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International hotel manager Ben Carter is not sticking around Hearts Bend. He’s just home to sell the inn he inherited from his grandparents. The place holds all his best memories—especially the ones that include regular summer guest Cami Jackson. Real estate developer Cami Jackson is ready to take over as VP of her father’s company, Akron Development. When the Hearts Bend Inn comes on the market, she wants to swoop it up, if only because of the sweet memories of her favorite summers. The last thing she expects to find is her first love back to sign on the dotted line.

Katrina Vega is set on one thing: finishing college. She's determined not to let anything or anyone distract her, especially not hot, brooding bikers. On her mission to stay focused, she doesn't expect to be pulled into the fold of a motorcycle club, let alone into the arms of Alec "Mute" Stillwater. Unable to keep her guard up, Katrina soon discovers that beneath the hard and rough exterior of a family she's grown to care for, there's also loyalty and passion she's envious of. But falling for the club's enforcer will not only threaten her plans, but quite possibly her life.

After witnessing the death of her mother at a young age, Cecily LeClercq grows up hiding herself away in the remote Carolina wetlands. When a stranger arrives from Paris saying a distant elderly relative is desperate to see her before she dies, Cecily travels to an old chateau deep in the French woods. There she learns of an ancient curse that has consumed generations of her ancestors, personified by a vicious, ghostly wraith who emerges from the forest when the death of a LeClercq is near.

There is a magical wand called Ataraxia. A fairy tale. Princess Opaline must marry Prince Botikin. But the Witch informs Opaline that the Prince was changed into the Pig who will be served at their wedding. There is only one way to save him: Find the magical wand called Ataraxia.

During the Salem Witch Trials over four hundred years ago, Ezekiel and Jeremiah Turner stumbled upon the knowledge needed to tap into unused parts of the human brain. What they discovered was the ability to telepathically call the soul of their destined soulmate, the one created for them.

It’s time to get in charge of your dating life. You should know what you want, you should know how to assert yourself and how to make the most of the dating game. Most women experience insecurities and these can have a profound impact on romantic encounters. The media, magazines, and even influencers work full-time to instill such insecurities and commercialize just about every aspect of a woman’s life.

This book will teach you how to build a strong, trust-based bond with your child, and how to instill responsibility and accountability by using effective communication and teaching about the consequences of your child’s actions.

Noemi helps mentor a girl through a new program at the local nonprofit where her modeling agency is volunteering time. Something about the little girl is off, but she can't put the finger on it. The seventh adopted child of a local businessman revered around town and his wife, she meets a wall of silence when raising her concerns. The local coordinator of the program gives her condescension and looks down her nose at the allegations. Of course, Noemi knows the perfect group to help provide her some backup.

Jeremy Jackson's disappearance prompts his parents to hire Hazely Silverston. Hazely, for her own personal reasons, reluctantly takes the job and follows the clues to a remote area. She has no way of knowing that this investigation will change everything she thought she knew about the world. The appalling truth will lead her straight into an ancient curse, an evil being, and a fight for her life. The more Hazely learns, the more she begins to realize she’s in over her head. Some secrets are better left buried. Some secrets are worth killing for.

“Hello, my name is Selena. Welcome to the Flamingo Lounge. Your secrets are safe with me.” Some of Palm Beach's most successful misfits indulge themselves at the Flamingo Lounge Speakeasy. Secluded within the prestigious Opulence Resort, old man Wilcox, Lila, Slash, Renata, and Selena become fast friends. When a patron is poisoned, will the bonds of friendship hold up under pressure in this whodunit mystery?

I escaped fairy prison only to have my best friend snatched up by my brutal captors. Somehow I survived, with new allies and new abilities. But the Fae won't let me go so easily. For my friends to be safe, I'm forced to marry into one of the royal Fae families, each with their own kind of magic, eccentricity, and violence. As I try to learn who to trust, I'm courted by noble princes and threatened by invisible enemies. But even the royals have their secrets, and they will kill to protect them. Can I make an alliance before I become a target?

All college student Noelle Fidelis wants is a chance to be normal. To blend in at a party, without the crippling social anxieties that come from a history of abuse and insecurity. Instead, a chance encounter with a dark-alley creep turns into a terrifying prison sentence after she's abducted by a royal fae and condemned to fight against other supernatural inmates in a battle for survival. In the end, Noelle faces her worst fears in a violent confrontation that unravels her sense of self, becoming the very thing she's sworn to destroy.

A new mystery south of the border ensues. Jax’s sister, Justeen, is on a mission to save other girls in a bad spot like she once was, but she might have bitten off more than she can chew with this latest rescue endeavor. When she stands between a baddie and millions of dollars, something is sure to give. 

Atara is on a mission to rescue Ryder from Nathaniel’s clutches and is chasing leads like a crazy woman. Nothing Levi, Ray, or Jax can do slowing her down, as all they can do is get on board and hope that they have her back when she needs it. Following a trail of breadcrumbs across multiple states, they finally land at the front door of a charity that takes in street kids and tries to give them a fresh start. It is also one of the last places that Ryder was seen seeking shelter, but this sinister place is all smoke and mirrors.

Everlea Hemmings is a sweet newcomer to the fashion world that Noemi has taken under her wings. Unfortunately, her kind of beauty displaces others on the circuit, causing some major bullying. Somebody takes it a bit past trying to scare her away one night with deadly consequences. Now, Everlea has become the Virtuous Sin's team's next "pseudo" client, as they try to figure out who exactly wants the world's next supermodel dead before her star can fully rise.

Virtuous Sin is the bar the four survivors started as an ode to the sins of the past by those who claimed to be virtuous. It is also the front by which other victims come seeking aid with crimes, the police are not able to intervene in or solve. Leah Resnik is one such person who visits the Virtuous Sin bar to relieve the tension from a campaign of terror someone is visiting upon her.

When an old friend asks for help trying to solve a serial killer case that has baffled the FBI for a while, the suspect they propose is the exact opposite of what the profile says they will be looking for. Ray, who normally doesn't have much to add, cracks this case wide open, of a man whose humility, the modest external situation will reveal him to be anything but when the women are done with him. Like Nathaniel, though, this slippery eel is killing a path to their front door, and he is pretty good at covering his tracks.

Detective Arizona Tume has been bidding her time and waiting for just the right moment to make her move. Her cover is now blown, or so she believes after helping Alaric escape out of the task force. When some hard questions are brought to bear, she is on edge but still not fully cleared to leave the job she has been entrusted to for all these years. When Levi makes a move, she is not certain to believe her old partner, but the case she has been asked to advise on is too hot not to throw in with everyone trying to solve it.

On the tail of finding out Alaric, Levi, and Nate’s secret, the women of Virtuous Sin are spiraling. Finding that everything they thought about reality was a façade in a bigger game of cat and mouse than anyone ever knew could be the end of the road for these three; at the very least, the men they had trusted are on the outs with them for certain. As they find a way back in, a new evil lurks. Being called from the darkness, he seeks to claim a secret that will change all dynamics of this war for good. 

With Levi’s life in the balance, Atara will stop at nothing to hunt down those who are holding him. It will take all the sisters to get to Levi in time. Unfortunately, the group holding him has lived in the shadows for years and boasts some of the world’s most powerful men as clients for the pure women they offer to the highest bidder. They are led by a smart, maniacal man who has everything riding on staying under the radar and offering the women a swap for their silence. Don’t blink - because nothing is as it seems in the underbelly of this city.