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The most precious commodity we own isn't money. It's time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling 'time poor'—like we never have enough. Since we can't add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives more richly? Based on Professor Cassie Holmes's wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Happier Hour demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time.

The PikeCast is an in-depth discussion of the work of YA horror author Christopher Pike. Like your favorite book club, in each episode, we break down one of his novels and discuss it from a modern perspective as well as looking through our teenage eyes at the violence, sex, and goofiness that was so prevalent in his writing.

"Come up to my room with me...." The invitation came in a deep, husky voice as I was sobbing into my floral arrangement and consuming all the alcohol during the lowest night of my life. I should have said no. It was wrong to accept the handsome soldier's offer. But I was hurting. I wanted those rough hands and those soft lips and that sculpted body on me. I was never supposed to see him again. But two years later, he's here - in Copper Heights - just as tall, rugged, and charming as the night we met.

Gabriella Baine has a way with words. She dreams of one day becoming a staff writer for the biggest TV shows. But dreams don't pay rent and during a job interview at one of the largest modeling agencies in the country, she meets fashion photographer, Flynn McCreary. Sparks fly and there's an intense, visceral pure lust that culminates in the hottest sex Gabriella's ever experienced.

Grayson Cage is a sexy Santa. Yeah, I know. Mall Santas typically aren’t very hot. Yet after seeing what he looks like under his costume? The tall, dark, and handsome man is all I want for Christmas. But Grayson isn’t just a juicy piece of eye candy. He needs me to watch his daughter while he’s working at the mall, and sometimes at night when he’s managing his bar, the Thirsty Moose. But he’s not the only one giving me flirty smiles...

After crashing and burning with Mackenzie, Chase Adams is more than ever determined to win her back. This time all bets are off and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to get the girl before she’s someone else’s prize.

In Texas, football is a religion. Which makes Colt McAllister a god. He’s the star quarterback for the Fort Worth Frenzy. Colt could have any woman he wants. But he wants me. He’s not the only one. His two teammates want to share me, too. It’s my job to spend as much time with them as possible. Interviewing them on the football field...and getting extra personal off the field. Can Colt and his teammates lead the Frenzy into the playoffs? And will our sultry relationship last that long?

I finally landed a date with the swooniest, most gorgeous fireman in town. But just when our date was going well, he got called back to the firehouse. Turns out a baby was left on the fire station doorstep. And since they’re clueless about taking care of a baby, they recruit me to help. Now I’m crashing at the firehouse with them. Three hulking, chiseled heroes in suspenders. And even though I came here to take care of the baby, they soon turn their sights on me...

That billionaire dragon-shifter I’ve been trying to avoid getting involved with? Yeah, I pretty much failed there...and I've never been so delighted. Sure, he’s intense, good looking, and ripped in all the right places, not to mention the deliciously savage way he claims my body, marking me as his. Sure, he’s intense, good looking, and ripped in all the right places, not to mention the deliciously savage way he claims my body, marking me as his.

Three sexy soldiers escorting me to exotic locations around the world. Watching my back. Protecting me. Sharing me. I met the most gorgeous man in the world at a hacker convention. And out of everyone there, he took me back to his hotel room. But a sizzling night of passion wasn't the only thing he had in mind. He gave me a proposition I never expected. A spot on his mercenary team. A mission to assassinate a Colombian drug lord. A chance to avenge my father’s death. Can I survive their intense love? Or will my inability to choose get in the way of our mission?

Twenty-one-year-old college student, Adriana Nikolas, doesn't really know what to make of Raptor, the sexy biker who seems to be obsessed with getting into her pants. Hot or not, she knows from their first encounter that he's dangerous, both in and out of bed. What Raptor wants, Raptor gets. Right now, he wants Adriana and will do whatever it takes to claim her as his woman. But, she keeps resisting, which isn't something that the road captain of the Gold Vipers is accustomed to.

Jordan Steele (The Judge) has been hired as a bodyguard for Jessica Winters, Slammer's new step-daughter. Security is usually not his thing, but he finds himself unable to refuse the offer after meeting her in person. Jessica Winters wants nothing to do with The Judge, or any other biker for that matter, especially after being raped by one of the Devil's Rangers three years before. When she learns that her life is in imminent danger, however, she reluctantly agrees and finds herself in the care of a man who makes her tremble in more ways than one.

Night nurse Andi Ngo is back to her mundanely real life - finding her stupid brother who went on the lam the moment she bailed him from jail. But she can’t forget her date with the Damian Blackwood, not because he’s cut like her hottest dream, not because he’s a billionaire, and not even because he’s secretly a dragon. For just a few delicious moments, Damian didn’t just make her feel like she mattered, like he actually cared, like she could be his.

Olivia is beautiful but inexperienced, with only one sexual encounter under her belt, and that one was disappointing and unsatisfying. When she realizes the attractive student professor is coming on to her, she wonders if sex can be more than what it's been for her. Oh boy, is it! In the professor's office, she'll have her very first orgasm in a scorching teacher/student sex encounter complete with rough sex, deep throat, and semen swallowing!

When I charged up those courthouse steps to stop Sera's wedding, I didn't exactly have a plan. But there was no way I was letting my best friend's little sister marry some no-good tool who didn't deserve her. Let's just say things got out of control. Fast. Now, the wedding is off. And Sera is crushed. And I'm just trying to be a good friend. "Come stay at my place until you're back on your feet." "Have some tequila; it'll ease the pain." And "What're a few much-needed orgasms between friends?"

I prefer to thrive on the chaotic energy that thrums through my veins. The pure adrenaline rush I get when things excite me. And what excites me now is my new boss, Devlin.

For 21-year-old Aleena Davison, it was a life-long dream coming true when she said goodbye to her dreary small-town life in Iowa and moved to Manhattan. However, it didn't take long for her dream to turn into a nightmare. Everything from the roommate from hell to her asshole of a boss, contributed to her pain and she'd just about given up. That was...until she ran into devilish handsome, Dominic Snow.

I always knew getting involved with a billionaire dragon-shifter would eventually involve broken hearts. I just didn’t know that I would be the one doing the breaking. My family’s secrets are devastating, dangerous—especially for a dragon. To keep him safe, I have to destroy us, but that will destroy me. I don’t want him to save me. I can’t have him save me. But he will save me. Because that’s who he is. My dragon mate.

Rhaim produced a key from somewhere upon his person. “The collar has a lock.” He tossed it out onto the table. “If I cannot solve the Deathless, I will become your loyal servant, until the end of my time.” I was suddenly in danger of fainting. Rhaim had just as much as admitted he didn’t have an answer yet, and the price he would pay for failure was too great for me to bear.

I’ve never been someone’s fake girlfriend before. I only agreed because Landon offered me an interview at my dream job. But then I put my foot in my mouth and turned this fake relationship into a week-long affair. Which means going on the family honeymoon… to Jamaica. Making matters worse, I kind of have a history with Theo the best man. As in, we totally hooked up right before all of this. Avoiding his knowing smiles all week isn’t going to be easy.