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Could the man she’s fantasized about become her real-life Daddy? When Fiona is badly injured by an irate customer, she discovers the chef she’s ogled for months will step in to make sure that she is taken care of—completely. Georges LeDoux, the executive chef for the exclusive restaurant, Le Pamplemousse, immediately takes steps to make sure the injured produce delivery driver recovers. As she heals, Georges realizes just how special Fiona is.

Jillian loves her job working as Dr. Richards’ housekeeper. Taking care of the house and those who she loves takes all her time and energy. When she crashes into a man who speaks to her as a Little, she runs. Yoga studio owner and instructor Griffin always listens to what his instincts and body tell him. He recognizes immediately that the driver of the grocery cart that plows into him is someone he needs to know.

In the grand tradition of martial arts fantasies, The Phoenix Feather begins twenty-five years - after a pair of lovers ran for their lives from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they adopted new identities - and found themselves blessed by an omen promising great things, a single golden phoenix feather. Their eldest child, a natural martial artist like his father, seems destined for those great things. The second son, an artist and a dreamer, has no desire for greatness - he wants to be left alone to paint.

We share everything, including women. We like our sex fast and hard. Women come and go in our lives, because of what we do...the bad thing that we do.... Taking her was a mistake, she wasn’t supposed to be there. We don’t know what to do with her now, because the only thing we can think about is f--king her brains out...together. But it was wrong! Not only did we take her against her will but she’s a virgin.... And for the first time, we want more than just a quick fix.

From sultry international jungles to the rugged terrain of the American Southwest, join the larger-than-life, scorching-hot alpha heroes of the Bureau of American Defense, Black Ops, Inc., and the US Navy SEALs for all the pulse-pounding, heart-racing, toe-curling excitement. They're cool under pressure, steamy under the sheets, and when the enemy strikes, there's not a lethal mission these gorgeous men can't handle.

After seven years of prison, multimillionaire drug mogul Kane Garrett is back on the streets. But instead of diving back into the drug game, he’s teaching a college class, infusing business principles with his signature ruthless edge he developed in the streets. When a student - and heavy heroin dealer - named Basil catches Kane’s eye, Kane takes him on as a protégé, and together, they build the biggest, smartest drug trafficking business the state has ever seen.

Il est une forme qui fertilise les champs littéraire et politique au XVIIIe : celle de la lettre. Et plus spécifiquement celle de la correspondance féminine. Elle est l'expression, pour les femmes de l'élite aristocratique, d'une progressive percée du domaine privé au terrain public. S'appuyant sur le précédent sévignéen, les épistolières ont compris que la lettre est action.

In the magical world of Lyra, an innkeeper is forced to confront her darkest secret. For more than a decade, Kayl has run a modest country inn. She opened it with her husband, and they managed it together until a summer illness took him away, leaving her alone with their two children. The three of them get by, living happily together as the years pass, but everything changes the day a sorceress asks for a room.

Drinn is not a safe place to be a witch. Ranira knows that better than most, for when she was just a child, the temple guards burned her parents at the stake for practicing magic. Now an indentured servant for a brutal innkeeper, she lives every day with the shame of her parents' alleged crime. There is no worse time to visit Drinn than during the Midwinter Festival, when the city gates are sealed so that no outsider can witness the temple's secret rituals. And at Ranira's inn, three guests have overstayed their welcome. Attempting to protect Ranira from her master's cruelty, the three reveal their magical powers and attract the attention of the temple guards.

When Alana Riley quit Julliard to care for her ailing father, she never imagined she’d be working minimum wage jobs and struggling to pay the mortgage. Her latest job is the temp secretary at Corday Enterprises—working for none other than the charismatic playboy, Steele Corday. Steele Corday deliberately tarnishes his reputation in the hopes of dashing his father’s plan to make him a senator. Only his father is two steps ahead—and he’s got just the thing to fix Steele’s reputation—a fake fiancée. In a bid to undermine his father, Steele makes a deal with the cute temp.

When Charlotte is blacklisted in her new career as an interior decorator, all her plans for the future crash down around her. Could a job as a cashier be a life-altering opportunity? Charlotte’s interview with Benton Gordon convinces him of one thing. The owner of Gordon’s, a department store catering to a special clientele of age play Daddies, Mommies, and their precious Littles, has been searching for his Little girl for many years. Can he convince this amazing young woman to allow him to care for her as only a Daddy could?

After defeating the nightlace vine eager to kill every Outling on campus, I'm feeling kinda cocky. But nothing ever goes smoothly for me, does it? Let's start with the good news first: I've not only figured out how to ride an aldakor, but I've also convinced the naiad living in the moat that I can be trusted. You might say I've got an in with magical creatures. And I've found a new best friend who's awesome, even if she's keeping secrets.

Discover the secret garden of herbal remedies and how natural medicine can minimize stress and transform your health forever! Do you cringe every time you take a pharmaceutical drug, wondering what you’re putting into your body and how serious the side effects will be? Have you wished for natural ways to overcome fatigue, relieve pain, boost metabolism, and treat minor ailments, empowering you to live life to the fullest?

Every once in a while, since I was eight, I’ve had a dream. The same one, every time. I dream of a man hidden by shadows, who never fails to save me from the searing flames that threaten to devour me. He is always there for me. Always! That’s the dream...this is now. I have a new classmate, and instinctively, I know something seems strange. In a matter of hours, dark rumors abound, labeling him an outcast. Even before he has the chance to become one of us, my classmates turned against him.

Gerade in einer Zeit voller Umbrüche und Veränderungen suchen viele Menschen Halt und Orientierung in esoterischen Welterklärungsmodellen. Horoskope verraten, was die eigene Zukunft bringen wird. Der spirituelle Heiler wird zur Leitfigur. Der Esoterikmarkt boomt! Ist der Glaube an unsichtbare Kräfte, die unser Leben in die richtige Bahn lenken sollen, nur eine harmlose Spinnerei? Oder bringt der Esoterik-Trend gefährlichere Risiken mit sich, als es auf den ersten Blick erscheinen mag? Die Bestseller-Autorinnen klären auf.

Ella McFarland sits on the precipice of her life's dream: teaching at Worthington School for Girls. But in the male dominated world of 1905, scandal clouds her family name and may limit her to grueling farm labor in Indian Territory. As hope for Oklahoma statehood rises, a new love buds in her heart, and the woman's suffrage debate rages, Ella encounters an abused sharecropper's daughter, forcing her to make decisions she never imagined about her faith, family, and aspirations.

How one woman raises three autistic daughters, loses one at Disney world, stays married, has sex, bakes gluten-free, goes broke, and keeps her sense of humor. Dr. Spock? Check. Penelope Ann Leach (Remember her?) Check. What to Expect When You’re Expecting? Check. I had a seven hundred dollar Bellini crib for God’s sake! Everything was perfect…." And so begins Kim Stagliano’s electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family’s journey raising three daughters with autism.

Smite Turner is renowned for his single-minded devotion to his duty as a magistrate. But behind his relentless focus lies not only a determination to do what is right, but the haunting secrets of his past - secrets that he is determined to hide, even if it means keeping everyone else at arm's length. Until the day an irresistible woman shows up as a witness in his courtroom. Miranda Darling isn't in trouble - yet. But she's close enough that when Turner threatens her with imprisonment if she puts one foot wrong, she knows she should run in the other direction.

This is a heart-wrenching collection of true stories told through the eyes of family members who have experienced the trauma of a missing loved one. It follows their journeys from the desperate searches in the first days, through the Police investigations and, in many cases, the heartbreak as the years roll by without any news. These stories are just a glimpse into ten of the thousands of missing persons still out there, waiting to be found.

Try as she might to escape the deadly blaze, Kenzie finds herself trapped until he arrives - a dashing fireman who doesn’t question her determination to save her stuffie. To her amazement, everything about him feels right. Being little can’t be this easy, can it? Osiris has one shift left at the firehouse before he relocates to Sanctum. This blaze changes everything.