Derrick's desire to save one human girl will ignite a war...For four thousand years, creatus have concealed themselves from the humans who hunted them almost to extinction. Unwittingly, one creatus will endanger them all...As with most of his family, Derrick Ashton knows his future and what position he's destined to fill within his unique society. Everything changes, however, when he breaks one of his family's strictest laws and falls in love -- with a huma...

In this suspenseful romantic mystery, a troubled police officer meets a woman determined to bury her past. Their whirlwind romance seems idyllic until secrets collide with murderous intentions.Charlotte police officer Jordan Monroe is used to being in control. Ever since his father died, he has provided for his mother and sisters and even hired his two brothers-in-law to help run his successful construction company. On a chance business trip, however, he meets the ...

For four thousand years, creatus have concealed themselves from the humans who hunted them almost to extinction. Unwittingly, one creatus will endanger them all...As with most of his family, Derrick Ashton knows his future and what position he's destined to fill within his unique society. Everything changes, however, when he breaks one of his family's strictest laws and falls in love--with a human.In his quest to protect the woman he can never have, a twist of fate propels ...

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'By opening this book, you've given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you, catch you, take you apart. Get ready to run' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO'Every story shimmers like a dark gem as Highsmith turns her gimlet eye on domesticity, suburban madness, toxic families and the loneliness of childhood. Often mordantly funny and ...

Tessa Hartley has a great job, a great condo and a great life. What she needs is a great boyfriend—someone who will help repair her image after the last loser she took home, to be her plus-one at her sister's wedding. Also, said sister is marrying Tessa's ex. Yep. Without time to date, she follows a friend's advice to use an escort service. Why not rent a hot man for a long weekend?Maverick James wants to prove to his parents his twin brother is not up for the task of stepping up t...

She's always had that fire in her. She just needs to find it again.Strong-willed Adri Rivera nearly achieved her goal of being a professional mixedmartial artist, but then she fell in love with a man who knocked all the fight out ofher. When their abusive, tumultuous relationship finally comes to a head, Adriflees with their young daughter to her small hometown in the mountains ofPennsylvania. There, she must face the people she left behind and put her br...

In this series of essays, the author, who is from Mexico, gives her impressions and remembrances of various cities that she has visited around the world, including Prague, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Lima, Suva, and Bangkok. It is a book about the nostalgia that grows over time about the places she has visited, but it is also a tome where one can learn about the impacts on the world of love, war, imperialism, race, travel, Maximilian, México, Buddhism, umbrellas, traditions, and many other thin...

'What a glorious, beautiful sea-shanty of a book this is. A fairy tale of wild, sea-swept children and wolfish fear. Written in a compelling, rushing language.' Daisy Johnson, author of the Man Booker-longlisted Everything UnderEllie Fleck has a question for everything, except the one she cannot ask.Where have they taken her mother?Ten years old and irrepressibly curious, Ellie lives with her fisherman father, Peter, on the wild Nor...

It doesn't matter how many years go by, love will always find a way….On the surface, Brecee Carmen has nothing in common with Adrian Cole. She is a pediatrician certified in trauma care; he is a transportation problem-solver for a luxury car dealership (a.k.a., a car salesman). Despite their slow but steady attraction to each other, neither one of them is sure that they're compatible. To complicate matters, Brecee is the sole unattached Carmen daughter when it seems as though everyo...

The City of Tau has long been a secret. Until now.As a genetic experiment and personal guard to one of the Originals, Alexia has always known her purpose. Keep her Original safe. Ensure the city of Tau remains hidden amongst the depths of the ocean. And destroy any and all undine who try to make those jobs difficult.Fortis has always known he was going to die early. His wife had seen a prophecy of his death in great detail, so he knows the exact moment he w...

Cancer is a major worldwide public health problem and is the second leading cause of death in the United States. In 2018, there were seventeen million new cancer cases and 9.5 million cancer deaths worldwide. Seemingly, everyone has been affected by or knows of someone who is affected by the disease.In 2004, doctors discovered that Carmen Rice had a stage 4 Glioblastoma Multiforme brain tumor, one of the deadliest of all cancers—the same cancer which killed John McCain, Edward Kenne...

The Devil's Heart -- a legendary object of unsurpassed power and mystery. Worlds that believe in magic consider it Darkness's mightiest talisman; worlds of science consider it a lost artifact of some ancient and forgotten race. Some say the Heart enables its possessor to control people's minds and to amass wealth enough for a dozen lifetimes, while others thing it capable of raising the dead, perhaps even changing the flow of time itself. But to all, the location of this fabled object has ...