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A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want - money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman's past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn't know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist - an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison.

Nia never imagined becoming the fake mistress of a terrifying Fey prince known as the Dream Stalker. But that’s exactly what happens when she ventures into Brocéliande to rescue her lover, Raphael. Sometimes, fate has a twisted sense of humor. Captured by the prince, Nia quickly learns he’s a beautiful, living nightmare. He soon discovers her hidden talent—mind control—and gives her no choice but to serve him. Avalon Tower believes it’s a good idea, too.

Nia never imagined becoming the fake mistress of a terrifying Fey prince known as the Dream Stalker. But that’s exactly what happens when she ventures into Brocéliande to rescue her lover, Raphael. Sometimes, fate has a twisted sense of humor. Captured by the prince, Nia quickly learns he’s a beautiful, living nightmare. He soon discovers her hidden talent—mind control—and gives her no choice but to serve him. Avalon Tower believes it’s a good idea, too. Now, Nia is keeping secrets from everyone, and the Dream Stalker remains unaware that she is a spy.

As a Roman trader grieves over a lost slave woman, he begins to learn about the faith that gave her enough strength to face death.

They're supposed to be enemies. It takes one night with a masked man to change that all. They crave the next touch of the person they hate the most. Desperate for that next taste of the person they can't stand. Waiting for that anonymous text message to accelerate their heartbeats. The thrill of the chase with the forbidden fruit is enough to blur the lines and the world around them. The first problem? They both have girlfriends. The worst problem? They're stepbrothers.

Atretes, a German barbarian who has won his freedom in the Roman arena, finds his life changed forever by an encounter with a young Christian woman. Atretes vows to move heaven and earth to find his son--the baby he thought was dead, and take him back to Germany. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, the Christian widow who has cared for the child since his birth.

1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the furthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle’s newspaper - and then finds herself in the middle of a maelstrom, pitted against Calvada’s most powerful men.

As a bookseller, Nia saved up for years for her dream vacation—drinking champagne on a beach with her favorite books. But her dream turns into a nightmare when she's kidnapped by a muscular, tattooed jerk of a fey named Raphael. Yes, kidnapped. It turns out Nia has a magic power, and Raphael demands that she train at Camelot's elite academy for spies.

One cruel summer day. Mark and Jill Pearson were taken from their home. After that tragic day, their sister Penny dedicated her life to finding them. FBI agent Emma Griffin has solved many grim cases. When she’s called to investigate skeletal remains of an adult man, Forensics soon link the remains to a missing-person case from over a decade ago: Mark Pearson. Where is Jill Pearson?

Midwife Eleanor Ashford answers a summons to Grey Ranch, expecting a difficult birth, not the face of her dearest childhood friend lying pale upon the pillows. When the newborn boy arrives, carrying a secret that could destroy him, she cannot help but flee with the child, stumbling into the Montana wilderness and straight into the path of a brooding yet fiercely protective rancher. Marcus Thornwood has lived in a self-imposed exile since the war left his body burned and his soul burdened with guilt. He wants no complications, no attachments, yet the woman who collapses on his land and does ...

Mark and Jill Pearson were often home alone. One hot summer day, they were taken. Penny Pearson lived her life dedicated to her siblings. Her mother worked late and was hardly home, leaving Penny as the primary caretaker most days. But every summer, Penny left to work at the nearby camp. That summer would change her life forever. FBI agent Emma Griffin has had to solve many grim cases. When she is called to investigate the skeletal remains of an adult man, forensics soon connected them to a missing-person case from over a decade ago: Mark Pearson.

Desperate to escape her uncle’s ruthless control and the marriage he has arranged for her, Maggie Fontaine flees San Francisco with nothing but a small valise and the only proof of the truth: her father’s real will. With powerful enemies searching for her, she pushes west until she collapses near a remote Wyoming ranch, forced to trust a stranger who may either save her or ruin her. Caleb Thornton is barely holding his ranch together after his father’s death, burdened with responsibilities and questioning his engagement to a woman who longs for a different life. He has little room for...

The Protestant Reformation is often associated most closely with Martin Luther, and it’s often considered to have started when Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. However, the Reformation cannot be reduced to a single, abrupt, and exceptional event, but must be traced to a much longer process of spiritual, social, and intellectual transformation that unfolded over the late medieval period.

What happens when someone accidentally summons a demon? They die and become a ghost. I didn’t believe in Heaven or Hell. I thought the pain would stop, and I’d taste sweet oblivion. But I was wrong. Hell does exist. It’s not just a place, but a person too. His name is Lynx. Night after night, day after day, I try to escape and break free of the cage I’ve been damned into. I can’t hide from him, and he can’t outrun me. I’m trapped in the manor with the monster who killed me.

Some wishes are simple. A confidence boost. A nudge toward love. A cat that stops scratching the furniture. (Artemis handled that one personally. He has opinions about cats.) But when fairy godmother Grace Thornfield is hired as a "wellness consultant" for a troubled corporate office, nothing about the job is simple. Twelve exhausted employees. A building on a ley line junction with a furious brownie in the basement. A ley line that someone is deliberately corrupting. And a financial crime hiding behind the magical chaos. Grace can see what's really wrong — the invisible hexes draining ...

When fifty fairy godmothers gather for their annual conference, someone starts granting wishes nobody asked for — and the consequences are devastating. Grace Thornfield has faced corrupted fae, corporate wish thieves, and a centuries-old conspiracy. But nothing has prepared her for Guild politics. Summoned to the Spring Conclave at a grand Portland hotel, Grace must defend her grandmother's legacy of supernatural integration against practitioners who want to tear it apart. When progressive leaders start falling victim to malicious wishes — forced to tell brutal truths, struck mute, ...

Initially, forensics ruled the case a suicide. But soon, a substantial clue leads Riley to a different conclusion: murder. As she navigates this case and the aftermath of surviving an inferno, she sets out to track down the culprit responsible for both cases. Unfortunately, nothing is ever simple. With the shadowy figure who tried to kill her still at large, and this case taking an unprecedented turn, it's only a matter of time before the two roads collide and lead her down a deadlier path.

Unveiled is the story of Tamar, one of the women in the lineage of Jesus. Francine brings the story to life in her trademark style, showing the grace of God in the life of Tamar and her father-in-law, Judah.

Unveiled is the first in the Lineage of Grace series of five novellas covering the stories of Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary.

Historians believe that even Jim Bridger’s prodigious travels were eclipsed by that of New York-born Jedediah Strong Smith, whose uncharacteristic personal life set him apart from the rough-edged mountain man reputation. Smith, who developed into a master cartographer through a regimen of self-study, left a legacy of surprisingly accurate maps of the western continent for military and immigrant groups, so accurate as to remain in use far beyond his death.

A fresh start. A dead body. And a cookie baker who can't stop asking questions. Cookie Cook came home to Blue Ridge, Georgia, to open a bakery...not solve a murder. After seven years in Atlanta and a marriage that made her feel smaller every day, Cookie is finally building something of her own. Cookie's Cookies on Main Street is her fresh start: her grandmother's recipes, her mother's rolling pin, and a display case full of chocolate chip cookies that make people close their eyes on the first bite. Then a body turns up in the alley behind her shop. The sheriff calls it an open-and-shut case...