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Dr. Julia Colwell does not buy into the cultural belief that the initial bliss of falling in love will inevitably end. In The Relationship Ride she takes the listener on a voyage of exploration that debunks common myths of what couples should "settle" for, and gives us the maps, tools, and exercises to ride the initial bliss into a long-term relationship of growth and mutual joy. Traveling this route, she tells us, "is available to anyone who is willing to go there."

Amara Maria Robles is a good girl. So good that she gave up her dreams of becoming a renowned pastry chef to help her parents with their struggling Mexican bakery. Yet her parents reject any changes she suggests, and refuse to sell her mouth-watering confections. Clearly being a good girl isn't paying off. So when her brother's sexy ex-best friend walks into the bakery, Amara's tempted to be very bad indeed....

I’ve been a prisoner for five hundred and fifty days. Okay, technically I’m just stuck in my aunt’s four–story tower. And yes, Aunt Agatha is more "eccentric book club queen" than evil captor. But still—no piano, no freedom, and no escape from my own mistakes. Like almost marrying a...

A child of man, with hair like day meeting night, will guide the vampire back into the sunlight. Lila Bran has been here before, she has been the mouse in the Vipers’ game. But this time, she’s stronger. This time, she has power, the safety of her brother, and—most importantly—she has Ambrose Draven. As she aims to prove herself against her enemies in the Viper Morada, will Lila find the depth of her powers and prove she is more than a murine? Or will she discover the beginnings of another great war between the four remaining vampire manors?

Ava is struggling to provide for herself and her sister, who slips further into insanity with each passing day. Raving about Neverland. Obsessed with a Second Star that Ava can’t see in the black, velvety sky. Until the night Belle succumbs to the terrifying shadows plaguing her and sweeps Ava away to a land that is only supposed to exist in storybooks.

Legends used to walk the Dragonblood Plains - great heroes now dead who left bloody scars across the face of the world. They are waking. For Tamerlan, the only thing that matters is his desperate quest to save his sister from being sacrificed to the dragon at the height of the Summernight festival. For Marielle, all that matters is serving justice to protect her city. But when Tamerlan stumbles upon an ancient magic that calls the Legends forth, and Marielle scents what he’s done and starts her pursuit, they begin a chain of events that can’t be stopped.

Just when I thought I could finally find my place and belong in a pack, fate had other plans. The sting of betrayal cut deep. As the dust settled from the devastating blow that threatened to shatter the fragile trust between Cannon and me, we both struggled to confront the harsh realities of our world. Fueled by a thirst for revenge, my heart was torn between the hunger for retribution and the longing for reconciliation.

Struggling single mother Laura McGill figures she has nothing to lose and everything to gain when she impulsively signs up online to meet a sugar daddy. After losing her virginity to a two-timing married man, she's out to find security for herself and her infant son Max - and hopefully a man she can love.

The gym session went well. Dressed in her black sports bra and tight black shorts, Dr. Dupont was actually conscious of several pairs of eyes on her as she began her 20-minute workout on the exercise bicycle. She didn't really mind the attention; in fact, she would not be wearing that rather skimpy sports bra if she had really objected. But quite a lot depended, naturally enough, on who was paying the attention.

Virginia Constance Kramer is a good girl. Until she meets the man that makes her want to be bad.... He’s got a record; she’s never been so much as grounded. His old man is a convict; her dad is the police sergeant. He’s seen too much darkness; she can barely see out of the stained-glass curtain the world wants her to hide behind. She’s willing to fight her parents, the town, and the whole world if she has to, but first she has to get past the wall Joe Franklin has built around his heart. He thinks she’s too good, too sweet, too pure for a man like him.

Sent back to the human world by my brother and the shaman, I found refuge among humans, reconnecting with an old friend who urged me to embrace the life I left behind. Yet, my shelter was short-lived when the alpha, Cannon, captured me once more. In his pack, I witnessed the stark differences between the pack I came from and the Blackridge Peak Pack. I longed to belong to a community as free as this—all the while resisting the magnetic pull towards the alpha.

Balthamos is a bureaucrat in Immigration, a part of the governmental Hegemony. He's a werewolf utterly unremarkable other than his choice of life partner, Monarch. Monarch, a colorful vampire who takes center stage wherever he goes, lives with Balthamos in the suburbs of Santsz. And then... rumors begin to spread of an illness come to be known as Wolfsbane. Lunids are reported to be Changing into werewolf form without any relationship to their two moons' influences. It doesn't take long for society to begin to unravel and conspiracy theories to point the finger at--vampires.

Discovering Her Voice shares my journey to becoming a Speech/Language Pathologist. During my career I enabled over 900 children and adolescents to find their individual voices. After years of helping them learn to use their voices, it was my turn to find mine. The person I am today, is in part, because of the incidents I endured.

Alex Martin’s world is changing at an alarming pace. She had arrived at the Wilmot’s mountain compound with her best friend Laura just as all hell has broken loose. A dozen or so blasts set off by a terrorist group had hit most major cities in the US. Their compound was also attacked, so they all moved to the fortified tunnels beneath the buildings. The Wilmot brothers - Grant, Daniel, and Roman - were Laura’s men, former military personnel, as were most of their companions. They were all survivors of a secret government experiment performed on them when they were children.

I get up on the wrong side of the bed . . . every single day. They call me grumpy. A downer. Maybe even negative. But when your fiancee shatters your life into a million pieces it can take a while to heal. Enter Gwenivere. She's ethereal, hypnotic, and completely stunning. Everything that I'm not. The night she slips into the empty chair next to me during a night out with the team feels like the shutters being thrown open in a blackened room. 

Enter Mason Godfrey, Elena’s brother. He’s given me an ultimatum. Go back to my life, back to my medical residency, and most likely be hunted down—or come away with them to Chicago and start over. The golden, still-human prince of the city is impossible to resist. Despite the herd of eligible and eager bachelorettes who would rather see me dead than on his arm, his eyes keep lingering on me. Neither of us has forgotten that one magical night we had, right before my first life ended. Where does this lead, now that I’m a vampire and he isn’t?

The greatest mistake Ember made was to step foot in my school. The instant the rumors started, I marked her as mine. It's only natural I became curious about the new girl. She took someone's position in this academy. Someone important to me. And now, she has to pay. The only way for her to survive is to find out the dirty little secrets I keep to myself. I watch the pleasure spark in her eyes as she searches. The desire to participate in my particular...tastes. If she's not careful, I might capitalize on that curiosity, and I'll squeeze her heart until it bleeds.

In 1663, Oshun was summoned by Queen Aimee as she lay dying in the rice fields. A high priestess in her homeland of Angola, Queen Aimee was captured and sold to a plantation on a sea island off the coast of Georgia. Beaten, starved, and worked to death Queen Aimee prayed that the Goddess would save her child. Oshun answered her call, sweeping a yellow fever across the island that ravaged the cruel masters and their overseers.

Nightmares slither from the shadows in Scare Street’s latest spine-tingling collection. Thirteen tales of the macabre await in this chilling new volume - a never-ending stream of ghosts, ghouls, and other horrors to haunt your dreams.

Emberly won’t go anywhere near water. Not since she drowned. She has no memory of her experience, and no idea how breath returned to her body, but the sea spirit who saved her hasn’t forgotten. And when Emberly unknowingly breaks their contract...he leaves the ocean for the first time. The dynamic introduction to an anthology of Fairy Tales for Sun-Kissed Women. Infused with myth and seasoned with whimsy, Emberly, is a fantastical reimagining of a classic story for a modern audience.