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Penn Jillette, of the world's most famous magic duo, Penn & Teller, reads this original audio guide to the art of schmoozing. Once you learn that schmoozing is the authentic practice of treating others well, you'll be on your way to schmoozing your boss, co-workers and clients, as well as your love interests. Soon your first impression will be a positive, lasting one, leading to happier, healthier relationships in all facets of your life.

When the Magic Enforcement Agency is called out to the scene of a dirty magic lab explosion, a body with a bullet wound is found in the smoldering ruins. As Detective Kate Prospero and her partner, Special Agent Drew Morales, hunt down the killer, they uncover evidence that a dangerous new coven may be operating in the Cauldron. It's not long before the bodies start piling up, and the heat is on for the team to make an arrest. Solving the murders will require unraveling dangerous alliances between the city's dirty magic covens.

"If both of us haven't found the person of our dreams before we're thirty, we have to marry each other." It could be a sweet pact, but when it's between sworn enemies, it gets less sweet, real fast. Sparks fly in this game of dare that is set on a collision course. Fueled by a rivalry that spans more than a decade, these two headstrong adversaries might have bitten off more than they can chew. Meet Emma and Trevor, two fiercely independent individuals whose competitive spirits and sharp tongues have kept them at odds since childhood. Yet, as fate finds them both down on their luck, they ...

Heralded author Jaye Wells has staked out a treasured place on readers’ shelves with her breathtaking tales of urban fantasy. Silver-Tongued Devil features Wells’ heroine Sabina Kane: outcast, assassin, and magnet to supernatural species. When a string of murders threatens to stall negotiations between the mages and vampires, Sabina leaps into the fray. But the more she learns, the more she realizes that there are dark forces stirring.

Zack hates. He hates Aiden for sticking by him, hates Max for still being the confident bastard he was at school. Most of all he hates himself for not dying along with a one-night stand. Max Knowles watches the woman he introduced to the life putting on her "happy hooker" face as one by one, her girls get their happy ever afters. Every day, her smile gets a little more strained, and his heart breaks a little more. The solution is clear, but will the cost of putting permanent smiles back on the faces of people he cares about be the loss of the woman he loves?

This bundle includes three Sabrina Kane stories: Fool's Gold, Violet Tendencies, and Rusted Veins.

These explicit, playful tales range from the sweetly sensual to the candidly carnal. Bill Noble's poetic "Stardrift" finds a beach runner drawn into an unexpected moonlight ménage. Saskia Walker's "It's Just Not Cricket" stars fearless bondage queen Ella, whose hobby of tying up "languid aristocratic types" is challenged by a randy noble who turns her into a human croquet game. Marilyn Jaye Lewis's piquant "That Summer by Our Pool" is a provocative tour of a woman's sexual history.

Torn from my life, I’m in a world I don’t understand. There are no masters, no kneeling, and no loving punishments to keep me grounded. Despite the smiles and care Jiao provides, I’m not his priority. I believe his concern is genuine, but his interest is professional. Casting my world into history is his aim, and for that I can’t trust him. The voices are getting louder; I’m losing time. I need to hold on, need to stay loyal. Master will come for me soon, and blood will wash my sins clean. I refuse to imagine what they will do to the man who stole me.

A sports bra good girl or independent scarlet woman? Sasha's future is secure as the fiancée of a handsome, rich but boring man. Max is gorgeous, wild, and makes her feel things she shouldn't. Gigolo by night, student by day, Max is motivated by providing pleasure for the string of older women who fund his lifestyle. Sparks fly when they meet, and Max becomes obsessed by the naughty lingerie loving girl who resists his charms.

Meridian Six remembers the days before the Troika enslaved humans. She also remembers her mother, a freedom fighter murdered in the final battle between humans and vampires. But it is her mother's final words that have haunted her: Red means life. In the years since her mother's death, she has been used as both a propaganda tool and a blood slave by the Troika.

Every girl in my building is an escort? The news was nearly as shocking as being asked to take on a client. A hot, dominant, BDSM loving client, just like the guys in her favorite books. “All you have to do is convince him you’re an inexperienced submissive wanting to explore the lifestyle, which is exactly what you are. You have plenty of mind-blowing kinky action, collect a huge fee and walk away.” Sasha made it sound so simple, but the books warned that people new to the scene shouldn’t hook up, but the customer is always right, isn’t he?

What if you moved into your dream house and discovered that an obsessive, irrational, hating machine was living right next door? What if you had a background in psychology and thought you could handle it? A seasoned clinician and psychology instructor tells the story of his 10 year struggle to deal with this neighbor from hell, who walked out of a textbook on borderline pathology, and into the lives of he and his wife. He uses this lesson to distill some helpful advice for dealing with this particular brand of nightmare.

Four scorching novellas are waiting for you in Lust in Summer, volume seven of the Lust anthology. A submissive librarian, a lonely exhibitionist, a band of rebel pagans, and a gay college student will find out just how hot it can get when mortal and paranormal worlds collide. Publisher's note: This paranormal erotic anthology includes adult language and situations, and some darker content. If such material offends you, please don't listen to this audiobook.

At 17, Jodie Cramer survived a terrifying assault at the hands of three strangers. Now 35, her past is a horror she's buried deep. When she sets out for a country escape with three friends, all she has in mind are a few laughs and a break from routine. However, unknown to the four women, their secluded cabin was once the focus of a police investigation and, like Jodie, it nurtures a dark secret....

Running out of the back of the bridal shop as her fiancé comes in looking for her, Gabrielle Nowell literally runs into the man of her dreams on the street. When their bodies collide, the magic of love fills the air. Both of them are instantly smitten, but Gabrielle knows it could never amount to anything with her wedding set for Valentine's Day a little less than two months away.

1907: Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a large house by the sea. Taken from his homeland and treated as an unpaid servant, he dreams of his family in Africa even if, as the years pass, he struggles to remember his mother’s face, and sometimes his real name. Decades later, Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege, will find herself banished to the same attic.

When she is taken from her home and forced to work in the powerful city of Chandros to pay the debts of her small farming community, 20-year-old Iona Meers is furious. After an intimate, humiliating medical examination conducted in full view of Chief Inspector Xane - the man she considers responsible for her predicament - her seething anger turns into outright defiance.

A dangerous person without a conscience rarely looks that way. They often seem like the most charming and attractive among us. It is only when we are used or targeted that we learn who we're really dealing with - and often much too late. A trained mental health professional shares candidly about his personal and professional experiences with sociopathic individuals. Some basic guidelines for understanding this infamous personality style.

This is an improvisational book written by an improvisor about the improvisational nature of Jesus, reality, and an improvisational creation. Say that three times fast. This book is an amalgam of memoir, theology, and improv. Tanner is vulnerable, brutally honest, and a little silly as he conjures a portrait of an improvisational reality. Everything is the same, but exactly different (and it always will be) and this book considers how improv and Jesus provoke us towards eternal affirmations of difference.

Baby Boomers are reinventing retirement just as they have so many other aspects of their lives. They will live longer and be healthier than their parents and grandparents, and they plan to remain relevant, be fulfilled, and leave legacies. Many will continue to work well into their 70s and 80s, some because they want to, others because they need to.