The Rogue's Reluctant Rose

The Rogue's Reluctant Rose
by Daphne du Bois

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Miss Araminta Barrington, clever, pretty and unexpectedly poor, bravely decides to sacrifice her own happiness in a marriage of convenience, in order to save her family from certain ruin. She sets out to win a proposal from the wealthy Sir Timothy Stanton while struggling with her guilt over using a good man so poorly.
Just when success is in sight, she catches the eye of Jasper Devereaux, the scandalous Marquis of Chestleton, whose own growing fascination with the enigmatic young woman compels him to pursue her at all costs. If he can only win her into his bed, his absurd fascination will surely evaporate!
Araminta knows that to be seen in Chestleton’s company could ruin her chances of securing a marriage that will save everything she holds dear. She knows that Chestleton is not the sort of man to take a wife, and with poverty looming, she knows that love is a luxury she cannot afford. When a riding accident forces her to be his unwilling guest at a secluded country house, will her undeniable attraction override her sense of duty? Will a night of passion really be enough for the dastardly lord? And does the strange bitterness she glimpses in his eyes have anything to do with the secrets he is determined to keep close?

Pierced

Pierced
J. C. Mells

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Imagine the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Betty Crocker.
That's Pierce in a nutshell.
Pierce has been on the run for two years from the man who held her captive in a vampire compound for almost a decade. Life on the run would be a lot simpler if she didn't suffer from several social disorders and 'quirks,' have a ten-year-old brat in tow, as well as have two characters from a 1945 classic film living in her head and guiding her at every turn.

The Mating (Law of the Lycans)

The Mating (Law of the Lycans)

by Nicky Charles

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Elise had no idea when she came home that day that she'd end up mated to a complete stranger. A new Alpha and the need for an alliance between packs have made her a pawn Excerpt: She lay beside him, staring blankly at the ceiling. The deed was done. They were mated. It didn't matter that she had no love for him nor he for her. Political alliances were more important than feelings...

The Elysium End

The Elysium End
by Roland Cheek

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He was an old man holding a brown bag, with cancer slowly having its painful way. He had nothing left for which to live. 
Wife—gone. 
Son—gone. 
Favorite horse and world’s greatest dog—both gone. 
Few friends left—the best of the rest having passed over the Great Divide.
Once young and vibrant, with a young and beautiful wife who loved him and loved to do the kinds of thing that turned his crank: visiting wild places and watching wild things, climbing mountains, riding horses over winding trails; theirs was a life of envy to other outdoors lovers. Now all left were memories, some bitter, some sweet. Memories and a couple of horses, one bitter, one sweet.
He’d planned it carefully, chosen the wildest, most beautiful, most remote cliff-lined basin he knew; a place seldom (if ever) visited by another human. He’d hunted elk a couple of times there in the blush of his youth, then revisited with his wife forty years later. He said he wanted to go to this most beautiful place “one last time,” and she insisted on going too, mostly because she feared, in his dotage, to let him venture to such a remote and dangerous place alone. It was their last horseback packtrip together. . . .
Now, he’d fought off yesterday’s pain, ignored bone-tiring weariness, spaced out traitorous second thoughts, and dismissed the questioning of an ordered mind to reach this, his own private wild place for what would certainly be his last time. It was to be his “Elysium End.”
The last two horses from the years he guided others to wilderness adventure brought him here, the ugly dishwater mare and the bay packhorse. The bay was a fine, trustworthy packhorse, though long in the tooth—growing old. The mare was something else: ugly as sin, with a head so large his old friend Lars claimed she “could lick oats out of the bottom a fifty-gallon drum and still stare all around for enemies.” But Lyle, another old friend, said the Nez Perce Indians bred appaloosas because it was a breed that was “so clumsy and slow that its owner could catch one while on foot.”
The ugly mare was indeed clumsy. And her trot was bone-jarring. She galloped like a sick milk cow. But she was good for one thing: she could walk! Smooth, too. Riding her running walk was like squatting in the rear seat of a brand-new Lincoln Continental on a fresh-laid macadam highway. Just because God didn’t make her into a surrey trotter or a steeplechaser wasn’t her fault. Neither could she help her lack of color, or the size of her head. She could walk, though. And if walk was what was wanted, then walk, by God, was what she’d do!
But he could never warm up to her. He couldn’t warm up to her mostly because she ignored him as if he never existed. If he scratched an ear, it was something to which she was resigned, but cared not a whit about one way or another. She accepted oats as if it was her due, showing no gratitude, and certainly no affection. The animal tolerated him. That was all.

Socialite

Socialite: Mission to Mission

by Martin Renaud

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The critical first stage of the Amis’ mission was a resounding success. Fantastically cunning and manipulative fourteen-year-old Elle Amis has creatively inserted herself into the lives of her neighbours, the Liebes, simultaneously shattering the emotional barrier between Jacob and his chosen protector and guardian Ryan Poole, Jacob’s former enemy, and, establishing an initial bond of affection between herself and Jacob. As the Christmas season approaches, and their relationship strengthens, Jacob remains unaware of Elle’s ultimate plans for his life. Her parents, Ray and Grace, however, are distracted by the destruction of Socialite servers around the world, and the associated catastrophes that are killing hundreds of people. Ray’s investigations lead him to suspect that Benny, a persuasive and wealthy evangelist, is the cyberterrorist. Ray uncovers a link between the Socialite attacks, Benny’s organization and the events of Jacob’s previous novelty night, that threatens the safety of Elle, Jacob and all of their friends. Ray realizes that their mission may be lost unless he cautiously reveals some of his secrets to the Liebes so they can help stop Benny before it’s too late.

The APOCs Virus

The APOCs Virus
by Alex Myers

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Retired army rangers Ethan Bell and Bill McCullough are as different as two best friends can be. People are dying around them and their special talents are needed. Ethan has to be pushed. Bill goes willingly. Another man fights to save his wife from the plague. Two out of the three become contaminated with the virus.
A struggling pharmaceutical company cuts corners and creates the cross species jump of the simian immunodeficiency virus spawning Aids in humans and a worldwide epidemic. Years later and now part of the multibillion-dollar big pharma machine, they are still trying to fix their original mistake and the problem is turning into a pandemic. The US government has been fully aware every step of the way and now folks are dying.

Pablo Morales

Pablo Morales (Around the British Isles)
by James McCallum & Victoria Overton

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Follow the exciting new adventures of Pablo Morales as he travels around Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. Pablo finds himself submerged in a colorful world of new cultures, unparalleled experiences and promising new love interests, not without a few hiccups along the way. This is an ideal book for readers looking to brighten up their humdrum routine of daily life with a series of entertaining short stories , or simply wanting an interesting and affordable read.

The Nightlife

The Nightlife: New York
Travis Luedke

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Vampires, strippers, escorts, night clubs, gangs, pimps and corrupt cops, the Nightlife of New York is never boring.
Is she a beautiful blond guardian angel as he imagined, or something else entirely? When Michelle saves Aaron's life she shares the benefits of her blood––after getting him shot accidentally. He awakes a changed man, living in a purgatory of eternal night, never to see the sunrise again.
Michelle drags Aaron through a hardcore learning curve of vampiric slavery. Forced to adapt to servitude, he is subject to her authority of compulsion. She orders him around like a puppet on a string, a dog on a very short leash. First things first, he must learn to feed properly without creating bloodslaves (humans addicted to the powerful drug-like effect of their venomous bite).
And then she puts him to work––a male escort in the sex trade––same as Michelle. Aaron walks a tightrope of strictly controlled feeding regiments and intensely erotic sexual adventures while catering to the neurotic control-freak tendencies of his new master. It's do or die, Michelle vows to eliminate him if he proves too difficult to control. Amidst all these shocking and degrading adjustments, Aaron finds he's falling in love.
Can he maintain her rules and keep a sliver of his humanity intact? Innocence is a luxury few can afford in the decadent nightlife of New York. In a world where sex, blood, and power over women is so readily accessible, Aaron struggles against the predatory instincts deeply rooted in his new psyche. He must find his way quickly, practicing rigid self-control, or risk the consequences of Michelle's wrath.

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
by Liv Morris

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Kat Williams is a spirited young professional recovering from a painful breakup with her cheating ex-fiancé. Working late on New Year's Eve, she's one of the last employees to leave the office and hasn't heard about a snowstorm hitting the Chicagoland area. 
Driving home on snow-covered roads, she loses control of her car and becomes stranded on Lake Shore Drive. Trapped by the storm's wrath, she's rescued by perfect stranger Drew Michaels, a sweet and handsome cure for her broken heart.

Bingo: One Woman's Hardback Journey through Life

Bingo: One Woman's Hardback Journey through Life
by Sarwah Osei-Tutu

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A powerful journey with setbacks and disappointments along the road from abuse, depression, love, struggles, stalking and 'Still I Rise', in the words of Maya Angelou.
There is something to appeal to both sexes. Men have an understanding of emotions that women encounter in their lives. I feel the claim that ' Men are from Mars' and 'Women are from Venus' is correct, due to a lack of understanding between the two sexes. I think this book bridges that gap. I have had reviews from men claiming that they have not had familiarity, but they have been close to women who have experienced it. Therefore, they have reached a better understanding of the problems.

Forgotten

Forgotten
by Catherine Gardiner

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Sycamore Heights, where everyone keeps a deadly secret.
Katrina Harvey has just enrolled into the senior class of Sycamore Heights High along with her foster sister, Jessica Sinclair. Unfortunately Katrina is no ordinary enrollee as ten months previously she was brutally attacked and has been left with amnesia.
Almost a year after those horrific events took place Katrina is being stalked by someone, or something, who doesn't want her to remember her past and will do anything to keep it that way.
Moving to a new town is never easy, as Suzanne Harvey is well aware, but focused on finding her older sister, Katrina, fate has led her to Sycamore Heights. Now, as Suzanne gets closer to revealing secrets from the past, someone from the present doesn't like what she could unearth, even if that means they drive her to the brink of insanity to keep the secrets forgotten.

The Information Thieves

The Information Thieves
by ML Katz

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From the beginning of history, to a high-tech future, mankind has always survived on information. A generation after the Big Flood (Raft People), Houston is under water and Tokyo is a floating city. 
Meanwhile, in Dallas....
The giant global corporations dominate the top levels of society. The ambitious scientist, Dr. Julia Levi, idealizes her employer and disbelieves the bad press until it may be too late. 
A young man remembers everything that happened to an ancient hunter 30,000 years ago. 
A girl is saved from a floating salvage yard. Is she really, Tomoe, a female samurai from history? 
Anarchistic Fat City blooms as a tent city right across from the souring high tech IQ car freeways. Julia's half-sister, Jenny, starts to spend a lot of time there with Julia's estranged father. She stops communicating with Julia. But why? 
Eli, Julia's brother, starts out as only a mild embarrassment because he works in a garage office, communicates with the "Russian Cousins", and participates in the Merry Men - a group that Julia thinks are simply nerdy gamers.  The Merry Men are really idealistic hackers, attempting to uncover crimes and ethical violations that World Tech's leaders will do anything to keep secret.

Night of the Purple Moon

Night of the Purple Moon
by Scott Cramer

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Abby Leigh is looking forward to watching the moon turn purple, unaware that deadly bacteria from a passing comet will soon kill off older teens and adults. 
The lightning-fast epidemic sweeps across the planet when the germs attack the hormones produced during puberty.
On a small island off the coast of Maine, Abby must help her brother and baby sister survive in this new world, but all the while she has a ticking time bomb inside of her -- adolescence.

Evolution

Evolution
by Kelly Carrero

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Seventeen year old Jade Sommers' life is turned upside down the moment she sees the inch long cut across her face heal right before her eyes.

Jade thinks she is going insane, but her boyfriend, Aiden Scott, knows better. He knows what she is. And like him, she was born this way.
Now if finding out that people like her shouldn't exist isn't bad enough, Jade's best friend is kidnapped by the psycho who terrorises her dreams. With the help of Aiden, Jade has to figure out how to save her before it's to late.
But what Jade doesn't know is not everything is what it seems. She is merely a puppet in a sadistic game to find out what she is truly capable of, and that game has only just begun.

Altdorf

Altdorf
by J. K. Swift

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At the end of the thirteenth century, five hundred orphans and second sons are rounded up from villages in the Alpine countryside and sold to the Hospitaller Knights of St John. Trained to serve as Soldiers of Christ, they fight in eastern lands they know nothing about, for a cause they do not understand.
Thomas Schwyzer, released from his vows by the Grandmaster of the Hospitallers, returns to the land of his birth a stranger. Once a leader of men, and captain of the Order's most famous war galley, he now settles into the simple life of a ferryman. He believes this new role to be God's reward for years of faithful service fighting the Infidel in Outremer.
Seraina, considered a witch by most, a healer by some, is a young woman with a purpose. A Priestess of the Old Religion, and the last Druid disciple of the Helvetii Celts, she has been gifted by the Great Weave to see what others cannot. Her people need her guidance and protection now more than ever. For Duke Leopold of Habsburg, in his efforts to control the St. Gotthard Pass, builds a great Austrian fortress in Altdorf. Once finished, the Habsburg occupation will be complete, but the atrocities visited upon her people will have just begun.Set in medieval Switzerland, ALTDORF, a novel of The Forest Knights, is the first book in a two-book series.

Rift of Askrah

Rift of Askrah
Benjamin Andrews

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Nihlen Draven lives what most would consider the perfect life of royalty. As heir to the throne of the nation of Draven, he has been groomed for his future since birth. But as he approaches adulthood, his heart yearns for the freedom to choose his own destiny.
In the neighboring nation of Rinh, a young street thief named Marina does her best to survive the mean streets of the city with her best friend Cal. When a questionable contact from their past offers them more gold than either of them can imagine for a simple kidnap and ransom of a foreign prince, Marina jumps at the opportunity to extract herself and her friend from the poverty of Rinh.
But as the kidnapping goes sour and Draven falls into the hands of Rinh, a strange ability surfaces in the young prince, and the shadows of a forgotten nation called Askrah leak into the world once more.
In Fracture, Book 1 of the Rift of Askrah series, join Nihlen as he unlocks the secrets of the Eye of Kings and embarks on an epic quest to regain his kingdom.

Enchantress

Enchantress
by James Maxwell

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The Emperor crushed the land of enchanters long ago, and as his evil grows there's little chance they'll survive the demonic horde coming to wipe them out for good.

Miro and Ella, orphaned brother and sister, know that as a soldier and an enchantress their path will thrust them directly into conflict with the Emperor and his horrific creations.

They know there's little chance to save their homeland.

Yet it's what they don't know that will place them in the greatest peril of all.

Vampire's Eve

Vampire's Eve
by Jez Strider

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Evelyn Angel has a rewarding job, amazing best friend, and a promising love interest. The fact that she's a vampire is lost on those who surround her on a daily basis. 
When a former lover returns and attempts to murder her, the perfect little life she's carefully made for herself is turned upside down. Not only does she have to survive, she has to decide which man she truly loves. 
The past is catching up with her in a deadly way. 
(Warning: Contains adult content!)

Sami

Sami
by H.S. St.Ours

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Fifteen-year-old Sami Walker wasn’t born in the tunnels. She's traveled all over, even as far as the Northern caves beyond Eastport. Only nobodies went farther than that. Story was, there were towns beyond the Dustbowl, but most folk thought that was just stories. 
It’s been almost a century since the sky fell and the world broke apart in a day, and still the people spent their whole lives underground, either in the Five Tunnels, or in the caves, shielded by living stone. 
Sami’s mom and dad are long since dead, and her friends, Sef and Glyn, vanished without a trace, over a year ago, or were chased from the tunnel by the Judge. Now her dearest pal, Simma, was leaving, too, to live under the water in tunnel Tee Two, with her mom and her mom’s new boyfriend.  
She used to feel safe in the tunnels. Used to feel at home. But now, she wasn’t so sure. There was something in the air. Her only friend left was her dog Scout, a tunnel stray who adopted her over a year ago. And old Miz Murphy, of course, who lived in the hovel below her, deep down in Far Northend, the oldest dig in Tee Four.  
For decades, crowds of people have waved through the tunnels, following the green arrows, pushing up and out Eastport, heading North. They heard the air was better there, and most didn’t like the tunnels one bit anyway. 
But now, nobodies and someones alike were disappearing, and voices came to her in the dark, warning her of a great danger to come.  
In an adventure of courage and hope, Sami seeks answers and uncovers a mystery that spans worlds.

Anathema

Anathema
by Peyton Reynolds

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For nearly twenty years, the six Gods of Trivallyn have been silent and deaf to the prayers of their mortals. In their absence, the world has become ravaged by innumerable disasters such as ice storms, earthquakes, plague and typhoons. War is brewing and imminent across all the lands, and words forsaking the lost Gods are being whispered everywhere.
Kaymin Numont, prince and heir of the country of Dargis, a country suffering from flooding due to its ceaseless rains, returns from a mission that will undoubtedly incite war between his lands and the neighboring country of Corrado. Neither he nor his father, the king, favor the idea of battle, but both have come to believe it is now inevitable.
But then, Kaymin is come upon by a man - a very strange man who claims to be Terek, one of Trivallyn's lost Gods. His explanations for the absence of the Gods, as well as for all the disasters now occurring throughout Trivallyn, are horrifying. They also give name to the true force that is threatening their world, a force intent upon manipulating all of Trivallyn into its own destruction.
But before this threat can even be confronted, the remaining lost Gods must be freed. With their essences bound and hidden within Trivallyn's five outlying countries, Terek bids Kaymin to begin a quest that will locate and free these Gods who have been imprisoned for nearly twenty years.
Together with his royal wizard, Jian, Kaymin begins a journey that will lead them through foreign lands, political upheaval, unknown dangers, and surprising allies. The battle for Trivallyn has begun.