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I was sold to my enemies; the rivalry between the Italians of the Outfit and the Cosa Nostra has been ongoing for decades. Imagine my terror when I find myself, the daughter of the Cosa Nostra's boss, at the bitter end of a raw deal with the heirs of the Outfit. Now I’m a casualty of a so-called ‘peace treaty,’ forced into the calloused, blood-stained hands of the Moretti brothers: Salvatore, Armani, and Fausto.

This is a survivors guide to a chronic illness. The book isn't full of, or contain medical advice. However, there is common sense advice on how to face it and keep your dignity intact.

From the multi-award-winning author of An American Immigrant comes the story of a woman walking through paralyzing grief and the unlikely friendship that might unlock a path to healing. When Sandra and her family move from New York City to East Nashville for her husband’s job, she is hopeful...

The burning streets of the Phoenix summer provide the setting for a night on the town gone terribly wrong. Writer and sexist womanizer Billy Wilewski finds himself wandering the city in the murderous heat of the monsoon season with but a dim idea of how he got there. As his memory returns he finds himself in the hands of the law under suspicion of murder. Shootings, mayhem and chases soon follow leading to events both criminal and self-revelatory for Billy. Crooked agents, hair care and big birds all play a part in this tale that could only happen in the heat-crazed desert of a corrupt and ...

I was friends with everyone, did well in school, and played sports. Life outside of my neglectful home got even better when four boys made me the center of their universe. Then I moved, and they stopped talking to me. Declan, Roman, Felix, and Jared abandoned me when I needed them most. It took a while, but I soon lost hope of them coming to my rescue.

Murderer. Unhinged. Remorseless. Insane. I’ve been called it all while rotting away in a maximum security psych ward, imprisoned for my crimes. When I’m given a chance to escape this hell, it’s an offer I can’t refuse. I’m transferred to Blackwood Institute, purgatory for the dangerous and disturbed. The deal is simple. Complete the three-year experimental program and you’re free to leave. I have no such intentions. People like me; we’re born to die. There’s no life for me out there. I’ll do whatever it takes to end my pitiful existence.

My life is amazing. I have friends who love and support me, a kid who challenges me, and a job that I worked really hard for. It took endless days of exhaustion, hunger, and a whole ton of rage to get myself here. I love my life and my people. Then they moved to town. Declan, Roman, Felix, and Jared inserted themselves in every facet of my life, intentionally and unintentionally. They took groveling to a stalkerish level as they chipped away at the wall around my heart. Until a threat we didn't see coming takes me from them.

I never intended to leave Blackwood Institute alive. Instead, I found a whole new family. A reason to live. Hope. Belonging. Acceptance. Love. We barely made it out with our lives. Now, the real fight to survive begins. In a world of false allegiances, corruption and violence, Incendia Corporation wants to silence our voices. We survived the sickness at the heart of their twisted medical marvel. Our truth is all we have left, but the world doesn’t want to hear it. We’re just six unhinged criminals, on the run.

I’m alone in the sea of my grief until I meet Zeke, a tornado of complications who leaves destruction in his wake. I fall hard and fast, despite all the warning signs. Our love story is far from a fairy-tale. But if it hurts, then it’s real. There’s a monster hiding beneath his tattooed skin, an addiction that will tear us apart. I can’t lose him, but I’m powerless to fix wounds that simply run too deep. How do you save someone who doesn’t want to be saved?

At 16, Violet Noone is thrown into a world of deception and betrayal when her sister, Ophelia, missing and presumed dead for the last four years, suddenly reenters her life. Violet and her brother, Weylin, venture into a desolate district of Fairhaven to meet Ophelia, but instead of finding her, they discover the brutally murdered body of a young man. Fleeing the scene, they become suspects, relentlessly pursued by the officer in charge of the investigation. They soon learn this murder is no isolated incident as they unravel its mysterious connection to the forbidden fruit, Elsyn.

Emma Rose strolls through the dusty aisles of a quaint bookshop one afternoon when her fingers brush against an old, leather-bound volume tucked away between two much larger tomes. What catches her attention is the absence of the author’s name. Curious, she pulls it out and discovers it is a collection of beautifully composed poems, each one bursting with profound emotion and vivid imagery. The words seem to weave a spell around her, drawing her deeper into a world that resonates with her own innermost thoughts and feelings. Captivated, she takes the book home, eager to dissect each line ...

START WITH "FROZEN RED," FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIRLS THEY FOUND DEAD, THEN READ "THIS ROSE HAS WILTED", BECAUSE WHAT THEY DID, YOU WON'T GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD!

I’m a pawn in a twisted game I never agreed to partake in. There’s no getting out. Dax Carrington decides all the moves. He’s always two-steps ahead of me. An animal disguised in warm, privileged, snakeskin, he’ll sink his teeth into every inch of my soul until he owns all of it… all of me. When I’m at my lowest, he’ll blindside me, pulling me back into his arms, continuing to win the match that I don’t know how to play and just want to escape.

Monster. Victim. Predator. Prey. I’ve always been certain of one hard fact–I don’t deserve to live. For all the pain and suffering I’ve inflicted, I tried to take the ultimate punishment. Anything to escape the horror of living with my crimes. Survival wasn’t part of the bargain. The family I never intended to find are determined to keep me alive, but my mind has been turned against me. I don’t know what’s real anymore. When the devil comes knocking, I’m forced to confront the truth.

Rose will not rest until the Gardener is dead. But there are bigger battles to fight, and Rayce—leader of the rebellion and the only man Rose has ever loved—believes their best chance at winning the war is to join forces with her sworn enemy. Saving innocent people is more important than her quest for revenge. But their new ally can't be trusted—and he knows her darkest secret. One betrayal could leave the war and Rayce's life hanging in the balance, and Rose will need to make the ultimate sacrifice to save them all.

For ten years she’s been under my skin and out of my grasp. The last time I saw her, I decimated her and everything she valued. Not a day passes that I don’t crave one more dose of her. And Ivy Ford’s everything I remember. Beautiful. Graceful. Seemingly innocent. I wish that were the case. There’s only one reason she’s reinserted herself into my life. Revenge.

The once colorful Palms of Malibu had begun to turn a sickly shade of brown. Landscape designer, & town resident Charles Bachman took this to heart & vowed to find out the reason behind this unnatural turn of events. In his quest for truth, Charles finds himself in the middle of yet another Malibu tragedy. Will he solve them both...

Levin Crowdley is engaged to the man of her dreams, or so she thought. That is, until a stranger appears on her doorstep to suggest Alec, her adoring fiancé, is anything but. No one has ever left Alec. More precisely; no one has ever left Alec and lived to tell about it. Levin's life is now about survival, a game of cat and mouse as Alec pursues her. And the second he catches her, he’s never letting go. ’Til death do them part.

When teenage best friends, Callie and Avery are kidnapped from a tent in their front yard in a sleepy Midwestern town, the entire population of Newell is rocked to its core. But when one of the girls returns 24 hours later, her body covered in injuries and zero recollection of what happened, the search is on for the girl who didn’t get away. Callie is still missing. As Avery attempts to piece together an impossible puzzle, she stumbles upon the terrifying realization that her best friend was harboring a dark secret, and she may have paid the ultimate price for it.