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Brody Carter is everything a girl could ever want. Strong, charming, insanely hot - and with a sizzling Texas twang to his deep voice. Not to mention the sense of humor. But at the end of our amazing night, after I gave him my number? He never called me. Now it’s three months later. I’m a cheerleader on the Salt Lake City Stallions. And I just learned that Brody Carter is the team’s Tight End. Which means it’s literally my job to watch his chiseled body run around, all covered in sweat. Yet neither of us can forget the amazing first date we shared.

Hunter Cade is my brother’s best friend. He’s also the most sinfully sexy guy in high school. Lean, muscular, and with a tussle of chocolate-brown hair. And for the rest of my senior year, he’s living in my house. But Hunter is totally off-limits. My brother insists I stay away from him. Yet that doesn’t stop Hunter from flirting with me every chance he gets. Sending private little smiles my way when nobody’s looking. But after our flirting finally results in the best kiss of my life? Hunter abruptly leaves town without a word.

Two friends. One pact. The performance of their lives. Hannah Abbott is stuck in a dead-end relationship and at a job she loves but that barely pays the bills. The four walls of her tiny New York City apartment have never seemed so small. She’s barely toasted her 30th birthday when her old college friend Will knocks on her door with an unexpected proposal.

She looked him straight in the eye - those blue eyes that were so intense and she wondered what they'd be able to get her do? She was smart, levelheaded, and not lacking in self-confidence. She loved who she was; she had a family who loved her, and yet here she was sitting here discussing giving something to a man she would never consider giving to anyone.

It’s almost one hundred years since The Great Turning, the catastrophic meteor strike that changed the world forever. Russell Owens is a recently discharged New North Americas Army sniper who only wants to return to his home just outside of Yellowstone to resume life with his gentle husband, Ted. Russell doesn’t want to re-up and hates that he had to kill for a living.

While visiting his mother at her secluded Waldport cabin, an English teacher is awoken in the night by screams. Something gigantic is heaving itself against the rickety front door, relentlessly pounding and scratching—and shrieking his name. The hideous creature seems to know everything about the man, and takes special interest in his wife's deteriorating health.

A crazed terrorist. A rogue submarine. A nuclear bomb and a plan to wreak havoc and destruction upon the American coastline and murder millions of innocent people. US Navy Lieutenant Daniel Totter, “Teeter” to his friends, is a reluctant hero, but the one man who can stop the coming maelstrom of death and destruction. Aided by a secret agent, he races to discover the terrorist’s target, but time and a sudden war in the Middle East force him to take drastic action that pushes the US into a confrontation on the high seas with the Chinese Navy.

Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true. FBI profiler Victor Loshak works a brutal murder case in Watertown, New York - a woman found strangled in her basement, her face gone purple and baggy. But as he sifts through the crime scene details, his mind keeps drifting back to Kansas City, his last job. The human trafficking case there ended in something of a cliffhanger, and it's a loose end that everyone else in law enforcement seems in no hurry to tie up. The truth is out there. Always just out of reach.

Olivia was the best thing that ever happened to me. But she's a good girl, and I have a side that is far too dark for a minister's daughter. When she started talking about plans after graduation, the only thing I could do was run back to Italy-to protect her from me. But she's back in my life, and I need a wife before I can take full ownership of our failing vineyard and hotel. Only problem is, I want her again. No way can I put my hands on her. One kiss, one taste, could unleash the side of me that would only scare her.

Racy, vengeful, black humored crime mystery thriller. Justice or revenge? Find out why Detective Chief Inspector Ash and his Murder Investigation Team - Chen, Lance, and Jane - opt for both when an iconic, American erotic sculptress is found dead in her luxury British hotel suite. From England's beautiful West Country though France's Champagne region to the Great Barrier Reef the hunt is on, with final pit stops in Monaco, St. Moritz, and Geneva. Three retired SAS specialists affectionately known as G, B, and H help Ash out. Enjoy.

My name is Anthony Vano, and I recently retired as a bartender. Tip the Bartender is a collection of anecdotes, stories, and conversations collected during my 20 years of slinging drinks from behind a bar. My favorite part of bartending is that it offers countless opportunities for amazing conversations with guests and fellow bartenders alike. Everybody has a story to tell or a confession to make. An exciting achievement. A haunting regret. A record to set straight. A powerful "aha" moment or lesson learned - wisdom that simply must be shared.

Sexy cowboy Stamos Walker runs a work release program for nonviolent male prisoners. When Joy Courtland shows up on his doorstep, he assumes she's the nanny. He hands her his son and rushes out to work. Joy, a convicted felon, bonds with little Dillon immediately. Stamos isn't happy when he returns and finds out Joy is not the nanny. While trying to get Joy back to prison through the proper channels, Stamos realizes Joy is not a killer. He doesn't want her to go back to prison. Stamos is willing to try everything he can to keep Joy safe even if it means marriage.

Two hundred years after nuclear and chemical weapons have nearly annihilated the global population, the last of mankind struggles on in isolated communities. Law and order is carried out by the Political Office, black-clad police who rule through fear and violence, commanding the world's survivors how to think, how to act, and when to obey the call to the Gathering: the ritual massing for war against an unknown and unseen enemy. Now the call has come, and all nations must pay tribute.

Cliff Ridge is fresh out of the military and looking to start the next chapter in his life. He’s already built the perfect cabin in the woods, right next to his three best friends. Now, he just needs to find his fated mate and start to fill all of those bedrooms with cubs. There’s just one problem. He’s been all over the world while he was in the military and has never once caught her scent. He’s growing desperate, and that’s when he hears about the Love Bites Dating Agency. One drunken night, he decides to sign up. I mean, what does he have to lose? Besides his heart.

When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val Ritter’s world is turned upside down. An empty pill bottle at the scene leads the police to believe the cause of death is suicide. With little more than her own conviction, Val teams up with Terry Martin, a retired detective who has his own personal interest in the case, to prove that something more sinister is possible.

With a human mother and a werewolf father, Xander Binnigas has never fit anywhere. His father wasn't keen on being saddled with a clueless cub. His mother hated when he drank out of the toilet bowl and marked mailboxes on their Sunday strolls. Even so, he survived to adulthood, his one desire never wavering. And like a wolf with a bone, Xander still longs to find a place to belong. But after years of working like a dog in hopes of officially joining the Manhattan pack, he realizes that he’s been barking up the wrong skyscraper.

When my best friend died of cancer just before her eighteenth birthday, she left her coveted bucket list to me. So, it falls on me to finish it for her, to honor her memory. In the next year, it's my mission to: dye my hair, have sex, camp out in a tent, go bungee jumping, and get revenge on Lincoln Kolb. Most are doable, some terrify me, and then there is the last item on the list.

I’m not supposed to be here. That’s what I keep telling everyone but no one will listen. I just wanted to see the castle nestled deep in the woods. Instead, I end up getting kidnapped.

It’s New Year’s Eve and I have just one resolution: Prove to my friends that I’m capable of going with the flow. That same evening, my spontaneity lands me in the bed of a hot guy I just met. He’s confident, smart, a total dreamboat…and he makes me feel more bliss that night than I ever have in my life. But that’s all this is ever going to be, just a one-time thing. My future is already figured out, and I’m sticking to the plan.

Gabe and I are the dynamic duo of Hunter's Creek and have been ever since we were kids. My bestie is not only sweet and loyal, but he's totally hot in that flannel-wearing lumberjack way of his. Not that I see him like that. Well, not since we kissed that one time back in high school. Thank goodness we have each other, because life in a small town can bore the socks right off you. At least that was true until Hollywood showed up, bringing along hottie Joe Turner. Joe has my head turning so swiftly, I might just earn a degree in neck gymnastics.