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"Tell me what excites you." Lisbeth's life is plunged into darkness with the death of her lover. Now, nothing else matters. Not even her imprisonment by the council and looming execution. In the arms of her oldest and dearest friend, Balthazar, she seeks a momentary relief from her pain in the form of one night of unbridled passion. One night...that changes everything.

Former pinup model Sydney Wagner is about to fulfill her life-long dream of publishing her first novel. Attending a writers conference in Kansas City is more play than work. Fate factors in when her car blows a tire on the way to the conference. Pilot and entrepreneur Peter Kane notices a car on the side of the road and isn't about to pass up the chance to help a stranded motorist, especially one as sexy as Sydney Wagner. But can he deal with hot-then-cool attitude, or her tawdry past?

We all need somewhere where we feel safe.... Benjamin O'Leary thought he met the woman of his dreams. But when her husband shows up, everything he thought he knew about Katherine Marshall is called into question. It isn't until she shows up at his house battered and bruised that he realizes he's made a horrible assumption. She needs his help, but refuses to accept it. Katherine wants to be independent, but her estranged husband is never going to let her walk away. After his latest attack, she considers running away from the new life she's just begun.

One day, George the Supersnail was watching the birds fly, tree to tree, from his bedroom window. He was wondering why he could not fly, so he went and asked his mother. His mother told him he needed wings to fly. George had no wings, only a shell. He knew normal snails could not fly like birds. He said to himself, "I am George the Supersnail. I can do anything!"

After leaving her abusive husband, Katherine Marshall is out on her own for the first time. She's hopped from city to city to avoid the man who made her life a living hell. When it seems she's finally found a new place where she begins to feel safe, she slowly grows confident that her life is looking up. A chance meeting with Ben O'Leary sets her life on a course and her soul on fire.

I've learned many lessons throughout my life, but one is more important than the rest: My life is not my own. I understand this more every single day with the actions my family commit. They've arranged for me to marry a clan leader. There's only one problem - I won't be marrying him. I'll be murdering him.

The first meeting between recently-hired librarian assistant Lisa Gonzalez and the 400-year-old vampire Damien disguised as a flamboyant playboy has both in suspense. Damien's never met a woman so delightful for his taste buds but he has to lead her into his trap slowly. Lisa was warned that her new boss is a freak but she downplays her friends' accusations, claiming that she needed this job to pay for her university expenses.

Located off the rugged coast of Maine, remote Moose Island appears calm and safe. Yet, multiple murders begin occurring on the island as more outsiders arrive there. In five intertwined stories, Detective Nadine McAfee searches for answers in murder cases that involve sex trafficking, marital infidelity, sibling rivalry, political vengeance, and long-buried family secrets

Our shadows are always there. They entertain us when we're little, just like best friends. As we grow older, they grow with us. Even through the darkness they stay, never leaving our side. They watch. They listen. They know all our secrets. Endure our pain. Their silence remains while only rumors drift in the wind. Soon our shadows turn from friend to foe. They become the monster starring in our nightmares, a temptress of hell reminding us what it feels like to burn. Shadows are the demons that tear our souls apart. They never let go, and they never allow us to forget.

I've never been the type to get on the wrong side of the law until the day I did. I was given two options, to either go to jail for a very long time or become an agent for the CIA. I'm unlike any other agent, though. Most of my colleagues don't have families like I do. You see, I'm Romanian and the purest of blood flows through my veins. Since time has passed I believe I was targeted because of who I know. Otherwise I wouldn't have been sent on this mission, to take down Franco Falcone of the New York Crime Family.

In the town of Ravencharm where caffeine is banned, Abby serves up decaf until her boss breaks out a special brew that literally causes all hell to break loose. Forced into the Supernatural Barista Academy, Abby enters a world of angels, mages, witches, and fae and begins training to defend humanity against rampant evil. But life at the S.B.A. isn’t all textbooks and combat training. Abby must defend herself from spell-casting bullies who don’t think humans belong at the Academy.

In a land of eternal moonlight, light is life. The silver beams of the five moons are all that stand between the people and the dark demons known as the Shadows. The Shadows absorb the life force of anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in their midst, using a person's own fear to consume them. For 300 years the five moons have floated safely above the land, protecting everyone from the dangers of the Shadows. But now something has gone amiss. The moons have slowly begun being extinguished one by one as an ancient demon awakens from its slumber.

Cursed by a gypsy and banished to a realm of darkness for over 200 years, Morcant Banner resigns himself to an eternity of torture. With need and frustration his ever-present companions, he’s given up hope of ever seeing his friends again, let alone knowing the pleasures of a woman. When he is suddenly freed from his prison by a very beautiful, very wary woman, he’s forced to face a reality much different from the one he remembers. A reality without the men he once called brothers, but with Leana who makes him hunger like no other.

When Chase and Kay hit the streets of Las Vegas, the goal is simple - rescue Will, Chase's brother, from making the biggest mistake of his young life. But keeping Will out of trouble turns out not to be the only obstacle in Chase and Kay's path. Finding himself back in the city that broke him, Chase's heartbreaking past threatens to derail all the progress he's made. However, Chase is determined not to let that happen.

My father gave me an ultimatum. He should really know better than that. I was set to marry Isabella, the daughter of a prestigious accountant for one of the Clans. He's been pressuring me for years to get married to extend our lineage - basically, to open up a baby-making factory. I may be marrying a woman, but it sure as hell won't be a boring little virgin girl. I want defiance in the highest form, and how better to achieve that than marrying a slave?

Gorgeous and sexy Chase Gartner hopes to do just that with Kay Stanton. But when Chase's troubled-teen brother, Will, stays on in Harmony Creek, Ohio - after an unexpected arrival - Chase and Kay's bonds of love and commitment are soon tested. Chase finds himself caught up in secrets - and revisiting a past he thought he'd left behind - when Will makes a number of irresponsible decisions. Despite Chase's attempts to keep his brother out of trouble, Will's reckless behavior continues, affecting not only Chase and Kay, but other residents in town...one disastrously so.

Women seek time, peace, happiness, and fulfillment but often cannot find it because they don’t think it’s possible, don’t believe they deserve it, or don’t know how to make it happen. Emerging from the other-focused world of raising young children, now struggling to figure out what they want to do and how they can actually make it happen, mothers are busier, more stressed, and less healthy than ever and many are seeking realistic answers they can implement into their frenetic lives.

I owed Mariana so much. I’d betrayed not only her, but The Clans - my country, my people; my own flesh and blood. With so much lost because of me, when Mariana gave me a chance at redemption I was quick to take it. I was needed in the Ukraine, and so I went. But now a vicious woman named Vera is throwing me off my game, and, despite all my preparations and all of my research, I knew nothing of this woman. I owed Mariana so much, and, though I knew nothing of her, she knew enough about me to make that impossible. She knew that I would sooner die than go back on my word.

I’m carrying a huge secret. His secret. I was supposed to be the good girl. No flings, perfect grades, career-focused. Now I might lose it all...because of him. Oliver Price. I know I want him. I know my devil dad would do everything to stop me. I also know that play time will be over once I leave for grad school. But the one thing I didn’t know until now? I’m pregnant. And the only person I can’t tell? Him.

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