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After Darke

Welcome to Twin Oaks--the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion--and one to set things straight...Check-in: When small-town plumber Bonnie Cooper visited New York in search of vintage bath fixtures for the Twin Oaks B and B, her reputation as the Berkshire's Blind Date Queen followed her. But an arranged dinner with city-bred columnist Jaron Darke went from bad to worse when they witnessed a mob hit outside the restaurant. They had no choice but to hide out at Twin Oaks. Their cover? They're engaged!Checkout: To Jaron, she was Bonnie the Bumpkin; to Bonnie he was pretentious, pretentious, pretentious. But forced together, they did find one thing in common: passion. And as it turned out, their lives depended on it.
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Driven

Alternate cover edition for 9780989450218 Now a limited series streaming on Passionflix beginning August 2018. From New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg comes the first book in an unforgettable series about lust, love, redemption, and healing . . . Colton Donavan lives on that razor thin edge toward out of control. Whether it’s on the track or off of it, everything he wants is at his fingertips: success, willing women, media attention. Everything that is, but me. I’m the exception this reckless bad boy can’t seem to win over. My heart is healing. His soul is damaged. We both know the two of us could never work. But he crashes into my life without apology—disrupting my world, testing my boundaries, and uncovering the darkness of my past. Our chemistry is undeniable. Our attraction is magnetic. Our ability to help each other heal obvious. And even though he won’t let me in, there’s something about Colton I can’t walk away from. This is the beginning of our story. Our fight. Our perfectly imperfect love.
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The Drowning

What happens if you've done something terrible? But you can't remember what. And you don't know how to put it right ...When Carl opens his eyes on the banks of a lake, his brother is being zipped into a body bag. What happened in the water? He can't remember And when he glimpses a beautiful girl he thinks he recognizes, she runs away. Suddenly he knows he must find her - because together they must face the truth before it drowns them.
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Madeleine Abducted

She was meant to be his destruction… A pawn played in a perilous game between father and son… Yet, her strength was more than either man could imagine. As Maddy learns to save herself… She becomes the one thing that could set the son free. Madeleine Clark was raised to become a concert cellist. Sheltered and naïve, she remains hidden behind her music, a protection from the world around her. On the night of her first solo performance, Maddy accepts the admiration of a stranger and finds herself captive in a cruel and twisted power struggle between a sadistic father and his son, Aaron. Seemingly dangerous and uncaring, Aaron manages the business operations of his father’s estate. Wanting nothing to do with the slaves kept at the Estate, Aaron refuses to take part in the deeper depravities of his father. Despite his resistance, Aaron’s father ‘gifts’ him with a petite, brunette woman he can’t refuse. A bond forged in conspiracy and deceit, Aaron struggles to save Maddy by teaching her to survive in the world in which he’d been raised. An unlikely union, Aaron soon learns that great strengths can exist within small packages, while Madeleine learns that love and light can exist in the darkest of places.
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The Reluctant Assassin

​The reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run. Riley has been pulled into the FBI's covert W.A.R.P. operation (Witness Anonymous Relocation Program). He and young FBI Agent Chevie Savano are forced to flee terrifying assassin-for-hire Albert Garrick, who pursues Riley through time and will not stop until he has hunted him down. Barely staying one step ahead, Riley and Chevie must stay alive and stop Garrick returning to his own time with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.
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A New Dawn

A small collection of my earliest work that centers around personal experiences and the experiences of those around me.If you enjoy this collection, please feel free to download my new collection, due for publication on the 24th December. Thank you!It’s raining in Port Isabel and everyone’s indoors except Larry Monkey, a brilliant young chimp deeply troubled by the past. He wanders the winding laneways of the old stone town to be alone. And it’s a good thing, because trouble’s brewing and he might be the only one able to stop it. Flossy Fairweather, a remarkable girl with courage beyond her years, has seen something lurking in the shadows too and goes to investigate, sword in hand. It could be a trap and if the pirates are back they’ll want revenge. But Flossy’s not afraid because she’s amongst friends, mostly anyway.By the end of the next ice age, all that remains of the once great, world-spanning human civilisation are myths and ancient, inexplicable artefacts lying at the feet of melting glaciers. Thanks to the red-hot Heat Tree reefs that keep the ice at bay, the lands above the Gulf of Mexico are some of the few places still warm enough to support life. On the western shores of the Gulf is Port Isabel, a town conceived and built by owls who mysteriously vanished hundreds of years before without even bothering to say goodbye. The animals that live there are industrious, peaceful and vegetarian; except for those that aren't, which is where all the trouble starts.Mark Douglas Stafford is an award winning writer living in Sydney, Australia. His novels, fables and short stories are adored by children and adults alike.
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The Misadventures of the Krafts

Everyone has an off-day once in a while. The same is true for the Kraft family, Rex and Dolly, their daughter Sheryl and their son Chase. The Misadventures of the Krafts takes a humorous look at how an average family reacts to a day with some very unusual events.Rex and Dolly Kraft live in a semi-rural area with their daughter Sheryl and son Chase. Like other families, they have an off-day once in a while. But for the Kraft family, Rex just seems to get a little more than his share. The Misadventures of the Krafts takes a humorous look at how an average family reacts to a day with some very unusual events.
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Mapping the Silence of Dreams

Harris Palmer is an assistant director of security at a lab where scientists made contact with the dream sphere and accidentally brought something back: A sinister gunfighter and his sorceress bride, leaving the fate of the world up to a corporate security agent who never really liked his job in the first place.Harris Palmer is the assistant director of security at a laboratory where scientists have succeeded in making contact with something in the dream sphere, or more specifically, accidentally brought something back. Having touched one of the darker places of the place where people dream, a sinister gunfighter and his sorceress bride have returned to our world, leaving the fate of the world up to a corporate security agent who never really liked his job in the first place. This is a novella and comes from the much larger book, Darkened Passages. This story runs about 40 pages.
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Aztlan

A group of teenagers stumble upon four stolen crop dusters loaded with an extremely potent nerve agent ready to attack Southern California. They steal vital information from the terrorists and flee across the desert fighting for their lives as they are pursed by the terrorists, Special Forces teams trying to rescue them, and the organization behind the terrorists as Los Angeles is ravaged.Aztlan is about four teenagers immersed in a fight for their lives after they stumble upon and disrupt a massive nerve gas attack on Los Angeles. A boy born in the slums of the Gaza Strip is brought to the United States as a sleeper at age twelve after his family was killed by US supplied rockets. He is recruited by a secret organization dedicated to overthrowing the United States Government with their Aztlan Project. They supply him with an extremely lethal nerve agent from the old Soviet Union, pilots willing to be martyrs and four stolen cropdusting planes. As the planes are departing from the desert outside Los Angeles, they are discovered by several teenagers who take some of the terrorist's antidote to the nerve gas, steal a laptop containing vital information regarding the terrorists attack plan, contact Homeland Security and flee across the desert pursued by the terrorists, the secret organization and Special Forces sent to rescue them. Many surprising twists and turns occur during the nonstop action as they are forced to get along and depend on each other as they fight for their lives as Los Angeles is ravaged by the attack. After being rescued they are thrust back into the middle of the fight with the terrorists as they are the only people immune to the nerve gas as Southern California continues to be devastated by the terrorists.
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Gorgon

An accountant is gruesomely murdered in Anchorage. The hag tree guarding Ravens Ravine is chopped to the ground. Two separate events hundreds of miles apart are the harbinger of a new battle for Ravens Cove—and a new enemy. Some people are destined to be warriors against what most of the world cannot see. Some battles are eternal. Welcome back to the Cove.....
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Forever Seventeen

Sam Baker is a severe bullying victim who makes a spur on the moment attack on everyone she's ever felt has fallen guilty to her mistreatment resulting in getting expelled. She's left not knowing quite where to go next in life until she sees a newcast that a massive boyband is holding auditions for their instrumental band... she's shocked at the outcome...Samantha Baker is a bullying victim who makes an attack on everyone that has ever fallen guilty to her mistreatment resulting in getting expelled. Not sure quite what she'll do with the rest of her life she uses her musical background to her strengths and tries out as guitar player for a massive boy band that is temporary in town holding auditions. She's stunned to receive an acceptance letter in the mail. But it isn't very long before she catches the eye of ladies man/player Hunter Thompson. Just when she's got her head wrapped around being linked to "Hollywood's It Boy" another man comes into her life and turns her world upside down once again. With her alcoholic brother, mother struggles, body, and continuous bullying issues she doesn't seem to find much time for silly romance games. Will one of these two boys change her outlook on love AND life forever?
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Taken, Not Spurred

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ruth Cardello comes the steamy debut to the Lone Star Burn series. Would-be writer Sarah Dery has just turned twenty-five and feels like her life is on hold. She's done squat with her English degree and is just killing time working for her parents. So, when the opportunity to spend the summer working on a ranch in Texas comes her way, she jumps at the chance, figuring it might be just the jolt she needs to get her creative juices flowing. Tony Carlton is a handsome and reclusive horse trainer with a tortured past and an eye for trouble, this time in the form of a naked blonde stranger he finds in his shower. The wrong turn that led Sarah into the arms of this sexy, brooding cowboy turns out to be just what she needed to find her steamy inner voice, but will their connection be enough to break down Tony's defenses?
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