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Captain Aidan O’Brien is a decorated officer of the Royal Irish Regiment. While on a personal mission with his brother to retrieve Michael’s would-be mate, Aidan visits an old friend on the local Marine Corps base. Aidan accepts an opportunity to return, to train with the infantry Marines at Camp Lejeune. Alanna Falk is a grad student, working with PTSD patients in a nearby recovery clinic. A few months after the unexpected visit from the O’Brien brothers, Alanna can’t seem to get the eldest O’Brien out of her mind.

The Bentley's London household is in a state of flux. The elderly matron is on her deathbed; so her son, recently returned from France, is acting as the new master of the house. While he is busy developing a reputation in anthropometry, the science of identifying criminals by body measurements, he is unaware of the secrets of the women in the household.

Colton Locke can’t forget the black op that went terribly wrong. Desperate for a new start, he moves to Lantern Beach, North Carolina, and forms Blackout, a private security firm. Despite his hero status, he can’t erase the mistakes he’s made. For the past year, Elise Oliver hasn’t been able to shake the feeling that there’s more to her husband’s death than she was told. When she finds a hidden box of his personal possessions, more questions - and suspicions - arise. The only person she trusts to help her is her husband’s best friend Colton Locke.

Unlock the hidden art of influence with this simplified guide to dark seduction and persuasion. Discover how charisma, intelligence, and covert tactics shape decisions, create attraction, and control outcomes—all while learning how to protect yourself from manipulation.

What if all the things you wanted in life could actually be yours? It sounds too good to be true, but you can get what you want in life. One of the biggest roadblocks stopping us from reaching our fullest potential lies in how we get swayed by other people. In this audiobook, I will show you how you can put yourself first and live the life you have dreamed of. How? Dark psychology has the answers.

Being a bookworm daughter of an inventor isn’t a lavish life, but things seemed to be looking up for us when Papa moved us to the lavish town of Colderidge. However, I soon found myself pursued by the “handsome” oaf Lord Heath Everton. A man I’m certain is more in love with himself than any other. But it turns out that Heath is the least of my worries. That the money Papa came into? It wasn’t from his inventions. And now he owes a man only known as The Beast money that we don’t have. It seems my stay in Colderidge will be short-lived, as I trade our cottage in for a cell in The ...

From the shadowy corners of the dark web to the historic halls of MIT, Paul Knox, a cyber forensics expert and former Air Force officer, is thrust into a high-stakes battle against a ruthless enemy. As he races to uncover a plot that threatens to plunge America into chaos, Paul must protect his brilliant daughter, Emma, whose cutting-edge research holds the key to the nation's survival.

At a midnight crossroads, Phineas Appomatix bartered more than snake-oil and lies, he bartered his bloodline. His curse runs north with the rails, dogging every step of the Cirque des Ténèbres, where prophecy and spectacle blur until no oath can be broken without a price.

Sienna Ryder’s family used to rule the south of the city, until the rival Carrington family executed not only Sienna’s father, but everyone she loved. Fearing for her life, Sienna seeks asylum with the Remingtons of the north, thinking they were the lesser of two evils. She was wrong. Sienna does her best to do as she’s told and survive the sadist Remingtons when she’s kidnapped by the family that killed father. Though still treated as a prisoner, the Carrington patriarch and his four heirs: Jaxon, Aiden, Xavier, and Jenson, acknowledge that Sienna is a valuable piece in play for ...

At The Lantern & Ladle, memory is always on the menu. In the heart of Lafayette, Amélie Duval serves dishes no ordinary restaurant could dare offer: a lost promise folded into dessert, a first love stirred into sauce, a vanished moment of courage returned in a single unforgettable bite. For the desperate, the grieving, and the haunted, The Lantern & Ladle is not merely a place to dine. It is a place to reclaim what life has stolen. But every bargain has a price. When strange lapses begin rippling through the city and a ruthless rival restaurant appears across the plaza promising success ...

In a world draped in shadows, I was just a med student with an extraordinary talent. My existence was relatively quiet, bound by my devotion to my little brother, Felix, until one fateful night brought danger to our doorstep. In swept the notorious Leclair brothers, as dark and tempting as the world they ruled. My brother’s debts had summoned them, and my life was their payment. Damien, the cold and commanding leader; Lucien, the charming persuader; and Rafe, the brutish protector - they gave me a choice: Become their personal physician in a ruthless fight club or watch Felix pay the ...

Merpeople and humans are enemies. At least that’s what my father has told me ever since I betrayed him by saving that red-headed human child so many years ago. He’s never let me forget it, and has always shunned me. So I had no choice. I had to prove to him I was deserving to be named heir to his throne. My plan was dark and reckless, but with the help of the squid sorcerer Cassian, I can pretend to be human, and enact my revenge. But the human world is not what I thought. How can I return to the depths when I find my heart being torn not only between land and sea, but in the hands more...

After her father’s death, heiress Mila is thrust into a shadowy underworld where secrets and danger meet unexpected love. Don, a hardened killer from a secret organization, gets a curveball job to protect, not kill. His target? Mila. Their relationship is a fiery mix of fear, attraction, and defiance. Together, they face a cutthroat survival game, full of twists and betrayals. It’s all about the risky side of love and power, where falling for each other might be the riskiest move of all.

The Wrath and the Dawn meets Snow White and the Huntsman in this dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress. "A richly developed fantasy world . . . Julie C. Dao is a talent to watch."—Marie Lu, #1 New York Times...

Leksander never meant to fall for an angeling, and he certainly never meant to hurt her. The protection of humanity is his most sacred duty, but how can he do that when he can't even protect the woman he loves? Saving Erelah means saving himself; he'll be useless for anything else until he does, including finding a mate to fulfill a ten-thousand-year-old treaty to keep humanity safe from the fae. While he may not win her love, he will risk everything to save his angeling from her fall.

Amidst the eerie mists of Neverland, I, Molly, navigated a life less ordinary. The forsaken daughter of the feared Captain James Hook, I was woven from the fabric of piracy - sharp-edged, unyielding, and shadowed. Without a mother's warmth, I grew up with the cold touch of a sword, yearning for a father's love that seemed as distant as the stars above. But destiny had its games. An unexpected encounter with the enigmatic Peter Pan and his band of lost boys pulled me into a whirlwind of emotions, torn between loyalty to my blood and a newfound connection with the wild-hearted boys of the ...

In a world where alliances can be lethal, Sienna Ryder is playing a high-stakes game of power and betrayal. Striding alongside the enigmatic Carrington heirs, she traverses treacherous terrains, from the allure of the Hamptons to infamous city parties, rallying support against the ruthless Remingtons. But as secrets unravel and a trusted ally turns traitor, the battlefield shifts to her own home. On her birthday, Sienna finds herself ensnared in the Remingtons' deceitful web, bound in a dangerous marriage. Now, more than her claim to the city is at stake – it's her very identity.

Wendy is on a quest for vengeance after Hook kidnapped the lost boys and destroyed their school. Stuck as a shadow, Peter’s body is weakening because each time he dies and regenerates may be his last. Meanwhile, Wendy is running out of time to track down Hook, save the boys, and rescue Peter before he’s lost as a shadow forever.

A frontier lawman encounters an evil beyond his understanding. He must turn to an old friend and scholar of the arcane, if he is to have any hope of saving his town. The first in a series, set in a late Victorian era frontier western setting.

Set in the lush countryside of Provence, Deborah Lawrenson’s The Lantern is an atmospheric modern gothic tale of love, suspicion, and murder, in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Drawn to a wealthy older man, Eve embarks on a whirlwind romance that soon offers a new life and a new...