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David Rivers is an elite-level assassin. He’s an expert in the art of violence. Honing his skill first as a Ranger, then as a mercenary, and now as a CIA contractor conducting covert action around the world. But in his secluded mountain home in Virginia, David Rivers lives a double life. There, Rivers is known as a caring husband to his new wife and the doting father to his young daughter. Soft targets to his enemies. Half a world away, on a mission to assassinate a foreign operative, Rivers uncovers his worst fear.

When Elara flees corporate life to open a coffee shop in the small southern town of Fairhaven Falls, the last thing she is looking for is a relationship. But when she meets Grondar, the gruff orc owner of the bakery next door, sparks fly. Literally. Grondar has been burned by human females before. He has no intention of letting the feisty little female next door get under his skin—no matter how attractive he finds her. And it certainly doesn't mean he's going to let her get away with sabotaging his business.

The sea is Deirdre MacKenzie's home, and the crew of her father's Baltimore clipper is the only family she loves. She's happier wearing breeches and climbing the rigging of the Maid of Alexandria than donning a dress and learning to curtsy. But when the War of 1812 erupts, the ship is captured by a British privateer, leaving her father, the captain, dead. Deirdre watches her crew herded into the hold, destined for the notorious Dartmoor prison in England.

𝓑̳𝓵̳𝓪̳𝓬̳𝓴̳ 𝓜̳𝓪̳𝓰̳𝓲̳𝓬̳ 𝓣̳𝓸̳ 𝓴̳𝓲̳𝓵̳𝓵̳ 𝓸̳𝓻̳ 𝓓̳𝓮̳𝓼̳𝓽̳𝓻̳𝓸̳𝔂̳ 𝓮̳𝓷̳𝓮̳𝓶̳𝔂̳𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐕𝐢𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤.𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚 +𝟗𝟏-...

Rule number one: Never fall for the enemy. Rule number two: Never get involved with a local. Luna Copeland lives by those rules, which complicates things tremendously when her new boss turns out to be a former one-night stand. When Nate Warren left Whitecap years ago, he was certain he wouldn’t come back. But when his daughter starts acting up and getting into trouble, the small coastal town proves to be the best place for her. With an unruly teen on his hands, the last thing he has time for is romance. Unfortunately, he can’t get his sassy assistant out of his head.

After a decade of storms, disease, drought, and riots, the US conquers its troubles by militarizing its government. Old democratic allies in Europe respond uneasily to the change. Arinna and Michael Prescot are just two of the many former soldiers sent to embassies in the hopes of strengthening faltering US alliances in 2055. But as the US becomes embroiled with new internal terrorism, its agents in Europe are offered intimidation, lies, and deceit rather than explanations.

Nothing covers up a big secret faster than a fresh grave. Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names. Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.

Jada navigates the highs and lows of her senior year of college with an unlikely cast of characters. While being an introverted empath struggling with an anxiety disorder, she meets Vicky, the abrasive future businesswoman, Dante, the narcissistic fraternity guy, and Nate, the self-made hustler, and begins to form lifelong relationships that serve as the foundation to battle the effects of depression, sexual assault, abortion, classism, and racism while overcoming society's odds.