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Too many men, not enough time. Jody isn’t used to juggling men and has no interest in it. When a coven of warlocks turn up in Harrow Bay, she doesn’t like their leader’s interest in her any more than she likes having them in her town. The mayor is persistent with his attempts to get better acquainted, and she’s clinging to her determination to make Drake believe there’s nothing between them. Willa is struggling to come to terms with her unexpected attraction, and Isabel has more of a love life than she wants when Artie pops the question.

Eighteen-year-old orphan Harriet Thomson has resided with a distant cousin’s aristocratic household since the age of five, first as companion to Prudence, the youngest daughter of house, later as carer of Pru’s ailing father. When he dies, she has to make her own way in the world and finds work as companion to the elderly Countess Arden, who resides in the Dower House on the Hertfordshire estate of the dashingly handsome Duke of Fairbridge.

A chance encounter convinces Vesta that she can find the way to reincarnate in her next life as herself to preserve the power and wealth she has worked so hard to create. But a tarot reading turns her world upside down, sending her on a desperate journey to prevent a tragedy. While a vicious enemy hiding in plain sight is determined to stop her from discovering the life-changing truth about herself and the world.

My husband and I are experts in sensory deprivation, and we are just about as expert in the world of BDSM as we could be. When we decided to put the two things together, it ended up being the most intense experience I could imagine. Not only did I have my first anal sex, but I did so while bound to the bed and completely deprived of sight, hearing, and speech!

Conni macht Geschenke. Diese Weihnachten will Conni die Geschenke für Mama und Papa selbst basteln. Deshalb dürfen ihre Eltern auch nicht mehr in Connis Kinderzimmer, denn dort hat sie jetzt eine richtige kleine Weihnachtswerkstatt. Mit Schere, Kleber, schönem Papier und bunten Perlen wird losgebastelt. Papa soll einen Stiftehalter bekommen und Mama eine Kette. Conni erlebt die Jahreszeiten. Conni wartet bereits ganz ungeduldig auf den Frühling, denn dann wachsen endlich Blumen in ihrem Beet. Auch im Sommer gibt es einiges zu erleben: Sie kann im warmen Meer baden und Marienkäfer beobachten.

When five-year-old Leo disappears after leaving school, it sets a chain of events in motion that will change the lives of the local residents forever. Ashton committed a terrible crime as a child, but he’s determined to put the past behind him and build a new life for himself – where no one knows his dark secrets. But Lynda, a stern secondary school teacher, recognises the troubled boy from all those years ago, bringing him the unwelcome attention he fears.

What if you could increase your income, health, and happiness with a few simple steps? How would your life be different if you had more financial freedom, time flexibility, energy, motivation, confidence, and self-belief? What if you could hit your business, personal, and financial targets easily, and make a huge difference in this world? Imagine waking up every morning with no boss, looking forward to your day, working and living with purpose, passion, and profit.

From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the magical gothic halls of the Scholomance trilogy to the fairy tale worlds of Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik's most beloved worlds. Within this anthology, we move from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Black Death, and into the modern era.

When a small town girl crosses paths with her Scottish ex, she fakes a relationship to pretend she’s over him. But now they have to work together, and it’s getting harder to lie. Inspired by the song “Exile” by Taylor Swift and Bon Iver. Sonny McIntyre. For four years Cricket Stone thought he was her soulmate. The way he always put her first. Their all-night conversations and all-morning love sessions. Not to mention Sonny’s sexy lopsided smile, the roll of his Scottish accent, and the fact that his dog loved her best.

Cam likes me. He’s asked me on a date. It’s kind of unbelievable. He could have any girl he wants, yet his eyes landed on me. Can this be real? Do I go for it?

When my latent powers emerge and I accidentally kill my boss, I am thrust into the supernatural world with a Fairy Godmother, a pig, and a sexy sidekick. The power of wishing is rare and dark. It caused the last person who possessed it to turn on her people and destroy everything. If I can't learn to control my new magic, I could suffer the same fate.

I’ve just lost everything. My grand plan for college with my best friends has gone up in smoke. I have to look after my siblings now. I’m all they’ve got left. My parents stated in their will that they want Beck to look after us on his farm. But why? We haven’t seen him in years. Now two orphaned families are supposed to squish into his crusty old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere? This isn’t going to work. But I’ll go. Just for a couple of weeks. That’s what Mum and Dad would want me to do. What I don’t expect is for Tane to still be living on the farm.

Big Red is more than a pet…so much more. The large ginger ball of fluff is not the only one taken, which is a catastrophe for the owners who, like Maddie, consider them family. Of course, the body found behind her bakery takes precedence, with the police and the town is scared, but why is no one else searching for the pets? Sheriff Tanner, who happens to be her ex-boyfriend, is doing what he can to solve both crimes. Still, Maddie can’t sit by and wait. Going against her darling Gran’s wishes, she once again does her own detective work - with a little help from her friends.

Grace Petrucci strongly disbelieves in marriage—and divorce rates back her up. She’s happiest when she takes her Cessna into the sky, far above the fray of personal drama. Little does she know that the man she remembers as a nerdy teenager is about to send her into an emotional tailspin when they unexpectedly meet at a Las Vegas wedding.

1675—Plymouth Colony—Verity Parker promised to look after her family. Raised among the bookshops and turmoil of Reformation London, Verity now finds herself in Puritan New England, where she must learn to keep her head down and her mouth shut, or risk dire consequences.

In 1968, eccentric billionaire Joseph Jennings builds a nuclear bunker deep within a mountain in Alaska. The caverns have been used by humans before: Ancient paintings depict figures surrounding an altar, worshipping a dark, monstrous creature. Jennings' behavior becomes increasingly erratic: He never leaves the bunker and becomes obsessed with the paintings and the creature. He disappears. The cavern is abandoned. The project aborted. Fifty years later, the bunker has been transformed into the Sanctuary.

Dark and sinfully sexy Noah King thought he'd left his past behind in New York. He should have known better. The past isn't not done with him yet. Leia Michaels thought she was finally free. Free of the shadows of her past. Free to contemplate a future with Noah. She should have known better. The past isn't done with her either.

When witch Astra Arden agrees to a Valentine's Day date with Jason Bishop, she expects a romantic evening filled with chocolates and champagne—not bread and water in a jail cell. Astra is excited to spend Valentine's Day with handsome local middle school teacher Jason Bishop—but things take a turn for the unexpected when a retired local teacher, Unity Priestpoint, turns up dead, shot and stuffed in a trunk covered in magical symbols.

Sadie Alden calls on her guardian to help her take care of her new year’s resolution, get her familiar out of the house, but developments in her personal life have created a rift between them. Ryder believes that her engagement is a huge mistake and is willing to risk it all to keep her and Miller apart. In the process of tracking down the perfect apartment for Fitz, Sadie stumbles upon an unusual building that has suddenly gained a vacancy.

At the request of an old college chum, former CIA operative and private investigator Mari Ellwyn investigates the blackmailing of a CEO amid a high-profile IPO deal and a motivated witness determined to expose him for corruption and fraud. Mari’s new partner, Derek Abernathy, tries to help uncover the truth behind the accidental death of two farm workers in the Central Valley, only to discover that they weren’t accidental, and they’re connected to a seamy underworld of illegal drug manufacturing and toxic chemical dumping....