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War rages, loyalties are tested, and love is more perilous than ever in this thrilling and eagerly awaited sequel to the breakout hit Metal Slinger. It's been four years since Jovie betrayed Acker, fracturing their relationship. Her decision to take King Edmond's magic, sparing his life at...

Mark Twain ponders the usefulness of insurance coverage. "Coming down from Sacramento the other night, I found on a center-table in the saloon of the steamboat, a pamphlet advertisement of an Accident Insurance Company. It interested me a good deal, with its General Accidents, and its Hazardous Tables, and Extra-Hazardous furniture of the same description, and I would like to know something more about it. It is a new thing to me. I want to invest if I come to like it. I want to ask merely a few questions of the man who carries on this Accident shop".

Max They fear me. Worship me. Call me an abomination. I've earned my freedom a dozen times in The Pit, but I keep going back. Because violence is my church, and blood is the only thing that makes me feel alive. Then he arrives. Pretty. Fast. New. A golden-haired boy with ocean eyes and no clue...

Refuge in the Arms of a MonsterThis job on board the New Horizon is supposed to be my fresh start, a fail proof plan to escape my poor excuse for a husband and his dangerous friends. But my white horse quickly turns into a nightmare when I discover that my new boss is none other than Ulrek the Horrible, my sworn enemy. There’s no way I’ll work for the ruthless captain responsible for stealing me from Earth. So contract be damned, I quit! But there are dangers out there worse than a reformed Dominion captain, and with nowhere left to turn, I find myself back on his ship… and in his arms.

"Concerning Chambermaids" is a work by American writer Mark Twain. The short story was written in 1896. The author enumerates the bachelor's curses towards the chambermaids who always put the pillows in the wrong end of the bed and so on with the inimitable humor.

The hottest new reality TV show where you have to fall in love like your life depends on it. Our contestants will have to fall in love, Lock In and fight through a series of challenges to be the last couple standing. The reward? A wedding of their dreams and a grand cash prize. The catch? They don't just have to fall in love with each other, they have to make us fall in love with them too. Our audience will be the ones to decide who stays Locked In and whose journey is cut short.

When I’m stalked and kidnapped from the convent by my father’s enemy, a cowboy hellbent on revenge, everything changes. I’m torn from my cloistered life of simplicity, thrown into the center of a bitter fight, and held at his mercy in a small cabin in the middle of the Colorado wilderness. There could be a silver lining though. The quiet, bespectacled, heavily tattooed horseman has an offer: If I give him what he wants, he’ll grant the only wish I have. He might even be the one person capable of delivering it.

She had the perfect recipe for success—until he added a dash of chaos. Lexie's learned the hard way that no one hands you a future, you have to fight for it. So when the former foster kid sees a dangerously handsome biker struggling to organize his club's cookout, she takes a chance and offers...

My baby boy is gone. But with Konstantin by my side, we'll scorch the earth to bring him back. Nothing will stop us. Not the scums who took our son. No one. If they try to, I'll teach them what hell on earth feels like. What happens when they cross the line. All I want is my family back in one...

Ten years ago, I met the sexiest man I’ve ever laid eyes on. Butch was tall, dark, and… Dangerous. I thought we had a connection. That he understood me in a way no one ever had. Then he disappeared without a word. No goodbye. No see you later. Nothing. He comes back into my life just as abruptly. Unannounced. Unexpected. But not unwanted. I need his help. My sister’s missing. Taken by a man she trusted and forced to do unspeakable things. I’m going to find her, and Butch is going to help me. If we can stay alive long enough. I’m not worried though. Because Butch is still tall and dark.

Margo Thatcher is supposed to be at work, not Feather Festival. So, she does what any red-blooded American birder would do—plays hooky. Unfortunately, her excuse doesn’t hold when a photographer from the magazine, Exposure, snaps her picture, landing her on the cover. As a nature photographer, Trevor Hansen knew getting attacked by wildlife was a possibility. However, his greatest threat currently stems from a birder who is ready to bludgeon him with her binoculars. She might have a motive, considering his photograph did get her in trouble.

Echoes of Bhrea Duet brings together the first two thrilling novels in T. Kohl’s epic portal fantasy series filled with magic, mystery, adventure, and clean romance. Lauren Strauss always believed her strange dreams and questions about her family’s past would eventually lead to answers. Instead, they lead her to another world. After a violent attack in downtown Chicago, Lauren is thrust into the mysterious realm of Bhrea by a powerful amulet with a will of its own.

Der Pakhan Ich bin das Oberhaupt, der skrupellose Boss, vor dem sich alle fürchten. Die Menschen erzittern bei meinem Anblick, sie kennen die Geschichten über mich. Sie glauben zu wissen, wer ich bin. Und sie haben recht: Ich bin all das, was man sich über mich erzählt. Doch sobald SIE den Raum betritt, verschiebt sich etwas in mir. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben sehne ich mich danach, jemanden zusammenzusetzen, statt zu zerstören. Und das, obwohl sie mich töten wollte. Sie ist verloren, zersplittert, brennt nur noch auf Sparflamme und trotzdem trifft mich ihre Nähe wie eine Klinge aus Licht.

Rissa Parker struggles to support herself and her daughter by working overnights as a home health nurse. After witnessing her employer's murder, she has no choice but to grab her two-year-old and run toward the one person strong enough to protect them, the Navy SEAL who fathered her child during a one-night stand.

Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man is a short story by Mark Twain, one of the most funny and beloved American authors of all time. Aurelia is engaged to marry a nice young man, but keeps having to postpone as tragedy after tragedy befalls him. Which should be sad, but the progression of events is so ridiculous that you can't help but laugh.

Sketches New and Old is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. Twain's early career as a newspaper reporter and sketch writer demonstrates the messiness of his early relationship to the American periodical landscape.

Based on a true story, Princess Parasia is torn from her family and trafficked to Germany as a child bride. Tragically widowed, her beauty catches the eye of the most powerful ruler in Christendom, the German Emperor Henry IV. She becomes his wife, a terrible man who answers to no one, or so he believes. Still a teenager her life is a nightmare, but she is not alone. Her step-son Crown Prince Conrad is consumed by revenge as the blaze-haired girl he adores suffers at his father's hands.

The steamer Ajax encountered a terrible storm on her down trip from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands. It tore her light spars and rigging all to shreds and splinters, upset all furniture that could be upset, and spilled passengers around and knocked them hither and thither with a perfect looseness. For forty-eight hours no table could be set, and everybody had to eat as best they might under the circumstances. Most of the party went hungry, though, and attended to their praying.

Gabriel Karne is back. The plan? Lie low on Heartstone Island and wait for the dumpster fire that is his past life to burn itself out. So far, so good. Until it isn't. Gabriel has avoided Ranger Man for days, made a few important repairs to his sailboat, and put a dent in the stack of dime-store mysteries Elton loaned him. Life is at least okay. Eight days in and his strategy crumbles like a wet cookie. His ex-partner-in-crime returns, but this time he is very dead. And wearing a baby blue tracksuit, which somehow makes his murder even worse.

They call me Saint. Not because I save lives —because I end them. Clean. But one bad hit changed everything. I killed the wrong mark, and now I’m the contract. The Guild put a price on my head so high, every assassin on the planet wants a piece of it. Colleagues. Rivals. Old flames. They’re not just coming —they're already here. I’ve got 48 hours to figure out who set me up, and not die in the process. My name’s Saint James. And if you’re coming for me… you better bring backup. A lot of it.