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I’ve always walked the straight and narrow, following the rules, never straying from my chosen path. Until Mr. Sexy Bazillionaire CEO Gregory Ryans walked into my life. It was only supposed to be business, but one brush of his wicked lips against my skin changed everything. I can’t deny what this man inspires in me. I’ll do anything he asks, even help destroy the enemies from his past. But he’s hiding more than he's telling me.

Ho trascorso gran parte della mia giovinezza e della mia maturità occupandomi, e scrivendo, del terrorismo italiano. Qualche lettore penserà che sono stato uno sciocco o che non ho saputo impiegare meglio il mio tempo. Ma per un giornalista come me, attivo negli anni Sessanta, Settanta e Ottanta, era quasi fatale che andasse così.

There's good and bad in everyone. Except Tom. Tom used to think his life was pretty ordinary. Just another orphan, sleeping in the cellar of his uncle's pub with plenty of mice to chase. But then things started to change, both in the land of Boden-Rine and in young Tom's heart, after a stranger from a far-off land spun him a story of deadly adventure and world-ending peril.

East London, 1916: The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby Archer, this is a dream come true – and her blossoming romance with a local boy is the icing on the cake. But in wartime things change in the blink of an eye. When a heartbreaking tragedy shatters Ruby’s world, suddenly she is at odds with everyone - her family, her friends, and even her sweetheart. And when the hospital is threatened with immediate closure, she’s not sure who to trust.

Sunday morning, and the body of Reverend Villiers has been found propped up on the vigil seat in the church's lychgate. It appears that he has been poisoned. When amateur sleuth and regular churchgoer Amy Rowlings arrives she finds DI Bodkin already at the scene. Bodkin tells her about a cryptic scripture reference that has been scrawled in chalk on the stone slabs beneath the body. What the citation hints at, shocks everyone.

As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.

El silencio del parque es un relato fantástico, emotivo y con un final sorprendente que te conmoverá. Explora las emociones humanas a través del misterio que se oculta en un parque en el corazón de la ciudad. Sumérgete en esta historia donde lo fantástico se entrelaza con lo cotidiano. Susan, una mujer marcada por la tragedia familiar, se encuentra en un momento crucial de su vida tras la reciente pérdida de su hermana Helen. Mientras intenta superar su dolor, encuentra consuelo en su perro Neo y en sus paseos por un parque cercano de su nuevo hogar.

In the summer of 1990, young sisters Caroline and Joanna are sent to stay with their Great Aunt Dora in the idyllic Gloucestershire village of Witchwood. Still reeling from their father’s tragic death and their mother’s grief, Witchwood offers a welcome escape—but the shadowy woods hide dark secrets that bring their innocence to a distressing end. Caroline, volatile and longing for attention, becomes fixated on Dean Fry, the handsome local bad boy. When a body is found in the woods, the village becomes a cauldron of suspicion.

Quali sono gli obiettivi che desideri raggiungere? Quali i tuoi sogni? Per cosa desideri spendere la tua vita? Qual è la tua missione? Nei ritmi frenetici della quotidianità rischiamo di non trovare mai il tempo per fermarci e rispondere a queste domande fondamentali. Eppure, solo attraverso un'attenta analisi di noi stessi possiamo costruire la strada che ci porti alle vette più alte della vita, verso quegli obiettivi che sono dentro di noi ma che, a volte, ci sembrano così irrealizzabili da rinunciare ancor prima di intraprendere il cammino.

War. Fae Princes. One Clumsy Woman. A Hidden Secret. A silly children's story had us rushing against time. The fae will come and take you away if you are in their homeland for more than three days.It was the silliest thing ever but the people back home believed it. While out hunting to provide for my family with my brother, the last thing we planned was to be out in the fae lands more than three days. However as day four crept up on us, unease settles in. After a chance encounter with one of the dreaded fae, I find myself reeling with doubt and curiosity.

After a desperate act leaves Jillian Morehouse a fugitive, she flees to Whitechapel. The escapee finds work in a Mayfair corset workshop, but the walls are closing in. Jillian catches the eye of the handsome Michael Kelly, a reformed criminal with a dangerous history he's anxious to keep hidden. The pair are drawn together by a powerful attraction—but their love is tested when she's kidnapped and abandoned in the catacombs beneath London.

Raised in an all-male family of firefighters, Andi O’Roarke has the right stuff to be a fire chief—one of only a few women who’ve overcome grueling odds to earn the job. Her brawny, tough-guy firemen respect her and treat her like one of the boys. That’s fine with Andi. She’s totally inside her comfort zone when barking orders and hoisting fire gear. Outside the job, however, she’s clueless about dealing with men. Which means arson investigator Tucker Fields is going to turn up the heat on a flame she can’t control.