She has died before. He has waited centuries for her to return.Elowen is photographing an abandoned warehouse when an electrical fire traps her inside. She wakes hours later in the arms of a mysterious stranger with eyes like banked coals. His name is Ash, and he calmly informs her that she has died and been reborn many times across the centuries. Every life has brought her back to him.According to Ash, Elowen is his immortal mate, part of a supernatural bond forged through...

Hill Country Ball traces the vibrant emergence of baseball in a unique corner of the American West, where German settlers transformed the national pastime into a Sunday tradition. From the post–Civil War era through the trials of the Great Depression, town ball flourished in communities like Fredericksburg, Boerne, Kerrville, and Comfort, creating a cultural bedrock that melded athletic competition with social affairs and community picnics.In the 1930s, fierce rivalries ig...

BETWEEN TIDE AND SHOREBy Elizabeth ButlerHe belongs to the sea. She accidentally becomes the one thing keeping him on land.Finn is a selkie, a mythical shapeshifter who can move between human and seal forms. After rebellious teenage years spent living among humans, Finn knows their world all too well—and he hates it. To him, humans are destructive, controlling, short-sighted, and dangerously careless with the ocean he calls home.Then Lena Voss finds somethin...

**Includes a new introduction by Kristofer Goldsmith, the nation’s most recognized authority on the targeting of American troops and veterans with disinformation and extremist recruiting efforts.Updated with fresh material, this edition brings the prophetic warnings of the 2-time Medal of Honor recipient to a new generation."A short, blunt, and extremely vigorous blast." —The New York Times**Smedley Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general and the most ...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

From the bestselling and award-winning novelist, Octavia E. Butler. Completing the Patternist series, a new edition of her cult classic novel, now in print for the first time in fifty years.When Alanna flees a plague-scarred Earth to a new planet, she believes she has found a peaceful new home for humanity. Instead, she finds herself caught between two battling civilisations - the Kohn and Tehkohn.Now she must play a dangerous game to survi...

Expelled is an award-winning drama comedy that unfolds over an explosive week in a privileged South African family.Lou and Rich have staked everything on their son Alex: he has a place at an elite boys' school, is popular, and is on the first rugby team. His status seems untouchable until a reckless moment with the wrong friends is caught on camera and goes viral.Overnight, reputations shatter, secrets erupt, and the family fractures. Teenage impulsiveness spirals ...

Sable Quinn just inherited a fortune.Unfortunately, the fortune comes with a dragon.Twenty-eight-year-old Sable is unemployed, practical, sarcastic, and definitely not looking for adventure. Then she inherits a mysterious stone vault from a great-uncle she barely knew, along with an iron key and one warning:Don't open it after dark.Naturally, she does.Inside is a legendary dragon's hoard filled with mountains of gold, priceless jewels, and ancient ar...

A mortal caught in the crossfire of ancient monsters. A forgotten deity who reclaims his throne. To survive the coming darkness, she must place her faith in a force that could either save her—or burn the world to ashes.

Wolf shifter Alfie is more than ready to find his soulmate and finally settle down. When he and his friends go out for a drink after a long day at the safari park, the last thing he expects is for his soulmate to walk through the door.Fresh off a bad date with a creep who won’t take no for an answer, Myla agrees to meet her future sister-in-law at a nearby bar. When the creep follows her inside, the sexiest man she’s ever seen steps in and shuts him down—calm, confident, and unmist...

When fire tears through her family's century-old distillery, Wren Ashworth is left fighting for everything her ancestors built — and confronting a truth she never saw coming.

What happens when the only way to keep a roof over your head is giving your body to your boyfriend's best friend?When my boyfriend Ryan began emotionally shutting down, drowning in his own lies and neglect, our towering alpha roommate saw his opportunity. Derek didn't just step in to help with my half of the bills. He set a price tag that demanded my complete and unconditional surrender.What started as nervous reluctance exploded into an all-consuming, filt...