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The militant Warriors of the Cross, have come to Shadows Fall to capture and wrest control of the legendary Forever Door from Old Father Time and a town they see as being filled by sinners, witches, and demons. James Hart makes a startling discovery about his grandfather. And Mayor Rhea Frazier and the revenant Leonard Ash renew their relationship, after his return from the dead.

Set in a lethal American professional football league seven centuries in the future, The MVP puts huge humans on the field with four alien races, creating a game that is faster, stronger, and deadlier than anything we know today. Star quarterback Quentin Barnes has spent three seasons putting together a hard-hitting, hard-fighting team that combines rookies, rejects, discarded free agents and seasoned veterans from all five species. He has fought against racism and bound his team together through shared sacrifice, blood, tragedy, and victory.

Ruined. Tortured. Broken. What could have been the perfect childhood turned into a hell that the devil himself would shy away from. I was forced to deal with an evil that would make the darkest of souls cringe. Lily Noel was scarred but beautiful. She was perfectly flawed and everything that I needed.

Earth remains the volatile prize of aeons of war and domination by two panterrestrial races. Returning the fight to these inhuman overlords, the Cerberus rebels are the champions of the planet's postapocalyptic dark ages. They spark a uniquely human resilience and courage to stand down the forces of infinitely powerful, perhaps unstoppable entities in the ongoing war to retake Earth for humanity.

When Nelson Rowdy puts on a taco costume for the towns annual Fall Ball masquerade party, he isn’t expecting to fall in love with an avocado. When conversation turns steamy, they don’t just want to guac about it–they want to add a little heat to their night. Hands travel, masks come off–and they are face-to-face with a 100 year long feud. Nicole McCormick is off limits. But damn–she is all grown up, back from college, and impossible to resist.

Williams and Windy have been best friends since grade school. But now that they are all grown up, things are changing. For one, their invention has a shot at being more than a pipedream. If they get an investor, they could make their dream a reality. As they work toward their joint goal, William starts to realize he doesn’t just want to run a business with Windy. He wants a whole life with her. But telling the truth might mean losing the one girl he has always put first. It’s about to get Rowdy!

Carter is a local bad boy rancher with one hell of a reputation. Cadence is a preacher’s daughter who has never made a mistake. When their worlds collide, the chemistry is undeniable–but no one would believe their connection is real. They must decide who to live for, and what’s worth a Rowdy brawl. Carter isn’t letting go of Cadence easy. He’s fought before, and he will fight again. Only this time, it’s for her heart.

Spread across post-apocalyptic North America, the nine great cities ruled by the alien-human hybrid barons have crumbled…ushering in not defeat, but a new epoch of alien rule of Earth. But their assault is threatened by a force of extraordinary humans, the Cerberus rebels, dedicated to freeing humanity from the aeons of slavery that the alien Annunaki race have placed upon it. In Louisiana, a salvaged piece of sentient spaceship signals the beginning of the long-awaited second salvo.

Hawk and Fisher, famous for their years of keeping the peace in Haven, are really quite happy being legends. They gave up the hero business when they decided they’d grown too old for it. Now they run the Hero Academy, training young hopefuls to be heroes. Legends never die, but it seems they cannot retire, either. Hawk and Fisher’s adult children, Jack and Gillian, have been kidnapped. They were taken by the Demon Prince, an old enemy from the Forest Kingdom who challenges the couple to one final battle for their lives.

Apropos is the unlikely noble whose life began in the lowest of ways: as the result of a gang assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench. Last time out, Apropos attempted to seize control of his own fate, and ended up with, appropriately, nothing. Time has passed since he fled the kingdom of Runcible, and Apropos leads a quiet existence as a tavern owner. All that changes abruptly, however, when the sorceress Sharee re-enters his life with the forces of the warlike Lord Bellicose hard on her heels. They want something they're convinced she has stolen.

Blake Barrett’s wicked wrist shot is fueling his meteoric rise in the NHL. But the top center for the championship team needs some practice when it comes to his skills off the ice. When the hot next-door neighbor offers the awkward athlete kissing lessons, Blake is all in. And he’s in no danger of falling for the sassy attorney because his heart’s in permafrost after his parents’ disastrous marriage taught him that happily-ever-after doesn’t exist.

Considered by the author to be his finest work yet, this is a novel of realistic detail, heartfelt emotion, and dazzling imagination that builds a world listeners won't want to leave and spins a tale they won't want to end. In a town of amazing magicks, where the real and the imagined live side by side and the Faerie of legend know the automatons of the future, Time sees all—but even he cannot escape the prophecy of James Hart's return, which can only mean the death of Shadows Fall.

Realtor Noelle Collins has landed the listing of her dreams. Only caveat is, the house comes with a nightmare of a puppy. Desperate, she begs for a grumpy dog-trainer to take pity on her. Surely, under all those cowboy muscles, he has a heart, but she highly doubts it.

Ruby Towne is running out of time and magic. She’s the last of her mother’s line of witches, and gifted with clairvoyance, but seeing the future comes at a hefty mental price. When she catches a glimpse of her own death, she also sees a red wolf on a sacrificial table. Zeke shows up on her doorstep with retribution on his mind, but one touch sets them on a collision course with a forbidden love that could change the destiny of the Salem Wolf Pack forever. Can a wolf and a witch stop the dark magic brewing around them, or will Ruby’s ominous prophecy claim them both…

Caleb Samuels. Smug. Irritating. Pain in the… After high school, I was content with the idea of never seeing him again. But as his sister Merilyn’s best friend, it was bound to happen eventually. I just didn’t expect it to be at her wake, where, following a foolish, naive, and completely ridiculous incident, I’m prepared to return to my perfectly routine life and wash my hands of him forever. Again.

When Cassidy Jones shows up at the Burly Bar I know what I need. Her. Gentle in ways my calloused hands aren’t and tender in the ways I crave, there is no denying the spark. She just moved to town to nanny, but after one night I want to be the one looking after her. She’s never ridden a cowboy—let alone a horse, but it’s time she learns. And I’m just the cowboy to teach her.

European tourists travel languidly along the Nile River to Abousir, at the southern frontier of Egypt, aboard “a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler,” the Korosko. But Dervish warriors threaten danger and then attack and kidnap the tourists. In this novel, Doyle explores themes of British Imperialism and a defensive European perspective on North Africa; racial paternalism; and debates on interference with other countries’ politics and religions. This wonderful novel was first published in 1898, long before Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile.

With a zany cast of matchmaking brothers, a lovable chicken or two, and mercifully no more than a dozen egg puns, this feel-good romance is sure to lasso your heart.

Ivy, a young girl growing up in a small town in the '70s where everyone knows everything, discovers her family and the people in her town are keeping secrets about the night a car crash killed her parents. The secrets she uncovers and her efforts to leave the town that lied to her, force Ivy to confront betrayal, death, racism, and the meaning of family.

Althea Thompson quit her CPA job to buy property in a small Colorado town with dreams of running a bed and breakfast. Unfortunately, the cabin turns out to be a money pit, and her handsome neighbor cowboy a burr under her proverbial saddle.