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I hate being invisible…No matter where I go or who I see, everyone always seems to overlook me. It's like I'm cursed. The only one who has ever believed in me is my boss. "Be more confident," she says. "Be more sure of yourself," she says. "Stay away from that man," she says. I really don't think I can do that.

Victor was always so sweet and charming. Then the job and alcohol got to him. After that, things have all gone downhill from there. Now, I'm hiding in the hospital, staying as far away as possible from him. Stephanie answered when I called, and she and her Daddy, Xavier, are coming to save me. They didn't tell me his brother was coming, though.

Heather Whitley may be here for her brother's wedding, but we have our own eight-year love affair to take care of. Now that she's made it to Coral Bay, and we're on my home turf, it's time I tell her how I feel. She's the curvy girl of my dreams, and it's time we stop dancing around the truth: I'm in love with this woman, and I'm going to make her mine, even if she is my best friend's little sister. Getting down and dirty might have been enough for the last eight years, but it's time to stop chasing the girl of my dreams and settle down with her.

Ciara Ackerton might have come here to renovate her aunt's home and put it on the market, but I have other plans in mind. She is no Coral Bay tourist, but that doesn't mean I can't introduce her to tourist hotspot: the Bikini Martini. When she tells me she's never been had, her confession nearly knocks me off my feet. A curvy city girl like her? I almost can't believe it. But I'm here to do her renovations, not to do her. Unless the hot, sultry, summer nights have something else in mind....

Things have been messy every since Ryan and I go together. Martin and Jack hate him for stealing me from Martin, and everyone hates me. However, as long as I have Ryan, I will take what the world gives me. But, why is Ryan acting strange? He’s always treating being with me like a chore, and he rarely touches me. When we are together, he becomes selfish and distant. I want to know what’s wrong with him. I’ll have to ask the one person who doesn’t seem to hate me....

Covering life's pain with a smile, and living each day that was not pleasing to God - it was all that Portia knew. What would one expect? With no guidance or foundation on the steps of being a godly woman, it is no surprise that each day took a downward spiral. Even though life is filled with trails, tests, and making numerous mistakes, Portia did find peace once she allowed God to enter in her life as an adult, showing her how to forgive those experiences from childhood.

Abigail James has worked hard to get to where she is: a stylist at a Hollywood film production. But that means she must uproot her life and start anew in a completely different place! It’s only by chance that she runs into single father Danny, but that chance meeting changes her life completely! Billionaire producer Daniel Cliff is media-shy and reclusive and wants to keep it that way. He sees the beautiful plus-size Abby as a chance to start anew with his son. But fate has more in store for Abby and Danny than that.

What do you do when your husband of 10 years is cheating on you and you decide - well...he is not getting half! You bump him off, of course! Told from two different perspectives, the wife’s and the husband’s, Virtuous Woman vs. Cheating Man is a black-humor romp that takes you into the depths of the twisted id, inside the human heart, and causes you to emerge - a little dazed and confused, but still hopeful: that in all this craziness in this world, there might still be - true love.

No one is more productive at work than Mercy, who is blessed with lust and avarice - and both sins leave her with too much energy! For a week, Mercy has not slept a wink, opting to, instead, put in overtime at work, clean her house every day, and probably train for a marathon, too. It's gotten to the point where her coworkers are noticing her for all the wrong reasons.

This book captivates readers by providing them with a visual or mental movie of the difficult voyages many African leaders and members of the Diaspora, such as African-Americans undertook, for the well being of mankind. It’s exhilarating and empowering because it allows readers to see themselves inside of those who have laid the solid foundation for their future successes. It promotes cultural awareness because it features legendary achievers whose exemplary characteristics influenced our history.

Since her visit from the first of the Seven Sinners, Mercy Devereux has been living a life of sin. At first, she enjoyed the renewed desires, but now they're starting to control her existence! How is Mercy supposed to live a life of insatiable sin without trading one addiction for another? The answer comes in the form of Avarice, the greedy goddess Mercy catches ransacking her house one night.

Life has not been kind to Mercy: her girlfriend is gone, she's unappreciated in her corporate job, and depression has always haunted her. That's how she came to stand on the bridge where she meets Acedia, the deity who oversees the Seven Sinners, bringers of peace and carnal healing. Now Mercy must embark on a journey to reclaim the sinful delights in life, beginning with Lust, the crimson-colored deity who hopes to reawaken more than just a woman's heart.

I’ve made allies in prison. I know the truth about my fire dragon Fergus. All of us have been wronged in whatever this plot was that they’ve framed me for. I haven’t forgiven Rathmore for what he did to Roman. My kill list is growing, but luckily, I’ve made friends with a few psychos in prison. I’ve got a wolf, a demon, a vampire, and Fergus perfectly happy to help me complete my list and kill anyone who gets in my way.

Lizbeth is in trouble. Damaris knows she’s discovered his plot to overthrow his brother Alto, the current head of the vampire family, and take his place. To keep her quiet and eliminate the threat, she poses, he’s set her up and framed her for murder. Fleeing for her immortal life, she knows that every vampire blood-related to Alto is sacred and plotting against anyone who has consequences. Luckily, someone in the shifter community offers her shelter and to introduce her to someone who can help.

Jaloon is a 14-fingered alien woman on a colonized planet in the far-off Andromeda galaxy. It is a pipeline between alien cultures she can barely comprehend, and she is simply a lowly cog in an interstellar alliance between races at war with an unstoppable enemy. Jaloon must contend with assassins, violent galactic criminal organizations, and her own malicious family, while trying to pay off a massive debt to a faceless mega corporation.

Life taught Emelise that you cannot trust a man to be there when you need him. After losing her mother, Emelise moves to New Orleans with high hopes. Just when she thinks are going smoothly, fate steps in and her world is turned upside down. Caine became Alpha of the Black Water Pard at the age of 22. After a failed relationship with a human, he'd resigned himself to the life of a bachelor. Little did he know his world was going to be rocked by a woman who proved that dynamite comes in small packages.

"Pick a mate or I'll do it for you." Unwilling to sacrifice her dreams of loving the man she commits her life to, Lily makes a drastic decision and disappears into the night. For six years, her life was untouched by her old pack, but all of that changed when he walked into Gathering Grounds, the coffee book shop she worked at.

He has no problem leading women on just to get information. He has just been asked to spy on the Royal family of Belgium to uncover an assassination plot. Their number one suspect, the daughter of the Prime Minister, who, like him, finished university top of her class, speaks nine languages, and is a black belt. Derek’s boss warns him that the last agent on the case quit because she was impossible to read. Always up for a challenge, he is determined to find her vulnerabilities and know her better than she knows herself.

Jilted by her mail order fiancé, Maybelle Lewis is stranded at a Dodge City saloon counter in the company of handsome, alas, pestering drunk. When the marshal determines Maybelle’s would-be husband is a work of fiction, she dives into the bottle with the handsome drunkard and wakes up married after all. In the sober light of day, Maybelle and Rafe McElroy brainstorm ways to un-jam their fix, but addictive heat and unbridled passion have a few ideas of their own.

Sweet, beautiful mail order bride Merla flees one horrible life in Wichita, only to find herself in another horrible one in Dodge. Her husband-to-be is not the kind loving man his letters portrayed him to be. But Merla’s rescuer John “Mac” McElroy is more handsome than handsome should be. When he doesn’t like to see a beautiful woman abused, he and his three brothers take her home to his mother.