Emmett Laroque has been the Halberds' captain for three seasons without once losing control of his locker room. That record ends the morning a trade brings in the one player he swore he'd never share a room with again. And the season has barely started.Emmett Laroque built the Halberds around trust. He runs his line, manages his room, and keeps the line between professional and personal exactly where it needs to be. He is twenty-five years old, captain of a team in...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What happens when you're a foreigner in a city that never sleeps, surrounded by beautiful women, endless nightlife, and a language you barely understand?Alex thought moving to Shanghai would be a fresh start. Instead, he discovers that living abroad comes with its own rules: dating apps, confusing customs, and women who know exactly what they want. Wei Wei, Lulu, and Mimi lead him through a city of neon lights, spicy food, and s...

Beckett Halloran has kept every secret the ice ever asked of him. The new trade arrival he's been assigned to show around is the one man alive who already knows all of them. And the chemistry between them on the ice is the most dangerous thing Beckett has ever felt.Beckett Halloran has stood behind every net in the Eastern Conference and let nothing through that he didn't want through. Eight years as a professional, a reputation built on stillness and precision, an...

Holden Briar has spent twenty years building a reputation clean enough to survive any scrutiny. His newest player is the one person who can dismantle it with a single glance. And every game they win together makes walking away a little more impossible.Holden Briar took the Thorneworth Ravens' head coaching position because he believed in the rebuild. Fourteen seasons on benches across the league, a record the front office could hold up without apology, and a person...

Everett Brandle has kept his private life so locked down that no one in the Ironclads organization knows there is a private life to speak of. Then a twenty-one-year-old defenseman gets called up from Providence and looks at him in a way that no one has ever looked at him, and everything Everett built to stay safe starts to crack.Everett Brandle is the Ironclads' captain, married on paper and managing a life that looks exactly right from the outside. He is methodica...

When the land goes bad, men turn sour and mean…and that is just whathappens to Vale Tanner, a poor Texas cattle rancher who is watching hiscattle die in an unrelenting drought. With his mentor, Red Bailey, thetwo manage to move the few head that have survived, finding a lush valleywhere they can graze. But all is not what it seems in this area, as theman who owns the land is scheming and stealing from others. As thismerciless prairie tries to take ...

I arrived in Shanghai jet-lagged, broke, and completely unprepared for what the city had in store.Within hours I was on Tantan. Within weeks I was deep in the rotation.There was Wei Wei — the soft-spoken Fudan student who corrected my terrible Mandarin and made me feel like maybe I wasn’t a complete asshole. Lulu — the chain-smoking, no-bullshit club girl who took what she wanted and left bite marks as souvenirs. Mimi — the sharp, powerful marketing executive who made me ge...

Former Marine Jake Hunter thought he'd left danger behind when he moved to the peaceful Gulf Coast town of Clearwater Bay. But when a string of mysterious explosions rocks the region's fishing harbors, Jake is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse.Partnered with Scout, his loyal ex-military K9 trained to detect explosives, Jake races against time to track down the elusive saboteur before the attacks escalate. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes this is no random act of vio...

Anton Kozlov, a mountain man who wanted no part of trouble, had escaped Russia and made a life for himself living on and near Battle Mountain in Nevada. Anton is asked to do a 'favor' for a US Cavalry officer-to retrieve a mail order bride from a stage station and return her to the cavalryman. It sounds easy enough until Anton learns that the stage has broken down near a notorious nest of outlaws. Anton manages to rescue Lucy, the cavalry officer's bride, and they slowly make their way bac...

Beckett Halloran has spent eight years as captain of the Yorkshire Vikings keeping every secret the ice ever asked of him. His private life is locked down, his public face is flawless, and the gap between who he is and what the room sees has become so familiar he stopped feeling it years ago. He has never told his best friend. He has never told his coach. He has never told anyone who did not already know.Then Rhys Ellery walks through the tunnel at training camp.Rhys is thi...

DEATH WAS NEVER FAR AWAY FOR RIGDON PIERCERigdon Pierce was sent to ride south to the Texas-Mexico border in search of a missing ramrod, Monte Davis, and to scout new cattle trails and steers. Soon he found out just what kind of trouble a man can get into, especially in Texas—trouble that nearly claimed him and Monte. Upon returning to Montana, Rigdon learned that he had been given a half interest in the Crooked J cattle herd by Clete Nolan, the man who raised him....

In Greek, the language of the New Testament, there are four words for love--agape, philia, storge, and eros--but no matter what the Greek word is, the English equivalent is always love. The most used Greek word for love in the NT is agape, the noblest word for self-sacrificial love. The second-most used word for love in the NT is philia, brotherly or sisterly affectionate love between equals. The third word for love in Greek is storge, which refers to love that is based in one's nature, su...