Maya Young

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex...

He's my landlord. He's twenty years older. He keeps finding reasons to knock on my door. I came to Falcon Peak to hide. After a scandal destroyed everything I built, I needed somewhere cheap and anonymous to start over. The apartment above Cole Construction was both. I didn't count on Garrett Cole. He owns the building. He owns half the town. And he looks at me like he wants to own me, too. He's too old for me. I'm too much of a mess for him. This is supposed to be a landlord-tenant relationship, nothing more. But when the heat breaks again, and he shows up at midnight, neither of us is ...

His wife made me promise to look after him. She didn't tell me I'd fall in love. Flynn Beckett lost his wife eighteen months ago. I was there when she died. She was my mentor, my friend, the nurse who taught me everything. Her last words to me were about him. Don't let him disappear. Promise me. So I show up. Every week, I'm at his door with food he doesn't want to eat, conversation he doesn't want to have, life he doesn't want to live. He's gruff. Resistant. Still wearing his ring like armor. But slowly, he's letting me in. Slowly, the grief in his eyes is making room for something else. I...

When wildlife photographer Marlowe witnesses illegal poaching in Montana's backcountry, she doesn't expect to be rescued by six feet of brooding, protective park ranger. Cole Morrison is 36 to her 26, with gentle hands and an intensity that makes her breath catch every time he growls "mine." "You're under my protection now," he declares when armed poachers force them to shelter together at his remote station. "I don't lose anyone in my territory, especially not you." Marlowe came to Thunder Creek for portfolio shots. She never expected to find her future with a mountain man who sees her ...

I came home to make money. I didn't expect to fall for the single dad I crushed on at seventeen. Everett Stone was the older, unattainable rancher's son who never looked twice at me. Now he's a single dad with a wild toddler and desperation in his eyes, and he's offering me more money than I can refuse to spend the summer chasing his kid around his ranch. I told myself I'd keep it professional. Then his son said my name for the first time, and Everett looked at me like I'd hung the moon. He's still older. Still intense. Still completely off-limits. But now he's looking at me like he sees me...

He hired me to help his daughter. He didn't expect me to help him too. I don't do personal connections. I show up, I tutor, I leave. Simple. Then Sheriff Nate Cortez tracked me down and asked me to save his failing fourteen-year-old, and something about the desperation in his voice made me say yes. Mari is angry at the world. Nate is terrified he's losing her. And I understand both of them better than I should — because I was Mari once, and no one fought for me the way Nate is fighting for her. I'm supposed to keep professional distance. Instead, I'm staying for dinner. Instead, I'm ...

Five cowboys. Five women who weren't looking for love. One ranch where it all begins. Welcome to Silver Spur Ranch, where the men work hard, love harder, and don't let go once they've claimed what's theirs. These men weren't looking for love. But when five curvy women arrive at Silver Spur, everything changes. Because cowboys don't ask. They claim. This collection includes five steamy instalove romances with possessive cowboys, curvy heroines, and guaranteed happily-ever-afters. No cliffhangers, no cheating, just big men with bigger hearts finding the women they'll love forever. Tropes: ...

Dindi yearns to dance. But will her tribe allow it? Dancing is forbidden... ...except for those who pass the secret rites of Initiation. Because dancing creates magic. And magic is dangerous. But not as dangerous as the lithe and lethal Warrior-Dancer who saved her life. He’s the son of the Last Fae. He’s forbidden. He’s an exile. And War and Death radiate from him like the colors in his aura. Will she pass the Initiation? What if the price turns the man she loves into an enemy? * * * READERS RAVE ABOUT THE UNFINISHED SONG SERIES! “There is a wonderful harmony about this world, ...

 The Maya has long been established as the best, most accessible introduction to the New World's greatest ancient civilization. Coe and Houston update this classic by distilling the latest scholarship for the general listener and student. 

Scary Stories for Kids presents two classic chillers certain to spark the imaginations of boys and ghouls everywhere. "Staley Fleming's Hallucination" tells the story of a murderer and the ghostly image of the victim's loyal dog that seeks unspeakable revenge. "The Bottle Imp" recounts the story of Keawe, a young Hawaiian who comes into possession of a bottle that grants his every wish, but at a cost that may be higher than he wants to pay.

He promised my father he'd look after me. He didn't promise he wouldn't fall in love with me. Tucker Graves has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember. My father's best friend. The man who taught me to ride a bike, who walked me down the aisle at my high school graduation, who held me when we buried my dad. He's also the man I've wanted since I was old enough to understand what that ache meant. Now I'm back in Falcon Peak, broken and bruised from a life that didn't work out, and Tucker's there. Like always. Steady. Strong. Looking at me like he's fighting a war with ...

He's my boss. I live on his ranch. I need this job more than I need him. I came to Holbrook Ranch for the paycheck. Room and board included, hard work expected, no drama required. Then I met Silas Holbrook. He's forty-five, silver at his temples, and he runs his ranch like a man who's used to getting what he wants. I'm supposed to muck stalls and mend fences. Instead, I'm eating dinner at his table every night and pretending I don't notice the way he watches me. But when he shows up at my cabin after a storm, soaking wet and looking at me like I'm the only warm thing for miles, I stop ...

Alexi Pappas is not only an Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker, she is a writer whose heartwarming and life-affirming memoir will inspire young readers, as she shares the touchstone moments in her life that helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, and loss...

When Freya's car breaks down at 2 AM in the middle of nowhere, she doesn't expect to be rescued by six feet of protective mountain muscle. Ryan Hawthorne is everything she's running from—stable, commanding, and dangerously capable of seeing through her carefully built walls. He's also 38 to her 23, with calloused hands and a voice that makes her shiver every time he calls her sweetheart. "You're safe with me now," he promises when her past threatens to drag her back into darkness. "I protect what's mine." Freya came to Thunder Creek to disappear. She never expected to find sanctuary in ...

"Brewed to perfection.” —Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals After the jaw-dropping ending of #1 New York Times-bestseller A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal crafts a deliciously twisty and seductive sequel that will leave readers breathless. A romantic vampire...

He's my best friend's dad. I've been in love with him since I was eighteen. Weston Cross has been part of my life for ten years. He let me crash at his house when mine was too chaotic. Taught me to drive. Walked me through my first heartbreak with hot chocolate and bad movies. He treated me like a second daughter. I wanted him like anything but. Now his daughter, my best friend, has moved across the country, and suddenly there's no buffer between us. No excuse for why I keep showing up at his door. No one to pretend for. He's twenty years older. He still sees me as Jenna's friend, the girl ...

Don't just read about transformation. Experience it. When Maya Burke discovers her estranged father’s mysterious journal, she sets out on a cross-country journey that leads her through sacred sites, uncanny synchronicities, and hidden spiritual teachings—unraveling not only his secret life, but initiating her own spiritual awakening. As Maya follows the clues he left behind, she is drawn into a world of mystical truth, energy vortices, altered consciousness, and ancient wisdom, where the boundaries between the physical world and the unseen begin to dissolve. What begins as a search for ...

I was hired to help his son. I didn't expect to become the family they were missing. Theo Langford doesn't warm up to strangers. His dad warned me. The school warned me. But within a week, Theo was saving me a seat at the kitchen table and showing me his latest building project. Reid Langford is harder. He's guarded, protective, still bleeding from a divorce that shattered his trust. He watches me with his son like he's waiting for me to hurt them both. I'm supposed to be professional. I'm supposed to maintain clinical distance. Instead, I'm staying for dinner every night, and Reid's ...

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. "Maya Saroya gives an expressive performance in this thrilling historical fantasy filled with vampires, action, romance, and tea."—AudioFile on A Tempest of Tea From the New York Times–bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame comes...

When my BMW skids up a gravel mountain road, I don’t expect to end the day stranded in a storm and falling hard for the man I came to destroy. As a high-powered environmental lawyer, I’m used to wielding cease-and-desist orders like weapons. This trip to Colorado was supposed to be quick and bloodless: serve papers to Cruz Construction, shut them down, and catch my flight back to the city. Then I meet Dane Cruz. Six-foot-four of raw muscle, golden skin, and work-roughened hands that know how to build more than just homes. He’s supposed to be the villain in my legal brief, but he sees ...