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Jilted and humiliated by the man she had expected to marry, Emma Hartwood now feels that she is a burden at home. In desperation, she starts corresponding with a gold prospector out West named Harry and decides to become a mail order bride.

Deputy Carla Frazer has been looking for a bust that will get her promoted for years. Now, she has it. Catching a member of The Five red-handed should be more than enough, despite the hatred the fop of a sheriff holds for her. Now, all she has to do is prove his guilt. His good looks, endless money, and disarming charm won’t be enough to save him from jail time. Not on her watch.

Idris always knew there was more to him than met the eye. Something that lived inside him, just waiting to be awoken. He just didn't know that it was a dragon. He struggles to adjust to his new reality as he learns both of the dragon realm and of love. He only hopes that Isla, a gorgeous and interesting woman with a mysterious past, will be able to accept the beast within him.

One red eye flight and 10 years of marriage later, Carly Bishop had what she considered a practically perfect life. Her journalist husband and her two adorable children were everything to her. But soon she would find out that her dream life didn't fall in line with her husband's expectations. Left alone to sort out the pieces of her crumbling life, Carly finds strength in her children and her growing relationship with her in-laws.

These seventeen tales take listeners into the uniquely twisted mind of “one of Canada’s most promising new horror writers” (Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation between a security guard and inhuman squatters, from who can be found at an all-night laundromat to what lies in wait at the bottom of the sea, from undead addictions to all-consuming obsessions, Kissing Carrion is “a journey through some of the most beautifully rendered visions of darkness and death to be published this past year."

Cayce’s art is well-known and respected among her peers, and, as such, has spawned forgers, copycats…and enemies. But when her favorite model and best friend is murdered—the masterpiece painted on her skin cut off her body—Cayce knows she’s up against a collector of a very different sort. Detective Richard Henderson doesn’t know much about art, but he knows what he likes. Of all the art mixed up in this case, it is the artist, Cayce, who fascinates him the most.

Marnie is planning the Winchester family's annual solstice celebration - and it's a lot of work - but the real work comes when niece Bay sees a ghost and Aunt Tillie declares war on her meddlesome great-nieces. Marnie has to find a way to keep the solstice celebration on track - and no one is up to the task of helping. The curses are flying fast and furious, and Marnie is running out of time to help a forgetful ghost move on, find her missing magic supplies and prove she should've been the boss all along.

Rian (a werewolf) and Lea were inseparable throughout high school; their strange, intense relationship was confusing to anyone who watched them. On the last day of senior year, however, Rian being a werewolf, told her that he would never see her again and disappeared, leaving her empty and alone. Five years later, a chance encounter brings them back together, and Rian must once and for all decide whether he will continue pushing his intended mate away so she does not discover what he really is....

Following the death of her young son Isaac in a tragic accident for which she blames herself, Natasha's American-dream life is falling apart. She's plagued by nightmares in which she relives the motor accident that she survived but Isaac didn't. Her husband Lucas no longer sleeps with her, and to him their marriage is dying - if it isn't already dead. Worried about Natasha's health and state of mind, her best friend Emily recommends a hypnotherapist who specializes in past life regression therapy.

EJ Cunning, an art history major, dates musicians. Foster Blake, a chemical engineering major, can't sing a tune. They're not each other's type. They're coworkers. Then, one night leads to sex - sex between friends - which leads to an agreement. It all seems so simple - but nothing ever is.

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is unforgivable. She wanted to forget her past. He wanted to change the course of his future. She was everything he never knew he needed. He became her unexpected. Everything was perfect. Until....

Barbara Houlton is a best-selling romance author, known for her achingly sweet love stories. However, her own love life is nothing to write home about. Raped on the eve of her high-school graduation, she was left pregnant and scarred, both emotionally and physically. She has learned to hide the physical scars, but the emotional scars that taint her soul become harder to hide each day. Sarcasm, avoidance and denial have become weapons to keep her monstrous past at bay.

We beat the City’s strongest battle mages, but the invasion was only a distraction. While we fought his lackeys, King Emil had his eye on a bigger prize: the Fae Realm. He wants immortality, and he’s going to destroy the universe to get it. We’re out of time and the stakes are impossibly high. If I want my new babies to live in a world of dragons, I have to face the cruel king on his own playing field.

Lux Lexington is in trouble. She lost her job as a tour guide in touristy Salem, and she needs money. Fast. Jesse Crane is the youngest member of a food dynasty. His parents and both of his siblings own successful restaurants in Boston. He wants to join them, but he wants to do it on his own terms. Enter the Salem food truck competition. The winner gets a prime spot in downtown Salem, a guaranteed way to make oodles of money. This will solve both Lux’s and Jesse’s problems.

Ranger Nick Greyson was a werewolf on heat. When he caught the scent of 20-year-old Sarah Benson he knew he had caught the scent of his fated mate. After all, the nose never lies. However, Sarah's scent made Nick so wild with desire that he did the one thing he knew he should have never done. He bit her. And now young Sarah is set to also become a werewolf on heat....

Tablerock, Texas is not a town accustomed to blizzards. But as a once-in-a-lifetime freeze buries the town under piles of snow and ice, life grinds to a frosty halt. For Ellie and Evie Rockwell it means being snowed in at the Silver Circle Cat Rescue with their circle of friends—all of whom are feeling the chill in more ways than one. In an attempt to defrost the increasing tension among the group, they share stories of their past—including the unsolved murder of a local woman that has left a frosty shadow over Tablerock for years.

A small-town lawyer takes on an unpopular murder case that leaves her client in fear for his life. With the sheriff refusing to investigate any further and her client facing a second degree murder charge, Janice Berne discovers secrets lurking in her town of Connerston, Indiana. With her paralegal, Andy, and private investigator, Justin, she seeks out the truth before Stevie Evans' time runs out.

Maia isn’t your run-of-the-mill lass. A professional dancer with the Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, her vision is becoming the most skilled dancer of the troupe. When she needs to clear her mind, she collects desert glass in the Mojave Desert. Maia had no idea her strange hobby will bring her face-to-face with a freakishly handsome dragon shifter, an encounter that will turn her world on its head. From the moment she met Ignacio, she knew she was down for the ride.

Jewel wakes up in the hospital, with no memory of what happened to her or no reason why she was found on the highway—dead. As reawakening goes, this one is brutal, but even more confusing is her instinctive grasping for a missing necklace around her neck. Had she been robbed, beaten, and dumped? If so, why? She has few friends and even fewer family members left to care, but, unlike his name, Hurricane walks into her hospital room and becomes a safe harbor for a world gone nuts.

Working at a shop called the Vagile Ajna in a town called Cummings Cove, across the street from a store named Cummings Master Baiter, was clearly not enough for me. I had to go and find myself a police chief named Phoquin, two shifter twins who tend to "lose" their pants, and a murder. I don’t know why I expected things to be normal in a place that offers visitors a “Cummings Good Time”, but I certainly didn’t expect to be charged with murder.