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Why does starting over have to be so hard? Sweet and gregarious Penny Barron was just sure handsome Gus Amherst was finally "the one." But after his protective streak evolves to controlling and then abusive, she decides enough is enough. When her childhood friend CeCe gets in an accident and needs some temporary care, Penny figures this is her opportunity. She leaves Gus a goodbye note and flees Boise for small town Huckleberry Ridge, Idaho, to be near CeCe and make a fresh start. When Gus decides he's not ready to let Penny go and shows up in Huckleberry Ridge unannounced, CeCe's neighbor,...

If only she could be invisible Kara Grissom has spent twenty years in hiding. Ever since suffering a severe facial burn the night after her college graduation, her only refuge has been the childhood home she shares with her mother. She's long since given up on any possibility of finding love, so when a handsome stranger suddenly invades her safe place, she's stunned by the sudden awakening of desires she thought had died years ago. Dawson Wickham loves life as a bachelor. He has everything he needs with his own home, a great family, and the perfect job. But he also loves mysteries, and when...

I need to prove Jane is innocent despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Mirrors, smoke, and lies can conjure a truth that isn't real. Money, bribes, and power can twist reality. What we call proof is all an elaborate magic act. So is love. It's all about what you believe. Who you believe. And I believe Jane. I love her. But it might be too late. Or, worse - it might all be an illusion. If proof is just a magician's sleight of hand, then we're caught in a sick trick. A deadly one. One that doesn't end with applause, but with a bang.

I should have paid more attention to the night things changed, but I didn’t. No one ever paid me any attention, but now, I’m super strong. I hurt the baddest man in the city, and he’s coming after me.

I had just escaped the hell of prison when I met her. It was the night I was protecting other dragon shifters on the streets of New York. I never expected to run into Dana. A gorgeous shifter. She’s pregnant...and she, too, just escaped cruelty. Now, it’s my job to protect her from the dangers that lie ahead. I’ll give her everything she deserves. Except for one thing. Love. I have no place for it in my heart. Can Dana bring out the humanity in me? Or...is being a monster my only destiny?

When primary school teacher Miss Jenny Hart loses her job and long-term relationship in a matter of moments, a job offer comes out of the blue to save her. But not everything is as it seems at this school. Children have gone missing, the head is acting suspicious, and things go bump in the night. There is more to this job that she doesn't fully understand...that is, until it's too late.

Je suis prise au piège de l'enfer. Ici, tout ou presque essaie de me tuer. Même le dieu qui prétend m'avoir aimée est à un cheveu de mettre un terme à ma vie. Mais tout est sur le point de changer. J'en ai par-dessus la tête d'être Perséphone, une simple outsider dans les Épreuves d'Hadès. J'ai essayé de faire appel à la déesse en moi, et maintenant que j'ai du pouvoir, je n'ai pas peur de m'en servir. Même si j'ignore totalement comment m'y prendre.

Two thrilling Western stories set in Arizona, in which strong and silent cowboys use their wits to overcome bullies while avoiding gunplay as much as possible. The first story, "Scalisi Claws Leather", is set in Arizona during the Prohibition era. The notorious Chicago gangster Pete Scalisi has come to the Bar BQ dude ranch to hide out for a while. In the title story, "Long Texan", Boone Sibley arrives in Tough Nut, Arizona, just in time to save a small child that wanders into the line of fire in a shootout, putting him on the wrong side of Whip Quinn and his gang.

Steamy Curvy Girl Romance Hindsight is 50/50. Divorced, lonely and on the longest dry spell of my life. BAM! Ava walks back into my life, where the hell has she been. Returning to town, I anticipated running into Ezra. It only took hours before we were face to face. His warm hug seemed innocent but I needed his arms around me. The man was hard to miss. Epitome of tall dark and handsome.

Subtlety I wiped the drool from the corner of my mouth. What did this man do for a living, wrestle bulls? I’m confident being a thicker girl, he could handle me in the sheets. His sudden deep laugh and sparkle in his eyes hinted he wasn’t like other guys. Although we just met, he checks off all my must have boxes. Ironically, I was on a blind date with his friend, he moved his feet and Sander took his seat. His compliments and mannerisms ensured me he was feeling the same connection.

Sophie Lockmore gets a job as an executive assistant to billionaire Andrew Hayes. She knows she will have to work hard and go the extra mile, but she never expected bearing an heir would be part of the deal. Sophie finds that she can't resist Andrew. She slowly begins to submit and starts to fall in love. She wants to be more than just his surrogate.

Cryptids; Bigfoot, Dogmen, Mothman and others. Do they really exist or is it mass hysteria or misidentification or just the biggest and longest running and successful hoaxes of all time? Let's find out together.

Bestlethrone is doomed to fall. Now Prince Felan must flee, leaving his family behind in a desperate attempt to save his father’s kingdom against known forces and the influence of the gods who may be moving against them. All his family built over centuries hangs in the balance, as Felan fights against invaders, betrayal, and "gods" who are really humans, now a galaxy-spanning civilization, interfering with Felan's species as a game. Unbeknownst to Felan, his fate is intertwined with Sandra Ferrara, a 13-year-old girl, and retired General Dash Cricken, a veteran of the Galaxy Wars.

When I killed my abusive mate to protect myself and my daughter, no one in my pride believed it was self-defense. To punish me, they cursed me with a halo - a light that surrounds me all the time and which can only be seen by other shifters - warning them that I’m guilty of a terrible crime. When I came to St. Dominic, I thought I might be able to start a new life under the radar. All I want to do is make a living and take care of my baby daughter Jane. But nobody sees past the halo. Everyone in St. Dominic treats me like I’m scum. Except Dylan.

From national best-selling romance author Raine Cantrell comes the story of a desperate woman who meets her destiny on the Arizona frontier. After her husband is murdered on their wedding night, Faith Beckett is on the run, with her father and siblings in tow. They have a land stake on the far side of the Arizona Territory, a perilous journey for even seasoned travelers, and they are in need of a guide as determined as Faith.

The doctor’s naughty wife gets a lesson she’ll never forget. Adrian had been with Gary from the beginning. She was bright, efficient and attractive. She had bright eyes, a cute nose and a nice figure. Her legs were nice and long, but Teri had never seen just how good they looked as she always wore uniforms with pants. In fact, the good-looking nurses Gary, her husband, hired was one of the things that bothered her. Adrian had been there from the start, and it had bothered Teri to think that her husband was with her all day, but once she got to know the nurse, and saw that business and ...

For years, Jude Fairchild has loved one woman. But falling in love with your best friend is always tricky, and for Jude, it’s also unrequited. He can’t blame her. Jude’s always been a bad boy on the wrong side of love and on the wrong side of his father. When Sierra Lowell returns from England after a two-year fellowship away from the tight-knit aristocratic dragon shifter circles of New York, she’s excited to see her best friend Jude again. But Jude’s less than enthused about the new dragon in town showing interest in Sierra.

Gretchen Williams had finally been offered her dream job. After years of writing - screenplays, various freelance jobs, and erotic spanking romance - one of her book series had been adapted for television. She had been over the moon at the invitation to join the crew on set and overlook day to day operations.

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of nothingness. Sister’s by birth and BFF’s by choice, ”I Forgot to Tell You” podcast takes the exploration to nothing, into something. With a nostalgic phone in one hand, and that ONE last item still left on the docket to discuss, Eva picks up the phone to call Raine because... ”Fuck! I forgot to tell you!”

For two years Jenny Latham has lived alone with her young son in the Colorado mountains, trying to manage her guilt over letting an abusive husband control her for too long. Her beauty makes her the object of many men's desires, but with a broken heart and an independent streak as strong as the mountains themselves, Jenny refuses them all. But when she accidentally shoots a stranger and takes it upon herself to nurse him back to health, she finds all of her defenses wavering.