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Since his mother’s death and his brother’s imprisonment, Maven Gold has been in a vicious cycle of sleeping with a different woman every other night to numb the pain. Frequenting a local sex club gives him access to various flavors to satisfy his palate. When a chance encounter with a blast from the past arouses more than his libido, he vows to make her his.

There are a lot of things to call me, but most just call me Rogue. A name feared by the truly unforgivable who betray The Gambit, our leader King, and our extensive criminal network. After all, I may run the hit men for the crew, but I personally only take on those who deserve it. I do have some morals left. When I’m tracked down by a security team that wants me on their side, it’s an easy choice to unite and attempt to take down their corrupt bosses, and mine, too. So long as they’re willing to help me in return.

Enter the world of Millie Maven, a twelve-year-old orphan who embarks on a great adventure that takes her to the distant, mysterious world of FIGS, the FarPointe Institute for Gifted Students. There, she discovers that there is more to her than she ever dared imagine or believe....and that there are some truths that change everything.

What if your patient confesses to murder… and you’re legally bound to stay silent? Dr. Sarah has always believed in helping people heal. As one of the city’s most respected psychologists, she’s no stranger to secrets, guilt, or pain. But nothing prepares her for the day a new patient calmly describes — in chilling detail — the murder of an innocent victim. Sarah is horrified. But as a therapist, she’s sworn to protect patient confidentiality. If she reports him, she risks her career, her license, and everything she’s worked for. If she stays silent, more innocent lives may ...

The job is supposed to be easy. All I have to do is deliver a spaceship of living cargo to the vile Uldani and they'll release my brother. If I fail, they'll take it out on him. Except the cargo is something I've never seen before - human females. The one called Frankie is beautiful and soft, and I've already spilled blood for her. Now how am I going to save my brother? Because this human female is mine.

The first in a must-read middle grade series from Girl Scouts of the USA about a group of fifth graders with lots of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. This novel written by award-winning author Yamile Saied Méndez is perfect for readers who love The...

I'm on a strange planet surrounded by blue aliens and women who clearly have Stockholm syndrome. I'm not content to pump out alien babies and have dinner cooking for my guy after he returns from a long day of hunting and gathering. Independence is great until my solitary exploration leads me right into the hands of a savage, horned alien who barely speaks but has no intention of letting me go. The worst part? His survival skills are actually kind of turning me on.

For some, destiny is a warm embrace, but for others it is a stranglehold. In the vast, sprawling continent of Pan’gea, a clandestine organization is rising to power. It is called the Remnant Order, a group dedicated to preserving order in a chaotic world. At the heart of the Remnant are a husband and wife, Romulus and Diánna. Romulus is one of the Order's most steadfast champions, a paragon of fairness and stability.

Mortimer Blackwood isn't just a mortician; he's a confidant to the dead. He's been preparing the departed for their final rest for two decades, but for him, the silence of the grave has always been an illusion. The deceased whisper their final truths to him—secrets they couldn't share in life. When the body of a seemingly unassuming librarian arrives, her spirit reveals a chilling murder mystery—a death that was no accident. Her voice is the first to expose a vast, sinister conspiracy far more complex than a simple cover-up. Mortimer is thrust into a terrifying world of powerful ...

Mouse: I have no memory or what or who I am, all I know is that everyone and everything is out to hurt me. Hands slap, teeth bite, and boots kick. So when I meet a big, bronzed warrior with blue eyes whose hands are gentle and voice is kind, I don't trust him. And when he starts showing up in my dreams, a part of me I long thought was dead awakens with a passion.

Returning to everyday life after a honeymoon in the islands complete with a traditional Hawaiian wedding shower, lei’s and gifts can be a drag on anyone’s ideas of happily ever after endings. Fly back home with Brad and Casey as they return to Lyonsville, a friendly, sleepy, little town with big problems. From kidnappings, murder, and what appears to be a terrorist bombing, the couple return bearing gifts, back to a town turning vigilante, with an influx of federal agents and a nervous populace. Hidden kinship ties prove generational abuse leads to twisted ideas of justice and the quilt...

A King sits at the head of the table, but it’s time for a Queen to take over. After all, everyone knows she’s the most powerful on the board. All sides are laying their pieces on the playing field, making alliances, and maneuvering pawns into place when a new player slinks out from the shadows to join the game. Let’s just hope our new allies know how to play. The only question is, what am I willing to lose to get what I want? Is there a price too high? Because to take a King, everyone must make sacrifices.

In The Maverick Mindset: The New Science of Exceptional Achievement, renowned elite performance consultant Dr. John Eliot reveals everything he has learned about how the truly exceptional achievers in this world have - and haven't - attained their exalted heights of accomplishment.

The Maverick Mindset will show you what they do, and how you can make their unconventional, contrarian habits and practices your own.

Josie, nicknamed the Maneater, is part of an elite group of private investigators who use their beauty, brains, and society's habit of underestimating women to get the intel they need to solve crime and investigate for clients. Her particular strength is in her ability to seduce men and convince them to tell her whatever she wants to hear. She often goes on dates with high-profile men to find out what she needs to know, be it cheating, embezzlement, or the sharing of trade secrets.

The experiment isn’t over. It’s only just begun. A single file — marked Subject One — shatters Dr. Sarah Chen’s fragile grip on reality, revealing a new patient more dangerous than any before. As the network of murders and mind games tightens, Sarah must face the truth she’s feared since the beginning: She may not be the doctor in this game… she may be the subject. Dr. Sarah Chen thought she had uncovered the truth behind Subject Zero. She was wrong. A single file — marked Subject One — has torn open a new nightmare, revealing a patient far more dangerous, far more ...

The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet "Paradise" get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first....

The country collapses and a new leader emerges known only as "The Maven". Book one of a dystopian trilogy starts with a civil war dividing the country. Hundreds of thousands are killed or go missing. Mave, a young woman, flees the violence. Now a refugee in her own country, with ingenuity and the help of incredible indigenous friends, she walks over 600 miles looking for a safe haven. Soon to be the new leader of the free world, this is the beginning of her journey through what is now called The Reclamation War.

As America descends into chaos, it’s invaded both by domestic and foreign terrorists. Communications are targeted and huge swaths of the country are in the dark. Cities and towns try to fortify and look to the military for support - but not everyone in uniform can be trusted. Safety and security are found on Native Reserves and many American’s fleeing the violence of their home towns seek refuge there. A resistance movement forms and Mave unknowingly provides the key that turns the tide.

Book Two in The Ethics of Murder Series By Prose Maven He was never her patient. She was his experiment. After the harrowing confessions of The Confession, Dr. Sarah Chen thought the nightmare was over. But when a patient file resurfaces — one she never opened, one she never created — the past returns not as a whisper, but a scream. A man presumed dead. A therapist on the brink of collapse. And a new set of murders that bear a disturbingly familiar pattern. As Sarah is pulled into a deadly mind game orchestrated by someone who knows her better than she knows herself, she must confront ...

After finding my apartment ransacked for the third time, I'm done being stalked. I'm just some nameless orphan who's only trying to survive in this broken city. I shouldn't matter. I shouldn't be a target. I shouldn't have to live on the run. But here I am, trying to find a hideout when living beyond the city without a permit is punishable by death. I'm desperate. But I'm scrappy too, and soon I'm surviving off the land with only the rodents for company. Everything's fine. Until he shows up.