The queendom is in great peril. Can a spoiled princess and three commoners save it?Zirconia is all set for her grand coronation when tragedy strikes. Something horrid has befallen the people of Silvania, and Zirconia, despite her sheltered upbringing, finds herself teaming up with the most unlikely of commoners to save her queendom:- Her sexy best friend, a bunny shifter- A hulky bear shifter mercenary- A royal prince on a mission- A...

On my 18th birthday, my father, the senator, gives me the gift he thinks every little girl dreams of.The man of my dreams, and the wedding to match.Stefan Zoric is heir to an elite worldwide modeling agency.Practically a prince.My arrangement is simple, as far as sham marriages go.I give him my virginity, behave as the perfect wife and he'll pay for the college degree my father found irrelevant.But I don't want to be the perfect wife....

On the day my husband and I committed to each other, I didn't wear a white dress.We didn't exchange rings.There was no audience or minister to witness our union.Only the two of us.We swore to put each other first, to take on the evils our families had perpetuated together. Side by side.But that was before the past returned to haunt us.Now everything has changed.Stefan can't have both his past and my future.I can't ask him to c...

My life is in ruins. Failed marriage, failed career--I'm a failure.My husband may have had a hand in it, but I can't help missing him.We made an agreement. I signed the contract, and so did he. Without our arrangement, everything falls apart.So we'll keep losing ourselves in each other's bodies.We'll keep pretending everything is fine.But maybe I'm getting sick of pretend.Maybe I want to find something real.And just maybe, Luka does t...

I've been to a million parties with my crush, but he's never acted on it til now.Ford Malone could have any woman in Chicago, so why fake a relationship with me?The world knows him as the heir to a real estate fortune, but to me he'll always be my best friend, the man who saved me from my bullies as a boy.I'm as surprised as anyone when he announces our engagement, but I'll play along.Nothing has to change except the way we behave--the way we touch--in publi...

The two-volume set LNCS 9981 and 9982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2016, which was held in Kobe, Japan, in October 2016. The 75 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 326 submissions.The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier forum for Semantic Web research, where cutting edge scientific results and technological innovations are presented, where problems and so...

Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants' avowed anti-communism introduced new hardships and challenges. This book examines Russian immigration to Aust...

A quirky, fun paranormal romance by USA Today Bestselling authors Cali Mann & Elena GrayEveryone thinks Mars and Ares are the same person. I'm proof that we're not.My whole life, I've been a goddess on the run—from my family, from my birthright, from my brother. Until a fateful concert in Silver Springs, when I get so angry I accidentally call on my ancient protectors and the warrior spirits body snatch some humans at the concert—a...

If only I'd never signed that contract. Or accepted the one I didn't.My husband doesn't trust me. Not that I can blame him.But he needs me, needs my image. I need his connections. And I have to find a way to convince him to set aside our differences.There's one way that always works.Even when we hate each other, our bodies betray us.The one place we've never disagreed is in bed.Except this is about more than just us.And even Luka Zori...

On the day I was married, I promised to love, honor, and obey my husband Stefan.Little did I know how literally I would mean obeying.Stefan tells me what to do, and I do it. There are questions asked, but I always submit in the end.It would hurt less if I hadn’t started falling for him.It was supposed to be pretend. But the secrets we now share are too real, and they’re crumbling every piece of who I thought I was.If only Stefan was the man I thought...

Everything people think they know about the Zoric family is a sham. Even me.I thought I was trying out to be their newest model.Luka was auditioning wives.I just need the career boost. He needs good PR to salvage his playboy image. It's a win-win - on paper. But since when has real life been simple?His jealousy makes me crazy.The control he maintains over my body is unacceptable.I really shouldn't be so turned on by it.But there's mor...

It was always going to end in heartbreak.You can't pretend-marry the man you secretly love and escape unscathed.Ford has never hesitated to ask for my help before, but this is the farthest he's asked me to go. Not that I ever say no to him.Even when I know I should.Sleeping with my husband is the best worst idea possible.It's everything I dreamed it would be.But everything to me is nothing to him.And he's not the only one I've made pr...