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The Onyx Brotherhood offers me everything: money, resources, and the chance to pursue my research outside of the law. The ancient secret society shapes the world, but there's a dark price to join. All Brothers must choose a Ward. A captive woman to own, punish, and train to perfect submission. If I refuse or she fails to perform at my initiation ceremony, I'm dead. Eve is sweet, naive, and addictive. My obsession grows until she's all I can think about. I watch her from the shadows and imagine her chained at my feet. I can't do this to my beautiful girl.

In his acclaimed books, renowned writer, speaker, and philosophy professor Dallas Willard explored the nature of Christian life in God's Kingdom. Yet one topic remained undisclosed: Willard's understanding of heaven and eternal life. In the months before his death, Willard engaged in moving and insightful conversations about the meaning of life and the life to come with close friend and theologian Gary Black, Jr. These inspiring dialogues were steeped in biblical theology as well as practical wisdom grounded in the here-and-now.

Most people are not happy working a nine to five job. You will not achieve financial freedom by making someone else rich. Start working for yourself to make your dreams a reality. Get started, uncover how to create financial freedom with Airbnb, and become a Superhost. Airbnb Investments for Beginners walks you through all the details.

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Autumn Collection. In Heather Horrocks' charming story, A Hound Dog Named Elvis, interior designer, Kaitlin Hartley returns to her hometown of Aspen Grove, California, to the job of her dreams after a year of specialized training in New York. During the town's Autumn Festival, she enters her dachshund, Elvis, into the Running of the Hallowieners race.

Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed nothing could stop it - until we discovered we could wield the power, too. Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines.

A mother always protects her children... but what if she can't protect herself? Bonita Gray's life has already been shattered once, but the pieces are far from being put back together. After surviving a near-fatal accident and waking up from a three-year coma, Bonita returns to a world that has moved on without her. As she struggles to reclaim her life and reconnect with her sons, Bonita discovers that the nightmare is far from over. Her son Jason is behind bars for a crime she knows he didn't commit, while her other son Justice harbors secrets that could tear the family apart once more. As...

A mother knows her children… or does she? Bonita Gray has the perfect life until tragedy strikes and she is left to raise her two boys by herself. Like all other single parents, she, too, endures many challenges and fears before her little ones are all grown up. However… parenthood as she knew it is flipped upside down when one obstacle that Bonita thought she’d never have to face arises. One that may force her to choose life or death for one child over the other and lead her to fear for her very own livelihood. What if one of your children did something so horribly wrong and the ...

Para terminar la guerra entre Escocia e Inglaterra los clanes más fuertes de las tierras altas deciden unir fuerzas, para esto el Laird del clan McAllen envía a sus dos hijas para que Duncan, hijo del Laird Blair escoja a su futura esposa. Maisie McAllen no se considera candidata para ser la esposa del futuro Laird. Una, por la horrible cicatriz que le rodea el brazo izquierdo y parte de su espalda. Y dos, porque no desea casarse con alguien que no la ama. Duncan Blair, no quiere casarse, pero sabe que debe poner a su clan por encima de todo. Cuando conoce a las hermanas McAllen, sabe que...

Cuando Lord Logan William, Duque de Windsor viaja a España en una misión del rey, no imagina que regresará a Inglaterra con Esmeralda, una joven española que jamás imaginó como su duquesa. Esmeralda, es una mujer humilde y de belleza exótica. Desesperada por proteger a su pequeño hermano del abuso de su madrastra, toma una arriesgada decisión: atrapar al poderoso Duque de Windsor. Lo que comienza como un acto de supervivencia, pronto se convierte en un matrimonio lleno de rencores, tensiones, secretos y deseos no confesados. Logan, atrapado entre su deber de preservar el honor de ...

Bonita has done everything in her power to protect and save her sons. She has taught them right from wrong and raised them to love one another and their neighbors. But despite her best efforts, evil has seeped into their lives, threatening to destroy them all. Now, after all she has endured and sacrificed for them, Bonita faces an unimaginable decision: to sacrifice one of her sons or her own life. Caught in a heart-wrenching dilemma no parent should ever have to face, Bonita is thrust into a dark and desperate situation from which she may never escape. What if you were forced to choose ...

THE 'HITS' KEEP COMING: SUSPENSE FICTION WITH A DIFFERENCE Hired killers. Vigilantes. Executioners. Contract killers. Assassins working from a moral or political motivation. You’ll find them all in this thrilling suspense anthology. But these are not ordinary killers, not your run-of-the-mill hitmen. The emphasis is on the "uncommon" here—unusual characters, usual situations, and especially unusual means of killing. Here are tales by some of the best suspense/thriller writers today, including F. Paul Wilson, Ken Bruen, J. Carson Black, Billie Sue Mosiman, Laura DiSilverio, Joseph Badal,...

Rooted in examples from their own and others' classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools.

Hollywood superstar Max Conroy is A-list all the way; he's one of the few actors who can guarantee box office blockbusters. Max has it all: the charisma, the stunning movie star wife, and a sizable personal fortune that grows along with his legend. When Max escapes from a rehab center in Arizona, disoriented and longing to return to his blue-collar roots, he becomes the target of a motley group of kidnappers planning to cash in by holding him for ransom. Max not only outsmarts them; he evens the score.

In Colorado, a pop star and her entourage are brutally murdered. At first the lead assassin, ex-Navy SEAL Cyril Landry, has no qualms about the killings - it’s just another job for The Shop, a shadowy organization that has hired him to execute people across the country. But Landry begins to wonder why these people had to die, transforming from mercenary to hunter as he delves into the depths of The Shop.Thousands of miles away, in a seedy motel in Florida, a local police chief is found shot to death....

Often, the old adage goes “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer…” However, what if the one you love is the one you should be hating? Claire is a widowed single mother who just moved to Alabama from the Big Apple. Having stepped out on faith and the ultimatum that her job gave her, the grieving woman is on a quest for a better life for herself and her teenage daughter, Jonna. But… her life is suddenly flipped upside down when Jonna disappears into thin air, and she’s left wondering: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, and WHY? Ultimately, Claire is plagued by the grueling search for her ...

If you had to disappear ....truly vanish ....would you know how? Stay Gone is not about fantasy. It is a no-fluff field manual for real-world disappearance. Inside, you will learn how to erase your trail, rebuild under a new identity, and avoid the critical mistakes that get people caught. This guide is for the desperate, the determined, and the ones who know that escape is not the end, it’s just the beginning. Inside this tactical guide, you’ll uncover: Step-by-step instructions to vanish without triggering alerts How to build and live behind a believable shell identity Tools to ...

Cyril Landry has been a dead man since he escaped a firefight off the coast of Florida three years ago. In all that time, the former Navy SEAL has been living off the grid to protect his wife and teenage daughter, who have mourned him and moved on.

Detective Tess McCrae investigates a grisly crime scene in the ghost town of Credo, Arizona. The evidence suggests a cartel drug hit. But Tess, with a nearly faultless photographic memory, sees what others might miss: This is no drug killing. Someone went to gruesome lengths to cover their tracks. The killer’s trail leads from Tucson to California - from anti-government squatters to the heights of wealthy society. As Tess follows the trail of gore and betrayal, perfect and indelible in her memory, she uncovers far more than one man’s murder and solves much more than one isolated crime.

When homicide detective Jolie Burke awakens to intruders in the dark of night, she's forced to flee. Jolie's nobody's victim, but she cannot fight this faceless enemy alone. She reaches out to Cyril Landry, the ex-Navy SEAL who is long on special-ops skills and short on patience. He suffers no fools - ever. But when Landry rolls into Branch, New Mexico, Jolie is gone, and there's nothing waiting for him but trouble.

Prepare to embark on an unforgettable journey in "Legacy of Valor," a compelling book that brings to life the remarkable stories of courage, resilience, and sacrifice from the heroes who fought on the frontlines during World War II. Step back in time and witness history through the eyes of those who lived it. This riveting collection of true tales takes you on an epic adventure, from the deserts of North Africa to the hills of Italy, offering a profound insight into the experiences of those who shaped the course of a world at war.