An evocative, unsentimental love story set across four days and twenty years. For fans of André Aciman, Olivia Laing, or the Before Sunset trilogy.In a large house in a country which has changed its size and name so many times in the last hundred years it has lost its identity, a woman is packing half a million dollars in hundred-dollar bills into a suitcase when the men in uniforms arrive. Among them is a stranger from another world entirely. He says he is a journalist. H...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Laurelin Paige comes a new story in her Dirty Universe series…I’m damn good at my job.So if I swipe my boss’s event invitations from time to time, it’s kind of like a much-earned bonus. He’ll never miss them, and I get a five-star free meal in the company of men in well-fitted suits.But then he shows up at an award’s dinner that I’m most definitely not supposed to be at.Lucky for me, when...

He took an oath to protect his mate, even from himself.Panther shifter, Owyn Wade, knows the danger of werecat matings, and he won’t allow his female to be hurt by one. A secret vow to protect her and see to her needs without an official mating is the only way to ensure she’s safe. Especially from him. But keeping their physical relationship from the rest of their clan is easier said than done. Even trickier? Keeping his heart from wanting to claim her for good.She gave him...

Brenna Carlsen (32) nearly died eight years ago in a car accident, but she hasn't let a spinal cord injury or a wheelchair slow her down. She now owns a successful architecture firm, specializing in accessible homes and renovations.Fletcher Hayes (32) returned to Creekside a year and a half ago to work for his uncle's construction company. He never expects to connect with the girl he had a crush on back in high school.Life's about to throw some challenges at them. Will they...

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The next book in her New-Adult-series by WATTPAD-superstar Selina Mae Like every summer Valentina Rhodes can finally focus on nothing but beach, sun and her best friends - until Caden Callahan pops up at the beach house and announces they're bunking together. Valentina wouldn't have slept with him if she'd known they would share the same group of friends (and her bedroom) a few months later: The group's Anti-Fraternization policy runs deep. But Caden's natural charm and rough edges seem to...

A why choose/reverse harem romance set in a Grimm-fairytale-inspired world, featuring “evolving harems,” a smidge of groveling, fairytale retellings, and obsessed morally grey men.Waking up as someone else in a different dimension is bad enough. But when that someone is skilled in the dark arts, collects men like trophies, eats poisoned apples for breakfast, drinks the blood of innocent maidens…The evil queen.I'm trying to say I woke up as the mother-...

Mass-migration, conflict and poverty are now persistent features of our globalised world. This reference book for social workers and service providers offers constructive ideas for practice within an inter-disciplinary framework.Each chapter speaks to a skill and knowledge area that is key to this work, bringing together myriad voices from across disciplines, interspersed with the vital perspectives of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants themselves. The book discusses the specifi...

Early fall 2020 ten authors met at an online meeting site for the first time, over a glass of wine. The idea of an anthology was born.Together, we compiled this anthology to resemble an old 45 RPM vinyl record, with an A and B side. The 'A' side stories are all based on the theme, "Tolerance." Whereas side 'B' are tales straight from the hearts of the authors.Both sides, like those records of old, are a banquet of entertainment for the reader. So sit back with a glass of wi...

"Autumn - an anthology" is a collection of short stories from ten writers, some new, some veterans. They will make you laugh, perhaps cry, even have chills crawl up your spine.This first entry, in a four-part series dedicated to the seasons, focuses on the time of year that ushers in rest from the heat of the beating sun, pumpkin spice, sweater weather, back-to-school days, and the start of some of our favorite holidays.

The Transcendent Authors created the third volume of the Seasons Series, Winter—An End and a Promise, a compilation of many genres. They comprising of: paranormal/mystery, military fiction, film noir, comedy, drama, literary fiction, fairy-tale/morality, science fiction, contemporary fiction, action/drama, crime/drama, tragic fate, domestic fiction, and horror romance. There is something for everyone to open and enjoy.The authors cordially invite you to...Come and join them...

Deceit... Our lives are full of deceit, from the little white lie or a lie of omission to the world spouting untruths.Deceit can come packaged as protection to deception to harm another. Countries involved in covert to overt manipulation attempts to change their status or political influence revealed every day by the press, bloggers, social influencers. The thing is, can you trust them? But the little things each of us do sometimes are intentional, sometimes not, how can tell?