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Brayden and I have everything going against us. There was a time when we were madly in love. Our laughter still echoes in my ears. They say marriage is built on trust. They said love is the foundation. I wonder if we have either of those now. And what's worse? I've been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Divorce or death. I have no clue what comes first. But they both feel the same. Brayden still has my heart. And I have a feeling that he wants to keep it.

Zoe is your typical high school student; that is, if you don’t count that her boyfriend is a Nephilim, she fights Demons for a living, and that she brought her best friend back from the dead. Zoe wants things to go back to normal, but “normal” isn’t really her thing. There’s a new guy in town, one Zoe can’t help but feel desperately attracted to…though he’s dangerous. Really dangerous. And he’s just the start of her problems. Zoe is trapped in a race against time to get her powers under control or suffer the consequences.

Hollywood consultant Renly Cooper is fed up with relationships. His recent breakup with a leading lady played out across the tabloids, and the former Navy Seal is more than ready to focus on his new position as an agent at the elite Stark Security agency. He’s expecting international stakes. Instead, his first assignment is to protect one of Damien Stark’s friends from a stalker. A woman who, to his delight, turns out to be one of his closest childhood friends.

Hot. Bossy. Complicated. This is how I describe my boss, Zach Cooper. I'm no one special to him. Just his secretary that he pays really well. (One of the reasons why I put up with him.) Zach needed to loosen up. So I did what any good secretary would do. I seduced him. And then, things got even more complicated. We fell in love. Or at least I did. Zach has too many things to worry about. Things that are more important than me and my son. He needs to prove his innocence and save his business.

She doesn’t remember adding Armageddon to her birthday wish list.... The day Zoe turns eighteen, the gates of hell will open and Satan will escape his prison - unless Zoe can stop him. Her plans to party with her friends and ogle cute guys are sidelined when her bestie reveals he's a Guardian Angel. And the boy she’s been secretly crushing on? He’s a Nephilim. Both were sent to protect her from the army of demons dispatched to kill her.

Everything about Dylan melts me. He's more than that ripped chest, those strong arms. The best thing about him is his daughter, the daughter that I babysit. He shares Maisie with his ex-wife. But I see the concern in his eyes. He wants his daughter to be loved, to be safe, and he needs my help. A fake marriage with me would win him the custody battle. The only hiccup? I let him take my V-card and get me pregnant. I shouldn't have kept it a secret.

Each day with Damien is a miracle, each moment with our children a gift. And yet I cannot escape the growing sense that a storm is gathering, threatening to pull me away, to rip us apart. To drag me down, once again, into a darkness to which I swore never to return. I have to fight it - I know that. And I am waging the battle with of all my heart. But it is Damien who is my strength, and we both know that the only way to push away the darkness is for him to fold me in his arms and claim me completely. And for me to surrender myself, once again, to the fire that burns between us.

From the moment Julie sees her best friend, Gavin, at the airport, it's like no time at all has gone by. No matter how long they've been apart, their relationship has always been steady, comfortable, and just friends. Even though their meddling parents have hung unlimited amounts of mistletoe everywhere she goes this season, Julie knows some things will never change. But between playing elves in the holiday bazaar to nights spent one-on-one watching rom-coms or soaking in their town's hot springs, suddenly the "reverse parent trap" they've fallen into is actually starting to work.

My parents are serial killers. At least according to the cops and the media. Never convicted, nor arrested and charged. Tell that to the media's nickname for me: Slaughter Daughter. The infamy follows me wherever I go. I won't give in to the bullying and, despite how it looks, I'm not a murderer. Problem is, the copycat killer on campus is doing his or her best to frame me. And as if I don't have enough problems, I've got two hot guys angling for a spot in my bed. Terrible, I know.

Chief Petty Officer Dane Landry is injured and burning through his last chance with the US Coast Guard. His new team is tasked with finding stolen military-grade technology, but he finds himself in the crosshairs of an investigation as the prime suspect in the murder of a former teammate. With his career and freedom on the line, his top priority should be clearing his name while navigating the complex web of suspicion and betrayal that surrounds him. Being thrown together with the beautiful investigator is a distraction he doesn't need.

When Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister's body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he's looking for payment he's owed from her. Lauren's torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe, and keeping a promise she made long ago with her sister's murderer.

Finn Donaghey turned himself into the FBI to protect Carys Van de Berg, the love of his life. Now serving multiple life sentences, he can't save her from the dangers lurking outside. Carys won't accept a life without Finn in it. While she plots to break him out of jail, other shadowy figures seek ways to take them down. After Carys is injured in an explosion, Finn teams up with unlikely allies to hunt down the perpetrators.

Former wild child Jamie Archer can't believe how amazing her life has become. Not only is she married to the sexiest man on the planet, Stark Security Chief Ryan Hunter, but she's also set to star in a big budget blockbuster that is sure to send her career soaring into the stratosphere. Everything is perfect until Jamie, the least maternal person on the planet, finds out that not only is she pregnant, but that her due date interferes with the film's production schedule.

Captured by someone Zoe thought was a friend, she’s imprisoned and tortured. But the worst part is being forced to watch her friends struggle to find her through a magical mirror. Zoe knows no one is coming to rescue her. She must save herself. A battle is approaching, a war Zoe only has days left to prepare for. Evil is threatening to break through Earth’s protective barriers, and once it does, the world will end. Nothing Zoe or her friends can do will be enough. To stop what’s coming, a price must be paid.

I died nine months ago. My heart was still buried six feet under. Being labeled a widower at thirty was too kind. I was a ghost. Eat. Sleep. Work. Repeat. Until she crashed into my life without warning.

It all started with "goodbye." He left town before graduation, leaving me with nothing but questions and shattered promises. A year later, he's back. But high school is over. And I've made promises to somebody else . . . Finn may be different now—with new tattoos and new secrets—but his goals are the same. He wants me. Whatever it takes. Problem is, he's not the only one who's changed since the accident.

The pandemic, and the resultant ever-evolving landscape of hybrid work, highlighted that we're asking more of our mid-level managers than ever. You balance leading your team with maintaining your high-level individual performance. You provide feedback and coaching, support your people through tough times, field requests large and small, and communicate in every direction. Mid-level managers are the key to managing a hybrid workforce, leading innovation, managing talent, and helping your organization—and its people—adapt to our changing world.

I was 21 when I first met the sarcastic Australian rock star who took the world by storm with his witty charm. Twenty-two when I wrote a viral tabloid article on his bandmate to pay for the medicine that I needed for life. Twenty-three when I realized my dream job in California was destroying every moral in which I was raised to believe. Twenty-four when I accepted that I might have to give up my West Coast dreams to return home and admit defeat. And now, 25, when the lead singer of Violet Wonders comes crashing in.

It's time for everyone's favorite bad boy, Prince Alexander Stanley, to clean up his act. Given the opportunity to lead a new royal program that aids veterans and their families, Xander can't afford to be making scandalous headlines anymore. He has only two months until the program launches. No more overindulging. No more women.

Katrina is still haunted by her encounter with the Headless Horseman - the night he beckoned to her. Now he has risen again, slashing heads and terrorizing the quiet countryside.Her only joy during this dismal darkness comes when Ichabod Crane, a gorgeous young man from Connecticut, moves to Sleepy Hollow and their attraction turns to romance.