Jade has spent her life hiding what she is—a shape-shifting hybrid of human and an ancient oceanic race. Her chameleon-like abilities let her vanish in plain sight, but when she meets Rafe, a magnetic rogue with a dangerous secret of his own, her carefully built walls crumble.Rafe doesn't know he's half-alien, let alone that his blood holds the key to a war raging beneath the waves. When his emotions ignite, his skin erupts in

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RED by Kay Duncan: A High-Stakes Thriller of Power, Passion, and Revenge In the neon-lit underworld of Las Vegas, only the ruthless survive. Red Moretti is a force to be reckoned with—a glamorous, razor-sharp high-stakes gambler with a taste for vengeance and a Beretta strapped to her thigh. When she's not cleaning out casinos with her lethal charm and sleight of hand, she's dismantling the men foolish enough to underestimate her. But after a brutal betrayal leaves her family in ruins, Red...

Beneath the waves, ancient powers stir. Jade and Rafe become entangled in a war older than civilization.

Faye Daniel lost her breath at the first sight of Cal Bradon, like so many of his fans did. She quickly regained her composure and wiped her index fingers briefly underneath her eyes to erase any trace of residual mascara.Her heart pounded erratically as it gained more rigor by the millisecond. She held her chest and turned away before Cal noticed the woman he phoned seven years ago to tell her he still loved her.She heaved deep breaths of air and felt almost as if she was go...

Cybertech's scientists perfected Smart Chip, an E-prom chip one hundred times faster than Prodigy and unlike any computer technology that we have on the market today. Cybersoft expected to revolutionize the computer industry with it and kept the technology under top secret wraps at this facility. It is unknown whether the technology was destroyed in the blaze.

The blast lifted Grace McKenzie's one ton pickup truck ten feet off Louisiana Interstate 20. The air bag detonated against jagged steel and just as quickly expelled itself. Air discharged a shrill whistle through the notched tear as the truck landed, skidding at sixty-five miles per hour. The driver's window shattered. Glass splinters pierced her neck and cheek. Screeching metal ground into the pavement. Tiny pebbles, pieces of broken asphalt, whizzed within less than an inch of her bleedi...

It was well known in the underworld of the dead if you were entering Salem Manor you best have some of your own brass balls, because the walking dead were never at peace and Salem Manor was their playground. The fact that Salem Manor was named after an 1881 Hebrew word meaning peace was quite contradictory, as nothing about Salem Manor was peaceful. Granted the current owner Skelly Skullthorpe was a peacekeeper of sorts and had an uncanny ability to let you know when you were welcome to en...

Domestic-violence counselor Kaye Berreano spends her days guiding battered women toward new lives inside Denver's Beginnings Shelter. When threats break through the shelter walls, she discovers that the road to safety can be deadly. Juggling two teenagers, a contentious divorce, and a fragile romance with arson investigator Pete Farrell, Kaye is hurled into crimes that blur the line between protector and target. Rich in authentic shelter detail and driven by Kaye's wry, compassionate v...

L'épopée vise donc à un but, qu'il soit purement narratif, ou qu'il se double d'une valeur morale. La marche du temps est ressentie comme la force qui nous en rapproche ; le récit est fortement marqué de cette téléologie. Dans la chronique, au contraire, le départ vaut autant que l'arrivée, parfois jamais atteinte, et le temps, ou le récit, ne fait qu'interposer des couches successives, au gré des années, entre l'auteur et le début de son texte. Les deux genres sont donc on ne peut plus di...

A girl is murdered. Kaye Berreano's son is accused.Thanksgiving blizzards bury Denver as counselor-turned-sleuth Kaye Berreano juggles crisis calls at Beginnings, a shaky new romance with Detective Pete Farrell, and two restless teenagers. When fourteen-year-old RJ becomes the prime suspect in his best friend Elissa's death, Kaye follows a twisting trail from the shelter's hidden safe-house apartments straight into her own living room--risking her job, her heart, and the f...

Sidney the Seagull, affectionately known as Sid by his fellow laughing gulls, loves flying to lighthouses and bay markers around the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. He and his buddies brag about the latest marks theyve left all around the Bay. As far as gulls go, however, Sid is quite knowledgeable and loves to share lots of tidbits of information with his flying friends.In Sidney Seagull Marks Lighthouses and Buoys of the Chesapeake, a humorous picture book, Sid teaches his gull buddi...