Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.

But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer. While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

When our story begins, Julia Child is an eager but inexperienced codebreaker longing to prove herself in the male-dominated world of intelligence, and Josephine Baker is, well, Josephine Baker—a world-famous entertainer who is now leading a double life as a spy for the French Resistance. When a golden opportunity arises to infiltrate a high-stakes Nazi gala in Vichy France, Julia must put aside her by-the-book mentality to assist her unorthodox new partner.

Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses - but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline's wondering if her own marriage is reaching its breaking point as she and her husband, John, cope with the discovery that their son has been abusing drugs. Still, the inseparable duo books a weeklong stay at a beach-front home in Shoreham, Florida, inviting Esme’s brother, Nick, and his new husband. After a blissful first night in the vacation home, tragedy strikes.

An off-duty firefighter’s feelings for his fake date spark into something more during a rescue operation in this sweet romance with pulse-pounding suspense! Ransom Keller can’t stand the thought of attending his twenty-year high school reunion as a single guy. Folks tend to expect a little more action in the romance department from a former star linebacker. But a decade in the Special Forces followed by a career in fire rescue operations hasn’t left much time for dating. So he does the unthinkable and hires an actress to pose as his bride for the weekend. Serena Chandler is supposed ...

A K9-certified EMT, the new girl in town he instantly falls for, and the blind date disaster that finally makes her notice him — just not the way he hopes. Knight Harlan is the heartthrob of Heart Lake — the guy every single lady in town wants to date (and most of them have). Everyone, that is, except his best friend’s sister, who makes it painfully clear she wants nothing to do with him. Holly Burke allows her sister to talk her into moving to Texas for one reason only — a fresh start. And that doesn’t include getting involved with yet another playboy. Despite Knight’s hometown...

Dive into the intrigue and sweet romance of the Texas Hotline Series!From former military heroes to law enforcement heroes to medical heroes, these Texas cowboy first responders and their K-9 partners will keep you turning the pages through their bravery and heart-racing action to rescue the innocent when disaster strikes. Book #1: The Plus One Rescue Despite the center's no PDA rule, an instant attraction simmers between an expert search and rescue instructor and a broody firefighter during summer training. Book #2: The Secret Baby Rescue A Marine trying to right an old wrong, a celebrity ...

A city gal inherits a rambling old farmhouse in a small country town and moves there to recover from a bad breakup. She ends up next door to a hunky police officer, who makes her want to reconsider her self-imposed No Rebound Relationships Rule. Lincoln Hudson has been recruited to run the K9 unit in Heart Lake, Texas. He feels like the luckiest guy on the planet to discover his neighbor is the rising DIY blogging sensation, The Perfect Fix. She’s talented, entertaining, and hot! Unfortunately, she makes it clear she’s a self-made, self-sufficient woman who doesn’t need a man in her ...

When a tropical storm serves up a second chance at love for a once-burnt-twice-shy kind of guy... Champion surfer Ford Anderson is a classic shy guy. He’s far more comfortable riding the next big wave than he is braving the perils of dating. So when his best friend tries to coax him into a blind date, he turns him down flat. Only minutes later, he learns that his would-be dinner date is stranded on a sinking yacht. He wrestles with guilt as he launches a water rescue operation, knowing the lovely grad student would be safe on dry land if he’d asked her out to dinner like he was supposed...

An ex-bodybuilder — recovering from a broken heart — throws himself wholeheartedly into search and rescue operations, while a genius research scientist plots to redirect some of his hunky attention to her. After a bad breakup, former bodybuilding champion Jett Channing decides to go on a girlfriend diet. So when his normal responsibilities as a forest ranger are interrupted to rescue a stranded hiker, he jumps at the chance to work off his wounded pride by doing something so meaningful and worthwhile. Gwyneth Moore can’t believe her T.V. celebrity boyfriend of three years is dumping ...

When a mistaken identity leads to an accidental attraction... Whoever said two wrongs can't make a right must not have been in love! Anxious to put a recent bad break-up behind him, Police Detective Noah Zeller jumps at the chance to sharpen his search and rescue skills at the world-class Texas Hotline Training Center. The only downside is that the missing heiress case he’s currently working will have to go on the back burner for a few weeks. Or so he thought. Until a sassy-mouthed maid provides a clue that busts his case wide open. Farrah Carmichael is ecstatic to land a coveted ...

A Marine trying to right an old wrong, a celebrity actress struggling to prove herself in the world of search and rescue operations, and the amber alert that forces them to put everything on the line — including their hearts. Hunt Ryker's search for a missing Marine comrade lands him in a temporary instructor position at the elite Texas Hotline Training Center. On day one, he meets Dallas Hill, who's tired of not being taken seriously as the lead dog handler at her local search and rescue unit. A former celebrity actress, she impresses him with her all-in attitude toward her new career, ...

A cowboy private investigator who doesn’t want to spend another Christmas alone. A single mom in a pack of trouble, trying to lie low for the holidays. The snowstorm that blows in a few sizzling possibilities. Following a chance encounter, East Whitlock hasn’t been able to get a certain sassy redhead out of his mind. Though the feisty single mom insists she can take care of herself and her small son, he can’t stand the thought of anyone so sweet and lovely being alone for Christmas — in a friend’s warehouse, no less. Every instinct in him is shouting that she’s in trouble, and ...

A billionaire CEO hires the rebel youngest daughter of his family’s biggest corporate rival to serve as his personal assistant…and sparks an unwanted attraction in this sweet & swoony office romance! Luca Calcagni isn’t sure why Jacey applied for a job at Genesis & Sons in the first place. However, he can’t tell her no without creating a PR nightmare for his multi-billion-dollar company. Instead, he hands her a punishing schedule, hoping to send her packing pretty quickly. A man known as a cobra in the boardroom can’t afford for anyone to find out he's secretly crushing on the one...

A Texas Ranger who’s secretly married, the award-winning chef who calls it quits and leaves him, and the search and rescue program that puts their hearts back on a collision course… It’s not easy being a Texas Ranger; Seven Colburn is living proof of that. He can tell anyone who wants to listen about the long hours, constant danger, mediocre pay, and number of marriages that don’t survive his choice of careers, including his own. When an anonymous donor pays his tuition at the prestigious Texas Hotline Training Center, he jumps at the opportunity to bury his heartache in a new ...

Two corporate executives agree to a temporary marriage — strictly for business purposes — while hiding secret crushes and plotting to make their marriage permanent. Architect Greyson Maddox designs a self-sustaining, futuristic house for a luxury homebuilder. When the man’s daughter begs him to turn down the project, claiming it's just another one of her father’s doomed-to-fail schemes, Greyson invites her on a dinner date to debate the merits of the investment. For him, it’s love at first sight, but he doesn’t want to move too quickly and scare her away with his genius-level ...

It’s not easy being the best friend of the woman he secretly dreams of dating in this sweet and swoony billionaire romance. Titus Rand is sent to Anchorage by a top-secret organization to investigate Genesis & Sons. He goes undercover to serve as a bodyguard, which makes his path cross again and again with a lovely nurse on their payroll. Though they develop a close friendship he longs to turn into more, his line of work leaves no time for romance. His plan to keep his emotional distance from her falls apart when he's asked to guard the newest ward of the Maddox clan, a long-lost brother ...

A billionaire vice president falls for her former special forces bodyguard, a match her family will never approve of in this sweet and swoony billionaire romance. Newly promoted Bailey Maddox is anxious to prove herself to her hard-to-please family of billionare executives. Since dating her bodyguard isn't likely to impress them, she fights her growing attraction to him. Former Special Forces weapons sergeant Don Kappelman is in the business of serving and protecting. He's honored to be tasked with guarding the stunning new vice president of DRAW Corporation, though he understands whatever ...

Getting rescued by a grumpy firefighter while in the bath wasn’t how I planned my return to this small town. Worse, that firefighter is Frank—my brother’s best friend and the man I’ve been clashing with for years. Frank pulled me from the flames, but now I’m the one tending to his wounds and sharing my home with him. His gruff voice, smoldering looks, and hot body make him impossible to resist. Every accidental touch and heated glare tighten the tension between us, threatening to explode. But there’s more than just heat in the air—an arsonist is setting the town ablaze, and ...