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Everyone says beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sheila's eyes are focused on her dreams. With her sights set on opening the hottest beauty parlor in the city and a $100,000 grant on the line, Sheila doesn't have time for distractions. Especially not from Shi'zad, the persistently charming but aesthetically challenged man who keeps popping up everywhere she goes. Her relationship with Shareef might be circling the drain, but that doesn't mean she's looking for a replacement – least of all someone who looks like a darkroom experiment gone wrong.

Jodi views himself as the upper echelon of Black men. Smart, successful, educated, and incredibly wealthy. He's got cars, clothes, and women, but that's where his problems begin. While he's supposed to be faithful to his longtime girlfriend, Sabrina, he figures what she doesn't know won't hurt her.

He was her school's biggest enemy, until he became her body's only master. Zara Hayes is the undisputed queen of Eastview High. As head cheerleader, she is the face of perfection. But a medical secret threatens to ruin her during the most important week of the year. When Westside star quarterback Kade Maverick catches her at her most vulnerable, he does not offer a hand. He offers a leash. Kade is the town villain. He is arrogant and cruel. Now he is the official liaison at her school. He has seven days to dismantle everything Zara loves. He demands her total submission in exchange for his ...

A podcast about all the things that make us wonder. Each week, we’ll tell you a true story that will fascinate and terrify you: a family who receive letters from a “Watcher” after moving into their new house, a hotel that’s seen so much death that it has to be cursed, UFO encounters, hauntings, Bigfoot sightings, and so much more. Written and hosted by Tony Award-winning actor and celebrated writer Daisy Eagan, “Strange and Unexplained” is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on.

For years I dreamed of seeing her again. But without a last name or a phone number, it was impossible. She became a dream, a crushing memory, nothing more than a remember when. Until I found her in my home, sitting with my twin brother, eyes brimming with tears. She threw our world off its axis but even so, I want her more than ever. But I don't want her to be mine. I want her to be ours.

When Zara Thompson throws herself a divorce party to celebrate her freedom from her unfaithful husband, she expects it to be the beginning of her new life. What she doesn't expect is for Marcus, her soon-to-be ex-husband, to crash the party with revelations that threaten to shatter everything she thought she knew. In one explosive night, Zara's carefully planned celebration spirals into chaos. A suspicious photo, a drunk therapist, an outspoken exotic dancer, and a series of shocking truths force her to question six months of certainty.

Victoria Hargrave arranges life with precision; her sister’s future, her household’s peace, even her own carefully guarded heart. According to plan, a small supper at Hargrave Manor was supposed to secure her sister’s match with Edmund Ravenswood, not draw his attention to her. When his steady gaze unsettles her ordered world though, Victoria must confront the one thing she never planned for: love. Edmund Ravenswood, returns to Ashbourne, bound by duty and shaped by loss, a physician who keeps emotions tidy and days predictable. Victoria’s calm competence softens the edges of his ...

The first time I met Damien Baxter, I told him to go eff himself. The second time I met him, I almost slapped him across the face after he made me cry. Third time’s a charm right? Wrong. But I have no choice. I’m stuck shadowing him at his company for the next two months. And if I want to achieve my dream of getting into the Ph.D. program I've worked toward my whole life, then I’m going to have to suck him up. It. Suck it up. If he has his way, though, the only thing I’m going to be learning from him is how to have my body utterly and completely ravaged and my heart broken.

Matilda Trevelyan has spent her life in the shadows, hidden away as the illegitimate daughter of an earl, relegated to the fringes of society. Freedom is a distant dream, love an impossible fantasy, until her father's unexpected decree of marriage offers a glimmer of escape. But is this an opportunity for a new beginning, or merely another gilded cage? Captain Hugh Wexford, a hero of the Napoleonic wars, returns to a family shattered by loss and shadowed by scandal. With his brother gone and his nephew's future in his hands, he vows to unearth the truth. A timely invitation thrusts him into...

Living under the shadow of her controlling uncle, Lady Georgiana Bryson finds solace in her covert literary endeavors and her faithful greyhound, Flint. Regarded as a wallflower, Georgiana has shied away from love until she crosses paths with the handsome Earl of Huntingdon. Could that finally be what the poets write about? Victor Colborne, the Earl of Huntingdon, presents a mask of carefree abandon to society, secretly nursing a heart still raw from his fiancée’s death. Devoted to scholarly pursuits—and the mysterious novels of an author who seems to understand his very soul, he ...

Lady Eliza Harwood longs for freedom, having spent her life surrendering her dreams to duty. Yet when her brother arranges her marriage to settle the family’s mounting debts, once again Eliza has no choice but to accept a future she never wanted. Promised to a man she barely knows, she must decide to either remain the obedient wife society demands, or risk her heart for something more. Lord Tristan Vale, Earl of Evermere, never intended to take a wife he did not choose, yet with his grandfather pressing for an heir, duty allows no delay. Hardened by loss and accustomed to control, Tristan...

The Man I Know is a married couple standalone. You won't find a third act break-up, babies in the epilogue, or a ton of angst. Instead, this story centers around a happily married couple (with children) who discover, after years of marriage, that one of them needs more. Low-angst and high steam, the plot centers around deepening an already healthy relationship.

A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern” poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an...

Many adults just not feeling right. They are tired, weak, overwhelmed, and oftentimes in pain. These symptoms are usually the result of a bigger problem. In many cases, they come from being overstressed. It is important to find ways to manage stress, and one of the best ways is to find entertainment in a good audiobook. If you are a stressed-out adult, like so many of us are, then we have some great material in store for you. Bedtime is one of the best periods of the day to unwind and forget about the things that overwhelmed you that day.

Nurses get together with cops all the time. That's not the problem with our pairing. The fact that I've known him for most of my life because he's my brother's best friend. One of my best friends, even. That's the problem. But after he visits me at the hospital with a bag of peanut M&M's and a Diet Coke, I'm rethinking if Mally Miller is only a friend. But can I trust him with my darkest kink and deepest need? The need to have him take control...with force.

When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder's notebooks - filled with pearls of wisdom - and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire.

Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi", is the Princess Diana of 19th-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman in England. He is also impoverished, with no hope of buying the horse needed to win the Grand National....

Rock bottom isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. On his deathbed, Beau’s father reveals a life-changing secret. One big enough to send him into a tailspin of boozing and denial for a year. When Beck, a single mom new to town, shows up at his automotive shop, he isn’t expecting to meet the woman who will tear him from depression and turn his life around.

Losing your eye in an alley bar-fight will change you. And I don't just mean physically. I thought my biggest hurdle was accepting that I look different. Turns out, my personal Everest is realizing that other people don't accept me. Specifically, women.

This is the only way I can make sure she’s safe. And she has to be safe. My feet are quieter than a whisper as they trudge along the asphalt. She doesn’t look at me until we’re nearly toe-to-toe, because she walks her with her beautiful head tipped down. That’s something I’m going to change. I grab her quickly, so fast that she doesn’t even have the chance to make a sound. I’ve got her cuffed and gagged in just moments and in the back seat of my SUV just as quick.