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Luna Castellano left her small coastal hometown ten years ago with a one-way ticket and a heart full of dreams—and never looked back. Now she's a successful marketing consultant in Boston, living the life she always wanted. Until her grandmother calls with an ultimatum: come home for thirty days and save the family inn or lose it forever.One problem: the contractor Nonna hired is West Harding. Luna's former almost-something from high school. The boy she left behind without saying g...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

Humans hoard cats. Kytol hoards raccoons. I'm just the animal control officer trying to get a leash on the situation.Earth's Wildlife and You: A Primer should be required reading for aliens. Unfortunately it isn't, and now I'm stuck in the unenviable position of explaining to green-skinned Kytol that no, raccoons aren't pets. Calls involving animal hoarding is one of the fastest ways to get me angry, but Kytol's menagerie of rescued raccoons is happy, heal...

"I want your company in ruins. I want every person who ever invested in you to know exactly who you are."On the night before her wedding, Isla Montclair discovered her fiancé Ronan had betrayed her with her own sister, Vivienne. She had given up her career, supported his business, and sacrificed everything for him, only to be betrayed, abused, and left to die.Then she woke up two months earlier.This time, Isla won't let Ronan and Vivienne take anything from her. Wit...

'A book that would have had Darwin swooning - anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this.' GuardianAt the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet.The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still don't even kn...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

The Complete Works of Erle Cox gathers the fiction of one of Australia's most distinctive early speculative writers, including the celebrated scientific romance Out of the Silence and his later tales of invasion, catastrophe, and social upheaval. Cox's prose combines journalistic clarity with the heightened melodrama of the Edwardian adventure tradition, drawing on H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, and the lost-race romance while refracting them through specifically Australian landscapes and ...

Melmoth the Wanderer is a culminating achievement of the Gothic tradition, a vast, labyrinthine novel of nested narratives, spiritual terror, and metaphysical temptation. Its cursed protagonist, who has bargained for unnaturally prolonged life, moves through prisons, monasteries, madhouses, and colonial spaces, offering release at the price of another soul. Maturin's prose is extravagant, allusive, and rhetorically charged, placing the novel within Romantic-era debates about faith, despair...

Approving women to get off a dying world is easy, right? Not when the woman giving the green light has to stay behind.I've stayed on Earth with my husband, even though I was a perfect candidate for the bridal program that sends human women to safety on the alien planet Lukrim. I have a good job, a husband who loves me, and a hobby watching old movies where the sky was still blue. I've worked my way up to be the director at the very program I denied myself from, but...

"The Power of Habit Change: A Simple Guide to Change Your Life" is a transformative guide that empowers readers to break free from negative patterns and create positive habits that lead to a fulfilling and successful life.In this book, readers will learn about the science behind habit formation and how to rewire their brains to adopt new, healthy habits. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding the cues, routines, and rewards that drive our habits and provides practica...