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A headless body turns up on a beach. Former sheriff detective Frank Pounds is dragged from medical retirement because he may know the identity of the body. Irreverently dressed in a t-shirt, board shorts, and rainbow-painted huaraches showing off his pink toenails, he stands over a familiar body with a distinctive tattoo. As he glares up the beach to the pier lined with camera vultures with long lenses, it turns personal.

Riding a Harley is like sitting on a giant vibrator...and sometimes, that's what we all need to kick start our lives: something so strong, so powerful, it carries us into adventures and people we don't see coming. Parker Lee desperately needed a kick start. She needed a change of scenery. She needed an adventure, a challenge. She needed Lucky. Lucky is more than a Harley to Parker. It is the vehicle which brings her to communities of people she never thought to meet. From pro football players to prostitutes, Parker's world opens up to reveal that people, like the colors on her painter's ...

Aaron Alexander has just been released from jail after serving eleven years for causing the death of Joshua Moore in a hit-and-run. Now a free man, all he wants to do is stay on the straight and narrow and leave his troubled past behind him. But for Joshua’s mother Evelyn, eleven years in jail isn’t nearly enough. Consumed by grief and rage, she has been waiting for Aaron’s release, counting down the days until she can exact the revenge he deserves. And now that time has come.

Rachael O’Connor is a repeat offender in the mortal realm, and no matter how hard she tries she never accomplishes her goal of crossing the divine end. She is sent to different eras to correct her sinister and cruel human behavior. Nevertheless, she now finds herself in the same predicament as many other times before, in front of a divine judge who scrutinizes her human behavior. Her proclamation of innocence is dismissed, resulting in yet another journey to another era.

Con reminiscencias tanto de Kipling como Melville y de la mejor literatura erótica, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa regresa al continente africano en esta novela para contar la historia de una familia destrozada por el alcoholismo del padre, cuyos excesos empujan a la madre al lesbianismo y obliga a escapar a su hijo Jonathan. Pronto Jonathan se embarcará en un viaje en pos del mítico elefante Abdullah, un periplo que lo llevará al corazón de África para encontrarse a sí mismo.

The Fallout Chronicles: Part 2 is a compelling tale of resilience, courage, and the indomitable human spirit. Its characters will make you question what it means to be human in a world where humanity seems lost. An absolute must-listen for fans of post-apocalyptic fiction and thrilling adventure. Hold onto your seats; this is a journey you won't forget.

Before becoming members of Jems and Jamz, Spike Bianchi and Jemma Rodriguez were just two lost individuals, trying to find their way in life. Find out how one trip to Texas changed the course of their lives and spurred the evolution of the band known as Jems and Jamz. Ziggy Johnson has been through one of the worst years of her life, but when she is roomed with Lana Waverly, a pompous woman with no concept of empathy, things take a turn for the worst.

When Spike takes over the band's public relations, she is suddenly knee-deep in fan mail, and much to Jemma's dismay, she spends most of her time on her new position. However, when threatening e-mails begin to come in from Fangirl38, Spike finds herself at odds, and before she knows it, the whole band is caught up in a mixture of suspense and terror.

After retrieving the magical Tarlaeth and ensuring those who seek to use it remain in exile, the fierce warrior Shalmar returns to a celebration of victory. But her celebration is short-lived. Shalmar can feel another evil approaching, one darker and more powerful than she’s ever seen before. When a lone rider visits her in her dreams, haunting her with questions from her murky past, Shalmar soon finds herself on a quest to recover something that was lost in her childhood.

The thought of trading her subservient role in her father’s home for that of being the dutiful wife of someone she had never met caused her to shudder with revulsion. No, she thought to herself, what I crave is the opportunity to adventure across the sea, to behold strange and wondrous sights far beyond the city walls of Lubeck. To do that even once would almost be worth submitting herself to a loveless marriage based solely on familial advantage. But not quite, she admitted to herself. For if there was one thing of which Christina Kohl was certain, it was that she wanted her independence...

Edna and Gertie Simmons live a leisurely life, and as they have aged in to their 70s, their thirst for adventure has slowly diminished. However, when Edna finds that her briefcase, containing some of her most sentimental pieces of jewelry, has vanished, she contracts Gertie to go on an unforgettable journey to locate it.

Rick had a great life, but things started to go wrong. His life was falling apart. After loosing his mother, his father could not handle Rick's lifestyle and kicked him out of his home. The homeless life would prove to be very rough, until something totally unexpected happened that would change Rick's life for the better.

Maiden Voyage, Book Three of Daphne Birkmyer's COMFREY, WYOMING series, finds twins, Amadeus and Marcela, on very different paths to self-discovery. As their guardian, Heidi Crow, attempts to weave a safety net as original and complex as the twins themselves, she prays it will hold through Marcela's gender affirming surgery and Amadeus's uncertain future in Alaska's lucrative and dangerous fishing industry.

In Our Darker Angel, the mystery begins with FBI Agent Rick Clark's investigation into a series of murders committed by a terrorist group identifying itself as ARC, Anarchists for Real Change. Terrorism has become a personal issue with Clark. Two years earlier, his daughter perished in a bombing orchestrated by EMMA, an acronym for Emergent Movement of Militant Anarchists. The ARC murders bear a striking resemblance to the killings by EMMA, as they, too, target the rich and powerful and morally bankrupt.

Repo woman Morgan Swan can hardly believe it. She's been hopelessly infatuated with headline-stealing heartthrob Kingston "Mac" McRae for most of her life, and now she's in his driveway, about to repossess his fancy car. If only she could pick up the rest of him so easily. Mac can't believe it, either. His car is being stolen...but all he can think about is getting the sexy-as-hell Morgan into the backseat.

Before Ziggy Johnson was a member of Jems and Jamz, she struggled through several ups and downs in the heart of Chicago. Learn about what experiences brought to to where she is today and how her musical dreams came to fruition.

A young woman whose personality has been warped spending eighteen years in Foster Care discovers she is sole heir to her long-lost father's multibillion dollar stake in his publicly owned aerospace company. She gets involved with the government's top-secret reverse-engineering project. With her newfound status, she becomes power hungry and sexually insatiable. Upon realizing she is bisexual, she embraces it. Adult content. Annie writes titillating, pulpy tales about people who abuse positions of authority, do the inappropriate and the improper. There are abductions, murders, sexual ...

Does Jasira support the dynasties and their influence upon the government she covers? Or is she, like Sheila, working to turn the country away from contemporary feudalism and back to democracy? This is the serial The American Fathers. It involves four dynasties, a Lebanese-American Journalist, an impassioned college professor, a security contractor, a flamboyant hitman, a rebel hacker, a megalomaniac, and a smart, idiosyncratic heiress.

With her husband dead and a broken foot, Wendy Haskins will be plunged deep into the ultimate test of survival. Aided by a transgender girl named Gail, they will have to traverse through one nightmare scenario after another in a desperate attempt to reach town before it is too late.

A flirtatious encounter with the alluring pirate Simone Blackwood, captain of the infamous Sappho Erato, has Maeve Marlowe smitten and emboldens her to defy her cruel brother. Now, she must decide whether to stay and suffer his wrath or run to Simone for the chance of a better future.