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With the summer heat sizzling, grilled cheese restaurant owner Carly Hale is thrilled to have Ross Baxter delivering her sandwiches to local seniors. She’s never met a more polite or hardworking young man, and she brushes it off when one of her more difficult customers complains about him. But then Ross returns to the woman’s home to make another delivery—and finds her dead body. The police and half the town immediately suspect he killed her, so Carly steps in to investigate, determined to prove them wrong.

A billionaire playboy and the most eligible bachelor in the city, Axel thought he had it all… until he met Chastity. When their paths cross, all bets are off. It’s an instant attraction. Chastity is young, sweet, sassy, and refreshingly curvaceous. Her drive and honesty intrigue him, and he soon finds that one taste will never be enough. But life’s a bitch, and Chastity is his best friend’s daughter.

After years mowing through all the eligible women in New York, Liam earned the nickname Playboy Prince. Now, the tech executive needs to clean up his reputation. He can have any woman in the city, but he wants me: his purple-haired, smart mouthed assistant. Six months as his fake fiancée in exchange for the cash to fund my start-up. How can I say no? Too bad Liam is the most frustrating man on the planet. Demanding. Rebellious. Extremely charming. Plus the deep blue eyes. The devil-may-care-smile. The tattoos he hides under his suit.

Olivia Brent has one summer to save the dairy farm she just inherited. But there's one problem, and it's not her lactose intolerance. It's Jake Milovic. The brooding farmhand has inherited exactly 50 percent of Brent Farm, and he's so convinced the city girl can't work the land, he bets she can't save it in a summer. Determined to prove him wrong, Olivia accepts what might be the dumbest wager of her life.

Lovely young Adriana Blackburn is grateful that her marriage to the Marquess of Chalford has taken her away from her drunken father and pinchpenny brother, but it has also taken her away from the social whirl she enjoys in Brighton and London. Although Joshua is kind and tender toward his bride, Adriana begins to believe that he wants her only as a mistress for his half-crumbling Thunderhill Castle in Kent - not as mistress of his heart. But how can she know what Joshua truly feels when nothing seems to disturb his unruffled calm?

Allara was driven away by her childhood sweetheart Reid. She abandoned her pack, her father and her life. Moving to the city was the only way to heal her broken heart. Then Reid barges back into her life, with terrible news. Allara's father, the pack’s Alpha, is dying. The chosen successor of her father’s, Jaime is a cruel Beta with plans to destroy their pack. As a female Alpha, Allara is the only one who can save them, even if it means exposing her heart to Reid once again.

The nightmares are back—and they’ve missed you. Peter is cracking. Maya is lost. Finn is polluted. Evangeline is heartless... And Crow—son of Pan—is alive. After their king sacrificed his life and the dying Paragon’s new 'Messiah' arrived, peace was meant to be forged. But in his wake, mayhem spills across the realms—both hidden and seen—engulfing Neverland, the Peculiars and their domain, Corporeals, and everything around them in vicious peril.

Eva finally has answers. But, she's slowly discovering she asked the wrong questions. She's done being a people pleaser, and now she's going after what she wants. She wants Julian. Julian has always enjoyed a challenge. But some challenges are too big, even for him. He's about to face the hardest decision of his life. Keeping secrets is the only way he knows how to protect Eva. But she's not making it easy anymore and he's running out of time.

Eva is home. Kind of. She's on American soil and that's a start, at least. But nothing about her life outside Dublin feels familiar anymore. Facing the past is more difficult than Eva anticipated and more dangerous than she could possibly imagine. When Julian discovers the man who almost destroyed Eva is attempting to push his way back into her life, Julian knows letting Eva go was the biggest mistake he ever made. Julian will have to face his own demons when he leaves Dublin and saving Eva will expose the secrets behind his games.

V. C. Andrews and the secret life of girls.

Aged Mother Jilo is wise in the ways of magic...but once upon a time, she was just a girl. 1950s Georgia: King Cotton has fallen. Savannah is known as the "beautiful woman with a dirty face," its stately elegance faded by neglect, its soul withering from racial injustice and political corruption. Young Jilo - fiercely independent, intelligent, and ambitious, but thwarted by Savannah's maddeningly genteel version of bigotry - finds herself forced to embrace a dark power that has pursued her family for generations, an ancient magic that may prove her salvation.

It begins in an old tenement with a horrifying crime. It continues after midnight, when a young boy, held captive in a basement, is filled with unearthly visions of fantastic and frightening worlds. How could his kidnappers know that the ransom would be their own souls? For, as the hours pass, the boy's nightmares invade his captors like parasites - and soon, they become real.

Liberating Africa: A Journey of Resilience and Renewal delves into the multifaceted journey of Africa's past, present, and future, highlighting the continent's struggles, triumphs, and aspirations. This comprehensive exploration spans key areas such as historical struggles, political freedom, economic liberation, social and cultural renewal, environmental sustainability, technological advancements, and the crucial role of the African diaspora and international partnerships.

Evangeline Andrews is quiet and unassuming, or at least she hopes that's how people see her. Fleeing her life in New Jersey to hide in Dublin, the last thing she needs are her secrets following her across the Atlantic. And what's the best way to keep a secret? Keep your mouth shut.

He's a wolf without a pack... Graphic novelist, Aidan Harte, writes about the kind of heroes he knows he'll never be. He's returned to the forgotten gold mining town of Chatanika, Alaska, to scatter his father's ashes and close out the bastard's life. He plans to get in and get out without seeing a soul. That is, until things take a deadly turn. She's a raven who's clipped her wings... Raven Maiski's thrilled Old Man Harte is dead.

Photojournalist Cache Calder lives to chase a great story. He's just returned from the Middle East after surviving a suicide bombing that left him injured and grief-stricken. The last thing he wants is to travel to the wilds of Alaska on a "Where Is She Now" Assignment. But when his editor informs him that his subject is former kidnapping victim, Amelia Bennett who jump-started his career 20 years earlier, he packs his bags.

A lifelong search-and-rescuewoman, Coast Guard Captain Jane Oliver is ready for a peaceful retirement. But when tragedy strikes, Oliver loses her husband and her plans for the future, and finds herself thrust into a role she's not prepared for. Suddenly at the helm of the Coast Guard's elite SAR-1 lunar unit, Oliver is the only woman who can prevent the first lunar war in history, a conflict that will surely consume not only the moon, but earth as well.

Hate is a strong word. Depending on the company, loathe is a good substitute. Abhor might be a little fancy, but it gets the job done. But the word that really sums up how I feel about Liam Darcy is, without question, hate. He doesn't seem to think much of me either. The second he lays his fault-seeking eyes on me, he sets out to oppose me. Everything about him is imposing, as if he consumes the nearby air to power the rise and fall of his broad chest, and it's clear he resents my presence on his advertising team.

Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It’s all weird, but also pretty normal. Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being...

The evil Druzha masters didn’t want dominion over Mirras. They had only ever worked towards one thing: the end of all life, including their own. Danic and his beautiful companions, including the enigmatic Jiyan, a woman as alluring as she is deadly, rush to stop their enemies before they lose everything. Their path takes them to Yezar, the most advanced city in Mirras, where the most difficult hurdle will be convincing its people of the true threat before it’s too late.