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Mathew Price's vision remains elusive after being blinded in a car accident, and it's turned his entire life upside down. Depending on others for help frustrates him and is a blow to his pride. He pushes everyone away, especially the one woman he has always cared about. Now that he is handicapped, Matt doesn't think he has a right to tell her how he feels.

Until her new job starts in September, buttoned-up elementary school teacher Laurel Harris is at loose ends and in need of cash. Fortunately her best friend's older brother is a single dad and desperately needs a nanny. Or so she's told. She doesn't anticipate him being such a menacing, muscled, and undeniably gorgeous man . . . or that he has zero interest in hiring a nanny.

Working as a Hollywood photographer means Riley Temple has seen it all, but that theory is put to the test when she finds herself staring at the chilling image of a dead woman. When her questions about the film's origin results in an assault, a murder, and an attack on Riley herself, she finds herself reluctantly turning to the only person who assures her he can help: Detective Quinn Burton. To find those responsible for harming her friends and to protect those closest to her, she's willing to do anything. Even trust a cop.

This book is written for Millennials and Gen Z listeners who are having fun yet want to get ahead of the curve to figure out how to fly down life's highway and keep their car out of the mud. This book shares wisdom from your higher self (known here as your Council of Elders) in the form of 49 microdose-size nuggets.

The plan was simple. I would take her and hold her ransom to get the money I was owed, but my sweet Bree has her own agenda. She wants to dominate in a world ruled by men, but she needs my help. Her family’s rules state only men can run the business, so she proposes we get married. In turn, she would get the power she craves, and I would get my money and show the world I'm not to be messed with.

Hija de inmigrantes mexicanos y criada en Chicago en la década de los noventa, Erika L. Sánchez se ha descrito a sí misma como paria, inadaptada y un chasco: agitadora melancólica y malhablada que se pintaba las uñas de negro, pero también disfrutaba la comedia y tenía el sueño improbable de ser poeta. Veinticinco años más tarde se ha convertido en una galardonada novelista, poeta y ensayista, pero no ha perdido la risa incontrolable, su áspero ingenio y sus singulares poderes para percibir el mundo a su alrededor.

Sister Rhona, Vicky, and Mary meet to mark the occasion of their mother's burial, a year to the day following her funeral. Puzzled by the many flowers left on their mother's grave, they start to probe the reasons for this and who is responsible. Hatching a plan to catch the donor, the answer leads to some unexpected revelations that their mother did want to share with her daughters.

Queen has been a: gang leader, construction worker, mortician, waitress, retail manager, taxi driver, semi-pro wrestler, roller derby referee, stock transfer agent, burlesque dancer, and long haul trucker.... She is also one of the most powerful witches on the planet. Completely feral. Possessed by a spirit older than time....

Abi thought she had a charmed life. She’s got her dream job, family and friends who love her, and she just bought a great old house! Everything would be perfect, if not for the logging company that’s just set up shop next door. And the guy she can’t seem to stop shtupping. Who just happens to be their chief tree cutter. Er, logger. Lumberjack?

The Elders leave the heirs in the care of the Nosferas clan. Malcolm and Lars don’t really feel like going to school at all and sneak off. Making friends isn’t so easy for Alisa in vampire-school, and she keeps getting visions that make no sense to her. Dracula sees Alisa for the first time as the Spark connects them.

Alisa and Nicu are in a police cell and Tonka burns the book on Dracula. Conte Claudio learns about the waitress that has been bitten in town. Contessa Viola goes to see if she can find this vampire, the Conte checks if all the heirs are on board and if no one has been drinking human blood. Lars sacrifices himself to get Alisa back on the ship without the others noticing. Alisa is thankful.

Tonka informs Dracula about Alisa and her friends. Excited about her new powers Alisa tries them out, much to the amusement of Lars and Ivy. Hindrik isn’t excited at all. Lars is spending more time with Alisa and Ivy and Malcolm feels neglected. Alisa feels she is a danger to everybody around her and wants to be out of their way. She sees no other way than to lock herself in a cage.

Overflown with emotions Alisa has to confide in Lars and Ivy about what is going on with her. Inspired by the openness of Alisa, Ivy tells her about how she and her brother Seymour ended up on the ship. They know Tonka is on a mission to steal the rubies. Hindrik sends Raphaëla to check if the rubies are safe. They’re not. Raphaëla gets into a fight with Tonka.

Nicu and his mom also arrive in Italy. Alisa wants to find out more about Dracula and the Knot and goes to the library. Just as she finds a book on Dracula, she bumps into Nicu. They reconnect again. Since this was clearly meant to be, Nicu asks Alisa out to dinner. In the restaurant Tonka steals the book on Dracula from Alisa.

Alisa needs both Nicu and Lars to get to know the Redmasks’ plans. The other heirs train to form a strong front. It takes the clan leaders some time to get used to this new status quo on the ship. It takes the support of the Conte to convince the other clan leaders to do it their way. Nicu has to come face to face with his greatest nightmare. The race to the Knot is on.

On the Elisabetha Tonka wants to snatch the Nosferas ruby from the Contessa’s neck. When Alisa gets back from town, she finds her friends in danger. She wants Tonka to take her instead of her friends. The Contessa promised Alisa’s mother to keep the Spark safe and tries to protect her and the other heirs. The Redmasks are coming. Alisa tells Lars she knows and trusts him.

Lars af Dracas overhears the Noaidi predict the future of all vampires; if the clans don’t reunite, they will go extinct. His father sends out a message to the other four remaining clans to join forces. On the mystical ship the Elisabetha, the other vampire clans come to an understanding. At the market Alisa’s fangs accidentally pop out and humans panic because she’s a vampire.

Dracula turns the Innkeeper into his shadow vampire, so he must obey his every wish. Alisa is struggling in school as her special power - love - is made fun of in class. On her own she remembers her mother who loved her very much but who left her for an important cause. Hindrik urges Alisa to keep the Spark a secret and try to fit in. A strange girl and a wolf sneak onto the ship.

The Conte and Contessa do not want to believe Dracula is alive. He has been captured. Since Dracula and Alisa are connected by the Spark Alisa gets trapped into a coma. Lars is the only one who has the power to help Alisa. As Alisa awakes, she feels that most of the special powers have left her body. But she is alive, thanks to Lars.

On the ship the Elisabetha the vampires set sail for Hamburg, to save the Vamalias from the Redmasks. Alisa is discovered by a Redmask but manages to escape through the roof in the attic. In the street she is stopped by Hindrik, who came back to save her. Alisa meets the other Heirs when they arrive on the ship. The Heirs hear that they’re on the ship to start vampire school.