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"Would you remove your soul, to save your life?" Unlock the continuing mind-bending possibilities of ethical and moral dilemmas with "After Dinner Conversation - Season Two," the next installment of the must-read collection of the best short stories from the critically acclaimed After Dinner Conversation magazine series. Spanning all genres, from science-fiction to historical fiction and everything in between, each story is guaranteed to captivate you and leave you questioning your own beliefs. Perfect for philosophy students and fiction lovers alike, each story comes with five suggested ...

What's that going bump in the night? Wait…is that a moan? Are those the sounds of impossible bliss? This collection of paranormal erotica is sure to get your heart pounding and your blood pumping. Ghosts, monsters, vampires, and more make for lovers unaccustomed to restraint!

As war rages on across the galaxy, a diplomatic mission turns into a desperate fight for survival. Captain Peter Fromm: Fromm and his Warp Marines face old enemies and new threats inside a colossal space habitat ruled by a mysterious alien civilization. Their lives and the fate of their country hang in the balance.

Ginger Lewis knows from personal experience that the world is full of bad and dangerous people. She’s been lucky enough to escape her rough past and cherishes her stable work family and lovable bulldog, Max. She knows better than to try to rescue a stranger in a snowstorm. Especially one with a chiseled jaw, perfect stubble, and 1,001 secrets behind those icy blue eyes.

When local ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett vanishes under suspicious circumstances, Joe Pickett grows convinced that her family are responsible. In her absence, two of her sons, Hank and Arlen, battle for control of their mother's multi-million-dollar empire. The whole town is so caught up in the infighting that they seem to have forgotten that Opal is still missing.

Time can yield countless possibilities. Time finds a young Gracie No-Name sold to the Broken King Magnus Windbound. Her simple crime was being born to an unloving mother. A generation earlier, time finds Summer. A girl with curly blue hair and gray-blue eyes born to a world of black hair and black eyes, named after the season of her abandonment. Another generation later, Skye Wallace predictably found himself in his office, investigating God's Cruelties. Then stands the Gravedigger. A specter shrouded in black, burying the world one soul at a time, with every dig of its diamond shovel.

Burn off weight just to gain it back again? This has been the repeated story time after time for so many of us. Build a more sustainable ketogenic lifestyle that will have lasting effects beyond weight loss that directs toward...

When Nolan Bishop meets a seductive redhead at a dark club in downtown Shreveport, little does he know that his soul will be gone as soon as she leaves the club. It doesn’t take Nolan long to realize that Eva Sheridan, the succubus who now invades his dreams, has taken something from him.

Joe Pickett, having recently been fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law’s ranch when he receives a call. Governor Rulon - a devious but down-home politico - has a special request. Clay McCann, a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in cold blood in a far-off corner of Yellowstone National Park, had immediately turned himself in at the nearest park ranger station - except that the crimes were committed in a thin sliver of land with zero residents and overlapping jurisdiction, the so-called free-fire zone.

When Sasha began dating handsome billionaire Ian, it was as part of a sugar baby-sugar daddy arrangement that suited the both of them. Sasha needed extra money, and Ian did not want the stress of romantic commitment. However, their relationship was more passionate than most, and sex was definitely on the menu. With night after night of sexual fun, it was no surprise when the inevitable happened. Sasha was pregnant, and she was keeping it.

The MacAllisters of Rivers End boxed set includes books #1-4 - If you love contemporary small town romance, then come home to Rivers End and meet the MacAllisters and the Murphys. They just want to settle down and lead normal lives in their small Vancouver Island town, but romance blossoms in the unlikeliest places. And trouble has a way of finding them, every time...

In the stunning series conclusion to the Fae trilogy, Caroline and Devilyn must preserve their love as dark forces threaten to keep them apart. As Caroline struggles to accept her rightful place as Queen of the Light Fae, her relationship with Devilyn, son of the Dark King, begins to seem not only doomed, but dangerous. They know their connection is undeniable, but for others, their love is an insidious threat.

Lisa had already been taken advantage of by her landlords. Her boyfriend was months behind in rent, and the landlords had offered her a deal to prevent them being evicted. That deal was her. She was now back to sign a contract that made her lovely 19-year-old body available to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall whenever they desired it...which would be often.

In The Emerald Curse Mystery, this entrancing installment of the Touching Time Psychic Time Travel Mysteries, Tressie Marrow and her astute feline companion, Buford, dive into the gilded world of Victorian high society. When Tressie acquires an enigmatic emerald brooch, she is catapulted back to an era of corsets and carriages, where she encounters a young heiress entangled in a web of intrigue and romance. As Tressie navigates through grand ballrooms and shadowy corridors of the Victorian era, she uncovers a tale of forbidden love, betrayal, and a family curse that has spanned generations....

A daily devotional/study for Lent on the subject and the experience of temptation. Daily reflections on the hard school of temptation, based on scriptures, inspired by the Lenten experience of a Benedictine monastic community. Each day’s reflection includes a quotation taken from two works of the German pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945): A series of lectures given on the creation and fall of Adam and Eve.

Blessed are the meek, Sophie was taught; blessed are the pure of heart. Blessed is the good Catholic girl who honours her father and mother, who renounces the sins of pride, greed, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth, for she will inherit the earth. But nothing in her strict religious upbringing could have prepared Sophie for the arrival of the scorching winds that sweep through the Midwest - not the righteous breath of God, but an evil gust that delivers an ungodly, fevered lust unto the virtuous and the wicked alike.

Within a one year time frame, in the United States, there were 67,367 deaths reported due to drug overdose. This is just one human's story. She could have been number 67,368, but she was spared. Melissa and Christina have never spoken in depth about Melissa’s addiction. By the time Melissa went into recovery, she had been using it for over 20 years.

After witnessing his friends getting engaged, Jarrod Bingham wants more than anything to have the same fierce love they do. The only problem is, Jarrod’s heart is stuck on one cardiac surgeon who won’t give him a chance. A year of hiding their affair has become too much and he breaks it off with the good doctor. But it’s not that easy to forget the man who stole his heart. Closeted hookups with the gorgeous nurse is good enough for Dr. Miller Kane. With a head director position on the line, Miller won’t risk his career, but finds the man too much of a temptation to ignore.

A laugh out loud chick lit/romantic comedy about work, water and wine. Twenty-seven-year-old Ella Taylor is having a tough time. And now she's inherited a rundown cottage in a hick village with a bunch of conditions attached. A funny, quirky, and light-hearted British romantic comedy with a bit of a mystery on the side.

In the midst of fighting a reignited war with the deadly Nimic, Lt. Commander Johnny Rangers of the Confederation of Aligned Planets is dragged into a rescue mission by mysterious agent Koya Nyrus. With his best friend’s life at stake, he finds himself on a restricted world full of secrets that could alter the course of the war. Meanwhile, Rangers’ father, Inspector Frank Branza of the Gravity City Police Force, sets out to uncover a vast conspiracy with plans to affect the very fabric of reality.