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One-night stands are kind of my thing. Hit it and run because I have no desire to get tied down to a woman. Honestly, I have no desire to see the women I get in bed more than once. We can pass on the cuddling, coffee dates, and telling each other all our hopes and dreams. I'm just not that guy. At least, I wasn't, until a beauty - unlike anything I've ever seen - ambushed my life by walking into the bar, one night.

Charlotte Wilde's life is a flop. She gives her heart to the wrong men and her first published book is a failure. Desperate to pay the bills, she takes a job caring for an elderly woman. Yet as Charlotte gets to work, dutifully helping Mrs. Lanigan sort through a box of old letters, distractions abound. For one thing, both women immediately become consumed with a mystery unfolding in the correspondence. And to complicate matters further, Charlotte finds herself drawn to her charge's son, Ardan, like they've known each other forever.

How did that happen? When I accidentally hooked up with Brent Irvine in his private pool house, I thought I’d never see him again. That night felt like a dream, but it was over in an instant. Fast forward a few months. I meet him again, but this time, he isn’t just a man I can drool over. He’s my boss, and I’m hired to care for his six-year old son. I can’t afford to lose this job. Which means that I need to keep my temptation in check. Crawling into bed with him isn’t an option.

These brief meditations have been collected from the third volume of Francis Grimké's Works, entitled Stray Thoughts and Meditations, a diary written over the last 25 years of his life. Grimké's thoughts on preaching display his gospel-centered piety, his wisdom, and his experience of eventually fifty years of pulpit ministry. Preachers from every Christian denomination will benefit from this African American Presbyterian voice of the early 20th century.

Life never has been kind to Polly Shields. Hard work doesn’t pay the bills anymore. She feels like she’s swimming against an oncoming tide. She is tired. Why do things always fall apart just when it seems they are coming together. It’s like she’s cursed. It’s better not to start something with her handsome neighbor Gilbert. It probably wouldn’t last long anyway. If she only knew about her secret royal heritage and how it could change her life forever.

I’m the brutal Mafia Boss that people fear. They do as I say. But she’s the woman I can’t control. Claire teaches my niece at school. I was obsessed the second I lay my eyes on her. I wanted my hands all over her soft curves. In my world, when I want something, I make it mine. When she refused to privately tutor my niece, I was left with only one option. Kidnap her and bring her to my lakeside mansion. She stays until my niece passes her test. Claire hates me, but I see the warmth in her eyes. She wants me as much as I crave her.

Private investigator Ava Worthington and her partners head to the mountains to solve the death of a farmer’s son. Without local cowboy Cory Mortel's protection, Ava won’t get the chance to follow leads as the killer tries to stop her investigation. But Cory seems reluctant to get involved. Cory Mortel has retreated to the seclusion of the mountains after a personal disaster. The last thing he needs is to babysit a beautiful amateur detective and her friends. But Ava seems to attract danger, so Cory has choice but to step in and protect her.

Graduate student Maddie Clare is never talking to her ex-boyfriend Joze Evans or God again. Still broken from Joze's betrayal, Mattie has to go home for her Aunt Lonna's funeral. But after a run-in with a stalker - who insists Maddie knows the secret that had Aunt Lonna investigating him - Mattie is afraid for her life and must accept Joze's protection.

Kane: Unhappily married. Yeah, that sums up my life. I messed up with that shit decision. I still have my sister though. When I attend her wedding, I run into an old friend. Ivy. When she admits that she had feelings for me, I take her home like any good man would do. I didn't expect all the complications that came with it though. She was used before me, and I want to show her that I'm not the same as him. The problem is, I am.

A cruise-ship romance with Navy SEAL Tristan Halliday was one thing, but now he's back, wanting more. His can-do attitude and mouth-watering sex appeal make him hard to resist, and she could use his special skills to hunt down her parents' murderer. But private investigator Juliet Rhodes prefers being single and working alone. Unfazed by Juliet's bristling independence, Tristan helps her scour San Francisco's art district, finding and confronting top suspects.

A secret they intended to take to the grave, but the dead will tell...In 1945, Liv commits an unspeakable act. She flees from her life, but all actions have consequences. Twenty years later, she's drawn back to Northern Michigan where it all began. Dead Stream Curse weaves together the past and present in a chilling ghost story filled with mystery.

Reggie Christian asked something of me that I’ve never done before: to lie to his brothers. In the grand scheme of things, he asked much more than that. The first was to deceive both Jordan and Logan, but the next was something I never expected. He wanted me to protect his little sister. Madigan is the hidden love child who’s been their father’s best-kept secret for all these years, even from his own sons.

What should be the primary emphasis of a theological education? How should the student of theology approach such a transcendent topic? William Swan Plumer answers both questions with eloquence and wisdom in the two inaugural addresses contained in this book: Christ All in All, his 1854 inaugural address at Western theological seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and The Right Temper for a Theologian, his 1867 inaugural address at Columbia theological seminary in Columbia, South Carolina.

A hardened criminal. A gut-wrenching revelation. Loyalty, brotherhood, and honor will be tested to the breaking point. Austin Conrad is a study in contradictions. A decorated war hero turned jaded enforcer for a ruthless outlaw motorcycle club, the honor he once had is jolted back to the surface with a devastating discovery about the club he called home. Can this hardened criminal look the other way, or will honor drive a wedge between him and the brotherhood that embraced him?

In this book, Thomas Dwight Witherspoon lays out the core ideas of Presbyterian ecclesiology in five points, and sets forth the beauty of this biblical system of church government.

Cornelius Washington Grafton (1846-1934) was an American Presbyterian pastor in the country village of Union Church, Mississippi, from 1873-1934. At the 43-year mark of his pastorate, he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The address he gave as Moderator is published in this book. In it, Grafton speaks in detail of his life and work as a country pastor.

Written while Alexander was in his 70s, the five letters in this booklet candidly acknowledge the trials of aging, while at the same time offering biblical encouragement and hope for the Christian facing death. Alexander considers the "autumn of life" from the perspective of its struggles, its besetting sins, its duties, its unstoppable journey toward death, and the assurance the believer in Jesus Christ can have as death approaches. Everyone will profit from Alexander's wise counsel, especially those past mid-life.

Deep in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, this maximum-security penitentiary held some of the most vicious criminals...One of them was Billy Black Hawk, a murderer and rapist...he was not only a master of mind control, but he was also a fluent out-of-body traveler and shape-shifter. Sampson Faith, a cold blooded assassin, wanders the wastelands in search of the man who killed his beloved wife. Little does he know that Billy Blackhawk, the man who killed Missy, will soon escape his musty prison cell and come looking to kill Sampson and claim his soul as well.

Steve wants to leave his old life behind, the life of killing and waiting to be killed. But when it's the family business, it can be a hard habit to break.

The notorious Rattlers motorcycle club didn't have an official exit policy. So, Austin Conrad wrote his own when he decided to get the hell out. Now, he's the target of the MC's ruthless president, who's hellbent to silence Austin to keep his own dark secrets buried. Set along the back roads of Southern California's Mojave Desert, the story comes to its thrilling climax among the abandoned ghost town of Amboy. When Austin is waylaid by a crew of murderous thugs from a rogue faction of the club, the hunters become the hunted.