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Kathleen Ball USA Today Best Selling Author and Amazon Kindle All Star Author He’s a deputy. She’s a robber. Can their forbidden love be saved by a Christmas miracle? Texas, 1808. Poor Boy Hastings is determined to prove himself as a college-educated lawman. Returning home for Christmas with his shiny new deputy’s badge, his first arrest shocks him—a captivating woman destined for the gallows. Torn between duty and his growing feelings, he vows to save her life, no matter the cost. Molly McDonagh has always been loyal to her father, following him down a dangerous path. But when a ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES This audiobook collection includes the first three books in Serena Valentino’s Villains series. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen Why exactly is the Evil Queen so nasty, particularly to Snow White? Perhaps it has something to do with the...

The Last Alpha Male is the latest—and perhaps greatest—offering from Taki Theodoracopulos, the legendary Greek bon vivant, rake, and chronicler of 20th-century high society.

Pheromone dependency? No way! I think the captured alien doctor just has the hots for me. Noa I was stolen from my home planet and forced to work at a fancy resort. When I end up cleaning the room of the sexy alien doctor… I develop what he calls a pheromone dependency. He’s irresistible. He’s the son of the evil lady holding me captive. He’s as trapped as I am, so we work together to escape. Only, not everything is what it seems and the more time I spend with him, the less I want to resist. Luka Trapped again, I discover one horrible truth about my family after another. The only ...

The doctor will see you now... He’s the hospital’s most notorious heartbreaker. I’m the nurse who couldn't help but fall for him. Dr. Julian Green is a medical dynasty unto himself—brilliant, wealthy, and untouchable. As a nurse from a struggling coal town, I’ve spent my career building a veneer of hyper-competence to hide the fact that I feel like an imposter in this high-tech world. I wanted to be indispensable; I never wanted to be noticed. But one accidental witness to Julian’s most vulnerable moment changes everything. Suddenly, the professional friction that defined our ...

Falling for my brother’s best friend was meant to be. I never believed in love at first sight until I saw Rhett. We just clicked. Instant familiarity, undeniable attraction, sparks flying. There’s no denying he felt it too. But finding out he’s my brother’s best friend with a shady dating history, our instant attraction comes to a screeching halt. Except he’s everywhere I turn and it’s like we’re moving in the same orbit, connected by an invisible tether that won’t let go. There’s so much more to him than meets the eye. He’s handsome, rugged, kind, easy to talk to. Did I...

Mrs. Pepper, a widow, and her five children lived in a plain little brown house, where she struggled to feed and clothe her lively brood. The family had little in the way of luxury and hardly any of the things that many of us today take for granted, but they had such fun and good times together, and loved one another so dearly that, when a very rich little boy discovered the warmth and happiness that flooded the little brown house, he felt himself lucky to be in it.

In the hard years of a changing South West Africa, two brothers and their younger sister are carried from one struggling town to another by mines closing, work disappearing, and parents who refuse to let poverty turn them coarse. For Izan Bloem and his younger brother Freddie, childhood begins in Okahandja and is forged in the abandoned mining settlement of Abenab, where rusted cocopans, empty shafts, wild animals, hunger, danger, and dependence on others become their first true schooling. Their mother Martha feeds strangers from the back door even when there is little to spare. Their ...

Cecelia Harrington has perfection down to an art form. Designer wardrobe. Billion-dollar family empire. A senator fiance who looks flawless in photos. But perfection is suffocating, and she’s drowning. Graves is seven feet of scarred green muscle, concrete dust, and raw masculinity. He’s the Orc foreman renovating her penthouse, and he looks at her like she’s something he wants to wreck and rebuild from the ground up. Every stolen glance across the construction site makes her heart race. Every brush of his calloused hands against her skin reminds her that she’s alive. What begins as...

She is the monster they fear. He is the weakness they exploit. Together, they will bring the Syndicate to its knees. Roxana Solace didn’t become the "Bitch of the Bronx" by being soft. As the only Female Alpha in the New York Syndicate, she rules her territory with iron logic and brutal violence. She has no time for attachments, and she certainly has no patience for the peace treaty offered by her rival, Seamus Vane. But the treaty isn't just a contract. It’s a marriage. And the groom isn’t a soldier. He’s Aidan. A "defective" male Omega with a dancer’s build and eyes haunted by a...

He broke my heart like it meant nothing. Now I want his—just to watch it shatter. Royal Oaks Prep is his domain. He walks the halls like he owns them—untouchable, smug, golden. And once upon a time… I let him own me too. But fairy tales are fake—and princes lie. He thinks I’m just another girl crawling back. He’s dead wrong. Because I’m not here to kiss the crown— I’m here to crush it. I’ll flirt with his best friend. Smile while I sabotage his perfect little kingdom. Make him fall for me all over again—just so I can destroy him. The worst part? A piece of me still ...

Lottie Dawson has been raised as a foster child and when her foster mother doesn't come to pick her up from school on the last day like the rest of the children, she decides to go on an adventure in search of a perfect home. It won't be just any home; it has to be beautiful and large and located in the avenues where all the rich people live! After two hours of walking, she discovers a mansion. While getting a drink of water from an outside faucet, the butler discovers her and scares her causing her to fall in the mud and water. The butler agrees to help her get cleaned up and while she's ...

Cleopatra Paige hates one thing in this world - just one - and his name is Zachariah Prince. In grade school, he pulled at her pigtails. In middle school, he spread false rumors about her. And in high school, he ruined her prom. She hates that his smirks are unfairly sexy. And she definitely loathes that his dark eyes seem to follow her everywhere. Sometimes, even in her dreams. It doesn't matter that he's rich and popular, or that he lives in a freaking mansion full of butlers and maids. He's rude and arrogant, and she wants to stay as far away from him as possible

He didn't come back for the club. He came back for her. Razor Five years inside. Five years of concrete and silence and her name carved into every thought I wasn't supposed to have. I took the fall. I kept my mouth shut. I came home with new scars and old hunger. First place I ride isn't the clubhouse. It's the river overlook where Aria Caldwell once told me she'd never become her father's weapon. Now there's a diamond on her finger. Now her family wants my club erased. Now she looks at me like I'm the enemy. Fine. I'll be the enemy. Aria I was supposed to forget Razor Dillard. I didn't. ...

Abbi is looking for a summer away from her demanding younger siblings. Any escape will do. Playing housekeeper for the spoiled son of one of her stepfather’s business associates? Piece of cake. John West is country music royalty with a list of hits a mile long. His face is instantly recognizable around the globe. Except to his new housekeeper. He's seeking solitude. She just wants a little peace and quiet. A summer escape becomes an unforgettable summer as two worlds collide.

After having her sweet sixteenth birthday party ruined thanks to the birth of her newborn baby sister, Princess sees an old friend who's baby brother happened to also be born on the anniversary of his moms death. Frustrated, these two old friends decide to run away together, only to unexpectedly find themselves lost in a world that's not their own. After meeting some strange new friends, and making some even worse enemies, the two eventually find themselves forced into having to decide on whether to continue on the path that could lead home, or abandon that road for another path.

Ethan Wilson is exactly why Riley avoids city boys. He’s too polished, too smug, and thinks his charm can fix anything. Now, he’s her next-door neighbor—and there’s no escaping him. Ethan left behind his glamorous Manhattan life for peace in small-town Kentucky. But peace isn’t possible with Riley Caldwell around. She’s stubborn, sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and convinced he’s nothing but trouble. Their banter sizzles, but Riley keeps her heart guarded. When Ethan’s past makes its way to Bardstown, the fragile trust they’ve built is put to the test. With her heart ...

The Final Lap He’s my boss… Boone Rivers is NASCAR royalty. When his little sister hires me as his assistant, I leap at the chance. His instant rejection doesn’t frighten me. After all, he needs my help to be the next racing hotshot. It’s not like I’d fall for a grumpy race car driver like Boone, right? There’s only one problem. I’m keeping a secret that could wreck his career. Telling him the truth will destroy us both. She’s my distraction… All that matters is my next win. It’s time to create a legacy separate from my famous father. I don’t do girlfriends, and I ...

New York, 1877. One of the greatest construction feats of the late Victorian age has begun: the Brooklyn Bridge. Workers hang dangerously from the bridge’s wires, and onlookers love to watch the towering bridge take shape. One of those onlookers is Eliza, daughter of a wealthy Brooklyn merchant who supplies wire to the bridge. When she meets handsome Will, a poor Irish immigrant who works on the New York side of the bridge, she doesn’t expect anything from their meeting. After all, there’s the entire East River between them. But when Will and Eliza decide to leave each other secret ...

From the revered author of the bestselling The Hidden Life of Dogs, a witty, engaging, life-affirming account of the joy, strength, and wisdom that comes with age. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers...