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The night her father offered her to the world's most powerful vampire to settle a debt, Lyra Hannigan's life turned to ash. Six years later, Don Valentin Moretti, ruler of New York and one of the legendary Five Blood, is bound by an ancient curse. Eira Cross has built a life as the supernatural underworld's bounty hunter, stitched together from secrets and sheer will. Valentin offers a bargain: help him find Lyra, and he'll give Eira freedom. But as the hunt deepens, desire ignites, the line between hunter and prey blurs, and the truth surges closer.

Poor Artists follows aspiring artist Quest Talukdar as she embarks on a surreal journey into the creative industry, where she must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself. Featuring dialogue from anonymous interviews with real people who have all had to ask themselves the same question – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a recluse, a Venice Biennale fraudster, a communist messiah, a ghost, and a literal knight – The White Pube tell the story of art like never before.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the news cycle and a bit lost without the background to everything that's going on? You care what's happening in the world - but you can't help feeling you missed the part where the key stuff got explained. What's a budget deficit? How does voting actually work?...

When ex-cop-turned-P.I. Maggie Doyle scores a lucrative undercover job at the makeup counter at a fashionable Galway department store, she expects discounted lipstick and an easy paycheck. She should know better. After an altercation with a customer leads to a dead body in Maggie’s bathtub, she realizes there’s more to the department store case than missing cash. Can she catch the killer before the holidays? Or will the festive season end in an explosion of tinsel and turmoil?

Ex-cop-turned-PI Maggie Doyle is stuck chaperoning a group of bratty summer camp kids on an archaeological dig on Whisper Island. After a day of fart jokes, fidget spinners, and fistfights, Maggie's regretting volunteering - and then one of her feral charges unearths a skeleton. At first, it looks like a cold case, but the situation takes a sinister turn when a member of the excavation team winds up dead.

Joining the Brotherhood was supposed to lock my violent past away for good. I was in too deep when I learned their dark secret. All Brothers must choose a Ward. A captive woman to own, train, and punish. It reignites the sadistic desires I've smothered. I try to do the right thing and choose a sweet, submissive woman who wants this life. But fate has other plans and throws Quinn at my feet instead.

When artist Violet Brooke leaves her engagement ring on top of a Chinese wedding cabinet and runs away from the trendy apartment in London’s Brick Lane, there’s only one place to go - Sunrise Cottage. All she wants is to cosy up in her rural retreat, concentrate on her painting and forget about Jayden Fox, bad boy of the East End art scene - he’s certainly forgotten about her. The last thing she needs is romance. Then handsome antique dealer Max Finch shows up in the middle of a field, and the problem is, he’s impossible to resist. 

The bad behaviors of toxic people should never determine our self-worth. Narcissists play the Game of Life by a different set of rules than everyone else, and they count on the fact that you haven’t studied their playbook. This book will help you train your brain to turn the tables on partner narcs and take charge of your life once and for all.

Ana Angevire should be dead. Instead, she’s caged in the heart of the Temple, a prisoner of the zealot who murdered her family and seeks to erase her name from history. Her magic is unraveling. Her body is breaking. Her kingdom is slipping through her fingers. And still—she refuses to bow. Her only hope lies with the last person she should ever trust: Leonidas Claerwyn, the fae prince she once swore to destroy. He comes for her. Bleeding, brutal, and burning with the promise of vengeance. But rescue is only the beginning.

Ophelia, the Calder family's untouchable princess, drove my sister to take her own life. Now I'm taking hers—and I'm going to make her my obedient little pet. All brothers must choose a Ward, and she'll be mine. Forever. She'll dance at the end of my leash while her father's spies report every humiliating detail back to him. And when he comes for me, the Brotherhood will wipe him off the map. A perfect plan. Except it isn't.

Four years ago, I had it all, until one night changed everything. Now, I am trapped in a prison of lies where my heart is locked away with my secrets. Rage has stirred things in me I thought I could never feel again. He thinks he can get through. But I can’t give in. I mustn't, for his sake and mine. I won’t let the ghosts of my past hurt anyone else.

Billionaire Zachary Savage is a man accustomed to getting his own way. He's buried his demons and risen from the ashes to become the playboy owner of the internationally renowned Indigo Lounge, a fleet of ultra-exclusive sky-high pleasure palaces. He has everything he wants, until he sets eyes on Bethany Green. One look is all it takes ~ she has to be his.

Eleanor needs Ruskin—the darkly magnetic fae prince she’s bound to—more than ever. But Ruskin is gone, trapped in the deadly space between realms. When Eleanor finally rescues him, the man she loves is a stranger, his memories erased and his trust shattered. There’s no time to rebuild what they’ve lost. In the human realm, Eleanor’s father is held captive by a ruthless king, while in Faerie, Ruskin’s mother, Evanthe, threatens to plunge the Seelie Court into chaos.

Lured by her aunt’s promise of a restful Irish vacation, Maggie agrees to help out at the Movie Theater Café in exchange for bed and board. Things are looking up - until the most hated woman on Whisper Island is poisoned at the café. With her aunt as the prime suspect, Maggie and her rock-hard muffins are hurled into the murder investigation.

Sinfully sexy venture capitalist, Noah King—a man with a haunted past and dark cravings—is a short fuse away from being consumed by his needs. When his desires propel him to the Indigo Lounge, there's only one course of action—unleash his innermost hunger or lose his mind. Leia Michaels has spent the last five years trying to find her way out of a shattered labyrinth of pain and tragedy. In a daring move, she takes a chance on a sizzling adventure aboard the infamous Indigo Lounge.

Ana has spent her life as a pawn—used, betrayed, and hunted. But no more. As the rightful heir to Trova’s blood-soaked throne, she’s ready to rise—ruthless, unyielding, and armed with the celestial magic awakening inside her. But power always has a price, and Ana is already burning beneath the weight of it.

Heartbroken and betrayed, I fled the faerie court only to be dragged back by my captor, a dark Fae Prince. I should have never made a deal with Ruskin. He's used me before. Now, he needs me again. The Queen has been doomed to eternal sleep. And I alone can break the spell. Once she wakes, my work should be done. I can leave and force myself to forget the handsome prince and his brutal yet beautiful court. Queen Evanthe's return was meant to heal the land, but she's too weak.

When Violet Ayaz and Isaac Evans discover they share a birthday, they don't expect it to lead to a friendship, let alone a relationship. Five years of secret birthday meetings and stolen moments pass, and the two realize they can't deny their feelings any longer. But when Isaac doesn't turn up on their seventeenth birthday and the two break up, Violet is left heartbroken and all of their plans for the future disappear. Isaac attempts to reconnect all summer break, but as their last year of school begins, Violet refuses to listen.

Mr. Hargroves is a busy man! Over the course of 82 minutes, he'll have his way with his students. He'll fuck his naughty students, his teacher's pet, and his ditzy cheerleader. Not only that, he'll leave each of them with a sticky, impregnating creampie!

The ultimate guide for developing and maintaining a safe and secure relationship as you learn how to navigate life after having children. Learn to improve your communication, strengthen your connection, and manage common postpartum challenges as a team.