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Even the strongest of vampires has a breaking point: for Marcelle, it was being tortured by a witch in New York and trying to return to her regular existence as if nothing had happened. She has too much to do to allow herself to focus on something as trivial as trauma. Occult hunters accost her witch allies; an aggravating pyromancer needles a fiery thorn in her side; and the coronation of one of her lovers, the vampire crown prince of New Ulster, Setanta, has her full attention. Not only that, but her newest lover, the necromancer and healing witch Sarai, has trials of her own to face and a reckoning to come with her formal introduction to the vampire royal court at the Midnight Festival. Marcelle and her lovers must face the demons of the past and future, or she may lose the new love desperately needs.

When Wendell Worthy decides to blow off laundry for the day, he has no idea he'll soon be running across downtown Kansas City in his tighty-whities. But a murderous, psychotic drug dealer has his brother and the ransom's a cup of chili that has to be delivered within two hours. The catch? There are rules in place: no rides, no money, no help. An...

Minneapolis P.I. Lyle Dahms investigates the murder of an old high school buddy. The dead man, now a highly successful software developer, is found repeatedly stabbed with swastikas carved into his corpse. Suspicion promptly falls on the dead man's son, a high school student who had gone virtually overnight from star athlete and scholar to rebel...

Benjamin Ambrose has an interesting problem: he keeps dying without cause and with very little warning. So far, he's died over a dozen times and been brought back again. It's disconcerting, and he needs a solution. Magenta Rask, of mixed race and limited education, grew up rough on the streets. She's been told her talent for connecting with people's energy could provide healing, but she's not convinced. When Benjamin seeks Magenta's help, she sees a quick way to make money and seize independence. She has no idea that two Buffalo-born opposites together will have a powerful effect on a city brought to its knees by a monster blizzard. Or that sometimes a girl must risk all she is for the sake of love.

When the gate between Earth and Fairie blows up and traps Theodora Edwards in the mystical realm, she must work together with her guardian and the dark prince to locate and safeguard a magical key that powers the Light Court. While learning to properly use her fae magic, Theo is forced to fend off an abduction attempt by wraiths, locate a missing castle, tame a dragon king, and have a friendly chat with the dead queen. But with all of Theo's efforts going toward protecting those she loves, she struggles to find time to explore the possibility of a romantic relationship-and the insecurities that come with it.

Tammy and Greg meet at a party in the Perth hills and sneak away to a disused gravel pit to be alone. They are interrupted by two men burying something who then attack Greg and chase a naked Tammy throughout the night. She is found the next day, delirious and suffering hypothermia. She tells Detective Sam Collins and Jenny Markham what she witnessed and reports Greg's murder. But his body is found in a car wreck, and the crash report says he died because of alcohol and speed on a sharp bend. This casts doubt on Tammy's story and Sam wonders if she imagined the incident. Doubting the official crash report, he and Jenny investigate further and discover two serial killers, who have been burying their victims at the gravel pit, for seventeen years. Sam must lead a huge police task force to try find them before they kill again.

Special Agent Laci Duvall, AFOSI, expects her life to be like her favorite beverage. Sweet and strong. So, what happens when someone throws a lemon in her sweet tea? She finds who did it and gets even. But fate drops a twisted tea bag when lead investigator and Charm City Heartthrob, Baltimore City Police Detective Antonio Desio walks into the room. He's the one Laci abandoned to marry the dead man before them, and he bypasses tea for fine Italian wine. This case has the markings of a guzzling sweet tea straight-from-the-pitcher kind of day, and Laci and Desio learn they have to work together to solve it. She'll deal with her feelings for Desio later.

After being humiliated on a reality singing show, PR assistant Skye Peters is merely existing. She's beyond bored with her life, including her well-meaning but clueless boyfriend, Teddy. While hiding in a closet to avoid Teddy's attempted marriage proposal, Skye is inexplicably shot by a masked intruder. When she awakens, she finds herself in a strange reality where she is a famous pop star with millions of fans and a sexy Scottish husband. Life seems idyllic at first, but the cracks rapidly begin to appear. Skye seeks solace in Teddy, but he doesn't know her in this new world. Will she get a second chance at her old life or is she destined to be stuck in a reality she doesn't want?

Eliot "Scorp" Traversini is no stranger to pain. He has inflicted it on his enemies and felt it on his own flesh. Beneath his gruff exterior, he conceals a horrific past that drove him to self-destruction. But his reckless lifestyle must stop when he rescues his kid sister from a disturbing situation and becomes her guardian. Quinn loves her new apartment building but not Scorp, her neighbor. The tattoo-covered brute is annoying, persistent, and hotter than a New York summer. Having been burned by smooth-talking guys, she wants nothing to do with the menacing man. But how can she say no when he asks for help, not for himself but for a child? As Scorp and Quinn bond over his sister, they spark a passion they never expected. But dark secrets and unrelenting fears threaten their newfound romance.

Intelligent, charismatic, and successful, Val Nikolov has achieved everything he's ever wanted, thanks to a wish made on his grandmother's magical amulet. Alex Weaver, however, can't seem to get her life in order. As a temp-agency lawyer helping Val's company prepare to be acquired, Alex has no hope that she will ever land a full-time job as an attorney (or convince her boyfriend to marry her). When one of Val's key engineers abruptly departs, the acquisition is suddenly at risk. Hoping to salvage the deal, Val asks Alex to travel with him to Israel for a meeting with the decision-makers. The more time Val and Alex spend together, however, the more they question the things they thought were most important in their lives. Soon, they find themselves at a crossroads, having to choose between the lives they've always wished for and their hearts' true desire.

The Lafitte brothers were privateers, legally commandeering ships and cargoes with permission from the USA and Spain. They were also American patriots who assisted Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans against the British (1814-15). Their lieutenants, heroes of these stories, are entirely fictional characters. Christian must win the trust of the governor's niece to free Lafitte, but she isn't in her uncle's good graces. Shipwrecked off the Texas coast, a German beauty is taken to Lafitte's camp by Marc Rochelle-his Creole mistress is not happy. Bored with proper society, Emily Clayton longs for adventure, but is she ready for the man from a dark-hulled ship that flies no flag? Romance is the same as it was two hundred years ago.

Maeve Jackson is starting over after a broken engagement-and mustering out of the Army. No job and no prospects, she spins out on black ice and totals her car. When struggling vintner Luke Kaylor stops to help, they discover they're distantly related. On a shoestring budget to convert his vineyard into a winery, he makes her a deal: prune grapevines in exchange for room and board. But forgotten diaries and a haunted cabin kickstart a five-generational mystery with ancestors that have bones to pick. As carnal urges propel them into each other's arms, they wonder: Is their attraction physical...or metaphysical?

An American scientist is willed a castle in Cornwall. To inherit he must arrive on All-Hallows-Eve. At the castle gates stands a beautiful red-haired woman, but she vanishes into the night. He soon learns of the tragic tale of Aidan and Alyssa d'Morgan ... Alyssa d'Morgan burned as a witch for refusing to wed her dead husband's father in 1644 haunts the castle where she died. She has sworn not to rest until she is reunited with her husband and soul mate, Cai. Aidan d'Morgan, re-incarnated soul of Cai d'Morgan, is reborn in the 1800s and wins back Castle Thornwood on the turn of a card. He quickly finds the castle is haunted by a beautiful woman who speaks to him in his dreams. However, these are not simply dreams, but a past life, which he must revisit to find an answer to an age-old curse...

When Joel Tyler drove away from the factory to pick up the load of his rejected creation, the last thing he expected to see was a hitchhiking bride. He didn't have time for this. Besides, he had enough troubles of his own without picking up more. But he couldn't leave her on the side of the road. Maddy Hayden was exhausted. She'd run away from a terrible situation without a plan or a destination. Hitchhiking was a bad idea. Worse was getting in a truck with a man traveling alone. He was probably a serial killer. Whatever. It was a suitable end to this day. When two people who are having the worst day of their lives meet, they can either crash and burn, or save each other.

DARK Officer Jack Thorne joined the antiterrorism task force for one reason only-to exact revenge on the smuggler responsible for the tragedy that haunts him. Vacationing in Italy, Sophie Rinaldi overhears her host plotting to sell weapons-grade uranium to terrorists. She flees, but the man's car strikes her. She ends up in the hospital, the last crucial weeks erased from her mind-and still a target for murder. Whether Sophie is an accomplice or merely a witness, to find out what she knows, Jack must keep her safe. As Sophie and Jack race to stay ahead of hired killers, they find it impossible to deny their growing attraction. Jack is torn between his longing for Sophie and his pledge of vengeance. And how can Sophie fall for this tormented man who doesn't trust her? If she regains her memory, what she knows could destroy them both...

Two-and-a-half years ago, the journey to Raiven was more real to Seraphina than anything she's ever experienced. Lately, the twelve-year-old is having dreams and visions that Raiven and the rainbow crystal are in trouble again. But Seraphina isn't alone in her dreams with a specific message. Sweet and innocent Ava, and the new, cute kid with autism, Enzo, dream about strange things they don't understand, as well. The message that all three dream about? Come and bring the Special Boy Who Could.

When Sophie Harris is drawn back in time through the pages of an old diary, she lives the life of Emma McLeod in 1865 Western Australia. As Sophie moves back and forth between her own time and Emma's, she finds that Emma is about to lose her family, her love, and her life to one man's greed. While in her own time, Sophie realizes there is a way to change Emma's fate, unaware that changes she makes in the past will also alter her own future, as well as that of a man she has yet to meet.

Lanie Ricci is a Yankee, a fashion conscious liberal and a pacifist. She grew up in New York City, in a catastrophically dysfunctional family and when she met charming and sexy Junior, she thought he was the answer to her hopes for a happy life and married him. He wasn't. Now that he is dead by her own hand, and with the help of her best friend Lisa, she escapes to the Deep South to start over. Her first event is attending a wedding in a double-wide, where she meets an enigmatic senator's son. Not long after beginning their steamy affair, Lanie becomes the target of an unseen predator who seems more than a little familiar with her past. Is her new man Prince Charming or the devil in disguise? When her past threatens her present, Lanie and her best friend go on a fact-finding journey to get answers. Their lives depend on it.

It's April 1944, England is preparing to take the war back into Europe, and the girls of the Air Transport Auxiliary Mystery Club become mixed up in a desperate fight to save a dear friend from forces who would threaten the very existence of the country. The girls find solace in their deep friendship, even though the presence of a Nazi spy ring ...

High school gossip...a death glare from a rival girl? Charlie takes them in stride. But her mother's murder and her dad's disappearance send her off the rails. Therapy sessions get her to college, where she spots her missing dad in a film and races to Los Angeles to find him. A lead takes her to a low budget zombie movie production in the desert. The crew say her dad died, but Charlie keeps investigating. Could the aging film star or the creepy man who writes in Russian Cyrillic script help lead her to her father? Or will Charlie find another truth, one she doesn't want to hear?

Aether, a peaceful village steeped in elemental magic, smolders in the aftermath of an attack-- Zephyr Anani, Guardian of the House of Air, stands among the wreckage, her hands itching for her crossbow. When Mr. Heller--the brainwashed, elementally enhanced henchman of their nemesis--storms in and kills the man bent on destroying Aether, Zephyr finds herself inexplicably drawn to the mysterious soldier. Although he can't remember his name or where he comes from, Heller knows without a doubt, Aether is the most wondrous place he's ever been. While he tries to uncover his memories and protect Zephyr, he finds himself falling for the beautiful Guardian. Can the duo come together to unravel his past, free a captive Aetherian, and stop the plot against her people?

After a coffee date from hell, Sally Estes and her friends come up with an idea for a business-The Widower Whisperers, LLC. They train Newbies, recently widowed and divorced men, on how to start living again and to do the things their wives used to do for them. The hardest part is teaching them how to treat and court a contemporary woman. Little did Sally know this new venture would change all their lives forever, bringing back a man from her past she can't remember and a history she wants to forget. What started out as a promising enterprise now threatens to destroy her friendships and everything she's worked so hard for.

After leaving her abusive ex, American scholar Brielle DeVolt embarks on a career-changing opportunity, the renovation of Laird Colin MacDougall's Chapel ruin. The attractive, broad-shouldered Laird leaves her weak-kneed, but can she trust herself to love again? Dusted in construction dirt, the curvy beauty in his study captivates Colin. As Brie...

Sixteen-year-old Luca Esposito is in detention again. "Guess who's selling her prom tickets?" Nathan asked with a goofy grin. "It's Piper Kraft. Your ex." Luca's heart stopped. They broke up ten months ago, but he can't get Piper out of his mind. Could this be his chance to win her back? Just two problems: she hates him, and there are only twelve hours to prom. The clock is ticking. Can he pull off the world's most amazing Promposal and recapture the girl he loves?

What if you discovered the man you trusted above all others has a secret life? Attorney JD Ellis' world begins an inward spiral when her fiance Derrick is arrested for murder and his secret life as a BDSM Master is revealed. Building his defense seems insurmountable with every lie and secret she uncovers. When offered an invitation to the annual...

Hunted by a creature that wants to consume the ghosts on her skin, Elena Cain flees to her family home to find her childhood friend, Chloe, floating face down in the pool. Accused of following in her mother's murderous footsteps, she teams up with the one man who believes her, the victim's brother--and her former flame. Sebastian Castillo can't

Sugar Plum fairies eat your heart out. Madison Reynolds has visions of a different kind dancing in her head. Home for the holidays in Cedar Bend, Colorado, Madison must focus on helping her bedridden pregnant sister, not fantasize about the one who got away. But how is she supposed to forget about her high school crush when she bumps into him at...

Three very different sisters find the loves of their lives if they will accept fate's interference in their quest. Bea and her younger twin sisters search for the family denied them only to find three men willing to make them a home.

Eric Walters isn't exactly living his best life. He works in the IT department of a hospital, where he begrudgingly interacts with his coworkers while counting the minutes until his next break. He's stuck in a rut and oblivious to nearly everything around him, which frustrates no one more than his best friend, Sara. Eric's routine is interrupted...