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A night out suddenly goes terribly wrong for Amee Carrington when a mysterious blue-eyed stranger arrives. The next thing Amee knows, she’s waking up in a room, tied to a chair. She’s been kidnapped, and it’s very unclear why. Though her captors assure her they won’t harm her, she senses something sinister lays just below the surface of their beautiful faces. Finally, Amee learns the shocking truth. Not only has she been initiated into a shocking, taboo custom, she’s been taken as part of a ritual where a man she doesn’t know will be transformed into a vampire.

Ian Wolfsblood, leader of one of the most influential clans of the Wolves, has always been hell-bent on a war against humans and their allies. The Bears have long stood in his way...until now. A tenuous peace is offered, but nothing has ever been more dangerous. Helena Wolfsblood, the only daughter of her father Ian, is offered as a peace gesture to the Bears. The price of averting war is her hand in marriage to Logan Bowen, the only son of the leader of the Bears.

Cassandra has invited snobby Brittany to her aunt Millie and Linda’s cabin for the weekend. Brittany decides to snoop and fill her pockets with loot. The aunt's catch her in the act and decide that to give her full loads of punishment.

Deadly toxins can be hidden inside the most beautiful flowers. That's what Astra Meador's famous biophysicist mother taught her. As her mother's apprentice, Astra has developed skills in botany, chemistry, medicine, and, most importantly, in keeping secrets. In fact, keeping Astra's secret was the reason her family decided to leave Earth and join a terraforming mission to colonize a distant planet called Crillain IV. But when Astra wakes early from hypersleep, she discovers that her mother never made it onboard and her father died in transit.  

Does the past really matter when you hold the future of humanity in your hands? With just days of its thousand year journey remaining, the starship Renaissance 3 is on course to deliver its precious cargo—the last living humans—to their new planetary home. But a message from beyond the grave from their now-dead home planet challenges everything that pilot Maya has been taught about her kind, and threatens the future of the entire mission.

I landed in this place six years ago in a welter of panic, pain and instinct. I'd been in fight-or-flight mode for twelve months, wanting only to keep on flying—or fleeing. I brought almost nothing of my previous life. Grief had made me ruthless; I threw and threw. (And yes, I knew how appalled you'd have been, Pete.) My father implored me to stay with the familiar. Constants, he said, would give me scaffolding. Decades ago, when his second wife, my stepmother, died suddenly, habits were his protection and rituals his comfort—along with a packet or two of cigarettes a day.

The day Jillian Conner caught her husband smearing her award-winning frosting on his mistress's cupcakes was the day she adopted her man-free diet. Including the insatiable flirt who is renting the summerhouse next door. So when her too-sexy-for-words neighbor decides to take a midnight swim—in nothing but his tanned and muscled glory—Jillian tells herself there's no harm in looking, as long as she doesn't sample. Because this single girl in the city—a local cupcake goddess, who just received an order for a seven-tier wedding cake—already has her hands full. 

 As far as Piper Lewis is concerned, happily ever after was about as realistic as finding Prince Charming riding a unicorn, but since street art doesn't pay the bills, she accepts a job as the resident photographer for Portland's most popular historic wedding venue. Her role as the Ansel Adams of Love is nearly cut short when she has car troubles and her tall, dark, and delicious driver-for-hire takes one look at her mud-soaked clothes and tries to flee.

Getting accepted at the best strip club was her dream. Little did she know that the audition itself is fully loaded with very hard tasks. Sally was only doing the stripping scene to get noticed. She wanted to be a model. She was excited about the meeting that she was going to have with her boss. Little does she know, she has to pass initiation in order to get the higher clubs where she wanted to be. She didn’t know how much she would need to take to get accepted, but she was willing to do whatever it took to be noticed.

A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now that her beloved Tiki Goddess Bar has been chosen as the location for Trouble in Paradise, TV’s hot new reality show, life is anything but tranquil. When a member of the camera crew is found dead in her kitchen - stabbed to death with Chef Kimo’s sashimi knife - the scene on the sleepy North Shore of Kauai goes from eccentrically crazy to downright dangerous.

We wish you a steampunk Christmas.... Changed forever after tragedy, a woman must draw strength from her husband's love. A man learns that love isn't always what you expect. A thief steals the heart of a vengeful professor. And an American inventor finds love Down Under. Enjoy Victorian Christmas with a clockwork twist in these four steampunk novellas.

Mit Kalle Blomquist auf Verbrecherjagd. Kalle Blomquist, der Meisterdetektiv, kommt jedem Verbrechen auf die Spur! Und schon steckt er wieder mitten in einem neuen Fall: Der kleine Rasmus und sein Vater, ein berühmter Erfinder, werden entführt, und Kalle und seine Freunde Anders und Eva-Lotta sind Zeugen. Eva-Lotta gerät sogar selbst in die Fänge der Entführer! Ob es Kalle Blomquist gelingen wird, sie zu befreien? Der NDR-Hörspielklassiker ist eine echte Rarität. Dieses NDR-Hörspiel aus dem Jahr 1955 ist ein absoluter Hörspielklassiker aus der Glanzzeit des Radios.

Have you struggled with obesity, poor self-image, weight-related health problems, or simply a feeling of inadequacy or meaninglessness? Are you tired of feeling left out of the active world around you? Have you ever contemplated weight-loss surgery? Kelley Gunter found herself dealing with all of these issues and many more as she weighed the decision to undergo bariatric surgery. Finding very few personal accounts from those who had gone through the same struggles, she decided to write about her experience in an effort to help others facing the same decision.  

Lily Stewart has reached a crossroads in her life. Her painting career hasn't taken off, her best friend has changed beyond recognition, and now she can't keep up with the rising cost of living in the city. With no one to turn to, Lily is forced to move from her apartment, but while packing she comes across a piece of mail that had slipped to the back of her junk drawer: a letter detailing further action needed to finalize the annulment of a quickie Vegas wedding. From 10 years ago! Lily decides it's time to gather up the pieces of her life.

On a magical night filled with frights, one little pumpkin gets a bigger scare and has a bigger adventure than she bargained for! Little Orange Pumpkin believed, deep in her heart, she was ready. She could explore the spookiest night of the year all by herself!

Seeing the future is a questionable gift. Seeing your own murder? That’s a problem. Iris Gardner has been dealing with psychic visions her whole life—a “gift” from the father she never met and a burden her chaotic Texas family loves to exploit. Working the graveyard shift at a Stop-n-Go...

When a bratty untouched stepdaughter makes a sarcastic deal with daddy, she's confident that he knows she is not serious. Her older stepdad decides that she needs to make good on her own words. She soon learns the hard way that he will make sure he fills her with his part of the deal, not knowing that her enlarged belly and enormous top are growing fast and full. She soon finds out that he is an expert on explosive deal-making.

Spoiled Christy never listens to her stepdad. Then one night she takes things too far. Wrecking stepdaddy’s car proves to be more then step dad Allen can handle. Fortunately, when Christy goes back on her offer to pay for all the damage, Step daddy Allen has a way that pay back can be made. Christy is filled with painful lessons that she will never forget.

On December 16, 2019, Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, and the full Committee on the Judiciary released an updated version of the Impeachment Report. Now officially titled Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, this document serves as the latest government-issued report from the Democrat-led House.

Glamorous and confident Hollywood therapist Dr. Stone decides to take her married client on a "road trip" so that Joyce can learn firsthand the subtle art of seducing a woman. But will Joyce be able to overcome her natural shyness and explore her repressed desires? When the two women are served by a beautiful Japanese waitress in a hotel restaurant overlooking the sea, Joyce blushes and struggles. But the waitress seems interested and agrees to visit them.