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I wasn’t supposed to catch feelings for my best friend’s older brother. It started with a letter and grew into us confessing our secrets. Then he left, taking my shattered heart with him. Twelve years later, he’s back. We have to keep our distance. If we fall for each other, everything will fall apart. But then I’m blackmailed into marrying another man, and the guy who broke my heart is the only one who can save me.

I’m not your girl next door. They call me loud, blunt, and too gorgeous for my own good. A woman who can’t be tamed. Until Archer. The problem? He’s my brother’s best friend. My new roommate. And off-limits. Until we spend a wild night between the sheets. But secretly dating isn’t easy. Our pasts collide with the present. And the only man who can save me is the one I shouldn’t want.

Growing up among witches as a rare and powerless male descendant hasn’t been easy for Basil Murray. When he learns of his true identity, he’s all too eager to claim his own magic, but the tangle of lies that shaped his past might just kill him before he unlocks the secret to his powers. And the beautiful fae whose life he saves may be at the center of it all.

At least according to demon Tallak when he suggests a night of no-holds-barred bed sport to witch Hazel Murray. Tallak’s goals in life are simple—after more than 20 years in a fae dungeon, he just wants to relish his freedom and build a healthy relationship with Basil, the son he’d presumed dead. Having the hots for the witch who raised Basil? Bad idea. Opposite of simple.

Erin cleans Mr. Morris's house twice a week to pay her tuition. The reclusive ex-soldier intimidates her, but she can't help but feel sympathy for him. Then, she walks in on him touching himself, and she has much darker, much more sensual feelings.

In the aftermath of the explosive events of Enchanted Forge, Erevan finds himself thrust into his first official mission for the Thieves Guild as he adjusts to life outside of the Altherian prison. As the fragile peace between the dwarves, elves, and humans teeters on the brink of collapse, the stakes have never been higher. The mission takes him to the scorching deserts for a new class skill vital to reforging the legendary Heart of the Forest. All the while, Lord Timekeeper’s web of alliances grows more tangled, threatening to unravel and plunge the world into chaos.

After a brief time behind bars, Sean O'Brien is now ready to live an honest life and pay for his past mistakes, and he's fortunate enough that a member of The Reliance Group sees Sean's potential for good and gives him a job at the Onyx Casino. Zoe Russo has met all types of men on the Vegas strip. But when Sean pays a visit to her boutique, she's certain her luck has changed for the better. They share an immediate, irresistible attraction, and for the first time in her life, she's found a man she thinks she can trust. But then Zoe stumbles onto the truth about Sean....

In «Bestes Leben» lädt Psychologin und Coach Romana Sindelar Lackermeier dich ein, dir eine neue Realität zu erschaffen. Das Besondere dieses Buches ist seine interaktive Aufmachung. Dadurch hast du die Möglichkeit, dich selbst zu coachen, ganz ohne teuren Coach. Es ist eine neue Form der Selbstermächtigung und Selbstbildung ganz im Sinne des neuen Zeitalters. Sämtliche Übungsgrafiken, Meditationen und Zitate des Buches sind im Buch oder an dessen Ende verlinkt. Du kannst sie dir ausdrucken, aufhängen oder die Übungen und Meditationen wiederholen, ganz wie du magst.

Fate declared them neighbors. Scandal insisted they were brothers. The fact that they looked enough alike to be twins only added fuel to the rumors flying about their parentage. For 50-plus years, Craig Harris and Scott Hensley have enjoyed a bond nothing can sever. Not the insinuations that they share the same father. Not the years of strife and grief and heartache.

I once was told vampires are immortal but not invincible. I’m about to find out how true that is. Thrust deep into the politics and intrigue of vampire society, I’m doing my best to keep my head above water and prove I belong here. But the threat from the shades is growing. Inside the castle walls, whispers, and stares follow me everywhere I go, and I'm pretty sure the king wants me dead. The three vampire men who saved my life are the only ones I trust. So why don’t they seem to trust themselves around me?

Bryce Rivers is gorgeous, arrogant, and nothing like I anticipated. That’s okay, because I’m not going to be what he expected, either. Seducing him should have been a piece of cake, until I discover he’s hiding a few indecent secrets of his own.

Rappelant les légendes traditionnelles et les contes initiatiques, les cinq histoires de ce recueil mêlent le monde de l’enfance aux destins d’animaux. Ces derniers se voient pris dans un tourbillon d’événements aussi anodins que mystérieux, inspirés de la vie quotidienne. Dans un mélange d’humour et de simplicité, d’ironie et d’amour maternel, l’illustre écrivaine brésilienne écrit pour ses fils Paulo et Pedro, et à travers eux pour tous les enfants de la Terre, avec à ses côtés leur chien Ulysse, qui saute joyeusement de la réalité à la fiction.

If someone would have asked Madison Corbin what she wanted to be when she grew up, her answer wouldn't have been an escort. But desperate times called for desperate measures, and when she finds herself being laid off from her job and in over her head in a debt that isn't of her own making, being a man's companion for the night—no sex involved—seems like a quick, easy way to pay off the bills that are piling up. But she hadn't counted on Rick Dunne, a breathtakingly gorgeous, sexy man who seems to know her deepest, most intimate fantasies without her even speaking them.

A contemporary fairy tale with a dirty, sexy twist! No Inhibitions is a modern, sinfully seductive take on Lady and the Tramp. Remy Lowell leads a private life. After a troubled past, he’s worked his way up from nothing and he’s damn proud of that fact. His newest contracting job is more provocative than expected and his new client has him thinking thoughts he shouldn’t. But after their business deal is over and their affair comes to an end, will the lady and the reformed tramp throw out all inhibitions to find their happily ever after?

It's Christmas Eve, and Cici, Bridget and Lindsay are busy preparing for their annual holiday party. The tree is sparkling, the turkey is roasting, the stockings are hung and the eggnog is chilled. The scene is set for the perfect Christmas...with one or two exceptions. The entire state is in the midst of a heat wave. No one can find any mistletoe. The Christmas tree lights keep exploding, and, perhaps worst of all, something has gone terribly wrong with Ida Mae's fruitcakes.

He is my Hades. I’d played the role of a goddess, bound and chained for the service of mortals. He freed me. He freed me, unchained me and taken me to his underworld, his dark realm where he’d brought out all my forbidden and secret desires. And now I’m his.

Why did I ever think Emerson and I were a good idea? She's my assistant, so I have to see her every day. We get along, for the most part, but there's subtle hostility between us both. Being on my own is better. It makes far more sense. Until something terrible happens, something I didn't see coming, and it's those moments of tragedy that change you forever. I've changed...and I can never go back.

Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was the first black army nurse. She tended to an all black army troop the 33rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment, where her husband served during the Civil War. This account covers her early life and her memoirs of the war.

Annie Markum grew up with a Bible in one hand and a disapproving father holding the other. At 22 she dared to dream of a different life and risked everything to become a mail order bride. One year later she finds herself on a friend's doorstep, penniless, pregnant, and a widow. Her husband was an honorable, churchgoing man, and she believes her father will allow her to come home. To get back to her father in New York will take money she doesn't have. She's got no choice but to accept work as a cook in a local saloon.

Nellie Wallace is a young widow with two children. In post-Civil War New York, the men are scarce and none want the burden of a wife with children. Her dead husband's family is wealthy, and cruel. Desperate to escape their influence, and eager for a home, a husband, and a stable life for her children, Nellie decides to make a new life in San Francisco as a mail-order bride.