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I f*cked my billionaire neighbor three years ago. One perfect night. Then I ran. Roman D’Angelo never forgot. Now he lives next door—cold, controlled, devastatingly beautiful. The kind of man who owns cities with a glance and keeps secrets like weapons. The kind who looks at me like he’s already decided how this ends. When my mother corners me with an ultimatum—marry or lose everything—Roman steps in with a solution that feels more like a trap. Fake wife. Three months. $500,000. I tell myself it’s business. Then he puts his ring on my finger and reminds me exactly who I was to ...

Crashing into Lucas Harlan’s firetruck was an accident. Letting him crash into every fantasy I’ve ever had? That part was all me. He’s my dad’s best friend—older, rougher, all muscle and authority wrapped in a firefighter’s uniform. The man who once ruffled my hair now backs me against walls with a look that says he wants to ruin me slow. The second his hands touched my waist, sparks didn’t just fly—they caught. I’m the wildflower trying to stay upright. He’s the wildfire determined to drag me down into the heat with him. One forbidden night becomes a blur of breathless ...

I’m a disaster in heels, fresh off a heartbreak and armed with enough sass to start a bar fight. One wrong move, and I mouth off to the baddest biker in the room—my best friend’s dad. He’s the grim, gruff president with stormy eyes and a jaw clenched tight enough to crack steel. Everyone calls him off limits. My heart never got the memo. Cole is temptation on a Harley, wrapped in leather, twice my age, and dangerous in all the best ways. He says I’m trouble. I say he’s the fire I can’t stop touching. A fake engagement is the only escape route from a twisted family deal and the...

Die wirtschaftspolitische Kolumne von Wolfgang Steiger, Generalsekretär des Wirtschaftsrates. Hinweis: Die Vertonung wird mit Unterstützung von KI erstellt.

I swore off my brother’s best friend the night Alex Rourke broke me in the dark. One reckless hookup. One brutal goodbye. Now his brooding, ex-military shadow lives next door— in the French Quarter, where secrets cling to brick and iron like sweat. I came home to New Orleans with a ring-shaped bruise and a fresh-start lie. But the Quarter doesn’t do fresh. It does history—the kind that breathes. Humidity clings. Neon hums. Jazz drifts through the alleys like temptation. And Alex? Alex is temptation with rules… until it’s me. He watches from his wrought-iron balcony like a man ...

In the bioluminescent, star-worshipping city of Astraea, inventor and occultist Lucia Fairfax harvests a particular currency from the shadows—luck itself—drawn from a dimension she calls the Otherside. But when her latest ritual fails and her husband dies tragically, her carefully cultivated fortune bleeds dry.

Él tiene el corazón de hielo. Pero por ella, quemaría el mundo. Aunque Ava Chen y Alex Volkov se conocen desde hace años, él siempre se ha mostrado distante y frío. Pero ahora que el hermano de Ava se ha ido y lo ha dejado encargado de la protección de ella, Alex parece algo menos indiferente... Y su relación, poco a poco, se va haciendo más estrecha, hasta que llegan a confiarse sus secretos y traumas más profundos... A ella, su madre intentó ahogarla en un arrebato de locura; mientras que Alex presenció el brutal asesinato de toda su familia.

Set more than 6,000 years ago, She Who Rides Horses: A Saga of the Ancient Steppe (Book One) begins the story of Naya, the first person to ride a horse. Daughter of a Clan Chief, bolder than the other girls but shunned by the boys because of her unusual appearance, Naya wanders along through the vast grasslands where her people herd cattle and hunt wild horses for their meat. But Naya dreams of creating a different kind of relationship with the magnificent creatures. One day, she discovers a filly with a chestnut coat as uncommon as her own head of red hair.

War is brewing on the horizon... Whether it was in the Netherworld, the Mortal Realm, or the Spirit Plane, war was coming. For some, it was already here. It was not something Salvos wanted to partake in, since she just wanted to protect her friends, but when her very first companion wanted to overthrow the Demon King, she had no choice but to help him in his rebellion in freeing the legions from their servitude. But when she has to face down Jofis the Disgraced Hellking, former ruler of the Netherworld, she is forced to learn that perhaps she is not as prepared for war as she thought she was.

Rigel is a thousand lightyears farther from the Core Worlds than Earth, so they suffer the first attacks. The mood at Central is jubilant. Our greatest rival is falling—now is the time to strike while they’re weak! Legion Varus is deployed to Jungle World, a vital planet deep in Rigellian territory. Our foes, fighting on two fronts, are driven back with ease. But one man questions the wisdom of this move. Should Earth expand with greed, aiding new monsters from the Galactic Rim? That lone voice of reason comes from James McGill.

Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than 50 years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society - the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces.

We bring the AA Speaker to the microphone to record their story of recovery, creating “Speaker Tapes” for this generation. Website: KeepComingBack.net

H.E.R.S. ist der Podcast von WIB, Women in Business e.V., für Studentinnen und Berufseinsteigerinnen. Wir sprechen über Female Empowerment, Karriere, Berufseinstieg, Uni, Netzwerken, Bewerbung, persönliche Entwicklung und die Frage, wie Frauen ihren eigenen Weg in Business und Beruf finden. In Interviews, Real Talks und How to Folgen teilen Frauen ihre Erfahrungen, Learnings, Herausforderungen und Erfolge, ehrlich, nahbar und motivierend.

Freuen Sie sich auf unsere Episoden mit dem Titel: "Loreley", (Axel, Hella und Gast: Anja) "Max und Moritz 3. Streich, frei nach Wilhelm Busch", (Greta und Ulrike) "Persönliche Kindheitserinnerungen" (Christel und Uschi) "Skiunfall mit Happyend" (Jutta und Monika) Alle Beiträge wurden von den Teilnehmern der Gruppe "Hörbar" erarbeitet und gestaltet. Idee/Regie: Uschi Radloff Technik/Layout: Axel Lange Techn. Support: Ulf Gimm Es wird jeweils pro Woche eine Episode veröffentlicht. Nehmen Sie sich bitte etwas Zeit, lehnen sich entspannt zurück und genießen Sie unsere kleinen Episoden. Auf ...

Die Suche nach ihrem leiblichen Vater führt Christie in die zwielichtigsten Viertel von Shousa, der Stadt der Drachen-Triade. Ausgerechnet ihre verhassten Drachenschuppen erwecken die Aufmerksamkeit zweier niederträchtiger Jäger, die Drachenwandler wie Ware verkaufen und Christie auf offener Straße entführen. In Gefangenschaft wird Christie vor eine schwere Entscheidung gestellt. Soll sie das Risiko eingehen, ihre geheime Identität zu verraten, in der Hoffnung dadurch Hilfe zu erlangen?

„Rosels Tagebuch" erzählt die Geschichte des 16-jährigen jüdischen Mädchens Rosel im Frankfurt der frühen 1940er Jahre. Die fünf Folgen begleiten Rosel von ihrem Alltag unter zunehmender Verfolgung, über die Deportation bis hin zur Flucht in den Wald, wo sie als Partisanin ums Überleben kämpft.

What if your circumstances aren't happening to you — they're happening because of you? Most people spend their lives reacting to the world around them. They work harder, worry more, and still can't seem to close the gap between the life they have and the life they want. This book explains exactly why — and what to do about it. Written by a former committed atheist who spent decades building businesses in London and New York, this is not a book about positive thinking. There are no affirmations, no vision boards, no empty promises. What you'll find instead is a clear-eyed, rigorously ...

Kim Slade is at work when there's a knock at her office door. Someone is waiting for her in reception. A woman claiming to be her mother. The mother who abandoned her thirty years ago. Monica Slade has been working as a live-in housekeeper for a judge and his wife, she says. But now Judge Hawkes is dead. The last thing Monica says before the police take her in for questioning is: "There are things you should know. About the past."

The worst of rivals, closest of friends, the two most wanted men in a war-torn world: Kandri and Mektu Hinjuman have cheated death so often it's begun to feel like a way of life. But nothing has prepared them for the danger and enchantment of the Ravenous Lands. This sprawling, lethal desert is the brothers' last hope, for they have killed the favorite son of Her Radiance the Prophet, and her death-priests and magical servants are hunting them.

In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.