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Once upon a time, there was Cinderella and her Prince Charming, but it may well be that both of them had brothers whose stories have been neglected until now.... Like Cinderella, her half brother is forced to do menial worth in the garden and dusty stables, so he is called Dustino. He grows up to be as sweet and lovely as she does, despite cinders and dust.

Born into money, action-star hero Neon Bloom has it all: fame, fortune, and female friends. And when he’s declared Hollywood’s Most Eligible Bachelor, his ratings and income skyrocket—and so does the attention, not all of it good. Both his movie producers and mega-rich parents will pay any ransom, making full-time guards a necessity Neon hates. With an abandoned island resort as the backdrop for a new action blockbuster, ex-army sniper Maya Grayson is charged with babysitting the cocky playboy, and their personality clash is worthy of an Oscar.

Royal Flying Doctor pilot Xander Devlin (Codename: Razor) walked away from his military career so broken he never wanted to see his ex-army team again. Especially Aria, the woman who crushed his heart. Yet when the team needs him for a return mission to Kyrgyzstan to hunt the bastards who sabotaged their careers, Xander can’t refuse.

A young man with special powers is forced to retire from a life of violent crime and escape from New York City at the age of 18. He gets his life together and becomes a respected physician. Thirty years later, he is afflicted with a mysterious illness silently sweeping across the globe. While desperately struggling to find redemption and a cure, he learns that violent associates from his past and federal law enforcement agents are still relentlessly in pursuit.

Stallion’s lasso tightened on 21-year-old Dillon’s smooth naked body, like a roped calf. His desire felt even more taunting than his bondage. The boys prick was stuck out in front of him hard as a branding iron.... Both men burned with lust as hot as a blacksmith’s fire. His sexy cowboy captor was winding the rope over his strong arm, reeling him in like a fish on a line. Dillon was caught. He’d lost his bets to this hot cowboy and now Dill was going to have to pay up.... How did he get here? Well.

What does a cute little bakery, a lighthouse near the beach, and a ladies nightclub called Precious Illusions have in common? Here are three short stories - lesbian romances in three completely different settings, with three different couples, and three different levels of heat, connection, intimacy, and intensity.

The complete bundle of four parts... Lesbians Who Bite Charlotte is exactly what Tara has always wanted in a soulmate. Even though she’s a vampire.

The Gay First Love Collection: 16 original tales of gay romance and fantasy. Here is a new collection of M/M love stories some tinged with fantasy, others edged with mystery, and many with magic, all with the common thread of romance.

This collection of stories of his adventures includes encounters in his boss's office, the cafeteria, the security center, the mailroom...fun finds Rick wherever he goes as he works his way up and up in the corporate headquarters of Hardon Industries....

Relationships between two people don’t always turn out the way you expect… Sometimes they’re all about dating, romance, sex, and fun, and other times it’s just hurt feelings, miscommunication, and drama. Yes, Katie got hurt, and knows in her heart that Monica is probably a bad match for her. But it’s not her heart she’s thinking about when a surprise visit makes her rethink her decision to never speak to Monica again...

The world is louder than ever. It's not just the noise in our ears, but also the noise on our screens and in our heads. 'Silence is golden,' the adage goes. But how do we find it in times like these? Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz take us on an unlikely journey exploring why silence is essential for physical health, mental clarity, professional fulfilment, nourishing relationships, ecological sustainability and vibrant community.

Pippa Winterbourne runs Moorehaven, the Oregon Coast's quirkiest bed-and-breakfast and former home of world-famous mystery writer A. Raymond Moore. Guests come there to write their own crime novels. When a real-life murder takes a local's life and washes a handsome boat pilot into her arms, Pippa is yanked into a deadly plot of her own. A tangle of secrets crashes past into present, and Pippa must uncover clues dating back to Seacrest's Prohibition days, including a secret Moore himself hid from the world.

Working in the mailroom at Rigid Tech Industries was proving to be anything but a boring summer job. Handsome waspy preppie Richard Johnson the Third was of legal age, but still looked young enough to get carded at bars. He had attended Harrdon Prep School and planned to attend to Drillmore Collage in the fall. But while he had fooled around a bit in high school and had boy crushes, he had been mostly a virgin when he had started his job at Rigid Tech.

Twenty-two-year-old, scruffy cute college kid Garth was into fantasy, but he never expected to end up as a fantasy. This very American blond boy's college trip to Denmark and the Netherlands was a search for realms of Dragons, trolls, and elvish princes of legend and fiction.

The National Security Agency lost its authority to grab the phone records of millions of Americans following this week’s change in legislation enacted after 9/11. But there is no evidence that the data produced actionable intelligence during the 13 years the government had access to it anyway.

Professional snowboarder Cullen Patrick is successful and kinda famous. So when he inherits an old Colorado hotel from an unknown relative, he really should leave well enough alone. Matt Nathanson has been managing the Treeline Estates since college. He loved the elderly former owner, and he stands to inherit the place if no one claims it in the next week. Of course, Cullen shows up, and Matt thinks it's time to move on. He doesn't want to like Cullen, no matter how engaging the guy is, or how hunky.

Young Jared stood frozen in wonder as the specs of enchantment danced around his dazed face, unwittingly he breathed them in. Instantly his entire body began to tingle with a wonderful feeling of liveliness, well-being, feeling he was one with nature. Jared suddenly felt his clothes were binding him, he needed to shuck them off instantly, he had to strip off right this moment.... He unfastened, unbuttoned, and unzipped and slipped off his sandals to be free and dance naked in the leafy private temple of nature.

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Something is hidden beneath the shifting sands of Middle Egypt, and its discovery will bring humanity to the edge of oblivion. Archaeologist Gail Turner stumbles upon the most incredible find in living memory, a find that the ruthless Seth Mallus will do anything to get hold of. Caught up in a web of deceit, kidnapping, and murder, Gail struggles to unravel the mystery of the Amarna Stickman as the world around her descends into chaos.

On a wall facing dozens of cubicles at the FBI office in Pittsburgh, five guys from Shanghai stare from “Wanted” posters. Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu, and Gu Chunhui are, according to a federal indictment unsealed last year, agents of China’s People’s Liberation Army Unit 61398, who hacked into networks at American companies—U.S. Steel, Alcoa, Allegheny Technologies (ATI), Westinghouse—plus the biggest industrial labor union in North America, United Steelworkers, and the U.S. subsidiary of SolarWorld, a German solar-panel maker.