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Dylann Anderson harbors a secret, one he can’t share with his conservative parents or best friend Scott. He’s gay, and once he accepts that, he knows his whole world will be turned upside down. Struggling with questions about his sexuality, Dylann meets Spencer, his musical and romantic match, at a college campus tour. Smitten by the mysterious, handsome tour guide, Dylann feels compelled to get to know him more deeply. The closer Dylann and Spencer become, the harder it is to deny the feelings that continue to grow between the two. Dylann realizes he cannot ignore who he is.

It's been three years since the Dreamwalker upended her life and left her with a heavy burden. A fledgling to the ethereal realm, Miya stumbles into the nightmares of those haunted by specters. Little does she know, one of them is coming for her, clutching a dark secret abreast. Kai has found a new purpose with his companion, but the price is his freedom. Bound and beholden to Miya, he struggles to adjust to his new role as her vanguard.

THIS IS A RE-RELEASE Summer Daze thought she had everything together. College was a breeze to her, there wasn't a man in the picture to distract her from her goals, it was all about her. Graduation was right around the corner and nothing could knock her off her square. That is until a horrible tragedy happens and Summer starts to play detective, not knowing it would lead her down the same path and soon someone would be after her too. Trench Knight is everything a woman could ask for. Handsome and charming, with a certified attitude to match, he pretty much had it all. What he didn’t have ...

Everyone always says love will find you when you’re not looking. Well, they’re not wrong. Except, the man my heart stupidly fell for was more interested in playing his own twisted game of catch and release. Claiming me for himself, then pushing me away when I got too close, but there was an aura of darkness clouded around him. A darkness that beckoned to me. A darkness I was grateful for when those he thought he could trust ripped me away in the middle of the night to be a pawn in their own sick, twisted game.

Esta es la escalofriante invitación de Sebastian Trapp, reconocido novelista de misterio, a Nicky Hunter, la profesora y crítica experta en su obra con la que mantiene una relación epistolar. Desde la mansión del autor en San Francisco, Nicky comienza a desentrañar la historia de la vida de Trapp bajo las atentas miradas de su enigmática esposa y de su hija mayor. Pero Sebastian Trapp es un misterio en sí mismo.

What is it about the seductive qualities of a friend's dad that are so amazingly hot? And yet we know we've always had that kind of special fantasy about our friend's dads. We loved the way they hung around the house with their shirts off, just so comfortable and casual. We loved how rough they were with us, the wrestling matches on Sunday afternoons, the stern punishments when we got in trouble while visiting their sons.

The heist was flawless. The silence that followed wasn’t. In the explosive second volume of The Great Bookie Robbery Trilogy, A.J. Salara returns to 1970s Melbourne to chronicle the unraveling of a crew once believed to be untouchable. The money is gone, the job is done—but the danger has just begun. The perfect crime gave way to a perfect storm of secrecy, suspicion, and betrayal. Blood & Betrayal isn’t a story about how the heist was pulled off. It’s about what came after—when the celebration faded and fear took root.

When Sienna’s beloved grandmother Cara collapses at a family birthday party, everyone thinks she’s had a heart attack. Except Cara. The successful Italian matriarch believes someone wants her dead—and she harbours a chilling suspicion of who it could be. Sienna is the only one she trusts to uncover the truth. A young, single mother grappling with the tragic, unresolved death of her husband, Sienna is no stranger to life’s uglier side. But when she puts their big, happy family under the microscope, she reveals disturbing secrets, decades of deceit, and shockingly serious crimes.

MaryLou always has a plan. Born and raised in a small logging town in the Pacific Northwest with a family of all boys, her life is good. She’s got a great family, she gets to work on race cars with her dad, and she knows exactly what she wants for her future. Then she meets Dale, a mysterious older boy who races at the local track, and MaryLou realizes she can’t always get what she wants. As she learns to adjust her plans to accommodate life’s unexpected twists and turns, MaryLou finds happiness along the way.

What if love never got away? This is an alternate telling of Alex and Claudia’s story—their second chance to get it right. What if they never lost five years to anger and pride? What if they had faced the mess, fought for each other, and found their destiny sooner? What if no one twisted their bond before it had a chance to grow? In this version of their lives, it’s not outside forces tearing them apart. It’s just them—their fears, their doubts, their stubborn hearts. Can they finally stop fighting the truth? Can they accept the connection that's always been there, burning quietly...

Still reeling from the aftermath of Cassidy's abduction, warlord Connor McTiernan has retreated to the family compound in Maine to give his wife time to heal. As the rift between them grows and the Italian threat looms closer, Connor makes a blood promise save the woman who owns his hearteven if it costs him his life.

James is a sexy, 21 year old college student with a problem. While he can get any girl on campus to have sex with him, he can never convince them to commit. All that changes when he meets Mitch, a tall, muscular Russian guy with a taste for gay BDSM romance that will leave him breathless and begging for more. In Mitch's world, there are dungeons with torches lining the wall, St. Andrew's Crosses waiting for bondage, lots of kinky devices to make sub happy and craving the next bondage experience.

Former marine turned private investigator Walter Reed has been given yet another strange and amazing opportunity: to become an agent with the FBI’s NightShade division. Though confident her training will make Quantico a cake walk—even with only one leg—Walter is discovering her shot at a new career has disaster written all over it. Her first hurdle? Walter doesn’t graduate training if her new partner GJ Janson doesn’t graduate, too....

Some crimes are never truly solved—because the silence becomes part of the story. Endgame is the powerful final installment in A.J. Salara’s Great Bookie Robbery Trilogy, a landmark true crime series that has redefined how we view crime, consequence, and cultural memory. While High Stakes revealed the planning behind the heist, and Blood & Betrayal explored the paranoia and collapse that followed, Endgame takes aim at what lingers when the headlines fade and the wounds remain.

Scientists estimate that in normal conditions a human being regularly has an average of 30,000 to 40,000 daily thoughts. And according to research, depression is always preceded by repetitive negative thinking and not vice versa, and reducing the number of negative thoughts per day actually reduces both the frequency and intensity of depressive feelings and emotions! These crucial findings constitute the starting point of the seven lessons and seven exercises contained in this beginner's guidebook, designed to help you break the habit of negative thinking now!

In the heat of wartime Manila, 23-year-old American GI Kurt Berlin is recruited by the OSS to return to Europe to aid in the interrogation of captured Nazis. A refugee from the Nazis himself, Berlin discovers the Nazi he’s interpreting is responsible for much of the torment and misery he endured during his escape. And that very same Nazi may hold the key to finding the girl he left behind.

Cherish did her best to make sure both of her sisters were straight. With the loss of one, she still feels she did the best that she could. Cindy the mother to the girls left them with nothing while Cherish worked her ass off to give them everything. Now Cindy is back with everything when she doesn’t deserve a thing. Questions arise on why she left her kids & who could be more important than her kids. The only person who can answer those questions is Cindy but will she be willing to face her demons? As tough as Cocoa is she couldn’t deny the hurt she felt when she encountered Cindy. ...

A night of drunken confusion at 19 resulted in Patrick Connelly fathering a child. Determined to be there for his son, Patrick walked away from a sport he loved and forever hid his sexuality. After Patrick's brutal divorce and a vicious hate crime, his son, Jay, has become obsessed with graffiti. Patrick moves Jay to Seattle. Within two weeks, Jay is arrested again. Thinking things can't get any worse, he's confronted by the sexiest man he's ever seen - his son's new probation officer, Ken Atkins.

Betty & Barb: Casino Murder A Cozy Mystery Full of Sass, Suspicion, and Slot Machine Shenanigans Meet Betty (87, practically blind, definitely dangerous) and Barb (80, perpetually broke but weirdly lucky), two sharp-tongued sisters from Ohio with a talent for solving crimes and starting them. These senior sleuths just wanted a relaxing afternoon at their favorite casino—cheap cocktails, penny slots, and maybe a marshmallow or two roasted over a Bath & Body Works candle. But when Tony "The Count" Marconi slumps over at the poker table—dead as a doornail and twice as cold—the feisty duo...

A deadly supercolony of ants with razor-sharp claws that pierce skin like paper and stinging venom that liquefies its prey is killing in Manhattan. The desperate mayor turns to the greatest ant expert in the world, Paul O’Keefe. Paul calls on his ex-wife Kendra Hart, a spirited entomologist. When the ants launch an all-out attack, Paul and Kendra hit the dangerous, panic-stricken streets of New York, searching for a coveted queen. It’s a race to unlock the secrets of an indestructible new species, before the president nukes Manhattan.