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These former military heroes will grab you by the heart and never let go. In the conclusion to the series you’ll get overprotective boyfriends, a girl tribe, PTSD, friends with benefits, a serial killer, a computer hacker, amnesia, secrets, stalkers, action and adventure, strong heroines, heroines in peril, kidnappings, protective heroes, forced marriage, happily ever afters galore, and just enough spice to make you sigh with satisfaction in the epic conclusion to The Refuge series.

When an EMP wipes out the power grid, Caroline Thompson is alone on the family ranch while her husband, Luke, and their son are stranded in Fort Worth as chaos erupts. With no power, no law, and danger at every turn, Caroline must fight her way into the collapsing city to find them. But bringing her family back together is only the beginning. Looters are closing in, determined to take everything Caroline has fought to protect as their ranch turns into a battleground for survival.

Deserving Alaska, Deserving Henley, Deserving Reese, and Deserving Cora will give you hours of excitement and action and you’ll find yourself listening late into the night to find out what happens next. These former military heroes and the strong women they fall for will have you wanting to book a stay at The Refuge, in Northern New Mexico, to experience all the characters for yourself.

They laughed her off the G20 stage. Hours later, the flare she predicted killed every light on Earth. Now the scientist nobody believed must cross 2,000 miles of collapsing country to reach her brother, because being right was the easy part. Surviving it won’t be.

Having a crush on one of your brother’s friends is so cliché. But Reese Woodall isn’t too worried...it’s not as if she’d ever have a chance with the former Delta Force operative. For one thing, he lives in New Mexico, and she’s in Missouri. For another, since Woody and his team chaptered out of the Army several years ago, she hasn’t seen Gus even once. She’s free to lust after him from afar...but with her brother currently missing, Reese has far more important things to worry about.

Nur and Abid relearn to love after they escape from war. Marie, who keeps the women of the village from giving birth to children borne of war, finds herself in a situation she hasn't faced before. In a London park, an ageing MI-6 official discovers that the woman he meets every day may not be...

In modern-day Earth, Yoojin Kim thinks she is just a normal Korean-American woman—until her dormant supernatural abilities suddenly ignite. Her awakening sends a power signature straight into the deep recesses of space. Believing she is an entity without feelings, a law enforcement faction known as Caesar deploys their elite Orion Team to hunt her down. But when the Orions corner their target, they don't find a monster. Instead, they discover a staggering secret about Yoojin that turns the hunters into the hunted.

Four years alone in the Oregon wilderness cured Ethan Reed of a lot of things. Corporate burnout. Panic attacks. Any expectation that life would ever surprise him again. Then a wounded elf collapsed in his yard during a blizzard. Lyra is a silver-haired ranger fleeing hunters who've been capturing her kind. Mara is a born werewolf with amber eyes and a tactical mind sharper than her fangs. Nerissa is an ancient naiad who moves through water like it's an extension of her soul. None of them should exist. All of them need his help.

Behrouz Boochani's award-winning prison memoir, No Friend But the Mountains, held a mirror to our national conscience and proved art's potential to force a moral reckoning. Now, in this haunting and lyrical collection, Boochani turns his poetic powers to the emotional truth of fiction...

A quiet coastal inn waits at the edge of the dunes—its corridors warmed by lamplight, its rooms shaped by sea breeze and memory. In this gentle, atmospheric tale from the Before Your Dream series, a traveller steps into a sanctuary woven from soft textures, amber light, and the distant hush of the tide. Here, time moves slowly, and every object—an open ledger, a vase of daisies, a row of hanging keys—carries the whisper of lives passing quietly through.

He is the only thing standing between her and a speeding bullet. Lila Morgan is excited for her residency at Brooklyn United hospital. The straight path she set out on to become a doctor takes an unexpected turn when her father, Senator Wesley Morgan, starts receiving death threats. Concerned for his only daughter’s safety, the Senator employs the bodyguards at Redmond Guardian Service who dispatch their newest member, Sawyer Youngblood, to protect Lila in this time of political turmoil.

Es gibt nur noch wenige wie mich. Ich, ein Überlebender der Apokalypse. Deutschland ist weitestgehend entvölkert. Es ist jetzt IHR Reich. Wer sich nicht vorbereitet hat, stirbt. Oder, noch schlimmer: wird einer von IHNEN. Dieses Buch handelt von meiner Geschichte, meinem Kampf und meiner Strategie, keiner von IHNEN zu werden. Bis jetzt hatte ich Glück, doch ich habe einen langen Weg vor mir.

It was just another call at 3:15am for DC Roger Dickson. Plagued by pills, memories, and loss, we go back to the start of the puzzle - the murder of the angel and Father Millar as DC Dickson tries to piece things together. We then get brought up to date: A visit to the Refuge Asylum to dig a little deeper into Refuge's mysteries.

A keen crossword puzzler is puzzled even more by disturbing news about the crossword's creator. A tale for the armchair sleuth and anyone who is following the goings-on in the strange little town of Refuge.

Joe Dolan wakes with a 'headful of hornets', a warning that today's going to bring something bad. He attends the funeral of an innocent - an Angel - and tries to work out if his wife has been kidnapped. Father Millar makes an appearance, we step inside the Blue Frog Tavern, and we meet Joe's brother Frank, as well as an artist and other notable residents of Refuge.

A private investigator, a beautiful dame, and a missing boy. But Mickey's having trouble figuring out what's real and what's not as he tries to get to grips with the people and places of Refuge.

Gerald is his Mother's precious one, but his father doesn't share her opinion and neither do his school friends. He is both pampered and bullied until he discovers a unique telepathic skill. Aged seven, he wonders, what if everyone were a house, and what type of house would they be? These two moments eventually come together in adulthood, with frightening consequences....