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Celia Thornton would give anything to start over after the blizzard ends her loveless marriage. Jack Wendler needs to leave New York immediately after one too many business deals left his investors penniless. Figuring marriage in remote western Nebraska must be better than the reckoning he's facing in New York, Jack pens a response to a marriage advertisement. When he arrives with a bag of letters—including his own—answering the widows of Last Chance's advertisement for husbands, he's quickly taken with Celia's shy beauty and agrees to marry her on the spot.

Are your kids curious about difficult concepts such as "what is fire"? This book will help give your child an easy to understand answer and avoid the dreaded barrage of "Why?" with a fun, exciting, and easy to follow adventure. We call them science-based fairy tales, or more affectionately, 21st century fairy tales. Follow along with the story and pick up some unconventional tips and secret methods on how to explain difficult concepts to young children.

When countryboy Teo arrives in the coastal city of Tabat, he finds it a hostile place, particularly to a boy hiding an enormous secret. It’s also a city in turmoil, thanks to an ancient accord to change governments and the rising demands of Beasts, the Unicorns, Dryads, Minotaurs, and other magical creature on whose labor and bodies Tabat depends. And worst of all, it’s a city dedicated to killing Shifters, the race whose blood Teo bears. When his fate becomes woven with that of Tabat’s most famous gladiator, Bella Kanto, his existence becomes even more imperiled.

Lara Cummings came to Last Chance with her sister for a new life, far away from the farm where her inquisitive nature always seemed to land her in trouble. Living on her cousins' ranch sounded ideal...until the drought came. Mitchell King wants as far away from Colorado as he can get. But opportunities to work are slim, and when he arrives in Last Chance, he's more than willing to take a job on a ranch in exchange for room and board. Of course, the pretty, mischievous redhead who lives there makes it all the easier to decide to stay.

Tess has always understood her role in her family. She is supposed to be the "okay" one. The one no one has to worry about. But all Tess does is worry, constantly picking at her fingers every time a new worry arises. Still grieving her best friend's death, she is consumed by the fear that everything was her fault and her sadness that Colette is never coming back. When her mom decides a change of location might do her good, Tess finds herself on an airplane bound for her aunt's house in a small town in Wyoming and a summer vacation attending art camp.

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Dana didn’t heed the warning about not using the house on the island at Christmas time. She went ahead and did it anyway. But some doors are better left unopened. When Dana and Sterling decide to escape London’s dreary confines, and spend Christmas at the families island house, they defied a Christmas tradition. No one should spend Christmas day at the cove. When the couple arrive they discover a ghostly Christmas tree, its candles burned to stubs, and a dust-covered copy of A Christmas Carol, relics of a bygone era. But their fascination turns to horror when the veil between the living...

The only easy day was yesterday and no one knows that better than Lieutenant Commander Silas Branson. He may have taken several kicks to the gut but once a SEAL always a SEAL. He's never backed down from a hard fight and he doesn't intend to start now. Silas lost the love of his life when the death of their son left him and his marriage broken, but now he's back to fight for what's his. Maggie was his woman. As far as he is concerned, she still is. When her life is threatened he'll move heaven and hell to protect their future together.

Astrid has returned to Oceali with only one thing on her mind: revenge. Her sister, Princess Vega, has taken everything from her, in a desperate pursuit of the crown. Astrid could not care less about the crown, but if it will make her sister miserable, she’d gladly take it from her. But at what cost? What else is Astrid willing to sacrifice to make her sister suffer? Her friends? Her life?

Sorting through the piles left behind by a grandmother who was both a stage magician and a hoarder, Persephone Aim finds a magical artifact from World War II that has shaped her family history. Faced with her mother’s desperate attempt to take the artifact for herself, Persephone must decide whether to hold onto the past or use it to reshape her future.

He's a Navy SEAL. She's his sister's annoying best friend...and now she's missing. In Tijuana. And he has to find her. During his leave. When he does, things get wild - and not just from the chemistry they’ve been trying to ignore for more than a decade. What happens in Tijuana...might just kill you.

Navy SEAL Clay "Dirtman" Hagan's retirement plans are simple. Buy the dilapidated beachfront cottage he found listed for a song, fix it up, and live out his days in solitude. Everything is set until an anonymous bidder drives up the price of his future paradise. TV talk show host Tasha Jones is flying high, until one word—canceled—sends her crashing. Now she's looking to resurrect her career with a new home renovation show if they can get around the buyer standing in the way of the perfect property.

As more wedding invites pour in, Zane Alexander is happy that he and Missy don't need a legal document to prove their love. Or, at least, he didn't think they did. Lately, he's beginning to wonder if they're still on the same page regarding their official relationship status or if he's going to have to seal the deal. He's happy to do just that, but being in the wrong place at the wrong time might cost him the chance...and his life.

She was the girl next door. Too young. Too tempting. Too off limits. Ten years later, she’s all grown up and all woman. He steered clear of her then. But now? Now is a different story entirely.... Ten years ago, the hot but cocky Navy SEAL went from ignoring her, to kissing her, to rejecting her. Now the last thing she wants is his help, even if he is willing and uniquely qualified to give it. And she really doesn’t want to want him.... An all-new SEALs in Paradise steamy standalone enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy.

Dr Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist, specialising in forensic techniques to research the paths of Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now more than 1,000 years old, she can determine childhood diet and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers new visions of the likely roles of women and children in Viking culture.

Two sisters. One destined for the crown, one doomed to silence. Princess Astrid and Princess Vega are identical in every way - except one was born near perfect, the other “deficient”. Born mute. By age six, their fates are sealed. Vega will be the next queen. Astrid, the silent princess, will spend the rest of her days rotting away in a facility. It is a time when the planet has been ravaged by global warming. Famine and disease demand drastic measures to preserve resources that are already stretched paper thin.

Give Rick a clear enemy he can capture or kill and he’s good. But in La La Land, nothing is simple or what it seems. LA is driving a wedge between Rick and the one woman he loves: actress Sierra Cox. Or, maybe, it’s less LA and more Sierra’s co-star - pretty boy Jamey Garret. When Rick finally loses his cool and uses his fist to make Jamey a little less pretty, the shit really hits the fan, personally and professionally, and he has to call in his old SEAL teammates for help.

Twenty-five-year-old Ivy Rowan rises from her sickbed after being struck by the great influenza epidemic of 1918, only to discover that the world has been torn apart in just a few short days. But Ivy's lifelong gift - or curse - remains. She sees the uninvited ones - ghosts of loved ones who appear to her, unasked for and unwelcomed, for they always herald impending death.

She's a mail-order bride hunting for a lost treasure . . . one that her new groom was the last person to see. Lina Groves' outlaw father died in a shootout, leaving her with a brother in desperate need of medical treatment and no clue to the location of the treasure he'd claimed to have for his children. With her brother growing worse by the day, Lina needs a miracle. As if in answer to her prayers, she spots an advertisement for a mail-order bride--from none other than the sheriff who was the last person to see her father alive and the only one who might know where his treasure was hidden....

As a Navy SEAL, Rick Mann fought his way to hell and back, but he's never faced a challenge quite like protecting Sierra Cox. She's spoiled, she's annoying...and he's never wanted a woman more. That's a problem for so many reasons. At the top of that list is he needs to keep his head in the game because even though Sierra doesn't take anything seriously, including Rick, the threats on her life are very real.