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New to Castle Blackbourne, a pretty young housemaid is drawn to the dark and handsome master of the house, but a dalliance with the Earl of Blackbourne would be unwise…for a reason most deadly.

When her search puts her in Mad's path, she isn't sure whether she should kiss him or stab him. He's as handsome as the devil, and practically a giant with a huge...axe. The aliens on Guerran are criminals and she can't trust him. But she needs a guide and Mad is her only hope. She certainly can't fall for him. No matter how much he makes her yearn. Guerran is the dumping ground for Kru'dari criminals and Mad has been ekeing out a life there for six years. But when Kenzie appears, suddenly he's thinking about the future, and one word keeps ringing in his head. Mate.

For years the Earl of Blackbourne has suffered a thirst for blood and a desire for flesh. His victims have been many. Condemned alongside him is his kindhearted half-brother. But hope arrives in the form of a beautiful debutante, whose servants could satiate his appetites while he attempts to undo the curse. An oppressed indentured servant, Daliyah yearns only for her freedom. When she finds herself trapped at Castle Blackbourne, it's not just her freedom that's in peril. If she succumbs to the ravenous fangs of the Earl, her body will be his to take and her life his to drain.

She survived genocide as a child, but as Kalisa now struggles to make a life in Middle America, a horrific creature from that unimaginably evil time has returned to finish the job.

Following the assassination of Emperor Gaius Caligula in AD 41, his uncle, Claudius, assumed the imperial throne. After establishing his legitimacy and stabilizing his position with the Roman Senate and people, he looks to legitimize himself militarily. His eyes turn toward Britannia, the elusive isle that even Julius Caesar failed to conquer. Far from being unknown to the rest of the world, various Britannic peoples have maintained trade relations with the continent, and a few of the tribal kingdoms have even formed alliances with Rome that extend back decades.

Pushing 30, once again single, is not how Lottie Evans expected to attend her brother Nick’s wedding. Craig Barnes is a serial dater with a checkered past. Lottie has the biggest crush on her roommate. Craig is in love with his friend’s younger sister. A mix-up with hotel reservations pushes the pair together for a long weekend, and sparks are not the only thing flying. An obsessive ex, a flirtatious mother, and a grandmother with no filter. The pair soon finds out that Nick is the least of their worries.

Roam begins her senior year, in a world she considers ordinary. When she meets her new history teacher, West, she learns her fate is not as simple as she once believed. Roam and West have spent centuries - as far back as the 1400s, to as recently as the 1970s - struggling to survive a prophecy that has forsaken them both, and unraveling a tale of love that has lasted throughout lifetimes. Evil is near, and in their last life together, West must try to protect Roam once more - and the unborn child that will save the world.

When the best stripper group in Australia holds a contest to date 24 of their available men for the 24 days of Christmas, you can't help but enter in the contest. What happens when you win the contest? Will you be able to pick just one of the men? Or, will they all stake a claim on you?

You do not need a $3,000-spa retreat for two weeks to regain or regenerate your mind. You can cower in the face of kombucha or be someone who slips into sleep during savasana, yet with Healthy Mind Difficult Times, you will be guided gently toward a beautiful, bolstered brain. Healthy Mind in Difficult Times provides a baseline of understanding by addressing and explaining the basics about our brains. The book sets out applicable step-by-step guidelines that can fluctuate and flex, meeting you where you are at this moment.

Miles Kim, cyborg and relic of a war fading from memory, is on the last train ride of his life. When a gang of bandits attacks the train, Miles and 100 passengers find themselves trapped in in a standoff in the middle of the desert. But there’s more to the robbery than meets the eye. An unknown entity has set its sights on the Seraph Express and her passengers. As people start dying, Miles realizes that any rescue will be too late, and no one will make it out alive.

The Middlelikker Chronicles is a series of vignettes (short stories) that tell of the erotic episodes of one Easy Hansen, a well-traveled, extremely learned gentleman of leisure, writer, and public speaker. He is regularly featured at his book signings across the country. He has found through the years that his audience has been sorely neglected in one particularly disturbing area, orgasmic pleasure. He has taken it upon himself to singlehandedly solve this situation.

Torn from my life, I’m in a world I don’t understand. There are no masters, no kneeling, and no loving punishments to keep me grounded. Despite the smiles and care Jiao provides, I’m not his priority. I believe his concern is genuine, but his interest is professional. Casting my world into history is his aim, and for that I can’t trust him. The voices are getting louder; I’m losing time. I need to hold on, need to stay loyal. Master will come for me soon, and blood will wash my sins clean. I refuse to imagine what they will do to the man who stole me.

“Gladiator or toy?” Kaspar asks, as if it’s the easiest choice in the world. It might be an easy answer for someone branded, brainwashed, and who remembers no other life. But that’s not me - not yet, anyway. I’m a cop - or at least I was until my cover got blown. Now, I’m a captive on a ship; one of the trafficked people I vowed to save. Kaspar’s a toy - a pleasure slave - content to warm our sadistic owner’s bed; he laps up the abuse he’s conditioned to associate with affection. To gain our freedom, I must be everything his fractured mind needs.

Henry Soles’ winding path to Nebraska started with his kidnapping. He was just a baby when he was taken from his parents. Growing up among a roaming Midwest Native American tribe, Mama was the only mother figure he had ever known. And he had no reason to suspect that anything was wrong. Until he became old enough to recognize that his White skin and the attention it drew meant he was different, somehow. Eventually, Mama could lie to him no longer. Reeling from pain and confusion, and seeing no other reasonable option, the young man decided to head west.

An ancient evil descends on the Central European capital city of Budapest. A supernatural killer stalks its timeworn alleyways, provoking terror among its distraught population and leaving untraceable and shocking murders in its wake. An estranged American family finds itself at the center of the unnatural violence. Confronting a vicious predator, they find they must band together if they are to survive its ageless and malevolent curse.

Leaving his home in the hidden valley, young Toca must journey for a sun season to and from the endless water in order to prove his manhood. He must accomplish the tribe's Katata Ado if he is ever to become chief. Before leaving, old Chief Acuta secretly gives Toca - whose spirit image and talisman is the Black Ghost - instructions for him to bring back three vital things. If he fails, the old chief has foreseen, over the past generations, that their people, the Nashua, will cease to exist.

On the mist-shrouded Isle of Hibernia, now known as Ireland, 26 years have passed since the murder of the high king, Fiacha Finnolach. The usurper Elim of Ulster’s promises of peace and prosperity have come to naught, as drought and famine afflict the land. Across the Irish Sea, the Roman Governor of Britannia, Julius Agricola, is met with an intriguing proposition. Fiacha’s son, Tuathal Techtmar, born when his pregnant mother fled into exile, has grown to manhood. He seeks the aid of Rome in avenging his father and becoming High King of Hibernia.

The betrothal is bad. Prince Saber regrets agreeing to an arranged marriage the moment he says yes. His bride is a dull aristocratic lady who he'll be bound to for the rest of his life. No fated mate. No adventure. No love. So when he's given an off planet mission he accepts it in a heartbeat. He can't escape the betrothal, but he can delay it. The ship crash? That's a disaster. Lady Mirage needs to talk to her betrothed. Alone. What better place than a space ship? But he's not supposed to take off before he realizes she's on board.

Things are as bad as they can get for Ranger when he's thrown in a cell and told he's about to be sold for a profit. But his captors don't know he's a dragon, and he's ready to rain fire on them all in payback. Until he meets Sidney. She's stronger than she looks.... When Sidney discovers Ranger on the ship, it throws her world into upheaval. She's no slaver. She'll do what it takes to free him, even if it means crossing her captain and crew. When Ranger turns the tables on her, she's almost too angry to be attracted to him.

Petra Freyrsdótter can raise an entire village from the dead with her magic - so why can’t she bring her lover back to life? Petra has spent the last two years trying to resurrect Orrus, the man she loves. And even though she’s a powerful necromancer, nothing works, and Orrus is perpetually stuck as a listless shade at her side while she searches all of Aelamor for a way to restore him. But when Petra gets caught by a priest for the God of Truth and Light - an order that burns necromancers at the stake - instead of killing her, he presents her with a strange gambit.