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In 2014, I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the hips. That’s when my nightmare began. What is avascular necrosis? Avascular necrosis (AVN), also known as osteonecrosis of the femoral head, occurs when the blood supply to the bone is decreased. This interruption in blood supply causes small cracks and breaks in the bone. If the AVN is left untreated, the bone will eventually die and collapse. Over 20,000 people acquire AVN every year, typically between 20 and 50 years old.

With Christmas season in full swing, baker Regina San Valentino is up to her elbows in cake batter and cookie dough. Between running her own business, filling her bursting holiday order book, and managing her crazy Italian family, she's got no time to relax, no room for more custom cake orders, and no desire to find love. A failed marriage and a personal tragedy have convinced her she's better off alone. Then a handsome stranger enters her bakery begging for help. Regina can't find it in her heart to refuse him.

Sidra Martin not only can’t remember her childhood before she was found on a Florida roadside and placed in a foster home, she can’t understand why she dislikes — no, make that fears — Christmas trees and anything else to do with the holiday. What is wrong with her? Sidra’s boss, Private Investigator Levi Tanner, is used to digging up skeletons, but not in his own backyard, so to speak. When he foils the kidnapping of his pretty, unassuming secretary, the skeletons that tumble out of her closet can't be ignored.

What's that sound? What would you do if the neighbor you've known since childhood suddenly became a stranger to you? An outsider has arrived, and those who hear the sound he emits begin to change. Suddenly, entire households have begun to disappear. Trevor Burnette has lived in the same small town all his life. When his wife asks for a divorce, he thinks it’s the worst thing that could ever happen to him. But he was wrong. Dead wrong. Because his son is deaf, and those who cannot hear the sound are being murdered.

After the stroke, Kate's husband was a different man...Cruel, abusive, violent. Divorce was her only salvation - but not for her daughter and son. By law, they were required to visit their father. And endure his terrible rage. So Kate decided to run away. To start a new life for herself and her children. To find safety in the arms of another man...That was when her nightmare really began...

Dr. David Gordon has discovered the secret to unlocking the subconscious mind's innate ability to heal itself from trauma, loss, and suffering. This discovery will change everything medical science knows about the mind and expand possibilities for cognitive and intellectual development. However, there are those who plan to pervert this into a terrible weapon of war “to enhance interrogation” without leaving evidence of physical torture and threaten to leverage it to dominate humanity, with no hope of escape.

Eva feels as though she’s living on the brink of combustion; running an exhausting rat race of work, bills, and what she refers to as single-momdom. On a very dark night in her soul, she embarks on an enchanting dream that changes her reality forever. Realizing her deepest hurts, mistakes, and failures leads Eva to recognize her greatest strengths, blessings, and potential. She’d always desired to, but she’d never utilized her inner power to live her best life. In Journey to Source, Eva vows to follow her innate path, no matter how scary the first steps onto it may seem.

Nineteen years after defeating the Dark Father, Maggie has begun searching for the band of werewolves who are the source of her lycanthropy. She knew them to be vile beasts, but not even what she believed to be true could prepare her for the horror of what they have done, and will do again...if she doesn’t stop them.

Antony and his immortal friends defeated The Dark Father. Next came Minerva, a.k.a. Mother, and our Immortal heroes defeated her as well. Now an enemy has resurfaced from Antony's past who is stronger, more ruthless, and more violent than anyone he has faced before. Antony and his friends have never been in such peril. The battle lines have been drawn. Brace yourself for the fight to end all fights. Prepare for the Immortal Conquest.

The world is now a savage place, where nature is caustic and mankind is deadly. In other words, survival is just another job. Post-apocalyptic London has dragged itself back to a form of civilisation in the shape of the Quads, ruled by the PEA and a proxy-government in hopes to stem unrest within the masses of Walkers that keep the Known World turning. But life is hard. The Agents are merciless, the Bandits are returning, and the Mists weaponize the very air. But as one young resident finds out, when the few things you cling to are taken away, life stops being about living.

From the shadows I emerge; my siren call is fear and death. I was beaten, raped and left for dead like so many unfortunate souls. But I was offered a different path....

Tracking Pure Evil — a podcast dedicated to the spooky things that go bump in the night — have put together a team. A team with one sole purpose; to increase their viewership by staying in the truly terrifying Redburn Manor. With over 200 years of bad luck, death, murder, suicides, accidents and absolute terror, they’ve found the perfect place… or so they think.

With Christmas just a few weeks away, Gia San Valentino, the baby in her large, loud, and loving Italian family, yearns for a life and home of her own with a husband and bambini she can love and spoil. The single scene doesn’t interest her, and the men her well-meaning family introduce her to aren’t exactly the happily-ever-after kind. Tim Santini believes he’s finally found the woman for him, but Gia will take some convincing she’s that girl. A misunderstanding has her thinking he’s something he’s not.

After basking momentarily in her father’s inauguration and midnight marriage, Cass must race to Boston Children’s Hospital to save Little Mac. She’s beginning to suspect that she can no longer feast without at least two disasters for dessert. When Little Mac’s wheelchair explodes, she’s certain. Cass Watson’s father, Glen Watson, is now president. In past months, she has acquired twin brothers, Lep and Little Mac. She loves her new siblings as much as her almost-boyfriend, Keith, but during their first White House visit, her life becomes even more complicated.

Cass Watson tries to put her kidnapping last year behind her as her father's inauguration approaches. On her first day of school, though, the WatTechPrep parking lot explodes outside her window. More incidents follow. When her father vanishes on the eve of his inauguration, Cass becomes certain that her kidnapper, Mac Beverly, has returned.

Cass, 13, seeks to escape her captors, protect her little brother, and assist her presidential-candidate father, Glen "Wat" Watson. Oddly, Cass finds herself confined to a luxurious suite in NorthWatch Castle—the Watsons own the castle and the Maine Coastal Island it dominates. How can Cass's family not be behind this?

In Hotel, the new owner discovers a dangerous secret; a hotel receptionist is blackmailed.

Shut off from the world, and dealing with her father s recent ALS diagnosis, Jessica is determined to make every moment with her father count! Struggling with the decision to either let her father know about the diagnosis or carry the weight of it on her own, Jessica decides to focus on making memories. Yet the memories within this new reality overtake the ones from before as she finds herself staring down the barrel of her wedding that she s no longer certain should take place.

Miranda Mills finds her life transformed when she marries caring and wealthy computer programmer, Quinton. With a fulfilling career and a loving marriage, psychiatrist Miranda seems to have it all, until her life is shattered when she finds out her husband is nothing but a fake, a liar, and a cheat. His abusive behavior causes her to doubt her inner self and everything she believes in. She’s taken an oath to never analyze family, friends, boyfriends, or husbands.

When Stacey Moreno goes undercover on Evergreen Island, she's looking for answers to a friend's mysterious death, not trouble... Hobbled by injuries from a plane crash, former journalist Mack Warren came to Redfern Manor looking for escape, not romance...As Stacey digs for answers, she's drawn to her mysterious boss, but he is obsessed with a ghost. With danger drawing near, can Stacey persuade Mack to face the shadows from the past that threaten to destroy their future? Listen to find out more.