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It's been a stressful couple of months for Bartender Hope Foster, so her best friend Ruby treats her to an afternoon of holistic pampering with Therapist Pandora Williams. But what should be a relaxing getaway turns into a murder scene when Hope and Ruby stumble across Pandora’s lifeless body in the kitchen next to a killer cocktail. Hope is convinced that the police are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to suspects. But as she digs further into Pandora's past, it's seems she's opening the proverbial box.

Forget the night she nearly died. Forget the weeks and months and hospitals that followed. And, mostly, forget Reed. The boy she nearly married. The boy she loved. The boy who woke up from the accident and couldn't remember. Seven years later, Cooper finally has her life back on track. She's got a home, a career, and a man who waited patiently for her heart to heal. Then, just as it starts to pay off to forget, fate threatens to steal it all away a second time.

Four months before the world ended, Melanie met Logan, the guy of her dreams. Too bad her younger sister’s drama screwed things up – again. Now, with most of the population dead and the future uncertain, Melanie isn’t sure what to think when he pops up. She’s level-headed enough to know that romance can’t cure heartache or protect her from zombies, but that doesn’t mean it can’t help distract her from how horrible things are....

Some people like a little chaos. Not Sarah. Growing up in a house of humiliating filth means she has three crystal-clear goals: Get through college, however she can. Keep her four-year-old sister away from her mom’s hoarding. Never, never let disorder take over her life. Of course, studying, working, and taking care of a toddler mean Sarah has no time for fun. Until she meets Zac. He’s sweet, he’s funny, they have compatible plans for the zombie apocalypse. But Sarah can’t let him in.

Between school, two jobs, and trying to get into NYU film school, Bailey Banfield has zero time for a social life. But then she meets Alex in her express lane at the grocery store, and their secret friendship becomes the only place she can breathe. She refuses to complicate that with more. No matter how charming Alex can be. When Bailey decides to film outrageous promposals for her NYU application, she enlists Alex's help to plan an over-the-top, epic promposal to someone else. Too bad the only prom date Alex wants anywhere near Bailey is him.

While I’m enjoying a spicy caramel apple surprise at our local ice cream parlor, an old lady in rags rambles nonsense about candy canes to children waiting for Santa. That distracts me from prepping my young friend Cat for her college interview at Hawthorne University. Christmas turns into creepy Halloween when all the local children, including Cat, disappear in the woods. Bryce and I search our forest but become spellbound. All this voracious casting heralds the arrival of a new witch in town. The Candy Crone.

Two years ago, a trendy diet drink called SlimPro left my world in ruins. The Contamination turned people like my mom and dad into violent, shambling creatures. Now, the rehabilitated ones are being sent home with shock collars connected to their brains to control their aggressive impulses.

Audrey Toller was twenty-two years old. She had recently graduated from Berkeley, with a major in journalism She was a very attractive girl with a slender figure, blue eyes and a pretty face framed in auburn hair. In school she had been a good student, always getting top honors. She dated frequently but never had a steady boyfriend. Whenever any guy seemed to get close, she broke off the relationship. There was a reason that she shied away from any relationship. She was unsure about her past

It's the start of my second year of graduate school at Hawthorne University. (I wasn't canned, okay?) Bryce and our dean organize an orientation meeting to recruit witches. Yep, it's time to teach Alondra's "honors" program. Everything goes fine until that slithery snake-witch, Adder, barges into my home. She claims I'm cursing her master, Enora, haunting the dreams of her Abaddon coven. I'm not. Honest. But sometimes Alondra pops up inside me, acting outside of my control.

What do you get when you mix two sisters, their puppy dog, and a bunch of mischievous farm animals? A lot of fun, a lot of trouble, and important lessons learned. Join CoCo and Jo on their fun-filled adventures on the farm, where life is never boring, but sometimes things go wrong, and the sisters have to face the consequences. When mistakes happen, will they find a way to work it out together? Discover the joys and challenges of farm life and sisterhood in this heartwarming tale.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Neon Gods comes two spicy romances, here in one volume. When you are drawn to someone you can’t have, do you run away from the danger or toward it?

Alina Martin has done everything to make her family proud—business school, long hours at her father's corporate empire, doing secretarial work despite her business skills. She even obeys her father's rule that she must marry before she inherits his company and allows him to pick her suitor. But before she can carry out her destiny, her husband Todd seizes the company from her control, leaving her with nothing. And then Alina is killed in a suspicious accident.

Brooke Parker never expected to find herself in the tiny town of Juniper Falls, Minnesota. Of course, she also never expected to lose her dad. Or for her mom to lose herself. Brooke feels like she's losing it . . . until she finds Juniper Falls hockey. Juniper Falls girls' hockey, that is. Jake Hammond, current prince of Juniper Falls, captain of the hockey team, and player with the best chance of scoring it big, is on top of the world. Until one hazing ritual gone wrong lands him injured, finding himself enjoying his "punishment" as assistant coach for the girls' team.

It was my senior year at Hawthorne University when everything fell apart. I mean, all my witch friends got along fine—sort of. But I was nervous about my love life. I just had to get into Hawthorne's graduate program, because my boyfriend was going to be a professor. I didn't want to lose him. I didn't want to lose anyone.

Luke Russo moved to Seaside City at the age of 12 in 1992, growing up with an unforgettable group of friends in the age of corded phones, CD players, and the first days of the Internet. Now with a family and a 12-year-old of his own, Luke looks back on the 90s with dismay at how kids these days are so different. Then, an unexpected encounter with an old friend opens the door to recapturing his past.

I didn't get to be CEO of a New York tech company by chasing whims...or women. But when wildly beautiful, fiercely independent fitness instructor Becka Baudin caught my eye across a crowded wedding reception, my body reacted with a will of its own. She wanted a sexy distraction—one night of lust in a glamorous hotel. And I was happy to oblige. Then, after the most amazing night of my life, she walked away-leaving me wanting so much more.

While Bryce and I are finally enjoying some quiet time together, a dark, shadowy figure crashes into our door. And it isn't a small black bird this time. A devil is hurt, asking for my help. Well, I just have too many problems of my own now. People don't want to talk to me. And Bryce isn't touching me. So what's a witch to do? Haul up my legs, sit on a pentagram in a circle of candles, and murmur to myself. My best friend Maddie thinks I'm under a curse. But, honestly, I feel like I have to do whatever it takes to save this town, even if it means teaming up with my archenemy witch Enora.

Bryce and I are trying to revive Alondra’s old metaphysical history class. We’re in college again, this time teaching. But it’s stressful under our former teacher’s shadow. Not only that, there’s a new demon-witch messing with my love life. So I’m going through that again. Well, at least this time I have Alondra’s magic to protect me. Actually, not only do I have her magic, her spirit is inside me, possessing me. But don’t worry, Alondra’s ghost is a positive force here to help Hawthorne. I mean…are you good, Alondra?

Lucia ‘Luz’ Torres, a junior at Silverwood Academy, an elite boarding school for impoverished students and orphans, had hoped that she would finish her junior year without drama and unscathed. But you don’t always get what you want, and she shouldn’t have been surprised that this would be no different. Gabriel Karimi runs hot and cold, from ignoring her when she saves him from bullies to suddenly wanting to be her partner in an art project. Luz can’t get a read on him, and she can’t stop thinking about him, even though she has one rule—no guys.

I absolutely adore Halloween. I love the vibrant fall colors and the fun and revelry. And Samhain (Sa-win) is a major holiday for witches because it represents our new year. It’s the time when the spirit world meets the living. So I wanted to throw a Halloween party for my students at Hawthorne University. Since the Billington frat house wasn’t available, I planned a party at my place. But as Maddie sat smiling in our circle, planning pumpkin carvings and costume contests, a visitor from my teacher’s past appeared, in tears, beside our bonfire.