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I'd like to think that self-love is a divine responsibility. Though we may be in a long term relationship, a marriage, or whether you choose to uphold the single status. Individually, we all encounter battles amongst ourselves to the point where we feel defeated. Learn to let go of the things we cannot control. Understand that people will only do the things that you allow them to do to you. Love yourself enough to want better, to want more, it starts with you! In this book each character will lose a part of themselves in order for them to realize self worth by overcoming turmoil.

I love nothing more than my job. As a local celebrity and businesswoman, I’ve worked my way up through the ranks to become the biggest news publisher in the area. Everything’s perfect, except my love life. But it’s complicated. This town is nothing short of conservative and would never understand me. And my mother? She’d think I was going to hell. I’m a lesbian, and it has to stay a secret.

Horse trainer is an odd job for a lion, but Lou prefers his horses to most people, even when they talk back and fuss because he didn’t bring them sugar cubes. After mucking stalls and mending fences, he deals with Pride politics over a beer and a game of pool. He also teaches the mated lionesses how to line dance, keeping the peace and marriages together.

Blue Wheeler is afraid of being forgotten. Dorian Channing is scared of being different. Their first meeting sparks a friendship that becomes an unbreakable bond, even when the King of The Prides tries to tear them apart. One lie threatens their entire world and unleashes secrets that should remain hidden. Will the lie cage them forever, or will the magic set them free?

The battle continues as the Witches choose another target. Secrets are exposed when the Hand-Me-Down Boys(Demi-deuil) of Fire Ridge Pride join forces with the Blood-rights of Amber Light Pride. Who lives, who dies, and who is caught in the middle? Hide and seek becomes a dangerous game when Alisdaire Di Gatti, Blood-right and grandson of the Fire god, goes missing. Every attempt to locate him fails until the God Council mates him to the only Hand-Me-Down Boy who can find the living.

Belladonna Pagano is far too busy for love - she has until Halloween to wow the school board with Hartwood High’s Fall production of Little Shop of Horrors, or she’ll be out of a job. Besides, after her former fiancé traded their future for his burgeoning music career, she’s vowed never to give a man that kind of power over her again. Least of all a rock star.

Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous thoughts in God Themselves, a new collection of stirring poetry. Nichelle taps into her experiences of growing up in the South as a queer Black woman to courageously confront the effects of a forced religion and the inherent dangers of living life in a female body. God Themselves is divided into three equally moving sections: Everything, Everywhere, and Love. Nichelle braids her wisdom—as seen in the poem “What to Do When There’s Nothing You Can Do”––and witty generational humor—seen in “Sanctity: An Exposé”—into every poem.

Love turns to obsession in this tragic love story of a writer and his final muse. Matthew Morrow is a prolific horror writer who moves into a small Los Angeles apartment complex and meets the cute redheaded actress next door, Regina. As their friendship develops, the two of them find themselves attracted to each other with a slow-burn to love. As their passion burns, a spark ignites in Matt’s imagination for a new novel centering on his love with Regina, his new muse. While writing his opus to his new love, Matt unleashes his own demons that drag him into his own story, turning his love ...

Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore - not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn’t part of the plan. Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools. His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer.

Dr. Hope Finlay liebt ihren Job als Ärztin in der Notaufnahme, besonders weil sie dabei immer nur kurz mit Menschen in Kontakt kommt. Schon als Kind hat sie durch den Tod ihrer Mutter gelernt, keine Bindungen einzugehen, da diese nie von Dauer sind. Laleh Samadi, die als Kellnerin im Restaurant ihrer Tante arbeitet, ist das genaue Gegenteil. Sie schließt rasch Freundschaften und liebt ihre große, turbulente persische Familie über alles, obwohl diese sich ständig in ihr Leben einmischt. Als Laleh mit plötzlichem Herzrasen in die Notaufnahme eingeliefert wird, rettet Hope ihr das Leben.

Riot Fiora never expected to have a mate. He never expected to have anything after angering Queen Savannah over a hundred years before. She'd raised him and loved him as her own after his mother died at the hands of Winnow Masters. And then he'd disappointed her.

Following the death of his partner, an advertising executive transfers from his home in New York City to unfamiliar territory in Nashville to begin anew. As Christmas approaches, Darin finds his loneliness and depression growing stronger and sets out to a nearby bar for a drink. There, he meets a man who makes his heart skip a beat - a handsome, young attorney named Ryan who sparks a romantic interest in Darin and reawakens his heart.

Some hunters are made. And some are lions. He tried to kill him. He stole his place in the Pride. He stole his mate. But Remi Sanna isn’t going down without a fight. He’s come home to take it all back.

One night can change the whole world. At 25, Jaime Wheeler hasn't met anyone who makes him sit up and take notice. Then he sees the beautiful Sawyer Beaux. And wants him. Between the bubbly champagne and the tequila courage, Jaime takes a chance, and Sawyer says yes. One night leaves them both wanting more. Jaime's world crashes when he returns home, and he has to fix it. Can Sawyer accept what Jaime must do, or will Old-World Pride Law tear them apart?

To have been raised in a home as an only child, I had no one to confide in. My parents were always working, and when I did get the time to converse with them, they came off as judgemental. Confined. Shielding my most darkest secrets within, I suffered.

As a fairly new author, I wanted to step outside of my comfort zone and explore an alternate way of writing by interacting with my listeners through erotic fiction. As adults, we often get so caught up in life that we deprive ourselves of sexual stimulation. Erotic writing invites intimacy to readers and listeners on a level of the unseen physically and emotionally, like Pandora's Box.

Was passiert, wenn eine ehrgeizige Psychologin mit Hang zur Perfektion und eine impulsive Schauspielerin eine Beziehung vortäuschen? Claire Renshaw hat das perfekte Leben: eine erfolgreiche Karriere als Paartherapeutin, einen anstehenden Buchvertrag für ihren Beziehungsratgeber und eine baldige Hochzeit mit ihrer Traumfrau. Doch alles fällt wie ein Kartenhaus in sich zusammen, als ihre Verlobte mit ihr Schluss macht. Deshalb könnte nun sogar der Buchvertrag in Gefahr sein, denn Leser lassen sich nicht gerne Ratschläge von einer Frau geben, die nicht einmal ihre eigene Beziehung retten kann.

Florist Rose McDaniels is the unofficial matchmaker of Hartwood Falls. Her annual Secret Valentines have brought together more happy couples than she can count. Too bad the only person she can’t seem to help find love is herself. Try as she may, no one holds a candle to the boy who made her first believe in love...right before he left town with her heart.

Tindalos: Hitting Bottom is a series exploring the psychological profile of the popular character Tyler Durden in the 1999 Cult Classic movie Fight Club.

DeConstructing Criticism is the story of Alex, a gifted creative, who has trouble receiving criticism. Each chapter covers a different angle of the creative process as Alex prepares for a presentation, giving the listener useful tools for filtering feedback and creating their best work.