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Mermaid Lyria is her people’s most powerful healer. Her life is dictated by responsibilities and requirements and has been ever since she was a teen when the bracelet with the Stone of Clarity came to her, one of three stones imbued with great power and magic by her ancestor Melusine.

After spending four years of her life getting a degree in ancient languages, she just wants a job. She doesn't expect Bronson, the CEO of Cromwell eCOM Champions, to fall for her brain. Nor did she expect him to overwhelm her with his masculinity.

Former New York City police officer Jonathan Bartlett took the job at the adults-only Suadela Resort to get away from the memories of his partner’s death. Living on the island in the middle of nowhere has been perfect. He can ignore the occasional nightmare that wakes him up in a cold sweat. What he can’t ignore is Amina, first when he sees her naked on the beach and later when she turns up as a guest at the resort.

In this third title in the Mesuline’s Daughters mermaid trilogy, Nerine has lived most of her life on her own terms–even though it meant being isolated and not with the man she loved. As a mermaid/lamia mix and wearer of the Stone of Love, her life is complicated in so many ways that she finds it best to handle everything herself. Especially when it comes to caring for the people who live on Azov, the island she helped create for others of mixed blood who were rejected by their communities.

Tulip realizes the world is changing around her because of a virus. She looks for ways to help her family and community get through the stress of the pandemic.

Amy has never really gotten along with Arthur, the multi-billionaire businessman among her group of friends. They always bicker, tease, and throw sarcastic comments at each other.... But after one night of unexpected passion, that was all about to change! For Arthur, love and commitment were never in his vocabulary.... Until he finds out that Amy is now pregnant with triplets after their one-night stand!

After finding out that his fiancée and father had been having a secret affair behind his back, Elijah runs off to the country to lick his wounds. There he meets - or rather saves - the beautiful Samantha Francis after a harrowing car accident! Samantha is running away from a former abusive relationship...and although there is instant attraction with her and Elijah, she has deep emotional wounds to heal.

Autumn Noble is a 27-year-old mother who focuses all her time on working and being there for her daughter, Sydney. She has no time for relationships, going out, or partying. After the rocky relationship with her ex, she believes that maybe relationships just aren’t for her. That is until she meets Winter. She’s a fun-loving, spontaneous person who is attracted to Autumn from the first time they meet.

Dark shadows lurk in the corners of our rooms and next to our beds. But not all of these shadows are there to harm you. Some may be lurking to get more from you than that indescribable fear that most feel upon seeing them. Reena Hill is about to find out first hand exactly what the shadow in her room plans on doing with her.

When she walked into his life then, he wasn’t prepared for the storm that was about to ensue. Now, she was back, but what had she brought with her? Had she changed her mind on being with Cam and just came for a goodbye? Jaxon had paced that porch for what felt like forever and now, the only question he had was if she was there for him...for there forever….or if she was there to say goodbye in person. He hoped that forever was on her mind. Mia had gone through a whirlwind and all she wanted now was to be in his arms and never let go.

Escape to Colorado where a chance encounter would spark love that heals even the deepest scars. Adelaide finds solace in the picturesque town of Firefly Valley beneath the majestic peaks of the Rocky Mountains and the open landscape. Putting the shattered pieces of her life back together isn't easy, and it's even harder when she finds herself drawn to the rugged outdoorsman, Colt Taylor. Colt Taylor watched as Adelaide rolled into town like a category five hurricane, and his eyes were stuck on her like glue.

When Pearl Aster takes a receptionist job at Wolf Motor’s, all she is hoping for is enough money to get out of her parents’ smoothing hold, and away from their rule dominated life. Her upper-class status and its expectations are nothing that she wants now that she’s seen the ugliness it conceals. Yet these rough and rowdy men aren’t like anything she’s ever experienced. Brash, bold, dirty, and completely honest, but still more respectful than the man that she’s expected to marry.

Marvel Keller is one of Hollywood’s best kept secrets. A P.A. by title, her sole job is to take on the most difficult cases and turn them into productive celebrities again. She’s worked with the best and the worst that the entertainment world has produced. Bram Stoker is just another name on a list of famous people who are falling apart under the pressure of the spotlight. As lead singer to one of the strongest Death Metal bands on the market, he has the world at his feet. But all that attention, and the trauma of real life, comes with a cost.

Aarika Marshall was weeks away from getting married. Lauren Stiles was tasked to completed the hit on her. Neither wanted to do what they had been told to do. And nobody knew they'd shared a night together years earlier. When Lauren was confronted with the cruelty of the organization she worked for, and someone else went after Aarika, the two women were shoved together in order to stay alive.

Desire Blackstone enjoys two things in life, cooking and doing whatever or whomever she wants. After a run-in with her ex-girlfriend, she starts to see her love life through a new lens. Her no-sex diet was designed to help her build real connections, but she hadn’t counted on meeting a hot photographer.

Janet and Jacob have had a forty-nine-year affair—Trion High School sweethearts, a young married couple, a divorced couple who can’t stay out of each other’s bed, even when Jacob was remarried with twin girls. The glue of their tumultuous relationship is a mutual passion for each other and for the written word. Jacob, the writer, full of early success, has lost his nerve and requires the approval of Janet, his ideal reader, before he can submit his work for publication. Janet awaits his daily call, usually after midnight when both are tipsy.

African-American computer security expert, Alayna Alexander, will do anything to have a family, including marry a man she doesn't love. But confusion in the form of tall, dark Khavon Brighton, a former computer hacker, slips into Alayna's life when she is assigned to work with him on a top-level security project. Sparks fly as the two race to thwart a desperate cyberthief who has a personal vendetta against Khavon.

In Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism, Terri Simone Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself, her persona, and her character into visual dialogue.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful animal kingdom in the forest, where all the animals lived happily under the reign of their king. A wise fox was the minister to the king. There also lived a gang of ferocious and destructive wild elephants at the end of the forest. One day, as the king was conducting a meeting with his kingdom, minister fox informed the king that a parrot couple needed his assistance in building a safe nest for their newborn babies.

Peet and her younger sister Louisa live in rural Edgecombe County in North Carolina with their grandparents while their mother is away working in another state. One day, Peet notices her grandmother offering watermelon to a guest. Peet yearns for a slice of watermelon that Grandma has placed on the porch for guests and feels upset that she was not immediately invited to have some. Later on, Peet learns a lesson from her mother about the importance of waiting patiently for whatever she wants.