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Manhattan socialite Isabella "Izzy" Lewis is in desperate need of a fresh start. Ending up on the wrong side of a nasty divorce, jobless, and pretty much homeless, she’s hit rock bottom. So when the father she never knew asks her to visit him in Iowa, she figures she has nothing more to lose - until she arrives at his home and promptly stumbles (literally) over a dead body. Now her missing father is murder suspect number one, and Izzy's in the crosshairs of the local sheriff who’s convinced she’s somehow involved.

Fort Gifford, a reconstructed fort from the Revolutionary War, draws people in every year for the holiday celebration. Mauve loves volunteering at Fort Gifford, and the holiday celebration is her favorite time of the year. This year, however, might be the last. Can Mauve save the place she calls home? Hiram likes reality TV more than he does history. Fort Gifford is one of the last places he wants to visit, but it might be the place that finally brings him happiness and true love.

Since ancient times, the angelic Nephilim have protected the children of men. These chaste, eternal warriors stand between humanity and the Succubae, who drain men of their will through seduction. When the angel Lucien encounters the succubus Sarahi, she lifts her face towards the light and discovers something she never dreamed she would find: Love. But an ancient prophecy foreshadows their love, as the long-foretold war between angels and demons threatens to break over the land.

When a teenage girl goes missing in Arizona, retired NYPD officer Jamie Butler is frantic to find her. Haunted by the brutal murder of her own daughter, Jamie is convinced that this girl has been abducted in the same way. There are inexplicable similarities to her own daughter’s abduction. Connections that seem impossible. Because her daughter’s killer is long-dead. But as her search for the missing teen intensifies, new evidence comes to light. Evidence that implicates Jamie herself.

One fake boyfriend, one family to impress, and five nights in paradise. Is it a recipe for disaster...or true love Next to her perfect older sister, 28-year-old Emma feels like a failure. Not only does her sister radiate elegance and spend her time saving the planet, but she just announced she’s pregnant - much to their parents’ delight. Who can compete with a sibling who’s growing a human being? Giving into their longings is blissful at first...and then it isn’t.

You can’t delete the past. You can’t avoid it, either. If you do, eventually, it will slap you right across the face. Clara’s been avoiding her past for years, but when it’s exposed, what will she do? More than that, how can she keep the people she loves safe from scandal? Will she sacrifice her own happiness to keep everyone’s history buried? And, will Andrew let her give him up?

Ava Cortez has always felt adrift in the world. As the only daughter of a flower child, she’d spent her entire childhood drifting from town to town, dreaming of a normal life, a home to call her own, and a place to belong. When her mother passes away, Ava is shocked to discover she has inherited an old, rambling Victorian house situated on the small island of Midnight, off the coast of Maine. The place where her mother was born.

Your Soul-Figure Year provides timeless wisdom and guided action steps to create and live a significant and satisfying life through genuine connection to one's core values and truest vision of success. This guide supports the listener to come into greater communion with themselves and understand the work required to align themselves with and experience what they truly, deeply want for themselves and the world beyond the empty promises of the American dream.

Doesn’t everyone deserve a second chance? Poinsettia Collins hates Christmas. Tia’s lived with that awful name for her whole life, so it was just her luck that her college girlfriend would cheat on her on Christmas Eve. Twenty years later, when Tia unexpectedly inherits a distant relative’s Christmas tree farm, she thinks fate couldn’t be laughing any harder.... Then the woman who broke her heart shows up on the farm’s doorstep with a half-frozen kitten and nowhere to go for the holidays.

I knew the moment I saw her bent over the hood of her car on the side of the road that Layna was trouble. It looked like the opening scene from a porno. A shapely blonde in a short skirt waiting for me to tow her sports car out of a ditch and dirty up that sweet, pure body with my filthy mechanic hands. I could hear the bow-chicka-bow-wow soundtrack in my head. Then, she opened her sassy mouth, and everything about my reclusive, sensible, quiet life changed because Layna is not reclusive, sensible, or quiet.

Being a mom isn’t easy. But keeping up with time? Time is fleeting and unforgiving. The clock keeps ticking. It waits for no one. Yet, managing the present is much easier than you think once you know the right tips and tricks. Time management is easily one of the most valued skills in the modern day. Thus, research has made the practice so simple that, with a bit of determination, even a grandma could learn to get out of old habits and better manage her time.

Dragon chieftain Arik and human princess Ophelia are fated mates. When humans begin slaughtering Arik’s kind to harvest magic, his drive for vengeance eclipses the power of matehood bonds. Can Ophelia reach Arik before his kind incinerates her people? Can Arik learn to trust the mating bond, before he extinguishes half his own soul?

In an America controlled by wizards and 100 years behind on women's rights, Beatrix Harper counts herself among the resistance - the Women's League for the Prohibition of Magic. Then Peter Blackwell, the only wizard her town has ever produced, unexpectedly returns home and presses her into service as his assistant.

I was free for exactly five days. I found my chance and I ran. Crossed oceans. Changed names. Then Ruslan Dragunov found me. I thought he'd kill me. Instead, he forced a ring onto my finger and a contract onto my soul. He's as unpredictable as hell. His wife. His prisoner. His weapon. And now, we're going back to Vegas. To retrieve Elana. The child I left with my sister—the child he knows is Gavriil Mirochin's.

It all started with a fake baby bump. Then, I really got knocked up. Now, I've been stolen by Russian Special Forces. This wasn't supposed to happen. I had my escape planned. One last time letting him tie me up, strip me down, and own me completely. Then? I was betrayed—by my own damn hormonal body. One second, I was drunk on pleasure. The next? A sharp nip to my overly sensitive nipple made me scream—not in bliss like usual, but in agonizing pain.

A healer travels to a healer's gathering for the Black Moon Samhain and runs into old friends. In the shadow realm, amidst masks and veils, she reunites with a long-lost love, faces evil in the guise of friendship, and discovers the depths of her own power as she dances on the veil between this world and the next.

A spice merchant is separated from her husband during times of illness. Missing him, she blends a scented balm to welcome him home for the winter solstice. When she's drawn to the call of the open road, she sets off to deliver it to him in person. Miles away, a glass blower misses his wife. Worried she'll succumb to her traveling spirit, he creates a seductive gift sure to keep her by his side. If he can get home in time. The Gift of the Magi meets Chocolat in this spicy solstice tale.

Moving back to London after a breakup, Clara has a new hair colour, a new apartment, and a new job. It’s the job she’s always dreamed of. Except, she never dreamed that she’d have to work with him! Andrew and Clara have history. He’s both the first boy she ever liked and the first boy she ever hated. Their reconnection is anything but easy. The banter is quick witted, unprofessional, and downright naughty....

It started as a stupid, desperate plan. Fake the baby bump. Claim my sister's secret love child as mine. Lie to everyone, including the most dangerous man in Vegas. Then my sister disappeared. Her forbidden lover and his wife got blown to bits in a car bomb. And I bankrupted myself trying to find her. That's when he found me.

Virginia is a journalist who loves her life in New York. So, when an assignment takes her to the Alaskan wilderness, she's horrified. Soon, she'll not only be encountering dangerous animals in the wilderness, but also the secretive - yet extremely attractive - Colin, who protects his beloved nature fiercely and does not tolerate strangers. Over time, Virginia starts to see a softer side emerge from behind Colin's aloof exterior. But at the same time, her suspicions grow that Colin is not the man he claims to be.