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Twenty-five-year-old Lady Millicent Smythe has come a long way since her elder brother, as her then-guardian, tried to marry her off. It was a deal he’d made when she was but 17 with his friend Sir Montague Morton MP, in return for funds. Her escape all those years ago was not a little to do with Lord Charles Lombard, a chivalrous 20-year-old army officer who found her stranded on the road and carried her to safety.

After years of hiding in plain sight, the alien race known as the Taus are finally ready to get off this planet. But before they do, they need one thing first. Carl. No one could have imagined the true intentions of the Facebook event “Storm Area 51” or the dire consequences that would befall all those that came seeking answers beyond the gates.

Lydia Sheffield is always laughing, joking, charming, and surrounded by adoring gentlemen. She wants to enjoy the season and not yield to Regency society’s expectation that she quickly marry and have children. She also has a secret lurking within her—one that will keep her from ever taking a risk on love.

Glow Girl is a story about a young woman named Lilly. Damaged from a lifetime of being ridiculed for her weight, and obsessed with the dream of finding love, she escapes into her mind where not having friends or knowing love doesn’t matter. Until the first semester of her college career when Lilly falls for a real boy in English class. Adam is the strong, confident, men-want-to-be-him, women-want-to-be-on-him guy. Lilly’s obsession with her dream world turns into a fixation on getting Adam to notice her.

Clementine has been taken by a creature of darkness. Dorin is a fiend in love who must find Clementine before losing her forever. While on his desperate search, Dorin pens eight dark and romantic monstrous tales, written only for Clementine.

Bella is living on the glorious island of Bermuda, running away from a bad break up. When she meets the devilishly handsome Dante De Silva there's an undeniable spark but she's wary, reluctant to to get involved with anyone. A chain of unexpected events throw them together as they crew the Black Orchid yacht back to its home in North Carolina. On their intimate trans-Atlantic trip Bella thinks her only dilemma is resisting the drop-dead gorgeous Bermudian, but that becomes the least of her troubles... Mid-Atlantic, life on board the Black Orchid takes a very dark turn.

Oboist Sara Baron is settling nicely into her new life back in her hometown, but when a friend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, her newfound equilibrium is thrown off balance. The police don’t suspect foul play, but Sara gets a bad vibe when she finds her friend Micah blew off a meeting with his dissertation chair and has been ghosting his girlfriend.

Seventeen-year-old Crystal White is the new girl on Starfish Island. Dragged to the remote community by her environmental activist father, she is eager to find fun that doesn’t involve touching fish guts or listening to local folklore. During a midnight swim with some new friends, Crystal is pulled out to sea by the waves.

Just when Sabrina Danvers thinks she’s seen it all, her commitment-phobe on-and-off boyfriend proposes—to his pregnant other girlfriend. Fed up with his behavior, she leaves him and her old life behind to start over in Washington, DC. As a counselor, she finds satisfaction in helping others cope with their personal hardships, all the while hoping to open the door to her own happily ever after....

When the gray wolf was reintroduced to the US through Yellowstone National Park, it restored a balance of power among the wildlife in our most cherished national park and all across the West. Here is a story of one wolf, a grizzled "blue" wolf, modeled after one of the first to be set free. Alix Thorssen is an art dealer in Jackson Hole. When a reclusive artist she's courting for a big charity auction asks her to look into the long-ago murder of her son, she plunges deep into a feud between wildlife activists, environmentalists, and ranchers.

In the near future, eighteen-year-old Abbie Spencer and her family live hand-to-mouth in their decaying town of Eureka, California. When she’s lucky enough to secure a live-in servant job for the most affluent family in Port Allegiance, the sparkling city next door, she discovers her predecessor, Gia Quinn, didn’t quit voluntarily, as everyone believes, but that somebody inside the house had actually abducted her. As Abbie sets course to solve the mystery of her disappearance, an unexpected visitor from her past appears, tempting her with a dangerous alliance.

Late one night after a long shift at work, angry after an altercation with their boss, Jenny and her younger sister are involved in a hit-and-run. When Jenny comes to, her sister has mysteriously disappeared, and she has a vague recollection of a whispered secret. From her hospital bed, she pieces together her sister’s secret life and wonders if the hit-and-run was an accident, or a deliberate act?

When a retired teacher and her bestie join a training class with the goal of walking a breast cancer charity race, they run into a speed bump when a member of the group is murdered in the park. He had no shortage of enemies. Blackmail, harassment, and smuggling top the list of motives. Susan and Valerie both have detective daughters who, for once, request their mothers’ help. Meanwhile, Susan receives a mysterious gift on her doorstep and has no idea what it is or who sent it.

The year is 2288. A virus creeps through DownCity. Swift. Deadly. The disease is bred through a growing gang of vampire monsters - Infectids who nosh on human hosts both to feed and spread their viral control over the city. Trace Alden was a cop until he lost his beloved Gloria to the Infectids. Drinking to borderline insanity, his only salvation was to become a Hunter - neither bounty hunter, nor cop, but a licensed killer.

Day by day, our community shrinks as people leave for the outpost, and I look over my family with worry. Hope is dwindling, along with our supplies. We turn our eyes to the North, and wonder if this is the day we abandon the remnant of the old lives we tried so hard to hang on to. We wonder if this is the day we join the Walk.

The only white Tatiana Everstead would wear on her wedding day was the dusting of snow that clung to her cloak as she fled the aisle. She flees north, seeking sanctuary with an old friend and chased by the doubt and the tauntings of a long-ago fortune-telling. Would he be there when she arrived? Was she fated to that blasted Marquis no matter what she did? And, most importantly, was this scandalous flight to be her ruin or her redemption?

There was nothing left to do but walk. Walk miles down the highway, town after town, from one state to the other. After the leaps and bounds our society has achieved, this is what we are reduced to. Walking. Go North, they say. There's hope in the North, where the spiders haven't found us.... Yet.

In a time when a pandemic is threatening the entire population, Risa and her family apply for coveted acceptance into a new Safe City - a place designed to keep the virus out and to preserve a select few of the population. But getting accepted into the city may not be worth it - especially when she is sedated for secure transport and wakes up, unable to find her family. Meeting a few new friends and an intriguing soldier named Camsen Luck may help, but none of them can convince her that self-preservation is more important than finding her family; or that trying to escape is suicide.

The heart is the best guide. Unless, of course, we ignore it… Carla Bellini is eager to open her upscale B&B on Martha’s Vineyard, leaving no time to search for a soulmate—they only exist in novels anyway. Plus, the only man she’s ever desired is the one she’s bossed around for the past year, and he’s just told her he’s had enough of her whims. Oops. Work is brimming, and Damian Foster should be happy.

When businessman Adam Gallagher ends one affair and embarks upon another, he fails to anticipate both the fury of his betrayed wife and discarded mistress, and the dire consequences of his actions. After Gallagher’s body is found dumped in woods, suspicion inevitably falls on the women he has wronged, but could the crime be more connected with the financial problems he was experiencing? Police investigators, Jon and Hayley, are tasked with untangling the web of intrigue and lies surrounding the tragic chain of events unleashed by Gallagher’s affair.