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Taylor was on his way to big things. He was the star quarterback in college at Michigan State, and as his last football season was tapering off, the offers were starting to stream in for him to play professionally in the year to come. Everything in his life was starting to fall into place, or at least that was how it appeared. In reality, Taylor felt empty. Taylor had it all, but there was something missing. On his quest to find out what that missing piece was, he found himself going down a dark path that he would never have imagined.

Our heroine Freya finds herself plagued at a young age by encounters with the Void. Struggling to make sense of these leads her into all kinds of adventures. She seemingly tumbles haphazardly into a Cuban romance, translating at an ayahuasca retreat in the depths of the Scottish countryside, an angelic manifestation, nodal activation in Cusco, Peru and, not least, having to step in to help resolve a seemingly intractable family problem. Is all this quite random or is there a guiding force at work which has had her back all along?

E.M. Peck is a scientist and writer, author of the SciFi Thriller SCION and the horror anthology REDFALL. This podcast is dedicated to finding ways to break down mental barriers so you can unleash creativity in your own life and why that is so vital for who we are as people.

Young Rhen has had to rely on herself and no one else for years in order to survive. She's content to nurse her dying mother in their barren cottage for the rest of her life. But when she is kidnapped to be sold into slavery she suddenly finds herself in the Feyrie realm filled with magickal, dangerous creatures. Prince Baz of the Dullihan Fae will do anything for his kingdom and for the throne. Including fighting his wild and irrational twin brother for the young human's heart, which unbeknownst to her is prophesied to be the key to the future of the fey kingdom.

"Congratulations! You are the last survivor of the Hell Games. You have gained back your freedom." Huh? One moment I was running from demons and other competitors trying to do me in. The next, I was thrown back into yet another realm. Before me, some Princess started explaining that she had asked the gods for champions to help save her world in these dire times… and I was one of the chosen heroes. Yeah, right! I had been in Hell long enough to know I shouldn't trust my senses when it all seemed too good to be true.

Every time Smokey stares at the President patch on his cut, he feels like an imposter. After all, that was not the life he was supposed to lead. In his former club, he did what they asked, when they asked, and that was enough for him. But 30 years later and the fate of the Broken Chains resting on his shoulders, all eyes were on him.

The last person Vale Montressor Aubrey, the Marquess of Dunnesford, expects to see walking into Madam Botreaux's Cavern of Pleasures is his wife. Fortunately, she does not recognize him behind his mask for he has no intention of revealing his secret life as a Dom to his new bride.

Sexual dysfunction. The words make Sibyll cringe, but after one too many failed relationships, she has to face reality. Her O-button is broken big time. Sick of sitting on the sexual sidelines, she books a week at Boot Knockers Ranch. If a passel of rugged cowboys vying to bring her bliss can't get her off, nothing will. Hugh had planned to sit out this week's rotation of sexual therapy, but when he spots sultry Sibyll, he pulls rank.

Hawke doesn’t talk about his past—and it’s not because he has a stutter that rarely lets him speak more than three words at a time. The shadows of what was haunt his every waking hour, but the Broken Chains MC have been a sanctuary he never expected. And Hawke is the sort of man who knows better than to cross lines, especially when it comes to the safety of his brothers. But when Jax, the VP of the Cobras, looks at him like he’s a whole man instead of shattered pieces of the person he was before he left his home behind, he can’t help but want to be just a little bit wicked.

A mass-shooter rages through Chicago in the days after Christmas. Brutal. Efficient. He etches a path of destruction through the city. Shooting up the mall. Opening fire in traffic. Rampaging through a movie theater. That's just his opening act. FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to the windy city to investigate and finds himself swept up in a frenzied manhunt.

He’s back. The man who bought, ravaged and tormented me. I can’t fall for him again. He’s wrong for me in so many ways. His last act of punishment cost me my job, and I don’t know that I can forgive him. And yet his touch leaves me...devastated. Billionaire Benjamin Lee is back. This time to both punish and protect the reporter who might have cost his uncle the mayoral election. An old enemy is out to get her, and Ben never did get the full week with her that he had paid for. Can he resist claiming her one last time?

Billionaire Benjamin Lee wants the truth from undercover reporter Kimani Taylor about her participation in the Scarlet Auction and her interest in his family. He’ll get answers, even if he has to torment her to get them....

An Outlaw biker, born to protect, trained to kill. All I want is my freedom from the past, but the Sins of Wrath Motorcycle Club doesn't forget or let go. Then, I met her, and the world turned upside down. I just didn’t know how obsessed I was until she disappeared.

For years the Earl of Blackbourne has suffered a thirst for blood and a desire for flesh. His victims have been many. Condemned alongside him is his kindhearted half-brother. But hope arrives in the form of a beautiful debutante, whose servants could satiate his appetites while he attempts to undo the curse. An oppressed indentured servant, Daliyah yearns only for her freedom. When she finds herself trapped at Castle Blackbourne, it's not just her freedom that's in peril. If she succumbs to the ravenous fangs of the Earl, her body will be his to take and her life his to drain.

Invite joy and healing into your life using your own magic with this self-help guide from the author of Witchcraft Therapy, Mandi Em. Witchcraft is a practice where everyone can self-soothe and find their alignment again through performance, play, following impulses, and inviting joy into their...

In this searching tragicomedy of manners, personalities, and world views, E.M. Forster explores the "idea of England" he would later develop in Howards End. Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtually made for a life at Cambridge, where he can subsist on a regimen of biscuits and philosophical debate.

To save his estate, Montague Edwards, a known rake, agrees to the Earl of Frotham's proposition. The earl intends his son, the Viscount Tremayne, to marry well, but the viscount has fallen instead for the scandalous Lady Debarlow. To Abigail Debarlow, marrying the young viscount is a means to avenging her mother's death. Her plans to elope with the viscount, however, are upended by the handsome Montague Edwards. An accomplished seductress herself, she nonetheless finds herself at risk of succumbing to his advances.

Master Gallant and Mistress Scarlet both claim the rights to the lovely new submissive at Madame Devereaux's hotel of illicit and taboo pleasures. But for Master Gallant, the woman he truly wants and desires is...Mistress Scarlet. Mistress Scarlet, or Miss Margaret as she was once known, has not submitted to a man in years. And she does not appreciate the upstart Gallant infringing upon her territory.

"Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. He's mysterious and terrible. He's got a country behind him that's...

Every important thing in Dmitri Williams’ life has come and gone along the narrow roads and tall mountain peaks of Cherry Creek. Dmitri wants love, but he’s not quite sure he’ll ever find it. His sexuality is confusing on a good day, and the one person he wants is the one friend who can never know how he feels. Raphael Meyer is older, charming, and better looking than Dmitri will ever deserve - and somehow, he thinks Dmitri is worth his time.