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I haven't done a lot of dating since my jerk fiancé cheated on me two years ago, but I have a very full life: a great family, a fulfilling job, and a home in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Then my big brother introduces me to his mysterious writer friend from LA. I'm falling fast, but I don't know if I can risk my heart again. What if this gorgeous, sensitive guy isn't what he seems to be?

Adele. I had no idea that meeting a man like him would change me forever. It's already hard enough chasing reports throughout London. Now I have to deal with those piercing blue eyes and the danger that lurks nearby. Maddox. The beautiful journalist sent to me was quite a surprise. Smart, strong, and independent, I've never met a woman like her in or out of the boardroom, bedroom or anywhere else. I'll never fight for something as badly as I'll fight for her.

Adele: I had no idea that meeting a man like him would change me forever. It's already hard enough chasing reports throughout London. Now I have to deal with those piercing blue eyes, and the danger that lurks nearby. Maddox: The beautiful journalist sent to me was quite a surprise. Smart, strong, and independent, I've never met a woman like her in or out of the boardroom, bedroom or anywhere else. I'll never fight for something as badly as I'll fight for her.

Melanie Brown is 29 years old and getting a bit old for spring break. Her friends, Amber and Tina, convince her to give it one last go. A spring tradition for the girls since college, they book the same house on the beach for the same week. Finding their house occupied by a corpse wasn't part of the plan. The cops dismiss it as a weekend gone wrong but the ladies suspect it's far more. The body isn't just some unknown stranger, after all, it's Tina's fiancé's ex and her death wasn't suicide.

After acquiring her MBA in Accounting and Business Finance, Storm Wilkins was ecstatic that she landed an entry-level position at one of the largest accounting firms in the world. She has worked diligently for a whole year hoping to get the attention of one of the partners. It is her dream to one day manage the money of extremely wealthy. So when she receives a personal invite to meet with the senior executive, Elijah Wolfridge, she believes that she is well on her way.

Samantha: I've tried so hard to stay away. My boss is infuriating, unreadable, and drop-dead gorgeous. All I want is to start my own business here in Venice and restart my life after my horrible past in the States. So when Alexander gives me a chance to do that and make him mine for the weekend, how could I not say yes? Alexander: I've been silently and hopelessly in love with my assistant for months. And even after that sizzling kiss we shared, she still won't have me. Something about me being arrogant.

Connie Miller is considered old by most people to still be a spinster. She declined many offers of marriage to remain caring for her two younger sisters. With both sisters now married, Connie is alone and scared. Marriage seems to her only escape from a precarious situation. She hopes to find solace in Samuel Small, a small-town doctor in Texas. When circumstances become more dangerous for Connie, she takes flight, praying her unannounced arrival will be welcomed.

Jonathan Tinselly had been a farmer all his life. The corn fields of North Carolina, his loving wife, and two sons were all he knew. When his boys came of age and moved off the farm, Jonathan and his wife stayed behind. The sun still rose, the corn needed tending, and his wife continued to love him. But that all changed when the visions started.

Few Presidents are remembered for their homes, but Jefferson's Monticello is the greatest exception to that rule, and it is one of the nations most recognizable landmarks.Nobody spent more time in the thick of the Revolutionary era than Thomas Jefferson, one of the most famous and revered Americans. Jefferson was instrumental in all of the debates before the Revolution, authoring the Declaration of Independence, laying out the ideological groundwork of the notion of states' rights, leading one of the first political parties, and overseeing the expansion of the United States during his presidency.

When Denzel and his fellow quest-seekers begin reading the short stories at Summer Bible Camp, they find themselves suddenly involved in these stories as the actual characters. Suddenly they're popping back and forth from the shadow world, where they've lived all of their lives, to the dream realm of the real world.

The Underground Railroad is one of the topics that young schoolchildren are most often taught. Every American is familiar with the idea of fugitive slaves escaping to Canada and the North with the help of determined abolitionists and even former escaped slaves like Harriet Tubman.

Imagine the biblical book of Revelations, rewritten by Woody Allen or Mel Brooks.

Modern-day teenager Denzel suddenly finds himself in a world that looks like that of King Arthur's Court. His Bible has become a literal sword, and his faith a shield in his hand. According to the chief knight, he has been in this real world countless times and refers to the world Denzel came from as the shadow world. The knight explains that once someone remembers the shadow world, he will likely not forget it or the real world again. Both worlds affect each other.

Ronnie is a beautiful, strong-willed, and ruthless young woman. She comes off as a demure, sweet little thing. Ronnie and her clan are a low-level troop of Romany Gypsy grifters. Fraud is the family business. She and Logan have the classic love/hate relationship. Ronnie plays him, but for Logan it is love at first sight; and for that reason he cannot escape her many charms.

If the king loses his head, then the Queen with a Bleeding Heart would rule the Red Court until Time ceased to move forward. When a second carried on for infinity, every creature in Wonderland would tip their Hat to the misfit girl with a Boy's name (or was it a boy with a Girl's name?) who'd end the Reign of Terror. However, it all hinged on the One-Eyed Hare being able to convince an uninspirable Heir that the impossible was indeed possible - like stopping time - and that Love was worth a Beheading.

When 17-year-old Anais Butt is expelled from her fifth boarding school in three years, she expects her parents to slap her on the wrist and send her to another expensive school. However, her fed-up parents have other ideas. They decide to exile her to the isolated mountain town of Glenorie to labour for her child-hating maternal grandmother, Nanny Pam, and her hostile cousin, Josephine, who operate a riding school on her 3,000-acre ranch on the Turon River.

Playwright Gil Landau is finally experiencing a Broadway smash after many years of draught and disaster. Gil has finally produced an overnight sensation, but his reverie quickly turns to panic when rumors begin circulating about the questionable authorship of his play. Adding to the mix is an unscrupulous agent, a boozy leading lady, and Gil's estranged son, who is recovering from a nervous breakdown after attempting to leap from the top of a building.

Here are tales of adventurers, gifted and determined, who enriched our lives as they lived theirs with spirit and grit:Francis Scott Key, who turned glorious patriot as he saw Fort McHenry's defenders bombed but not bowed; Amelia Earhart, who became a famous pilot before she could fly, slaves William and Ellen Craft, who ran a thousand miles for freedom using audacity and ingenious disguise, and many more. Discover the true stories about the people you only thought you knew.

Learn about the history of the National Gallery in London with iMinds Travel's insightful audio knowledge series. The National Gallery of England, situated in the capital city of London, houses an impressive 2,300 works of art. With such an expansive collection, many connoisseurs of fine art rank it as second only to the Louvre in terms of the world’s great galleries.

"But it was Mum!" Eric tells Lizzie. "I saw her...." At first, Lizzie thinks it's just one of her little brother's stories. Their mother's dead: there's no way she could be working in the gift shop at the Natural History Museum. But what if Eric's right? If there's a mystery at the heart of Lizzie's family she wants to solve it.