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Taita is a humble slave, an expert in art, poetry, medicine and engineering as well as keeping important secrets. He is the most treasured possession of Lord Intef. Yet when Intef's beautiful daughter, Lostris, is married to the Pharaoh, Taita is commanded to follow her and swiftly finds himself deeper than he ever could have imagined in a world of deception and treachery. But outside the palace, the great kingdom of Egypt is divided and in even greater danger. Enemies threaten on all sides, and only Taita holds the power to save them all....

Nach einem folgenschweren Fehler sucht die Hamburger Tierärztin Antonia im australischen Outback einen Neuanfang. Kurzerhand krempelt sie ihre Ärmel hoch und wohnt fortan mit Jack und seiner Schwester Ruby unter einem Dach, betreut ihre Tiere sowie die der umliegenden Farmen. Nach einem verheerenden Feuer liegt Ruby O'Neals Welt in Trümmern. Die Farm ihrer Eltern ist zerstört – durch ein Verbrechen, das ihren Glauben an die Menschheit erschüttert.

Samantha Knight has been stirring up my emotions and testing my self-control—and my sanity—for years. She's my best friend's little sister, the one I shouldn't touch but the one I crave the most. She returns to Rose Haven begging me for a job and storms back into my life. Designated the Hottest Hunky Billionaire, all I care about is my business, until a moody teenage girl shows up at my doorstep claiming that I’m her biological father. Somehow between business and parenting, I must keep my hands the hell off my best friend’s little sister with frowns and grouchy remarks.

Three authors. Two morally grey characters. One deadly world. In the silence of the morgue, she fixes what violence ruins. Bullet wounds disappear beneath careful stitching. Evidence vanishes. Secrets are buried with the dead. Every crew in the city relies on her. All except one. The largest...

1894, Echuca, Victoria: Tess Hawthorn is a woman on the run from her abusive husband. All she has to do is get on the riverboat Victor and she will be free. But with tensions at an all-time high between unionist shearers and Scabs, Tess isn't the only person trying to board a boat under the cover of night. When a brawl erupts between the union and non-union men, Tess is mistaken as a fellow Scab and in the chaos pulled aboard the PS Rodney - the same boat heading up the Darling River that her husband was bound for.

Die majestätische Winterwelt Alaskas, dramatische Rettungsaktionen, eine idyllische Kleinstadt und die ganz große Liebe: Das Letzte, was Erica Sheraton gebrauchen kann, sind freie Tage. Als Ärztin im Alaska General Hospital in Anchorage bleibt ihr kaum Zeit zu schlafen - geschweige denn, sich über ihr verkorkstes Liebesleben Gedanken zu machen. Doch ausgerechnet über Weihnachten wird sie in den Zwangsurlaub geschickt. Bei ihrer besten Freundin, die in dem kleinen Städtchen Wild River ein Outdoor-Unternehmen führt, will sie die Tage mit Skifahren und Schneetouren verbringen.

NIKOLAI: We built this empire with blood and brutality. We don’t answer to anyone. We’re untouchable. Or at least, we were–until someone dug deep enough to find the secrets that could burn it all to the ground. The price of their silence? A marriage that merges their dynasty with ours. I don’t want a wife–especially not Ani Sargsyan, the spoiled mafia princess with a sharp mouth and hatred for everything I am. I’ll do whatever it takes to protect my family and what we’ve built, even if it means putting a ring on her finger… And a leash around her throat. She doesn’t have to love me.

Jackie, an attractive young housewife seeking to revive her sex life with her husband, Jerry, sets up a romantic weekend at an inn in the Pocono Mountains. During that weekend, they both have a series of intense dreams. Jackie’s dream is about her sex life, and Jerry’s three dreams foretell international incidents that impact oil prices and the financial markets. Upon the couple’s return to Princeton, they are shocked when the events in their dreams start to unfold and become reality. The events that follow dramatically change the lives of this couple and their close friends.