Captive of My Desires

**THE MALORYS RETURN! Johanna Lindsey sweeps readers into the dazzlingly passionate world of the incomparable Malorys, an aristocratic family of rakehell adventurers and spirited ladies -- which turns ever more tempestuous when James Malory introduces the daughter of a pirate to London society.** Gabrielle Brooks sets sail from England to a Caribbean island in search of her estranged father and encounters a life-altering surprise -- her father is a pirate! After spending three wonderful years hunting treasure with him, Gabrielle is dismayed when he decides she must return to London to find a proper husband. His old friend James Malory will sponsor her in polite society. Gabrielle is escorted to balls and parties by James's wife, Georgina, and her brother, Drew Anderson, a dashing American sea captain and fun-loving rogue. When Drew embroils Gabrielle in a scandal the night before he's to sail home, the pirate's daughter vows revenge by commandeering Drew's ship and taking him prisoner. But as passion runs high on their sea voyage, it becomes difficult to tell who is truly the captor and who is the captive.
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Stakes, Chapter 1: Vessel

As her true nature reveals itself, Gwen finds out one secret after another, placing her at odds with her family, friends, and the entire community. Follow Gwen as she must choose whether to ignore dark secrets or embrace the truth.In the serial fiction STAKES, Gwen comes home amid family tragedy to discover everything in the town of Oak Springs is not how it seems - including herself. As her true nature reveals itself, Gwen finds out one secret after another, placing her at odds with her family, friends, and the entire community. Follow Gwen as she must choose whether to ignore dark secrets or embrace the truth, risking accusations of witchcraft and losing everything she holds dear.Read the beginning of this paranormal new adult fantasy in Chapter 1: Vessel, and stay tuned for Chapter 2: Masked, when Gwen uncovers the depth of her abilities.
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Cold Water

To uncover the truth, you must risk everythingWhen Carey Tews retired from Les Coureurs - the clandestine organisation of high-risk smugglers - she swore she'd never go back. Her cover in Hungary was blown, and even if she could have returned, she wouldn't. That is, until an old friend and lover is found dead in mysterious circumstances.Back for one last job in a Europe fractured into a hundred tiny principalities, with civil unrest and political instability the norm, she must navigate local authorities, rogue operatives and Russian spies. What she doesn't know is that the investigation will take her to places she couldn't even imagine.
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Beyond the Wildlands

An elf of the Wildlands recounts his adventures in this fantasy short story.An elf of the Wildlands recounts his adventures in this fantasy short story.Jhinn, an elf from the wooded area known as the Wildlands, has lived an adventurous life. A master with a bow, he has joined forces with a human army to rid the forest of savage trolls. During training, he falls in love with a female warrior named Aurelle who has taken up her axe in defense of their homeland. After the battle, the pair journey together to begin new lives, though Jhinn prefers a life of crime.Follow along as they embark on an adventure full of excitement, greed, and tragedy.
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Null-A Continuum

Grandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the Golden Age of classic SF, the 1940s. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is perhaps most influential. It was the first major trade SF hardcover ever, in 1949, and has been in print ever since. The careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness, and Philip Jose Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A. It is required reading for anyone who wishes to know the canon of SF classics. And so John C. Wright was inspired to write a sequel to the two novels of Null-A (the second was The Players of Null-A). To do this, he trained himself to write in the pulp style and manner of van Vogt. So return again to the Null-A future, in which the superhuman amnesiac with a double brain, Gilbert Gosseyn, must pit his wits once more against the remorseless galactic dictator Enro the Red and the mysterious shadow-being known as The Follower, while he is hurled headlong through unimaginable distances in space and in time and through alternate eternities to fend off the death, and complete the rebirth, of the Universe itself!
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Todd Save The Queen: A Short Story

Tom, Dick, and Harry need help rescuing a princess, and Todd happened to be on his back porch.Todd has cancer and is about to give up on life – until three inept aliens abduct him because they think he can be an action movie star. Now Todd has to save an intergalactic queen from a bloodthirsty military, and his only allies are three aliens called Tom, Dick, and Harry.
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The Hunt

I was fine existing on copious amounts of chocolate. But, thanks to Fenris's less than helpful intervention, Mom's building a nightclub named "Man-beef Buffet." My hell is only beginning.Hounded by the Academy's guidance counselor, smothered by her mother, and harassed by a perverted brownie, Eliana's patience for well-meaning help is thinning. She has more important matters on her plate. Like, dealing with the repercussions of a backfired spell while avoiding the local, hot werewolf.When something starts stalking her, Eliana decides she'd done playing by everyone else's rules. She might be afraid to feed, but she's far from weak. The beast pursuing her will soon feel what it's like when the hunter becomes the hunted.Warning: Contains a starving succubus with violent reactions to sex toys, a loving mom who supports nudism, and a brownie with fertility issues. Recommended for mature teen readers and up.
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Kingdoms of Hell

A 'date' he said.Just one date with a Vampire King who had been hunting me down for months...what could go wrong, right? One picnic, one witch, an ex-girlfriend out for my blood, and an army of zombie vampire rogues later, and what I had was an 'Alice in Wonderland' style cocktail for disaster!Because this Alice was about to have the mind trip of her life when peeking through the keyhole of Lucius' memories. All before falling down a rabbit hole to Hell, where the bunnies were more likely to stab you with a carrot before eating your soul!But hey, it's not like I had just been dumped in the middle of a Hellish battle with nothing but my wits to survive it,Oh no, wait...That had happened.And one other thing that was sure to happen when Lucius finally found me in Hell... He was going to kill me!
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Beauty's Kiss

Rose, the Princess of Rhone, doomed to fall into a sleeping death on her eighteenth birthday, has only ever wanted two things in all her life: to be free of her curse, and to never fall in love. After securing the dragon's blood from the Serpent's Garden, Rose is confident she has all she needs to free herself from Magdalina's curse. But when Magdalina comes to offer Rose a new deal—one that would free her from her curse, while also eliminating future threats—Rose is forced to confront the truth of her feelings for Theo. As Theo's past and new troubles interrupt their journey back to Rhone, Rose knows she must make a devastating choice. Will she let herself fall in love? Or will she break her own heart instead?
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Arbiter (Underdog Book #7)

The skies of the Dark Continent teem with ravening beasts. Thousands of refugees are at the gates of Foreston seeking salvation from a mysterious scourge.The Wastes are infested with herds of bloodthirsty necromorphs that devour every living thing in their path. A Dark Gateway has opened in the Stone Forest, allowing a horde of otherworldly monsters to come flooding through.Adversaries from time immemorial are gathering armies and amassing forces. Ancient enemies are forming alliances. The world of the Great System stands once again on the precipice of change. A new war is coming.
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Tide of Terror

Sequel to Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean. Traitor Sidorio, unable to control thirst, builds a crew and takes a ship. Former crewmate Grace 14 wants to help blinded Lorcan who rescued her, and keep her twin Connor safe at the elite Pirate Academy. Will they stay together or follow their own journey?
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