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She is 20, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever. It's an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay...until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich.

When M receives word that a known terrorist organization is planning to infiltrate and destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier-based summit of world leaders, James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from Commander to Captain, Bond is expected to infiltrate the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and identify potential sleeper agents.

Here are the greatest stories of one of the greatest writers working in any genre today. All ten of the stories gathered here are Hugo or Nebula award winners - some even have the distinction of winning both. With a new Introduction by the author and personal afterwords to each story, plus a special look at three of Willis' unique public speeches - this is unquestionably the collection of the season, an audiobook that every Connie Willis fan will treasure.

John Rain has disappeared to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him in Japan. But the CIA isn't willing to lose its premier "natural causes" contract killer, and they force Rain to take on a high-risk assignment: eliminate a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia. The upside? Financial, of course, along with the ongoing chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin zeroing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring and dangerous woman with an agenda of her own.

Restored to her former state of health (and determination) Lady Cecelia goes in search of fresh bloodstock - she's had enough of politics. But once again she manages to put herself - and Heris Serrano - at the point where lightning will strike. This time it's invasion from the neighboring empire: The Benignity of the Compassionate Hand. Heris is only a civilian now, with a space yacht - what can she do in the face of a full-scale fleet of warships? But she is also a Serrano - born to lead.

Holy hedgehogs! Everyone's favorite bounty hunting duo is back! Nova Texas' favorite son, Duke LaGrange, and his silent swordsman sidekick, Ishiro'shea, once again find themselves unceremoniously removed from Cyborg Joe's and deposited on a planet at the least opportune time. The only way for the tandem to escape the harsh world of Psitakki is for Duke to survive the most dangerous underground pit fighting tournament in the cosmos.

A curvy professional lives out her fantasy of spending a night with a mountain man when she wins a date with him at a charity bachelor auction. I've always had a thing for mountain men. So when I have a chance to go on a date with one, I splurge and big on a date with a mountain man at a charity auction. I never expected to win, but now that I do, I plan to make the most of it. But what I don't plan on is getting stranded in the wilderness with him due to inclement weather. I don't expect to develop a serious case of feelings. And I definitely don't expect for him to return them. Is it ...

Alien empires are reeling from war. Their arrogant elite are desperate for glory. A human hero just robbed them of that. Ex-Marine A-10 Pilot Derek Hamilton just wants to run space freight and find his girl. The galaxy has other plans… and why is it so hard to KILL a Human from Terra, anyway? Derek Hamilton helped to end the 1,000 year Slave War between the Brinlo and Hogantha. Now, Earth is in ruins and war machines are unwinding everywhere across the galaxy. The Elite Houses were furious a mere Terran had the skill to kill the hated Brinlo Battle Commander Jorad Zen. It was their right....

A curvy woman falls for a bodyguard when they unexpectedly end up on the run together after she wins a date with him at a charity bachelor auction. After helping a couple of friends land the fantasy dates of their dreams, my best friend decides to repay the favor by setting me up with a bodyguard as a nod to one of my all-time favorite movies. I'm game for a little excitement until Lincoln shows up for our first date and drops a major bombshell: my life is in danger and we have to go into hiding. He sweeps me away to a private, mountain cabin. At first he's so serious and aloof, but there's...

When the fastest racing pirate in the world rescues a witch who doesn't know her own power . . . lightning strikes.

Six often overlooked award-caliber sci-fi short novels and novelettes.

Wendy has moved on with her life after Brent moved to Idaho with his family, and it's been years since she's seen or talked to him. Russell has become the love of her life until Brent unexpectedly shows up at her door one evening when she's on a date with Russell, leaving Wendy totally confused. What should she do? Sometimes being hit with snowballs by boys and having them pull your hair was a lot easier. Being grown-up was challenging...with so many choices! Should she choose Brent or Russell? See who Wendy chooses in book 3 of the continuing series of Wendy!

Algunas se casan por dinero y para alcanzar una posición social, otras afortunadas lo hacer por amor, pero Tiffany Warren está a punto de casarse para poner fin a una enemistad. A regañadientes, viaja al Oeste para encontrarse con su padre y con el hijo mayor del enemigo de este, el ranchero Hunter Callahan. La unión entre Hunter y Tiffany está destinada a que los Warren y los Callahan dejen de disputar por una parcela de tierra.

When the SOS came from his pardner, Holt Spainhower knew he had to hit leather for Main City, but he hated like hell to do it. Spainhower had used his fast gun to clean up plenty of other towns, and he was tired of all the killing. But there was something even more sinister about Main City. And when Spainhower met murder on the road to that frontier town, he began to realize just how violent a job lay before him.

It wasn't a journey that anyone would make willingly. But Dale Maffitt had little choice. Wanted for hanging on a trumped-up charge of horse-stealing, trailed by a relentless posse, Maffitt's only hope lay in Mexico. To live, he must ride fast and hard over the scorching Texas plains and beat the posse to the border. Once across, he would be safe from arrest, and the posse would have to turn back.

It took just one hard-drinking, high-rolling poker game to make Tracker the owner of one of the fanciest hotels in San Francisco. With his buddy Duke Farrell, one of the West's slickest con men, Tracker took off to see his new merchandise. Tracker barely had time to get used to San Francisco's city ways before he was caught up in a boxing match, a couple of gunfights, too many fistfights, and more pretty women then even he could keep track of. But then, Tracker was always good with his hands.

Win Taiwan Without Fighting (Almost) is a fictional portrayal showing how China can regain Taiwan in a single weekend without interference from outside powers and literally without firing a shot. All the pieces are in place. It's just a matter of waiting for the right conditions. 

Jere Gutierrez's combination of astounding stories, captured in the moment, are captivating millions. Of course, every one of his stories are fabricated and engineered and orchestrated, even though they're sold as “real”. Unfortunately for Jere, his backers have begun to see through his tricks. Desperate for another story, one large enough to capture the attention of the world, he teams up with a retired TV executive to create an ad-supported mission to Mars, complete with corporate sponsors and extreme sports events.

Emily is dead! Killed by an unknown assailant. Honore Lechasseur is called to identify the body, but who should arrive there as well, but Emily! Honore and Emily find themselves caught up in a plot reaching from the future to their past, and with their very existence, not to mention the future of the entire world, at stake, can they unravel the mystery before it's too late?

The Interstellar Home finders saga continues. Margaret Felis, Queen of Neustadt and Odenwald, and her ship the Intrepid after a rough start finds her crew in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way galactic star system. Where they encounter a Solar system with a Jurassic world and a planet of little people. Intrepid III a continuing saga in the series; A science fiction fantasy of a family of intergalactic explores, which are telepathic and are endowed with supernatural powers. Which are still evolving. Margaret, as the captain of the Intrepid, a resurrected alien mega-colony starship, leads ...