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Over. His life. Career. Marriage. Everything is finished. Richard Clayson dances on the precipice of self-destruction. His world crumbled before him. Since the day he laid eyes on Beau Blackwell in that interrogation room, his infatuation spun out of control. Richard knew it would be his undoing, in more ways than one. However, when the dust settles and nothing remains can he forgive? Can they get back together? Or will Richard and Beau always be enemies?

Apology is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato, chronicling the trial of Socrates. In this work, Socrates defends himself against charges of corrupting the youth and impiety, ultimately leading to his conviction and execution. Despite his defense, Socrates remains steadfast in his commitment to truth and virtue, refusing to compromise his beliefs even in the face of death.

When Sam puts out an ad for a new roommate, he wasn't expecting a gorgeous woman like Jessa to answer! But her cash is good and she wants the room, so even though it's kind of weird, he agrees to take on a female housemate. The only problem is going to be keeping a lid on his tendency to wear women's clothing now and again...especially since Jessa asked him to handle the laundry! Sam can't resist a hot pair of panties, and soon, he finds himself falling back onto old habits. But when Jessa catches him dressed up in her lingerie, rather than being disgusted, she thinks it's hot.

The nature of small talk is to be uninteresting. Generic. Uninspiring. It's the method humans have quietly settled on in polite society to create bonds without offending anyone or being too vulnerable. Thus, it never leads to anything. No meaningful relationships are formed over small talk. The trick to great small talk is not to let it remain small. Small talk serves as a starter to a main course of conversation.

The lord of lust has done it again, and in this anything but sweet, four-book box set full of forbidden silver foxes and sassy cougars, he proves that age is no boundary to love, or lust. Includes: Forbidden Desires, Serving the Senator, The Boss's Daughter (Sweet Temptations, Book 2), Tequila Sunset.

Obsession. It's dangerous. Reckless. Exhilarating. Richard enjoys watching him in the interrogation room, his eyes coveting the way the cigarette easily slid between his lips. For a brief moment, his fingers yearn to trace the tattoos wrapped around his toned flesh. If he squints, he can focus on those emerald-green eyes, haunting yet so familiar. Everything about the man pulls him in, awakening something deep within long since beaten dead. Richard knows exactly what Beau's nighttime occupation is.

The Byrnes family came to Texas and carved out a place on the land. Three generations who paid in blood and treasure. Children carried off by Comanche. A brother lost to war. Lives shattered. Chet Byrnes was trying to hold the ranch together through one more winter for one more cattle drive when he hanged three horse thieves this side of the Red River - and a blood feud erupted....

From the horrors on the front line and the suffering and despair, hope and strength, WWI: The War to End All War gives you the experience of the world’s first modern, mechanised war in an entirely new light! A unique look at the war that shaped the 20th century.

A young human male orphaned by the death of his adopted father struggles to survive in a universe that offers little more than despair. He's forced to scrub booster tubes on commercial starships to make enough coins to feed his alcohol addiction in his dirty day-to-day existence. The future looks dark and is getting darker. To make matters worse, he discovers that two very powerful forces are attempting to capture him and he has no clue why.

The Royal Family has been sensing danger coming to the Realm for five years. The Queen of the Stars Realm, Valerie Rose Gardner, has had a vision of strange brown starships attacking one of the Realm's members and killing everyone. She has also had a vision of a new Super Psychic that could save the Realm from the invaders. She doesn't know where he is and thousands of Searchers are working overtime to find him.

Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it’s the work of an elusive serial killer, but the police are claiming a simple vendetta between local criminals.

Karl embarks on a nightmarish journey as he attempts to solve the mystery and soon he’s suspecting Mark Wilson, his detested ex brother-in-law. But as the winter days become darker, Karl discovers that Wilson is more than a match for him when it comes to dirty dealing and even dirtier fighting, as he battles to keep from becoming the next victim.

"Best practices" may be widespread, but that doesn't mean they're effective. In many instances the opposite is true: Best practices can be outdated, harmful, and a hindrance to innovation. In Breaking Bad Habits, Freek Vermeulen, a strategist with a keen eye for the absurd, offers the tools to identify these practices and rid them from your organization. And, most of all, he presents a compelling case for how eliminating popular but outworn ideas, processes, and strategies can create new opportunities for innovation and growth.

Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and visionary British writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. H. G. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, although he wrote across many genres, including nonfiction. His fiction embraces history, science fiction, horror, satire, fantasy, and social commentary. Wells was also a futurist, foreseeing air travel, tanks (as in “The Land Ironclads” - part of this anthology) space travel, nuclear weapons, and even satellite television.

I’ve been stalked by a guy for months who doesn’t under the words: Not Interested. But once he escalates his threat by putting my coworker in the hospital, I go on the offensive to give the creep a taste of his own medicine. As a self-proclaimed control freak, I refuse to wait for him to come after me. When I sabotage his wooded torture shack, I accidentally blow up the house and the three-month long investigation belonging to the team that’s been watching him.

In the 8th and final installment of the Quint series, nothing is as it seems. Virginia Tumbler, a grief-stricken wife, claims her husband was murdered over his unfinished manuscript. She says the killer stole a black, zippered sleeve that contained the final chapter. Quint is highly skeptical, assuming the sleeve has just been misplaced. But then, people who have read the manuscript start dying, and Quint has no choice but to take the case. It's a decision he will quickly begin to regret. The Final Chapter will leave you gasping until, well, until the final chapter.

There was one man Lady Emma vowed she would never marry: the rakish Duke of Warwick—brother to her very best friend. But one chance encounter on a balcony has Lady Emma questioning all she ever believed about the duke. When her friend—and the duke’s sister—is abducted, they must work together to find her and determine who has been threatening the Remington family.

Outlining the scientific evidence behind psi research, Dark Cognition expertly reveals that such anomalous phenomena clearly exist, highlighting that the prevailing view of consciousness, purely as a phenomenon of the brain, fails to account for the empirical findings.

The battle at the galactic center had been a great victory for the Federation and the Alliance but at a tremendous cost. The Battleship Avenger and her fleets had vanished being drawn into a great white vortex at the moment of victory. For over four years, the mystery of what happened to the Avenger has haunted the Federation.

Get this limited edition holiday romance collection of two novels, two novellas, and two short stories from Kit Tunstall, writing as Aurelia Skye and Kit Kyndall.

Dana Patterson never regretted the simplicity of her life in Alaska until she moved in with playboy Connor Sinclair. On the surface, Connor is the darkly seductive owner of Vegas’s hottest new casino. But in private, she gets to see a vulnerable side that no one else knows about—and the combination makes him a temptation she isn’t willing to resist any longer.