They meet in the aftermath of a storm.Neither of them was looking for anything that lasts.Emelie Scott comes to a small Midwestern town to close an estate and untangle a family history built on silence. After a year that cost her everything—her relationship, her savings, and her job as a third-grade teacher—she tells herself this stop is temporary.One last thing before starting over.She doesn't expect a tornado.Or th...

What is stonger: the will of a king, a prophecy, or love?Seelie King Gabriel IV has always had his eye on Victoria, the daughter of his father's best friend—the man who mentored the young king like a son—the same man he murdered. Over a decade older than her and now a powerful king, he still wants her, but she has already turned him down more than once.Victoria's heart belongs to Charles Abgamon, a formidable man who has sworn himself to love only her. He is everything she n...

Allison Michaels never thought she could do it--be as callous and devious as her sister. Three weeks ago, she set out on an adventure that promised to leave her debt-free with a stacked portfolio and references that would allow her to break into the graphic design world. All she had to do was help destroy a horrible man.With her tail between her legs, debt-free, and opportunities to work at numerous design firms, Allison is running home heartbroken and with guilt comparable to her ...

White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid's fierce determination...

You Loved Me OnceDrew left home chasing a dream—and left Elle behind without answers, without closure, and without a chance to be heard.Eight years later, he returns to bury his father, care for a brother left severely injured by the same accident, and help hold together a family lodge on the brink—while stepping into the role of guardian for his teenage sister. The life he once walked away from now demands everything he has.

Allison Michaels quickly learns she is in way over her head. Taking a design job with unscrupulous strings attached to ruin a man she doesn't know spirals out of control and she fears she has lost Bryant forever. Like everyone warned her, "she never could do the job."Allison is determined to find a way to convince her boss, Martin Kirklen, to let her out of the deal in hopes of salvaging her dignity and her relationship. But when she receives a cryptic message from her sister and Ma...

Winner of the World Fantasy Award, The Jasmine Throne has been hailed as a series opener that will 'undoubtedly reshape the landscape of epic fantasy for years to come' (Booklist, starred). Now, Tasha Suri's provocative and powerful Burning Kingdoms trilogy continues with The Oleander Sword.The prophecy of the nameless god - the words that declared Malini the rightful empress of Parijatdvipa - has proven a blessing and curse. She is deter...

Anything goes in the woods…Drowning in student loan debt, Claire Collins is about to be made an offer she can’t refuse: spend thirty days indulging corporate lawyer Shane Underwood’s primal desires in exchange for $30,000. All she has to do is give him the hunt of his life.Claire’s perfectly happy to swap her boring summer serving job for wild, kinky sex. But once they cross the tree line, she realizes how little she knows about the man paying her to be his...

Brie MacDavies should have drowned that night. Two of her best friends—one like a sister, the other the boy she almost loved—never made it out of the water. But she survived… and someone doesn't think she should have.For months, anonymous notes have appeared, each carrying the same chilling message: It should have been you. Haunted by guilt and convinced her survival was a cruel mistake, Brie has stopped believing she deserves happiness—until a stranger named Brendan walks...

Cate Hamilton has survived living in a tent by the river, being orphaned by a drug-addicted mother, living out of her dead mother's VW beetle, and an abusive relationship. Cate is a survivor, but it doesn't mean she is without scars. Some visible, but most locked away inside of a fragile vault constructed from years of stubborn determination and grit.Until now, Lance Barstrom was her biggest mistake. Despite the law stating he cannot be within one hundred yards of her, he is still ...

Cedric, close to caving to the temptations of darkness, finds a sliver of hope in a young woman he is required to kill.When a routine assignment to retrieve a couple of traitorous souls to the Strygolian Order takes a detour for a Stryx, henchmen to the order, Cedric Vaughn finds a sliver of hope in a young woman who saw too much. Unfortunately, she has to die.Marin Grienger is in the wrong place at the wrong time and witnesses two demon creatures known as Stryx attacking h...

«Du willst mich? Dann komm und fang mich …»Eine Dark Romance über düstere Fantasien, in der Consent großgeschrieben wird.Claire Collins ist eigentlich Sportlehrerin. Die Sommerferien verbringt sie normalerweise damit, zu kellnern, um ihr Gehalt aufzubessern. Doch diesen Sommer ist alles anders. Diesen Sommer wird sie zur Beute.Shane Underwood bezahlt sie dafür, 30 Tage lang seine Fantasien mit ihm auszuleben und sich im Wal...