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Troublemaker

15 years ago, my mother made a deal with the devil.Only, she didn't tell me she made it.She said I was going to live with an aunt and an uncle. She said I'd be safe. She said this was the life she wanted for me.Now I'm 18, but the debt my mother owes is far from paid.There's only one person who's able to wipe the slate clean and erase my debt, but I have a problem because Harrison O'Conner isn't the type of person who's going to have a change of heart when he realizes what the terms of my mother's agreement were or where I really came from.Or what his father planned for me.Harrison's dad has raised me, groomed me, to be the perfect wife for him one day, but I don't want to marry Harrison. I don't want to be his trophy. I don't want anything to do with the O'Conner family legacy.Even if he is handsome.Even if he does take my breath away.Even if he is...A troublemaker.TROUBLEMAKER is the second book in the BULLIES OF CRESCENT ACADEMY series. This is a panty-dropping, page-turning series that's going to knock your socks off. This story includes sexual situations and graphic depictions of bullying and aggression. All characters are over 18. Not for the faint of heart.
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The Wall Between the Worlds

Cassidy Heights is still recovering from the freak snowstorm that wreaked so much havoc two months before, but Mikhal has his own problems. He's failing at pretty much everything, and the fact that he just punched his best friend in the face is just the icing on the cake. Now, geeky Sharna Devon has been assigned to tutor him, and Mikhal couldn't think of anything worse. Can't everyone just leave him alone? All he wants to do is to learn to play his guitar and overcome his stage fright so he can get rich, famous, and away from Cassidy Heights for good.Mikhal's mum has other plans for him though. She's running a charity drive, and thinks it will assist Mikhal learn some responsibility to help out. Mikhal's friends, Jake and Keira, are also involved with the drive; but Mikhal is sure they're hiding something from him. When he discovers Jake's old mobile phone in one of the boxes dropped off for the drive, he and Sharna are dragged into the mystery. Jake and Keira's friend,...
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Empire of Embers

Now you Seelie, Now you don't.Layanna Fairling hasn't come all the way across the land to be trapped in Dragonscale. Using her wits, and her new found shape-shifting ability, Layanna and her team get free of a second tyrant king.With the dragons by her side, the lost queen must make her way back to Althea. She has been gone longer than expected, allowing King Jordeek and the shroud, to reign over the land. Will Layanna defeat Jordeek before the shroud kills the kingdom, or will the evil king somehow give up the throne and return Althea back to its rightful ruler? This is the last book in the Althea trilogy.
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Berlin Vertigo

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess in Berlin. For Thomas, the city of cabaret clubs and neon skylines was nothing less than mesmerising. Yet his outlook is turned upside down when he witnesses a shocking murder. What is worse, he has to decide if his best friend is capable of being the killer.After the terrible event, he becomes the entangled in a web of mystery and deceit. As a cat-and-mouse game between the two friends ensues, the story delves into the beating heart of 1920s Berlin, where politics and personal ambition reveal the darker anxieties of the modern metropolis. Thomas has to decide whether to speak out and betray his friend, or to stay quiet and risk betraying himself.And at the centre, a painting by the rising-star of the Berlin art scene, a work of art that may yet prove vital in piecing together the jigsaw of what really happened that fateful day. Berlin Vertigo is a tale of friendship, love and betrayal. If you like taut historical mysteries, with a cast of characters drawn with psychological depth, then you are bound to enjoy this book.
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Alter Ego

Hollywood days. Vigilante nights.To the world, she's a star. To the league of heroes who raised her? She's a liability. Mary's got a penchant for gadgets, a resume packed with criminal-busting credentials, and a reckless streak that tends to land her in trouble. So when a potential recruit blazes a trail through a local bar—literally—Mary blows off league protocol and whisks the girl off to HQ. But Mary's heat-of-the-moment rebellion endangers her family when the recruit's father shows up; more blowtorch than human, he's got a vendetta against the league and powerful investors to back him up. Instead of letting Mary help, the league banishes her to a stint of camera-courting under the guise of her celebrity secret identity. But Mary's got no intention of benching her grapple hooks; she chases her own leads through a web of secrets that threatens to unravel her history with...
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Universal Love

A hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World. Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother's hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed. In an age when technology offers the easiest cures for loneliness, the characters within these stories must wrestle with what it means to stay human in an increasingly cybernetic future, and how love can endure even the most alluring...
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