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Zelda swore off men, trading romance for her six beloved cats. She never even allowed a man to get “over the finish line” before swearing off them for good. She wants real love and has never found it. When her favorite kitty gets stuck in a tree, hunky fireman Lance shows up to save the day, dripping in sweat and built like a corn-fed dream come true. His firm hands and smoldering stare make her question her vow of chastity... and soon, he’s rescuing her in ways she never imagined.

The Urban Promise Prep School vows to turn boys into men. As students, J.B., Ramón, and Trey are forced to follow the prestigious "program's" strict rules. Extreme discipline, they’ve been told, is what it takes to be college bound, to avoid the fates of many men in their neighborhoods. This, the Principal Moore Method, supposedly saves lives. But when Moore ends up murdered and the cops come sniffing around, the trio emerges as the case's prime suspects.

Vampires had taken everything from Quinn Hogan during the war. She had spent her entire life hiding from them. The last thing Quinn wanted in life was to be matched to one. Each human was required by law to enter the draft. Her name was randomly picked for submitting her blood sample. Then Quinn matched with a vampire. Now she was being shipped off to some random vampire who would probably bleed her dry. As the warden of Northwest America, there was no time for Velika Riskel to take a mate. One look into Quinn's hazel eyes and all of that changed.

Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed.

There are many rules to follow as your mom’s guest at the company holiday party.

I never saw Noah Weston coming. He swept into my life like an unexpected storm, but soon, he was everything to me. Until tragedy struck. One day, I was planning the rest of my life with my soulmate, and the next, I was picking up the pieces of a love so strong, it broke me apart. It took three years to put myself back together.

I’m at the pinnacle of my career, and I don't have time for games. Not even training matches between the MMA fighters at my family’s famous gym. But when my brother’s enemy wipes the floor with him, I want no part of it. It’s just a game. Until the muscular god, with intense dark eyes, makes me his enemy, too. I’m ashamed to admit, it’s gotten dirty between Jhang and I.

Tasha considered herself too powerful and successful to let a man wreck her emotionally. But Brock Carlton, the smoking hot, dirty-talking plumber that comes over to fix her pipes and changes her mind about country boys. After a quick repair, her hot plumber takes one look at Tasha’s curve and yearns to put in overtime. By the end of the night, her busted pipes aren’t the only thing in her house getting drenched.

Raven was dead; at least, that's what the world thought. Now, she's not only been found alive but thrown into what is referred to as the world's most sadistic reality game show. There are two hundred and forty-nine other contestants, but only five will be announced as winners.

Betrayal has a bitter taste. It needs to be sweetened with a heavy dose of revenge. Before he was the Host, he was just a man in unrequited love, trying to keep his promises. Raven isn't done escaping death. She isn't done with this country. She isn't done with this game. And she isn't done with doing what she does best. Being underestimated. The game isn't over, but as it nears the end she starts to fully question. Why are the winners never seen again? Why is the Host so familiar? And what exactly does 197 want from her?

All Noelle "Elle" Rudolph wants this Christmas is for her Caribbean family to back off. Sick and tired of the constant ridicule and nagging about her nonexistent love life makes her want to skip the holidays altogether. After all, she's happy with her friends, her work, and her quaint and charming Brownstone apartment. But when her friend gives her an idea to appease her family, Elle's curiosity is sparked. It's time to break a few rules.

Susan Livingston is back in her hometown with one thing on her mind: She wants to get back together with her old boyfriend, multibillionaire cowboy Spencer Reagan! But there’s just one “small” problem. Spencer doesn’t want anything to do with her, except to be his mistress! Susan had broken Spencer’s heart in the past. And he is reluctant to have the genteel African American beauty back in his life.

Alyssa, 22 years old and still a virgin, replies to an ad’ looking for a surrogate for the older, rich and powerful billionaire businessman, Brett Wolfram. She is whisked away to his mysterious mansion in a far off land to be prepared for natural impregnation. There, Alyssa is indoctrinated into the seductive world of the werewolf, and becomes caught up in a centuries-old blood feud between Wolfram and his younger, incredibly handsome brother, Sal.

Billionaire Damien has always dreamed of being a father.... But after his long-term partner cheats on him, all his dreams suddenly disappear! Amber is feeling the exact same sentiment, although only in regards to her soul-crushing debt. And surrogacy might be the only answer to her financial woes! She agrees to bear Damien’s child in exchange for more money than she could ever imagine. The plan was to keep it all business and not to over complicate things. But they never expected to be attracted to each other!

Chareese “Reese” Devlin spent every summer of her childhood in the lake town of Mount Dora, Florida. Reese never realized that the idyllic haven hid a deep divide between the town’s haves and have-nots. Not until the summer she turned seventeen and fell for Duncan McNeal, a boy who lacked the pedigree so valued by her parents and their friends. After her family squashed the budding romance, Reese refused to return to the place she lost her heart. Now, ten years later, she’s back to attend her sister’s debutante ball and must come to terms with all she’s missed.

Beauty for Ashes: Life Lessons in Verse is a redemptive journey told in three parts; the pain of trauma, the struggle to heal, and the beauty of overcoming. With more than 50 captivating poems, you’re sure to find several that will inspire you to push past your pain and seek healing for yourself. Written with raw emotion and told with a biblical slant, these are poems about real-life women who found the courage to keep going. Get lost with them in their ashes, struggle with them through their in-between, and come out on the other side of their beauty.

Harmonious Jade is one of the deadliest women in the legendary time that is the Second Age of Man. Chosen by the Unconquered Sun himself, she has been remade into a demigod whose bow can fell whole companies of men. With that exaltation, however, have come echoes of ancient memories and a sense that she must use her gifts for some greater purpose. Chasing these phantasms of a past life and the trail of the demonic cultists who raised and betrayed her, she comes to the trading city of Nexus.

By 2025, an estimated 70 percent of the workforce will work remotely at least five days each month. In The Virtual Leader, Takako Hirata, an experienced leader of large international virtual teams, shares her proven methods for thriving in the remote workplace with the help of new leadership principles.

The first ever drama series filled with more sex, drama, scandals, and shocking twists that will have you on the edge of your seat. Leading ladies Brianna and Natalie are the best of friends. Both deal with similar issues and they both desire a man who isn’t theirs. Fighting to win in and out of the court room, these rising lawyers are in it to win it.

"The girls are worried about Lauren. She’s saying things that are scaring them.” These two text messages from my best friends began a chain of events that led to us being blindsided by suicide. Our 14-year-old daughter made her attempt at ending her life in our bedroom and succumbed to her injuries seven hours later. My bright, beautiful, talented, brave, funny, and serious daughter was gone. No one saw it coming.