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Charles had no idea of how some men were so lucky with women, and others were just duds. He was a dud! All through high school, not one girl, except his lovely young sister, would look his way. That is until his first year in a private college. There, he learned the power of suggestion, the power of hypnosis. With this power, Charles learned to control women and men through the power of suggestion.

Syd Shepherd doesn’t do holidays - not since losing so much just before Christmas three years ago. Instead, she spends her holidays alone in the wilderness, away from the celebrations and pitying looks from friends and her coworkers at Carter Marketing. This year, against her better judgement, she attends the Christmas works party. After her boss Riley Carter kisses her under the mistletoe, she's running scared to the only place she finds solace - her cabin.

After their last battle, something comes to light that has the potential to throw the immortals into further turmoil and danger. Once more, they must band together. This time, not just to defeat an enemy. After the sighting of a big cat in the area hits the press, and a dead body is found, they must also throw a reporter off their scent. All they need is one night, so at least one set of mates can complete the binding ceremony and boost morale. It’s going to take skill, finesse and strategic planning.

At four years old, Maya Rawlings witnessed her own father horrifically murder her mother. Brought up by an older aunt, she knows nothing of her family history. She wants a family of her own to make up for all that she's lost, but it's difficult to achieve when she's not attracted to anyone. That is until the night of her 21st birthday, when a strange mark appears on the palm of her hand. The mark is followed by recurrent nightmares of fleeing for her life and the voice of a man offering her things she's always dreamed of. Is he real, or is she finally losing her mind?

Welcome to the Gothic London of the 1800s. These saucy tales quicken the pulse, thrill the mind, and excite parts of the body that other, lesser books fail to reach. Short stories featured in this sweet confection of blood, sex, and Gothic melodrama include "Holmes of the Baskervilles", "Miss Katie Bell - Victorian Vampire", "Joan Dark Is Lost", and "The Vampire Alice Through the Looking Glass". Here, vampires walk the streets and your favorite characters from Victorian literature are twisted until they snap.

War is coming, and Ed Brant follows his brothers into the army. While he is in training and his eldest brother is in France, the archduke is assassinated, and the Irish Republican brotherhood plot to kill the king. It's a race against time to halt the German invasion and to foil a plot that could have Britain fighting a war on two fronts and set Ireland free.

After Howard Greenfield's routine business trip ends with a reckless night of passion, he ends up with a gun and a mission. Meanwhile, the mysterious Irishman, Tommy Morgan, seeks a buyer for a large cache of heroin. It's the early 90s, and IRA bombs continue to threaten the British mainland. When it seems like IRA has forsaken its war on drugs, Tommy takes matters into his own hands, and is plunged into a raging whirlpool of danger and deception.

Three Lives continues the theme of T. Lobsang Rampa's previous book, I Believe, in that it is a further statement of his personal belief in life after death, and his thoughts on the nature of the afterlife. Free from prejudice, free the the dogmas of organized religion, Dr. Rampa's beliefs have been formed by years of study and experience - years of offering comfort and inspiration to his countless followers all over the world.

A winter walk along a quiet beach turns into disaster when a series of ghostly sightings and deaths unfurl that unlock a medieval spell of ghostly revenge upon the small East Coast town of Pakefield in Suffolk. This ancient spirit is duty bound to complete a curse made by an ancient Viking warrior but its choice of victims however is random, and those who experience the spirits power are those you would least expect. One man, John Stubbs, a local church warden, unwittingly stumbles upon the thread that could unlock the mystical activities dating back to Viking times.

Private investigator John Handful specializes in solving the impossible cases that the Suffolk Constabulary cannot, and when local businessman Charles 'Buster' Bill is found mutilated in the local forest, it is believed there is a maniac on the loose. John Handful thinks differently. His own investigation soon reveals that at the heart of the man's death lies a devastating secret and by the time Handful realizes what it is he has just made himself the next target....

Hayden Valcore and Sophia Carter plan a hiking trip shortly after their high school graduation. While in the mountains, Hayden blacks out and wakes up in an old deer shed as he's turning into a vampire, with no recollection of his past. Sophia's been kidnapped and while a high-profile coven takes him in to integrate him into their way of life, he learns how to fly, how to hunt, and how to deal with the struggle of trying to control his new dark side… He is now an ancient vampire, fighting the clock to figure out his past and save Sophia before it’s too late.

The natural course our planet Earth has taken is in sheer and utter devastation. Global warming has awakened with full force and over half of the population is in third world poverty or dead already. Lucky for some of us our one world government, known as Grendel had a secret plan. They had discovered years prior of a habitable sister planet in our galaxy that they called Genesis. In the last days before Earths final destruction Grendel allowed a few hundred of us to board the shuttle and begin our journey to repopulate and thrive on Genesis. Everything went according to plan and I was grateful to have my family included in that plan.

While visiting her 92 year old grandfather in Devon, Kirsten's life changed forever. On the night before his death he asked her to go and get an old box hidden in the wall in his attic. Inside was a long thin gold bar wrapped in a piece of dark brown leather that was also a map.

Vodou, Vodoun, Vudu, and Voodoo has captivated the imaginations of Americans for centuries. Everyone is familiar with New Orleans Voodoo and its images of black candles, chicken’s feet, and skulls meant to invoke fear and awe in outsiders. Voodoo as practiced in the United States has become an amalgam of witchcraft, necromancy, rootwork, conjure, and a catch-all word for any type of magic that seems dark and ominous. In the Caribbean, however, Voodoo is spelled Vodou and is practiced as an African Traditional Religion (ATR).

Totally confused about her life and all the lies and fake news on the mainstream media, Gemma decides to visit her grandfather who emigrated to Fiji several years ago to ask him some questions about what he thinks is really going on in the world today.