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Hope and Trask are on a rescue mission that brings them back together after 10 years apart. Faith and Eddie escape Colorado Springs for sunny California on a Harley. Charity needs Tanner to save her from her abusive ex-boyfriend. These three stories focus on The Rising Sons Motorcycle Club, the toughest group of bikers in Southern California.

It wasn't his job to protect her, but there's no way he's leaving her side. Dallas McNeil had spent half his life serving his country. War and death had left him cold and hollow. Embracing the darkness of his former life, he wouldn't have much to offer anyone. Candi was a beacon of light that made his cold heartbeat again. He's always had a sweet tooth, and she was just the treat to satisfy it. She's too good for the likes of him, but he can't stay away - he needed her.

Can you get a second chance--with three men at once? We're all grown up, and we're finally in one place again. Rex, Shaun, and Taylor. My three best friends from high school. Gorgeous, successful, sexy as hell. They all came back into my life when I needed them most. I can't believe I'm having these fantasies about all of them. About having all of them at once. Then one warm night, everything explodes. They're willing to indulge my fantasies...And give me a happy-ever-after. Together.

"Twilight meets Outlander"! From USA Today best-selling series Vampire Girl, comes the next book in the saga: Moonlight Prince. For fans of Twilight, A Shade of Vampire, and Outlander, experience a fantasy romance with an original twist on an old tale. I was an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life, until I sold my soul to save my mother. Now the final battle approaches, and I am not prepared.

A distilled, crystal-like companion to H is for Hawk, Birds Art Life celebrates the particular madness of chasing after birds in the urban environment and explores what happens when the core lessons of birding are applied to other aspects of art and life. Moving with ease between the granular and the grand, peering into the inner landscape as much as the outer one, this is a deeply personal year-long inquiry into big themes: love, waiting, regrets, endings.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language. In 1891 Bierce wrote and published the collection of 26 short stories which included ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’. Success and further works including poetry followed.

Despite representing the beliefs of a minority of the American public on many issues, conservatives are in power not just in Washington, DC, but also in state capitals and courtrooms across the country. They got there because, while progressives fought to death over the nuances of policy and to bring attention to specific issues, conservatives focused on simply gaining power by gaming our democracy. They understood that policy follows power, not the other way around.

Kiskeya Burgos left the tropical beaches of the Dominican Republic with a lot to prove. As a pastry chef on the come up, when she arrives in Scotland, she has one goal in mind: win the Holiday Baking Challenge. Winning is her opportunity to prove to her family, her former boss, and most importantly herself that she can make it in the culinary world. Kiskeya will stop at nothing to win - that is, if she can keep her eyes on the prize and off her infuriating teammate's perfect lips.

Six people find a thick cream envelope on their doorstep. Inside is an invitation to spend 24 hours in a crumbling manor house and be in with the chance to win a portion of one million dollars. The catch: Beechwood Castle was the site of one of the most horrific murders in modern history. The smell of blood, decay and death still hangs heavy in the air. Six people walk into the house. One of them is an imposter, all of them are traitors, which of them will survive the night?

One catastrophic night left me orphaned at the age of 17. Hunted by a murderer, Xander saved me from the pits of hell, braving a fire that would have ended my life. Hiding me from a killer, he became my protector, my best friend, but never anything more. Six years later, a friend is murdered at the hottest nightclub in Manhattan, again thrusting me into a killer's crosshairs. Now a detective with the NYPD, I refuse to hide, unyielding in my pursuit of justice, which has eluded me for so long. Determined to keep me safe, Sin forces me from the case.

I don’t take anything too seriously. Not the career that’s brought me fame and fortune, or the never-ending string of women that fill my bed, and definitely not myself. But life has a way of turning on a dime. The party is over. All the jokes have been told. One beautiful face blurs with the next beautiful body and all I feel is...empty. Until her.

Two weeks ago, I escaped Hades’ fortress. In the process, I turned him against me. So, yeah, he definitely hates me now. But I’m headed back, and I’m prepared for war. My goal? To stop his terrible plan to spread eternal darkness to the earth. To succeed, I must master my magic before it destroys me. Only Hades can teach me, however. He’s willing - as long as I agree to help him.

Essential reading for any executive, Into the Metaverse, will reshape how you think about the internet and its place for those who want to lead successful businesses, today and into the future. If the internet was first used to connect us to information, and then developed into a social media forum to connect people, then Web3, which connects people, places and things, will help enable the successor state to today’s mobile internet - the Metaverse. It will bring together and merge our physical and digital lives and Metaverse will shake things up even more.

Cass Clereaux has a few problems. Sure, she just saved her whole town and is now immortal, but immortality sucks. The same spell that made her immortal also takes away her magic. It's kaput. Finito. Gone. Being a FireSoul and finding magical treasure is who she is. Now, she couldn't find her left leg with a map. Not even if a dragon pointed the way.

Él es de otra. He’s married. He’s forbidden, but I want him.Knowing what can never be kills me. No podemos desafiar al destino, estamos destinados el uno para el otro. Ella está con él. Pero él no es digno de ese amor, y ella siempre será mi vida.I’ll burn the entire world to the ground until she rights her wrongs. This will end with us, and she knows it.

Eighteen-year-old twins Adina and Tovah have little in common besides their ambitious nature. Viola prodigy Adina yearns to become a soloist - and to convince her music teacher he wants her the way she wants him. Overachiever Tovah awaits her acceptance to Johns Hopkins, the first step on her path toward med school and a career as a surgeon. But one thing could wreck their carefully planned futures: a genetic test for Huntington's, a rare degenerative disease that slowly steals control of the body and mind.

Lily Salt has sworn off men. After finally gaining her independence, the last thing she needs is another man telling her what to do. But the handsome railroad engineer from New York isn't at all what she expected. He's kind, gentle...and tempting. A self-acknowledged black sheep, Roen Shepard knows what it means to feel alone. Recognizing a kindred spirit in the reserved widow whose fascinating blue-green eyes have seen too much and charmed by the warmth of her ready-made family, the two begin an unlikely friendship.

One hot Saturday afternoon, at a back-to-school party, nine children sneak into a barn...and only eight come out unharmed. The press immediately starts asking questions: What type of parent lets their child play unsupervised in a house with guns? What kind of child pulls the trigger on their friend? And, most importantly, of the nine children who were present in that barn, which one pulled the trigger, and why are the others staying silent?

Tiffany Tate works hard for the life she has - one that others would kill for - the only thing missing is a ring and a husband, which she desperately wants. That's why, when her long-distance boyfriend, David, asks for her hand in marriage, she thinks God has finally answered all her prayers. She doesn't hesitate to give up all she has in St. Louis to begin her new life in Texas with her fiancé. Tiffany soon discovers that David is not the same person she's come to know over the past three years, as his many secrets slowly surface.

Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger.... That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklin, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered.