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When a faceless body is found floating in the river on a summer’s morning, Detective Kay Hunter and her team are tasked with finding out the man’s identity–and where he came from. The investigation takes a sinister turn when an abandoned boat is found, covered in blood stains and containing a child’s belongings. Under mounting pressure from a distraught family and an unforgiving media, the police are in a race against time–but they have no leads, and no motive for the events that have taken place.

Eden's heart is full and her endless life has never been happier. That is until Dmitri Terletov returns from the dead and threatens everyone she loves and the kingdom she worked so hard to build. This time around, Eden is supposed to be shielded from the conflict. She has her growing babies to protect now and Kiran wants her as far from the battle as possible. Although she's a little stir-crazy with idle hands, she agrees that keeping away from Terletov and his deadly experiments is definitely the right course of action.

Watching others as they expose themselves - or reversing the equation by taking center stage - can be some of life's naughtiest delights. Hide and Seek proves that the eye is as much a pathway to pleasure as any other part of the body. The possibilities are endless: watching a lover undress from the safety of a hidden hole in the wall; peeking at the neighbors through a crack in the blinds when they think nobody's looking; visiting a local strip club to glimpse a beautiful dancer; or going to an orgy....

My first year at college has been anything but ordinary. After spending so much energy trying to protect my secret, I failed to realize it's not the past I need to fear—it's my future that's at stake. I've finally found someone who doesn't judge me for my sins and stays by my side while I trudge through the shadowy corners of my past. The only problem is his friends have other plans.

Molly wants to fight Hitler by using her skills as a pilot. But the USA says no to female pilots. America is at war and Molly, a qualified pilot, is determined to use her skills in the air against the Nazis. The American Air Force isn't ready to admit female pilots just yet but the British are desperate for pilots following their devastating losses in the Battle of Britain.

Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. Until, by pure chance, Lu discovers she’s captured a tragedy in the background of a self portrait; a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life – if she lets it.

From lesbian vampires to the ghost of Nathaniel Hawthorne, exhibitionism for a daring woman's neighbors and sexy onstage burlesque moves, the women in these stories are hot, horny, and determined to get exactly what they want. Whether they're bedding a longtime partner or hooking up with someone they've just met, they always find a way to get exactly what they want. From outlandish erotic fantasies in public and private to tender intimacies, sexual healing and hotness take many forms in these arousing tales by authors including Sally Bend, Katrina Jackson, T.C. Mill, Garnell Wallace, and more.

Carrie Morgan expects trouble when she returns to Woodsmoke after ten years. What she does not predict is the beautiful stranger who walks into her life with the first frost and with whom Carrie begins to fall in love. Bound to her family’s book of spells and a deep magic that flows from the mountains, Carrie’s family warn that her new love is a curse who will disappear when the frost thaws.

Do you find yourself lying awake at night, ruminating about the events of the day? Do you toss and turn, worrying about what you have to do in the morning or what you did earlier in the day? If so, you are not alone. In fact, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder faced by the general population today.

After being summoned to a crime scene late one Friday afternoon, Detective Mark Turpin arrives to find the body of a man, his face obscured by a plastic sheet wrapped around his head. When the victim’s final moments are traced to a rented property in the Oxfordshire countryside, Mark discovers another body, one that has been brutally cut to pieces and left to rot.

The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasn’t been seen since 1932, but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that. Drawn by the vase’s supposed magical properties, Margot embarks on her school’s archaeological trip to Pompeii. Sure, it’s her first time holding a shovel, but she’s got something no one else does: lost teenage explorer Van Keane’s journal. Poring over the poetic entries that serve as a map to the vase’s missing shards, Margot finds herself falling in love with the boy who wrote it a century ago.

But no one was married that day. Now Lucas has invited us back to celebrate the anniversary. But the anniversary of what? The wedding that never happened, or the tragedy that occurred just hours before the ceremony was due to begin? He's told us that tonight he has planned a game. We have our costumes, we have our parts, and everyone must play. The game, he tells us, is about to begin. What does Lucas want from us? What are we not being told? And what's going to happen when this terrible game is over?

The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into 21st century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. The fangsters have the freedom to fly across all genres and all mediums - there''s even apps for vamps. Whether roaming into romance, haunting horror, sneaking into science fiction, capering into humor, meandering through mystery - no icon is more versatile than the vampire.

Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg - taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine has returned to her former home and to the legendary Palais Garnier Opera House to choreograph the ballet that will kick-start the next phase of her career - and, she hopes, finally make things right with her former friends. But Delphine quickly discovers that things have changed while she's been away.

From femmes who channel Marlene Dietrich in the sexiest of suits to men who love nothing more than the feel silky panties stretched tight against their skin, these characters boldly indulge their fantasies of being a girl - or a guy - for a night. Drag queens get dolled up for a night on the town, a dyke packs a special surprise beneath her dress, and a devoted husband puts his dress-up skills to the ultimate test in this seductive new collection.

She’s 43 years old…and starting over from scratch. How did this happen? She had it all together. A stable marriage of two decades. Two grown daughters. And now she and her husband, empty nesters, were moving to a beach house. Until he showed up late one night and tore their marriage apart. A secret life. A different woman. Another family. Left alone, she has to begin again. And then her estranged sister and mother get thrown into the mix. When she buys a house on a small South Carolina island, will she learn what life is really about?

Rachel used to be a mom who spent her days weary, anxious, and guilt laden. She had five kids in five years, lived on three different continents, and then was blindsided by a devastating health diagnosis. Neglecting her own physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional needs for so long—in an effort to be a selfless mother—had left her utterly depleted. And physically unwell. Then she began asking a question she’d never considered before: Could it be that taking good care of myself is not actually selfish, but maybe, just maybe, something a responsible adult does?

A teoria do apego adulto designa três principais estilos de apego ou maneiras de amar, que são as formas pelas quais as pessoas percebem e reagem à intimidade nos relacionamentos românticos. Neste livro você descobrirá mais sobre cada um desses três estilos e a maneira como eles determinam seu comportamento e suas atitudes. Esperamos que você empregue a sabedoria contida aqui para encontrar felicidade em suas ligações amorosas e para voar alto em todos os aspectos da sua vida.

Every kid dreams of having superpowers. If you are Wendy Dumas, though, you have the power to turn anyone you want into a superhero, and the wrong people know. Wendy now has Gabriel back for good, and her brother and adopted sister are by her side. With the team all back together, she’s not worried. She has lived with a death touch long enough to know that being on the run from a few ill-intentioned ne'er-do-wells is rookie stuff. Kaylen's expert take down of a whole team back in Monterey proved to everyone that Wendy won't go down without a fight.

Arlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbours come together.