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As one of the most promising athletes in the country, Jacen has his life all mapped out for himself. Train hard, win worldwide swimming championships, and go for the gold in the next Olympics. But while celebrating a successful swim meet at his hotel bar, he meets a mysterious woman named Laila. Not only is Laila beautiful, but she’s smart, witty, and charming. So when she brazenly invites herself up to his room, he jumps at the opportunity to spend the night with her.

Three months ago, Aymee had no idea the kraken—half-human sea dwellers—even existed. Now, the violet eyes of the kraken Arkon haunt her imagination, and she longs to know his touch. But word of his people has spread beyond The Watch, and Aymee’s attraction to Arkon may endanger the safety of human and kraken alike. To protect him, can she bring herself to forsake him? Is her desire for Arkon worth putting both their worlds at risk?

After losing her job, apartment, and boyfriend in one afternoon, Zoey doesn’t think things can get any worse. Then an uninvited passenger - green, four-armed, and sexy as sin - proves her wrong by dragging her into his frantic escape. Helping Rendash is the right thing to do, but it means becoming a fugitive and risking the only things she has left - her life, and her heart. Weakened by years of captivity and torture, Rendash, an elite aligarii warrior, seizes his only opportunity to escape. Alone in an alien wasteland, he seeks the aid of a human.

Larkin has spent almost a year hunting the monstrous kraken in the hope that they knew the whereabouts of her missing brother. Her efforts finally come to fruition when she and the other rangers capture three of the beasts—but the reality is nothing like the stories they’ve been told, and the kraken are not the monsters she expected.

Finding one’s purpose is the central challenge in life. We all have many dreams and desires, but how do we know which one is our true purpose? And it often seems that no matter what path we choose, reality has a tendency to confound our expectations so that we are constantly having to reassess and rediscover meaning within the unpredictable stories of our lives. Nabeel Redwood has experienced this himself. Stuck fast in the pursuit of success as an artist, he found himself caught in a tangle of alienation and depression.

A brilliant but twisted Army scientist has done the unthinkable. He has become the beast, an ancient, prehistoric monster powerful enough to survive anything, even death itself. Buried beneath ice for ten thousand years, it was meant to stay forgotten. Now it walks again, leaving a trail of blood and destruction across the English countryside. No conscience. No mercy. No weakness. Only one man has faced the creature and survived. Hunter. Once again, he is called to do what no one else can: track and destroy the unstoppable before it consumes everything in its path.

The Tao of Wisdom is the book for anyone who is interested in the Tao Te Ching and wants to understand it more deeply. With this book, Derek Lin brings you inspirational stories that reveal the profound meaning of key passages and central concepts in the Tao. The wise words of Lao Tzu come into clear focus like never before!

Long ago, the sea took Kathryn’s husband. She never thought it would give anything back. But now that her children are grown with little ones of their own, she finds her eyes drawn more and more to those restless waters—and she sees part of herself reflected in them. Something out there calls to her. She yearns to discover what it is.

Randall Laster crossed Halora to hunt the kraken, sea monsters that weren’t supposed to be real. Betrayed by men he trusted, he was left to die. Instead, he finds himself living with the beings once meant to be his prey. Randall struggles to find his place amongst the kraken and to find a purpose to the new course his life has taken.

Hundreds of millions of people live their whole lives attached to this identity that does not resonate with their true inner values and stops them from living a free life. According to the annual Gallup Global Emotions Report, more than one-third of the human population is unhappy. Are you one of them? Unconsciously living against the values of your true inner being is resisting your soul's desire to prosper in this world.

Two years after a bloody battle nearly tore his people apart, Kronus finds himself plagued with guilt and without a place to truly call home. And when he saves a blue-eyed human from a razorback, his world is once again turned upside-down. Though he once opposed relations with her kind, he is undeniably drawn to Eva’s pain, loss, and inner strength. He will do anything to protect her—and to possess her.

Vasil has spent his life serving the needs of his people, denying his own desires — until a star falls from the sky. He follows its fiery trail and finds the unexpected: a mysterious human female. She is his chance at having the mate, the family for which he’s longed. But when he discovers her connection to the organization that created and enslaved his ancestors, he must decide if claiming his happiness is worth the risk of exposing the kraken.

International bestselling author James Byron Huggins delivers Last Hunt, the third and final book in the Hunter Saga. Nathaniel Hunter has faced nightmares most men can’t imagine. In Alaska’s frozen wilderness he confronted a primordial killer. On England’s haunted moors he fought a beast born of legend. Each time he walked away scarred but unbroken. Now the battle comes to his own doorstep. Scipio Dante, the brilliant, ruthless mind behind the experiments that created those monsters, has perfected a serum that transforms men into savage, unstoppable predators.

An unstoppable assassin. A portal to a forbidden land. A dark plot spun in a treacherous web.

Emma Andrews finds herself and everyone she cares about within the walls of the penthouse. Only, this time, it was she who locked the door and threw away the key. Emma finds herself not only planning to take Jarret out for good but trying to destroy his empire and all who are within it. Jarret won’t know what hit him.

The name’s Abadare Glynt. Yes, really. I’ve been chewed up and spat out more times than a dog’s favorite bone, but I keep coming back for more, which is probably a good thing for an outcast, occasional detective, and all-round shadowy guy. Things weren’t exactly going well, but I’d decided to see the glass as being half-full, so when a beautiful woman with an ugly job fell into my lap, how could I refuse? Add to the mix a hell-raising heist, a murderous dimension hopping enchantress, and a spell on the loose with the potential to destroy half the city.

Venturing Into the Darkness is a fictional novella about an albino named Jonathan. He embarks on a journey to escape the Underworld. But on this peculiar quest, he makes some shocking discoveries about not only himself but his family as well.

Emma Andrews’ last memory of her mother is seeing her bleeding to death on the bathroom floor. Several years later, Emma is kidnapped and forced to face the same monster that killed her mother. Quickly, Emma - a daydreamer with an inventive personality - must learn to separate her fantasies from reality in order to differentiate friend or foe. As secrets unfold and the shadows emerge, Emma wonders if she can endure reliving the trauma of her past. One thing she does know for certain - she can’t do it alone.

After centuries of lying dormant in the tomb the brotherhood placed him in, Salvatore Kain, the first vampire, has been freed and is out for vengeance. With the help of his ancient lover Icarus - the diabolical warlock who worked endlessly to see him reborn - they will stop at nothing to wipe out the only threat that knows how to stop them.

Three years have passed since Conner was forced to destroy the creature his wife, Grace, had become, putting to rest a five-year nightmare only to have his brother, William, succumb to the same bloodthirsty fate.... The deepening labyrinth of a nightmare continues as Conner and Kasey hunt the vampires of the night in search of William and Icarus, the scheming warlock who holds an otherworldly pendant that might set William free of his curse.