Claiming Her Mate

Claiming Her Mate

Jess Buffett

Jess Buffett

Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences.  Contains wording and actions some may deem offensive.  Sexually explicit content.  MF     In book one of New Hope Valley: For more than seven years, Summer Ashcroft has had to watch the man she knows is her mate, go about his life, ambivalent and distant toward her.  As one of only a few tiger shifters left, the pressure on her to mate threatens to suffocate her, leaving her to wonder if is she strong enough to risk it all to be with him.    Evan MacKenzie has known Summer all of his life, and has forcefully maintained his distance from the gorgeous woman.  Staying away seems to be his only recourse since he is unwilling to risk losing the one person that still makes him feel as if he has a heart.  When it's realized he is the key to things left out of their control, he finds himself at a crossroads.    Mistakes are made by both, but when the truth is discovered, the pair is thrust together in unimaginable circumstances.  They must work as one to search out answers for Evan, and secure a future for Summer's species, but are they strong enough?  Or will forces set into motion thousands of years before, keep them apart?
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The Fox Cub Bold

The Fox Cub Bold

Colin Dann

Colin Dann

'He saw on man raise his weapon and take aim at him... and, the next instant, felt a fierce sear of pain in his right thigh...' The fox cub Bold has left the sheltered life of the nature reserve determined to make his way in the world. But, exulting in his new-found freedom, he becomes reckless. And now he lies badly wounded by a hunter's bullet. Can Bold survive - lamed and unable to hunt - in the harsh environment of the real world he so eagerly entered? Winter is coming and friends are hard to find . . .
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Aspen Gold

Aspen Gold

Janet Dailey

Janet Dailey

Kit Masters, born and brought up on an Aspen ranch, left to pursue an acting career in Hollywood but she is a woman with a strong sense of family, loyalty, and integrity and had deep ties to the land where she grew up. After ten years, she returns home to settle her father's estate and realizes she must choose between her career and Tom Bannon, a man she has not seen for ten years, the man who broke her heart by marrying someone else—the man she still loves. Kit has gotten a golden opportunity, the lead role in a movie opposite famous actor-producer-and legendary seducer—John Travis. The movie will be filming in Aspen. She meets Bannon again, and they rediscover their romance, though she is still feeling the pain of his betrayal and he is haunted by the memory of his dead wife—and John Travis has begun to pursue Kit, ardently.
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A McKettrick Christmas

A McKettrick Christmas

Linda Lael Miller

Romance / Historical Romantic Western / Romantic Suspense

Lizzie McKettrick is coming home for Christmas. And Indian Rock's new schoolteacher has a surprise in store for her family--a special young man, Whitley Carson. He might seem a little too interested in the McKettrick money, but Lizzie's certain Whitley cares for her deep down.Yet fate has a surprise of its own for Lizzie: Dr. Morgan Shane. When their homebound train is halted by a massive avalanche, injuring and stranding its passengers, the handsome doctor takes charge--with Lizzie by his side.Despite their growing bond, Lizzie and Morgan know time is running out. With another avalanche looming and the train's food supply dwindling, it's going to be a bleak Christmas Eve. But with faith, hard work and a little extra help from a most unexpected source, they just might find their way home to celebrate a McKettrick family Christmas after all....
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The Lodger

The Lodger

Mary Jane Staples

Mary Jane Staples

Maggie Wilson was only thirty-three, but life in the teeming streets of Walworth was not that easy in 1908 - not if you were a widow with four young daughters. It was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence and without the lodger Maggie really wouldn't have managed at all.Constable Harry Bradshaw thought the Wilsons were a gutsy and brave little family - from the youngest and cheekiest, Daisy, up to the elegant Trary, thirteen-years-old and quite the young lady. But the one who won most of his admiration was Maggie herself, fighting her lonely battle against total poverty.And his fears for her concerned more than just their lack of money. For a murderer was loose in South London - a rather sinister strangler who obviously knew the local streets and alleys very well indeed. A full scale investigation was put in hand, and Harry was told, in particular, to inquire into any new lodgers who had moved into the district. And there was something very...
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Hot Chocolate

Hot Chocolate

Charlotte De Pace

Charlotte De Pace

She's always been the good girl, but this trip to Italy will show Annabella that love and chocolate can both be sweet, tempting — and dangerously addictive.When infamous playboy Alessandro De Costa entices Little Miss Sensible, Annabella Beaumont, to be his master chocolatier and faux fiancée, neither anticipate the deception — or passionate seduction — that will follow.Annabella isn't prepared for the limelight, the charade, the 'makeover', and she didn't know her new boss would look like a gift from heaven with the devil in his smile. But she's determined to succeed; her sister's depending on her.Now, as she slowly succumbs to the playboy's charms, Annabella struggles with sweet temptation — as well as secrets that could ruin everything.
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Crackback

Crackback

John Coy

John Coy

In his gripping debut novel, acclaimed picture book author John Coy presents the high stakes world of high school football, where doing what it takes to win doesn't always mean doing the right thing.When Miles Manning, a successful high school football player, discovers his teammates are using steroids—and one of them is his best friend—he's faced with a tough decision: Is he willing to do what it takes to win? Football is his life, and his family, especially his dad, is pinning its hopes on him. It's a lot of pressure for a high school junior to bear. This gripping look into the world of high school boys and athletes—and their struggle to be the best—is provocative and searingly honest.
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Ex-Communication e-3

Ex-Communication e-3

Peter Clines

Peter Clines

"All of us try to cheat death. I was just better prepared to do it than most folks." In the years since the wave of living death swept the globe, St George and his fellow heroes haven't just kept Los Angeles' last humans alive - they've created a real community, a bustling town that's spreading beyond its original walls and swelling with new refugees. But now one of the heroes, perhaps the most powerful among them, seems to be losing his mind. The implacable enemy known as Legion has found terrifying new ways of using zombies as pawns in his attacks. And outside the Mount, something ancient and monstrous is hell-bent on revenge. As Peter Clines weaves these elements together in yet another masterful, shocking climax, St. George, Stealth, Captain Freedom, and the rest of the heroes find that even in a city overrun by millions of ex-humans… …there's more than one way to come back from the dead.
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The Sound of Seas

The Sound of Seas

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson

From Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin—the final book in their "addictive" (Marie Claire) EarthEnd Saga comes to a thrilling conclusion in a wild story involving time travel, ghosts, alien technology, and strange spiritual powers...the perfect combination for X-Files fans.After discovering the secrets to the Gaalderkhani tiles—ancient computers that house not just memories, but untold destructive force—Caitlin O'Hara's son gets accidentally thrust back in time. In order to save him she must master the power of the tiles and figure out what the Gaalderkhani's modern relatives are searching and killing for. Can she put the pieces together and bring her son back home again? In the exciting finale to their acclaimed paranormal series that's been praised as "a real page-turner" (New York Live) and for "fans of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child" (Publishers Weekly), Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin pull out all the stops in The...
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