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Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control - suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage - are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these “troubled teens” fear it’s their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever.

Captain James Erickson was once a prince but is now cursed and bound to the sea. With a reputation for being fearsome and ruthless, he has weathered many storms. But nothing could have prepared him for the storm that took his entire crew—a storm conjured by a siren, a creature believed to be extinct. Consumed by revenge, Captain Erickson is determined to find the siren who destroyed his crew. But when he captures her, he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her.

Ryder Thompson is the quarterback of the football team. The star of campus. Everyone wanted to be him, be friends with him, or sleep with him. Unfortunately, I was no exception to that rule. The problem? I was the nerdy girl who he didn’t know existed—or at least that’s what I thought, until his actions showed me otherwise.

As a child, did you hide under your blankets when you were scared of the dark? After listening to some of the scariest stories from new and up-and-coming authors, we won’t blame you if you start hiding again. Take a journey with us into the twisted mind of horror. “The Fallout” travels through the unknown, while “Feast” will make you never want to love again. Listen to these and many more stories to know what it truly means to be afraid of the dark.

Whoever said, ‘words can never hurt me’ was wrong. Words cut deep. Especially floating past the lips of the man who always felt like home. Cain Michaels. My ex-boyfriend’s brother. The only man who could make me feel deeper than I ever thought possible. My worst nightmare and most vivid dream. Six years ago, he shattered my soul and left a hole in my heart. Now, I’d moved on. I’d healed.

Leaving behind a life of luxury in order to break free from my father was a decision I had no hesitation in making. The downside? I hadn’t realized what leaving behind my trust fund would actually mean for me. The term struggling college student was an understatement when I looked at how my life was currently playing out, which was me standing in the middle of the library, unable to pay for an overdue library book.

Taunting him was a game I had become all too good at playing, although neither of us ended up being a winner when we played it. Our game was frustrating, heart-wrenching, and wicked, but one I couldn’t force myself to walk away from.

Sixteen-year-old rising tennis star Mitchi Conrad's world falls apart when she vanishes on her way home from a school dance. After 11 days, she is found with no memory of her missing time. Once home, she becomes plagued with eerie visions and mysterious blackouts. After a bizarre incident at school, her mother places her into a special program to help her cope with her trauma. Meanwhile, two more vanishings spark the interest of local celebrity and news reporter, Sammy Samuels. When her investigation ignites, tempers flare and sparks fly.

Over a year has passed since the Uprising, and the Smoky Mountains are slowly healing from the zombie outbreak that threatened the entire world. Buford and Rue begin their new lives protecting their beloved home, while Buford balances his duties between being a park ranger and training a new generation of Red Tunic initiates.

The vampire and Rougarou threat is no more, but an even more powerful enemy has placed the world in peril. An alien force, led by the she-devil Spearfinger, has staked a claim on planet Earth while Spearfinger plots to conquer the universe. Spearfinger plots to retrieve two ancient relics that would enable her to unleash Hell literally. Only a fellow fallen angel named JD can have any hope of stopping her. Mad Dog and Brad embark on a journey from Washington, DC, to Tennessee, but the alien invasion and the lingering undead make the trip far from safe.

Explore hidden sci-fi desires, get taken by Mothman, travel back to the myths and tales spiced up with fiery lovers. Get lost in this steamy collection and embrace the shifting magic with these sizzling stories of passion.

Colonel W.B. Townsend has fallen on rough times establishing the Little River Lumber Company due to strange occurrences preventing the construction of his railroad. Detectives William Rue and Johnny Walking-Stick from the Pinkerton Detective Agency are called to find the unknown saboteurs and bring them to justice. A new threat descends on this small, developing town, with nefarious plans that may one day threaten the entire world. Will the citizens of Townsend and the Foresters of Stillwater set aside their differences and join forces against the nightmare known as the Rougarou?

Laughing at the hilarious highs and lows of dating hosted by Sam & Liv with Rachel R Kovach, author of DisHarmony: a Jigsaw Collection of Misguided Dating

Nous sommes Gen et Yan. Avec nos filles, nous sommes expatriés dans les Caraibes (Turks and Caicos Islands) depuis janvier 2018. Dans ce podcast vous y retrouverez le parcours de notre expatriation, les questions qui nous sont le plus fréquemment posées, mais surtout notre vision de la vie. Tout cela avec une touche d'humour, plein d'authenticité et où le plaisir sera assurément au rendez-vous ! Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

One man looking back, one woman looking forward, together trying to forge a way to make everything fit - and work; and serving up a drink or two while they do it.

Earning money, paying bills, finding your Prince Charming, discovering your happiness - it looked so easy when you were young. You thought you had it all figured out. Little did you know life throws you curveballs. And you thought grown-ups had it easy! So did these ladies. Follow their journeys while getting lost in the grown-up world.

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, the connection between sports celebrity son and mobster father was studiously ignored by the press and ultimately overlooked for eight decades.

For months, I've tried to stop loving her. Begged myself in the darkness of the night as I lay awake, to let her go. So badly, I've wanted to move on from the hurt inside and the love I still cling to, but I can't. Telling myself not to love her is like telling myself to stop breathing. Impossible. Unfathomable. But watching her prepare to marry another man is like a searing knife to the heart that keeps twisting. Beginning a new life in California seemed like the only option, but seeing her while I lie in my hospital bed, I can sense something is amiss.

A wise woman once told me no one should have to spend the holidays alone, and with my first Christmas after losing my family quickly approaching, I decide to take her advice to heart. My plan is impulsive, but simple: create a dating profile and attend a few Christmas parties throughout the month to combat the loneliness.

Throw together a magical cat, a cursed tarot card deck and a free-spirited, obsessive-compulsive witch getting in touch with her sorceress forces, and you get Jane Starr, and her adorable ragdoll-Cheshire cat, Theodosia. With a large glass of wine in hand, Jane romps through a contemporary fantasy, in an absurd and surreal land full of magical, light-hearted mystery.