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Cursed by revenge, hunted by darkness, bound by love. Isabelle’s transformation into a beast was the price she paid for revenge, but it may cost her everything. As her humanity fades, she finds herself entangled with a skilled archer who sees beyond her monstrous form. But the curse grows stronger with every heartbeat, and the darkness within her threatens to consume them both. Together, they must face the dark forces hunting her—but the greatest battle may be within herself.

I’m a violent man. A killer. Life means little to me. She wasn’t my first, and she certainly wouldn’t be my last. And then she got away and knocked me off kilter. No one has ever escaped before her. I’ll watch her until she thinks she’s safe. And then I’ll give her the choice. Be mine or die.

While magic still glimmered over the lands and people of Scotland and the Vikings ruled the western islands and the north, three brothers struggle against their fate to overcome a dreaded curse tied to their Fae powers. Their hearts, souls, and very lives depend on the women they betrayed.

I must win on Monday. This Game is what I’ve sprinted, sparred, and sweated for. Not just because everyone calls me Sigma’s Savior. Not only for the Lunar Chalice. No. On Monday I must escape the hunter at the Massacre. Because if I don’t… I’m his.

He’s my dirty secret, one I don’t think I can hide much longer. Killian Callaghan has haunted my fantasies for years. Ever since we attended the Syndicate Academy. He’s sinfully gorgeous, covered in tattoos, and totally off limits. There’s too much bad blood between the Callaghan family and ours. Five years after our last encounter, he comes blazing back into my life. Killian turns up at my twenty-first birthday party. The chemistry between us had always been palpable, but now it sets an inferno alight in my soul. He tells me he’s done staying away. Screw the consequences.

A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations - yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore. Here are the stories of The Hotel: stories of children, mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.

Welcome to the fifth volume in the Sex Slaves series by Mars Audio Books - Sex Slaves 5: Rough Love. This compilation comprises more stories of exotic slave-training compounds, abduction and forced submission, of a life of sexual servitude - where you must serve your master well...or else suffer the punishing consequences.

My life is a living nightmare at the hands of my stepmother and her daughter. Each day is filled with abuse, both verbal and physical. Why? All because I was born an omega and not them. They make sure with each day that passes, I know just how little they think of me. There's one shining light in my life… my best friend Sasha. She risks it all, deriving a plan for me to take my stepsister's place on a date. For once, I do something for myself and head to dinner with an unknown pack.

Heli doesn't trust her Doctor, or the promise to "fix" her. She's fighting to hold on to the parts of herself she's come to love, even as the lines between truth and reality blur. And in a place where nothing is as it seems, who wants to be normal anyway?

In this volume, three of the author's finest D/s works are presented as a single boxed set for your pleasure listening. Three finely crafted stories depicting tales of slave training, pain, lust, submission, and the demands of powerful, handsome Masters. More often than not, the road to submission paves the way to finding true emotional bliss, to finding the one thing that others simply do not understand - the joy of being a true submissive in every way to your Master's hand. As long, of course, as the submission is not forced submission. For if so...then what?

This compilation comprises more stories of slave auctions and training compounds; abduction and forced submission; of a life of sexual servitude - where you must serve your Master well...or else suffer the punishing consequences.

In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, Australia, where her husband had been appointed manager of 'The Elsey', a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first resented by people on and around the station, till her warmth and spirit won their affection and respect. This is her moving and simple account of her life amidst the beauty and cruelty of the land.

Taking care of our energetic well-being is just as vital as caring for our bodies and minds. Today, research shows just how effective traditional energy healing practices can be, especially as a complement to conventional medicine. With Discover Energy Healing, you’ll have a diverse tool kit of essential wisdom and guided practices from some of the top teachers in the field.

Are you madly in love or driven mad by it? Happily single or looking for a partner? Living together, married with kids, or dumped and desperate? Whatever the state of your love life, Hot Relationships has the answers to all your dating and relating dilemmas. It's packed with advice on everything from flirting and flings to monogamy and marriage. There's hot tips on getting over an ex, where to meet a partner, how to spot the losers, and how to breeze through that first date, as well as hints on fixing the fights, surviving jealousy and infidelity, and breaking bad love habits.

In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the "objective record of achievement" that the Prime Minister has called for? For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: History cannot do the work of myth.

Based on extensive interviews with Turnbull as well as those who have worked with him, this is an essay full of revelations. Crabb delves into young Malcolm's university exploits - which included co-authoring a musical with Bob Ellis - and his remarkable relationship with Kerry Packer, the man for whom he was at first a prized attack dog, and then a mortal enemy. She asks whether Turnbull - colourful, aggressive, humorous and ruthless - has what it takes to re-invigorate the Australian Liberal Party in the wake of John Howard.

After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures - in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas - and she herself calls three countries home. In the last Quarterly Essay for 2006, she draws on her unique experience to delineate a vanishing way of life. In a time of environmental peril, Davidson argues that the nomadic way with nature offers valuable lessons.

On an afternoon bike ride in the Blue Mountains Janine Shepherd's life was altered irrevocably. When the champion cross country skier in training for the Winter Olympics was hit by a truck, doctors warned her parents that she was not expected to survive. Even if she recovered, she would never walk again. Coming to terms with her shattered Olympic dreams, Janine focused every sinew of her being on healing. Her fighting spirit was rekindled watching small planes flying overhead. She said to herself, 'If I can't walk, I'll fly.' And fly she did.

Surprising, illuminating, and at times shocking, What Men Don't Talk About reveals how real men and boys view their world. What do men and boys long for, agonize over, aspire to? Every day, we read articles about men: men at home, men at work, and men in bed, but still the confusion and frustration between the sexes remain. Can we put the differences between men and women down to the influence of Venus and Mars, or are there more intricate dynamics at play?

What is the Liberal Party's core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or has he ingeniously modernised the strategies of his party's founder, Sir Robert Menzies? For Judith Brett, the government of John Howard has done what successful Liberal governments have always done: it has presented itself as the true guardian of the national interest. Full of provocative ideas, Relaxed & Comfortable will change the way Australians see the last decade of national politics.