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Marianne is in a slump: barely able to support herself by teaching, not making progress on her poetry, about to lose her Brooklyn apartment. When her novelist ex-fiance, Eric, and his venture capitalist brother, Mark, offer her a job directing a low-residency school for Christian writers at a motel they've inherited on Florida's Gulf Coast, she can't come up with a reason to say no. Mark finds an investor in God's Word God's World, a business that develops for-profit schools for the Christian market, but the conditions that come along with their support become increasingly problematic.

A historical novel set in the early Middle Ages where the young Welsh Princess, Nesta Ferch Rhys, transforms from a naive young girl into a woman who cultivates and manipulates allies and uses her royal connections to achieve her ultimate goal of securing her family's place in history. Nesta was a consort to King Henry I, wife to Gerald of Pembroke and the captive-lover to Owain of Poweys. She is thought to be the original mother to the Tudor and Stuart Dynasties which Princess Diana and John F Kennedy are both descendants.

King Hans has searched his lands far and wide, but he can find no woman who satisfies him, even though he must produce an heir. No one seems able to touch his heart, no matter how beautiful or kind the lady. Hans is starting to despair of ever finding a bride who pleases him when he hears of the sorceress ice queen, Ilsa, purported to be the most beautiful woman anyone has ever laid eyes upon. When he seeks her aid and explains his problem, she offers him an unexpected solution - she turns Hans into the very woman he claims to desire.

Nick has a problem: Bianca, the love of his life, has been sneaking off in the middle of the night, and he has no idea why. After covertly following her to a ladies-only strip club, he finally realizes what's going on - apparently he's lacking the right equipment to keep Bianca happy in the bedroom. After an emotional roller coaster of a night, he decides that the only right thing to do is to set her free.

Ever since Edward Sharpe was fired from his job by the alpha billionaire business owner, Jack Grayson, Edward has had to juggle two humiliatingly low-wage jobs just to make his rent and not get kicked out onto the street. It drives him crazy that he has to work and sweat for pennies while beautiful women, like his college friend, Lisa, seem to get everything in life handed to them on a silver platter while flouncing around town with men like Jack. When Edward stumbles into a mysterious magic shop one night, he wakes up the next morning with some very unexpected results!

Book1: Single Daddy Protector My life was normal until the day I pulled the trigger and killed a mafia boss. I was fearful that his connections are out for blood, so I fled. I found a new life and a new job in the Big city. My new boss is a handsome Billionaire. He knows I am running from someone and his first instinct is to be my Protector. I felt him leaning closer, and he turned his hand to hold mine. "Why don't you want me to help you, Lana?" He put his glass of wine on the table. I put my glass down on the table as well and began leaning in also. I whispered, "Why are your walls always...

There’s no shortage of thrillers in my bookstore, but I never expected to stumble over a body in the suspense aisle—especially when the main suspect is me. What was supposed to be a quiet life running my cozy bookstore has turned into the scene of a chilling crime. The victim? An irritating author with a long list of enemies. Among them: an ex-brother-in-law drowning in debt, a scorned girlfriend desperate for revenge, and others with motives as twisted as a thriller plot. Determined to clear my name, I team up with Peanut, my loyal Labrador, and my sharp-tongued best friend. Together, ...

Italia Style If you are looking for simple ways to add a little glamour and sexy, effortless chic to your world, this is the book for you. Inside this guide to sexy Italian style and glamor, you will find: Ways to inject that earthy Italian sexiness into your life. How to inject a love of life into your everyday activities Ideas to make your life more glamorous without leaving home or spending more money. You can imbue each moment and each day with the sexiness and glamour with just a few small change. You can infuse your life, home, and wardrobe with that extra something that exudes ...

Between 1929 and 1974, more than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized, sometimes without informed consent and frequently under coercion. The victims, poor men and women from around the state, were never compensated for losing the ability to conceive children. Nearly 40 years later, during a rancorous 2013 legislative session in which severe restrictions on abortion, voting rights and funding for public education were passed, the state got another chance to right one of its most shameful acts.

Great characters and story setting. Interesting Mystery to solve with lots of clues and twists that kept me guessing and turning the pages until the end. I can't wait for the next book. I highly recommend this book. 5 STAR BookSprout review. Welcome to Bramble Dale—where book club drama is just the warm-up, and murder is the main event. Picking the book of the month used to be my toughest challenge, but that was before a shady paralegal was booked into jail…and then found dead. Now, with an old friend knocked out during the crime and the clues pointing to corruption and conspiracy, ...

When Eric meets a wealthy, mysterious stranger named Ari who offers him an outrageous proposal, Eric is skeptical at first. Ari will pay Eric a ridiculous amount of money and promise to solve his problems with love, on the condition that he surrender his identification and do everything Ari says for just a few days. Ari's money is good, and Eric is too curious not to accept. Soon, Ari has transformed him into Erin, with a whole new rush of exciting and confusing feelings, opening the door to a passionate affair that Erin comes to love more than she ever loved her time as a man.

They did it again. What an amazing mystery. The author definitely made this entertaining. The characters were a delight. 5 STAR review from BookSprout reviewer Who knew my dog had a nose for murder? One gala, one fall, and now we’re fetching clues faster than I can frost a cupcake. Oh, sweet sugar and spice. Just when my bakery catering business sees new heights at a light house gala, my ritzy employer plummets to her death from the tippy top. When the Sheriff refuses to believe she might have been murdered, I start nosing around with my Golden Retriever, Cinnamon, to find clues as to who...

The powerful warrior-king Azlato gets a taste of his own pleasure tents when he crosses the wrong woman. Azlato, the most powerful chieftan of the grassland people, is used to having his way with women. When the queen of a newly conquered tribe warns Azlato that she won't stand for her people to be used like this, he mocks her. To punish him, she gives him a taste of his own medicine by swapping bodies and sending Azlato to his pleasure tents in her body. Can he adjust to his new life as a nubile pleasure maiden and escape the witch's curse before the enchantment becomes permanent?

Any fantasy can become a reality when magic is involved...Jimmy Calavan’s greatest passion in life is the World of Magic, a hyper-realistic online game where he spends hours slaying monsters and seeking treasure as a beautiful, magical warrior named Fae. He’d give anything for the chance to actually live there, even though he knows that’s just a silly fantasy...But when a limited-edition replica of a magical scroll from the game appears at his door one night, Jimmy discovers that sometimes fantasies come true...

When Jack’s girlfriend Aimee ends their two-year relationship because he isn’t strong or manly enough for her in her eyes, it’s a devastating blow to his self-esteem. Instead of wallowing in his sadness, he picks himself up and catches a flight to sunny Palm Springs, where he hopes some desert hiking might clear his mind, help him heal, and toughen him up. But Jack gets more than he bargained for from his trip.

When Albert Green donates the last $20 he has as a gesture of goodwill to a funny old man beside a mysteriously decorated tree, he's blessed with the chance to make a single, magical Christmas wish! He closes his eyes and wishes for the one thing he's wanted more than anything else in his whole life: to experience life as a woman. That night, the three spirits of Christmas appear to him in his dreams and work a holiday miracle on his sleeping form.

As an ex-SEAL bodyguard, protecting a billionaire heiress was supposed to be just a job—until she became my everything. I never expected my first client to be Anna, the girl I rescued from a kidnapping attempt a few days ago, the same girl who was my one-night stand. Suffocated by her father’s plan for an arranged marriage and constant surveillance, Anna rebels against my protection, challenging me at every turn. Her defiant spirit ignites a fire I thought long extinguished. As I uncover the truth behind her family’s facade, our bond deepens, but so does the danger closing in. Each ...

You never know what you might find until you start looking! Growing up in a conservative town in the Midwest, Paul has always known he was different. He’s never felt like a man, and since he was a little boy he’s always wanted to be a woman. He’s tried to hide it, but the truth is he’s always hated going to the bar with his friends, and when he sees the gorgeous women around him, he can’t help but wish he could be like them.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jared has lived in the same little town in the Appalachian Mountains with the same people and the same traditions his entire life. Gossip travels fast. When Jared realizes he is trans, everything changes. Naming herself Claire, she tries to come out to her family and is shattered when she is rejected by everyone besides her twin sister.

When starship captain Benjamin Rollins beams down to a strange alien planet that appears to have signs of intelligent life, he is shocked to be greeted by a human-like race of beings that traveled from Earth millennia ago and which claim to share a common ancestor with him. Their planet Titan is a wondrous utopia - their people live in peace and harmony, strife is unknown, and coupling is free and frequent.