The Countess Conspiracy

      Courtney Milan
     The Countess Conspiracy

Sebastian Malheur is the most dangerous sort of rake: an educated one. When he's not scandalizing ladies in the bedchamber, he's outraging proper society with his scientific theories. He's desired, reviled, acclaimed, and despised—and he laughs through it all. Violet Waterfield, the widowed Countess of Cambury, on the other hand, is entirely respectable, and she’d like to stay that way. But Violet has a secret that is beyond ruinous, one that ties her irrevocably to England's most infamous scoundrel: Sebastian's theories aren't his. They're hers. So when Sebastian threatens to dissolve their years-long conspiracy, she'll do anything to save their partnership...even if it means opening her vulnerable heart to the rake who could destroy it for good..

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    Green Darkness

      Anya Seton
     Green Darkness

“The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay—the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual souls in two periods of English history.” Green Darkness is the story of a great love, a love in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century. The marriage of the Englishman Richard Marsdon and his young American wife, Celia, slowly turns tragic as Richard withdraws into himself and Celia suffers a debilitating emotional breakdown. A wise mystic realizes that Celia can escape her past only by reliving it. She journeys back four hundred years to her former life as the servant girl Celia de Bohun during the reign of Edward VI—and to her doomed love affair with the chaplain Stephen Marsdon. Although Celia and Stephen can’t escape the horrifying consequences of their love, fate (and time) offer them another chance for redemption.

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    Stoneface

      Tymber Dalton
     Stoneface

(MMF) Gwen has a cheating ex, a paranoid best friend, crazy overprotective and ultra-religious parents…and is a successful erotica writer. Forced to overcome her fear of flying to search for their sister in Rapid City, Gwen doesn't expect to run into her internet buddy, Tim. Better yet, Tim's boyfriend, Jack, is a police detective. They welcome Gwen and her older brother, Liam, to stay with them during their search. Jack earned his "Stoneface" nickname after personal tragedy hardened his heart. He loves Tim, but Gwen stirs up painful memories that make Jack's feelings for her suspect in his own mind. It doesn't help that he falls in love with her. Unfortunately, finding their sister leads to more problems. Shattered trust, broken hearts, and Liam coming out to their parents in a defiant showdown make Gwen question her priorities. Can she risk her heart again trying to break through Jack's "Stoneface" façade?

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    The Stars at Noon

      Denis Johnson
     The Stars at Noon

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for Eyes of Peace? And who is the rough English businessman with whom she becomes involved? As the two foreigners become entangled in increasingly sinister plots, Denis Johnson masterfully dramatizes a powerful vision of spiritual bereavement and corruption.

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    The Lady Messiah

      Brittney Brosh
     The Lady Messiah

Can't escape the haunting memories of the past? Try to run faster.Luna Reyes, how it all began. A poor little girl who experienced one too many tragedies. Without anyone keeping her tied to her past, she begins to lose herself.Age 24, wanted for the mass murder of criminals in America. Name and identity unknown, but an unspoken hero to many.From the ashes of loss, the Lady Messiah is born.

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    Air and Angels

      Susan Hill
     Air and Angels

Celibate, irreproachable and distinguished, Thomas Cavendish is in his mid-fifties and the obvious man to become Master of his college. But, walking by the river, Thomas sees a young girl standing on the bridge. It is an apocalyptic vision, one that alters Thomas's life irrevocably and tragically, but with the beauty and joy of a love never previously imagined.

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    Many Waters

      William Woodall
     Many Waters

Cody McGrath is a young cowboy with big dreams and some serious enemies. Lisa Stone is a small-town waitress with problems of her own. But when an ominous prophetic dream brings them together, they soon find that love can blossom even under the most unlikely of circumstances. An inspirational and very thought-provoking Christian love story with a fantasy twist.Life is short in the old village where Muira, a young girl blossoming into womanhood, has spent all her days, but her life is about to begin when she begins her new position as servant to Castle Campbell. The old laird and the old castle are cold compared to her home with her mother and brother, but the innocent girl will learn the pleasures of womanhood when she stumbles on a dark secret. The secret consumes her and leaves her breathless for more of what she knows is sinful, but nobody told her sin would feel so good.The Highland Moon series is an episodic serial with cliffhangers and sensual fun.

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    Wicked Bartender PG-13 Version

      KuroKoneko Kamen
     Wicked Bartender PG-13 Version

A demon Duke is awakened in the 21st Century to await the Apocalypse. Having to blend in with the humans he decides to become a wicked bartender at Dullahan's Irish Pub where he encounters a feisty, feminist waitress with hauntingly familiar green eyes. Eyes that are the window to her soul, and Dantalion recognizes the reincarnation of the woman he fell in love with centuries ago, Jeanne d'Arc.A forbidden love story erased from the history books…Ever wonder why Jeanne d’Arc was forsaken by God and burned at the stake? In the year 1430 Jeanne d’Arc fell in love with a demon reputed to be the Great Duke of Hell, Dantalion, with scores of demon legions under his command. His goal was to begin the Apocalypse but Jeanne d’Arc was there to stand in his way. And unexpectedly to fall in love.Reincarnated soul-mates will find each other centuries later…Joan Simone is a young 21st Century woman who just wants to channel her pent-up aggression into tennis. However, a horrible car accident dashes her dreams of playing tennis professionally. After that she ends up having to get a job as a waitress, and if that wasn’t bothersome enough - her golden retriever reveals he can talk and awakens memories of her past life. Joan discovers that she was Jeanne d’Arc in her past life and that God has a new mission for her. Seek and destroy the lesser demons in New York City and prevent the Apocalypse.A demon bartender as intoxicating as a cocktail…A demon minion frees the Great Duke of Hell, Dantalion, by breaking a seal that’s kept him pinned to a tree and asleep for centuries. Lucifer has cursed Dantalion with a human body and a new mission. He must live among the humans until the time Dantalion is to begin the Apocalypse. Dantalion decides to become a bartender at Dullahan’s Irish Pub and encounters a waitress with hauntingly familiar green eyes… Author's note: Swearwords and graphic sexual content have been removed to make this book more appropriate for my Teen readers. Enjoy!

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    A Matter of Diplomacy: A Novelette

      Zoe Baxter
     A Matter of Diplomacy: A Novelette

At the advanced age of three and thirty, the bookish Lady Anastasia has given up on finding love. Consequently, when sparks fly between Anastasia and a brilliant, handsome, and much younger diplomatic attaché, Lady Anastasia questions the young Jonathon Ambercrombie’s true intentions. This novelette-length story is a sweet traditional romance set in Victorian-era Brussels."The King of High Adventure," Starlog. "Immediately convincing, classically brooding," TheCimmerian.com.To the world at large, he is a mercenary and assassin, a brutal killer with a deadly blade. In reality Kormak is a Guardian, one of a near-extinct order sworn to protect humanity from the servants of the gathering darkness.The Ghul are the Stealers of Flesh, an ancient race of demons who possess the bodies of humans to work great evil. Now one of them has been freed from its ancient prison using Kormak's own dwarf-forged sword and the Guardian must pursue it to a haunted city on the edge of the world to end its reign of terror.Stealer of Flesh contains four-linked novelettes that tell the epic tale of Kormak's hunt for a prince of demons. In it he encounters a conspiracy of demented mages, an army of werewolves, Orcish blademasters and a beautiful alchemist and her insane poet brother.About The AuthorWilliam King lives in Prague, Czech Republic with his lovely wife Radka and his sons Dan and William Karel. He has been a professional author and games developer for almost a quarter of a century. He is the creator of the bestselling Gotrek and Felix series for Black Library and the author of the bestselling Space Wolf books which between them have sold over three quarters of a million copies in English and been translated into 8 languages.He has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award. His short fiction had appeared in Year’s Best SF and Best of Interzone. He has twice won the Origins Awards For Game Design. His hobbies include role-playing games and MMOs as well as travel.

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    For Services Rendered

      Francis W. Porretto
     For Services Rendered

Few persons who’ve never visited these United States have a sense of how unpredictable Americans can be. Amelie, a cynical young French jewelry saleswoman on her first trip to America, was warned about our eccentricity, but decided to reserve judgment until she experienced it at close range. The lesson is well beyond what she expected.THE PSYCHIC PROTECTOR RETURNS WITH A BRAND NEW TALE!Established as the city's favorite member of the Detroit Police Department, Thomas Millcrowe takes great pride in his work. Even X - his superhero alter ego - has just as much renown under his belt, making Detroit known for being the home for two of the greatest heroes the city has ever known, despite not knowing they are indeed one in the same.So when a dark figure from both Thomas and X's past suddenly returns, all the more trouble begins to brew.With the return of such an individual that has impacted both his professional and super-heroic life, his new partner Alyssa Zeno steadily growing suspicious of his secret, and a scheme that could mean the end of the very city, Thomas Millcrowe is forced to make a conscious-conflicting decision. Will he protect and serve by the law he has sworn to uphold as a police officer, or give in to the freedom his alter ego provides in order to preserve the greater good?

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    True Love & Realization

      Shedrick Carr
     True Love & Realization

Life dosen't always work out how you want, especially love. What we want may be our doom, and what we need may be our salvation. Love is such a complex, ideal, individual. It's amazing the lessons we learn from it. Sometimes you can love a person with all your heart, but if it's not meant it won't work out. Experiences are hilarious, lessons are eternal.Status updating…Time and Space breached…Data leak detected…The archives of The Numbered Entity Project have opened in this membrane of existence for the very first time. Inside the, at once both infinitesimal and infinity-spanning, data stores wait the tale of rogues, outcasts and 'others.' Those whose time was numbered but refused to 'know their place.' Those who tried, for better or worse, to change their respective worlds of swords and magic, steam and musket, or nanotechnology. The Project records all, in tribute to Time and Space.Jaime has waited his whole life for the chance to change the world. Armed with a discrete bio-weapon, he prepares to assassinate the Great Sir of the Seven Systems and free millions from industrial serfdom. But Jaime is on a one way trip, a journey that will force him to sever his ties to the one he loves most. His ideals will be tested to breaking when brought to bear against that love, a love which could tear Seven Systems apart.

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    Twenty Four Weeks - Episode 8 - "Nineteen" (PG)

      James David Denisson
     Twenty Four Weeks - Episode 8 -

Twenty Four WeeksEpisode 8"Nineteen"Judd and Quinn have their first date... Quinn faces the truth about her family..."Quinn’s problem had very little to do with which penis she preferred. It had everything to do with which heart. And she chose yours because you have the bigger heart. This pregnancy tested your heart and Wade’s and yours was stronger. Yours didn’t let her down."Twenty Four WeeksEpisode 8"Nineteen"Judd and Quinn have their first date... Quinn faces the truth about her family..."Quinn’s problem had very little to do with which penis she preferred. It had everything to do with which heart. And she chose yours because you have the bigger heart. She saw that because this pregnancy tested your heart and Wade’s and yours was stronger. Yours didn’t let her down."Still reeling from the shock of discovering his wife's infidelity, Judd Altman learns that he has lost his father and will be one himself. His soon to be ex-wife, Quinn, is pregnant with his child.After almost losing the baby, Wade (Judd's old boss and Quinn's lover) realizes the truth about himself and his relationship with Quinn and leaves her. Judd, in the face of Quinn's situation, forgives her, but cannot reconcile their marriage.With nothing but a stolen Porsche, Judd drives to Maine with limitless possibilities. A man with nothing has nothing to lose, and a man with nothing to lose can do anything.Twenty Four Weeks begins with Judd's time of reflection in Maine and his eventual decision to return to New York City, to take back the life that has been so cruelly taken from him. Sometimes humorous, this bitter-sweet tale is full of hope, love and forgiveness.With characters and back story based on the novel "This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper, Twenty Four Weeks is set after the events of the movie of the same name.

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    My Name Is Memory

      Ann Brashares
     My Name Is Memory

Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. A love always too short. Interwoven through Sophia and Daniel's unfolding present day relationship are glimpses of their expansive history together. From 552 Asia Minor to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia, the two souls share a long and sometimes torturous path of seeking each other time and time again. But just when young Sophia (now "Lucy" in the present) finally begins to awaken to the secret of their shared past, to understand the true reason for the strength of their attraction, the mysterious force that has always torn them apart reappears. Ultimately, they must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are ever to spend a lifetime together.

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