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Three years ago, Jacob Price walked away. After a whirlwind steamy affair, my father's best friend broke my heart. He told me things were too complicated. Messy. Wrong. That we could never be together. I knew he loved me, but the fear of ruining our family was too great. With too much at stake, he sacrificed our hearts and ended it. Now, he's back, and he still wants me. He still loves me. But now, I'm engaged to another man.

I'm the princess to a dirty throne of motorcycles and madness, daughter of the president of the Death by Daybreak Motorcycle Club. My father's four closest officers—men dressed in blood and death and sin—they're my honor guard, cloaked in leather vests and tattoos. Only, there's nothing honorable about them at all. They're all wrong for me. Every motorcycle club has its old ladies. These guys...they share one. They share me .

Piper Mackenzie first sees him shirtless, standing in front of the military plane she was about to board, with one rather large wrench in his hand. The fact that he has the plane - the one that she’s about to be flying on for hours - in pieces only minutes before she’s set to take off on it doesn’t faze her. At least, not until a flippant joke about dying in midair leaves his lips.

Thirteen years ago, I ran away from a cult, Sacro Nuntio, and became Lenix Taylor. Everyone knows me as a free spirit. No one knows about the horrible sins rotting in my past. Or how I killed the leader of Sacro Nuntio—my father—in cold blood. But the past never stays where it should for long. Now, after all this time, my brother has found me, and is threatening to drag me back to punish me for my crime. Escaping from that life was the hardest thing I've ever done. Staying free proves more difficult than expected when it involves the only person powerful enough to protect me—Connor Maxwell.

Five years ago, I bled to death from a knife to the throat. But I didn't stay dead. I woke up changed, and remembered far too much. I have been haunted by the memories of my past lives ever since. For five years, I've had the illogical certainty that I've spent lifetimes connected to the same soul. Lifetimes of love, heartache, and betrayal. Was I destined to find them again? As fate would have it while seeking revenge for my death, my murderer led me straight to her: Sunny.

Stranded in the present, time traveler Caleb Hornblower's biggest problem isn't returning to the twenty-third century - but falling head over heels for the beguiling Liberty Stone, who shows him a love more powerful than time itself. Though Caleb knows he belongs in the future, how can he leave the past, and Liberty, behind?

It’s happening again - people are disappearing. And just like before, the finger is pointed at Becca. She knows how it looks...and that she’s being set up. Someone is following her. Sneaking into her house. Planting evidence to make her look guilty. The problem is, she has no idea why. The bigger problem is, no one believes her. And time is running out.

Centro de Boston, 24 de diciembre, un hombre camina desnudo con la cabeza decapitada de una joven. El doctor Jenkins, director del centro psiquiátrico de la ciudad, y Stella Hyden, agente de perfiles del FBI, se adentrarán en una investigación que pondrá en juego sus vidas, su concepción de la cordura y que los llevará hasta unos sucesos fortuitos ocurridos en el misterioso pueblo de Salt Lake diecisiete años atrás.

Als das Haus der achtzehnjährigen River Santos niederbrannte, verlor sie alles: ihr Zuhause, ihre Musik, ihren Dad. Doch kurz darauf nimmt das Schicksal eine bizarre Wendung: Durch eine anonyme Spende wird River über Nacht zur Millionärin. Aber als River ein schlimmes Familiengeheimnis entdeckt, muss sie plötzlich alle Menschen in ihrem Leben in Frage stellen: ihren perfekten Vater, ihre spurlos verschwundene Mutter, die Absichten des Geldspenders - und Logan, der sich immer mehr in Lügen verstrickt.

The past holds no power when the future is you. It took twenty-four years, but Lucy Lincoln finally escaped the twisted religious cult she was born into—Sacro Nuntio. A year later, Lucy still feels shackled to her past–and smothered by her protective sister, Lenix. In an attempt to finally taste real freedom, she decides to take a road trip across the United States. She hopes that embracing new experiences can lead her to discover who she truly is without the weight of others' expectations.

"It's a high-octane thriller with the grounding touches of Katrina's Norwegian heritage, the hygge of North Haven, and a very sweet romance between two likable, vulnerable people. Romantic suspense comfort food--just like waffles with cloudberry cream." --KIRKUS This timely, high-concept novel...

Stacy Shaw has her whole life ahead of her. New job, new house, and now a baby on the way - everything she's ever hoped for is finally coming true. But on a warm summer night on the way home from work, she vanishes. The police race to find her, but the clues don't add up. Conflicting facts emerge as her story twists and turns, sending the trail spiraling in all directions.

Liam has been so many people that he can hardly remember who he really is. Having to walk away from the woman he loved to keep her safe, he wonders if he will ever be able to have a normal life. With the trial starting in a couple weeks, all he can wish for is to put his demons and secrets in the past. When Finn’s Grams gets sick, she comes home to care for the woman who raised her as her own.

They grew up together, that boy with silver eyes and the girl with golden hair. Friends forever, or so they thought until their worlds came crashing down, teaching them a hard lesson. If you hurt the one you love, deliberately or not, your mistakes can be too monumental to overcome. For Gage Harrison and Danica Lorry, leaving their youthful past behind them, only to be back in Cedar Point as adults, had its challenges. But they’d managed to obtain new roles to play.

I didn’t have a choice. My only option to find out who murdered my parents was to die myself; become a ghost. The hardest part was not being able to tell my best friend Nash and my sister Natasha. Everything was set. It was supposed to be my last assignment - a peacekeeping mission. What I didn’t know was they had hired someone else to take me out, and it would have worked if it hadn’t been for her.

Natasha was only 16-years-old when she was stolen from us. Groomed to marry a man she doesn’t like, let alone love. Alec Turner was my best friend and Natasha - Nat as we called her - his kid sister. I had never told Alec the feelings I had for Nat. I was two years older than her, and Alec would have killed me and buried me in his backyard for even thinking, let alone mentioning, my attraction to her.

I've always believed things happen for a reason. But things don't always happen the way you planned. Callie thought her life was finally changing. She was so close to grasping the brass ring. Then tragedy struck, and she once again lost everything. My name is Callie Bailey, and I wasn't always in love with Maison Keller; I was in love with Drayton Clay, first. Drayton was my first love, my first kiss, my first everything. The day Drayton proposed to me, was not only the best day of my life, but the most tragic as well. I died that night with him.

Eine Reality-TV-Show. Zwei Teilnehmende mit einem ganz bestimmten Plan. Eine Liebe, die nicht nur ihre Herzen in höchste Gefahr bringt ... In dem New-Adult-Suspense-Roman Was die Nacht nie vergisst erzählt Justine Pust von den dunklen Abgründen hinter der schillernden Kulisse einer Reality-TV-Show in Finnland – und von einer Liebe mit hohen Einsätzen. Mona ist eine der Auserwählten für die zweite Staffel der Reality-TV-Show "Celebrity Cache". Zusammen mit fünf anderen wird sie in Finnland an einer GPS-Schnitzeljagd teilnehmen, deren gut versteckte Hinweise und Challenges zu 100.

Malaysia is young, heartbroken, and craving something more than the cold silences in her home. Marcus is older, quiet, and simply trying to hold his family together. A single encounter at the edge of their lives changes the rhythm of everything. And neither of them is prepared for what follows. In the heart of an Houston's apartment complex filled with long shadows and longer secrets, one woman struggles to carry the weight of her family, one man tries to hold on to the truth, and one girl risks it all to feel something real.

Britney loves her husband. He's kind, sweet, and an upstanding citizen. He usually does everything with a moral compass, except for that one time when he killed a group of people. That was simply a stability slip. He pled insanity and served his time in a mental institution.