It was an April day in the South—not windy and blustering, with the remembrances of March still clinging about it, but warm and lovely, mild and balmy, with spring beauty and promise of good over everything. The grass was springing everywhere, and the buds on the trees were bursting into blossom, and one could gather tender leaves and delicate sprays of white and hold them with the tender, caressing touch which we give to all that heralds spring. It was a good day to breathe the soft, mild...

I use people. Not in a malicious way, but in the way an addict abuses their substance of choice. People are my vice—men specifically. I crave the emotional high they give me with a unique and reckless disregard for my own well-being—eagerly floating into an unsustainable euphoria, knowing full well that after every high comes an equal, if not more powerful, plummet into a devastating abyss. But like every junkie, I crawl willingly back into the arms of my demons.Oh, the price we pa...

It was only supposed to be a one-night stand.Fox Collins never meant to fall in love with the passing stranger, Melody Waters, and sure didn’t mean to fall into bed. But when she’s gone the next morning, he tells himself it’s for the best. It doesn’t matter that she haunts his dreams and the fire between them burned hotter than anything he’s ever touched before.Only Melody finds herself new in town, needing a refuge and a home after running for far too long. Not to mention,...

The day I lost my best friend was the day I realized that I’d been living in the past. I’ve tried to find a way to heal, to mend that break. Somehow, I came through it partially whole. But I know I couldn’t have done that without Aiden Connolly.The problem is, he once loved my best friend. And now she’s gone, and I refuse to be in that shadow, or worse, a replacement for someone we both loved.~~I left them all behind.My brother.My family.My b...

The Wilder Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continue in this emotionally charged enemies to lovers romance.It took two days for me to know Kendall was the one for me.And it took two years for me to realize I had to leave in order to protect her.When I walked away, I told myself it was for the best. But now we work together, and every time we’re in the same room, we end up fighting. If we didn’t, we’d end up naked. Or worse–spilling heartbreaking ...

Ainsley Harris knows two things for sure:She’ll do whatever it takes to keep her friends and family safe.And she’s been in love with her best friend for years.Loch Collins has no idea that she loves him. He refuses to look past the comfort of friendship because he has a business to run, a past to keep hidden, and a daughter to raise alone. He can’t risk losing Ainsley by giving into the temptation that has burned in his veins for years.But one night changes ...

What do you do when the man you thought would be yours forever, never comes home?Serenity was prepared to wait years for Luca to get back from his military service, but after being wounded, his family shipped him to a rehabilitation facility away from home and Luca seemed to disappear off the face of the Earth.He hasn't called or texted in years and he even though he was released ages ago, Luca never came to see her.Determined to move on with her life, Serenity has ...

Packed with photos—a complete bead jewelry course in a book, with thirty easy projects!Written for the absolute beginner, Bead Jewelry 101 is filled with thorough instructions and step-by-step photographs that expertly guide you through the basics of making bead jewelry. Authors Ann and Karen Mitchell are a dynamic team of jewelry designers who will teach you all about the tools and materials while showing you how to use them.After a visual glossary ...

The groundbreaking thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the basis for Steve McQueen's major motion picture. WIDOWS is a fast-paced heist thriller with an all female cast you won't forgetFacing life alone, they turned to crime togetherA security van heist goes disastrously wrong and three women are left widowed.When Dolly Rawlins discovers her gang boss husband's plans for the failed hijack, an idea starts to form . . ....

A dark domestic comedy by one of English literature’s most distinctive and idiosyncratic authorsLife in the Ponsonby household is an emotional battleground, where tyrannical grandmother Sabine and her equally despotic daughter Hetta struggle to control the fate of the family. Caught in the crossfire are Sabine’s son John, a self-absorbed novelist; his five children, Clare, France, Chilton, Victor and Muriel; and Muriel’s beleagured governesses.When John’s d...

Cricket brought them together, but one night of revelry tore them apart.Can Hamilton Roche, the King of Caribbean cricket battle the demons of his past to redeem himself and find his way back into the hallowed grounds of the sport that loves to hate him and into the arms of the woman who he has betrayed.

Where the series began.Astral, Orleans, Lucien, and Florine.Escaping St. Domingue with nothing more than the clothes on his back, Frenchman Jean Claude Le Noireau drops anchor in Scotland Bay, in the Spanish colony of Trinidad at the turn of the 19th century.His arrival is the loom upon which a generational saga of triumph over abandonment is woven, and a window into a Trinidad you never knew existed.