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17 year-old Kalina didn t know her boyfriend was a vampire until the night he died of a freak accident. She didn t know he came from a long line of vampires until the night she was visited by his half-brothers Jaegar and Stuart Greystone. But having two half-brothers vampires around had just gotten interesting.

What if you could experience more joy in your life and work through your challenges, so you wouldn’t have to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again? In The Adversity Hack, CEO and leadership coach Meg Poag shares a powerful and effective personal development tool to help you shed the old beliefs that are holding you back and learn how to work to create real and positive change in your life. The system she introduces, the Adversity Cycle, shows you how to begin to look at your circumstances with a fresh perspective and find a new way of moving through the world.

After years of running from her ex - a vicious Mexican drug lord - and his subsequent death, Kate Jones is ready to bury the past and try to piece together a new normal. But first there's a loose end to tie and it involves digging up old ghosts that are best left alone.

Olivia Crawford has been through the ringer. All she wants is to start over without any complications or anyone figuring out her secrets. When her twin brother Finn convinces her to move back home and finish her degree at his school, it's just the push she needs to start over. Nathaniel Ford is the golden boy of SCU. He seems like he has it all - perfect family, awesome friends and fraternity brothers, and a few buildings on campus with his last name on them. But things aren't always what they seem.

Gracie Walker doesn't have much luck with finding Prince Charming. Hudson James enters her life, the bad boy who gives her a reason to hope that he is Mr. Right. Gracie's problem is, she doesn't fall for the right guys. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee where the nightlife is always hopping. She spends her days in college and her nights hanging out with her closest friends at local bars. Her best friend Cameron is her rock. Cameron introduces his friend Ashton into Gracie's life and it changes everything.

She always told herself she would someday find a man as wonderful as her father, if that man existed at all, but his suicide on her 14th birthday left her disillusioned and alone. Thirteen years later, estranged from her mother who blames her for his death, Heather longs for understanding. In hopes of finding it, she escapes the city and settles in a small South Carolina town to write his story. There, she meets Matt, a young man struggling to come to grips with his own father's legacy.

Ever since Daphne Harper graduated from college, all of her friends have fallen in love, become engaged, and walked down the aisle. Be it a blessing or a curse, Daphne (a hopeless romantic and perpetual single girl) catches the bouquet at every single wedding she attends.

Four months have passed since the E’mani - those pale alien freaks - destroyed the Earth and scooped up the remains. Elizabeth “Beta” Camden was one of those taken. But she escapes and confronts her prior captors successfully with the help of their enemies. Yet she knows the E’mani won’t forget about her. She should stay vigilant and ready. Her heart refuses to listen. Beta falls in love with Marin - he of the hot hands and slit eyes. Too bad she was right.

As the youngest son, TJ Laughlin has always had a lot to prove. His oldest sister is an attorney and the apple of their father's eye, his middle brother is a preacher, and then there was TJ, never certain what to do with his life. Although he was well loved, he always felt like they didn't expect a lot out of him. It was as if his father had gotten all he'd needed out of his smart daughter and pious son, and whatever TJ did was a surprise bonus - or inconsequential. Now the owner of the Stag with his two best friends, TJ has found his calling: whiskey and weddings.

Most women have them: those two very distinct, very different voices in their mind. One can usually be chalked up to common sense; the other to mischief, mayhem, or just plain morbid curiosity. Both are always there, though, ready with their two cents' worth. Jemma Keith is no exception to the rule. She doesn't have a problem agreeing to photograph her cheating ex-boyfriend's wedding. The dilemma, however, is what to do once she gets there.

Orphaned and forced to serve her country's ruling group of scribes, Karis wants nothing more than to find her brother, long ago shipped away. But family bonds don't matter to the Scriptorium, whose sole focus is unlocking the magic of an ancient automaton army. In her search for her brother, Karis does the seemingly impossible: she awakens a hidden automaton. Intelligent, with a conscience of his own, Alix has no idea why he was made. Or why his father - their nation's greatest traitor - once tried to destroy the automatons.

Geoff, Jane, and Sawyer are faced with a choice: They can either stay home, trying to live their old lives, or travel back to Alluria and help their friend Ariel fight the armies of the dreaded Shadowlord. But what can three teenagers do? If they are to save the kingdom of Chalon, they must discover the identity of a deadly assassin before it’s too late, battling barbarian hordes, ogres, and even a dragon along the way.

Upon the death of her strange and distant husband, Emma awakens into a world full of possibility. With the help of a vagrant who camps on her property, Emma comes to understand that her life, up to this point, has been little more than a bad dream. Does she have the courage and the strength to move on and create her own life, by her own rules? Unique and unusual, this is a fast and fascinating listen with unforgettable characters. You'll be left wondering about the pink kitchen sponge.

Alexa Reeves: The quarterback of the NY Kings has a body to die for, and as Dean Walker's bodyguard, I'm right in the line of fire. If that's not dangerous enough, I'm posing as his girlfriend to keep close. Yet, that isn't the worst part. He says I need a makeover to pass as his arm candy. Jerk. The more time I spend with him, the more my undercover role blurs with reality, and I'll lose more than my job if I step over the line and into his bed.

One hundred years ago, people were forced to retreat to the seas...Chey's ocean home seems lovely on the outside, with its rainbow-hued reefs and soul-tingling Whale-song, but the beauty hides secrets and despair. One thousand blues can be too many…Some people cannot live amid them all. After losing her parents and best friend, Chey would do anything to fight off the apathy that threatens her: swim in a brood of jellies, break her sector's rules, and even breach the Surface. A forbidden encounter sets Chey on a desperate search for a way to save her people... and herself.

Suddenly named the acting president of her uncle's record label, former pop princess Sabrina Walker is finally ready to grow up. While her professional life moves forward, she still clings to the last fragment of her past life in the form of an uncertain relationship with her manager Beau. When Sabrina hires handsome, young assistant Wade Lawson, he awakens in her the hidden confidence she's always desired.

Laney Hill is screwed. On the bed. On the treadmill. On the hood of a BMW. And on her boss' desk. Then she's screwed again when she steps into the free clinic and finds out she has gonorrhea. That dirty prick gave her gonorrhea! She's totally going to break up with him - until he breaks up with her because he's married! A spur-of-the-moment date with her hot musician neighbor, Kade Masters, goes from smoking hot to red-hot disaster in two seconds flat.

When mommy and wife, Trish Cunningham, finds the body of pharmacist Jim Bob Jenkins behind the two-percent milk, she knows she's having a bad day. Worse, she's a suspect. Sleuthing to exonerate herself from murder charges, she shakes up a murderer who has nothing to lose by killing anyone in the way - including Trish.

Just when her relationship with Stuart and Jaegar seemed complicated enough, there are more vampires in the peaceful wine country town of Rutherford. Amidst the growing danger to her and everyone she loves, a proposition is given to Kalina which would change her life forever.

Kalina has returned back to Rutherford, but now there are more problems than before. The Consortium of Vampires has been destroyed except for one - Octavius - and the most powerful of vampires has been unleashed. This sets off the ultimate horror - one of the Greystone Brothers has been turned, and his love for Kalina has turned into a destructive obsession. Now armed with an unspeakable power and thirst, he has sent Kalina and the other brothers who love and protect her a shocking threat.