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The Long Game of Success reveals why persistence, discipline, and small daily actions matter more than natural ability. This audiobook breaks down the mindset and habits of high achievers, showing how ordinary people create extraordinary results over time. Through practical strategies and real-world insights, you’ll learn how to stay focused, build momentum, overcome setbacks, and commit to long-term growth. Whether you're building a business, improving your career, or transforming your life, this guide will help you stop chasing shortcuts and start playing the long game.

Raphael Scott is going to break my heart. He’s an American rockstar, engaged to be married, and straight. He’ll get tired of whatever this is soon enough. Then he’ll go back to his beautiful actress girlfriend and I’ll be alone again. I’m fine with that. But it doesn’t mean I won’t take what he’s offering me right now. His shining American smile, his beautiful open heart, the desperate kisses he presses into my skin.

WANTED: Executive Assistant. Must be organized, discreet, and definitely not a trained assassin investigating her boss for murder. Julia checks two of those boxes. The third one? Not so much. When her father is murdered, Julia's family is convinced mob boss Quentin Vanetti is responsible. Julia's mission: get hired, get evidence, and get out. Easy. Except Quentin is: a) Possibly innocent b) Definitely hotc) Extremely suspicious of her "perfect" résumé d) Really invested in their arguments about office décor.

Wynn Tunnicliffe had been all set for an awkward couple of weeks away on a retreat run by a professor he loathed in the middle of the El Dorado forest. Bags packed along with a healthy dose of cynicism. And then the world changed. Wynn was whisked off to a dog-eat-dog tutorial, where things did not go well. Battered, broken, and left for dead, he was reforged into something new. A Wyrmblood, the first of his kind. Filled with anger and fury at what was done to him.

I never wanted to see Rome Ashbridge again. So, of course, I now need his help to save my job at the museum. Rome has cooked up a scheme to torment me before he's willing to make the job-saving donation to my department. But this arrangement is poised to backfire and pull us together in the most unexpected way. Can we move past the years of hate to find something even sweeter than the friendship we'd both cherished as children?

She’s trapped in a magical prison. To break out, she’ll make a deal with the most dangerous prisoner of them all. Sentenced for a crime she didn’t commit, Samara is bullied by guards and tormented by the screams of her fellow prisoners. She’s resigned herself to enduring her fifteen-year...

At 104 years of age, Mrs Elsie Drake of Granville Gardens, London, is the sixth oldest woman in Britain. But fed up with sitting in her armchair all day, Elsie is ready for new adventures. And so, armed with a computer she can barely operate, she fires off dozens of letters to everyone from the Prime Minister to Greggs Bakeries, to see if they can help. Whether offering her services as the new Arsenal football mascot dressed as a giant hare, or simply sending Sainsbury's a load of meat, no one can escape the clutches of Elsie Drake.

Wynn has survived the opening assaults upon his den and successfully protected the ladies who dwelt within. Many of whom have become Wyrmbloods like him. His friend Jerry has been resurrected, and everything is looking rosy in Wyrmhold, their home. Now is the time to build on their previous successes and expand the den's influence.

Lydia Drake presents Book 2 in the Cinderella and the Duke series. Contains mature themes.

Luke is a poor grad student, desperate for a cheap place to live. Desperate enough even to live in a house full of demons. (Anything is better than his last roommate.) When the demons find it's nearly impossible to scare Luke away, they decide on a new plan to amuse themselves. They're going to help Luke with his love life. Can they really aid Luke's efforts to catch his college crush? Or are they headed for a disaster that neither heaven nor hell can fix?

Dancing is everything to me. It’s the mother I lost, the father who never sees me. It’s the fiery love of my life, and I’ll defend it to my last breath—that’s what it means to be the lead principal at one of the best ballet companies in the world. Just when I thought I was on top, my greatest rival—my eternal nemesis—waltzes back into my life: Nicoló Savini. The ache in my bones and the bane of my existence. If he thinks I’ll sit back and let him steal my spotlight, he’s sorely mistaken.

The conclusion to the Wyrmlord's Wrath. Wynn has successfully defended his home from the invasion force led by his old nemesis, the prophet of Politon. He and his growing family are safe for the time being, but many dangers persist. The Prophet's fall has only opened the way for others, equally contemptuous and hateful, to take control of Sacramento. To the east, across the mountains, looms another threat—the warlord Mateo, who has a taste for skinning his victims alive. And in a cave, north of Wyrmhold, another stirs, waking from a fitful sleep.

Caspien Deveraux was poison. It took me years to realise that he hadn't been born like that. He'd been cultivated and nurtured by a careful hand and a bitter heart. When I first met him, he was a bud. One primed to bloom beautifully and deadly. One I should have torn out at the root.

In 1968 Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK's hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however - having made three well-reviewed but low-selling albums - Nick had been overwhelmed by a mysterious mental illness. He returned to live in his family home in rural Warwickshire in 1971, and died in obscurity in 1974, aged just 26.

Desperate times call for drastic measures . . . and Miss Caroline Devereux is most certainly desperate. Her spendthrift father's been gambling away every spare shilling, racking up debts, selling off their family's coveted objets d'art, and bringing them to the edge of ruin. Up until now, she's been able to stave off the creditors—and afford luxuries like tea—by penning sensational Gothic tales. But they're out of time, and Caroline must play the one card she has left.

Salem's guide to making a dragon break up with him: Step 1: Don't sleep with him. (No, seriously, don't). And definitely don't let him into your apartment; he won't leave. Step 2: Deny being mates and don't fall in love with him. Steps one and two failed. Gregori is too stubborn and irresistible.

A tale of spiritualism cannot easily win a willing suspension of disbelief in the world of a country squire, in which Dick Bellew has grown up. In his maturity, however, he finds himself surrounded by very attractive, intelligent, and strong-willed characters who challenge his impatience with unconventional ideas. A man of action, Dick has trouble expanding his stunted imagination, but this very quality makes him the ideal narrator of a story of spine-tingling horror. His no-nonsense "I say" or "Now, look here" defy readers to distrust his account—except to suspect it of being too skeptical....

The Savior of the Shades omnibus is a shifter x Hades and Persephone reimagining that starts when Avery's fated mate kills her. If you love dark fantasy romance filled with betrayals and snappy banter, then enter the world of Shifted Fates.

Need a bodyguard? Ward Security is one of the best security companies in the country, even if the bodyguards tend to find love in the most unexpected of places. Jump into these three adventures as Ward Security employees stop a stalker, take down a hacker, and save a client from a would-be killer. Don’t worry. They’re prepared with ample ammo, practical jokes, and rainbow unicorn duct tape. (You can never have too much duct tape.)

Chen traveled to the US with his clan, hoping to rescue his kidnapped brother from the fae. They just need a witch to find the exact location of where the door between the human world and the fae world will open—the one thing Moon can't do. Chen grabbed the wrong type of witch. That's not stopping Moon from clinging to Chen as he guides them through new territory, introducing them to the witches, shifters, and vampires who can help them. The longer Moon remains at Chen's side, the more he hopes the witch might consider staying with him always.