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Most people spend their entire working lives saving and investing money for their retirement. Sometimes, you can become so focused on this one aspect of retirement that you overlook many other equally important considerations. The number one tip to enjoying a stress-free retirement full of hobbies, travel, or whatever it is you want to do, is to make the most of these next few years by mapping out your transition into this new stage of life.

A nightmare never really goes away, it lingers bidding it's time, waiting to shatter dreams. Katrice and Graven have been bounty free now for over a year, slowly working on their dream. Gathering enough goods to set up a new home on a remote frontier planet. Kat doesn't want to wait any longer, but is in need of credits. She convinces Graven and they take a simple - yet not legal - delivery.

After Mira's biological mother had passed away, Reese was able to once again turn his attention to settling down with Laura. Convincing Laura to marry him would be the hardest thing he'd ever had to do. It was going to take some serious work to convince Laura that it was the right thing to do. Laura had her reservations, and a lot of fears to overcome. She always prioritized her career first. So, becoming a wife and a mother was a bit intimidating to her.

Los Angeles, the 1930s. The city of angels. Just beneath the surface is a city stinking of corruption with criminal bosses and politicians squeezing the life out of the city. Stunned by the murder of her crusading politician father, socialite Ellen Patrick determines to bring her father's killers to justice - at any cost! Donning a distinctive white dress and a black domino mask, she becomes the Domino Lady, one of the sexiest - and most elusive - crime fighters of all time.

Katrice Wylde, ex-Empire special forces, has just finished stealing the most advanced starship in the known galaxies, along with the AI that controls it. This task has taken two long years, but home is finally in sight. Ryker Mallory, her lover and employer, is waiting for her but the reception is not what she expects. Her ship and crew are destroyed before her eyes while Ryker watches from safety. Smiling, he sets off one last explosion to kill her.

The galaxy is at war and Jake Cutler is at the heart of it. With his friends and allies captured, it's up to teenage space pirate, Jake, to go into battle and take down the corrupt Interstellar Government once and for all. But in order to win this battle, Jake must find his father and confront secrets from his own past.

Reese is still trying to convince Laura that the two of them are a perfect fit. Laura has a lot of reservations given the situation and wants to make sure that Mira's birth mother isn't going to swoop in and take her away or change her mind. Finding out what actually happened to the birth mother puts Laura and Reese in an awkward situation, and they need to find a way to work through it together. Reese wants to marry Laura, but Laura is hesitant and wants to see how things play out before she agrees.

For Saundra Smith, life is seemingly perfect. With a home of her own on the horizon, her teaching career set to begin soon, and a loving relationship with her longtime love, Langston, life couldn't be any more perfect...until she's blindsided by news that turns her perfect world upside down. Langston made a mistake - a costly mistake. As if cheating on Saundra wasn't devastating enough, he also confesses to having fathered a child with the other woman.

Who is she? Are the answers as simple as the questions? In the end what can we know is real?

What would you do if you were called to another world; a world filled with seemingly impossible things? Faced with this choice, Davie, Ben, Anne, Chrissie, and Billy embark upon a mysterious quest, finding themselves transported to the spectacular and extraordinary world of Avalon, whereupon they are catapulted into one of the uncountable heptagonal pieces that make up the magical sphere of the Orb of Caprice; namely, the Star Realm.

Reese was a rich CEO minding his own business when a baby landed in his lap. Stunned, he had to figure out what to do with an infant while he had no prior experience with parenting. He called his lawyer, a private investigator, and a pediatrician. In that order. Taking the baby to the doctor to make sure she was healthy and getting a DNA test became priority number one for him. Reese had to make sure that the baby was actually his. When Reese meets the beautiful doctor, Laura, he's completely smitten.

The Box That Jane Built is a short story from a collection called Figments, however, deserves a starring role. Four stories to chill the blood, unless you already have ice in your veins?

Air Robertson was fine with dreaming of the perfect guy, the perfect romance, and the perfect life. But after she meets her dream guy, her own sense of doubt tries to sabotage her growing feelings for this wonderful man. How can someone as handsome and charming as Corey Travis still be single? Air wants to believe that it is fate, but she can't be sure. All the while, strange things have been happening around Air's apartment, from her front door getting vandalized to her cell receiving strange text messages.

Aspiring romance author Courtney Malone lives a rather humdrum life. Between working as a studio musician and writing her books, nothing exciting ever really happens for her. That is, until a chance meeting with a handsome man at the mall changes everything. Elijah Sharp is many things - a champion boxer, a kind soul, and the son of a billionaire boxing promoter - but what's he's not is a man in love...yet.

Driven by his single mother's dreams for his survival and success, Kevin Powell became the first in his family to attend a university, where he became a student leader keenly aware of widespread social injustice. But the struggle to define himself and break out of poverty continued into adulthood, with traumatic periods of homelessness and despair. As a young star journalist with Vibe magazine, Powell interviewed luminaries such as Tupac Shakur, writing influential chronicles of the evolution of hip-hop from his eyewitness view.

Martha Tidberry grew up knowing she was different. But that difference was far from what anyone could imagine. Even herself, in the beginning. What was she to do with that puzzling brain of hers? Except believe in the impossibility of the possible....

Across the room, through the fog of tobacco smoke, Betty notices him. His teacup is empty, his eyes are low and he doesn't speak. She wants him to notice her. She wants to impress. Fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent helps her erratic and beautiful mother run the Hotel Eden, a boardinghouse now besieged by reporters, keen for juicy gossip and eye-catching headlines. They are there because the Cornish seaside town has recently witnessed a string of murders, young girls stabbed to death.

It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies, called teknoids, that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.

A weird dream tips Henry Ian Darling into the Shadowlands. What has this to do with Brett? Ms. Peabody has a plan, but will Henry survive his quest?

On the surface, Saundra Smith seems to have her life in order. As a dedicated kindergarten teacher and loving friend, she's content - enough. But beneath that happy façade, Saundra is also hesitant to love again after a breakup shattered her heart into a million pieces. Corporate executive Chris Parrish is anxious for a fresh start in a new town, far from his ex-wife and the problems that came with her.