She was born to serve. Pity she doesn't want to.DX-4, also known as Dex, is a hybrid: not quite human, not quite machine. She spends her days running errands for her three masters, until one day she ends up in a bit of a pickle.Meaning she could be killed for what she did.Her masters try everything they can to help her, but will it be enough? And is her heart human enough to return their love?A steampunk reverse harem novella set in a dystopian world, featuring a strong heroine and her loving, protective men.Previously published in anthologies as 'Kiss my Corset' and 'Kiss my Snowflake'. Views: 296
He gave up his daughter years ago, but now he’ll risk his life to save hers.
Alex Mercer is no stranger to kidnappings. The emotional scars still run deep from his sister’s disappearance years earlier. His daughter Ariana remains safe long after her adoption, and he cherishes the few times a year he gets to see her. The joy is palpable when he takes her on their first one-on-one outing. At least until he pauses to answer a text and Ariana disappears…
Wracked with guilt and determined to find answers, Alex teams up with an unlikely ally at the police department. As the clues reveal a pattern of missing girls, the kidnapping case becomes a race against time to save Ariana. What cost is Alex willing to pay to keep his daughter alive?
Girl in Trouble is the first book in a series of thrilling stand-alone novels spun off from the USA Today bestselling Gone Trilogy. If you like heart-pounding suspense, page-turning action, and characters you’ll never forget, then you’ll love Stacy Claflin’s engrossing new series.
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The past doesn't always stay buried, especially when Alice is the one with the shovel Now that Alice Winter has a better handle on her magic, she's intent on solving the one crime that's eluded her for the past year - who attacked her the night of Stephen Charming's party. The same night Anna was murdered. The night she still barely remembers. She doesn't want to worry Rumpelstiltskin - who seems caught up in his own family drama back in the Fae realm - so she goes to the only person who can help her: Rumple's dangerous younger brother, Pan. Pan has his own reasons for helping Alice, and it's not benevolent. With Pan, it never is. At the same time, the pieces around Anna's murder start to crumble. Vicious affairs are exposed, evidence shows up in the most unexpected of places, and everything Alice thought she knew about herself and who she is, is revealed to be a carefully constructed lie put into place to punish the innocent and protect... Views: 296
A swoony billionaire contemporary romance prequel to USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde's The Lying Season. I'm not prepared to meet someone as sexy as Sam Rutherford on the first day of my new job. Then I find out we're sharing an office...for the next year. I can't deny that I'm intrigued by his charming Southern drawl and rugged good looks. Normally I would have jumped at the chance. But there's only one problem. He has no idea who I am. I'm not just Lark, the cute girl at work. I'm a multibillion-dollar heiress. And I made a deal with my parents: one year away from the city and then I take over the family business. Despite everything, I want to risk it. I want to be his for a season. Views: 296
From the ashes he was born and in the thunderous flames he will soon die. But not before branding her heart. Tayla Hampton thought she had escaped her past. She was wrong. It's caught up with her. Luckily she has a guardian angel... or something like that.Thaddeus Delos is not you're ordinary protector. His mythical DNA is proof of that. Still he hungers like a hot-blooded man, loves fiercely and will protect Tayla with his life. Only that life isn't promised to him for much longer. Views: 296
She knows magic and medicine in equal measure...Lynn was raised with one foot in the mortal world of science and technology, the other rooted in her grandmother's realm of magic, shifters and good versus evil. She chose to follow in her late father's footsteps to become a medical researcher, never imagining a military unit would need her help as both a researcher, and as the granddaughter of one of the most powerful witches in the country. But the unit needs her on both fronts, and she's determined to do her best, even if it means going into danger.In a world of shapeshifters and magic, one military unit stands alone...Gifted with superhuman powers by an ancient and capricious djinn, the Special Forces operatives of Rick's unit need help dealing with their new superhero status. They are only just learning what they can really do and all about the world of shifters and magic around them. Hunted by a hidden enemy, they are in constant danger, as is anyone... Views: 296
Time is ticking, paths will cross... Views: 296
A drowning at a local state park goes unsolved for months until a local teenager gets trampled by a large bull. How are they connected? Join U.S. Marshal Mark Hall as he recounts his experiences with Chris Calhoun as they attempt to find the person setting geocache traps throughout Middle Georgia. Will they find them before someone else is injured or worse?At the end of his coursework at Oxford, Johnny reaches a point in his life where he does not know what more to do or where else to go. Sure, he has plenty of options, but with those options comes an endless chain of questions and decisions to make, and his mind locks up when he has to participate in too much of either. Even as he takes the Tube to anywhere, he wonders if he's in control of his future, or if fate is pulling his strings. There have been plenty of moments in his life when he thought fate had smiled on him, especially the night he'd met Claire, but those moments just showed him that it was all one big tease and the future's real plan was to pull the rug out from under his feet.The day after graduation, Johnny figures he should start pulling his own strings, so he considers speaking to a life coach to help him plan out his destiny. As he rides the train back to London, however, he discovers one new trick up fate's sleeve, and it comes in the form of a yellow rubber ducky he finds on the floor under his seat. On this duck is a flash drive full of stories from people who have no connection to each other save for the one factor that they had carried the duck around during a brief season of adventure. The drive also contains an instruction: “To anyone who finds this, please take this rubber ducky wherever you go. At any point you should experience something great, I beg of you, write it down and attach it to the duck. Then, leave it for the next body to find. When the seventh individual writes his experience, keep the duck and publish the letters for all to see.” Johnny can already see the hand of fate trying to pull him back under its spell. But he takes the bait. He takes the duck with him.Six people have already written their stories. Johnny is the seventh and final person to take the duck on a new adventure and share it with the world. But how does one live through a story worthy of closing out the duck's epic journey? How much of Johnny's path does fate still influence? And why does the rubber duck seem so familiar to him? Views: 296
MALACHI I wanted her like a fiend, but she was off-limits, the sister of a fellow fighter. But because I was a bastard I didn’t care, even if I should. She was sweet and innocent, and I was this dirty asshole that had my fair share of women. She deserved better, but even knowing that I couldn’t help but go after her.I wouldn’t even try and talk myself out of it.VIOLETI knew I shouldn’t want him. He was bad news, cocky, and had a reputation that should have made me run in the other direction. But there was something inside of me that was drawn to him. His bad boy persona was like gasoline to the fire raging inside of me. If I were smart, I’d walk away.I wasn’t smart when it came to Malachi.But having him would cause problems, especially if my brother Rowdy found out, and I knew sooner or later he would. I had to ask myself if one night with Malachi was really worth all the repercussion that would come from it. Views: 296
Life has not been kind to ten-year-old Faris. He has lived at the Grimbaldi Foundation for the Potentially Lacking for as long as he can remember, so long that he doesn’t even have a last name – he’s Faris, just Faris. One magical night an opportunity to escape lands on his window ledge and Faris grabs hold with both hands. (Suitable for ages 7+)Life has not been kind to ten-year-old Faris. He has lived at the Grimbaldi Foundation for the Potentially Lacking for as long as he can remember, so long that he doesn’t even have a last name – he’s Faris, just Faris.One magical night an opportunity to escape lands on his window ledge and Faris grabs hold with both hands. He doesn’t know where or who he will end up with, just that life anywhere but The Foundation has to be better.Join Faris on his first adventure, when he finds out that he is a lot more than a ‘normal’ boy and what friendship really means. Perhaps you will be as surprised as him when you meet his new friends….(Children's book, aimed at readers aged 7+) Views: 295
