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My name is Skye Summers. I'm a hairstylist and I can't stop fantasizing about killing my clients. Not all of them, of course. I only want to kill the ones who irritate me, which, if I'm being honest, is most of them. My occasional fantasies have turned into chronic daydreams. They're bloody and vivid, like watching a slice-and-dice movie on IMAX. I also want to kill my husband's ex-girlfriend. She's not a client but she tops my list.

The true story of a young woman who funded herself through college in the States by working as a dominatrix - a sassy, graphic, and extraordinary memoir.

Imagine this: You're in bed with the man of your dreams. He's doing all the naughty things that make your toes curl and your heart pound. The moment he slides inside you is something you have dreamed of for many months. But when you look up into those gorgeous eyes, he seems a little - distracted? Distant? His body is there but his mind is--elsewhere? How can that be? Isn't he just as into this amazing lovemaking as you are? Here's the truth: Yes, he's into it. But he's also thinking about something else!

According to USA Today, best-selling author Lisa Wingate “dishes up fun and charm” with her touching romance novels. In Texas Cooking, Wingate tells the story of Colleen Collins, a big city reporter who thinks she’s seen and heard it all until she visits the tiny town of San Saline. Listeners from all walks of life will relish this tale of passion, new beginnings, and the comfortsof good food and good conversation.

The women in When the Messenger Is Hot are fierce and kind, damaged and optimistic. They are recovering from loss or addiction or betrayal; they are on the fringes of reality or sanity or a "conventional" life. From a woman who decides to live on the patio rooftop of her friend's apartment building, to the best-selling memoir writer who finds her identity overtaken by the actress cast in the movie version, to the daughter convinced her dead mother is in fact simply stuck at a North Dakota bus depot, their experiences of loss and love are both uniquely theirs and universal.

His perfect match - or the woman destined to steal his soul? Graelen Scott has lived his entire life under the shadow of a prophecy - a curse that gave him unlimited power guaranteed to seduce him to an early grave. When a Tarot historian shows up with stolen family cards and a theory of balance, all hell breaks loose. But his insatiable lust for the blue-eyed beauty clouds his judgment, making it difficult for him to separate fact from fiction.

Jane is excited to get birth control and lose her virginity to her boyfriend, Zach. She visits the OB/GYN doctor, unaware that she has made an appointment with her boyfriend's father. Skeptical of her virginity, the doctor insists on various lewd tests to prove her innocence and enlists a male nurse's help to teach her how to pleasure a man.

Under-appreciated until now, The Lost Girl is perhaps D.H. Lawrence's most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary, love story. This captivating novel charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives, one mired in dreary, industrial England and a life of convention, the other set in the vibrant Italian landscape holding the promise of sensual liberation.

Jenny is a recent college grad who one night drunkenly applies for a job she is not qualified for with a fabricated resume. When she gets the job, she decides to see if she can play it off and, due to a mistaken identity, finds herself in the CEO's office. Hamilton Verona is rich and handsome and is not looking for any trouble but when Jenny walks into his office, he finds himself propositioning her for a position that could change her life. A position that could would find her doing things she had never ever dreamed of.

Cash Scott has drifted for years, abusing his magick and playing the bad boy. Now as his time as a free witch is coming to an end, he plans a last ditch effort to save his brothers. What he finds instead is himself on a collision course with Selene, a hot little firestarter with a death wish, unable to control her power or escape her past. The perfect woman. Selene's accidental contact with a dark force she can't define, throws her into a situation unlike any she has seen before. But the last thing she needs right now is an all-consuming attraction to a man she can't trust.

Three Mormon high school friends, perky Nikki, studious Alicia, and football player Sam, make a pact of the Pygmalion style—they decide to help the “untapped” students at their school. Their plan is to transform three classmates and take them to the prom. But the experiment doesn’t go exactly as planned. They slowly begin to realize that there is more to most people than meets the eye.

Scandalized professor Maggie Cisco returns to her hometown to lick her wounds and reconsider her future. Her years of personal and professional research into the BDSM lifestyle has landed her in jail, in divorce court and now in the headlines of more newspapers than she cares to count. The worst of all? The entire debacle is being blamed on a bestselling book she hasn't even read!

The author of a Book Sense 76 pick and Los Angeles Times Best Book, Nina Revoyr is a writer of rare voice and distinct talent. Wingshooters is the tale of an isolated, all-white community torn apart by prejudice after the arrival of a half-Japanese girl and a young black couple.

I haven't seen Stanley Shelton since the flamingo keychain with the campervan key dangled from his fingertips as he ripped the Maserati keys out of my grip after my now-dead ex-husband left me broke and penniless, until now. Stanley claims the Diamond Swamp Mob is after him and that he needs my help. Something about my past, but I didn't take him too seriously until someone was murdered in Stanley's rented room at the Milkery. The person just so happened to have a tattoo I've seen before.

Von zahlreichen Messerstichen zerfetzt und in Blut getränkt: So findet die Polizei einen auf grausame Weise getöteten Mann vor. Der frischgebackene Leiter der Mordkommission Wolfgang Stöhrl erkennt sofort, dass dieser das Opfer ungezügelter Raserei wurde. Zunächst vermutet er eine Beziehungstat, doch als ein weiterer Mord geschieht, werden die Ermittlungen kompliziert. Beide Tote nutzten Dating-Plattformen, um nach unverbindlicher Lustbefriedigung mit einem speziellen Kick zu suchen. Trotzdem glaubt Stöhrl weiterhin an seine ursprüngliche Fährte.

Den bästsäljande spänningsförfattaren Charlie Donlea är tillbaka med en otroligt skickligt skriven thriller som kommer att hålla läsaren i sitt grepp från första till sista sidan. Alex Armstrong har ändrat hela sin identitet – sitt namn, sitt utseende och sin bakgrund. Hon är inte längre den skräckslagna tonåring som tv-tittarna såg föras ut i handbojor från sitt hem den natt då hennes familj brutalt mördades. Flickan, Alexandra Quinlan, som i media kallades Tomma ögon, greps för morden men lyckades rentvå sitt namn och vittnade senare i det mycket uppmärksammade förtalsmålet som fängslade en hel nation.

Ein Roadtrip mit dem Fahrrad. Auf der Flucht vor dem letzten Traum. Mit Albträumen im Gepäck. Menschen wie verblichene Polaroid-Fotos säumen den Weg durch eine sterbende Gesellschaft. Die letzten Überlebenden sind rastlos, schlaflos und erzählen ihre Geschichten.

Spending five months eating trail dust wasn't Leo Spencer's first choice. Or his second. He's not one to run away, but some situations can't be fixed and his family—two brothers and a sister—needs to start over. Which is how he finds himself on a westbound wagon train. Evangeline has a secret, one that has sent her on a journey across the plains on the Oregon Trail. When her father is badly hurt and she needs help, Leo is there. A deal is struck, and the two unlikely friends form an alliance . . . that leads to more.

In Sinful geht ein Betrüger um, der alleinstehende Frauen mit einer gefälschten Social-Media-Identität um ihr Geld bringt. Da er ziemlich gut über seine Opfer Bescheid zu wissen scheint, glauben Fortune, Ida Belle und Gertie, dass der Liebesschwindler entweder in Sinful lebt oder auf andere Weise eng mit der Stadt verbunden ist. Doch aus Betrug wird Mord, als eine Frau tot aufgefunden wird. Hat sie etwa die wahre Identität des Hochstaplers herausgefunden? Auch wenn Deputy Carter LeBlanc mit vollem Einsatz an diesem Fall arbeitet – um einen Frauenmörder zu entlarven, braucht es manchmal eine Frau. Oder auch drei...

Glühwein, Tannenbaum und Lichterglanz – bei Sofia, frisch getrennt und beruflich versetzt, will so gar keine Besinnlichkeit aufkommen. Trotzdem muss sie den diesjährigen Weihnachtsmarkt der barocken Kleinstadt Lindach organisieren. Unterstützung kommt glücklicherweise von einer Event-Agentur. Denn nicht nur der Bürgermeister mit seinen irrsinnigen Vorstellungen wird für Sofia zum Hindernis. Ihre größte Herausforderung ist allerdings die zielstrebige Agenturchefin Edith, die Sofias Gefühle plötzlich Karussell fahren lässt.