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It was supposed to be fun. A relaxing trip to a remote mountain retreat where there’s no phone reception. Three couples, friends since high school, are looking forward to a weekend of drinking, reminiscing and flirting. When someone suggests swapping partners, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. The lights will be switched off, for privacy. It’s not really cheating if you don’t know who you were with, right? But when the lights come back on, one of the men is dead. No-one can agree who was in which bedroom with whom.

Meg Morrissey has just lost her job and her partner to an overseas assignment, when she is called back to the family home of Hunters Reach in the picturesque Adelaide Hills. Her ailing grandmother, who raised her when she was orphaned as a child, has always been a formidable figure in her life and this is hardly a welcome summons. When Meg arrives at the ramshackle old homestead, she learns that the place is up for sale. She is expected to care for the property with its extensive garden, while packing up the contents of the house.

Detective Rebecca Giles has just finished interviewing aging petty crim Sticky Pete over a spate of break-and-enters when a disturbing new report comes in. Twelve-year-old Kayleen Ellis has vanished from her home in Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley. Hours later, Giles is a local hero, having apparently solved Kayleen's case and the spate of jewellery thefts. Yet the hangover from her celebrations has barely kicked in when the body of young jillaroo Ava Emmerson is discovered in gruesome circumstances on a nearby farm.

More than ever, people are looking for experiences, not products. And not just any experiences—but real ones that turn transactions into engagement and materialism into experimentalism. The pandemic has changed our view of the world, shifted us away from consumerism, and made us appreciate the basic human needs of finding balance and focus. In this new era, customer experience is not just a digital experience, but a perfect combination of real life and digital interaction.

Local vet Jana Malinski is content with her quiet life in Rivertown helping her sister run a wombat sanctuary on their family's serene property by the Murray River. But Jana's routine is up-ended after a chance encounter with handsome lawyer and single dad Mark - the man who broke her heart in high school. Jana has never forgiven him for the tragic consequences of his betrayal, and when it turns out he doesn't remember her at all, she hates him even more.

Vegetarian Instant Pot Cookbook illustrates why and how veganism can be adopted as a lifestyle. It gives tips and tricks that can help in the adoption of vegan lifestyle. The audiobook also gives numerous benefits of veganism. Vegetarian Instant Pot Cookbook has really easy and time-saving recipes. The cookbook does not only provide recipes but also gives detailed insights into the cooking time and how to use the air fryer in various interesting ways. You can also use the Air Fryer Cookbook for Beginners for cooking up quick snacks to tame your hunger.

In the cold, wet summer of 1960, 11-year-old Joy Henderson lives in constant fear of her father. She tries to make him happy but, as he keeps reminding her, she is nothing but a filthy sinner destined for Hell.... Yet, decades later, she returns to the family's farm to nurse him on his death bed. To her surprise, her 'perfect' sister, Ruth, is also there, whispering dark words, urging revenge. Then the day after their father finally confesses to a despicable crime, Joy finds him dead - with a belt pulled tight around his neck.

This is the tale of Icasia Bloom: how she is caught up in a story not initially her own, and how it changes her world. In a Globe controlled by a trusted yet elusive leader who has granted immortality to those who live by The Book, misfit Icasia Bloom is doomed to die young for the crime of her child's unhappiness. Like all "tatters", she gets food by bartering, and when she brings customers to the new local bakery, she meets another borderline outcast, Selma Beyett, whose plight touches her.

James Lauren’s deadly bloodline has made him one of the most feared and respected slayers in history. He is the perfect assassin for a one-man mission to wipe out the most powerful vampyre of them all—even if it means risking his own soul. Yet on a night train in the middle of nowhere, a renegade blue-eyed vampiress lands him deep inside a battle between the Old Realm and New Royals—and between his heart and everything he ever learned as a slayer.

Decreed by Elders, alpha Jaguar Shifters Lyon Savage and his brother must decide Pride rule in a way not seen for centuries. Under a Shifter’s Moon, a mating can take place with a chosen human to produce a child, and the father of that child will become the one Alpha. Now Lyon must choose the love of his Truemate—or accept the decree to save his Pride and secure his future.