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Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds, becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation wants to exploit. Rosie, owner of Monk's Bar, serves members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who seek to employ them. Angel, ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed-up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing, is asked to perform a job for Rosie.

Against all odds, Adirah Messa has been accepted to Billet University, a prestigious institution founded in the 1800s for people of color. Determined to excel, she arrives at the university intent on minimizing distraction and focusing on her studies. That goal is soon interrupted when she is noticed by members of the "in" crowd, who invite her to the most popular frat party on campus. Adirah finds herself smitten with someone of another race and is taken on a ride she can never return from. Unbeknownst to her, Adirah's newfound love is not only a master seducer.

When she entered school at a recently integrated college in North Carolina, Adirah Messa was looking forward to a bright future. Then she met a man of another kind who turned her world upside down. After being turned into a blood-sucking being and then giving birth to a child fathered by the King of Vampires, Adirah thinks that life can't get any stranger. But when her ancient past becomes a part of the present, she learns that her son has a destiny that is out of her control. The only way to protect him is for old enemies to put their differences behind them....

Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception—making her like a daughter to Gita—she knows she’s in for something much more dangerous. Ri is trapped in the depths of Loki’s Ring, an artificial alien-made solar system, and says everyone in the vicinity has been infected and killed by a mysterious contagion. Gita and her team investigate, only to discover horrors at every turn.

A musically inspired Practical Magic fandom podcast! We will deep dive into the magick of the movie, books and whole world of Practical Magic, created by Alice Hoffman. Your hosts are Kristina Babich and Justina Carubia, or The Stinas, as you will come to know them! This podcast is our tribute to our favorite movie of all time, with a little bit of our own musical twist ✨🔮 *SPOILERS ABOUND!* NEW EPISODES EVERY FRIDAY!

One-night stand rule number one: Always check the condom’s expiry date. 

Fake boyfriend rule number one: Never fall for your fake girlfriend. Oops. I run Aphrodite’s Boutique, a store that specializes in all things love-related. A store that I adore with all my heart, and which is at risk of being shut down and replaced with a condo development. To save it, all I have to do is pretend to be Travis Hamilton’s girlfriend. Sounds simple enough. Right?

Efter tio år som änka och ensamstående mamma längtar Rakel efter gemenskap. Vännerna har tagit avstånd mer och mer, hennes föräldrar har gått bort. Och när Rakels två döttrar väljer att åka på roadtrip i USA får hon plötsligt betydligt mer frihet än hon är van vid. Vad ska hon göra med sin lediga sommar? En dråplig vattenskada i familjens lägenhet gör att Rakel hastigt och lustigt blir hemlös. Lösningen på boendeproblemet blir en semester på pittoreska Västerö. 

Hot Girls Read is a lifestyle podcast where we read personal development books that nurture our mind, body, and soul, then on the podcast we discuss the skills and techniques we learn from the text to manifest the lives we want, and we cultivate self-love to become the best version of ourselves. Nothing is hotter than a confident girl who is STRONG mentally, physically, & spiritually.

Tanjas lever det liv hon alltid drömt om. Hon har sin fantastiska make Oliver och fyra underbara barn. Ändå känner hon plötsligt att det är något som saknas - och att Oliver till och med blivit lite tråkig. Men hur adresserar man det egentligen? Och vad gör man åt saken? En oväntad present från svägerskan i USA gör att Tanja blir fast besluten att hitta något som kan andas nytt liv i äktenskapet. Men att få en stund tillsammans utan barnen visar sig bli mycket svårare än hon trott.

For centuries, the Kingdom of Eledore has relied upon the kainen race's natural magical talents to retain its elevated and seemingly impervious status in the world, particularly above the humans in Acrasia. Plots and assassination attempts grow against the royal twin heirs, Nels and Suvi, as the Acrasians seem to be doing more than saber rattling against what they see as an evil, tyrannical nation.   

She’s pregnant with another man’s baby. He’s now the father to his little niece. A sexy rom com with all the feels! My software company has been my number one, two, and three priorities. But that all changes when I suddenly become the guardian of my three-year-old niece. Now my world has turned topsy-turvy with princesses and little-girl tea parties. When Hannah Morrell needs a place to stay after the pipes in her apartment burst, I invite her to move in with my niece and me. Hannah is a pediatric nurse, and given my situation, who could ask for a better roommate. Sounds easy.

Best friend rule number one: Never want the guy’s sister. Oops.  

Kissing-under-the-mistletoe rule number one: Never kiss your ex-fiancée. Oops. My plans for the Christmas break include: drive to Lake Tahoe, learn to ski, enjoy hot, earth-shattering sex (and end my sex drought), and meet my "forever love" under the mistletoe. Right. The last one was my friend’s prediction, but you never know. What I don’t count on is a flat tire, a major blizzard, and for Liam Quade, my ex-fiancé and the man who broke my heart 10 years ago, to come to my rescue. 

A chance encounter with a masked stranger at a charity ball led to an incredible kiss and a night of hot sex. The kiss was my goal for that night, a baby step forward after my husband’s death a year ago. The hot sex? Not so much. You know what else hadn’t been my goal? To be knocked up by a man whose identity is a mystery to me. 

After her husband became an agnostic, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single" - struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts. In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found community in an unexpected place: an order of Catholic nuns in her neighborhood. As she spent time with them and learned about female Catholic saints, she began to see that she was not "spiritually single" after all - and that no one really is.

The Acrasian army has swept through Eledore, nearly massacring the entire race in fear and hatred of the magic they possess. This same magic is all that was keeping the demon incursion at bay, but now the great evil that was banished is seeping into the world. Watchers are formed to warn of any sightings of the demons, but little can be done if one encounters them in shadow or at night.   

Hallo und schön dass du bei mir bist. Wir machen uns dass hier jeden Sonntag gemütlich und vor allem wollen wir ein bisschen Spaß haben. Der Name ist Programm: Ausgesaugt und Angeschissen - es geht um Kinderwunsch, Schwangerschaft und Elternzeit, das ganze aber unverblümt, ehrlich und lustig. Ich bin Stina-Lotta, 30 Jahre alt und endlich nach 4 Jahren Kinderwunsch schwanger. Ich rede über Themen die einem vorher keiner sagt und vor allem lebt der Podcast durch dich! Erzähle mir deine Geschichte oder stelle mir deine Fragen - ich beantworte sie gerne (stinalotta@gmx.de). Viel Spaß beim ...

As the future CEO of my grandmother’s fashion empire, I’m not supposed to want to design a line of fancy dresses for girls with special needs. But when I pull out all the stops and present my vision to my grandmother, she agrees to let me try on one very questionable condition. The condition? I have to complete every item on the bucket list I wrote in college. 

Amber Scott should be enjoying life as a college freshman. She should be pursuing her dream of becoming a veterinarian. She should be working hard to make sense of her precalculus math class. She shouldn't be waking up her college roommate with screaming nightmares. She shouldn't be flashing back, reliving the three weeks of hell she barely survived last year. And she definitely shouldn't be spending time with sexy player Marcus Reid. But engineering student Marcus is the only one keeping Amber from failing her math course, so she grudgingly lets him into her life....