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Lucien's best friend Sir Roger Foxcote has long since lost the spirit of Christmas following a tragic loss. Lucien's cousin Angela Seaford Holmes is widowed and destitute. Is Lucien's gift of a portrait that Fox adores a mere Christmas gift to Angela, or is the manipulative, matchmaking duke back to his old tricks? Once again, Lucien sets in motion events that are all but guaranteed to bring together this unlikely pair.

Jute can break into any house, climb any wall, and steal anything - and he just got hired for what he thinks is an easy burglary job. The only problem is, if he succeeds, the Thieves Guild is going to murder him. He just doesn't know that. Not yet. Being a thief always came easy for him, but it's a lot harder now, particularly when everyone wants him dead. Hiding out in the city of Hearne, Jute finds some strange allies in an old wizard and a talking hawk. Together, they uncover an ancient secret of terrifying power.

Milos saves the faerie king from the witch's curse. The upset witch turns him into a frog. Now he needs a kiss from the king's daughter. The problem is that the princess is on the witch's side....

Rhiannon Evans has longed for an adventure - and a mysterious, dangerous man to sweep her off her feet. While enroute to the tropical paradise of Barbados, she never dreams that her heart will be captured by the dashing American privateer who rescues her from bloodthirsty pirates. Only Rhiannon can see beneath Connor’s reckless façade to the man beneath. But when tragedy strikes, can Rhiannon’s love save Connor from himself? Or will the secret he guards so carefully, end up being the undoing of them both?

Mark fears that his wife is cheating on him. Over the past couple of weeks, she has been growing more and more distant and shudders at his very touch. Determined to keep his new marriage afloat, he confronts her only to find the truth of the situation is far more horrific than he could have ever envisioned.

Beneath the surface of a London top university, an ancient society known as The Seechers, operate. They protect the world’s biggest secret. A hidden gateway to the subconscious world. Unlocked only by a mysterious liquid, found deep within the human brain. Dark forces close in, as subjects, known to possess the liquid, are kidnapped and experimented on.

In the last bastion of humanity, life was not all a bed of roses. On a seemingly unimportant Wednesday morning, in a seemingly unimportant dwelling, an actually unimportant inhabitant was rudely awakened…

Caught in time, Meryn watches on as his world burns. The lord's daughter, Avalyne, disappears while traveling to visit her betrothed. Tick is thrown into prison after being accused of stealing. Meryn’s broken leg leads to the discovery of a strange new ability….The kingdom erupts into seemingly unrelated chaos, and the king’s guard are left fighting an uprising of disguised insurgents—pretenders in their ranks. For all that is good, the king’s guard must get to the bottom of the dark plot of the Black Hand and save the kingdom before it’s too late.

The present work contemplates the encounters of Jesus with the principal feminine figures of the New Testament in accord with the method of prayer proposed by St. Ignatius of Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises and offers material for silent meditation. In this interior journey, the listener is accompanied in a particular way by the philosopher and Discalced Carmelite, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), and her insights, experiences, and reflections on the mystery of woman.

Kenneth Fuller, MD, an avid weekend warrior and leading psychiatrist, shares his performance enhancement skills to lead you to better, more enjoyable golf. This established authority on mental triumph delivers a methodology that uses autosuggestion to help you master your thoughts and induce a conditioned reflex. The human brain creates focus and finds the best performance zone. Playing only with the body limits the golfer. A genuine golfer plays with body and mind. The golf artist plays with mind, body, and heart. The professional golfer trusts every element unconsciously.

As many times before, Dual’s impulsive nature and reckless actions had contributed to him being flung into what was to be an almost-certain death. This story picks up largely where we left him, detailing the many twists and turns of his quite ludicrous escape(s) and subsequent more misadventures. Dual Geller was a man for whom to "stop and think" were things that "other people" did. "Other people", possibly less equipped with his superhuman-like luck, guile, and expertise.

Legitt Redd was many things to many people: lifelong friend, occasional employee, regular drunken liability.... And yet, for Legitt Redd, all facets of his personality seemed to be going nowhere fast--a speed and direction that had been carefully honed and crafted over many painstaking years. He forever lived his life not as its willful director but as its obliging passenger. Times, however, were about to change. Unwittingly, his life, and his lazy coasting attitude toward it, was about to take a dramatic turn to considerably stormier waters.

As part-time operatives, Conor McBride and Kate Chatham are trained for unexpected developments, but their current troubles have nothing to do with undercover work. Overwhelmed by meddling relatives, an engagement party they didn’t want, and their own short tempers, they’d welcome any stress-relieving antidote. They just didn’t expect it to appear in the form of stolen treasure, buried in a bloody mound of snow on a deserted back road.

A tale of space exploration interspersed with nail-biting action (or something very much like that). A ripping yarn told from the point of view of them who went there. "I tried to imagine a situation where a cast of several, are in fact one and the same. An individual trapped alone in space surrounded by versions of themselves, each with their own separate opinions. If it takes a village to raise a child, it would at least take a handful to trek through space (even if only imaginary).

Lieutenant Liam Doherty has spent his life in the shadow of his famous friend Captain Brendan Merrick. Now in his sunset years, the Irish mariner is content to watch over his late friend's family and live his life with carefree abandon. He doesn't want change, and he doesn't need shaking up. But there's that widow down in Baltimore he just can't forget....

His life devastated by tragedy, privateer Captain Kieran Merrick, youngest son of a famed New England seafaring family, sets sail for his childhood home to confront bittersweet memories. When he encounters a merchant ship adrift in the Caribbean, he discovers something he never expects...a pistol-wielding red-haired virago hiding in its cabin. Rosalie McCormack can sail a ship, shoot a gun, and run a business. But she’s fleeing scandal, and now savage pirates who seized her family’s merchant ship have something both she and her handsome rescuer want.

Annoying vampires? Talking skeletons? The fun never stops at Grimerth School for Monsters. It's Terry's first night, and he's in for quite a surprise!

Unholy gives the complete epic fantasy experience in novella form, following the story of a young boy who realizes his church's corrupt ways. Lord Jericho, the leader of the church of St. Damascus, trains students in the art of killing dragons and harnessing their magic. Isaac, a student of the church, is called to perform his final test of the year.

The Legend of Damian Bloodstone is the first novelette written by Erna J. Weissman. The story is narrated by Damian Bloodstone, a vengeful spirit long forgotten by the city of London. He will recollect the chain of events that resulted in him the ghostly defender of Paganism.

As the cadets and squires graduate from the Windom military academy, the call to a Knight's Quest summons two of the students to embark on a journey to the city of oracles, Pythia. The world is changing, struggling to find hope in new leaders while ancient threats begin to stir and thrust the cadets' plans for the future in disarray. Loyalties are tested as cadets and squires traverse the far reaches of the Day, searching for meaning, to find their purpose in life, as they embark on truly an impossible quest....