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Kaitlyn and Owen just want to live their happily ever after. But that won't be easy when Kaitlyn's blood is as irresistible to vampires as ever. A surprise trip to Europe leads to a dangerous reunion, and soon Kaitlyn and Owen's lives are threatened by more vampires than you can poke a stake at. New friends, new foes, and new factions fight over Kaitlyn's unique blood and what it can do. And this time, Owen is locked up right alongside her. Can they escape before Kaitlyn is drained dry?

Jennifer June "JJ" Porter learned a great deal about killing at a very young age. Now she’s trying to keep people alive. Meet a young private investigator, a twisted postal worker, two British brothers, and the teenage runaway who brings them all together.

God of the Sea? Not anymore. Mount Olympus is closed for business. Fine by me. I’ve got a sweet mountaintop hideaway, a vintage bike that roars louder than Apollo on his best day, and I’m vice president of the Gods of Thunder MC. All the heartache and frustration I had to deal with as one of the Gods? Gone. Don’t miss it one bit. Most of the time. I got low. Okay? Whiskey’s great and all. But it doesn’t hold a candle to Dionysius’ wine. Which is also gone. That’s why I was standing at the edge of the cliff staring down at the surf.

Nightingale Mooncrest is not what most day dwellers think of when imagining a gargoyle. They think of big, bad, rumbling, stone behemoths like her dad, but she has yet to earn her stones and become one of the mighty Mooncrest warriors. She dreams of leaving her forest and traveling beneath open skies and the blazing sun to see other lands, so of course she's gonna do her best to befriend the first day dwellers to plop down in her lap when they end up in her neck of the woods. It can't be that tough to show a harpy how to make it under the haunted boughs of Shadow's Reach, right?

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness? At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diabolical purposes?

Charming debutante by day, elite computer slicer by night, Charity Devalas is out to make amends by shutting down a global gun-running cartel. But just as she’s on the verge of succeeding and maybe ending her nightmares, disaster strikes. Forced to flee with the mysterious mercenary, Spectre, Charity must brave the darkness of the Barrington Free Zone, one of the world's worst megacities. Pursued by mercs, slicers, and bounty hunters of all stripes, it will take everything they have just to survive.

Arcadia descends into chaos as old villains return to town and new ones are born! While X faces down suicidal psychos, superstitious mobsters, and thrill-junkie assassins, Leigh uncovers the secrets of his past . . . before he locked on his mask and became X!

Tango’s gang was a handful, but the Archon and his army, the Chosen, are more powerful than any enemy X has ever faced! Betrayed or abandoned by his allies, X must face Arcadia’s newest threat the old-fashioned way: alone!

When X attacks the notoriously corrupt narcotics squad known as "The Dogs of War," the manipulative Lt. Setter fights back by pitting him against the last few honest cops in Arcadia... and X's battle escalates into a war for the soul of the city!

After testifying against my father, I’m ready to shut the door on my past and begin my future with Hendrix. A storm rips through town, killing hundreds and injuring more, including Hendrix. He lingers in a coma for weeks before finally waking up. When he does, nothing is the same. As Hendrix and I struggle to reconnect, my father retaliates against me, forcing me into hiding. Every time I think I can claw my way out of the darkness, it sucks me back down. But my will to live is stronger than I think, and for the first time in my life, hope, love, and family dangle in front of me.

After a family emergency, I sink into a deep depression, longing for what I can no longer have. Hendrix. My feelings for him are a noose around my heart. As hard as it is for me to keep my distance, I’m still drawn to him. I’m sucked into a dark, dangerous world with lies, deceit, and illusions, and I quickly become a target. Now it’s my turn to protect the man I love. The only way I see how is to push him away. But when I’m clinging to my last breath, begging for my life, my heart cries out for the one man who really loves me. The only man who can save me.

A gifted slave. A cursed woman. Together can they gain their freedom? Evie Chester, who is enslaved, dreams of acceptance. But, her unusual and powerful gift in a world that fears magic gives her little hope. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, she must join forces with a cursed woman in order to win her freedom. How high a price will she pay? A historical fantasy feel series filled with magic, demons, and supernatural creatures, the Evie Chester Case Files is set in the same world as the Towers of the Earth fantasy series.

A combination of fiction and nonfiction - impossible to tell which - this is the story of one man who lives to tell the story after the jetliner he is on coming from Asia starts breaking apart in a storm at the Arctic Circle above Canada. Living through the experience is horrendous enough by itself, but when Travis James realizes that his life is thought to be forfeited in the wreckage and there is no help coming? He goes into survival mode as his damaged body wreaks havoc and keeps him trapped in the wilderness until he heals enough to start traveling south to safety.

History of Woman Suffrage is a window into the suffragette movement, a front-row seat to the fight for women’s rights. This historic work draws a dramatic picture of the massive effort and struggle that took place in America from 1848 to 1861 through letters and documents, as well as uncensored thoughts and ideas from women during this evolving time, all rich with lively wit. The writing is vivid and compelling, with rousing speeches defending the legitimacy of the request for suffrage and strong, witty defense against those too comfortable in the status quo.

After an accident which should have killed her, Ella's life is torn asunder. She's on the wrong side of the galaxy, when she's told her husband is a liar, a cheater, a murderer. Unwilling to believe what she's being fed, she uses her new, unfathomable abilities to break free of her "saviors" to make her way across the stars. Toward Earth. Home. Her family. And the truth.

Lyndsey Collins is in a big damn hurry. She's on the wrong side of the galaxy — and running out of time. Her primary mission — find Kyle Ranz — has been delayed and jeopardized by another equally important one: to capture a prototype mech that's guaranteed to wreak havoc in the Messa system. On board the battleship Abyssinian, Lyndsey's loyalties to unexpected friends will be brutally tested against her resolve to get to Kyle. With every delay and detour, her good options all fade away like screaming into the vacuum of space.

Savannah Caleman’s family has been coming apart since the early 1920s. Now, in the late 1980s, the evil plaguing her family dons a suit and tie and introduces himself, giving Savannah an ultimatum: Endure endless terror or grant his freedom. She must decide between her sister’s safety and aiding a monster that can’t be identified as an angel or a demon. Either way, Savannah is torn and takes to single-handedly running the family affairs with precision as she takes care of her sister.

In Dance Life: Movin' & Groovin' Around the Globe, Lisa Alpine combines her three all-encompassing passions - writing, travel, and dance - into a bouquet of 27 stories that span her lifetime and the globe. From twerking with a nun in an Albanian orphanage to salsa dancing with a hottie under the burning sun in Cuba, to braving an attempt at flamenco on a Parisian tabletop, these toe-tapping tales will inspire you to follow the call of a wild life, leaving home with your passport in hand and your dance shoes stuffed into the suitcase.

Caleb Davenport has spent the last decade traveling around the world building an international company into a billion-dollar enterprise with his business partners, but unfortunately, he hasn’t stopped thinking about Kira Bancroft since high school. He assumes she’s living her dream as a concert pianist — until one evening, fresh off the plane from Hong Kong, he gets the shock of his life when he runs into Kira waitressing at a local Denver restaurant.

For Kate Howard, former Army Special Forces Sergeant, life as a one-woman personal protection detail comes with challenges. Wearing civilian camouflage while guarding high-profile clients is a dangerous game of rock, paper, hollow point. After an explosive and deadly end to her client’s reelection fundraiser, which left his young son in critical condition, Kate must accept help from an unwanted source: the soldier she loved and left in Afghanistan, bloody, broken, and barely alive.