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After facing demons and murderers, their greatest task is in front of them - meeting the in-laws. With her binding to her partners, Benny feels safe and settled. She wants to start her career in the XIA and make a place in that organization. The past rears up and has other ideas. The binding has its own issues. Their group has to meet and greet each family they are attached to and try to gain approval for their union. A different technique is required for each species, and they have to be ready for anything. True love might win the day, but politics is a pain in the butt.

For the past six years, Quinn has looked forward to the day when she would finally have her revenge against the vampire who slaughtered her family. What she never expected is for that vampire to walk into Clint’s bar and unleash terror and death on her small desert town. With more people dying every day, Quinn realizes she must delve deeper into her power than she’s ever wanted or dared to before if she's going to save her loved ones.

Life has never been easy for Ethic. Since he was a young boy he has battled loss after loss while struggling to navigate through a treacherous world. When he met Alani Lenika Hill, he knew that he had met the woman who would love him back to life. They have weathered a storm together, and their love is so fated that neither wants to let it go, but it seems their bubble of happiness is an illusion, because life around them is falling apart.

I Have to Leave You Now is a memoir of an Alzheimer's caregiver woven in with a practical self-help guide that deals with the day-to-day processes of caring for someone you love who has this heartbreaking disease. Unlike other books on Alzheimer's, which are written by MDs, PhDs, or other experts on the disease, this book is written by an RN, a professional caregiver who also has first-hand, personal experience with caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's.

It had been 615 days, two hours, and 16 minutes since he last saw her. In less than 72 hours, he'd bought a dance studio. In ten minutes, she cursed him out and ditched him in said studio. Then, three minutes later, he found her list—and in one second, he changed the trajectory of her life with a single sentence. Sienna Jones didn't have a plan—she had a list. A perfectionist by nature, she was tired of trying to live up to that image. So, she made a list of all the imperfect things she'd never done in her "perfect" life, and by her 21st birthday, she was determined to complete it.

The man known as the King of the Zoo has spoken his truth. He laid his cards on the table and prepared his friends for his impending death. Time is running out, but Chevy is determined to reach Toussaint and fulfill a lifelong dream. However, the one person he feels he needs by his side has gone missing. Even though the team is aware of Chevy's sickness, they rally together to aid him in finding a resolution and motivate him to seek treatment. Their final hope rests with Zaria, who they believe can change the King's life.

Try as she might to escape the deadly blaze, Kenzie finds herself trapped until he arrives - a dashing fireman who doesn’t question her determination to save her stuffie. To her amazement, everything about him feels right. Being little can’t be this easy, can it? Osiris has one shift left at the firehouse before he relocates to Sanctum. This blaze changes everything.

Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud listen that follows a fictitious group of eight 20- and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails, texts, DMs, and every other form of communication known to man.

When a lonely divorcee chooses to become an email order bride, she has to learn about the importance of decisions and family or lose her shot at love. Rachel needs to get out of the rut she’s in and away from the wake of destruction her divorce left behind her. Stuck in a town where everyone knows her and her ex-husband, Rachel is distinctly aware of who chose his side - everyone - and who chose her side – no one. Even her hairstylist won’t schedule her.

In an age fraught with terrorism, United States Secret Service canine teams risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, visiting heads of state, and a host of others. Unprecedented access to these heroic dog teams has allowed a fascinating first-time-ever look at...

There was a time when Joanna Sheraton knew nothing of the Void. She was an ordinary computer programmer, toiling in a cubicle in air-conditioned Southern California comfort, unaware that sinister forces had penetrated her universe. But from across the interdimensional divide, an evil mage had put in motion a scheme for eternal life by transferring himself into a computer that feeds on Earth’s life force. Called upon to help by the wizard Antryg, Joanna could do nothing more than delay.

She'll outrun her bad luck straight into the arms of her Daddy this St. Patrick's Day...Like a good girl, Stormee Duncan was determined to please her family when she agreed to marry the rich man who set his sights on her. But for this sweet lass, no pot of gold is worth abandoning her secret desires and giving up on her dreams. Cooper Henry's time at Rawhide Ranch is nearly over when he discovers a disheveled woman in a bright green gown hiding among bales of hay.

Reclaim your focus. Protect your energy. Invest in a life that actually fuels you. Every day, you wake up with a finite amount of mental energy. How you spend it—your mental currency—shapes your habits, health, and happiness. But in a world built for distraction, most of us are spending...

When Peter Michaels, the 42-year-old rising star of Boston's architectural world, stumbles upon an old shoebox of mementos from his first love, he is thrown into a tailspin that could cost him his upcoming marriage, his career, and even the love of his life. It's 1985, and Peter is bidding on the greatest architectural project of his career just weeks shy of his wedding to Boston's most ambitious socialite. And yet, he is still secretly tormented by memories of Maddy Marsden, the young woman he loved passionately 20 years earlier.

In Take Back Your Joy, Nicole Jacobsmeyer tells how she felt defeated and ill-prepared for a decade of relentless trials, from assault and depression to miscarriage and cancer. With a heart full of questions about the God she was raised to love, Nicole began to doubt. Had God given her more than she could handle? But there is always more to the story with Christ. Through trial after trial, Nicole allowed God to strengthen her faith, and now she shares biblical strategies that carried her through.

In 1980, Ify exchanged war-torn Nigeria for the strange streets of London. Having escaped death, hunger and extreme poverty, she had to start a new life as a working-class immigrant and student in an environment far removed from her own, in a city brimming with hostility. Ify met her husband, Joseph, a Yoruba man, in 1981 at a bingo hall in east London where both were working immigrants. After the birth of their children, the couple returned to education before setting up their own businesses.

Freddy was born to take the mantle of hellhound, but she wasn’t fond of the idea. Wearing the responsibility to atone for the work of a homicidal ancestor, Freddy is the 11th generation tied to the victim’s family, and being bonded to a mage halfway around the world is tiring. At a moment’s notice, Freddy can be yanked from an event or her own bed and pulled across the world to act as the mage’s familiar.

Life experiences are unique and inestimable. And exactly those values I aimed to capture in my poems. Life could be an adventure, a dream, an illusion, or endless love. Travel in Time is not only a collection of poems, it is for you as a listener an experience into a new world, into the world of romantic imagery.

In a flash of agony, Adrea knew her Aunt Neadra was dead. Waking in hospital was strange enough, but having her coloring changed to that of her dead relative was a little hard to take. Adrea called the authorities to let them know her aunt had been murdered and made the three-hour trip to get to her aunt’s home. Shockingly, things get out of control from there. She is arrested, questioned, and released back to Ritual Space, where she has to seal the breach in the wards with her own blood.

After facing his biggest sin, Ethic finds forgiveness within the love of his life. Alani is the woman he’s been searching for his entire existence, but loving her comes with a price: his soul. She wants his soul. When Alani tells Ethic she can’t be with a man who doesn’t believe in God, Ethic must face his only fear, trusting something he can’t see. With Alani’s heart in his hands and his soul in hers, they must try to piece together a life where love and forgiveness outweigh the burden of pain they have placed on one another.