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When we were twelve years old, Clover Pendleton and I made a pact. If we were both single by the time we turned twenty-five, then we would marry each other. When she first brought up the pact, I had agreed right away. I was already hopelessly in love with her, and I was sure that she was the only girl for me. I had been positive that we would be married as soon as we turned eighteen, but a little backup plan would never hurt. We were best friends and everything was perfect between us. Then homecoming night happened, and I lost her. It was a misunderstanding, but she's refused to have ...

How will he convince his wife that they're meant to be? One chance meeting was all it took for Archer to fall for Hazel. Now he's absolutely obsessed with his wife. Too bad for him, she doesn't seem to feel the same way about him. He knows that she's only with him because her father sold her off but he would do anything to make her his for real. Their marriage is in name only, but Archer is about to change that. He's about to lock down his wife for real.

February 14th and my wife is looking at me with hope in her eyes. She has just given me a card and a bottle of my favourite drink so I presume she is hoping for something similar in return. I have nothing but the shovel I'm hiding behind my back. Valentine's Day is a joke. A day made up, no doubt, by people who sell cards and flowers. A way of conning us out of our money as we feel duty bound to "prove our love" for one another. Well this collection is not about proving love. This collection of stories is all about sour, bloody violent love. They say love hurts. They're not wrong.

At fifteen, Iris Sinclair was always the more outgoing of the twins. That’s how she convinced her more reserved sister to sneak out for a Halloween party. She ditched her sister on the side of the road when she refused to stay in the car while the other kids smoked pot. Except it was laced with PCP. Later, high on the drugs, Iris went back, and found her sister… Dead. They never found the killer. Just a Jack O’Lantern near her sister’s head.

It’s been almost two years since investigative reporter Jack Logan and television producer Taylor Parks brought down the Institute. But soon, a series of bizarre, seemingly random murder/suicides captures Jack’s attention as a disturbing pattern emerges. Could someone be intentionally causing people to become homicidal? At the same time, Taylor is producing a story about a class action suit against a national insurance company that has reached the Supreme Court.

Are you ready to dive into a thrilling post-apocalyptic world full of danger and adventure? This audiobook will take you on a wild ride through a world filled with unknown creatures and fierce enemies. The settlement of Coeur d'Alene is threatened by a mysterious beast. Ben, the community leader, and the other men travel out to the site to inspect, and they decide to halt construction until they can kill the beast. Jax almost gets killed by the beast when he attempts to go to his hideout in the forest.

Algunas historias, como la de William Shaw, están llenas de anécdotas que parecen recetas para lograr el éxito. Su trayectoria, su inteligencia y su visión lo llevaron a consolidar el mercado de las aerolíneas de bajo costo en Colombia, con Viva Air y Ultra Air. Detrás de estas dos grandes historias está la mentalidad de un emprendedor, de un líder, y de un comunicador que ha marcado la pauta, basándose en la disrupción y el conocimiento del mercado y del público.

Elijah Grove is the absolute worst. And he knows it too. Mainly because I’ve told him so every day since I’ve met him. I wish that I could just avoid him for the rest of my life but that’s hard to do when we live in this small town....

Bad things happen in threes; at least, that's what Annie Fullerton has always believed. And the way her life is shaping up, she feels like the proverbial poster girl! Her career as an up-and-coming sous chef has gone up in smoke, she's lost her beloved pet, and then her roommate, Danica, has betrayed her in the worst possible way. It's the straw that breaks the camel's back. I mean, come on! A person can only take so much!

When a barrow-wight shows up on Greta and Varney's doorstep one night with an 11-year-old girl who's been newly - and forcefully - bitten and turned, it's up to Greta and her vampiric friends to find out who did this to her, and why.

Ryan Donnelly's past relationship may have failed, but he's determined to make single fatherhood and his career resounding successes. He's got his eye on the top of the ladder at an LA marketing firm when his gaze snags on coworker Maiya Rossini. She's a feisty, witty, tattooed redhead who's nowhere near his type, but she pushes every one of his hot buttons.

This trilogy of steamy dragon shifter romance includes books three through five in the Dragon Kings of Fire and Ice series.

This book is a tribute to Natalie Cole, her connection to her legendary father Nat King Cole, her dynamic crossover music fusion, and her place in music history.

Fourteen-year-old Myles Cook is having a rough time. Not only has his mother run off with Jocelyn, her yoga instructor, but Myles and his dad have moved to a tiny rural island on BC's west coast to live in a log cabin. Garcia Island is nothing like Myles' old home in the city; there are no stores, the WiFi is sketchy, and let's face it, the people are strange.

Ames: Ames Bronson must have a death wish. He should no better than to go after his boss's daughter. He's trying to stay away from her. There's just one problem. He's pretty sure that he's in love with her. Harvey: Harvey Warner might have lost it. His mind that is. One look at the curvy chef, Coraline, and he's hooked. Now if only he could convince her that she should take a shot on him. Rooney: Rooney Jennings is out of his mind. To be fair, a lot of his friends would claim that he was never in his right mind. When he spots Sayler Jones, that's it. Game Over. They should be happy together...

I've seen far too much pain in my life. It comes with being part of the club, but when it affects others in my life I can't bear to watch it unfold. At least, it's what happened years ago. I ended up putting my nose in a situation where I probably shouldn't have. In the end, I lost the greatest love of my life...or so I thought.

Why do we think and do evil? What can science teach us about why humans do bad things? And what do our reactions to deviance teach us about ourselves? Drawing together science, psychology and philosophy, Julia Shaw unlocks the intricacies of the world of criminal psychology. Grappling with thorny dilemmas from 'would I kill baby Hitler?' to 'why do I want to murder my spouse?', Making Evil will give you a better understanding of the world, yourself and your Google search history.

Opening my own design firm in Lilac Harbor was hard, but things are finally starting to break my way. Then, I meet my new neighbor and the bane of my existence. Wade Collins. He's a grumpy jerk. He's also my partner for a big remodel that I've been hired for. Working with Wade will be difficult, but nothing that I can't handle. Except, the more time that I spend with him, the more that I start to like him. Who knows, maybe by the end of this project, we can even be friends.

Puede que esté un poco loco. Quiero decir, creo que saltar de aviones es divertido, así que debe haber algo raro en mí, pero no tengo nada contra Quinn Walder. Me golpea por detrás y luego me pide que sea su novio. Su falso novio. ¿Quién hace eso? Tiene que estar loca, pero si lo está, yo también, porque acabo de aceptar su loco plan. Ahora bien, ¿qué ocurre cuando esta relación falsa empieza a parecer real?

When you live in your car the way 18-year-old Eddie and his sister, Maya, do, the rules are pretty simple: lay low, trust no one, and make sure you have plenty of duct tape on hand. But Maya is growing up fast. She's forgetting how to play the game, and Eddie is finding it harder and harder to keep them both safe from the outside world. When their lives suddenly become complicated through a mistake Maya makes, Eddie begins to lose his composure. And why wouldn't he? He hasn't had time to address his own emotional wounds.