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Jamie Rider is a man who accepts who he is with no boundaries, but with that comes consequences that leave him vulnerable. That is, until Todd. Todd shows him that he'll always be his knight in shining armor, bringing Jamie to a new reality. Todd stands up to the bullies, allowing Jamie to see that friendship is no longer the thing he craves the most.

Thrust into the role of Prince of the Lycans, Tristan strives to find his footing in a life suddenly rife with secrets and lies - and danger. Betrayed by a goddess meant to safeguard him, desperate to protect his consort and their growing tribe, he can only prepare for the worst and struggle to hope. And then the worst comes to kill them.

Lou Ellen Wells cooked Thanksgiving dinner at the Dallas Veteran's Services Center every year. She'd never had a problem until this year, when she's brutally attacked and can't get to her gun. A bedraggled man with piercing blue eyes jumps to her rescue and saves her with moves out of an action movie. She gives him her card and offers him help, but he tells her doesn't need saving and takes off like his tail is on fire. A couple weeks later, Lou is surprised when the man calls her asking for help of a different kind. A teenage girl he cares about has gone missing in gang territory.

When Maddie Carter comes back from the grave, will Hawk have a fresh start with the one who got away? Deep Six pilot and former Army Nightstalker Rhett Hawkins knew the day would come, but he had hoped it wouldn't be until after he was gone. Maddie Carter was destined to die young, because that is just how she lived. She flew by the seat of her pants and flying as all she cared about. He'd learned that the hard way, when he asked her to marry him and she shot him down. But after her memorial service, Hawk just couldn't get past the feeling that something was wrong

When you come out of safe mode, they may bury you if you're not careful. Deep Six computer guru Dex Buchanan goes to Vegas get his geek on, but runs into his ex-lover getting her freak on. Or is she? No, Dr. Grace Wentworth is in Sin City to find her missing sister who was lured there by a monster. Dex agrees to help her, but will they find her before her final curtain call? Or will he pay the ultimate price for not minding his own business?

Search and Deception Brian O’Sullivan, an art history professor, discovers letters written by his mother, Katrina, sixty years earlier — letters that ignite a desperate search for the truth about her disappearance. Before he can begin, Interpol summons him to Amsterdam to help unravel a Nazi...

Fabian Glanders, employed as a taster in a cat food factory, is content with his life of sex, drugs, and cat food. But when Fabian’s routine is interrupted by an assassination attempt, he becomes entangled in the machinations of his two identical brothers, one of whom (Flavian) is the CEO of a quasi-legal company that produces genetically modified sheep (honeylambs) for the sex trade.

Maddie McComber is driven to succeed. Working her way through Harvard by tending bar, the dual MBA and law student isn’t about to lose focus by letting any of her regulars take her to bed. But the flirty banter she shares with the well-dressed older man definitely makes her tingle in all the right places.

Discover path. Because a calm mind is our best mind. In this coming-of-age story, a boy who has lost everything walks into the Californian mountains for the very last time. He meets an extraordinary girl with a unique guide to living. She agrees to help him, but first he must overcome many challenges and find answers to some big questions. All of these questions and more are answered in this simple story about finding love and happiness.

Oscar and his dog have made a pretty good life for themselves, despite the fact that Oscar’s family has all but vanished - his father is dead; his mother has a new boyfriend. His older sister, Rachel, fled five years ago...right after Mr. Cigar bit off her hand. Despite the freak accident, Oscar knows his dog is no menace. Mr. Cigar is a loyal protector: a supernatural creature that can exact revenge, communicate telepathically, and manipulate car doors and windows with ease.

Ellie looked up at him. For the first time, their eyes met. The force of the contact nearly knocked Hal backwards. It was an earthshaking, heart-stopping jolt of recognition. His inner bear growled, MINE!

An urgent and timely memoir exploring the reality of childhood sexual abuse, a scourge on too many neighborhoods, often hiding in plain sight. Millions of victims remain silent, buried under the weight of their own guilt, shame, and addiction. Breaking the Ruhls will resonate deeply with many who have experienced similar trauma, boundary violations, and abuse within the family, and struggle with the emotional and psychological effect.

Since the late 1800s, global average temperature has increased by 2.1°F (1.2°C). Over the last 100 years, the global sea level has risen by about 8 in (20 cm). Do you find it hard to translate climate change figures like these to the real world? The statistics and science are always in the news, but unless your life and livelihood are affected, it’s difficult to truly appreciate the significant impact behind the numbers.

"Staying On Track" is a practical guide on how to grow your business. It provides real-world examples of how the author’s company went from one office and eighteen people to a global operation with staff in six countries and thirty-four US states. Frank Marini shows the true definition of customer focus in all aspects and departments of a company in this pragmatic explanation of how he guided Railbookers Group, where he serves as president and CEO, through a rapid period of growth and achievement.

Litany of Sorrows is a story of passion, betrayal, and the devastating cost of complicity. It begins when Karl von Richter, a handsome young German with a sinister future, is injured skiing in the Italian Alps. Nursed to health by a beautiful woman, Katrina Amorino, the two fall in love. Unaware that Germany is preparing for war, she naively leaves northern Italy and moves to his home in southern Germany. But days before she arrives, Karl is drafted into the Nazi SS officer training school, where he is radicalized.

OVERWHELM is a collection of 5 short horror stories, the debut release from queer and trans author SIMON SHADOWS! Spanning genres from hard science fiction to creepypasta-inspired horror to alternate-historical fantasy, OVERWHELM asks the question of what will happen when characters come into contact with forces much larger than themselves. Will our characters be subsumed or transformed? Explore the edges of reality in strange new worlds and worlds eerily familiar!

Dillon’s dreams of making it big on the country music scene shatter to pieces, but he receives no sympathy from his brother. Instead, Charles sends him on a mission to deliver some bad news to the mayor of their old hometown of Kissing Springs. Only Dillon doesn’t plan on running into Meadow Boyd as the new mayor—and the sparks from their high school romance return.

I admitted the book boyfriends by the dozen in my Cat’s Cradle bookstore had taken precedence over dating in real-life. I wanted the real thing, an everlasting true love, a man holding me nightly, but the journey to finding that guy wasn’t so easy. I’d kissed a few frogs along the way, and maybe my quirky sense of style chased a few away. One thing was for sure, the heroines in my romance novels made this falling in love thing seem easier than this.

I hadn’t seen Bronson Maxwell since a near-fatal car accident sent our college relationship and our lives on a detour. My new life was fine, according to my plan, until Bronson returned to town to take over the family company. After a run-in, he wanted to talk about the past. No thank you. While my family and my roommates believed this was a second chance romance waiting to happen, I was happy giving Fate the finger.

Nikolai Popov was raised in a criminal entity that's as bigoted as it is violent. A byproduct of a woman pushed to the brink, he's lived a hard and fast life that often sees him facing a line-up, yet he's not spent one night behind bars. After a confrontation with a known enemy, Nikolai stumbles upon an angel precariously balancing on the balustrade between good and evil. To others, she seems too pure to be dragged into the dark and demented world of the Russian Mafia, but Nikolai knows better. He sees the survivor in her eyes, the one dying to live again.