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What would you do if your father gave away your hand in marriage to settle a gambling debt without your knowledge? Mine did exactly that. But I didn't get married, I conked the guy on the head, kicked my heels off, and hiked up my skirt. 'Chubby legs don't fail me now' is what I muttered just before I fled the little Woodland Church. The only problem is that I may have fled the flames but I jumped right into the fire when I threw myself in the middle of a lonely road into the path of an oncoming car.

The Saviors. We're a myth in the criminal underworld. Our name runs fear through even the most hardened criminal. Don't let the name fool you. We aren't the good guys. We lie, steal, cheat, and kill. I keep my most trusted by my side, and we're unbreakable. Until my vendetta against my father brought me back to my hometown, Forest Grove. It will test our bond like never before when they set their sights on the girl my best friend, Cole, and I loved growing up.

Dean Keegan is a vigilante biker with a tortured past who makes abusers of women and children pay for their crimes against the innocent. The story begins with Dean at rock bottom, on the verge of giving up after having lost his marriage and about to be thrown out of his club. His personal life is a wreck, but then Dean meets a unique woman named Vanna, who is, unbeknownst to him, in hiding from her ex-fiance cop currently doing time for nearly killing her years prior.

A vendetta that brought us back to Forest Grove has put all our lives on the line. The woman we love is thrust back into the arms of the monster that hurt her. Lives are hanging in the balance as we go up against the original founder of the Saviors—the one person who can beat us at our own game.

Savior: Ellie is in need of a savior; luckily, that’s who I am. She’s innocence personified, in more ways than one. She needs help, and I’m going to save her. But can I do that without doing the thing I want most? She needs the guidance of an older man right now. I can teach her how to survive in this cruel world. But when she asks me to be her first…I can’t turn that down. Ellie: Savior is my leather-clad Prince Charming. He also happens to be twice my age and doubly experienced. Can he help me learn about life, love, and everything in between? I need to break away from ...

Shield of Sparrows is a slow-burn, high-stakes romantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros—where enemies become lovers, monsters stalk a cursed realm, and a forgotten princess finds the strength to tear off her crown and become the warrior she was never meant to be.

Handsome and mysterious, he swoops in to offer me a new life, but this is no knight in shining armor. He’s cold, hardened by his past. But there’s an inferno underneath the ice. I can feel the heat each time he looks at me - each time he gives in to the desire between us. No matter how much I push to unleash the fire in his eyes, he shoves back harder each time. He’s merciless with his cruel words, telling me how naive I am, how little I know of the world.

My uncle is a dangerous man, an ex-enforcer known as ‘the savior’ who never backs down from a challenge. Now, he’s got his sights set on me. When I stand up to a mafia prince with a chip on his shoulder, I put myself in danger, forcing me to turn to my uncle, who now works as a lawyer. Pretending I don’t want him isn’t easy. I can’t betray Aunt Lucy, but as Nico and I text, our attraction grows until it’s hotter than sin and impossible to ignore. When I discover a secret about their so-called marriage, our temptation becomes irresistible. Words on a screen have no right to ...

These violent delights have violent ends... unless it comes to Aria King & Torrin Walker... ARIA KING I’m hitting the peak of my modeling career, but all I want to do is run. All I’ve ever wanted is to get out of this life of crime and away from the Moretti family. Escaping my ex-boyfriend, Carmine, and his merry band of criminals was always the plan. Meeting Torrin Walker and falling head over heels in love with the leader of a notorious Irish crime family? So not in the plan… Carmine is pure evil… Torrin is even worse…. But… His eyes. His lips. His kiss. His body. It’s hard ...

Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania - she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission - one target. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then...end him.

Alexander IV has succeeded to the throne of the billion-dollar Kingwood Empire, but the people he thought he could trust aren't allies. They're enemies. Everyone he cares about is at risk. Decisions—SACRIFICES—must be made. What will he do to protect the people he loves? Will Sara Jane live or die?

He’s everything I ever wanted. Yet loving him could ruin my life. When I was a kid, Landon Cross was my hero. He took on Mom’s case pro bono so that we could stay together. I never forgot about him. He was an inspiration to me. Ten years later, he’s in my life again, more mature, silver in his hair, but just as tall, muscular, intense, and most definitely just as handsome. We meet during work, so I have to stay focused. I’m a social worker, and my case is becoming dangerous. Worse, my bosses know Landon and tell me he’s bad news. But when he reveals that he only has months left to...

Hayley's on the run from a stalker who's determined to make her pay. When she saves the life of the Alpha of the local wolf pack, exposing her new location in the process, Cooper decides he has to make her his. His to possess, his to love, his to protect. He's waited a long time to find his mate. He's not going to let her go.

Now that her nightmare is over, Vanna and I are free to live our happily ever after like I promised her we would. Even if I have to kill for it. Those were my words to her. Words I intend to live up to. Though, as we have come to learn, the past rarely stays buried. Not even when it's left to rot in the Sonoran Desert.

The excursion was a mess. Sal's trust in his team is at rock bottom from the actions of another in the final fight. He now needs to enter the Tower and fight demons with the same person who betrayed him. As if that wasn't enough, he's pretty sure the former Super-Rookie and wonder kid on his team is actually a ticking time bomb, just waiting to explode.

In this stirring systematic theology of atonement, Owen Strachan turns our gaze to the biblical Jesus—the greater David, a mighty king who comes in the power of God to save sinners and destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). The true Jesus is the most fascinating subject in all history: he is Lamb and Lion, gentle and ferocious, divine yet a humble servant. All these graces bear down on one moment in time: the cross. The Warrior Savior brings together strands of doctrine that are too often separated, notably penal substitutionary atonement and Christus Victor.

Father Russo: A man of the cloth, one shaken in his faith, realizes his childhood best friend’s daughter is missing. Since his friend is long gone, Luca feels the responsibility of finding her. But when his faith and his allegiances are already on shaky ground, the Father finds he might have left well enough alone. Because the sassy strength that is Sloane Collins is no match for a man teetering on the edge of diving headfirst into a life headed straight for perdition. Sloane: Taken hostage by one of the five families of New York, Sloane battles the odds and stays alive.

Tobias Kaya doesn't care about The Savior. He doesn't care that She's the ruler of the realm or that She purified the land, and he certainly doesn't care that She's of age to be married. But when competing for Her hand proves to be his last chance to save his family, he's forced to make The Savior his priority. Now Tobias is thrown into the Sovereign's Tournament with nineteen other men, and each of them is fighting - and killing - for the chance to rule at The Savior's side.

In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities.

Book 3 follows Mikhail Ivanov, the Amazing Mutant Boy, through the latter half of his 15th year, a period of mounting conflicts and challenges as well as new sexual explorations. In a “2nd Revelation,” Mikhail speaks to the world about humanity’s religions. When he tells the world that there is no “one true religion” and condemns religious dogmatism and sectarianism, religious conservatives and jihadists are outraged and call for his death and the killing of EBs (girls that are "enhanced beings"). Mikhail counters by reaching out to moderate and liberal churches and Western ...