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All Vanessa ever wanted was to be loved. Okay, strike that - all she wanted was not to die at the hands of the homicidal maniac who was obsessed with hunting her down - and to be loved. Was that too much to ask? Going to Jacob’s Well and becoming a Lottery Bride sounded like it would make all Vanessa’s dreams come true. For the first time in her life, she’d have a family. For the first time in her life, she’d have not just one person to love her, but five. And she’d be safe. from the notorious female slave trader, Lorenzo Bernal. There’s just one tiny problem.

Before the Karma Sutra, there was The Nookienomicon, a book so insidious that it brought more than mere titillation.... It brought terror! Follow the path of madness wrought by this dreadful tome from the Hyborian Age to the present day as it spreads its influence, and its tentacles, throughout history. Join Kolon the Barbarian, Annie Mater, the insufferable Professor Feeley, and a host of other bungling characters as they strive to halt the influence of the book and the abominations it summons.

Where do you turn when there's no one left to trust...? At sleepy Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, the Commanding General's wife Bunny Harris has been murdered, her head decapitated, and the Arabic word for "dust" scrawled in blood over the bed. Jack Garrett, a Los Angeles lawyer and former special ops soldier who is grieving after the recent death of his wife, starts working on the case with Cameron Wells, a beautiful, ambitious attorney who began her career in military intelligence.

After Sarah McAvoy’s heroic efforts to save Reese Fitzpatrick’s family business—the Evergreen Resort & Retreat Center—the mountain lion that prowls beneath Reese’s skin rises to dominance. It prizes loyalty above all else, and it demands Reese claim Sarah for his own.

Not only do the threats continue against the resort, but the Fitzpatricks’ family bonds are falling apart, and Reese’s reckless behavior puts him in danger of losing the only woman he has ever loved.

A murdered child. A small town. A cult lurking in the shadows...Vickie has always lived a quiet, ordinary life in an equally quiet and ordinary small town. Yet one fateful night a child turns up dead in the woods behind her house in a ritualistic slaughter...Vickie and her family are suddenly thrown into a national spotlight. But as the investigation unfolds, she begins to realize her family isn’t so ordinary after all. Evil is inching closer to those she holds dear and Vickie isn't sure who she can ultimately trust.

For years, Anna Black was the only child and the apple of her parents' eyes. When baby sister Angel comes along, Anna's life is quickly turned upside down. Anna will stop at nothing to win back her parents' affection. When her tactics lose their efficacy, Anna's desperate cries for help morph into something more sinister. Can anyone stop this angel of mercy?

The peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family’s door. One month before her 16th birthday, Mildred “Mickchen” Schindler and her family are captured by Russian soldiers. Having already survived life in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, they now face the terror of a new enemy - Stalin’s Red Army.

Still reeling from the arrival of her derelict father—a virtual stranger—and its effect on her family, Detective Nell Brach finds welcome distraction in her work. The vicious murder of a homeless Jane Doe passing through Nell’s rural jurisdiction carries more questions when the subsequent identification shockingly links her to a long-closed murder case that Nell’s deceased grandfather investigated. A case whose convicted killer is scheduled to die soon by lethal injection.

When Merrill Starks set his sights on Justine, his depraved actions set off a sequence of events that would lead to one little girl finding her purpose in life. Dr. Chloe Daniels, renowned forensic psychologist, aided in the identification and capture of some of the most notorious mass murderers the United States had ever known. But Chloe didn't embark on her career by happenstance. Merrill Starks was her inspiration.

When she walks, time moves under her feet. With a single step, Onyx Querette Acerant travels through time and space, the ancient and the new, the past and seemingly forgotten spaces that only the supernatural can touch. Like her psychically gifted sisters, Onyx moves in the shadows, thriving in darkness, changing the fates of those the ancestors deem worthy.

Learn the dos and don'ts of green innovation from experienced industry leaders. Your hosts are Frederik Van Deurs and Joachim Almdal.

Tired of losing weight and then putting it back on? Want to make healthier food choices? Sick of fad diets and exercise routines? The truth is...fad diets do not work! They are short-term solutions to a long-term problem. Sure, you might lose weight for a few weeks (or months), but if you don't change your underlying habits, then you'll eventually put the weight back on.

This collection of fantasy short stories are from the three winners of Remastered Words 2019 audio anthology, including a tale from Jonathan Green with "Who Walks with Death" which was first published in Legend, an anthology released in 2013 in honour of David Gemmell. Once again, a theme has developed when there were none prescribed and each story follows a significant journey in the life of its protagonist. Whatever the direction though and wherever the roads may lead, you'll be glad of a warm fire and comfy chair whilst the fabled journey plays out.

Cory knows it’s going to take Sky some time to get used to being his girlfriend, but he’s hurt when she asks him to keep it a secret. With her birthday coming up and the chance of her leaving town, he decides not to make a fuss about it but to still give Sky a birthday to remember. Sky can't wait until her birthday. She is finally going to get to leave the home, but more importantly, she’s going to find out who her parents are. The thing is, though, that sometimes the truth is best left in the past.

Use simple habit-development principles to fight against your desire to smoke. That's what you'll learn in the audiobook How to Quit Your Smoking Habit (Without the Stress or Weight Gain).

Sky is starting to settle into her new home, but that doesn't mean that she’s calming down. When a school prank goes a little too far, she's presented an offer she can't really refuse. But will she be able to keep up her side of the deal? Cory is falling hard for Sky. He knows that she’s the girl he’s been waiting for, but she keeps pushing him away. When she makes it clear to him that she isn't looking for anything serious, he is still sure that he will be able to change her mind. But when his best friend goes behind his back, will he still be able to find that happily ever after?

It’s the final week of school, and everybody is getting pumped about the end-of-year party down by the river. Cory already knows who he wants to take, but when he receives an unexpected request from a girl he’s known for years, he finds his plans derailed. Sky is certain that Cory is going to ask her to the party, but he doesn’t. She tries to tell herself that she’s cool with it, but when she sees him dancing with another girl, she realizes that she might have made a mistake by pushing him away.

Stella Aldren, a talented witch from Salem, has been chosen by her coven to fulfill a seventeenth-century curse that can only end in death. If Stella doesn't want to get herself killed, she needs to find Ethan Mather, the infamous witch hunter's descendant who's running for governor, pluck a hair from his head, make a poppet of his sexy-as-sin self, and...strike him dead. But when Stella stalks her prey at a political gala, sparks fly. And it's more than their combustible sexual attraction. There's an unforeseen and unknown magic swirling around the mysterious and handsome candidate.

PERCUTANT, DIVERTISSANT ET IMMERSIF ! "Les Alchimistes" est le deuxième tome d'une série steampunk addictive qui a remporté le Grand Prix de l'imaginaire 2021. L'équipage de L'Héliotrope est enfin parvenu aux portes de la Cité Impossible des Alchimistes, laissant à Prudence un étrange sentiment de déjà-vu. Outre un incommensurable trésor, qui dépasse leurs rêves les plus fous, les pirates y découvrent un surprenant sarcophage cryogénique qui contient la momie d'un Alchimiste.