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Alice French is an emotional wreck. She’s left her toxic lover. She’s probably going to lose her job. She’s even about to ruin her expensive heels when she stumbles upon a barely conscious stranger one night… All Alice wants to do is go home and lick her wounds, but she’s compelled to help. Who is this strange man? Why is he mumbling about a pig? And why can’t she stop flirting with Ash, the gorgeous A&E doctor?

A young woman is given a position of authority in her family's large corporation. She uses it to experiment with ways of causing humiliation, exploitation, and manipulation in a dystopian environment. Her dad, brother, and the company's Government Division draw her into a separate category of adventures including murder. Excerpts: An interesting thing happened when I ran the facial recognition program to find you. Can you be in two places a thousand miles apart at the same time?” "Why? You ask an intriguing question, sir.” “That was three days ago. Yesterday you two were five hundred ...

When the opportunity to become a war correspondent opens at her news agency, journalist Nicole Sheppard jumps at the chance to go to Ukraine. Her lifelong goal to gather news firsthand in the heat of battle and to test her mettle against the turbulence of war will finally be realized. What she doesn’t anticipate is having her heart and emotions tested as well when she meets the beautiful French doctor, Marie Dubois. As Nicole dodges bullets and Marie extracts them from the wounded, the two women struggle against a growing attraction to one another.

After seven years away, Seth and Domenico are back in Sicily with one goal in mind. Revenge. The man who’d hounded their family is still alive, and as untouchable as he’s always been. While they wait for the right moment to strike, reality clashes with fond memories of home. The world they used to know is no more than a memory, and former friends might have become foes. One thing hasn’t changed though: being gay will never be tolerated within the mafia.

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I've been stuck in a bad situation for most of my life with no escape in sight. I work all day only to come home and face derision and abuse from my stepfather and stepbrothers. Wash, rinse, repeat. Everything changes the night I sneak into the masquerade ball my stepfather forbade me to attend. The event he says will change the trajectory of his career. While there, I come face to face with a man that's supposed to be dead. A man I’m afraid may have murdered my best friend.

Declan had never met the kid who was to be his joint best man. Sam Aiken was abroad, working as an interpreter and finishing his studies. But on meeting Sam Aiken, Declan is surprised to realize the kid isn't a kid at all, but a tall, blond, and athletic young man. Declan is sure he's straight, so he's alarmed by the ferocious attraction he feels for Sam. And as the attraction is reciprocated, the events at Dunloch Castle change everything Declan has ever believed about himself.

In the vibrant streets of London, Charlie is struggling to make ends meet. To afford his mother’s care facility, he’s taken on a risky side job that forces him to sell his body. Life is tough, but Charlie remains resilient, finding solace in the camaraderie of his four best friends. When a chance encounter brings him face-to-face with Sebastian, a wealthy businessman from New York fifteen years his senior, their connection ignites a passion that neither can ignore. After a perfect night together, they are drawn back into each other’s lives, their chemistry undeniable.

Why is it that the first attractive man to look my way mistakes me for a bad guy, stuffs me in the trunk of his car, and ships me off to an island where I’m positive the only thing waiting for me is my own murder? I mean... yeah, Tavish is charismatic and fun, but did I mention the whole trunk thing? Oh, maybe I forgot to mention his peculiar group of friends who keep promising to “help” me, but why are they running around with masks and weapons while praising fences?

I finally have a chance to team up with Bradley, the hot fellow police officer that I’ve been longing to get closer to. Somehow, I haven’t scared him off, even with my awkward flirting and my father telling him that I mimed giving birth to a cat as a child. When we get a call about a missing college student, I’m eager for the chance to work a case with Bradley, especially when we realize that there might be something more going on. But Bradley and I are determined to figure it out together, even if it means that I have to walk through an adult shop with him by my side.

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In another life, I’d loved Nikki. In another life, he’d betrayed me. Brought back by a corrupt company who deals in souls and reincarnation, I was promised a chance for revenge. I wasn’t born a psychopath, but death made me into one. Nikki made me into the monster I am. The problem is, the man they say is Nikki is… different. His name is London, and he’s pure light and softness. I want to peel away his layers to see if the boy I knew—the boy who broke me—is still somewhere inside.

The stage is set for an explosive showdown. The stakes have never been higher. How far will Lexi Mills go to bring a terrorist’s reign to an end? When a top Federal Prosecutor dies in a mysterious car accident right on the heels of a landmark case against the infamous crime boss Anton Boyko, seasoned ATF Agent Lexi Mills is convinced that Boyko is linked to the Raven—the ruthless criminal mastermind she’s been hunting for months. But the Raven is always one step ahead of her.

After a career on Wall Street, Julius Hunter is content to live his life as a modern Robin Hood. Getting corrupt corporations to invest with him while he siphons their money into charitable organizations makes his blood pump, so when he's sent in to find out what the new CEO of a global company knows about money being used to fund the search for a priceless piece of artwork connected to his family, he's all in.

Gu Mang will unbedingt beweisen, dass er nicht mehr der skrupellose Mann ist, der er einst war. Doch als seine Erinnerungen langsam zurückkehren, scheint ihn der Schatten seiner verräterischen Vergangenheit zu verfolgen. Während Mo Xi und Gu Mang noch darum ringen, auf den Trümmern ihrer Vergangenheit etwas Neues aufzubauen, werden sie auf eine Rettungsmission geschickt. Ihr Ziel ist eine von Dämonen heimgesuchte Insel, die so manches düstere Geheimnis birgt.

Nach acht langen Jahren ist es Mo Xi endlich gelungen, die Wahrheit über Gu Mangs Verrat ans Licht zu bringen. Die ehemaligen Freunde und Liebenden können die Lügen der Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen – doch beide wissen, dass die Momente, die sie miteinander teilen, nur von kurzer Dauer sein werden. Denn obwohl Gu Mang darum kämpft, bei klarem Verstand zu bleiben, nagt dunkle Magie an seinen Gedanken, und seine Erinnerungen schwinden erneut.

Was Gu Mang auf der Dämonen-Insel im Zeitspiegel erlebt hat, hat ihn verändert: Zwar hat er seine verlorenen Erinnerungen zurückerlangt. Trotzdem scheint er sich nun erst recht von Mo Xi zu distanzieren – dem Mann, den er doch über alles liebt. Mo Xi steht der neuen Grausamkeit seines Freundes hilflos gegenüber. Mehr und mehr ist er davon überzeugt, dass sich hinter Gu Mangs Verrat vor acht Jahren noch immer einige Geheimnisse verbergen. Doch um ihre Mission zu beenden und nach Chonghua zurückzukehren, müssen Mo Xi und Gu Mang zusammenarbeiten.

They planned to skip Christmas. The universe had other ideas. Best friends Manny and Kyle are both freshly single and entirely over holiday cheer. Their solution? A winter getaway to the tropics—no mistletoe, no heartbreak, no drama—just sun, sand, and hookups. But when their plane vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle, they crash-land in a snow-covered world that shouldn't exist. Saved by two unbelievably attractive men, Roman and Luca—sculpted perfection wrapped in an intoxicating aura (the kind of men you dream about long after you wake up)—they find themselves guests at the most ...

A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend—the man he trusts most and might even love—only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. “An exciting space opera full of action and adventure that explores the bonds of loyalty and love, and what...

Incubus Nicodemos Azertiran is one lucky demon. He has a best friend. A tiny but livable apartment. And a job at the infamous Marden’s Magic Emporium, a magic shop that only appears in the same place once, and only when a creature is in dire need. Nico knows all about dire need. He’s been booted from his legion because his magic runs to happily-ever-afters instead of one-night stands. Not good for lust demon business. Now at Marden’s, Nico is learning to go it on his own.