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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.

Ophelia, the Calder family's untouchable princess, drove my sister to take her own life. Now I'm taking hers—and I'm going to make her my obedient little pet. All brothers must choose a Ward, and she'll be mine. Forever. She'll dance at the end of my leash while her father's spies report every humiliating detail back to him. And when he comes for me, the Brotherhood will wipe him off the map. A perfect plan. Except it isn't.

For fans of Red Rising, Starship Troopers, and Ender’s Game comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut... We never saw them coming. 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...

Joining the Brotherhood was supposed to lock my violent past away for good. I was in too deep when I learned their dark secret. All Brothers must choose a Ward. A captive woman to own, train, and punish. It reignites the sadistic desires I've smothered. I try to do the right thing and choose a sweet, submissive woman who wants this life. But fate has other plans and throws Quinn at my feet instead.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...

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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....

They say to keep your friends close, but your enemies closer - boy, were they wrong. Jared Bradshaw. The richest kid in our town. Outrageously handsome, obscenely wealthy, and the ladies man that everyone wants. Those sharp, penetrating eyes and muscular body haunt every girl. I can't stand him and his pathetic crew. They made my life a nightmare, and I want nothing to do with them. But Jared has other plans; he's caught me in his sights. He just won't leave me alone. He's chasing after me, and I can't escape him. A hunky soccer player, Brandon, gets me in a way that nobody else does.

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 ...

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...

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,...

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.

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.

He has no intention of letting the hero die. Qurban never questioned his role. When the monks proclaimed him the hero of prophecy, destined to defeat the demon king, Qurban couldn’t understand their reasoning, but they gave him a home. They fed him, clothed him, trained him day after day, forming him from a half-starved child into a blade in human form. But what comes after? All his friends died. The monks who raised him are less than scorch marks on the mountain, remembered only in the praise of people whose faces Qurban couldn’t fully recall as the last vestige of the demon king, a ...

I just wanted a normal senior year. I wanted to catch the eye of my crush, Daniel Garcia, and live like a normal teenager. That’s until Logan decides he won’t let me out his sight. He ruins my chance with Daniel, and I’ll be damned if I’ll let him come near me. Too bad he’s a stubborn jock with no regard for rules. I’ll fight him with all my power. But this might be a battle only he can win.

As Jake prepares for his wedding to the woman of his dreams, he never suspects his last night as a single man would lead to being locked up in Hell.... On his way home from his stag night, Jake is involved in a hit and run that leaves him not only fighting for his life but for his sanity. As his fiancée stands vigil by his hospital bed, Jake slips deeper into his unconscious. While stuck in the coma, Jake is more aware of the unreality he has faced since being a child. He is stuck in a nightmare. One that has plagued him his whole life.