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Our quoted authority is not the people in white coats but those with a quill, a heart and a soul that can take these feelings of love and loss and with the ink of words put to verse feelings and emotions that can be re-lived and shared by all. As they venture through depression, war, slavery to heartache and the loss of loved ones our eyes may mist and tears gently fall at what collectively we have done, have experienced, have witnessed and lost.

On the surface, Kai Alexander has it all—the perfect life—but her niggling subconscious is hellbent on the fact that her happily single status is in need of eradication. Instead of succumbing to the new age wave of sliding onto an app, she goes old school—placing a personal ad in her hometown newspaper, hoping to spark a love connection. Bringing an additional lady into his life wasn't in Theodore “Rux” Reed‘s life plan, but you know what they say about the best laid plans... When the perfect woman is literally dropped at his doorstep, he was powerless to resist the desire to get to know her.

Sabre Orin Brown's clients keep disappearing. With seemingly no connection between the cases, Sabre enlists the help of her southern PI friend, JP, and her best friend, Bob, to find each of them - before it's too late. In her race against the clock, Sabre must determine whether contemporary horrors are being buried in the shadow of dark traditions - or if it's something else at work.

Just because Wyn has changed doesn't mean that the war is over. Not at all. Angus and the Morrigan are ready for battle, but so are Wyn and her allies. It's time to fight for the Winter Realm and the balance that keeps the magic alive.

With their one year deadline quickly approaching Jane and Charles have to decide if they are going to stay married or get divorced. However, when Jane becomes pregnant their simple arrangement becomes very complicated. Jane had always been told she could never get pregnant, making this baby a miracle to her. Charles had always been adamant about not having children. With his own childhood, he always believed he would make a terrible father, just like his own. Will their marriage survive a baby or will it finally be what forces Jane and Charles to face reality?

Coming home to Virginia Beach after college and working in a clothing store wasn't what I'd planned for my life. I also didn't plan on meeting four Navy SEALs at a bar, or agreeing to their bet. Go out on a date with each one, and then choose. It's like a fantasy come true. Except...why choose?

A race against time.... There’s no rest for the wicked. Or for demon slayers. I’m both, so things have been busy. The sort of busy where I spend all my time trying not to get killed or discovered for what I really am- a Dragon Blood with the deadly power to create new magic. When a mysterious bomb goes off in my town and my closest friends are turned to stone, it becomes a race against the clock to stop the demon who is still at large.

Written for audio format, this collection of six science fiction stories draw on themes of arrival, discovery and destination. Commissioned especially for Audible, and narrated by outstanding performers, these stories evoke the traditional storytelling of West African Jali as the unknown and distant are brought to life for audiences.

Juliana Chastain doesn't know anything about her family history. While her mother was alive she remained very secretive about her past. So when Juliana discovers a photograph of a glamorous French actress from World War Two amongst her mother's possessions, she is in shock to find herself looking at her grandmother - especially as she is arm in arm with a Nazi officer.... Desperate for answers, Juliana is determined to trace the journey of her grandmother. Surely there is more to the photograph than meets the eye?

Of all the universe's forces, the most mysterious, confounding, and humbling is the power of love. Alma Katsu's acclaimed trilogy - a supernatural epic that began with The Taker and sparked a chase around the world in The Reckoning - comes to a stunning conclusion, and brings Lanore McIlvrae to a final encounter with Adair, her powerful nemesis. Dismayed by Adair's otherworldly powers and afraid of his passionate temper, Lanore has run from him across time, even imprisoning him behind a wall for two centuries to save Jonathan, her eternal love.

Felicity "Fil" Shaltis can read the magic in auras, but her fascination with a valuable statue her friend Ella Harrow asks her to locate is purely artistic. At least until the fierce stone gargoyle comes to life as a powerful immortal warrior, who promptly saves her from a cultist set on destroying them both. Spar expected nothing less than one of the seven demons of the Dark to wake him, but instead he finds himself the unlikely savior of a spirited human female.

Kiskeya Burgos left the tropical beaches of the Dominican Republic with a lot to prove. As a pastry chef on the come up, when she arrives in Scotland, she has one goal in mind: win the Holiday Baking Challenge. Winning is her opportunity to prove to her family, her former boss, and most importantly herself that she can make it in the culinary world. Kiskeya will stop at nothing to win - that is, if she can keep her eyes on the prize and off her infuriating teammate's perfect lips.

Elyth - a former agent of the religious arm of the Ascendance, The First House - is on the run after the events of Every Sky a Grave, when she and the fugitive Varen Fedic exposed the darker side of Ascendance hegemony on a planet called Qel. Though she just wishes to put the past (and Varen) behind her, she is soon tracked and cornered by the Ascendance agents. Surprisingly, they aren’t there for punishment. Instead, they offer her a deal in exchange for her help in exploring a new planet that seems to have appeared out of nowhere.

After a night of heavy drinking with her coworkers, Seraph succumbs to an erotic dream in which she receives pleasure beyond her wildest imagination. It’s a brand of filthy that she enjoys, but something about it is simultaneously wrong, though she can't put her finger on why. What she does know is that she can’t deny how good it feels and isn’t sure she wants it to stop.

Phlebotomist Alexis Cavill has wanted to jump her best friend since he died. Well… Not died died, just became undead. When you nearly lose the person closest to you, it puts some things into perspective. At least it did for her. Buying the perfect dress was only the beginning of her grand plan to take a chance.

Last week, I was a hotel maid who had no idea magic existed. Today, I’m the prisoner of a werewolf pack. I had to steal from them to save a friend, and now I’m behind bars. To make things more complicated, the werewolf alpha is my fated mate - and now he hates me for my betrayal. The attraction between us is off the charts, but it doesn't matter. His loyalty is to his pack. He would avoid me if he could, but he can't. When we're forced to work together to save his pack, it becomes clear that neither of us is going to escape with our hearts intact.

Majoring in Love: Two very different worlds collide in 1975 at an urban university in the south. Linda and Sandy are opposites in every way, with one thing in common: an intense attraction. Majoring in Love is a coming-of-age interracial love story and is a prequel to Be One with Me. Be One with Me: At age forty, city girl Sally never imagined she’d be all alone in the world. Following a violent attack and a deathbed confession from her mother, she runs from the only life she knows, heading south in search of security and family.

"They say grief passes. They say the pain gets less. Well, I don’t want it to go. I don’t want it to stop hurting. The pain helps me function and get through the day. And it helps me focus on one thing: revenge." The Morrigan needs to die, no question about that. But first, Wyn and her Guardians need to find her. While the Realm prepares for war, allies arrive from unexpected places. But there are enemies hiding in plain sight who could stop the war before it's even begun. Can Wyn destroy the Morrigan without sacrificing the lives of her loved ones?

Yoga instructor, nutrition expert, and healthy-living blogger Elise Marie Collins has compiled a comprehensive look at what "Super Agers" are doing to live long and prosper. Learn about movement at any age, brain fitness and memory maintenance, foods, vitamin and mineral content cues and clues, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease and reverse symptoms of illness. In this revolutionary book, Collins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, telling us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span.

Life has gotten a bit dicey, lately. Which is a major understatement. My normal gig as a demon slayer turns extra deadly when a group of them attacks my home. I manage to take them out, but not before it’s too late. My sister and I are hit by the deadly fire veins curse. We have only days to find a cure, so we’ve got to split up to cover more ground. I’m lucky to have access to Declan, one of the most powerful fallen angels in the world. Not to mention, one of the hottest. One that I’m falling for faster than I like.