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I hate flowers… I hate small talk… I hate the male gaze… I hate feeling lonely… I hate feeling connected… And most of all, I hate the idea of losing control… It’s one luxury I couldn’t afford. As a handler, my job depends on my ability to control things. Everything. Every room. Every outcome. Every possibility. Every threat. Every scandal. Every principle. Every interest. Every dollar. Every deal. Every death. But one look into the dark, desolate orbs of Ishmael Grayson, mayor-hopeful of Berkeley City, and I quickly discerned there were some things I couldn’t control.

What if you could learn to profit from nearly every loss or misstep in your life, and get a return on it—like an investment? The most successful people get ahead because they deal with failure positively. Since they know they can’t avoid failure, they make the best of it and gain from it. People who adopt this approach learn to build more substantial and significant success in their lives. In his new book How to Get a Return on Failure, John Maxwell teaches listeners how to turn misses into wins and losses into gains.

I didn't mean to draw Kane's attention, but he turned it into a hunt. When my friend vanished without a trace, I vowed to bring her home. I didn’t expect to team up with a towering, silent, ex-mercenary whose reputation sends grown men running. Kane is a dangerous man. He doesn’t ask for what he wants, he takes it. Becoming his prey is a fool’s game, yet I can’t stop prying into the secrets he guards, even as I hide my own. But the deeper we dig into Dixie’s disappearance, the more the world tilts. And when another body surfaces in Deadwater, the stakes grow ever higher.

Chains shattered. A Holy Child slain. The whole world wants his head. Percy committed the unthinkable—he killed the Holy Child, a sadistic noble who enslaved his best friend. Branded a heretic and a monster, he’s now the target of every bounty hunter, zealot, and power-hungry mage looking to claim his life for glory. Armed with a powerful bloodline, a brand-new blessing, an evolving familiar, and the ancient wisdom of Zoris—a fallen god bound to a cursed ring—Percy must carve his way through Remior’s strongest champions.

I didn’t know the house I broke into belonged to a mafioso, and now my revenge arc is a lot more complicated. 7 years ago, I died. Nameless, forgotten, left in a ditch after an overdose. I don’t know who saved me or why. God? Satan? A good Samaritan whose name I'll never know? It doesn't really matter. I don’t know who I used to be. My name, my past, they were buried. But somehow, I'm still here. I'm not the only one the Sleepless Reapers have used and abused, but I will be the last, if I have anything to say about it. I don’t need the attention of a mafioso.

Whatever it takes. As long as it takes. ® Blake King is a shadow no one sees coming. Code name Havoc, he’s a second-generation Guardian Security assassin, sanctioned to eliminate the world’s worst criminals. His next target, a European billionaire whose empire is built on corruption, trafficking, and blood. Elise Serra isn’t part of Blake’s mission. She’s an investigative journalist determined to uncover the truth behind her mentor’s suspicious death. Retracing his final stories, she stumbles dangerously close to his target’s world and straight into Havoc’s path.

A considerable part of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature written in the past twenty-some years has revolved around issues related to the war in 1992– 1995 and the depressed transitional social state that followed.

The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri! FBI Special Agent Kim Otto picks up where Lee Child leaves off in novel #21 of the Hunt for Jack Reacher!

Zack's eighteenth birthday was tomorrow, but he wasn’t expecting a party. He needed to get away from the family cattle ranch as fast as he could. There was nothing for him at his home, and he'd prefer facing the unknown to staying. Yet he knew that in leaving, he was taking the easy way out and should stay to protect his stepmother and brothers. He may have rationalized that he could do more if he left, but that voice in the back of his head kept whispering “coward.”

I’m beginning to unravel. When I meet Shai Burrows, he intrigues me enough that he has me stalking him, following him, watching him. And when I find out he’s the one who robbed me, instead of handling business, it only makes me obsess over him even more. But I can’t just let him get away with that, so we cut a deal. Shai will work off what he owes me, with his body, something he’s as eager about as I am. Because after that first touch, our worlds collide.

Is it a haunting, a hallucination… or just a really drafty closet? Victor Bayne is no stranger to ghosts, but the "dead lady in the bedroom" is really testing his limits. He’s stuck investigating a claim from an ex-tenant who’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic, but the building’s history is squeaky clean. Even Vic’s sixth sense is drawing a blank... mostly. Of course, it’s the “mostly” that keeps him from walking away. Good thing Vic has backup. His husband Jacob is riding shotgun on the investigation, all cool competence. And visiting researcher Dr.

Dantes had his revenge, but he wants more. With his former crew dealt with, Dantes and Jacopo have new goals. They’ve carved out midtown as their territory, but that’s just the start. It’s a druid’s job to grow his territory, to spread, and Dantes intends to live up to his responsibilities. Unfortunately, it won’t be as easy as just shaking down a few shops for protection money and managing some smuggling. There’s a plague spreading, the eyes of the Fingers are on him, and there may be war on the horizon.

Tommy Cordero always likes watching his wife, Denise, make an entrance, and never more so than when she comes through the door of his hospital room. He’s looking for words of comfort—after all, his lungs are shot—but Denise is looking for honesty. In their forty-six years together, Tommy considers they’ve done well. Denise and their children have never wanted for anything: a comfortable home, cars, vacations. Surely that outweighs a couple moments of weakness? But Denise is ready to unpack his assumptions, and Tommy is in for some revelations.

Martin Smith has spent the last thirteen years as the world’s most overqualified home inspector. It’s a small price to pay to support his niece, Mira—a growing horse girl with an expensive appetite and a burning desire to race in the Maiden’s Derby. Martin is content to be the invisible support system in her shadow, until a mysterious scout notices that the scrappy single dad sees the track differently than anyone else.

A USA TODAY Bestseller The breakout standalone dark enemies to lovers romantasy about a woman whose lips are deadly poison…until she meets the one man who can survive her kiss. In the absence of a conscience, men need something to fear. I’ve made myself their monster. Every person Harlow...

Legion Varus assaults an alien stronghold that's too close to Mother Earth. The battle turns into a meat grinder that chews through soldiers faster than revival machines can spit them out again. Centurion James McGill must defeat the Demons and their minions before it's too late. He teams with old friends and old enemies. Robots, Blood Worlders, and Saurians join the fight in a grand battle on a deadly planet.

Sarah J. Maas, the #1 bestselling author of the Court of Thorns and Roses series, returns to the courts of Prythian...​ The magic continues in the next exciting installment!​ The full Court of Thorns and Roses series includes:​ 1) A Court of Thorns and Roses​ 2) A Court of Mist and...

I used to be a mafia prince. Now I'm marked as prey. Someone is systematically eliminating my Family bloodline, and I'm the last heir standing. No money. No allies. No way out…except one. An underground auction where the wealthy and the wicked bid on desperate, untouched men like me. I expect to be sold to a stranger. Used and discarded. Instead, I'm bought by a man with a two-decades-long vendetta against my dead father. A beast who drops ten million dollars to own me, then drags me home to a prison he built just for me.

Welcome to Magnolia Falls! This charming and close-knit small town is home to five best friends who are more akin to brothers. Romeo, River, Kingston, Nash and Hayes may appear to be the guys from “the wrong side of the tracks,” but there isn’t a more loyal and protective group than this one. Follow along in the series as each of them navigates life, the bonds of friendship and finding love. The Magnolia Falls series by #1 Amazon and USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Pavlov is now available all in one box set! What’s included in the Magnolia Falls Series box set?

In the spring of 2033, NATO launched EuroDefender-33—a massive show-of-force meant to reassure its eastern members. Leading the charge, the 70th Armor Regiment of the 1st Armored Division deployed to reinforce the Suwalki Gap. Across the border, the Russian 1st Guard’s tank army and China’s elite 81st Group Army flexed their muscles as the Eurasian Defense & Economic Pact conducted the largest European military exercise since the 1980s.