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The adult romantasy series comes to an end in this third instalment, and Briar and Kane are coming back hotter and bolder than ever. Briar will do anything to save the ones she loves. Briar and Kane are headed for the aisle, but their troubles are far from over. Cambria is reeling from disaster...

Fifty years after the moon landings, the commercialization of space travel is finally here, but do we still know how to dream? Final Frontier recalls the heady thrill of the Apollo era and glimpses wonders yet to come. Inside, find a dozen uplifting stories of humor, tragedy, sacrifice and good old fashioned cussedness by today's award-winning authors - plus a healthy dose of optimism. All that, plus a forward by a NASA astronaut and a piece by Spider Robinson, inspired by Robert Heinlein. The Final Frontier is open for business!

Ric Costanza and Connor Ferguson grew up together, friends all the way through high school - until Ric pushed Connor away when they were both 16. Self-preservation is a very strong force indeed. Connor had his own theory as to why it happened. When they meet up eight years later, a lot of water has passed under the bridge. Ric is about to enter the priesthood and Connor is engaged to Keira.

The first "red flags" of coercive control are so subtle you barely notice them. Eventually, he has driven away your friends and family, is making all the decisions and controlling the finances, and you are trapped. These brave, resilient, brilliant women share the tools that helped them escape and rebuild their lives. They want to encourage and empower you to break the chains of coercive control and create the life you deserve.

Ever been in prison? Taken a trip to a moon? Both are dangerous places. They are even more dangerous when someone wants you dead. Inspector Sullivan and his team are assigned the task of solving the baffling murders of a Corrections Officer and an inmate. Crimes with no witnesses, no motive, and almost no evidence. Sullivan knows danger waits on Persephone, the prison moon, and murder is just the beginning. Betrayal, deception, and corruption all await the Inspector and his team. Augmented humans, individuals with computer hardware and software integrated into their bodies, and a pair of ...

Vanina Vanini is not a love story, though love passes through it. Nor is it a political tale, though conspiracies give it shape. In these brief pages, Stendhal observes — without illusion — how pride dresses as passion, and how ideals dissolve in the quiet collisions of character. Nothing is overstated; everything matters.

It’s been five weeks since Nicu saved Ember from being overcome by the power of the Veil. Since then, she has lived under the threat of discovery from those who fear her growing power. Ember already balances on a fine line between accident and purpose; using her power intentionally will certainly bring the wrath of human, witch, and fae alike. Though she doesn’t belong anywhere, she’s not willing to become a prisoner to any of the factions. When a Witch Queen arrives in Trifecta with the goal to enslave the minds and bodies of magic users, Ember must take a different path.

Pierwowzór literacki doskonalej polskiej komedii ze swietna obsada w rezyserii Janusza Majewskiego. Powiesc czyta Wiktor Zborowski...

Smart and sassy 1890s bookkeeper-turned-sleuth China Bohannon is a magnet for danger. Assigned to office duties in the Doyle & Howe detective agency, she lands smack in the middle of the detective’s latest murder case when a suspicious character tries to bribe her - and she takes the bribe! In an adventure that is destined to go downhill from there, China is thrown overboard from a steamboat into Coeur d’Alene Lake to drown. Escaping that, while hot on the trail of the murderer, she’s arrested on charges of prostitution in the wild mining town of Wallace, Idaho.

The endless stream of lovers dragon lord Matías Tilly parades through his life hasn't helped him feel less alone. Finding his fated mate should help him escape his loneliness. At least, that's how it's supposed to work. Unluckily for Matías, his mate's happily engaged to be married...to a lovely woman.

Shaw's forte was her ability to create interesting casts of characters through whom and between whom she was able to develop a suspenseful and unpredictable interplay. This story is a good example of her character driven Western fiction.

With nothing left to live for, Inspector Sullivan accepts the most dangerous assignment a cop can have. He goes undercover to help break up a human trafficking ring. Reeling from guilt and loss, Sullivan dives into his undercover role of enforcer for the local mob in Brill City on the planet Minaria Prime. Alcohol and violence quickly become Sully’s only friends. What starts out as a straightforward undercover job turns into a case filled with political intrigue, serial killers, and a galaxy wide human smuggling cartel. Follow Sully as he works to keep his sanity while trying to stop ...

Nothing lasts forever. Certainly not in Capital City on the frozen planet Beta Prime. Inspector Thomas Sullivan wanted nothing more than dull, routine days of police work. Sullivan's young partner Sarah wanted to leave her past behind and forge a new life for herself, free from fear. But a man with a cybernetic right eye and two cybernetic hands who came to Beta Prime to escape his past should know better. So should Sully's partner, the pretty young clone with secrets of her own. What starts as random murders escalates into terrorism as four serial killers work together to turn the relative...

So hatte sich Ursula ihren großen Tag nicht vorgestellt! Da wird man jahrelang ausgebildet, um am achtzehnten Geburtstag Köln gegen die Dämonen der Hunnen zu verteidigen, und dann läuft alles anders als erwartet! Nicht genug damit, dass zwei der elf Mitglieder ihres Teams spurlos verschwinden und Ursula notgedrungen Adam, seines Zeichens Exil-Amerikaner und Gelegenheitsstadtführer, in einer Bar auflesen muss; zusätzlich verschwinden plötzlich auch noch mitten im Kampf alle Hunnen - und mit ihnen auch Ursulas Ausbilderin Una.

Now in a single box set - three MORE hard hitting and action-packed Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thrillers - Hardboiled Noir from the Future! Fans of classic pulp detective stories from the pens of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler will enjoy Sully's deadpan banter and the assorted villians and corrupt officials the Inspector must contend with. Bladerunner fans will enjoy the setting in Capital City, a A hated authority figure from Sully's past reaches out and asks for the Inspector's help in solving the murder of a military policeman. The enigmatic Sarah struggles with reality as the ...

Will and Blake couldn’t be happier. They have a beautiful little boy, Nathan, and Sophie finally has the little brother she’s been demanding. But all is not bliss in the Davis household. Coping with reality is going to change all their lives. Rick and Angelo are sick and tired of trying to get a wedding organized. If it was up to them, they’d be married already, but Angelo’s mother has plans and they keep getting bigger. Angelo can see problems on the horizon: Big, traditional Italian wedding and gay do not go well together. Something’s got to give.

Carrie Blanton and Devon Neeman are falling in love. At the same time, when they attended the same high school, there was never anything between them. However, Devon remembered the moment several days before graduation when Carrie and a couple of her problematic friends had committed a prank that resulted in each of them being taken out into the hallway for a paddling. Now, years have passed, but Devon receives the unsettling news that Carrie is going to have an evening out with her old partners in crime. All he wants is for her to return home to her apartment safe and sound. Unfortunately,...

This diary is K. C. Bailey’s personal memoir of making Revenge in Kind, a feature film completed in December 2017. She wrote the screenplay in 2004, but did not undertake to shoot the movie until 2015, when she was misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Thinking she had little time left, she spent her life’s savings to undertake a project that would be a unique experience and fill her final days.

If that which does not kill you makes you stronger, then Inspector Thomas Sullivan is one tough dude. As life continues to kick Sullivan around the galaxy, the Alliance finds one criminal mess after another for the Inspector to clean up. Cynical, bitter, and under no illusions about what life has in store for him, Sullivan finds the strength to fight corruption, bring justice to those who seldom experience it, and more often than not, kill the bad guy. If Sullivan's life wasn't troubled enough, his path crosses that of a strange young woman and her sisters who are all too familiar with ...

Losing her mother at a young age, 16-year-old Claudette is burdened with depression, haunted by the memories of her mother's untimely death. Unknowing of her fate, secrets come to light when her seventeenth birthday approaches, nothing is as it seems.