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No playing with the players! For Amanda Wright - new reporter on the pro baseball block - this rule is harder to keep than she had thought. Especially with the team's star pitcher, gorgeous Brad Rogers, sending signals her libido can't possibly miss. How can she indulge her craving for Brad and still prove she can play with the big-league journalists? From their first illicit kiss, their private ball games lead to delicious pleasure. Then she discovers Brad is hiding a big secret that could make her career - or blow his.

Life is hard. Life leaves you beaten, broken...alone. Then one day a stranger touches your hand, and you feel something intense, unforgettable, yet you want to forget. You need to forget. It's safer than believing in things you've decided don't exist. You know all about shattered promises and lost hope. You know them so much better than you know this excited, warm, wonderful feeling, and it scares you. He scares you, but he also makes you feel alive again. He makes you realize you haven't really been living.

Sometimes a girl just has to get stabby . . . Lilah has sworn she's done with that side of her personality. Then again, maybe not.

The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse, adapted for audio, chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson.

"Chris and I have faced our demons and bared our souls to one another in Paris. Now that we are back home in San Francisco, I want to believe that nothing can tear us apart. Not Ava's accusations against me to the police, or Chris's fear that he will destroy me as he feels he did Amber. And not Mark, who was once too intimately a part of our lives, and who I can see crumbling inside out. He believes he is invincible, just as I want to believe Chris and I are invincible. We have to be invincible. We need each other too much for any other ending."

FBI agent Lilah Love leads a complicated life. She's engaged to Kane Mendez, a man most call dangerous, but hey birds of a feather, do flock together. She's dangerous, too, and in ways only Kane understands. As for their happily ever after, well that might have to wait. Right now, an old enemy who should be dead is still living, Junior, her mystery letter writer, is stirring up trouble, and her family is trying to prove they're crazier than her. On top of that she has a new case: a dead woman in a bloody wedding dress.

Sarah is a mortal who hears the voices of spirits. Driven by tragedy, she chases sightings, investigating the supernatural. Called to Nowhere, Texas, she finds not ghosts, but terrible danger...and demons. A soldier in the war between good and evil, Max is one of the oldest demons, stained by centuries of darkness, fighting to keep others safe without hope for himself. Betrayal and loss haunt both of them, keeping them from finding peace. And yet to save an entire town, Max and Sarah must do the impossible: let go of the past, and find a future with each other.

Renegade warrior Damion Browne is a soldier of soldiers, an enforcer of the code of honor. With ruthless precision, he calculates risks as deliberately as he does his lover's satisfaction. Now it's up to him to defeat a new generation of female Super Soldiers, including the one woman perfectly programmed to be his downfall.

Saved by an immortal after an attack by a Beast, Chris Avern is doomed to carry that beast within himself. It taints his soul with a darkness that can only be purged by finding his chosen mate. Now, as a Knight of White, a demon fighter caught up in an ancient war between good and evil, Chris must battle the soulless Darkland Beasts intent on wreaking destruction upon humanity. Sent to save the hometown he left 25 years ago from an onslaught of Beasts, Chris comes to the rescue of ranch owner Alexis Wright. He is drawn to Alexis with a demanding passion that nearly overwhelms him.

A supersoldier created in a government experiment, Sterling Jeter has remarkable powers and has shown himself to be just about indestructible. That is until a beautiful, brilliant scientist he once loved crosses his path again. A woman who can help him save the world from a lethal threat, but will she become his weakness? Will she be the path his enemies have to victory?

With Creed battling the darkness inside him and an injury the only person who can save him is his true mate—Amelia. But their trust is fragile, while their enemies are strong. It's a passionate, intense battle of good and evil, nowhere near over.

Creed. Addie. Pulled together and torn apart by those who want to use Creed as a weapon. Addie is hurt, tormented, eager to protect herself from Creed. But there is a bond between them unbreakable beyond anything known to mankind. Addie is about to find out just how strong that bond truly is, how impossible to break.

That magic diet, detox, flush, or pill that promises a 10-pound weight loss in a week is tempting, isn't it? We know it won't last—and wonder if it works—and yet when you find yourself staring longingly into the refrigerator for comfort or stress relief, start a diet with good intentions but lose focus, reach your goal and then yo-yo back up or gain even more weight, it's not hunger driving you.

Je näher der toughe Anwalt Nick die Künstlerin Faith kennenlernt und sich auf sie einlässt, desto mehr glaubt er, dass sie unschuldig am Mord seines Vaters ist. Doch eine alarmierende Nachricht weckt neue Zweifel in ihm. Als auch seine Geheimnisse drohen, ans Licht zu kommen, spitzt sich die Lage zu. Nicks Verrat droht Faith zu zerstören. Und während die beiden in einem Netz aus Lügen, Leidenschaft und Geheimnissen gefangen sind, ahnen sie nicht, dass sie in tödlicher Gefahr schweben.

Es gibt diese Momente im Leben, die wir nie vergessen. Die sich in unseren Seelen festsetzen. Sie verändern uns, formen uns. Manchmal retten sie uns. Aber sie können auch dunkel und gefährlich sein. Uns verführen. Kontrollieren. Und möglicherweise sogar zerstören. Der Moment, als ich das Weingut betrat und zum ersten Mal in die Augen von Faith Winter sah, war einer dieser Momente. Nick glaubt, dass sein Vater ermordet wurde.

Eine unwiderrufliche Entscheidung. Ein hinterhältiger Betrug. Und eine große Liebe! Grayson Bennett ist Milliardär, Anwalt und bekennender Junggeselle. Aus der kleinen Firma seines Vaters hat er ein Imperium gemacht. Jetzt wird dieses Imperium bedroht. Und nur eine Person kann ihm helfen. Mia Cavanaugh ist Strafverteidigerin, ehemalige Ex-Geliebte von Grayson und fest davon überzeugt, dass er sie verraten hat. Aber sie kennt nicht die ganze Wahrheit.

Wie gefährlich ist es, jemandem vollständig zu vertrauen? Er war meine große Liebe, meine Leidenschaft - der Grund, warum ich atme. Ich vertraute ihm. Aber das Leben lehrte mich, dass ich niemandem vertrauen konnte. Denn er war nicht der Mann, für den er sich ausgab. Er war gefährlich. Alle sagten mir, ich solle fliehen und mich verstecken, also tat ich das. Aber er hat mich gefunden - und diesmal laufe ich nicht weg. Weil er immer noch der Mann ist, der für mich die ganze Welt bedeutet. Und wenn das gefährlich sein soll, will ich das Risiko eingehen.

Cuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia, y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma.

Lilah is back home after two weeks away from the big, bad beast that is New York City, and with Kane by her side. The minute the chopper touches down, her phone rings. It's a local medical examiner who has been stalking her online, but then, she soon learns, so is half the city. Seems an online forum has popped up to follow Lilah, her serial killer mentor, and her drug lord husband. Call Lilah irritated as Kane is no drug lord, despite the cartel's wishes that he follow in his father's footsteps, her mentor is dead, and no one knows but those who buried the body.

Project Red Cord Chronicles is a Podcast dedicated to raise awareness of human trafficking, while sharing the journey of our trauma informed programs and services. We are using it to bring hope, empowerment, and restoration to those whose lives have been ravaged by this crime. This podcast will shine a light on how innovative programs and unique outreach efforts are being used to empower everyday people to create a safe community. Overcoming hopeless situations IS possible. Listeners: Be ready to learn, shed a tear, laugh, be challenged & motivated by to take action, all while you increase ...