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Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Ft. Benning, Georgia. A dutiful officer’s daughter, supportive sister to a troubled twin brother, and caring friend, she always puts the needs of others ahead of her own, and prides herself on being a fixer of broken things. Like anyone who has grown up around an army base, Karina also knows the background noise that follows men and women home from war. And when she meets Kael, a soldier on the cusp of discharge, she’s immediately intrigued by his brooding presence and enigmatic silence.

Bob Johansson recién vendió su compañía de software por una pequeña fortuna y le ilusiona vivir la vida en grande. Lo primero en su lista de pendientes: gastar su nuevo dinero. En un derroche, contrata un servicio para preservar su cabeza en criogenia, en caso de muerte. Momentos después, pierde la vida al cruzar una calle. Al despertar, 117 años después, Bob descubre que su mente ha sido cargada a una sonda espacial inteligente, con la habilidad de replicarse a sí misma.

In einem Wohnhaus auf Helgoland wird ein Paar tot aufgefunden - auf den ersten Blick spricht alles für eine Beziehungstat. Lena Lorenzen wird mit dem Fall betraut, der jede Menge Brisanz mit sich bringt, denn bei dem Mann handelt es sich um einen ehemaligen Verdeckten Ermittler des LKA, der untergetaucht ist. Lena macht sich auf die Spurensuche: Wie stand es tatsächlich um die psychische Gesundheit des Polizisten, und warum wurde er von seinen aktuellen Ermittlungen abgezogen? Was hat der kurdische Clan, dem der Ermittler zuletzt wohl dicht auf den Fersen war, mit der Tat zu tun?

Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that it's built on well-meaning doctors treating patients with real problems.

Ein neuer, hochbrisanter Cold Case für Hauptkommissarin Enna Andersen und ihr Team von Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Anna Johannsen. Vor einigen Jahren wurde Rieke Erken in der Nähe der ostfriesischen Kreisstadt Leer tot im Wald gefunden. Vieles deutete damals auf ihren Ehemann als Täter hin. Doch Hajo Erken wurde aufgrund einer offensichtlich manipulierten DNA-Spur vor Gericht freigesprochen. Ennas Team macht sich daran, den Fall komplett neu aufzurollen.

Nach einer turbulenten ersten Begegnung bei einer Geiselnahme bekommen Hauptkommissarin Hanna Will und Kriminalpsychologe Jan de Bruyn ein besonderes Angebot des LKA – als Team sollen sie es in ganz Norddeutschland bei komplizierten Ermittlungen unterstützen. Ihr erster Einsatz führt sie ins Alte Land: Eine Frau wurde mit einem Kissen erstickt. Die SoKo geht von einem Serientäter aus, der zuvor schon andere Frauen vergewaltigt, aber nicht getötet hat. Durch Jans Täterprofil gerät schnell ein junger Mann in den Fokus, dem aber nichts nachgewiesen werden kann.

Lena Lorenzen ist gerade erst aus ihrer Elternzeit zurück und oft mit den Gedanken bei ihrem kleinen Sohn, als sie zu einem heiklen Einsatz gerufen wird. Ein Hamburger Reeder ist von seinem täglichen Spaziergang am Sylter Strand nicht wieder zurückgekehrt. Die ersten Gespräche mit der Familie gestalten sich schwierig und sind von Misstrauen seitens der erwachsenen Kinder geprägt.

Book five of the After series - Anna Todd's Wattpad fanfiction that racked up one billion views online and captivated romance fans across the globe! As told by Hardin and other characters, Before will explore the hero's life before he met Tessa, reveal what happens after After, give you new insights on their turbulent romance - and revel in the awesome power of true love. #HESSA

While counseling sex offenders, Anna Sonoda, LCSW learned firsthand that grooming, the prelude to child sexual abuse, is intentional, gradual, and observable. In Duck, Duck Groom, Anna Sonoda provides the straight talk parents need about how predators target families and what caring adults can do to interrupt grooming.

For florist Chloe Campbell, life isn’t all sunshine and roses. Deep in debt and haunted by a past she’s desperate to leave behind, she can barely keep her little flower shop running. So when Mistress Media executive Gabrielle Hall strolls into Chloe’s shop and hires her for her company’s event, Chloe jumps at the opportunity. She’s irrevocably drawn to the tantalizingly beautiful woman.

Book two of a new series featuring After worldwide fan favorite Landon Gibson as he leaves Washington to navigate love and life in New York City. At the end of After Ever Happy, Landon got married - but listeners everywhere have been wondering who will get to call the nicest boy in the After series their forever love. Listen to it and find out!

Held against her will and raped by her 38-year-old boss, 19-year-old Anna tries to make sense of her unbelievable situation. How did an innocent friendship with her boss turn into weeks of forced sex and the inability to leave her oppressor's side? Furthermore, what happens when weeks of rape result in a pregnancy? This true-life novel depicts a graphic and raw recounting of the unimaginable horrors of the Summer of 2010.

Space station security specialist Sam has done one thing since her abduction by alien slavers...fight to survive. But now one strong alien gladiator stands at her side and Sam knows she is no longer alone. Thrust into a lawless desert arena, Sam Santos has done terrible things in order to stay alive. As the Champion of Zaabha, she's been fighting to find a way out. Everything changes when the Imperator of the House of Galen sacrifices his freedom to help her. The hard-bodied, fierce man has vowed to help her escape, but getting out of Zaabha is only the first deadly task they face.

The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse.

In a future world ruled by warring mega-corporations, cyborg Nephilim believed she was fighting a righteous cause. As a powerful cybernetically enhanced elite soldier, her job is to do all the dirty work for the mega-corporation she belongs to. She and her elite cyborg squad are deployed on the most dangerous missions–to protect Olympias from threats outside and inside, at any cost.

Calista High Academy is a remarkable institution of higher learning with two goals. First, the female students at the school learn the many skills and techniques they’ll need to one day rule the world. They study negotiating tactics, psychology, sociology, business, and more. Along the way, they also develop a healthy disrespect for the boys around them. After all, this school is part of Calista, an island where women rule and boys are treated like chattel. Here on Calista, men don't own property or enjoy any voting rights. They’re graded based on their behavior and get treated like ...

Abbey goes shopping. Tarak learns an important fact about human female biology. Ami develops new (and somewhat scary) abilities. Oh, and it's Christmas soon. It's just another day in the life of our fearsome Kordolians and their human mates. A light-hearted peek into Tarak and Abbey's new life on Earth.

When Quinn Bennett’s exploration ship is attacked, the security chief finds herself abducted by alien slavers. Unable to save her crew, she is taken across the galaxy and sold to a desert scavenger on the lawless planet of Carthago. Driven by her guilt and failure, she’ll do anything to escape and save the other abductees from her ship. Chained and forced into servitude, she’s waiting for her chance to strike, when across a dusty trading post, she comes face-to-face with a big, cyborg gladiator.

Long, tall, and deadly Morgan Kincaid enjoys her job at Treasure Hunter Security. Raised by a tough Marine father, she loves her guns and knives, and never backs down from a fight. She's yet to find a man who can keep up with her and after a string of first dates, she's not feeling hopeful. Assigned to an underwater archeological expedition on the trail of a long-lost shipwreck, Morgan finds herself protecting the very hard, delicious body of a certain globe-trotting archeologist: a smart rogue with a wide smile and a boat-load of charm.

Eleven years ago, I met him. A year later, I was betrothed to him. Now he’s come to claim me, slaughtering anyone standing in his way. My husband-to-be is a monster from a family as ruthless and powerful as mine, a man who deals in violence and destruction...a man terrifyingly like my father. For more than a decade, he’s stalked me, shadowing my life. I fear him. I hate him. Worst of all, I want him. My name is Alina Molotova, and Alexei Leonov is a fate I can’t escape.