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“A living legend."" -- Julia Quinn The newest novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’s compelling Women Who Dare series features a fearless grifter who goes undercover to reclaim the stolen Declaration of Independence. Lying and cheating may be sins to some people, but for...

Sot, rescued as a child from the brutality of Danish slave markets, grows up under the fierce protection of Roar Bjornsson, a famed warrior and trader. Known for her dark skin and amber eyes—marks of a distant land she cannot remember—Sot is both admired and feared, called witch and warrior in equal measure. But beneath her poised exterior, she wrestles with a restless heart and an aching desire for identity. When she leaves the comfort of Roar’s protection to follow the enigmatic Saxon warrior Eadric, Sot plunges into a world fraught with treachery and bloodshed.

O terceiro volume da série Mulheres Pioneiras apresenta uma destemida trapaceira profissional que precisa ajudar as autoridades a recuperar um importante documento histórico desaparecido. Mentir e trapacear podem até ser considerados maus hábitos pela maioria das pessoas, mas para Raven Moreau são um meio de vida. Ela vem de uma longa linhagem de vigaristas e se orgulha muito disso. Até o dia em que é obrigada a trabalhar para o governo.

"You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of that choice." Someone should have told 18-year-old Raven Green that before she made a choice that she would ultimately come to regret. Since she was a young girl, she always knew what she wanted her future to look like. She dreamed of it nightly, so when she's handed her dreams on what she thinks is a silver platter, she makes sure nothing or no one stands in the way of her accomplishing them...even her loving and dating boyfriend of one year, Sameer.

Charlie Mo is a young skirt-chaser that inherited a small fortune from his deceased parents. He relished being a womanizer with an army of Gold-Diggers until he lost everything that was left to him. Being down on his luck, Charlie Mo builds a close bond with his boss and closest friend, Tin Can, that gives him hope he can turn his life around. But for every positive step Charlie Mo makes costs him three steps backwards. It takes getting suckered one last time for Charlie Mo to find real love, real character, and realize the one who fools him the most.

Die dreiundzwanzigjährige Edie lebt in Bushwick, Brooklyn, und hält sich nach ihrem abgebrochenen Kunststudium finanziell mit einem Assistenzjob in einem Verlag und emotional mit wechselnden Liebschaften über Wasser. Dann beginnt sie eine Affäre mit Eric, einem weißen Mann, der in einer offenen Ehe lebt und fast doppelt so alt ist wie sie. Während sich Edie mit Erics Ehefrau und vor allem mit der Adoptivtochter des Paares, Akila, einem Schwarzen Mädchen, anfreundet, verschieben sich alle Perspektiven.

ANTOINE HENDERSON, a spiritual anchor for so many others is faced with battling cancer. In his blueprint, he glorifies God with his unwavering faith. Faced with and surpassing many defeats it seemed he’d beat the odds yet again. But with the speed of metastatic cancer, he and everyone who loves him are faced with the sad truth. Their lives will be ripped apart by his death. Life without Bishop is their new norm.