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Jen Thorne is more than ready to help her best friend tie the knot - sumptuous Vegas-style - until she shows up to the rehearsal festivities and catches sight of a surprise guest. Sam Mackenna, a Scottish RAF pilot on loan to the Air Force for cross-training, has been the object of her secret erotic fantasies for months. But even with romance in the air, a hunk like him is hardly likely to choose a geek like her. When Sam and she are unexpectedly alone, the gray-eyed warrior entices Jen to share her deepest fantasies, and then throws the wildest card of all into the mix....

Brooke Valen has resigned herself to a life of adoring Samsyn Cimarron from afar. The massive warrior has been her knight in shining armor since her family was forced to seek refuge on the island of Arcadia to avoid a terrorist’s bounty. Devoted to earning Syn’s respect, Brooke fears he’ll never see her as anything more than a scrawny teen with stars in her eyes. To Samsyn Cimarron, true love is a concept best left to storybooks. Syn prefers to keep things simple with a string of one-night lovers as he focuses on the security of his country.

When deep-space pirates capture Vassily's mother, he's left to the mercy of his cruel, amoral stepfather. Fighting addiction and his physical shortcomings, he's forced to seek out the criminal mastermind Baba Yaga for a crucial piece of equipment. While she agrees to deal with him if he beats his Exoticus addiction, paranoia and mysterious intentions infuse her household. Drawn to her youngest son, and certain that his actions are all carefully observed, Vassily must find the courage to face both his fears and his desires if he expects to survive.

Divorce doesn't have to be devastating. Reject the idea that you'll be damaged by the process. In fact, if you do it right, you'll grow from the experience. You'll start your new life better than you were before.

Sir Maximilian Maselniczka isn't your typical knight. True, he's dashing, brave, and courageous. Then again, he talks to his horse, he's been known to burn castles down, and he's on the gallop from debts he owes the Bohemian mob. So Maximilian jumps at the chance to earn sacks of gold from King Bronislaw Jankowski. All for performing a little rescue mission. But it's not the typical knightly errand - to rescue the damsel from the dragon. No, this time he's going to have to rescue the kingdom's dragon from the King's extremely magical, extremely powerful, and extremely pissed-off daughter. Who said being a knight was easy?

Grant Twombley has it all - a successful career, a contacts list full of gorgeous and willing bedmates, and the ear of Los Angeles’s most prominent captain of industry. But being Sebastian Shark’s right-hand man isn’t without its challenges. Messy ones. Unknown forces still work to take down Shark Enterprises, and Grant’s full focus is needed to protect their empire. But he’s sitting on a scandalous secret. A truth he can’t even share with his best friend. Until disaster strikes.

Lines define Tracy Rhodes’s life, and she has no say in the matter once she is sworn in as second-in-command of the free world. But the lines are crushed beneath the boots of her security team’s special advisor during a high-profile event in Vegas. The towering warrior with the haunting stare shatters her composure, invades her libido, and makes her yearn for things she shouldn’t. Sweaty, illicit things…with her body pinned beneath his... John Franzen, six and a half feet of rigid composure on the outside, is a lost man on the inside. What’s he doing here?

Even optimists have bad days, but Raegan Tavish’s streak has lasted for weeks. The rising star of fashion stylists is dealing with both a bad break-up and a creative slump, so apartment sitting for her lovebird friends feels like a way to realign karma - until fate has its say. As soon as Bastien De Leon steps out of the giant wardrobe in his brother’s master bedroom, Raegan knows what kind of complication has just struck her life. The cabinet is no normal piece of imposing furniture.

Allison, a snobby rich girl who has been raised to be a miniature version of her snobby rich parents, has a secret: She wishes for all the experiences that her lifestyle has kept her from having. Especially the sexual ones. When she drunkenly admits this secret to roguish, lower class, scholarship student Todd, several years older than her and much more experienced with life and sex, she finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of fantasy.

Everything changes for realtor Tiffany, with an anonymous email to her business account where the sender describes what he’d like to do to her in vivid detail. Then she meets him at a viewing - H, owner of Club S, where patrons bid for the stage. Soon the email is being lived out in the flesh. After H asks her the question, “Have you ever had two men at once?”, Tiffany leaves.

For generations one family has been haunted by something... something that stalks. It sees and listens, it watches and follows. In the shadows and mist it waits, to take you, to hurt you, perhaps to kill you. If it doesn't kill you, you'll wish it did. A creepy, suspenseful saga of family, horror, and mystery, this is one story sure to leave you frightened of the woods at night, fog, and all things tall and slender.

Twin Falls Academy — a seething hub of overprivileged trust-fund babies and indulged elite — and my new alma mater. I’m an orphan. I am the unwashed masses that they can’t stand and they never miss an opportunity to grind that message home. Especially Rosalie Evers, the queen bee who rules with a manicured grip wrapped around the throats of everyone trapped beneath her. But I don’t care what they think. I’m just doing time at Twin Falls until I can get back to California for college.

"Pick a mate or I'll do it for you." Unwilling to sacrifice her dreams of loving the man she commits her life to, Lily makes a drastic decision and disappears into the night. For six years, her life was untouched by her old pack, but all of that changed when he walked into Gathering Grounds, the coffee book shop she worked at.

Social anxiety is a highly debilitating condition, leaving sufferers as complete nervous wrecks, no matter what the situation. There are always going to be people who tell you to "pull yourself together", without realizing exactly what it is you are going through, even though they themselves may feel of touch of anxiety when they are nervous or fearful about something. The fact is, social anxiety is a big issue, leading to far bigger symptoms that negatively affect your life.

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Caleb Ledger’s successful running battles against the Myrkur lead the cultists to try an all-for-nothing bid to stop him from escaping the seas under their control. Ahead of the new pirate captain lies a vast maelstrom, deadly currents, and decks bristling with eighteen-pounder cannon. His newfound skills and magic as a veteran Weathermancer and Corsair give him and his crew a fighting chance. Controlling the winds and boosting actions with piratical flair has worked well for him and his crew so far.

Keep calm and survive high school. That was my motto. It was easier with the Allendale Four by my side, and with college on the horizon, I had no doubt we'd have the best time of our lives. No parents. No rules. Lots of freedom. Except, even with the bullies that harassed me out of the picture, the past is hard to shake. New obstacles emerge, along with old hang-ups and bad habits.

In The Courage to Identify Who You Are, author Sharon Angel shares a blueprint for breaking the mold of cultural assimilation to discover one's true identity and walk in it confidently. She gracefully confronts and overcomes Indian traditions for marriage, beauty, and career while transparently walking us through the process of finding herself as a third-culture kid turned internationally respected journalist.

Amelia’s world grows dark as her life and love hangs in the balance. Despite the consequences, she has made her choice, and now must help the Palmers fight to find Olivia, who has been abducted by Caleb. Even if she can find the missing piece of the vampire’s narcissistic game, the damage may be irrevocable. Each member handles the fallout differently; Elijah is a wreck, Sebastian has gone missing, and Grant is on the warpath.