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Lily turns 16 with two very different sides to her life: school, where she is badly bullied and home with her mum and dad, warm and comforting, but with its own difficulties. After a particularly terrible bullying incident, Lily's dad decides to give his daughter the tools to fight back. Introducing her to boxing, he encourages Lily to find her own worth. It is both difficult and challenging, but in confronting her own fears, she finds a way through, that illuminates her life and friendships.

Get carried away in the final two novellas of the Ladies and Scoundrels series. These previous released, best-selling romances of love, loss, and redemption will keep you enthralled and leave you satisfied. Scandalous Wallflower: A wallflower by nature, Jane long ago accepted she would become a spinster. Perhaps such a fate was for the best. After all she’d witnessed firsthand how miserable marriage could make a lady. Scandalous Liaison: In her youth, Grace Stratton, the Duchess of Abernathy, gave her heart to Lewis Duffield, an American plantation owner.

Local legend says Trinity Row is the house that won't die. Local legend isn't wrong. Sixteen-year-old Ivy Black and her mom have moved in for a quick renovation to make an easy buck. Then it will be on to the next rundown, abandoned eyesore. Simple. Move. Fix. Sell. Run...When Ivy finds out that the friends she thought she made and the things she thought she's seen aren't exactly what she believed, she goes on a mission to free her mother from the snare of Trinity Row and the evil spirit controlling it. Except, after a trip to Trinity Row, you'll never want to go home again.

Sixteen-year-old Ivy Black and her mom have moved in to Trinity Row for a quick renovation to make an easy buck. Then it will be on to the next rundown, abandoned eyesore. Simple: Move. Fix. Sell. Run. For the last three years, Ivy and her mom have run far away from their past. That's the thing about Trinity Row, though. It doesn't let the past die.

In 1689, Atia Crisp finds herself imprisoned in the wickedest city on earth, Port Royal, Jamaica, while the refugees from Strangewayes’s plantation in the Blue Mountains are on the run and seeking a new home, deep in the Caribbean. Captain Jean-Paul la Roche must get them to safety and find a way to liberate the woman he loves while waging a war against the English with the pirate Laurens de Graaf.

Pirates under Laurens de Graaf seize hostages and the standoff begins. Capitaine la Roche holds the waterfront as his men are trapped in the city. Allegiances change, and Lord Crisp stakes his claim on Port Royal and Atia, who intends to take a piece or two with her. The Freebooters take Church Street, and the battle for the Brethren of the Coast begins.

Volume four of five begins with repercussions for the murder of Bartolomeo Portuguese, which ripples through the Brethren of the Coast. A secret network of women is formed deep beneath the Swiftsure Tavern in the Wenches’ Cauldron. Port Royal awaits the arrival of the Spanish Armada, while Laurens de Graaf’s buccaneers prepare to strike as tensions boil over in the wickedest city on earth.

The evil Necromancer is growing in strength - soon he will have broken the seal between the world of the living and the world of the dead, unleashing his army of walking dead upon the world. Can Leesa, Rave, and Dominic stop him before it's too late?

After an unexpected breakup with her longtime girlfriend, Cate has been picking up the pieces and starting her new life as a tour guide for a travel company. Semana Santa (Holy Week) in Mexico is a time of celebration, spring break, Carnival, and the remembrance of Jesus entering Jerusalem. It is also Cate's last training under supervision before she officially goes out on her own.

In 1689, Atia Crisp finds herself imprisoned in the wickedest city on earth, Port Royal, Jamaica, while the refugees from Strangewayes’s plantation in the Blue Mountains are on the run and seeking a new home deep in the Caribbean. Captain Jean-Paul la Roche must get them to safety and find a way to liberate the woman he loves while waging a war against the English with the pirate Laurens de Graaf.

Volume 2 of 5 starts with Dr. Strangewayes who was pressed into service under Captain Kidd. Meanwhile, Atia Crisp becomes a barmaid at the Swiftsure Tavern and learns the inner workings of the city. A secret union takes place while pirate Bleedin Art heads the battle against the French, and the townspeople celebrate a Merry Port Royal Christmas.

Adnieva loses everything she holds dear and decides to leave her small village of Tiermerra in search of better things. At the top of her list is revenge. Naveen travels from city to city trying to conceal her ability, an ability she learned at a younger age at great cost to her. Divinity grows tired of the politics in the city of Legain and her father's hold over her. She decides to take things into her own hands and escape.

This first book of five begins in 1689 in Port Royal, Jamaica, where Atia Crisp is imprisoned, awaiting trial, while refugees from Strangewayes's plantation seek their new home. Guided by Capitaine la Roche, they face pursuit by the pirate hunter Big Dick and the perilous terrain of Bocas del Toro. Their future home of Sérénité hangs in the balance, complicated by the outbreak of war with France.

Raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, Orpen has a childhood of love, rockpools and stories by the fireside. But the stories grow darker, and the training begins. Ireland has been devoured by a ravening menace known as the skrake, and though Slanbeg is safe for now, the women must always be ready to run, or to fight.

When Cate came home to an empty house and a "Dear John" note, she did what any woman would do - take the next flight to Ireland. Follow Cate as she picks up the pieces and finds her new path in life.

Desperately lacking the funds to treat her brother’s illness, Sophie decides to seek employment in the Duke of Windston. While sheltered, Sophie is loyal and hardworking, but when her brother’s life is in danger she decides to abandon her morality. What she never expected was to find the Duke’s secret, and in turn to be engulfed in a sinister legacy that threatened all she held dear. Was he her enemy or her ally?

The year is 1658. Colette, daughter of a drunken and impoverished nobleman, has just been ‘lost’ in a wager, given to the dashing Lord Philippe de Valon, as payment for gambling debts. Against a backdrop of the lavish and decadent Court at Versailles, Colette is exposed to the delicious but dangerous attentions of a man used to taking what he wants. When Philippe is called away on King’s business, Colette is left in the hands of his sour old aunt, who regards Colette with suspicion and disdain. On their trip to Philippe’s castle in the north of France, Colette and her handmaid are abducted by a gang of ruffians.

Lady Josephine Watkins never meant to shoot the duke of Constantan. Driven by guilt and determined to see him well, she refuses to leave his side. She could not have guessed the devilish duke would capture her heart. Devon Mowbray, duke of Constantan, came to Favershame Abbey out of curiosity. He never intended on the headstrong beauty sticking him with her arrow and stealing his heart in the process. Despite the magic burning between them, a dangerous secret leaves Devon no choice but to push Josie away.

When Kate Alexander, a successful erotic romance author, attends a BDSM weekend in the city, she tells herself it's just for research. Yet she finds herself captivated by the devastatingly handsome Master John, who promises to make her deepest, darkest fantasies come true. Drawn in by his charisma and dominant will, Kate falls too far, too fast, into an erotic submission that threatens to blow her safe little world apart. In time, when the possibility of a loving exchange of power presents itself, will Kate find her way to the heart of submission?

Den lange, dejlige sommerferie var en skønne dag forbi, og Tommy og Annika begyndte i skolen igen. Pippi fandt stadigvæk, at hun var klog nok uden skolegang. Hun sagde meget bestemt, at hun ikke havde i sinde at sætte sine ben i skolen, før den dag kom, da hun absolut ikke kunne klare sig uden at vide, om søsyg skulle staves med stort eller lille s. Men eftersom jeg aldrig er søsyg, behøver jeg i første omgang ikke bekymre mig om stavningen, sagde hun. Og hvis jeg virkelig engang skulle gå hen og blive søsyg, så har jeg andet at gøre end at stave til det.