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I had my whole life planned out... until I met a hockey player obsessed with breaking all of my rules. My five simple rules for hooking up keep me from being distracted. Now that I'm so close to landing my dream internship, nothing is going to make me break them. Not even a protective hockey player with clear grey eyes, a sharp jaw, and a body that makes my breath catch. Until Jax wins a bet and one kiss has me breaking them all.

Ruthless, arrogant, and cold-hearted are some of the words I would use to describe my a**hole of a boss, Damon Everette. That doesn't stop the goosebumps from rising along my neck every time he says my name or the way my pulse races when his stormy gray eyes pierce mine. So, when he coerces me into a fake marriage to uphold his family's tradition, I can't resist pushing his buttons. He's a walking red flag, and I should run the second this arrangement ends. But the very thought of losing him is suffocating—a dangerous addiction that I can't seem to break.

ONE MISSING ACTRESS. DOZENS OF LIES. Rookie P.I. Brandy Baker has barely finished wrapping up her latest case when a former client contacts her. He has a business partner named Paul whose girlfriend has gone missing. Paul wants to hire Brandy to find his girlfriend, who’s prone to depression and has a history of disappearing. The girlfriend in question is Broadway actress Alina Patrick. The last time Paul saw Alina was when she left his apartment two nights ago. He believes Alina’s understudy kidnapped Alina so she can play the show’s lead character, which will make her famous. Alina ...

BRANDY IS IN OVER HER HEAD. SHE MIGHT END UP DEAD. Brand-new private eye Brandy Francine Baker has yet to officially open her P.I. business when a socialite named Dana Donovan approaches her. Dana wants Brandy to investigate why a dead stranger left her an antique gold ring in his will. The case seems easy to solve, so Brandy takes it on. But it’s more complicated than she had expected. Not until a mysterious woman calls the dead stranger’s widow and leaves a nasty message do things start coming together. The woman is the connection between Dana and the dead stranger. Dana used to know ...

Murder, Lies, and Betrayal: A Tangled Mystery of Power and Greed. Private eye Brandy Baker is hired by Aidan Yearwood, a man accused of murdering his wealthy wife, Marianne. Despite the overwhelming evidence against him—his presence at the lavish party where Marianne was strangled to death in her own home and the inheritance he stands to gain—Aidan pleads his innocence. He claims Marianne’s only daughter set him up when Marianne changed her will to benefit him. As Brandy delves into the investigation, she uncovers a web of secrets and lies surrounding Marianne's life as a wealthy ...

A GIRL JUMPS TO HER DEATH. OR WAS SHE PUSHED? Things are tough for Brandy Francine Baker. Yes, she did manage to leave her abusive husband Jasper, but life as a single mother of two is no bed of roses. She can only afford to live in New York City’s dumpy housing projects, and she hates her job selling timeshares. An old lady in Brandy’s building approaches her, asking if she can look into her grandchild Luisa’s recent suicide. She believes Luisa was actually murdered. The lady heard through the grapevine that Brandy once worked as a criminal investigator before Jasper swept her off ...

Rules of Our Own is an interconnected standalone NHL Hockey Romance with an MMF why-choose style HEA. It features forced proximity and bi-awakening, where the guys are as obsessed with her as they are with each other.

You might say my obsession has become a compulsion in the way I need to know everything about Scarlet Laurent. Even though I've taken a step into the background, I could never look away from my Little Sparrow. She's a sliver buried under my skin, a constant reminder of her presence with no way to dig it out. Staying away from her for the last ten years has been a brutal form of torture. Her time's run out, and when the clock ticks midnight on her twenty-fifth birthday, I'll tie her to me forever.

He's the star hockey player, my brother's best friend, and the boy I've been in love with since I was 7. The problem? He wants nothing to do with me. The problem? He wants nothing to do with me. Then why does he sneak into my room when I have a nightmare? Get jealous when I go on a date? And has a tattoo of my birthday on his ribs? Lucas Knight's a lot of things. He's possessive, jealous and overprotective. And he just might be in love with me. Angst-filled, heartbreaking, and kick-your-feet-in-the-air-giddy-inducing.

Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies—and their monsters—come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires, zombies, and seemingly ordinary people who are just plain evil.

When the lighting caught him, Prince Taurian of Renjer braced for travel, gripped by the piercing claws of the Demon-like Tryn on his back. When he awoke, his prey was gone - as was his true form. Instead, Taurian stood as a man, weak, naked...and staring down the barrel of a shotgun.

Take a ride down Route 66 in a '55 Crown Vic. Shield your nose and eyes from the dust as Okies leave for California. Drink strong coffee in an all-night diner. Hear a haunting train whistle in Gallup, New Mexico. Investigate a death on old 66. Take a last ride on a faithful Apaloosa and watch the sunset over a majestic saquero cactus. Feel Andy Payne's pain as he pounds the road to New York. Lost on Route 66 is an anthology of essays and short stories about the fabled highway that is filled with mystery, suspense, adventure and humor. Don't miss it.

Down on her luck and her dad's hospital bills mounting, Megan needs money fast and with jobs hard to find, she joins a surrogate program. What’s the worst that could happen? Levx never wanted to come to earth during the evacuation of his planet. But their species are headed for extinction if they don’t find mates among the humans. Three of his brothers have found females including producing offspring. Now, their father has issued a command that all princes not bound must find a lover and reproduce.

One night can change a life forever.... As a respected elementary school teacher, Isabella Givens is not the kind of woman to visit bars, drink all night or take a stranger home...until she meets him. Tall, handsome, and full of trouble, Kohl is a bad decision waiting to happen. Suddenly, Isabelle is two shots and one dance away from changing her life. Prince Kohl has returned to Earth injured and in need. He knows that somewhere on this planet there are crystals that can turn the tide of a war that has raged on his world for years.

Ash Thibodeaux has spent her entire life in the shadow of the Dragon, feeling its hot breath drift across her soul in stories regaled by her aging Gram. The tales and fables that are woven in the dark could chill a heart...if Ash didn’t have a darker knowledge...and task. Demons wash through the land, possessing friends and strangers alike, and Ash is the only one that can see, or stop, them.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

Aliens exist and humans are on the endangered species list. So when I save the life of a kid, the last thing I expect is to be thrown onto an alien jail on a planet where the jailers are at war with the inhabitants. All I have to do is figure a way off this hellhole and I look to one being who might help me. He’s one of the most dangerous prisoners here, even though he looks like a sexy angel. But he’s not like anyone I’ve ever met before…stirring desires in me that I can’t, shouldn’t act on. Yet he might be my only chance to escape.

"Nespuse" este podcast despre lucrurile si experiențe adesea neverbalizate, care stau in spatele succesului in viață.

A fabulous collection of stories about the fabulously rich, the grindingly poor, sudden wealth, odd inheritances, greed and generosity.