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I’ve always been the girl who’s nothing but a pretty face. The one used to distract the warriors so the others can move our plans forward. But now? Now, I have a chance to save us all. A chance to get us off this planet and back to Earth. Where we belong. Sure, this mysterious Braxian king may have helped us, and he may even make my skin tingle with an awareness I’ve never felt before. But it means nothing.

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That smile could have ended wars, I swear it. I’d never seen anyone as unintentionally cool as Megan. She was wearing very little makeup, but she didn’t need it. And she was wearing a simple white T-shirt and a brown leather jacket. Everything about her was beautiful, from her eyes and smile to the way she said her own name.

Investigating a noise in the attic of her historic home, Maggie Holliday encounters a handsome man in a Civil War uniform. He calls her "Isabel", seduces her in ways the shy academic had never dreamed of, then literally vanishes.

Assistant Cruise Director, Millie Sanders-Armati, is settling into her new life as the wife of Nic Armati, the captain of the mega passenger cruise ship, the “Siren of the Seas.” Despite the fact there’s a potential hurricane forming in the Atlantic, the ship sets sail at full capacity from the Port of Miami on a beautiful sunny afternoon.

When the boy who broke her heart crashes back into Ruby Jones’ life, she’s determined to give him the boot. There are some things a girl simply can’t forgive, and being forgotten is at the top of the list. The last person CIA Agent Rafferty Blackheart expects to find while retrieving the message left for him by his dead partner is the girl he left behind two decades earlier. But the woman he discovers bears little resemblance to the girl he remembers, and even though the sight of her breathes life into everything he’s spent years fleeing.

Amy Lyndon is tired of being the Poor Little Rich Girl of Shenandoah Falls. In her prominent family, she's the ordinary one - no Ivy League education and no powerful career. But when her father tries to marry her off, she knows it's finally time to stand up for herself, despite the consequences. Now that she's cut off from the family fortune, her first challenge is to fight her attraction to her handsome new boss.

I’m a romance novelist who no longer believes in love. My agent keeps calling it writer’s block, but I think what I have is more permanent. If I no longer believe in love, how can I continue to write books about it? Still, I take her suggestion to figure something out and find myself in Whiskey Valley at a ranch to get some firsthand knowledge of what cowboys really do. I am not prepared for the level of male hotness that greets me. Griffin is rough and tough and growly, but I catch glimpses of his tender underbelly that has even my iced-over heart melting a little.

The woodsman sees someone outside on a stormy night. He isn't sure what the person wants or why she's out there. But after a scary confrontation, he takes her in. They share an instant dislike for each other, but as the storm rages outside the cabin on a very dark night, the two begin to warm up to each other. Can they ever see each other for more than they appear to be?

How My Hot Biker Dream Guy Couch-Surfed His Way Into My Heart... I had just come off a bad break up, and I suddenly felt alone and devastated, but Tyler was there... I struggled with getting over losing the one man I thought was the love of my life and fighting my attraction for his best friend. I know rebounds are supposed to be a no-no, but Tyler admitted he had feelings for even before the breakup. Temptation is a beast and my ex's best friend should probably be off-limits, but he's so incredibly sexy and sweet. Mmmm, just look at his picture. He's swoonworthy and damn sure droolworthy! ...

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of William Hope Hodgson's "The Derelict". When a storm abates, leaving the ship in need of repairs, the men set to work, only to discover another ship a mile off, a floating wreck, a derelict. Thinking there may be salvage to be had, they cross to the mysterious stranger. Instead of salvage, they discover horror and death, and possibly a clue to the origin of life itself.

William Hope Hodgson began his working career as a seaman, where he learned to fear and hate the sea. This short story takes place in the laboratory of a scientist who is in contact by one-way wireless telegraph with an unnamed friend who is on a ship trapped in a terrible storm. The sea becomes an evil thing, and the entity is determined to destroy the living, and the ship they came on. But before death comes to those aboard the doomed vessel, it brings out the very worst in the passengers.

From the outside, Lorelai is an ordinary young woman with a normal life. She loves reading, she works at the local cinema and she adores living with her best friend. But she carries a painful burden, something she’s kept hidden for years: whenever she kisses someone on the lips, she sees how they are going to die. But she’s never known if she’s seeing what was always meant to be, or if her kiss is the thing that decides their destiny. And so, she hasn’t kissed anyone since she was 18. Then she meets Grayson. Sweet, clever, funny Grayson.

If you find it uncomfortable to be highly-sensitive and empathic, the first thing to realize is that it’s okay to be highly sensitive! You’re not weird, and you are not alone. Your sensitivity can be a unique and powerful gift once you recognize it for what it is. This wide-ranging audiobook includes in-depth information of two of the most important areas of understanding your true self as well as others. Empath & Enneagram includes a comprehensive self-assessment section to help you define and understand your unique empathic gift.

A dark, gothic adventure set deep in a Bavarian forest, with angels and owls and magic and a boy who isn’t all that he seems to be. A cherub is blown into Cassie Engel’s bedroom during a thunderstorm, triggering a series of terrifying events. Cassie must discover if its arrival was an accident or part of something more sinister. With a self-obsessed opera singer for a mother, a strange taxidermist father and a best friend who isn’t quite what he seems, Cassie is forced to unearth the secrets of her family’s past.

"The Prisoner of Zenda" depicts an adventurous story in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation, and thus is unable to attend the ceremonial proceedings. Political forces within the realm are such, that, for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, who resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy, in effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum. Of course, complications arise along the way.

This episode of Bob Hope's classic NBC radio show, broadcast from the University of Southern California, originally aired on November 27, 1945.

'Tis the season in Shenandoah Falls and the first time Willow Peterson has been home in years. But she’s determined to fulfill the wishes of her recently deceased best friend and restore Eagle Hill Manor to its former glory - all in time to host the perfect holiday wedding. She just has to get the owner of the historic inn to hire her. Unfortunately, that means dealing with Scrooge himself. After the death of his wife, David Lyndon has a bah-humbug approach to Christmas. But as the holiday nears and the wedding planning is in full swing, it's harder to stay immune to Willow's charms.

By the acclaimed author of Wake: Where love is your only escape.... Nineteen-eleven: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet it is a dance that will change two lives forever.

Samantha Rite is about to embark on a life-changing journey, when she and her daughter decide to move 1200 miles, away from all that she's ever known to be with Lee, the love of her life. Just hours before the big move, with the moving truck packed and ready to hit the road, Lee and his best friend Donovan mysteriously disappear. Determined to find them, Sam enlists the help of her sister, and begins the long, perilous move to Florida.