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Decades of secrets stand between them. Can their doomed love be saved? David Drummond could not be more satisfied with life. He's betrothed to the woman he loves, heir to his mother's lairdship, and his family is both loving and supportive. But a strange attack on his betrothed shakes the foundation of everything he holds dear. Though Anna cannot remember what happened to her, evidence indicates she may have been raped, and her sire immediately cancels the betrothal. Though David is still desperate to marry Anna, he is informed she has been betrothed to another. Anna awoke to a nightmare after the incident in the woods. Though she has barely any memory of what happened, her entire life has been upended. Her sire, who used to dote on her, refuses to let her speak to her betrothed and orders her to settle for a man she could never love. Desperate to be with David, she will do anything she can to escape her family. David calls upon his cousins to help rescue his love, but will they be able to intervene before it's too late?

Lizzie Headrick thought she'd finally met her prince charming in Dr. Grant Chatsworth. Their fairytale courtship swept her off her feet and ended with the engagement ring of her dreams. As she moves into one of Buckhead's finest estates, Lizzie soon learns all that glitters is not gold. Her handsome husband, a renowned cardiac surgeon and the developer of a new congestive heart failure drug, is becoming cruel and controlling. It isn't long before she finds herself captive in the vast expanse of his estate without a phone or car and under the watchful eye of Flossie who runs the household. When Lizzie discovers that Cardiac Care Research, his drug development company, is a Ponzi scheme, she realizes her life could be in danger if she doesn't escape the gated mansion on the hill. Her only hope is to get to Biloxi, Mississippi, and seek refuge with her sister, Maggie. Maggie and her husband, Leland, quickly find a safe harbor for Lizzie at a house on the bayou. However, the house at the end of the street might not be the quiet retreat Lizzie was hoping for. The confines of her hideaway begin to close in on her, so she retreats to the historical cemetery next door where a small, damaged tombstone of a child soon catches her eye and captures her heart. Just as Lizzie Chatsworth thinks her world can't get any more complicated, she finds herself in the middle of a mystery from the 1800s that pulls her in, demanding that she seek justice. As her husband's empire begins to crack and crumble, he's more determined than ever to find Lizzie and eliminate her. But, will the mystery of the small tombstone end Lizzie's life first?

A genetically enhanced leopard. He serves in the Federation Compact Army for one purpose. To go where it is too dangerous to send "real" soldiers.Hannibal is one of a four-animal team. A human warrant officer controls them because their free will has been bred, trained, and cut out them. They need orders to follow. Except Hannibal feels the call of the wild. It's starting to clash with his programming. He is reverting, but has to hide it unless he wants to be executed, his brain dissected to see what went wrong.The gods of war smile upon the enemy, bringing Hannibal's internal struggle into the light as he must rise above his programming if he is to lead his fellow animals through the battle. Survive, even if it means they are signing their own death warrants.Written by a veteran combat Marine, the battle scenes are realistic and will take you on a wild ride through small unit combat. Pick it up today.

By observing the techniques and abilities of an extraordinary Blue Heeler named Gracie, certain aspects of the game of tennis, normally considered complex, are made easy and doable. Anyone who plays tennis will appreciate seeing a tennis ball through the eyes of champion - one who knows how to focus, concentrate, create intensity, overcome impatience, stay positive, and remain joyful regardless of the score. The champion, of course, is Gracie, who never once gives herself a second thought.

Do you wonder how Griselda found her magic crystal? Follow Griselda as she and her cousin, Walter, learn to control their magic in a flashback of her teenage years. Her tale of regrets is both funny and sad and explores how love, friendship, and acceptance shape her decisions. Has she learned from her mistakes? Can she move forward and find her happy ending?

The Leanan Sidhe has lived for centuries, inspiring artists while draining their life force in return. It's who she is, all she's ever known. While she loves the human's artistic creations, she cares nothing for her victims. Conall lives a complicated life, but he loves what he does. By day, he's a humble farmer, by night he's hunter, searching for the dark creatures that plague Ireland. When he can, he escapes to the local village and paints portraits in the small marketplace.For Leana, Conall is just another victim. And yet, from the moment she meets him in the marketplace, she can't seem to get him out of her mind, let alone end his life like she has so many others before. While they both see their growing attraction, they know that they can never be with the other and survive. Will they follow their destinies, or will they seek for the one thing they can't have-each other?

Nicole and Dane return in the third installment of the Scarred series. Life is good. The musician gave the lawyer a ring, a not-engagement ring, a promise; this is forever. But, they both still had some growing and healing to work through. Healing is strange. There are those days when the bandage falls off on its own and you think you're good to go. Days when laughter comes easy and you forget the past. And there are days when the past doesn't want to be forgotten; you still need a stitch or a cast to hold yourself together. There are even relapses when the poisonous past needs release. Share their journey through eighteen short stories of play, passion, and a deepening partnership. You'll enjoy the journey as much as where it leads.

Mia Foley is running away from the attack that changed her life. She's captain of a new spaceship when the Acedians find her and try blasting her peaceful crew from the black. She must sever her bonds in order to run, again. But she's grown fond of this crew, particularly Cassidy Gates. Staying with them will jeopardize their safety, and they have much closer fears than the Acedian hunters. Mia's time is running out. She's becoming one of them.

Her hand fluttered from her heart to her throat, and she searched his eyes. Fear and anger were gone, replaced by a love so deep she could drown in it. A heartwarming WWII love story, Canteen Dreams won the 2008 American Christian Fiction Writers' Carol Award for short historical fiction. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Nebraska schoolteacher Audrey Stone wants to support the war effort in any way she can. When her community starts a canteen at the train station, Audrey spends nearly every spare moment there, offering food and kindness to the soldiers passing through. She never expected to fall for a local boy...or face the challenges of budding love in the face of war. Rancher Willard Johnson admires Audrey's passionate nature, but when his brother is killed in action, he feels he must avenge by enlisting himself. His father insists he stay, but Willard knows he must go. Reality intrudes, and he never expected the jealousy he experiences when he sees those in uniform. Can Willard's budding relationship with Audrey weather the storms of war? Or will one of the other soldiers at the canteen steal her heart? Other books in this series: Sandhill DreamsCaptive DreamsA Promise KeptA Promise BornA Promise Forged

It's a night for adventure, for pushing the limits. Well, breaking them actually. Stacie can't believe she's stolen her escort's Porsche to go back road joyriding. But damn, it feels good to cut loose from her life for one precious night. It's just her lousy luck she catches the eye of an off-duty cop. Just her luck, indeed. Being reprimanded by Lieutenant Jake Chance, the sexiest man she's ever seen, makes her want to break a few more laws. She's going to throw caution to the wind and see if she can seduce her cop to go over the limits with her. Way over.If Jake Chance is willing to hold her in his arms, Stacie knows she'll have a memory to last her a lifetime. She just wishes dawn would never come, because when it does, she'll have to let him go...Also includes a bonus Christmas short story, Snow Angel!As a teenager, Constance used sex as a shallow substitute for the intimacy and love she craved. Fifteen years later, she whispers her deepest wish into Santa's ear at a Christmas benefit, only to discover he is someone who was part of that embarrassing time of her life.Sam Coble always wanted to get to know the girl behind the reputation. Since this Santa has a soft spot for naughty girls, he plans to give Constance everything she ever put on a Christmas list...and then some.

A fragile woman stops to admire a dress in a mall window display, and a sensual stranger convinces her to try it on... Meg's heart is so raw, she believes she can never heal. Until she meets Daniel, a man who not only believes he can ease the pain of her past, but that Meg can live again if she can only learn to let go. In today's demanding world, the idea of relinquishing control to another has a dangerous appeal. Can a stranger's condition of submission be the key to one woman finding her wings again?

From an exciting new author-and one of our most talented writers, Johnson-comes a short story collection that speaks of his talent. Delicate Men is a subtle collection of stories focused on what it is to be a man... and all the narratives and trials and tribulations that this entails. Walking the line between the sensitive and the harsh in these men's lives and hearts, Johnson has managed to create a collection for the ages. But don't just listen to us, listen to these greats: "Johnson's tales of contemporary male rituals and relationship politics never fail to dazzle with their clarity, nuance, and peril, coiled and waiting to strike."-Wilton Barnhardt, New York Times bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway."Delicate Men takes a hard look at men caught in that land between here and there, men on the move, men on the verge of what comes next. The writing is sure, and the stories ring true with hard-earned wisdom."-Lee Martin, Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The Bright Forever"What's so compelling about R Dean Johnson's Delicate Men is the startling revelation that the anxieties and insecurities of our youth-the ones we are certain we will outgrow-actually haunt us into maturity. Johnson seeks out the pressure points in a range of masculine narratives and shapes a complex portrait of male identity, in which vulnerability begets strength, where desire never gets less awkward, and adults still stand foolishly by playground rules: 'It's a boy's game, but you have to be a man to play it.' Sensitively rendered, Delicate Men is honest and poignant storytelling."-Rigoberto González, author of Autobiography of My Hungers"These delicate men with their still-soft hearts make their way through machismo and disillusionment, armed with maps of Brugge or nightly tips from valet jobs or white-collar plans for the future, but their delicacy threatens to spoil the fun. R Dean Johnson has given us this sweet gift of good men on the verge of indelicacy. What you'll remember most-besides the storytelling finesse-is how Johnson renders the delicate or fragile space between innocence and culpability."-Jennifer Spiegel, author of Love Slave and The Freak Chronicles"The men in Delicate Men are delicate men, yes, in the now-fashionable crisis-of-masculinity sense, but they are also vagabonds and romantics and at times profoundly indelicate men, their indelicateness exposed for all the world to see, and we (the world) are better for having seen them through the tender prism of these mischievous stories by R Dean Johnson."-Jeff Parker, author of Ovenman and Where Bears Roam the Streets"R Dean Johnson's tales of contemporary male rituals and relationship politics never fail to dazzle with their clarity, nuance, and peril, coiled and waiting to strike. It's a minefield out there, where love and career await, and Johnson's heroes try to walk safely through it all, armed only with their hard-won insights and good but fallible hearts. A splendid collection by any measure."-Wilton Barnhardt, New York Times bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway.

"Professional security expert Jocelyn MacKenzie knows better than to mix business with pleasure, especially in the presence of her new client, Dr. Donovan Knight, a wealthy, handsome heart surgeon. She's been burned by handsome men before, so all she wants to do is her job and protect him from the stalker who's been sending him threatening letters. But it's not easy to stay focused when she feels an intense attraction that can't be ignored ... When danger escalates and the stalker makes an attempt on Donovan's life, he agrees to leave town under Jocelyn's protection and hide out with her in a secluded cabin in the woods. Jocelyn wants to keep things professional, but Donovan is falling fast and hard for his female bodyguard, and he has other ideas. Now the challenge is to get her to let down her guard at last, and turn this contractual arrangement into a personal one"--

One of the largest of the Macaw birds in the world, the Scarlet Macaw is known for its gorgeous plumes that include bright colors like scarlet, yellow and deep blue. Scarlet Macaws are wonderful companion birds as they simply love to be around people and get easily imprinted on human beings. If you are planning on bringing a Scarlet Macaw home, you have to remember that these birds are exotic which means that they have very specific requirements in terms of care, particularly nutrition. Before you bring the Scarlet Macaw or any such bird home, the most important thing that you need to do is read up all you can about the birds and the species. That way you can make them feel at home and make sure that they are happy birds. This book is a comprehensive description of everything that you need to know about a Scarlet Macaw. It tells you about the best ways to choose a bird for your home, housing requirements, behavior, feeding, grooming and a lot more. The book also discusses in detail about the flipside of having a Macaw so you can make a responsible decision. Covered in this book: - Bonding activities - Buying - Care - Feeding - Habitat - Health - Housing - Pros and Cons - Travelling - Varieties ....and much more

Silkie guinea pig If you have ever considered keeping guinea pigs as pets, the Silkie guinea pig is a unique and beautiful breed to consider. Known for its long, flowing coat and friendly personality, the Silkie guinea pig makes a wonderful pet for adults and children alike. In this book you will find a wealth of information about the Silkie guinea pig as well as information about caring for guinea pigs in general.Covered in this book: History of the breedComparison to other guinea pig breedsCost of carePros and consHabitat requirementsDaily careTeaching your guinea pig simple commandsLitter trainingHandlingCommon health problemsFormulating a healthy dietKeeping your guinea pig healthyBreeding your guinea pigShowing your guinea pig... and much more.>The Author, Ludwig Ledgewood says: I have always loved animals but guinea pigs are by far my favorite. There is just something about the way they squeal in excitement when I enter the room and the way they jump for joy when I give them a pile of hay. That just warms my heart.>It is my hope that in reading this book you will come to understand why I love guinea pigs so much and that you might start to feel a little bit of that love yourself.