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Having survived his rise to chairman of Everest Capital, Christian Gillette is perched atop the financial industry. Now an ambitious deal-maker named David Wright has caught his eye. But everything comes to a halt when a shadowy man offers new information about Gillette's father and his mysterious death. As he becomes more entangled with the stranger, he feels his grip on Everest weakening - and realizes his life is once more in danger. When all signs begin to point to Wright, what's a chairman to do?

A working-class young woman would kill to become assistant to Paris's top modiste, but she must first seek vengeance against those responsible for the death of her family, in this thrilling historical horror from New York Times bestselling author Erica Ridley! Eighteen-year-old Angélique dreams...

Damion West was the boy who stole my young heart and then broke it. That was a long time ago though and I'm not a girl susceptible to hot boys with big egos who just happen to kiss well anymore. He's the heir to West Enterprises, and notoriously loud on social media. Everyone knows Damion West. Just not like I do. But that's another story better left untold.

Dr. Hannah Bryers, anthropology professor and forensics expert at the prestigious Mad River University, takes pleasure in examining corpses, but small talk and living people fill her with dread. When she’s not teaching, she analyzes the decomposing flesh of murder victims around the globe.

A police investigation into an accident on a country road takes an unexpected turn for Inspector George McKlinnon.

In Mindanao, Philippines, a terrorist faction holding members of the clergy hostage is summarily liquidated. On the same night in Manila, a separate team of sophisticated thieves with a considerable amount of military training enter a high-tech security facility to steal the coveted Scepter of Light, a staff once used by Saint Peter as he spread the Gospel of Jesus. In Greece, the buyer of the relic learns that the item he purchased for one hundred million in American funds had hit a hurdle, galvanizing his team to aid in the scepter’s recovery in the Philippines.

Jack Malone thought he’d buried his criminal past—until a flawless series of art thefts mirrors the jobs he planned fifteen years ago. The thief is Marcus Cole, the protégé Jack once trained and abandoned. As each heist escalates, Marcus forces Jack into an impossible choice: protect the clean life he built or expose everything to stop a final, audacious crime. Smart, tense, and morally sharp, The Protégé is a cat-and-mouse detective thriller about legacy, guilt, and whether redemption has an expiration date.

La anatomía del poder no es un tratado político convencional, sino una disección despiadada de la naturaleza humana. Adrián Valerius destroza el mito de la igualdad para revelar una verdad ineludible: la jerarquía es un imperativo biológico y la autoridad, una construcción escénica.

In the shadows of the human world, a secret society of demon hunters fights to keep humanity from the supernatural forces that threaten to tear it apart. But for Max Bentley, a rookie hunter struggling to find her place amongst her kind, the biggest threat might just be the four brooding, enigmatic members of the most elite team of hunters—all of whom seem to have taken a special, antagonistic interest in her. She quickly discovers that their past is as dark and complicated as her own.

Aara has a secret identity, one she can’t share with anyone but her friend Othonty. Yet, she strives to improve her place in the channeling guild amidst growing civil conflict. Her burgeoning skills position her to design an important aspect of the Solstice Day parade float, and the reputation of her guild rides on her success. Traversing a tightrope of lies, Aara must watch every step. The smallest slip and her guild may topple with her.

Sharp, gorgeous, and skeptical, Grayson Wu is a top-notch architect who has built impenetrable walls around his unstable heart due to a betrayal he can't soon forget. When an irritatingly beautiful woman threatens his foundation, he struggles to let her break down his barrier.

It is my personal memoir of everything I learned while assisting my mentor, Brian De Palma, which prepared me for my own successful career as a director on over 50 movies, including Elvira’s Haunted Hills and the De Palma-esque thriller Acting on Impulse starring Nancy Allen (Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out). It is also a coming out story of my transition from a 19-year-old closeted teenager raised in the conservative South, to marrying a woman, and then finally becoming an openly-gay adult in New York City.

I slept with a stranger on a plane. First class. 35,000 feet. The most reckless night of my life. Then I started my new job. He’s Dr. Hawthorne. Senior partner. Silver-templed. Hands that deliver babies for a living and a voice that could talk a woman out of every promise she’s ever made to herself. He’s also my boss. My father’s trusted colleague. The man my dad personally asked to look after me. I should have run. I should have transferred. I should have done anything other than fall into his arms after hours and let him take me apart all over again. Now I’m pregnant. And he’s...

Un libro que presenta la cadena que comienza con el abuso sexual infantil, la explotación sexual, el turismo sexual con menores, el comercio sexual con hombres de poder, la protección tanto policíaca como política de los pederastas, la pornografía, el lavado de dinero y el tráfico de influencias. Todo englobado en una poderosa y peligrosa red mundial de crimen organizado.

In the third installment of this witty Regency romcom series, a headstrong chaperone is torn between following her rigid principles or her heart. Despite his many responsibilities, there is nothing Leopold Sloane, the 11th Duke of Debden, takes more seriously than the safety of those he loves...

This is a work of historical fiction about a real US Army guide on our frontier, Mitch Boyer aka Buoyer aka Bouyer. Mitch Boyer, one half Sioux and one half Caucasian, possessed unique talents as a result of his intelligence and his mixed-blood background. He utilized these talents, some God given, many learned, to become by 1876 one of the best known US Army guides on the frontier. There is much factual information available on Mitch but there are also great gaps in our day to day knowledge of him. In consideration of Mitch Boyer's documented life and deeds and the environment he lived in,...

My mentor is my best friend's brother. And the one man I was never supposed to want. He's the Chief of Surgery — controlled, guarded, untouchable. I'm the resident who arrives early, stays late, and has spent four years being excellent in the dark. He never noticed me. I made sure of it. Now a mentorship pairing puts us side by side in the OR — and everything I've been hiding is suddenly impossible to hide. The slow burn between us is the kind that doesn't stay slow. It's forbidden. It's a fire neither of us planned. And it's consuming us both. The only way to survive what's coming is ...

In the first installment of a Regency romp of a series, a governess who believes in cultivating joy in her charges clashes with the children’s uncle who hired her, only to find herself falling in love. When Harry Kincaid’s flighty older sister decides to join her husband on an Egyptian...

A forbidden wing of the house. A family built on secrets. A young woman who senses danger long before she can name it. Lyra King has always been good at reading people—an instinct sharpened by a childhood spent navigating the unpredictable. When the wealthy and enigmatic Bryant family hires her as a live‑in nanny, she tells herself this job is a fresh start. A chance to disappear into someone else’s world for a while. A chance to feel safe. But the Bryant estate is not a place where safety thrives. From the moment she arrives, Lyra feels the tension humming beneath the polished ...

¿Alguna vez has terminado una conversación sintiéndote confundido sobre lo que realmente pasó? ¿Has establecido un límite claro para luego ceder por culpa? ¿Intentas defender tu posición y terminas disculpándote sin saber por qué? No es que seas débil. Es que estás enfrentando manipulación psicológica en relaciones sin un manual de defensa contra gaslighting y otras tácticas documentadas. Robert Lifton de Yale descubrió que no hacía falta tortura física para romper la voluntad de una persona: bastaban 8 técnicas psicológicas específicas. Esas mismas técnicas aparecen ...