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So I’ve had a baby. But motherhood isn’t quite how I imagined. I don’t live in a lovely cottage with roses around the door. I don’t know how to get Daisy to sleep. I don’t own a baking tray. And then there’s Daisy’s sh*tbag of a father... When Juliette has a baby, she knows her life isn’t sorted. Not by a long way. And most especially not with Nick, long-term boyfriend and father of her child. Far from living the dream family life, Juliette and Nick rent a city apartment and share a tiny, shiny elevator with executives and their takeaway Thai meals.

So I’m knocked up again. Preggers. Up the duff. Or to put it another way...whoops. And while Alex and I get our heads around unexpected parenthood, I’m having all the usual pregnancy symptoms: throwing up, indigestion, sciatica, constipation, migraines and brain-fuddling tiredness. Mother Nature is a psychopathic old hag. Luckily, modern science offers some lovely distractions in the form of cruise ships and European air travel.

As a mother, I imagined myself somewhere between Mary Poppins and Jules Oliver. You know - growing my own courgettes, laughing whilst covered in mud, possibly having my own kiddie clothing range...that sort of thing. But unforeseen circumstances have thrown me far from vegetable patches and spoonfuls of sugar. I am currently a single mother, living with my parents. And this New Year, I am in need of a major detox. What am I detoxing? Daisy’s father, Nick.

For Lizzie Riley, switching her six-year-old son, Tom, to the local academy school marks a fresh start, post divorce. With its excellent reputation and delightful red-brick building, Lizzie knows it'll be a safe space away from home. But there's something strange happening at school. Parents are forbidden from entering the grounds, and inside there are bars across the classroom windows....

Following the events of Seared into Shadow, Victoria Wight and Sarintha Malik are raising twins mere miles from the Accident Zone, where modern technology is still continuing to fail, leaving the city of Macallister in chaos. The children grow up under surveillance, while elsewhere in the city, the Occult prepares to make another attack. Can the teenaged twins evade both the government that wants to study them and the cult members who want to use them to bring an old enemy back to power? This is the second book in a trilogy detailing the battle for the future of the city of Macallister and ...

I told my daughter a terrible lie.... Lorna never told her 16-year-old daughter the chilling truth about her real father. But one morning, she finds Liberty missing - and realizes the teenager has left to find the man she once fled from....

Hunter Cade is my brother’s best friend. He’s also the most sinfully sexy guy in high school. Lean, muscular, and with a tussle of chocolate-brown hair. And for the rest of my senior year, he’s living in my house. But Hunter is totally off-limits. My brother insists I stay away from him. Yet that doesn’t stop Hunter from flirting with me every chance he gets. Sending private little smiles my way when nobody’s looking. But after our flirting finally results in the best kiss of my life? Hunter abruptly leaves town without a word.

I never had a thing for football players. That is, until I met Dallas Lockett. He’s the star player for the Salt Lake City Stallions. Football’s hottest, swooniest, most charming quarterback. A rich and famous playboy who could have anyone he wants. Yet for some reason, he wants me. The first big problem? Dallas has a strict no-girlfriend policy during the season. A policy which he - and his teammates - make very clear to me. But based on the way he looks at me in the locker room, that policy is being stretched to its limit.

So I’m knocked up again. Preggers. Up the duff. Or to put it another way...whoops. And I am in NO WAY prepared for the shit-storm of pregnancy. While Nick and I get our heads around unexpected parenthood, I’m having all the usual pregnancy symptoms: throwing up, indigestion, sciatica, constipation, migraines, and brain-fuddling tiredness.

Brody Carter is everything a girl could ever want. Strong, charming, insanely hot - and with a sizzling Texas twang to his deep voice. Not to mention the sense of humor. But at the end of our amazing night, after I gave him my number? He never called me. Now it’s three months later. I’m a cheerleader on the Salt Lake City Stallions. And I just learned that Brody Carter is the team’s Tight End. Which means it’s literally my job to watch his chiseled body run around, all covered in sweat. Yet neither of us can forget the amazing first date we shared.

Don’t fall in love with your players. It’s my number-one rule as a football coach. But after meeting Steve Cooper? That rule is going to be put to the test. Steve is the smoldering-hot captain of the defense. He stalks the field like a panther. Dangerous, powerful, and ready to strike. And in the locker room? He sends brooding glances my way. Steve and the rest of the defense don’t trust me. Why would they? But underneath the teases and taunts, there’s a powerful connection between Steve Cooper and myself....

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation to Rome. Then, the pandemic hit. Now, I’m quarantined in an empty hotel until things blow over. But considering who’s in the room next to mine, things could be a lot worse. Donovan Russo is the full package. Tall, tan, and stupidly handsome. It started when I traded him a bottle of wine for fresh pasta, but now, we’re using any excuse to hang out together.

I wasn’t even supposed to be in this stupid town. A detour gone wrong and a corrupt small-town sheriff. Now I’m stranded a hundred miles from civilization, with a hundred hours of community service. But guess who the judge partnered me up with? Jayce Hawkins is the bad boy I never knew I wanted. Long hair, and bulging muscles I want to sink my teeth into. Not to mention a cryptic tattoo sleeve on his right arm. And even though he starts off as my grumpy community service partner, I can see the hungry, lustful look he gives me....

Human cloning. Technology evolves faster than we do. The law shields us from our worst temptations. But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach - perfection and ascension or delusion and destruction. The choice is ours. In this collection of clone-themed stories, 10 of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality and built-in societal restraints and reflect upon our state of grace. Similar is not necessarily the same.

Suzy and Demi were carefree twenty-somethings. They had fun! They didn’t have responsibilities! And then they decided to have a baby. Goodbye lazy weekends, hello sleepless nights, arguments and an addiction to industrial-strength hot chocolate. Follow Suzy on the ultimate make-over - from nervous-wreck new mother to happy families. In this hilarious and refreshingly honest account for parents who prefer the realistic to the utopian, Suzy debunks the myths and takes us all along for the (bumpy) ride.

Lizzie Riley is sure that the local academy school, with its excellent reputation, is perfect for her eight-year-old son Tom. But there's something strange happening at school. Parents are forbidden from entering the grounds and there are bars across the classroom windows. Why is Tom coming home exhausted, unable to remember his day? What are the strange marks on his arm? And why do the children seem afraid to talk?

Some charities are not what they seem. The enigmatic world of Victorian intrigue collides with dark magic and plague. In a Victorian world ravaged by a mysterious plague, Charity's telepathy is both her salvation and her curse. As her father, Lord Carolinus, wields his power to control every aspect of Charity’s life, her metaphysical abilities are her only defense against his cruelty. Her fate becomes intertwined with the once-privileged Bridgette, a fallen Lady willing to risk everything for revenge. They begin a dangerous struggle which might unravel the fabric of their society in order...

In a land where touch is banned, only telepathic interrogation can reveal the secrets of a corrupt church. Years after the plague has been lifted from Albion, people live in fear of telepaths, wearing gloves at all times. Mere touch has become taboo, and the Church of the One True Way rules the land with an iron fist. Using the new railroad, Jairden travels throughout Albion searching for evidence with which to blackmail the High Priests. He adopts young telepath Alexandra, who apprentices with him as she grows, at first delivering messages and later, conducting interrogations, all the ...

In the conclusion to the Threads of Magic trilogy, Charity and Bridgette vow to bring justice to their plague-ridden Victorian world that is ruled by corrupt Lords and dark magic wielding High Priests. Still reeling from the loss of a loved one, Charity is running out of time to save the rest of her friends. She does something she thought she’d never do: ask her father for help. Bridgette must heal her relationship with Rose and learn to control her burgeoning powers while Charity faces her ultimate challenge, healing a plague victim while under public scrutiny in the place Bridgette ...

Experimentation to cure violent tendencies goes horribly wrong. Gabriel Pullman is more than a little put out about being psychic, especially given that it keeps getting people around him killed. He was a victim of a revolutionary new medical procedure: an aggressive, preventative treatment of mental illness. Those who received the unexpected side effects of sensory hyperstimulation and even telepathic abilities call themselves the Damaged. The military recruits Gabriel to negotiate with the leader of the Damaged rebels, who are out for revenge against the society that has mistreated them, ...