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I had a stable life as a fire captain in Seattle, married to one of my best friends and raising two awesome kids. Now, my kids are grown, and my marriage is toast. I'm solidly past forty and back in my tiny hometown of Mount Hope, Oregon, filling in as a firefighter. My future is one big question mark keeping me up at night. Also keeping me up? The short-order cook at Honey's Hotcake Hut.

Artemis Jones—respectable finishing-school teacher by day and Gothic-romance writer by night—has never lost sight of her real dream: to open her own academic ladies' college. When she’s unexpectedly called upon by a dear friend, a fellow Byronic Book Club member, to navigate her first London Season, she comes at once—who knows, perhaps she can court the interest of a wealthy patron for her school. It’ll all be fine as long as she can avoid her high-handed aunt's schemes to marry her off.

West Vanderhall is more than content living his life on a strict schedule. He thrives on plans and going to bed early. So when his upstairs neighbor, Halle Parker, has a habit of being loud at night, he’s determined to figure out a way to get back at her. Trying to get her evicted hasn’t worked, so his only option is to give her a taste of her own medicine.

Up All Night not only grips listeners in unrelenting humor, but it offers a fresh voice embracing listeners with graphic injuries, tender recollections, big surprises, and love. Posing nuanced psychological questions while never losing its heart, Up All Night traces the challenges of living with undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome before the social disorder became known in 1992.

How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer - thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable TV visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies - can be found in the basement of an abandoned country club in Atlanta. Because it was there, in 1980, that this motley crew somehow, against all odds, launched CNN. Up All Night is an inside look at the founding of the upstart network that set out to change the way news was delivered and consumed.

When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they’re the only people in the world. As the hours tick by deeper into the night, the familiar drops away and the unfamiliar beckons. Adults are asleep, and a hush falls over the hum of daily life. Anything is possible. It’s a...

Professional Day Dreamer Sophie E. Clark has gotten the last laugh. Those who told her she would never make money daydreaming can bite her curvaceous derriere, because she has just landed the day-dreamiest of daydream gigs with Naked Runway. Of course, if you want to get technical about it, for tax purposes and what not, she’s listed as a columnist. But her assignment is to—drum roll please—search out Manhattan men who could match up against the winners of this year’s Swooniest of Book Boyfriends contest. Former ex-Navy SEAL Stone Blackthorn is on the injured list at the security ...

There is a specific energy to it. Cafes and shops close their shutters. Darkness descends. 'The air begins to tingle', wrote John Dos Passos of twenties New York. 'It's tonight if you drink enough, talk enough, walk far enough, that the train of magical events will begin.' Barely four centuries...

From Georgian London’s gaudy pleasure gardens to the glamor of Studio 54 to the birth of techno in post-industrial Detroit, a brilliantly researched history charting four centuries of nightlife There is a specific energy to it. Cafes and shops close their shutters. Darkness descends. “The...

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BAKER & TATE SERIES RETURNS WITH A KILLER SERIAL KILLER SERIES! A respected coin dealer murdered in his own shop. Nothing stolen except a single page from a ledger that shouldn’t exist. And a trail of deaths that begins to repeat with terrifying precision. When a prominent numismatics dealer is found brutally murdered in his quiet East Coast storefront, the crime scene makes no sense. Rare coins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are left untouched. Assigned to the case, FBI Special Agent **Katie Ford** quickly realizes the victim wasn’t just dealing in...

Move over, Prada. There’s a new devil in town. And she wears leather. One thrown stiletto. One viral scandal. Two people quietly plotting revenge. Manhattan’s most feared fashion editor, Frankie Peterson, had a plan. Conquer the fashion world. Check. Avoid distractions like forever love. Check. Stay true to her motto: Apologies are for the lily-livered. CHECK. Then she threw a stiletto during Fashion Week. The moment went viral. Her reputation imploded. And now she’s been exiled to Gi Gi’s Crossing to practice being nice. Spoiler alert: she’s not. Marcus DeLuca Grant is the man ...

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BAKER & TATE SERIES RETURNS WITH A KILLER SERIAL KILLER SERIES! A body posed like a Greek statue. Skin preserved like marble. And a killer who thinks he's creating art. When a wealthy New Orleans collector opens a shipping crate expecting a neoclassical sculpture, he finds something far worse—a woman's body, chemically preserved and arranged in a classical pose. Within days, a second victim surfaces in the ruins of a Mississippi Delta plantation, staged with the same chilling precision. FBI Special Agent Katie Ford and her veteran partner Nina Shaw are sent ...

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BAKER & TATE SERIES RETURNS WITH A KILLER SERIAL KILLER SERIES! A drone captures footage of a body in pieces. A killer copying murders the system was supposed to bury. And an FBI agent who realizes the real monster isn't the man holding the knife — it's the institution that handed him the blueprint. When a woman testing her new drone over rural Maryland captures aerial footage of a bisected corpse in a remote ravine, FBI Special Agent Katie Ford and her veteran partner Nina Shaw are sent to investigate what appears to be an isolated killing in a town that ...

Romeo, Shayla, Kim, and Desmond are back for a riveting fourth installment of the "Flawless" series! Friendships are tested and irreparably broken, and betrayal is at an all-time high. Can these four friends overcome the obstacles, and put aside their egos to mend their relationships? Or will outside forces destroy everything they worked so hard to build? Romeo is trying his best to remain on a straight and narrow, but when you've got people gunning for you from every angle, it gets hard--especially when one of those people are a former best friend. He's dealt with jealousy before but never...

Gemma Wells came to Bliss, Colorado, after a scandal cost her everything. Utterly lost, the disgraced attorney built walls so high that she thinks no one can get through them. She’s given up on love, friendship, and all matters of the heart. Jesse McCann and Cade Sinclair have floated through life, enjoying the world around them, but never allowing themselves to become a part of it. One look at the pretty attorney and Jesse realizes he’s finally found a reason to stay put.

From the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes “a meticulously researched and enraging account” (Shane Bauer, New York Times bestselling author) of the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted...

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BAKER & TATE SERIES RETURNS WITH A KILLER SERIAL KILLER SERIES! A coded letter to the press. A killer who calls himself the Gemini. And crime scenes copied from cases that were supposed to stay buried. When hikers discover a woman's body in a California state park — arranged to mirror a decades-old unsolved murder — FBI Special Agent Katie Ford and her partner Nina Shaw investigate. Within days, a second victim appears, posed to replicate another cold case. Then a third. The killer is sending cipher-coded letters to a local newspaper, taunting investigators...

What does a lonely girl in Japan do when she's bombarded with a lack of sleep and love on the brain? She makes some questionable online dating decisions, of course! Follow me, Cyndi, as I descend into some of the craziest days of my life. Dealing with creepy swipe-righters, fighting pharmacies for rubber prophylactics, getting lost in sleepy Japanese neighborhoods, staring at a bedazzled karaoke machine.... Oh, and meeting the one-night stand who would become the love of my life.

THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BAKER & TATE SERIES RETURNS WITH A KILLER SERIAL KILLER SERIES! A woman found dead in her apartment. One leg surgically removed. And a killer who's building a chain only he can see. When a Washington, D.C. landlord forces his way into a delinquent tenant's unit, he finds a body that's been dead for weeks in an otherwise spotless apartment. One leg is missing — not severed at the scene, but taken. Cleanly. Clinically. As if it were never there. FBI Special Agent Katie Ford is already fighting a war on two fronts. Her partner Nina Shaw is recovering in a ...

Wie weit würdest du für deine große Liebe gehen? Als Taylor Jensen an ein und demselben Tag nicht nur ihren Job an einen Kollegen verliert, sondern auch ihren Freund beim Fremdgehen erwischt, hat sie von Männern erst einmal genug. Völlig verzweifelt läuft sie Daniel Grant in die Arme, der ihr ein Zimmer in seiner WG anbietet. Einst waren sie beste Freunde, aber ein männlicher Mitbewohner mit sexy Tattoos und einem unwiderstehlichen Lächeln ist das Letzte, was Tae jetzt gebrauchen kann.