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Cindy Crews is everything I never even knew I dreamed of. Winning the championship used to be my number one goal in life, but one look into Cindy's pretty golden eyes, and I see my future. But Cindy is a feisty little thing who's fighting me every step of the way. I know she feels this electric current zinging between us, but she's put up walls so thick it's going to take a bulldozer to knock them down.

In those first moments, that admission felt precious to me: it was something that I alone had been deemed worthy enough to carry, and I was grateful. I was grateful to finally know, but I still couldn't speak. Something was wrong, she knew it, but she was entirely unprepared for what he would tell her. Viewed through the lens of a relationship breakdown after one partner discloses to the other that they are transgender, this autofiction spans 18 months: from the moments of first discovery, through the eventual disintegration of their partnership, to the new beginnings of independence.

Alexander was bitten, not born, and his entire human life went up in flames when he became a wolf shifter. But now, he's a part of the Blue Mountain Pack where he manages most of the pack's business, including taking care of the Cirque de Nuit Pride while they're in pack territory—a traveling circus with sanctuary status granted by the council of paranormals. The job was supposed to be boring, but the last thing he was expecting was an acrobat witch to be his mate. Lily is a green witch in the Cirque de Nuit Pride doing acrogymnastics with her brother, Cole.

Timothy is an ambitious young journalist working for a prestigious paper. He launched his stellar ascent to become a journalist elite with a series of articles that he acquired by blackmailing his talented former classmate, Marcel, who was having a BDSM relationship with his teacher. Marcel is now frying hamburgers to make ends meet and Timothy is not meeting expectations and struggling in his efforts to keep his new job. He needs to come up with another hot topic, or else he will be sent packing!

Family is everything to Lily Drew, and she's always battled to keep hers together. But following the death of her only daughter, Ruby, and after losing her son, Connor, to a rival firm, Lily feels like everything she's fought so hard to protect is about to fall apart: and when a turf war between two rival gangs starts on the Drew's doorstep, Lily must pick a side.

In the quaint village of Birdswing, the winter of 1939 is bitterly cold. Still haunted by his ex-wife’s murder and eager to contact the Fenton House ghost, Ben enlists Lady Juliet in an amateur séance. But the surprise return of Juliet’s rogue husband, Ethan, upends her life, setting tongues wagging. While she fights to make him sign divorce papers, a bloodless, naked corpse confronts Ben. The murdered man, handsome but uneducated and known to make passes at all things female, is discovered in an oh-so-proper estate.

Bad idea number 241: sending a dirty text to your number neighbor. In my defense, my friends did it, too, and their neighbors took it as the joke it was. Mine didn't. He responded with a dirty text of his own. Next thing I know, I have a standing texting date every night at 10:30. Until I have to miss it because the stray kitten who adopted me one week ago is sick. The only person I know who can help me at this time of night is my British next-door neighbor and local vet, Isaac Cooper.

Puberty Power for Boys: All You Need to Know About Growing Up, Understanding Your Body, Emotions, and More: Embrace the Journey to Adolescence with Knowledge and Ease offers practical advice, expert insights, and encouragement to help boys navigate the physical, emotional, and social aspects of growing up.

Finally, this felt like revenge. I was out of the labyrinth, it was all a memory, no map needed. I could enjoy the scenery. Enjoy looking. So I looked. The tautening skin, the stirring muscles, those green eyes, vibrant despite their sightlessness. I stared at him as if he were a picture. I stared at him the way women never get to stare at men: without fear.

Here’s the deal: At its core, selling isn’t about sleazy tactics, convincing your prospects, or any tips or tricks. True selling has very specific steps and stages, a process. One that leaves your customer feeling happy and helped.

Daisy Turner has worked at Buchanan’s Family Jewellers since the day she finally escaped her troubled home. With a unique talent for matching the perfect piece of jewellery to any romantic milestone, she painstakingly polishes each stunning creation every morning and safely locks them away each night, longing for the day she’ll have a love story to call her own... But everything changes one day in December when the owner announces she is retiring. She will leave the shop to whichever of her three sons creates the perfect piece of Christmas jewellery for Daisy.

I knew all about Wyatt Evans from watching the revolving door of females exiting his dorm room every weekend. He was a bad boy. And I'd kept my distance. I was too good. Too boring. Too inexperienced to ever consider dating him. Now, it was the last semester of senior year. I was interning at a local magazine. There was one position open post graduation. The competition was fierce and I wanted it. Even if it was for a sex columnist and my experience was severely limited. How limited? I was practically a virgin.

What if a villain believes they are a hero? Our addiction to social media has created a new version of fame. And lurking beneath the surface of beautiful, polished social media accounts is a community being targeted by a killer. Ela's life is falling apart after she experiences a miscarriage. Her marriage dissolves while the rest of her life feels on hold. In order to deal with the grief and guilt from losing the pregnancy, Ela spends a lot of time on her phone. And the more time she spends online, the more her new identity begins to take shape.

As three very different women come together at the house in the olive grove, unlikely friendships blossom and a season of self-discovery begins. Will the sumptuous flavours, sapphire waters and golden sands of Greece give each of them the answers they so desperately seek?

Milli thinks she’s an average girl, living a below average life. Her last four years in the small town of Anvil, Virginia, have been mediocre at best. She didn’t recall her life before her accident, the one that left her with amnesia. Then things begin to change. First, a pack of wolves trail her through the woods, then she literally has a bat in her belfry. Her once humdrum life is soon topsy-turvy and brimming with all manner of nocturnal creatures. In the middle of this supernatural chaos, a little demon arrives, eager to tell her she is so much more than what she has come to believe.

One terrible moment changes everything for teenagers Kate and David. Brought together during the darkest of times of the Troubles, a spark of hope is ignited between them - a hand held in the darkness, a promise whispered. Neither of them will ever forget those moments. It’s another 10 years before David and Kate meet once more, and their lives are now so different. The promise they made to each other on that fateful day still binds them, but now they have so much more to lose.

Widowed farmer Ned Hardy is facing a bleak winter and a lonely Christmas alone, when a beautiful young woman turns up on his doorstep in the middle of the night, frozen and terrified. Stunned by the arrival of a fine lady who looks like a Christmas angel, all of Ned’s protective instincts flare to life. Grace Honeyfield is on the run from her abusive brother and the terrifying man he’s forcing her to marry. Escaping into the darkness on a snowy night, she stumbles onto an isolated farm, and into the arms of a handsome farmer.

If you met a troubled stranger who needed help, what would you do? If she had a haunted air about her, startled, hunted eyes, would you reach out? Tanya Smith, a beautiful East End stripper stumbling her way through life, finds herself gaining an impromptu flatmate one night after a chance meeting with a lost young woman. Anna Davis, on the run from a dangerous and stormy past, starts up a new life, keeping one eye over her shoulder and her secrets close to her chest.

Twelve-year old twins Mika and Ellie live in a future behind a wall - safe from the plague animals beyond. Or so they've been told. But when one of them disappears, and the other takes part in a sinister virtual reality game, they begin to discover their concrete world is built on lies. Determined to find each other again, they go in search of the truth. And as a strange sound in their heads grows to a roar, they find out that children and the planet have never mattered more.

Jonathan Levi and Emma French will deploy their trademark combination of exclusive access to prisoner testimony and staff revelations, weaving a compelling, unfiltered story examining the lives and crimes of Belmarsh Prison's most deadly and notorious prisoners. From exclusive revelations of the Hatton Garden gang, who smarted at the injustice of doing time alongside monstrous killers, to unique insights on inmates past and present including John Warboys, Ian Huntley, Jonathan Aitken, Michael Adebowale, Thomas Mair and Wayne Couzens.