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Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception—making her like a daughter to Gita—she knows she’s in for something much more dangerous. Ri is trapped in the depths of Loki’s Ring, an artificial alien-made solar system, and says everyone in the vicinity has been infected and killed by a mysterious contagion. Gita and her team investigate, only to discover horrors at every turn.

Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds, becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation wants to exploit. Rosie, owner of Monk's Bar, serves members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who seek to employ them. Angel, ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed-up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing, is asked to perform a job for Rosie.

Against all odds, Adirah Messa has been accepted to Billet University, a prestigious institution founded in the 1800s for people of color. Determined to excel, she arrives at the university intent on minimizing distraction and focusing on her studies. That goal is soon interrupted when she is noticed by members of the "in" crowd, who invite her to the most popular frat party on campus. Adirah finds herself smitten with someone of another race and is taken on a ride she can never return from. Unbeknownst to her, Adirah's newfound love is not only a master seducer.

When she entered school at a recently integrated college in North Carolina, Adirah Messa was looking forward to a bright future. Then she met a man of another kind who turned her world upside down. After being turned into a blood-sucking being and then giving birth to a child fathered by the King of Vampires, Adirah thinks that life can't get any stranger. But when her ancient past becomes a part of the present, she learns that her son has a destiny that is out of her control. The only way to protect him is for old enemies to put their differences behind them....

For centuries, the Kingdom of Eledore has relied upon the kainen race's natural magical talents to retain its elevated and seemingly impervious status in the world, particularly above the humans in Acrasia. Plots and assassination attempts grow against the royal twin heirs, Nels and Suvi, as the Acrasians seem to be doing more than saber rattling against what they see as an evil, tyrannical nation.

She’s pregnant with another man’s baby. He’s now the father to his little niece. A sexy rom com with all the feels! My software company has been my number one, two, and three priorities. But that all changes when I suddenly become the guardian of my three-year-old niece. Now my world has turned topsy-turvy with princesses and little-girl tea parties. When Hannah Morrell needs a place to stay after the pipes in her apartment burst, I invite her to move in with my niece and me. Hannah is a pediatric nurse, and given my situation, who could ask for a better roommate. Sounds easy.

One-night stand rule number one: Always check the condom’s expiry date.

Best friend rule number one: Never want the guy’s sister. Oops.

Fake boyfriend rule number one: Never fall for your fake girlfriend. Oops. I run Aphrodite’s Boutique, a store that specializes in all things love-related. A store that I adore with all my heart, and which is at risk of being shut down and replaced with a condo development. To save it, all I have to do is pretend to be Travis Hamilton’s girlfriend. Sounds simple enough. Right?

A chance encounter with a masked stranger at a charity ball led to an incredible kiss and a night of hot sex. The kiss was my goal for that night, a baby step forward after my husband’s death a year ago. The hot sex? Not so much. You know what else hadn’t been my goal? To be knocked up by a man whose identity is a mystery to me.

Kissing-under-the-mistletoe rule number one: Never kiss your ex-fiancée. Oops. My plans for the Christmas break include: drive to Lake Tahoe, learn to ski, enjoy hot, earth-shattering sex (and end my sex drought), and meet my "forever love" under the mistletoe. Right. The last one was my friend’s prediction, but you never know. What I don’t count on is a flat tire, a major blizzard, and for Liam Quade, my ex-fiancé and the man who broke my heart 10 years ago, to come to my rescue.

As the future CEO of my grandmother’s fashion empire, I’m not supposed to want to design a line of fancy dresses for girls with special needs. But when I pull out all the stops and present my vision to my grandmother, she agrees to let me try on one very questionable condition. The condition? I have to complete every item on the bucket list I wrote in college.

The Acrasian army has swept through Eledore, nearly massacring the entire race in fear and hatred of the magic they possess. This same magic is all that was keeping the demon incursion at bay, but now the great evil that was banished is seeping into the world. Watchers are formed to warn of any sightings of the demons, but little can be done if one encounters them in shadow or at night.

Amber Scott should be enjoying life as a college freshman. She should be pursuing her dream of becoming a veterinarian. She should be working hard to make sense of her precalculus math class. She shouldn't be waking up her college roommate with screaming nightmares. She shouldn't be flashing back, reliving the three weeks of hell she barely survived last year. And she definitely shouldn't be spending time with sexy player Marcus Reid. But engineering student Marcus is the only one keeping Amber from failing her math course, so she grudgingly lets him into her life....

After her husband became an agnostic, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single" - struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts. In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found community in an unexpected place: an order of Catholic nuns in her neighborhood. As she spent time with them and learned about female Catholic saints, she began to see that she was not "spiritually single" after all - and that no one really is.

Wiebke ist mit Leib und Seele Galeristin auf Mallorca. Auch wenn in ihrem Liebesleben mit Maler Miguel nicht alles zum Besten steht, findet sie Erfüllung in ihrer Arbeit - bis sie eines Tages einen folgenschweren Fehler begeht: Ausgerechnet das einzige unverkäufliche Gemälde der Galerie vermittelt sie an zwei Schwestern aus Irland. Schnell wird ihr klar, dass sie das Bild zurückholen muss, und sie reist nach Dublin. Die Suche nach dem Gemälde gestaltet sich jedoch schwieriger als gedacht, und der immerwährende Regen sowie Miguels beharrliches Schweigen bringen Wiebke an ihre Grenzen.

Ein Roman, magisch wie eine Mittsommernacht in Island. "Du wirst dich wohl nie ändern" – mit diesen Worten verlässt Josh Claire, nachdem sie ihn bitter enttäuscht hat. Ihr bleibt nur eine Hoffnung, sein Herz zurückzuerobern: Sie muss nach Island reisen und dort nach seinen Wurzeln suchen, schließlich war das immer sein größter Traum. Gleich nach ihrer Ankunft geht jedoch alles schief, und Claires Mission scheint zum Scheitern verurteilt. Erst als sie unerwartet Hilfe von Kristjan erhält, dem wortkargen Sohn einer Schafzüchterin, fasst sie neuen Mut.

Schon lange träumt Svea von einer Bar unter Palmen, im Hintergrund spanische Flamenco-Klänge. Stattdessen erbt sie eine kleine Pinte auf der ostfriesischen Insel Langeoog. Sehr zur Freude von Opa Hannes, denn der hätte seine Enkelin am liebsten die ganze Zeit bei sich. Und nicht nur er: Auch Wattführer Jan, der Svea mit seiner ostfriesischen Gelassenheit fasziniert, scheint etwas an ihr zu liegen. Doch soll sie wirklich auf diesem Stück Land mitten in der Nordsee sesshaft werden? Um dem Durcheinander ihrer Gefühle zu entgehen, flieht Svea für ein paar Tage auf ihre Lieblingsinsel im Mittelmeer.

Orkanböen peitschen über die Straße, in den Nachrichten wird vor der kommenden Sturmflut gewarnt. Die Lage ist mehr als bedrohlich, der kleine Ort direkt an der Ostseeküste muss vollständig evakuiert werden. Doch Elisa wartet bis zur letzten Sekunde, längst sind alle anderen fort. Vor ihrem Aufbruch stößt sie im Haus nebenan überraschend auf die Nachbarn. Wieso sind sie noch da? Das Paar scheint – genau wie Elisa selbst – etwas zu verbergen. Der Deich bricht. Die drei sind in dem Haus gefangen. Der Strom fällt aus, der Pegel steigt.

What secrets are hidden within the walls of a desolate farmhouse in a forgotten corner of Lapland? Early spring has its icy grip on Ödesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden, abandoned by many of its inhabitants. But Liv Björnlund never left. She lives in a derelict house together with her teenage son, Simon, and her ageing father, Vidar. They make for a peculiar family, and Liv knows that they are cause for gossip among their few remaining neighbours.