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After years of digging into his wife’s death, Paxton has had enough. He left the force and opened his own PI firm. His first case is to help a family navigate their way through a kidnapping.

I had everything — school quarterback, popular with girls, and my dad was proud of me. I told myself it didn’t matter no one knew the real me. And then I nearly died. Landon saved my life. He’s the bravest guy I know. He came out a few years ago, proud and fierce, and he ran into gunfire to help others. Me, I’m a mess. Can’t even stand to be in a room with the curtains open. But here’s the thing about losing it all: You get a chance to start over and be someone new.

Danger and mayhem has a way of following Olivia Knight everywhere she turns. As an FBI agent, those are the perks that arise in her line of duty. But unfortunately for Agent Knight, her place of refuge becomes a crime scene.

Change is the only constant in life. It’s a lesson FBI Agent Blake Wilder is having to learn all over again. Summoned to DC by a Bureau legend, Blake is excited, imagining big things on the horizon for her team. That excitement though, is quickly dashed as her entire world is instead, turned upside down and she’s left to pick up all the pieces.

Veronica Welch has made it. She’s about to be named a partner at one of the most prestigious law firms in New York City. She’s on top of the world, except for one tiny ridiculous thing: She promised herself she’d be married by 35. After a drink too many, she accidentally lets her “life plan” slip to Bea, her steadfast, ever-meddling assistant, and now Bea won’t let the idea go.

Grey Fox grew up listening to tales about a love so passionate and rare that it became worth more than all the horses upon the face of the Earth. He didn’t believe any of it until the day he found the rancher woman injured and near death after an attack by Brother Lion. Now, before him, the vision materialized. Yet he felt nothing but a warrior’s instinct to protect. How could he love anyone so greatly? His heart had died many moons ago... Sarah would do anything to escape. She could not possibly be the girl the Comanche predicted would come into their world and be the woman of this ...

Alfredo Estrella, Alias el 7 Pilas. Mejor conocido como El Capitán Venotas, siempre te sacará una sonrisa...y algo más.

As the small town of Storyville tears itself apart and the residents turn on each other, Cora sees the worst in humanity. Voices whisper in the back of her mind, telling her that perhaps Uriel and Sandra aren’t entirely wrong. That perhaps the darkness bleeding across the world has spread too far and can’t be reined in. She recognizes that she—and humanity as a whole—is being tested. Judged. And she begins to fear that perhaps humanity is beyond saving. That it is beyond redemption.

When a series of bombings rock the Pacific Northwest, FBI agent Blake Wilder leaps into action. The investigation brings her back into contact with an ATF agent she has clashed violently with in the past. Their theories clash as hard as their personalities, and Blake opts to run her own concurrent investigation. What she uncovers is a twisted tale 20 years in the making. The story, as they uncover it, is full of twists, turns, and explosive revelations. All the while, Blake’s renewed rivalry with ATF Agent Winslow is threatening to derail everything.

Within a short period of time, FBI agent Blake Wilder has had to overcome many life-altering events. From the relief of discovering the truth of her past and having the reunion she had always dreamed of. To becoming suffocated by the feelings of grief and failure, feelings that nearly resulted in her death. Safe to say, Blake Wilder is far from looking forward to the festivities to come. Blake and her team are summoned to a small town in northern Washington to investigate the mysterious death of a patient at Whitehorn.

With over a decade of experience, flipping close to 1,000 properties, selling over 1,000 houses, and owning multiple apartment buildings and self-storage facilities, Tarek El Moussa is a successful entrepreneur, real estate expert, and investor. It will surprise Tarek’s fans to learn that it wasn’t an easy road to the top. A young and aimless Tarek had no clue what he wanted to do with his life.

The Gadfly is a tale of heroism, faith, and disillusionment, where love manifests in its religious, romantic, and family forms. The story follows the activities of Arthur Burton and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. Arthur, a radical journalist who publishes satirical tracts under the pseudonym "the gadfly", is in love with Gemma. The narrative also explores the relationship between religious and revolutionary feelings.

He’s my dad’s best friend, my boss, and completely off-limits… until one reckless night changes everything. I came to the city to make my mark in the hospital of my dreams. Nothing could prepare me for the silver fox waiting on the other side of the doors. Ethan Carter—my dad’s best friend, a brilliant rich doctor. And the one man I’ve secretly wanted for years. Ethan is everything I shouldn’t want—grumpy and guarded. Worse, he’s my new boss. He’s made one thing clear: crossing the line between us is absolutely forbidden. But our chemistry? It doesn’t care about rules....

Finlay Donovan, single mum and floundering crime writer, is having a hard time. Her ex-husband went behind her back to fire the nanny, and this morning she sent her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an unfortunate incident with scissors. Making it to lunch with her literary agent is a minor victory but, as she's discussing the plot of her latest crime novel, the conversation is misinterpreted by a woman sitting nearby as that of a hit-woman offering her services to dispose of a 'problem' husband.

Fin McClain left Montana to escape his past. He joined the US Army to fight enemies of his country and his own internal demons in an attempt at redemption or suicide. On a mission in Syria, he fought alongside a woman they called the Angel of Death, a woman as fierce as she was beautiful. Mission complete, he never learned her name or where she was from. Finally coming home to Montana for the first time in years, he’s unsure of his welcome. When he finds an injured woman staggering alongside the road, he’s shocked to discover she’s the woman from Syria.

Capturing an era - and preserving the stories they have told their daughters, their mentees, their husbands, and their friends - a dozen women Imagineers have written personal stories from their decades designing and building the Disney worldwide empire of theme parks. The book represents a broad swath of Imagineering's creative disciplines during a time of unprecedented expansion.

Mindfulness - the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is - is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little audiobook is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware.

A family secret catapults Rory into a magical library - and a new life she never knew she wanted. Bookshop assistant Aurora "Rory" Hawthorn thinks reality will never be as interesting as fiction. Content to spend her time escaping into a good book to escape her micromanaging boss, the very last thing she expects is to be cornered by a group of terrifying strangers hunting down a journal that belonged to her late father.

When former bad girl Genevieve West returns home for her mother’s funeral, she’s prepared to keep her distance from her ex-boyfriend, Evan Hartley. Their history is rife with turbulence. And passion. A heck of a lot of passion...which she’s trying desperately to forget. But it’s impossible not to run into Evan in the small coastal town where they once ran wild. And the moment she sees her gorgeous ex again, it’s clear to Gen that Evan is still as unruly, sexy, and irresistible as ever. This time around, however, she’s resolved to walk a new path. Evan has other ideas.

Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine - a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude...and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy.