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“Hello, my name is Selena. Welcome to the Flamingo Lounge. Your secrets are safe with me.” Some of Palm Beach's most successful misfits indulge themselves at the Flamingo Lounge Speakeasy. Secluded within the prestigious Opulence Resort, old man Wilcox, Lila, Slash, Renata, and Selena become fast friends. When a patron is poisoned, will the bonds of friendship hold up under pressure in this whodunit mystery?

This is a story of the rich and the very poor. This is a story of an illegal auction with dire consequences. This is a story of murders past and present. This is a story of intertwined relationships and the silent ripples they leave behind, where love becomes a guiding force, revealing the lengths one will go to protect those they cherish.

New York 1905—The Vanderbilts. The Astors. The Morgans. They are the cream of society—and they own the nation on the cusp of a new century. Thalia Cutler doesn't have any of those family connections. What she does know is stage magic and she dazzles audiences with an act that takes your breath away. That is, until one night when a trick goes horribly awry. In surviving she discovers that she can shapeshift, and has the potential to take her place among the rich and powerful. But first, she'll have to learn to control that power . . . before the real monsters descend to feast.

The Crisis Management Unit has a confession—and a dead suspect. Could this mean the end of the bombing spree that’s terrorized New York? Special Agent Lara Grant’s instincts tell her that the danger has only just begun. And sure enough, the carnage continues as the bomber eludes them at every turn. Lara is just beginning to investigate a man taking selfies at each of the bomb sites when, suddenly, another CMU agent becomes a target...

Princess Delphinia knows her mother, the queen of the Corvo kingdom, is up to no good. Del can feel it in her bones, and she's determined to uncover the truth. When her search for answers leads her to a mysterious chest filled with artifacts from the distant past--from the world before--she realizes her mother's nefarious actions are more deeply rooted than she ever could have imagined.

Ara finds herself locked in the prince's rooms and she wants answers. All of them. But when she doesn't like what she hears, she storms out and begins another journey. Only this time, she's got a prince and his lackeys on her tail and none of them know how to take no for an answer. Temir is done. With the king. With the hatred. With it all. As the newest member of the rebellion, he has to prove himself useful, navigate a devastating loss, and somehow find a way to help Gaea through her own grief. But when King Autus sends him on a dangerous mission, all bets are off.

When a threat like no other can only be stopped by a perfect assassin team, the organization recruits these two unlikely vigilantes with complementary skill sets. Too bad they can’t stand each other. He’s dangerous. She’s peaceful. He’s loud. She’s meditative. They don’t see eye to eye, but they’ll have to fight side by side. As their target hunts the innocent and threatens to destroy the delicate balance of magic, everything rests on the duo’s ability to work together.

What begins as a two-night camping and kayaking trek in the untamed Alaskan wilderness turns into a test of survival for Cody and her cousin Derek. While their mothers are in Juneau picking up supplies for Yakutat Lodge, the cousins sneak off in an old pickup. The taste of freedom is soon tainted when Cody's kayak is lost on the rising tide, washing away her life vest and precious supplies.

All college student Noelle Fidelis wants is a chance to be normal. To blend in at a party, without the crippling social anxieties that come from a history of abuse and insecurity. Instead, a chance encounter with a dark-alley creep turns into a terrifying prison sentence after she's abducted by a royal fae and condemned to fight against other supernatural inmates in a battle for survival. In the end, Noelle faces her worst fears in a violent confrontation that unravels her sense of self, becoming the very thing she's sworn to destroy.

I escaped fairy prison only to have my best friend snatched up by my brutal captors. Somehow I survived, with new allies and new abilities. But the Fae won't let me go so easily. For my friends to be safe, I'm forced to marry into one of the royal Fae families, each with their own kind of magic, eccentricity, and violence. As I try to learn who to trust, I'm courted by noble princes and threatened by invisible enemies. But even the royals have their secrets, and they will kill to protect them. Can I make an alliance before I become a target?

It’s time to get in charge of your dating life. You should know what you want, you should know how to assert yourself and how to make the most of the dating game. Most women experience insecurities and these can have a profound impact on romantic encounters. The media, magazines, and even influencers work full-time to instill such insecurities and commercialize just about every aspect of a woman’s life.

When a mysterious organization tells us that we’ve got to partner up to stop a dangerous monster that moves like shadow through the streets of New York City, murdering innocent women, I’m not surprised when both of us resist. I'm a sorceress who shoots first and asks questions…never.

Ara's found her soul mate and accepted the bond, but now she must journey south with her team, keeping her secret while fighting against the power that's threatening to destroy her and the world at every turn. Though fate is non-negotiable, can she find a way to escape it? Or will she have to do the unthinkable before she becomes the victim? The hunted?

In this exciting, hardboiled, action-packed crime thriller, Toni has five million dollars stashed in the back of her car that she needs to save her kidnapped husband Sam’s life. The money is the payoff from Sam and his partner’s brazen robbery of an underworld courier early this morning. She's being chased through the dark, deserted streets of modern-day Los Angeles by the tenacious, unstoppable courier; a desperate, violent killer who is willing to go to any extreme to get the money back and take their revenge on the robbers.

With the reports of beastly encounters coming from all over Talos, former police officer Keri sets out to find the last descendant of the Wyrm family in her desperate battle against the quickly spreading corruption. Meanwhile, something sinister is brewing in the dark waters of the Dilos Sea by the prison island of Pentara, threatening the lives of the inmates and the guards. Will Keri succeed in her quest and, with the help of the Last Witch Hunter, banish the evil from the continent? Or will the beast finally arise, bringing doom to the human race?

Harry is an aloof trust-fund baby who is struggling to create a meaningful legacy. He enlists the help of his best friend, a successful environmental engineer (and their significant others), to help him restore a possibly lucrative property that he recently purchased. However, the group fails to heed the warnings from locals that the land is terrorized by a very menacing presence. When night falls, can they survive the onslaught of this fearsome whistling human predator who collects the bones of his victims?

Clara and Damien know they must bring down a rogue werewolf to get to his boss. Taz Kiera must be stopped. The mentalist has gone too far—abducting coma patients, siphoning their powers and abusing magic.

After the successful rescue of Prince Tyserrius, Gwen and her friends have returned home. But home is not the same place. Now three times a master in the Arcane Guild, Gwen faces new responsibilities while contending with the complexities of her relationships with both Tyserrius and his brother Vance. And the mystery of the phantom who attacked her still looms over her.

During the Salem Witch Trials over four hundred years ago, Ezekiel and Jeremiah Turner stumbled upon the knowledge needed to tap into unused parts of the human brain. What they discovered was the ability to telepathically call the soul of their destined soulmate, the one created for them.

High school senior Rebecca “Bex” Koeltl is just trying to make it to graduation. But when her fellow seniors begin dying in seemingly unrelated incidents, Bex uncovers disturbing connections between their deaths, including that the teens believed they were haunted by long-dead relatives their own family members swear never existed. After Bex is visited by a malevolent specter of her own, she realizes she has to get the bottom of this horror before she’s its next victim.