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Alina Martin has done everything to make her family proud—business school, long hours at her father's corporate empire, doing secretarial work despite her business skills. She even obeys her father's rule that she must marry before she inherits his company and allows him to pick her suitor. But before she can carry out her destiny, her husband Todd seizes the company from her control, leaving her with nothing. And then Alina is killed in a suspicious accident.

At 25, Lauree Miller knows what she should want—a serious job, a serious boyfriend, and the ability to cook a meal that doesn’t involve two types of cheese. Who cares if it isn’t the future she had in mind for herself? It’s about time she stopped pining over her best friend’s brother Max anyway.

In a society that made males obsolete, the Weave engineers a female’s abilities. Girls like Dinitra are engineered by Sowers and assigned their life purpose when they turn 16. But sometimes, the Sowers get things wrong. A resistance is growing. Rebels are fabricating humans of their own—including males—and plan to topple the Weave in a war that could destroy them all. When Dinitra is assigned a job with the Legion, she uncovers the ugliest secrets of the Weave.

Mikayla Morgan is wanted for her mother's murder. She's been on the run for almost a year now, avoiding not only the police but the real killer. Tired of running and desperate to clear her name, she breaks one of the most sacred rules: never return to the scene of the crime.

When Monroe Dubois woke up this morning, she hadn’t planned to set an office building on fire. She really hadn’t. Plagued with a lifetime of hallucinations and doctor’s appointments, she was sick and tired of being poked and prodded. She just wanted to live like a normal 25-year-old who had no idea what to do with their lives. Was that too much to ask for? So when the office fire drew the attention of Kaden, the hottest and most infuriating man she’d ever met, she was…curious. When he kept showing up randomly, she was hesitant.

Just a dream, right? Moving to Charleston, South Carolina was never a hard decision, for family was important. The move would bring her closer to them and allow her to put her business degree to good use. What she didn't count on was encountering the very man who had been in her dreams since childhood. Was she losing her mind or was the dream becoming a reality?

It was a Roaring Twenties fatal attraction. Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed when she met Harry Diamond. The attentive, irresistibly sexy twenty-three-year-old suitor would become Nettie's fifth husband. He was also a bootlegger, pimp, and first-class hustler who thought he'd wed a goldmine. What Harry found instead was a fiercely independent older woman who was nobody's fool for long.

Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Brice Hamilton has been subjected to her mother’s new way of life ever since her parents’ divorce two years earlier - a move to a lower tax bracket in Chicago, an undesirable school, and her mother’s newest boyfriend: Phil. Jennifer rebels. Her mother’s answer to the “handful-slash-Jennifer” is to pack her up and send her to her grandma’s, whom Jennifer has not seen in almost three years.

Audrey is just fine with the status quo. She's single, so what? Her cousins have found their "happily ever afters", and the company she works for is being merged with another one, that's what is important. Until she runs into her high school sweetheart. Now, she doesn't know what to think.

When it comes to men, Tiffany doesn’t get attached. She has seen a broken heart and will do anything to keep hers intact. Her live life to the fullest mentality has her bouncing from bed to bed with no commitments until the one night stand, Spencer, she thought she would never see again walks through her door, surprising them both.

Bluebell was sold to Victoria Knight, a well-known Storyville madam, at the tender age of eleven. Now at 19, Bell is numbed to her life - until an optimistic preacher named Teddy Sullivan comes to New Orleans, intent on saving the sinful souls of the South. Teddy is instantly drawn to the petite brunette with sad eyes and longs to rescue her. Bell, however, decides that saving her friends from selling themselves in the Storyville cribs is more important than saving herself.

It's been a stressful couple of months for Bartender Hope Foster, so her best friend Ruby treats her to an afternoon of holistic pampering with Therapist Pandora Williams. But what should be a relaxing getaway turns into a murder scene when Hope and Ruby stumble across Pandora’s lifeless body in the kitchen next to a killer cocktail. Hope is convinced that the police are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to suspects. But as she digs further into Pandora's past, it's seems she's opening the proverbial box.

Forget the night she nearly died. Forget the weeks and months and hospitals that followed. And, mostly, forget Reed. The boy she nearly married. The boy she loved. The boy who woke up from the accident and couldn't remember. Seven years later, Cooper finally has her life back on track. She's got a home, a career, and a man who waited patiently for her heart to heal. Then, just as it starts to pay off to forget, fate threatens to steal it all away a second time.

What happens when a city girl goes country? She is a driven city girl with her eyes on the prize. He is a smoking-hot country mechanic whose prize is her. Stella Monroe has her eye on one thing...a promotion. So when her boss offers her an opportunity to show her value to the company, she decides to take it. There is just one problem. Moving to a small town away from her city life isn't Stella's idea of a good time. But she's got this. Right? From the minute she arrives in the country, Stella is beginning to lose her confidence.

Four months before the world ended, Melanie met Logan, the guy of her dreams. Too bad her younger sister’s drama screwed things up – again. Now, with most of the population dead and the future uncertain, Melanie isn’t sure what to think when he pops up. She’s level-headed enough to know that romance can’t cure heartache or protect her from zombies, but that doesn’t mean it can’t help distract her from how horrible things are....

Allie and I were meant to have a future together—one built on love, not fear. But here in Hawthorne, shadows lengthen, and whispers drift through the woods like curses. So when Alondra falls mysteriously ill, I know exactly who’s behind it.

There are two sacred rules in the Montagalo household: Family comes first. Don't date my brother's teammates. Of course I went and broke both . . . It started with a little banter on a dating app. A teeny, tiny secret: flirty messages with Luca Babineaux, the sweet, charming—and stupidly...

While home in Raleigh for semester break, I didn’t expect my girlfriend, Alondra, to ask me for a favor: present my Book of Shadows to the leader of a satanic cult. She was looking for a new male witch for her coven. Of course, she knew it wouldn’t be me. But when a curse took hold of our college campus—and the spirits I thought I’d left behind came back—I realized I couldn’t keep the book closed much longer. Now something dark surrounds me. Is it the work of the wizard with the devilish goatee? Or is it a little girl possessed by something far worse?

Most twenty-somethings travel to Berlin in search of the weird, wild, and wunderbar. For Brooke Neville, it’s the perfect place to stage a fantasy; one where she’s just another college student backpacking through hostels on a shoe-string budget. No billionaire family. No pro-tennis career. No gut-wrenching tragedy. But remaining anonymous and aloof becomes increasingly difficult upon meeting Patrick, a charismatic Aussie traveler. With his easy grace and killer smile, Brooke isn’t the only woman distracted by his charms.

Grow in virtue and friendship with Mary through the chaos of life with these spirited, down-to-earth reflections by Kelsey Gillespy, author of In the Trenches. In this witty and profound guide to Christian discipleship for women, Gillespy contemplates the virtues of Mary and proposes practical and powerful ways to magnify the Lord—by folding laundry, raising kids, or training for elite athletics.