Can he turn one night into forever?After being ditched only weeks before her wedding, Cassie Stackwell wasn’t out looking for a hookup. Then the devastatingly handsome bartender she’d been trying not to obsess over for months offered to give her a ride home. What could one night hurt?When his future was almost taken away after one impulsive decision, wolf-shifter and ex-con Jace Miller waited patiently for months before making a move on the woman he knew to be his destined ...

Elle resigned herself to being the responsible one. She moved her and her recovering dad out of the city to a small town. Her new job keeps his medical bills at bay, and caring for her dad soaks up her free time. But she’s never had a social life anyway.It’s been just the two of them for so long she doesn’t know any different.After returning home from the army, Dillon jumps into business with four of his cousins. He’s the oldest and the unofficial leader of the farm and ran...

I thought he would be glad I got fired as the team's athletic trainer. The head coach and I didn't get along. But when he came into my office as I was packing my things, it wasn’t to gloat.Definitely not what happened.We didn't get around to talking much and I want to keep it that way. Otherwise, I’ll miss what we can’t have.A quick story to satisfy your romance craving. Playing Hard novellas are standalone reads by an award-winning author.

Deputy Farah James arrests bad boys, she doesn’t date them. So when an ex-con with a fiery past returns to town, she ignores the criminal things he does to her pulse. Behind bars, Jesse Rodriguez and his wicked looks were easy to dismiss, but as a free man with a life to reclaim, he’s never been more dangerous to her—or her job and the ranch that depends on her paycheck.When stopping to help a stranded motorist puts Jesse on the radar of the local deputy, for once, he doesn’t compl...

Maggie’s a wolf shifter who’s never shifted. She’s blended with humans her whole life, but lately, her shifter side has been restless. But when a hot shifter tracks her down at work and makes outrageous claims about her destiny, she blows him off. Her mother left that world behind for a reason.Porter’s home is in turmoil, and his pack lives in fear of their cruel leader. But there’s one female who can help them. If only she’ll listen. Because he’s not the only one who knows Maggie ...

Odessa’s a nerdy angel who just wants to keep to herself. Her unpopular father works in the government of their realm. She doesn’t get along with her sister, and no one talks about what happened to her mother. So Odessa has no one to turn to for help with the staggering fear she lives under each day, a terror born from childhood trauma. Until she spots the announcement of a gala for a warrior in need of a mate.Bryant would rather chew his wings off than get mated, but orders are or...

When I return to Bishop’s Bay after my mother’s death, I’m determined to revitalize our family’s flagging lakeside resort. But my siblings would rather stay on their ranches, the resort staff doubts my every decision, and the one move that could secure its future? It’s blocked by one stubborn strip of land.Enter Jasper Duke—laid-back, charming, and apparently allergic to ambition. When I quite literally drop my grief and my expectations on him, I never imagine offering him a job…or...

A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies.The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador's telescopes pick up ...

Rona had thought her divorce from Harry had been her rock bottom. Her greatest shame and failure in life.But then, she met Peter. Drawn further into the partying lifestyle, Rona doesn't seem to notice just how much of her life is slipping out of her control. Until, thanks to Peter's questionable business practices, the ground beneath Rona's feet is firmly pulled out from under her.Becoming Ordinary follows Rona's story in dual timelines as she is forced to confront...

It was supposed to be one night to feel alive after getting out of a dud of a relationship. Now I’m having a baby, and I only have the soon-to-be dad’s first name.After my breakup, I need to find a job and place to live, but I can’t move into the house my grandma left me unless I’m married. Fortunately, the guy renting the place doesn’t know that, so I stop by and find out if he can move at the end of his lease.Only when the door opens, it’s him. My one-nig...

Most practitioners encounter bereaved clients before they receive any training in grief.Whether in a hospital ward, a community mental health team, a counseling practice, or a hospice, the expectation is often the same: you are qualified, so you can handle it. What that expectation misses is that grief-specific training is rarely built into qualifying curricula, and the models most practitioners carry, including the five stages of grief, are not well supported by t...

Phoenix Classics is the reference in classical works. All our works are of good quality and contain an active table of contents (HTML), which will make it easier for you to read. This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen] Mr Standfast [John Buchan] The Three Hostages [John Buchan] Greenmantle [John Buchan] The Island of Sheep [John Buchan] The Thirty-Nine Steps [John Bucha...