Kidnapped by her King!As the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve the fairy-tale is over for all of Petras, when Queen Tabitha – refusing to live in a loveless marriage – asks her husband for a divorce. But anger erupts into passion, and when Tabitha flees the palace she’s carrying King Kairos’s heir!Discovering her secret, Kairos kidnaps his wife and – against the backdrop of his secluded island paradise – proves there’s no escaping his royal reach. He w...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith her energies focused on a baffling, vicious gang slaying and her personal life in shambles, Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has a full plate. The last thing she needs is a whiz-kid grad student claiming to have stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders.“An elaborate, tangled web . . . With unsuspected turns at every chapter break . . . this addictive tale . . . is as intricat...

“In this intelligent novel Hammesfahr has etched with precision the thoughts of a woman on the edge of madness.”—Der SpiegelCora Bender killed a man. But why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body? For the local police it was an open-and-shut case. Cora confessed; there was no shortage of proof or witnesses. But Police Commissioner Rudolf Grovian refused to close the file...

The Von Tassel sisters are in deep. With a new inn opening up to non-magic guests, these three witches have enough to worry about, but after a deal with the Headless Horseman, all three Von Tassel sisters must find their true loves by All Hallow's Eve or forever be trapped as ghosts in Sleepy Hollow like their ill-fated aunties.Will Stephanie be able to forgive her playboy ex? Will Bri be able to win back her childhood crush-turned-ghost hunter? Will Lexi be able to sway her supern...

An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others...

One rainy night, bike-shop owner Kenton Palmer finds an injured dog on the road and takes him to the nearest vet clinic, only to discover he's actually a wolf. Undeterred, he wants to nurse the injured animal following a necessary surgery. The handsome Dr. Will Barclay's interest and his own brand of animal attraction overwhelm Kenton, who's been doubting himself after a failed romance.Gray Fowler is a wolf-shifter and pack alpha. After Kenton rescues him and takes him home to heal...

Are you a product leader looking for advice on how to be certain that every product manager on your team lives up to their full potential? Do you want to make sure your product people are competent, empowered, and inspired, and would you like to know how you can best help them on this journey? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this book is for you!By the end of this book, you will understand:• Why you need to focus on the personal development of every pr...

Petra's no stranger to the unfortunate hexes and curses that can kill a Fire Elemental, but she worries more when her baby sister, Felicia, is involved. After all, a little chill can kill a Core Flame, if it's strong enough...

The manuscript of a novel has been found in a big library of Budapest. Its "encryption" eighty years earlier was on the instructions of a fabled author, who can only be Gyula Krúdy, although his name is never mentioned. The book is also such a literary fiction that it could never have been written by Krúdy.The writer, who calls himself Gyula Kandúr (Julius Tomcat), is just having his lunch at Majmunka's house, when all of a sudden a Sindbad shows up, a sort of Frankenstein existing ...

New Year’s bucket list: party hard, slay harder!The luxurious, surprisingly affordable party cabin in the isolated, scenic Croatian countryside was all Irma and her friends had hoped for—jacuzzi and no close neighbors included. The recent grads have packed their car chock-full of good music, better booze, and plenty of brownies to guarantee a New Year’s to remember.The arrival of a second car packed with girls ready to prove their own claim on the cabin see...

Book # 2 in the international multi-award winning children's fantasy adventure series with book club recommendations for children's fantasy. Sir Princess Petra has already proven she is a kind and noble knight. This, however, does not please the king and queen--they want her to behave like a princess and forget this silly knight nonsense of hers! But when the king writes a new rule in the royal rule book that requires her to attend Talent School and acquire a princess talent certificate or...

Intermittent fasting has emerged as an evidence-based revolution in health and wellness. And even if you usually eat meat and fish, why not do a plant-based intermittent fasting reset? You can start at any time and lose weight while still eating the foods you love. In the popular 16:8 method, you eat 2 to 3 times over 8 hours, then fast for 16 hours (which, of course, includes time spent asleep). The result can be astounding: weight loss, a stronger immune system, increased longevity and s...