When a Marine Chaplain knocks on her door, Jessa's heart breaks—someone she loves is dead. Killed in action, but is it Riley or Kit? Her brother or her boyfriend . . .Three months earlier, Marine Kit Ryan finds himself back home on leave and dangerously drawn to his best friend Riley's sister, Jessa—the one girl he can't have. Exhausted from fighting his feelings, Kit finally gives in, and Jessa isn't strong enough to resist diving headfirst into a passionate relat...

I'll do anything not to marry the girl my parents want me to.Including marrying her brother in a drunken panic.I'm not gay, but I can fake it long enough to get our parents off my back, right?Cue hiding out for the next two years, but nothing is that simple, because I'm offered a spot on the US National team.Now we have to fake it for the entire world as the poster boys of gay fencers while Colin makes me doubt everything I think I am.

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though series books are often derided for lacking in imagination and literary potency, that the majority of American girls have been exposed to girls’ series in some form, whether through books, television, ...

Selling my virginity wasn't how I saw my first week of college going.But after my parents cut me off, an offer from a gorgeous rich stranger doesn't sound so bad. It's only twenty-four hours and I'll never have to see him again. Wrong.Much to my horror, the stranger is Oliver Godfrey, the captain of my fencing team. As if that isn't bad enough, his parents own half the city. There is no escape from him or the way he makes me feel. He's everything I don't wa...

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.Cub Reporters considers the intersections between children's literature and journalism in the United States during the period between the Civil War and World War I. American children's literature of this time, including works from such writers as L. Frank Baum, Horatio Alger Jr., an...

Dark silhouettes. Movement from the corner of your eye. Look again. Is someone there? When five-year-old Jeffery tells his mother about his confrontation with the shadow man, she all but dismisses it as child's play....

Didi Monroe has waited her whole life for happily ever after. So when charming Zac Ridgemont sweeps her off her feet, Didi believes she might finally have met the one.Until she begins an internship at a military hospital in California. There she meets wounded marine Noel Walker. Frustrated on the outside and broken on the inside, Walker's an irritating patient who refuses any care, keeping his distance from everything and everyone—including Didi.Walker is strictly out of bo...

Emerson Lowe and popular ice-hockey player Jake McCallister have been best friends since third grade but as their friendship starts to morph into something more, a terrible event occurs that heralds the end of innocence for both of them.Within a week, Jake's living on the other side of the country and Emerson is left alone to pick up the pieces of her life in a small town determined to paint her as a liar.Seven years later, Emerson is still living on the beautiful Pacific W...

I've been kept away from my destiny as long as I've been alive.I'm the bastard, banished from Manhattan, and forbidden from my dream of playing college hockey for the Gods because no one can find out about me.But now Dad's dead, and guess who's in the will? So my dream of playing for the Gods can finally come true, but I have to find my place in my half-brother's shadow while dealing with my rival Teddy, who's been a thorn in my side since juniors.H...

**An atmospheric and riveting novel of suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author that uncovers the horrifying secrets buried within a ramshackle house on the shores of Oregon’s wild Columbia River. Will appeal to all fans of thrillers and suspense fiction.“WILL SEND CHILLS DOWN YOUR SPINE.” –Book Reporter**Along the shores of Oregon’s wild Columbia River, the Victorian mansion where Sarah McAdams grew up is as foreboding as she remembers. The ...

WALK THE RIGHT ROAD: The Complete Collection invites you to deep dive into this scintillating series of romantic suspense. Follow gripping tales of love, danger, and thrilling intrigue across all the books.THE CHOICE: In the face of peril, one woman finds herself torn between two men. Her decision holds the power to endanger her life in ways she could never have imagined.LOST AND FOUND: Winner of the prestigious 2013 Reader's Favorite ...

Three unforgettable stories. Five fiercely brothers. One family that always closes ranks.Meet the Wilde brothers of Idaho—rough around the edges, stubborn as hell, and fiercely protective of the people they call family.In The One, Joe Wilde is a widowed father raising a troubled teenage son when Margaret Gordon returns to the place she once called home. She's a doctor whose career has fallen apart, and Joe is the last man she expects to nee...