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For Joel and Stella, it’s the trip they’ve been dreaming about. Fresh air, quiet time in the woods, and no work to distract them from each other. Being a new couple, they don’t waste any time with their first full weekend away together. But their perfect getaway turns into a nightmare when an accident occurs and they find a dead woman lying outside their cabin. Clearly, they have to call the police, but what Joel reveals to Stella makes her understand there’s no way they can get the authorities involved.

It is yet another night of air raids, and instead of heading to the basement of her London workplace – risking being in the same vicinity as him, the man who hurt her in the worst way possible – nineteen-year-old Clare runs to the first place she can think of… and makes a decision that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

When my sister and her husband die tragically in a car accident I become an insta-father, inheriting my three-year-old niece overnight. The problem is I'm a Spanish billionaire. Business, luxury, and caviar company is all I know. What am I supposed to do with a little girl? My answer, it seems, comes in the form of one very blonde and curvaceous Australian. She's a live-in nanny with a sterling track-record and the ability to work magic with kids. She's exactly what Amalia needs.

Birdie Walton's life is unexpected. When she finds out she is pregnant after a one-night stand at a college party, everything she had planned is ruined. This new revelation leaves her to decide if she has what it takes to be a mother, despite having never had one to look up to. Then, she meets Miles, the grumpy, borderline-alcoholic neighbor, and the two of them seem completely wrong for each other. But despite the fact they can't stand each other, they spend moment after moment sitting on the porch of their duplex, learning about each other.

¿Estás cansado del aburrido sexo vainilla? ¿Deseas historias que te dejen sin aliento y con ganas de más? Si has dicho que SÍ, ¡entonces la "Colección de historias de sexo explícito" es la mejor solución para ti! Este libro está lleno de erotismo duro, sucio y prohibido para adultos, con tríos guarros y tórridos, sexo anal rudo, chicas malas, BDSM oscuro, dominación, daddies seductores y mucho más.

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved.

There are two things you need to know about me. 1: I’m never late. And 2: I hate Christmas. Yes, I’m a girl who hates the holidays. My entire, enormous family is already enjoying their holiday vacation in Iceland, but thanks to my busy job and having to meet them there, I’m late. They could have chosen any holiday to fly across the world, but Christmas won, which sent me scrambling because the end of the year is my busiest time. It’s difficult to carve out moments to see the family at all.

Evan Ryder is an extraordinary intelligence field agent now working for the security arm of Parachute, a private company and the world’s leader in the application of quantum technology. In the past, Ryder has done lethal battle in the modern global wars of power politics, extremist ideology, corrosive disinformation, and outrageous greed. But now she finds herself in a battle arena whose dangers, while less obvious, are greater than anything the world has seen before—the present and future war of weaponized quantum technology.

A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, apprenticed herself to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own.

Fabelwesen und magische Action: die dritte Mission für Elia Evander, Agentin im Auftrag der Magie. Das Böse schläft nie! Das stellt Magentin Elia Evander schnell fest, als sie für eine brisante Geheimoperation nach Schweden geschickt wird. Zusammen mit Magentenschüler Emil soll sie undercover in einem Internat ermitteln, wo sich gefährliche magische Vorfälle häufen. Elia befürchtet, dass die Elite hinter dem Ausnahmezustand steckt. Doch bei der Suche nach Beweisen gerät sie in eine Falle aufgebrachter Trolle.

I slept with the girl I bullied in high school, then left her on prom night. I screwed up. Ten years later, if I don't save her, the damage I've caused will consume us both.

Juggling completing her college degree, with her parents’ expectations, as well as her blossoming relationship with Axel—Chastity has her hands full. Not only does she have to deal with the exhausting rigors of pregnancy on top of it all, but now shit has gone downhill with her mother. It’s the extra headache Chastity really didn’t need. And when the usually upbeat student learns her father and Axel are working together… she’s not sure how much more pressure she can take!

Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin, deep in the California woods on an evening in late August. At the moment that she drifts to sleep outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes from the world, disappearing from operating theatres mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where.

Wenn Regeln auf Verlangen treffen und Hingabe auf tiefe Geheimnisse... Wenn man Athena von Hohnstett betrachtet, sieht man eine arrogant wirkende, unnahbare Ärztin, der ihre Arbeit über alles geht. Über Jahre hinweg hat sie sich dieses Schutzschild aufgebaut, um ihrem herausfordernden Alltag standhalten zu können. Alles läuft gut für sie, bis sie dem neuen Pfleger Lukas zum ersten Mal begegnet. Ein Mann, der ihre wichtigste Regel von der ersten Sekunde an, auf eine harte Probe stellt: Niemals etwas mit einem Kollegen anfangen.

Mitreißend erzählt: Eine Familiengeschichte, generationenübergreifend geprägt von Alkoholabhängigkeit. Mia ist die jüngste Tochter in einer langen Dynastie von Trinkenden. Auch sie selbst liebt Rotwein, aber so schlimm wie bei ihrer verrückten Oma und ihrem rätselhaften Vater, die sich mit dem Trinken umgebracht haben, ist es bei ihr noch lange nicht, denkt sie. Sie ist eben ein Partygirl, eine Rebellin, eine Künstlerseele. Bei der Arbeit als Barkeeperin im Berliner Nachtleben lernt sie, zu trinken, von einem älteren Mann lernt sie Sex und Drama.

Oh, Schreck! Die Hexe Cora will die Einschulungsfeier für die neuen Erstklässler verhindern und alle Kinder und Lehrer in ihr Zauberreich entführen. Doch zwei mutige Erstklässler fordern sie zum Wettkampf. Gemeinsam mit dem Publikum lösen Jens und Christina knifflige Buchstaben- und Zahlenrätsel und befreien so die Kinder aus ihrem Bann. Doch beim letzten Quiz, einem schwierigen Rätsel über Dinosaurier, wird es noch einmal spannend.

Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university's entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States. Inspired by more than a hundred student-led protests during the Movement for Black Lives, contributors examine how campus rebellions - and university responses to them - expose the racialized inequities at the core of higher education.

Catherine’s first memories were of the fae and the misfortune they brought. No one believed her and told her she was insane. When Catherine arrives the country estate of Thornwood, she is determined to put her past and the fae behind. That is until she meets Ray Thorn. Ray introduces her into his world of the mesmerizing and deadly faery. Then a woman is murdered by one of the fae. She knew she shouldn’t have trusted a fae. But as more bodies turn up, Catherine realizes they’re targeting women like her, and she is their next victim. Is trusting Ray worth the price?

When DC crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Carr is called to investigate the heartrending case of a missing baby, she's shocked to discover that the child's mother is her own cousin. Close during their impoverished childhoods, Ellie and Rebecca eventually drifted apart. Rebecca is now half of a Washington power couple, and she and her wealthy lobbyist husband, Hunter, have been living a charmed life in an opulent mansion—until their infant son is taken. At first antagonists, then allies, Ellie and Rachael race to find the baby alive and bring the kidnappers to justice.

What would you do if you found out you're married, but can’t remember your wedding? Tracking down my husband was easy, getting him to sign the divorce papers wasn’t. Because Landon West has an agenda: He agrees to sign the papers if I live with him for 21 days. If I still want to get a divorce at the end, he’ll give it to me. I agree to the deal. And realize my mistake as soon as I move in.