Action & Adventure

War rages, loyalties are tested, and love is more perilous than ever in this thrilling and eagerly awaited sequel to the breakout hit Metal Slinger. It's been four years since Jovie betrayed Acker, fracturing their relationship. Her decision to take King Edmond's magic, sparing his life at...

People always say, better the devil you know…but that’s me. And, apparently I just so happen to be one of the good guys now. Or am I? It’s really quite the conundrum. The one man destined to take down heaven is…waffling. But wouldn’t you be if you were in my situation? I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it. But that also means, I have to clean up the mess I made. If we’re splitting hairs, I didn’t make the mess, but at the end of the apocalypse, it is my antichrist I’d been trying for.

Eine tödliche Diagnose. Ein Scharfschütze. Und die unmöglichste aller Liebesgeschichten. Jule ist Mitte dreißig, als sie die Diagnose ALS erhält – unheilbar. Statt dem qualvollen Ende entgegenzusehen, beauftragt sie einen Auftragskiller, sie in einem Moment des reinen Glücks zu erschießen. Der Sniper soll den perfekten Moment finden, doch während er sie beobachtet, verliebt er sich in die lebensfrohe Jule. Als sich die beiden ungeplant begegnen, flammt zwischen ihnen eine Leidenschaft auf, die alles verändert.

As the vice president of a club on the brink of war with a president newly in love with the killer who got them in this mess in the first place, James Hartley takes on too many responsibilities to handle alone. Which is how he finds himself teaming up with the most relentlessly cheery anomaly he’s ever met.

She stole my heart. Then my enemies stole her. I'll pay any price to get her back. A queen cannot afford a weakness. And some people think mine has a name. Robin Rivers. The woman I should have let go. The woman I can't live without. My enemies have been watching, waiting for me to slip. They...

Former Army soldier Di Milbrath is determined to keep the secrets of her past buried deep. And that means avoiding law enforcement. Yet when she's targeted by gunfire, she's forced into a dangerous partnership with an old Army soldier turned cop, Jarek Brooks. Jarek knows Di is holding key information back, but he's willing to protect her anyway. Even when he becomes a target too. He's surprised when his former animosity toward Di turns to admiration and then love. But Di won't let him get too close. Until the secrets of her past erupt to the surface.

At six foot four, muscles for days, and a take charge attitude, Duncan Hawkins is exactly my type and everything I've sworn to avoid . . . So when I find myself in trouble, why is he my first call? Mika has run before—first from trouble at home, then from an abusive ex. For the past two years...

Two serial killer surgeons. One accidental marriage. And an obsession that cuts deeper than a scalpel. FINN I’ve built my life on precision and control. Saving lives by day in the operating room and taking them for the mafia at night. Then one reckless night in Vegas rewrites my story. I wake...

Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.® He was sent to eliminate a monster. She was sent to expose one. Neither expected to find each other in the crossfire. Australian assassin Levi “Berserker” Rourke lives in the dark corners of the world, where justice has no courtroom and mercy gets you killed. His orders from Guardian Security are clear: infiltrate western Venezuela and take out the cartel kingpin behind an air bridge trafficking drugs and children across continents. Clean, quiet, final.

A man can be stronger than the pain of his past. Justice They were damned good together. Until he royally screwed up and lost Fisher for good. And regrets don't do shit for him now. He'd do anything to make it right, but he couldn't break through the hate. One thing was clear though, he'd give...

Smoke would kill me if he knew all the dirty, depraved things I want to do to his little sister. For years, I’ve been forced to look and not touch. She’s been mine since the first time I saw her, even if she doesn’t know it. But when yet another threat to the club comes out of the woodwork, I decide I’ve had enough. No more waiting. Life’s too damn short. If only it was that simple, but we’ve got enemies coming at us from all directions.

My baby boy is gone. But with Konstantin by my side, we'll scorch the earth to bring him back. Nothing will stop us. Not the scums who took our son. No one. If they try to, I'll teach them what hell on earth feels like. What happens when they cross the line. All I want is my family back in one...

We survived the invasion and beat the aliens. But they left something behind… Killing monsters is what I do. Like my father before me, I fight side by side with my twin brother and my squad to protect our people. Since the invasion, life is dangerous. I know how short it can be, so I live it to the fullest. I work hard on Hunter Squad, I party harder, I love a joke and a good time, and I never get tangled up in relationships. I watched my father’s grief at losing his brother. I almost lost my own twin. I’ll never let myself get in too deep.

How do you make amends for a lie you’ve been living for years? When Billionaire Ryker Langston's bodyguard Marshal Thomas leaves without saying a word, Ryker is left wondering what the hell he had done wrong. Even though Marshal had never returned his feelings of love, they had at least been...

Our esteemed friend, Mr. John William Skae, of Virginia City, walked into the office where we are sub-editor at a late hour last night, with an expression of profound and heartfelt suffering upon his countenance, and, sighing heavily, laid the following item reverently upon the desk, and walked slowly out again. He paused a moment at the door, and seemed struggling to command his feelings sufficiently to enable him to speak, and then, nodding his head toward his manuscript, ejaculated in a broken voice, "Friend of mine – oh! how sad!" and burst into tears.

"Concerning Chambermaids" is a work by American writer Mark Twain. The short story was written in 1896. The author enumerates the bachelor's curses towards the chambermaids who always put the pillows in the wrong end of the bed and so on with the inimitable humor.

Mark Twain ponders the usefulness of insurance coverage. "Coming down from Sacramento the other night, I found on a center-table in the saloon of the steamboat, a pamphlet advertisement of an Accident Insurance Company. It interested me a good deal, with its General Accidents, and its Hazardous Tables, and Extra-Hazardous furniture of the same description, and I would like to know something more about it. It is a new thing to me. I want to invest if I come to like it. I want to ask merely a few questions of the man who carries on this Accident shop".

The steamer Ajax encountered a terrible storm on her down trip from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands. It tore her light spars and rigging all to shreds and splinters, upset all furniture that could be upset, and spilled passengers around and knocked them hither and thither with a perfect looseness. For forty-eight hours no table could be set, and everybody had to eat as best they might under the circumstances. Most of the party went hungry, though, and attended to their praying.

Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man is a short story by Mark Twain, one of the most funny and beloved American authors of all time. Aurelia is engaged to marry a nice young man, but keeps having to postpone as tragedy after tragedy befalls him. Which should be sad, but the progression of events is so ridiculous that you can't help but laugh.

Wraith has a knack for spotting a brawl long before it happens. Getting on his bad side is definitely not recommended. When his eyes linger on a deliciously curvy woman, he’s instantly concerned by her attempts to blend in with the crowd. Who taught this special treat to react with fear? Caroline Sweets wants to be anywhere but at the biker bar. She’s there doing research for her latest romance novel. Surely, the popular MC romance genre will be her key to fame and wealth. If only that burly biker didn’t check all her own boxes for a sexy leading man.

Margo Thatcher is supposed to be at work, not Feather Festival. So, she does what any red-blooded American birder would do—plays hooky. Unfortunately, her excuse doesn’t hold when a photographer from the magazine, Exposure, snaps her picture, landing her on the cover. As a nature photographer, Trevor Hansen knew getting attacked by wildlife was a possibility. However, his greatest threat currently stems from a birder who is ready to bludgeon him with her binoculars. She might have a motive, considering his photograph did get her in trouble.

Max They fear me. Worship me. Call me an abomination. I've earned my freedom a dozen times in The Pit, but I keep going back. Because violence is my church, and blood is the only thing that makes me feel alive. Then he arrives. Pretty. Fast. New. A golden-haired boy with ocean eyes and no clue...

Vengeance is within my grasp. If I can survive the trials. After six brutal months of training, I've earned my place in the lethal Order of Ezkai, the first human in history to do so. The Ezkai General himself had plans for me, and I was ready to climb the ranks until I had the power to end King...

Gabriel Karne is back. The plan? Lie low on Heartstone Island and wait for the dumpster fire that is his past life to burn itself out. So far, so good. Until it isn't. Gabriel has avoided Ranger Man for days, made a few important repairs to his sailboat, and put a dent in the stack of dime-store mysteries Elton loaned him. Life is at least okay. Eight days in and his strategy crumbles like a wet cookie. His ex-partner-in-crime returns, but this time he is very dead. And wearing a baby blue tracksuit, which somehow makes his murder even worse.

Refuge in the Arms of a MonsterThis job on board the New Horizon is supposed to be my fresh start, a fail proof plan to escape my poor excuse for a husband and his dangerous friends. But my white horse quickly turns into a nightmare when I discover that my new boss is none other than Ulrek the Horrible, my sworn enemy. There’s no way I’ll work for the ruthless captain responsible for stealing me from Earth. So contract be damned, I quit! But there are dangers out there worse than a reformed Dominion captain, and with nowhere left to turn, I find myself back on his ship… and in his arms.