Allie Stewart's new job is a dead end.The Falcons, her uncle's professional hockey team, have been cellar dwellers for years, mostly because her penny-pinching uncle won't fund the team. And Allie isn't exactly a welcome sight.Team management stuffs her where they won't have to deal with her: fundraising with the players' wives. It's not the job she got an MBA for, but she's never walked away from a challenge. Like management, the wives don't have much use for Allie, but she has an ally, the super-hot player representative, Will Cavallo.As they work closely together, Allie can't help but be attracted to him. He's not like the other ego-inflated players. He's got a heart and the more she works with him, the harder it is to stay away from him. Little does she know that he has the same feelings for her, but the Falcons have a strict policy of no fraternization. Besides, she's a Stewart. She's completely off limits.But Cavallo is trouble . . . big... Views: 565
'I didn’t believe in love at first sight–didn’t believe in anything, any more. But when I saw that girl for the first time I knew something was happening to me–love, a heart attack, or maybe God finally had pity on me for all the things that had gone wrong in my life and sent down an angel just to say hello, I don’t know. But something was happening, something big....'Jordan McCready survived two tours in Afghanistan before coming home to bury his parents and care for his sick brother. He works long hours in the mill, doesn't talk much, and likes it that way. His PTSD keeps him away from other people, but it also keeps him comfortable. He can't stand to be pitied and doesn't want anyone around him getting hurt.Jessica has spent most of her life bouncing between homeless shelters and foster families, but you could never tell from her smile. She loves taking care of the animals in the By-Gone Shelter, and just got a job at the old diner on the edge of town. She's training during the graveyard shift when Jordan comes in and... Well, she's a little distracted by those blue eyes. Otherwise, maybe she would've been more careful when the next guy comes in.The bad guy. The one with a gun.The Virgin and the Hero is super safe smut full of over-the-top situations and insta-love galore. It is a bit mushier than the usual Kendall Duke story, but that's because these are good people that need real love–and sex. Lots, and lots, and lots of sex. Please enjoy this lovely story full of baby-making goodness with a big ole HEA for two people who've been through the worst and deserve the best.Some violence in the beginning of the book–but remember: this is about a hero. Everything turns out just fine. The Innocent series, all stand alone stories about sassy virgins and the possessive, wounded alphas that have just got to claim them. Views: 565
Thirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and how they've been brought to life in 13 unique and unforgettable ways.Contributors include Kendare Blake (reimagining "Metzengerstein"), Rin Chupeco ("The Murders in the Rue Morge"), Lamar Giles ("The Oval Portrait"), Tessa Gratton ("Annabel Lee"), Tiffany D. Jackson ("The Cask of Amontillado"), Stephanie Kuehn ("The Tell-Tale Heart"), Emily Lloyd-Jones ("The Purloined Letter"), Hillary Monahan ("The Masque of the Red Death"), Marieke Nijkamp ("Hop-Frog"), Caleb Roehrig ("The Pit and the Pendulum"), and Fran Wilde ("The... Views: 565
There's a talent show at school and the prize is too good for Micah to pass up. Will he discover his talent in time to win?Based on the popular JellyTelly show, Micah's Super Vlog, in book four of this series Micah wants to win the big talent show prize. There's just one problem...he doesn't know his talent. So, he sets out to try just about everything (especially the things his friends are good at) in order to find "his thing." Discouraged with the process, Micah struggles with his identity but finally learns to have confidence that, in time, he'll uncover his special gifts. Views: 565
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted.In her rugged Italian village, Stella is considered an oddity—beautiful and smart, insolent and cold. Stella uses her peculiar toughness to protect her slower, plainer baby sister Tina from life's harshest realities. But she also provokes the ire of her father Antonio: a man who demands subservience from women and whose greatest gift to his family is his absence.When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and Tina must come of age side-by-side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them. Soon Stella learns that her survival is worthless without the one thing her family will deny her at any cost: her... Views: 564
