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Recent college grad and inquisitive night owl Hallie Bowers snagged the job of her dreams as a solitary catalogue librarian at the New York Public Library. Bummed after breaking up with the supposedly “perfect” guy, she despaired over finding the perfect guy for her. Diving into her work as refuge, her normal routine is thrown into chaos when captivating Reese Jessup strides into her cozy basement intent on getting what he wants.

White tiger shifter Jillian Garner carries the scent of her father's killer like a haunting melody in her memory. When that familiar, sinister aroma infiltrates her senses after years of absence, it reignites a storm of trauma and fury within her. Driven by a relentless desire for vengeance, she vows to hunt down the predator and exact her retribution. In the midst of her quest, she encounters Brian Stanley. With one look, she recognizes him not only as her destined mate but also as the ally she needs. However, Brian is a man ensconced in walls of distrust and solitude, wary of the world ...

Sinking every penny into opening a dance studio in the middle of New York is a ballsy move. Classes are running late again tonight, and New York night life brings out the unusual. And that creeper is standing outside the door again, staring in at us through the opaque doors for the fifth night in a row. Grabbing my mace, I head out into the chilly air to confront him, only to have the sexy stranger deliver a shock of his own.

Marge Keller chocolate enthusiast and confectionery owner couldn't believe her bad luck when her power goes out on one of the busiest days of the year. Running down the alleyway between shops at six a.m., Marge barrels into the grill of a giant Ford and meets the stern disapproval of Kent Seawell - a mountain of a man who filled out his jeans like she'd never seen. Explaining her situation, Kent offers to be her electrician to help her get back to baking.

Ex-military and security for the elite Samantha Ben sports a diamond necklace and a black gown on the evening of her last job - but not to snag a rich man, to protect one. With every intention of retiring after the gobs of money she's about to make protecting billionaire Lucas Jones for a single evening, she isn't prepared for the wild and dangerous night...or the equally dangerous attraction awaiting her in the arms of her charge.

Buxom bush pilot Becky is different than most women, truly enjoying the outdoors with her faithful furry companion Rufus, all while streaking through the Alaskan skies near Anchorage. She has adventure, clear skies, a new fly rod, and a three day weekend. When a rogue storm blows away her chance of taking off from Baldwin’s lodge, she’s not too upset to be given the presidential suite for a night’s stay her salary wouldn’t normally allow.

Abel de Santiago is a man on the run. Once a famous sniper, Abel finds himself a survivor of the Spanish Armada shipwrecks in 16th-century Ireland. Following his capture by a brutal sheriff, Abel flees torture and death with a priceless emerald ring. Dozens of English troopers hunt the Spaniard across the Irish wilds, beating every last bush in a desperate attempt to find him. Muireann is a revered Irish poetess enjoying the hospitality of a neighboring tribe. Tragedy strikes when the sheriff’s men kill her husband during a violent night raid, with her life barely by Abel.

Overachiever and precocious archaeology student Patricia Oliver knew she’d lost her marbles when she dropped her CV onto his desk. You know the one: Professor hunky. The chance she’d been waiting for was hers for the taking, up until the waiting game started with no return call. Professor Baxter’s prestigious work placement was an internship that had the student body drooling over which lucky female would get the chance to study under Professor Baxter. After his normal assistant quits suddenly, Pat is thrust into her position.

You don't need to fight the algorithm anymore. Fill your event using the algorithm, making it work for you, not against you. What I’m going to teach and what you are going to discover in this audiobook is how you can fill your nightclub or bar with what I call a very unfair advantage. I've spent years studying and learning the social media algorithms, how it is applied, why we have it, and how consumers flow through it. This experience ultimately allowed me to create the La Vella method.

In 1872, lands once thought uninhabitable are coveted by the white settlers, traders, and miners headed west. In far Northern California the last few bands of Modoc cling to their ancestral lands, trying to live in peace with their new neighbors. Farmers now plow the ground where the Modoc ancestors lived.

Jessie Speer set out for California, following her father's dream which turned into a nightmare and killed her family. Now, snow-clogged mountains, beautiful but heartless, held her prisoner. She prayed for a miracle. Blizzard after blizzard left her aching with cold, one step away from starvation. As months passed, Jessie almost stopped believing in warmth, safety and rescue. Only Daniel Bear was willing to brave the fearsome mountain to answer the stranded settler's desperate need.

An innocent photo outing, a very stiff dead body, and more surprises than the words in a song. Wouldn’t you know it? The one time my cousin, Glinda, and her fiancé, decide to go camping (I know right), I stumble upon a dead body in some abandon farm house. Turns out the guy was some famous singer who quit the music business ten years ago. I would have let the sheriff handle the investigation, except that the body was in a rather strange condition, which implied magic was involved. That’s where I come in. Okay, the sheriff really wanted my cousin to help since she is a sleuth and a ...

How can a perfectly planned Halloween party go really, really wrong? Easy. A dead body shows up in my decorated coffin. Welcome to my witchy world. Hi, I’m Glinda Goodall, the good witch from the south, who is a hopeless snoop turned amateur sleuth. I had one job this October, and that was to decorate for the annual Halloween fest at my aunt’s restaurant. It was organized to the max: ghosts floating on the ceiling, a coffin with a vampire, and a small cemetery surrounded by pink-painted pumpkins. Spooky yet festive. Just my luck, someone was murdered at the party. I might not have ...

What would you do if you found out the man who is hotter than sin has been lying to you? Dragon Shifter, Tory Sinclair, wants to believe the Fey, Kenton Forrester, is a good guy, but how can she? He convinced her whole family to keep secrets from her. Sure, he and his family have helped her siblings many times, but lying goes against every fiber of her being. Only after the deaths of four successful locals do Tory and the other Guardians realize the only one who can help them is Kenton. Now that stinks. Kenton has messed up royally. Tory is his mate, and yet she doesn’t want much to do ...

A psychic vision. Missing contestants. A witch and her pink iguana sidekick. Witch’s Cove, the idyllic Florida beach town, is finally getting their long-awaited deputy. The problem is that no one can dig up anything on him—good or bad—and that sets off alarms for the gossip queens. Hi, I’m Glinda Goodall, the amateur sleuth who works at the Tiki Hut Grill. The sheriff works hard and deserves good help, but is the new deputy, Nash Solano, really who he says he is? The day after he arrives, chaos descends on the town—as in, two contestants in a regional dog show go missing shortly ...

You aren't free to love until you realize you can't make someone love you back. When feisty, confident psychologist, Zoey Donovan, returns from work dazed after being accosted by a madman in the hospital corridor, she finds solace in the understanding nature of Pete Banks, the attractive and brooding owner of the construction company heading up the remodel on her house. As Zoey unloads her worry and fear on Pete, he's torn between his sympathy and attraction to Zoey and his loyalty to his roommate, Thad Dalton, who took a bullet for her. Knowing Thad would do anything to save a civilian, ...

Catching Her Bear was just the start of Kalan Murdoch and Elana Stanley’s story. Follow along as Vella Day revisits this couple from Book 2 of the Weres and Witches series. Detective Kalan Murdoch, a werebear deeply entrenched in the throes of Silver Lake's darkest crimes, finds his professional life clashing with the personal. Murders, muggings, and chaos demand his attention, but his heart belongs to his two precious children and his mesmerizing mate, Elana. Each failed attempt to balance the scales between his duty and his family only deepens his frustration and stress. Elana, ...

The assignment? Kill or be killed. The problem? This she-dragon’s target is her destined mate. Dragon shifter, Zulema Garcia, has been trained as a fierce fighter from an early age. All is well until the day she’s captured by the Zon, a group of powerful warlocks and witches. Their demand? To keep her family safe, Zulema must kill Bevon Forrester—a powerful Fey. Zulema is willing to do it—until she realizes Bevon is her one and only mate. Now what is she supposed to do? Bevon is thrilled that his older brother is next in line to become the Feyrion king, since freely roaming both ...

The only thing that separates life from death is trust. Attorney Susan Chapman thought being a prosecuting attorney was tough. Boy had she'd been wrong. When someone starts killing the jurors in the Caravello trial she'd prosecuted, she believes she'll be next. Sure, it's wonderful the FBI has assigned her a super hot bodyguard, but when she finds how he's connected to the Caravello family, she now fears he's trying to kill her. When FBI agent Jake Yarnell is asked to protect a woman whose best friend was killed in a bomb meant for her, he's frustrated that the feisty and sexy attorney ...

Trust or run? The wrong decision will be deadly. After losing three loved ones, Detective Dominic Rossi is an expert at keeping his distance from all things female—that is until he meets Tessa Redman, a woman who seems mighty troubled. She's definitely hiding something from him, but that only brings out his need to protect even more. When a hot looking detective begins snooping around Tessa's bar, she panics, believing he's there on behalf of her ex-husband—a cop on the take who she turned in—a man who swore he'd kill her. But Dom's random tenderness awakens something deep inside her,...