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With global warming out of control, large swathes of North America have been struck by famine and drought and are now known as the Desert. A young woman sets out across this dry, hostile landscape, gradually building an arcane apparatus she believes will bring rain to the parched earth. Jesse lives alone, far from civilization. Once, he too made rain, but he stopped when his abilities caused fatalities, bringing down not just rain but scorpions, strange snakes, and spiders.

Sloan Kennedy and Dan Malloy have been to hell and back to be together. What was supposed to be a short fling when they were both stationed at Bagram in Afghanistan was rekindled four years later when Sloan was assigned to be Dan's security escort on a mission to Sudan for Artemis. Sloan thought Dan was finally ready to open up to her and give their relationship a real chance...and for him to treat her like an equal partner and not a helpless girl. Sloan loves Dan, but her love may not be enough to get through to him.

Terrified by her nightmares of the restaurant fire and shaken by norteamericano hotel manager Kurt Rucker's possible move, Emilia Cruz must catch a violent firebomber and find a missing girl before the iconic beach city is destroyed. Neither investigation is easy, because the influence and impact of Mexico's drug war is everywhere, just like the salt breeze coming off the ocean. Emilia's police work is soon hijacked by savage political rivalries, a corrupt vice cop, and a woman in prison who knows more than she'll say.

Noah is a US Coast Guard Lieutenant. Noah has had to work a lot harder than most for his position and for the respect of others because his brother Morgan has been labeled a traitor by his country. Noah does not want to offer his home as a safe house to Kit, a narcotics agent with the police department, but Noah knows that to refuse would only give those in power something to use against him. Noah must also admit that he is attracted to Kit, but they have a job to do. As the danger increases so does their attraction.

Taylor Reese is done with men, except for her son, Ryan. Dr. Gavin Kinncaid realizes Ms. Reese is the only woman he's ever wanted to strangle, but fate and passion soon twist their feelings into something other than antagonism, first into passion and then into love. But someone plots to rip this new happy family apart, spilling pain and death in their wake.

Sweeping listeners from the exclusive corners of sorority life in the South to the front lines of the drug-fueled slacker culture in Manhattan in the '90s and early '00s, when Elizabeth is forced to acknowledge her role in the death of a friend in order to mend a broken friendship and save her own life, The Drifter is an unforgettable story about the complexities of friendships and the secrets that can ultimately destroy us.

A brother and sister turn outlaw in a wild and brutal landscape. The daughter of a diplomat disappears and resurfaces across the world as a deadly woman of many names. A young Philadelphia boy struggles with the contradictions of privilege, violence, and the sway of an incarcerated father. A monk in 16th-century England suffers the dissolution of his monastery and the loss of all that he held sacred.

Ex-Air Force pilot Andy Whitcomb loves nothing more than the wide blue skies, but when a helicopter crash fighting forest fires in California leaves her injured and shaken, she's ready to return home to the peace of Wind River Ranch. The good news is, there's a chance for her to fly helos for the county sheriff's department. The bad news? The person in charge is none other than Dev Mitchell, an ex-Army Black Hawk pilot - and the rugged, sharp-eyed man Andy has never forgotten after five days together running from the Taliban after a nerve-wracking near-miss in Afghanistan.

Three Mormon high school friends, perky Nikki, studious Alicia, and football player Sam, make a pact of the Pygmalion style—they decide to help the “untapped” students at their school. Their plan is to transform three classmates and take them to the prom. But the experiment doesn’t go exactly as planned. They slowly begin to realize that there is more to most people than meets the eye.

The whole town has turned up for the Winter Festival, and Cameron has even managed to get television coverage and an Olympian to host the inaugural games. But the local Native American Council isn't happy about the ski course set up on the earth mounds built by their ancestors and pickets the downhill skiing event. Just when Cameron thinks things couldn't get worse, a night of hot cocoa and an ice-carving competition turns deadly. Ice picks make good murder weapons, and the festival's Olympian host won't be going out for any more medal wins.

Widowed former Hollywood actress Devynne Lang has been living a quiet life in the San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest. For years, she's hoped her fabricated death would keep her identity safe from the public, and more to the point, from the stalker who forced her into hiding. But strange things have been happening around her place and this time, with a daughter to protect, she can't afford one mistake – even if it means letting Carcen Lang get close enough to help.

A small, friendly Colorado town, nestled in the breathtaking Rockies, cloaks a malevolence, an evil that stalks women. Jesslyn Black, a writer, is content living her now-single, childless life. If she keeps to herself, she can't get hurt. Haunted by the past, Jesslyn never again wants to experience the soul-shredding pain of losing loved ones. Aiden Kinncaid is running from his own secret loss. As the CEO of Kinncaid Enterprises, he travels to this remote Colorado resort town to oversee the opening of the new Highland Hotel.

Sloan Kennedy and Dan Malloy met at Bagram and shared a passionate month-long affair. Their relationship was supposed to be no-strings, but Sloan fell hard for the strong soldier. Things changed after the two were involved in a rescue mission that ended in the death of Dan's copilot. Riddled with guilt over the accident and the loss of his friend, Dan walked away from Sloan and his destroyed military career.

Bitter and resigned to a life alone, Quinlan Kinncaid swore he'd never marry-until the eccentric Ella Ferguson barged headlong into his life. But before he can trust his own feelings and build a new life with Ella, she's gone, and he's left with a secret so big he can't even bear to tell his own family.

When pediatrician Dara McKinley is begged by her younger sister, Callie, to help her tend to war orphans in Kabul, Afghanistan, she can't refuse. But soon after she arrives, Dara finds that she and her sister are facing a daily threat from the Taliban. Then Sgt. Matt Culver enters her life, and the usually wary Dara finds herself transfixed by the Delta Force warrior with exotic golden eyes. Matt knows that Dara needs his protection, and stays by her side when she places herself in danger.

Rori Maitland has lived her life the way she's wanted it. After retiring from MI6, she's her own woman, with few friends and no husband. That's the way she bloody well prefers it. After all, her job is hardly normal.Ian Kinncaid, master of disguise, has been estranged from his family for well over a decade. With his deep cover blown, he now needs a safe place to put the little girl he saved from the Czech underground. But the shadows cloak enemies and trust comes at too high a cost.

Captain Talia Culver is ready to risk her heart again after meeting Navy SEAL Wyatt Lockwood. Still recovering from injuries she received during her last mission in Afghanistan, she agrees to join Wyatt on a visit to his family's sprawling Texas ranch. But things don't go as expected when Wyatt discovers that drug dealers are planning a job that involves crossing his family's homestead. Although she and Wyatt yearn for rest and recovery time together, they can't ignore the danger at his family's back door.

The true story of a young woman who funded herself through college in the States by working as a dominatrix - a sassy, graphic, and extraordinary memoir.

Shy, fat Susan Calloway knows she has nothing in common with the five other students in the afterschool group counseling sessions she's forced to attend to avoid expulsion. But as Susan and the others verbally attack each other and defend their own viewpoints each week, they begin to understand that none of their lives are as simple and straightforward as they appear on the surface.

Culver Lachlan wanted no part of teaming up with beautiful Pilar Martinez for a new mission. Seeing her again brought bitter memories of how she'd abandoned their love...yet reminded him of the torrid passion they'd once shared. Pilar's mercenary days were long over, but lives hung in the balance, and she had to attempt this rescue. She'd once fearlessly gambled everything for her work. Now, it could cost Pilar the only man she'd ever loved....