivro, você encontrará a história de um rapaz solitário que encontra um disco de vinil misterioso e descobre que o espírito de um antigo cantor estava preso dentro dele.

Romeu, do clássico Romeu e Julieta, retorna a vida como um vampiro e, sem poder trazer Julieta de volta, procura um meio de acabar com sua imortalidade. Neste momento, encontra Ambrose, um caçador de vampiros peculiar.

When Adrian Rothschild skipped his "werewolf puberty", he assumed he was, somehow, human. But he was wrong, and he’s about to go through his Turn with a country between him and his Pack - scared, alone, and eight years late. Dr. Tate Lewis’ werewolf supremacist father made his Turn miserable, and now Tate works for Camp H.O.W.L. to ease the transition for young werewolves. He isn’t expecting to offer guidance to a grown man - or find his moonmate in Adrian.

No ritmo das pedaladas de uma bicicleta, a estrada passa sob os pés do protagonista André, enquanto este percorre o sul do Brasil, o Uruguai, a Argentina, até chegar a Sucre, na Bolívia, cidade onde desaparece. Através de seu diário, enviado ao amigo Jean pouco depois da última nota, é que temos acesso aos lugares onde passou, as pessoas com quem conviveu e os fantasmas que o perseguiram durante a jornada.

Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate, una obra mayor en opinión de la crítica más cualificada, es el «retrato de una voz»—como ha llamado la misma Yourcenar a la larga carta que Alexis dirige a su esposa, en la que desmenuza dolorosamente su combate—en el que asistimos a la exposición de un tema del que pocos se atrevían a hablar en 1929, fecha en que fue publicado el libro.

Jsou šedesátá léta 20. století a v Anglii je čerstvě dekriminalizována homosexualita. Zakořeněné předsudky se však nemění. Mladý švédský student Lars přijíždí na kurzy angličtiny na ostrov Wight. Brzy po příjezdu potkává staršího muže, profesora literatury a neúspěšného spisovatele. Poznává, že skrývá stejné tajemství jako on, a mezi oběma muži vzplane vášnivý, avšak utajovaný milostný vztah. Autorka krásným poetickým jazykem popisuje, jak se vztah mezi dvěma muži proměňuje: od počáteční vnitřní nejistoty přes nesmělé projevy citů a bezhlavou zamilovanost po problémy, jak řešit budoucnost.

Take a break from the hectic everyday life and just listen to this masterpiece of eroticism. Let yourself be carried away by the dirtiest fantasies you would like to fulfill. Forget all your inhibitions and explore your wild sexuality with explicit erotic sex stories that will leave you breathless! These stories will make you so horny, you will have no idea what hit you. They will also give you some very dirty and hot ideas and inspire you to try unbelievable new things. Plus, research proves that people who listen to erotic stories have much better sex lives....

Ces 15 micros nouvelles érotiques de Isaballe Letélié (disponibles en EPUB chez SKA) sont des merveilles de drôleries, variées tant par la nature des personnages que par les situations les plus diverses possibles. Des moments de vie. Une succession de fusées narratives hilarantes, excitantes, parfois tendres et touchantes.

Emma é uma jovem antropóloga sueca. Seus estudos sobre a sexualidade humana a conduzem ao Brasil, onde pretende observar de perto o comportamento erótico de mulheres empoderadas sexualmente. Aos poucos, porém, os desejos e vontades de Emma começam a ameaçar a frieza de seus estudos e se transformam em combustível de uma verdadeira aventura em busca do prazer.