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Three students are abducted from the University of Virginia campus. All three are recovered alive but have been sexually assaulted and brutally beaten. From his new position as assistant commonwealth attorney, Colin partners with both campus and city police in a combined task force determined to solve these horrific crimes and put the perpetrator behind bars. But can they succeed before the "campus abductor" strikes again? The abusive and volatile husband of one of Joshua’s patients threatens his life. Suddenly Joshua is under siege as he is stalked by an unstable assailant.

When I agreed to be an adjunct professor for a semester, I never anticipated Savannah. When she walks into my classroom, I'm struck by her beauty. There's no way I can deal with seeing her three days a week. She's pure temptation. There's just one problem… I keep running into her. First, it's our dogs getting tangled together on a walk in the park. Then I see her ex putting his hands on her when she repeatedly asks him to stop. Of course, I step in.

When Caleb Murray, the Harley-riding Irish kingpin, saves my brother and offers me a job, I can't believe my luck. Until he asks me to sign a marriage contract and pretend to be his wife. All to avoid an arranged marriage to his ex, a rival family's mafia princess.

Castor DeMatteo has been off-limits since I was a teenager. He used to be a nice jock who'd rustle my hair like I was his kid sister. Now? He's a capo of the Valentino crime family, lathered in ink and covered in gold rings… everywhere. How do I know? Because one night, at the restaurant where I work, he rented the back room and asked me to work it. There's only one problem… He's my brother's best friend.

This was supposed to be my last hush money payment to a dirty cop for a crime I didn't commit. I've been tethered to danger since I was a little girl because of my last name. Of course, when I see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's stripped from me… by him, a ruthless up-and-coming mob boss with no business being this hot. Donny's the guy they call to kill the hitmen. And now he's trapped me for the rest of my days. I scheme and plan and try to escape, but he's always one step ahead of me. He's been hunting prey since I've been hiding from mobsters.

Joey Lucrazi ratted on his entire family, and now because of it, I'm forced to live in fear of retaliation. I count down the days in witness protection until I'm caught, but it turns out reality is worse than imagination when Leandro Rigiano—the most ruthless hitman in the five families—comes knocking. Six feet of tattooed muscle stomps into our quiet house and takes his revenge, revealing that the rat I married also took the life of Leandro's wife. Now I'm his prisoner, and he's not at all what I expect.

Fraternity house mother, Jo, is perfectly happy with her rowdy crew of adoptive "sons". They gobble up her baked goods, treat her like the queen of the house and never talk back. She doesn't need another man in her life, especially at this age! But when the boys decide to set her up with their crotchety professor, love starts to look a little bit sweeter...

Amelia Campbell has been in love with her brother's best friend, Logan Davis, for as long as she can remember—but after a devastating night in Mexico three years ago, she resolves to finally forget about him. Now, after dumping her latest boyfriend for cheating on her, Amelia is thrown for a loop when Logan attends the annual family vacation in Breckenridge for Thanksgiving. Things with Logan have been awkward-at-best for years, but Amelia is determined to take advantage of the opportunity to apologize for her past mistakes in an attempt to get their friendship back on track.

It's either marry my awful ex or go to jail... Unless Weston Scott has something to say about it. And apparently, he has a LOT to say. Leave it to a hockey player to bust into a high society engagement party with no invitation and no Plan B. He wants me back? After how we broke up?! Is he out of his mind??? In short: yes. But maybe I am, too. I'm also out of options, and excuses...

He bought the tickets. She broke his heart. Now he’s looking for a new Sarah Miller to sail the world with him. When Bryce’s viral TikTok exposes the ultimate betrayal—his girlfriend cheating the same day he surprises her with a round-the-world cruise—he’s left with two nonrefundable tickets, a shattered heart, and a wild idea: Find any Sarah Miller willing to take the trip instead. Enter the Sera Miller—curvy, charming, and cautiously intrigued. She never expected to spend seven months sharing a cabin with a heartbroken stranger. But the ocean has a funny way of stirring things up…

Colin Campbell had been a champion all his life. Nothing had ever beaten him, not even a drug lord's bullet. And he approached law school the same way he approached everything in life, with cocky confidence fizzing through his veins like ginger ale. He had it all. He had the looks, the brains, the experience, the know-how, and he also had the love of his life at his side. He couldn't be defeated...he thought.

The day Mona died, she found her true life in the realm of the dead. She discovered her wild and seductive side. She learned the truth about her magic. And she fell in love with a dark prince.

When love of his life, Adam Wagner, died in his arms, Jeff Kerry's life shuddered to a halt. Stuck in that one dreadful moment in time and broken by the dark secret which haunted his every dream, he found it impossible to move on.

The city is ripe with crime, and the freshly dead need help solving their murders. Evelyn is a reluctant medium who channels the dead through her art. Leo is a skeptical homicide detective who believes in evidence, facts, and witness testimonies—when the information comes from the living, not the dead. When a ghost feeds Evelyn clues about a string of unsolved murders, she teams up with Leo to track down the serial killer.

Asher James, lead singer of the number-one country music group, knew everything about music—until he heard her sing and watched her sign. Since she was a little girl, Jordyn Collins wanted to be on stage singing for thousands. It took only seconds for her world to go silent. He will learn to feel the music. She needs to listen to her heart. Together they will create the perfect song.

This anthology edited by the American writer, philosopher, and patron of the arts Alain Locke brings together some of the most influential pieces of African American works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring the voices of Zora Neale Thurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes, Locke included commentary on the emergence of the New Negro Movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance. The New Negro is considered to be the definitive text on the movement.

Ms. Jarrell's newest offering, Glory Days, is a gift for listeners with 15 short stories set in the Love's Glory universe. The tales begin while Colin and Joshua are still on their honeymoon in Ireland and conclude just before Colin begins law school. Story topics range from the achingly romantic and sexy ("Walking in the Rain") to the hilariously comical ("Conversations at the Cabin").

The nine hybrid barons — mysterious oligarchs who ruled the fortified cities that emerged after Armageddon — are no more. Gone, not by the civil war fought by a courageous band of exiles, but trapped in a web of evil 4000 years in the making. As Tiamat, a living, sentient ship, hovers in orbit over Egypt, the nine Overlords of an ancient civilization are reborn. The planet Nibiru will live again on Earth and humanity will be enslaved, or die. He is a being of inhuman evil: a melding of dragon, myth, and machine.

In this raw, brutal world ruled by the strongest and the most vicious, an unseen player is manipulating Ryan and his band, luring him across an unseen battle line drawn in the dust outside Tucson, Arizona. Here, a local barony becomes the staging ground for a battle unlike any other, against a foe whose ties to pre-Dark society present a new and incalculable threat to a fragile world. Ryan Cawdor is the only man living who stands between this adversary's glory...and the prize he seeks.

In the forested coastal region of the eastern seaboard, near the Pine Barrens of what was New Jersey, Ryan and his companions encounter a group of rebels. Having broken away from the strange, isolated community known as Atlantis and led by the obscene and paranoid Odyssey, this small group desires to live in peace. But in a chill-or-be-chilled world, freedom can only be won by spilled blood. Ryan and company are willing to come to the aid of these freedom fighters, ready to wage a war against the twisted tyranny that permeates Deathlands.