When Naomi Jensen is kidnapped, it takes her parents two days to realize she's missing. Escape isn't high on her list of priorities when all she has to return to is an abusive boyfriend and parents who never paid much attention to her. For the first time in her life she's part of a family—even if it is a family of criminals. But she's still a captive. In a desperate attempt to regain some control in her life, Naomi embarks on a dangerous plan to make one of her kidnappers think she's falli...

Twenty-year-old Maggie Roads' parents are legendary in the country music world. She wants nothing more than to follow in their footsteps, but the limelight isn't reserved for singers who can't carry a tune, let alone keep a rhythm.When her parents tell her they're getting divorced, Maggie decides it's time to leave home and take her future into her own hands. Moving in with Cole, her best friend and sometimes boyfriend, might not be the best of ideas, but she's got to start somewhe...

An eye-opening handbook from a leading Ayurvedic physician that blends cutting-edge science on "clock genes" with ancient eastern wisdom to help us understand how to harness the power of chronobiology to effortlessly lose weight, sleep better, exercise stronger, reduce stress, and boost our wellbeing."It’s not you, it’s your schedule." Does it sound like magic? It’s not. We’ve all heard of circadian rhythms—those biological processes that give us jet lag and make us night owls or e...

When the cradle breaks the vows… all hell breaks loose.Adrienne is obsessed with the new man in her life–the bouncing baby boy she's always dreamed of having… over her husband, Logan's staunch objections. Motherhood. Wealth. Power. On the surface, the joyful mother has it all–but beneath the bliss, a scandal is brewing that will rip her contentment to shreds.Logan's professional aspirations leave little room for marriage, family… or guarding his secrets. He's laser focused ...

What exactly do you know about your neighbours on the street where you live, in the same neighbourhood and even in the same town? What do you know about the society you live in?What other societies share the same living space as you? None? Guess again.The next time you're in town on a night out, take a good look around you - at the person next to you in the queue to get into the nightclub, the good-looking guy across the street, or the gorgeous girl giving you the 'eye'... ar...

Checklist for life? Completed. But Carmen Miller never imagined an affair being part of it. Yet, here she is, sneaking around with her much younger, irresistible co-worker, Braxton Frazier.The setting? A high-powered corporate office, where temptation and ambition collide. Carmen, the MBA-educated executive, and Braxton, the brilliant up-and-comer, are both entangled in a dangerous game of love and desire. But when their secret love threatens to unravel both their careers and her m...

The lives of three troubled girls, of three different generations, intertwine: "Evocative . . . [The] protagonists are distinctive and sympathetic." — Publishers WeeklyAn Eliot Rosewater Award NomineeShortlisted for a Cybil AwardSpanning from the late 1970s to 2009, this novel follows the stories of three young women raised by single mothers in upstate New York. Madeline eats compulsively and tries to be ultra-responsible a...

D Michelle Gent weaves stories of horror and suspense in bite-sized chunks to leave a lingering sense of dread when the sun starts to set. When the subconscious realises it will soon be dark, memories of Dark Images, The Hunger and The Last Vampire send icy fingers of worry and doubt tickling up the spine and into the dark recesses of tribal memory.

Banished from Olympus, Athena is learning to enjoy her life on earth. She has a job and an apartment. Though she wonders about the exact reason for her banishment, she has no intention of investigating until she receives a visit from her reclusive, enigmatic uncle, Hades. Another surprise visitor appears, a secret is revealed, and a plot is uncovered. A plot that could bring down the most powerful of the gods, Zeus himself. Athena joins forces with Hades and two other male relatives in an ...

Two years after watching her kidnappers go to prison, Naomi Jensen is still in love with one of them. Jesse will be released in a few years, and Naomi knows college is the perfect distraction while she waits. But when her new friend Finn makes her question what is right and what is wrong, she begins to wonder if Jesse is the one for her … until she discovers he's out on parole. Naomi must sort through her confusion to figure out where love and freedom truly lie—in Finn, who has no connecti...

Fourteen years after her kidnapping, Naomi has moved on from her traumatic past. She has a new last name, a career she loves, and nobody to hold her down. When she lands her dream job managing a restaurant in Italy, she resolves not to think about what happened in that country with Jesse eleven years ago.But Naomi's past won't let her go that easily.One by one, her former kidnappers are being released from prison. When Naomi runs into Evelyn at a local market, her perfect l...

Life becomes less complicated as we grow as communicators. There's often more we can do to improve our interactions than we realize.We don't have to live with regret about what we could have said or how we should have listened. This timely, timeless bravery manual teaches which risks to take and how to engage in ways that don't cost us our personal peace.Communication specialist Michelle Gladieux's tips read like a heartfelt conversation with a trusted friend...