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For his part in saving Robert the Bruce's life, Conall Campbell is rewarded like his elder brother, but with the last thing he wants...a bride. He enjoys women, but only as a lighthearted dalliance, a game, an amusement. He had vowed four years ago never to marry. One broken heart is enough for any warrior's lifetime. Yet now, he must steal Isabeau from under the very nose of the man she's supposed to wed, Euan MacCulloch, a hated enemy of King Robert. Aware that his loyalty is being tested, Conall sets out on his perilous mission, but soon discovers that the tables have turned.

Although two of his best friends have settled down, Wes Lancaster is determined not to get sucked into some siren's web. As owner of the New York Mavericks football team and wildly successful BAD restaurant, his lifestyle is full as it is. Well, it was, until Winnie Winslow, the new, sexy, stiletto-wearing team physician trash-talks him in the locker room without batting an eye. Now he can't stop himself from wanting her.

This is a story of resilience, strength of the human spirit, hope in the face of loss, and the connection, joy, and gifts that can inevitably be found through grief. Through Elizabeth’s story of traumatic loss, we are given insight into an authentic journey from tragedy to triumph. The path she follows is not neat and tidy and predictable as she walks into the unknown. It is beautifully messy. It is scary, uncertain, painful, joyful, surprising, and ecstatic.

Miss Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in a very particular art. That is to say—although it mustn't be said too loudly—witchcraft. When rumours of the long-lost amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, it is up to Charlotte to make sure this powerful talisman doesn't get into the wrong hands. Which is precisely what happens when the evil Lady Armitage gets her grip on it. When Charlotte demands the help of the rakish pirate Alex O'Riley, they both set off to find the amulet. And that's before sparks begin to fly.

Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to a very prestigious circle of women: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady's society—as it's full of pirates, thieves and ne'er-do-wells. These women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing their way around the country all before it's time to sit down for tea. But when Cecilia meets Ned Lightbourne her world is set to change forever. Because he's a paid assassin and she's his next hit.

History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America’s leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, authoritarian rule is on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule.

On the run and looking for the invisible, Aella and her dragon are fugitives once more. With nothing but a glowing orb to guide them and the few friends they have left in the world, they embark on the road trip of a lifetime. But is the Sanctuary everything she was promised it would be? The agency doesn't want to give up or admit defeat, and Aella and Zephyr have beaten them twice now. Will they truly let her slip through the net? Or are they going to find her no matter where she hides?

In Working Moms: Finding a Balance, you will discover how to communicate with others to manage stress, manage your time to accomplish more tasks during the day, learn how to be ambitious and achieve self-care with a busy schedule, learn how to have more time being a mother and a wife for those who are married, and more. You can set up a routine that will allow you to accomplish more than what you thought you were capable of doing, even if your schedule seems impossible.

From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman—a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds.

Max King has lived in northern Maine all his life. And if there’s one thing he’s learned living in his close-knit community, it’s that they look out for one another. With a life-threatening winter storm approaching, it’s no surprise Max is concerned for the residents of his beloved small town. But it’s his new neighbor that really has him worried. With the power out and temperatures plummeting, Max does what any good neighbor would do. He offers her a place to stay.

Chaque is the first full-length novel in the Sapien Overlords universe. An unwilling participant in the events surrounding a world unlike the one we live in today yet eerily similar, Chaque represents everyone of us. He is looking for purpose in a digital age where most people are satisfied with being online at Zetwork, their behavior tracked and tailored by those in power. The truth behind the Zzone is more sinister than he ever imagined, to the point Chaque ponders living in such a place at all.

After a year and half of marriage Zillah spends her day alone in the once great hall of her lord husband. Her family cut off contact fearing Zillah had cursed them with the pox. The village felt Zillah was as mad as her husband. And maybe she was. Instead of choosing to watch her husband die before her, she chooses to die with him. In an opium haze she infects herself with his affliction and the two live the last of their days in a mad love dream of laudanum, opium, mercury, sex, and disease.

"Cat Scratch Fever": Mia’s new girlfriend Alice, is plagued by an intense feminine itch, a burn...then erupting boils. Alice insists she’ll be fine. The next day she’s not returning Mia’s phone calls, she doesn’t answer the door. Mia finds her in the bathtub and she can’t even take in the ghastly sight. Alice’s limp corpse, the blood, the hack job, the steak knife...Mia doesn’t know what happened. Then she feels an itch...A deep itch that no medication or finger or sex can scratch...Suddenly that shiny pair of scissors has a whole new use.

Hiding in the shadows works for Aella and her dragon for a while, but dragons grow. With the world still in the dark about the existence of anything mythical, Aella must try and keep out of sight. But she's living in one of the busiest cities in the world. Is LA really the best place for a dragon and an elf? There's also a price to staying out of sight when the rest of the world can do as they please. Can Aella and Zephyr truly ignore other mythical creatures and the agents who hunt them?

They say life never gives you more than you can handle. Tell that to someone who didn’t just watch the perfectly placed pieces of her future go up in flames. Enter Liam Mason. Mysterious. Sexy. An obvious playboy. And even though he’s the last person I should want, I can’t help but be drawn to him. Like a moth to a flame, I simply can’t look away. I convince myself it’s just a rebound. Who could ever be foolish enough to fall for a man who might as well have womanizer tattooed on his forehead? But matters of the heart aren’t always so simple.

On a desolate peninsula, Skelling Hall has stood for more than a century. When Iris Walsh confronts some troubling truths about her family, she flees to the Upper Peninsula to seek solace at the home of her grandmother. She’s soon swept into a disturbing mystery haunting her grandmother’s small town. At the heart of the mystery is Skelling Hall, the long-abandoned mansion with a sinister past.

It is 1988 in Australia and people are missing. And when one goes missing, many more are lost. In outback Queensland, quiet and reserved teenager Leesa Richards disappears silently from her bedroom into the fog. Then cowboy Toby White leaves his pregnant wife Alice in a cloud of mystery. The only child of southwest Queensland sheep pastoralists, Rhiannon McVee has her eyes firmly set on swapping her cowboy boots for police-issue brogues. But with her parents and the love of her life Mac pressuring her to stay close to home, will her quest to find the missing be over before it begins?

In a real-life fairy tale, Sheryl Ness shares how she fell in love with Vincenzo, a chef in a quaint Tuscan kitchen, over his decadent hot chocolate cake. This enchanting memoir will transport you to the cobblestone streets, lush hillsides dotted with grapevines and olive trees, and unique characters that create the backdrop for Sheryl’s Italian love story. Love in a Tuscan Kitchen is sprinkled with traditional recipes she collected along the way and flavored with rich accounts of how her dreams were fulfilled many times over while living in a picturesque village in Chianti.

Someone once said that if you talk about the devil, he’s bound to appear. Most would keep silent, hoping that they’d never be found by such a monster, but I prayed for his touch every night. I knew the devil when I was a child and fell in love with him the first time he taught me that I wasn’t as damaged as I was led to believe. He cared for me, helped me learn how to smile and see the world in a different way. But they feared him, hated him. So they ripped him away from me. What they didn’t know was that he had already created a monster in his very image.

If your mom is dead, is she still your mom? At 25—nearly two decades after losing her mother to breast cancer as a little girl—an accident on a downtown street unleashes startling emotional reactions in Peg Conway, and this question starts to percolate. She comes to understand what she’s experiencing as long-buried childhood grief, and as she marries and becomes a mother herself, Peg’s intense feelings challenge her to offer herself compassion.