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From the New York Times bestselling authors of the Masters of Ménage series.... They are the Perfect Gentlemen of Creighton Academy: privileged, wealthy, powerful friends with a wild side. But a deadly scandal is about to tear down their seemingly ideal lives. Maddox Crawford’s sudden death...

Daniel Whitlock is terrified of going to sleep. And rightly so: he sleepwalks, with no awareness or memory of his actions. Including burning down Kenny Cooper’s house — with Kenny inside it — after Kenny brutally beat him for being gay. Back in the tiny town of Logan after serving his prison sentence, Daniel isolates himself in a cabin in the woods and chains himself to his bed at night. Like the rest of Logan, local cop Joe Belman doesn’t believe Daniel’s absurd defense.

When the Village Sleeps is a visionary novel that explores the loss of identity and dignity in a people afflicted by decades of brokenness. Told through the lives and spirits of four generations of amaTolo women, including The Old, who speak wisdom with ever-increasing urgency, it moves between...

How many times have you walked past your soul mate before you noticed her?College senior Leah McAllister is quickly approaching a new chapter of her life, and she’s not ready for any of the things that come after graduation. The job market is grim, adult responsibility looms, and when her job writing for the school paper sends her to interview the magnetic Morgan, she even begins questioning her sexuality.

Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her life complete. Patricia was the intellectual who thought that rising to the top of her career would make her happy. And then there is Marcus Carter, who has been linked to both Gayle and Pat since the tragedy that occurred when they were all children. Can either one save him from himself? Can friends survive a love that comes between them? Each of them gets what she wants, but no one counts on the price they have to pay.

It’s not that Micayla Lange is afraid of the clinking she hears coming from the first floor of the empty McMansion she’s housesitting for her uncle Nicco. She’s a cop, after all. It’s just that finding out her boyfriend was cheating on her was enough drama for one night. Now she’s alone on New Year’s Eve, wearing flannel pajamas and wielding a Glock 22 as she zeroes in on the unmistakable source of the sound: Uncle Nicco’s private office.

When breaking and entering turns into happily ever after.... Amelia, an independent and feisty hair stylist, is sleep deprived - horribly so. Thanks to her raucous neighbors down below. Not to mention the handsome doctor next door who brims with attitude and can’t seem to control his blaring car alarm. Gabe is a neurosurgeon from the city and a stressed single father who enjoys escaping to the country. He does not, however, enjoy being berated by his little flaming-haired neighbor, a young woman who is as outrageous in her behavior as she is in her appearance.

Being the daughter of the local pastor, Savannah Gideon should have known better than to get involved with an outlaw. However, the ruggedly handsome Jake Parsons was just too smooth to resist. She knew he was bad but she really had no idea just how bad he really was.

She’s a rookie cop. He’s a professional crook. She catches him in the act of stealing big bucks from a mob boss’s safe. He manages to embroil her in a crime so explosive it could cost both of them their lives. Natural adversaries, their only common ground is mutual dislike and distrust—and the fact that the same killers are now hunting them both. Sparks fly and passion flares as they run for their lives, knowing that teaming up is the only chance they have to survive.

En apparence, Émilie et Jake n’ont rien en commun, sauf leurs blessures béantes au cœur et leur travail à la pizzéria du coin. Et pourtant, au fil de leurs soirées Sprite et placotage, une relation précieuse se tissera entre eux, empreinte de l’espoir que l’aube revient toujours, même après la plus sombre des nuits.

From the author of a Top 100 Free for Kindle Story "The Killing of Train-Man Brown" comes As An Angel Might Sleep: Never Turn Away.

A lost love story...brought together again in a beautiful snow....

When 25-year-old Samantha Briggs invites her best friend Juliana over for a sleepover, Juliana's daddy drops her off at Samantha's house with stern instructions to be a good girl and obey Samantha's daddy. The evening is filled with coloring, cartoons, baking cookies, and giggling, and when it's time for bed, Samantha and Juliana decide they aren't done having fun. But after they're caught jumping on the bed late at night, they soon find their bottoms bared for a sound spanking, as they are reminded what happens to naughty girls who disobey their daddies.