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With three days left to the year, Deep Creek Lake is hopping with holiday vacationers and wedding guests pouring into the Spencer Inn for Mac Faraday and Archie Monday's huge wedding ceremony which is being touted as the social event of the year. But droopy flowers and guests who failed to RSVP are the least of Mac's and Archie's problems when a professional hit squad hits Spencer Manor to send the groom, Joshua Thornton, Archie's mother, and Gnarly running for their lives.

After 10 months of marital bliss, Jessica Faraday and Murphy Thornton are still discovering and adjusting to their life together. Settled in their new home, everything appears to be perfect...except in the middle of the night when, in the darkest shadows of her subconscious, a deep secret from Jessica's past creeps to the surface to make her strike out at Murphy.

Trouble’s brewing again as Pete’s hunt for another vampire brings him face-to-face with a rival who hates his guts. Donna, who knows a little too much and takes a little too much pleasure in Pete’s pain, seems one step ahead, and Pete’s dying to know why. When she proposes that he go back into custody of the same gang that nearly killed him once before, he thinks she’s plum crazy. He might be right. But what if her wild plan is the only way to stop them for good? Can he trust someone who clearly wants to watch him suffer?

In the aftermath of the brutal slaying of a sacred auk'nai deity, Cade and Nella Castus are taken from their home and brought deep into the wilderness. They must make their way back to civilization, traversing dangerous landscapes as they are pursued relentlessly by their captor—a winged abomination. As Denton and Eliana search for their missing children, they uncover something that will change life on Kamaria forever.

The fight for justice never ends - and as four-armed navino lawyer Claymore is about to learn, no one can be trusted to do what’s right. So, he decides to take on the organized criminals infiltrating his beloved government, even if he must do it alone. After the abduction of his niece, Shaylor, Claymore begins investigating a shady organization known only as Prong Three. Following the trail of corruption and kidnapping, he discovers that his target is just one small arm of a major operation called Trident.

A helicopter touches down in Fin Shaw's front yard. Inside is a man that has some big news to break. "Fin, you're going with me to Egypt!" The moment the young archaeologist has been waiting for his entire life has arrived! The men arrive in the Valley of the Kings and locate a secret chamber in the tomb of King Tutankhamun that has an insane secret.

He’s haunted by his past; she doesn’t have one. With no past and an uncertain future, Emily St. Clair leaves the monastery to become a mail-order bride. Her journey is made easier when she meets a kindred spirit along the way, someone she could care for, whose troubles seem greater than hers. Deciding her future would be what she makes it, Emily embraces the idea of all the possibilities which lie ahead. Only problem is, she’s not Emily.

Terra is Graia's most powerful goddess—after all, her domain is the whole world. But when her apprentice, Typhon, betrays her, the fate of the world is at stake. Typhon launches a siege to subjugate the Kosmos, and the only thing standing between him and total dominion is Terra. She and a motley crew of dissidents come together to reestablish order, but just when peace is within reach, Zeus, their new leader, reveals his true colors. On the surface, he's a benevolent leader—but beneath his glimmering facade, he's just as bad as the tyrannical titans that came before him.

Noah Carver used to work for Maskell Entertainment, developing the smash hit virtual reality game Sevenfold Sword Online (loosely based on the fantasy novels of Jonathan Moeller). Then Carver got fired. Not for incompetence, or for laziness. But because he discovered the truth.

Pete turns up in Ambrosia in time to watch the strangest grocery stocking experience he’s ever laid eyes on. Turns out Ambrosia has a pact with the vampires: Their weakest and most vulnerable in exchange for all the goods they need to keep the dying town afloat one more month.

Once loved and sheltered, Kamari Faraday bears her burdens in lonely silence, fending off the unwanted attentions of the powerful man who thinks a lowly half-breed should be his for the taking - the same man who killed her father and forced her mother into hiding. But now, backed into a corner and at the end of her rope, Kamari takes the biggest risk of her life: trusting handsome, haunted Cassidy Dalton with her secrets. A man whose touch of long ago still warms her memory.

After years of hiding who and what she is, Constance Michaels must now face the bitter truth of her wrenched past and the knowledge one of her children wants nothing to do with her. She understands her daughter’s feelings. Thirteen years was a long time to be absent to just expect to walk back into a person’s life and pick up where she left off. There were mountains to climb and bridges to mend before she could possibly hope for forgiveness for the part she played.

Rachel Stanley, feels lost and afraid after saying a final farewell to her beloved sister. She is truly alone in the world, and must travel west disguised as her sister, to marry one of two men she's never met.

Rachel knows who's to blame for her miserable and empty life. She wants revenge. Not only for herself, but for the loss of her beautiful sister. What she needs to make happen, she can't do alone. She needs help and hopes to find it in the man she’ll be marrying in Jubilee Springs.

Tired of living in the company’s bunkhouse with the other miners. Beg Wilson decides to take his bosses up on their generous offer of finding wives for their workers, and take advantage of the provided lodgings that came with it, by putting his name down to receive a mail order bride.

Self-discipline is one of those qualities which, when imbued in a person, can underpin all other achievements. For many, it can be something that remains tantalizingly out of reach, while for others it is something that is sporadic at best. There will be many times in one's lifetime when self-discipline is something that is desirable, and there will be times when it is an absolute necessity.

Many people have a whole range of preconceived misconceptions about yoga. They think that yoga is only for women who are fit and flexible and live a certain lifestyle. Are you one of those people? This book is here to shatter those misconceptions and teach you that yoga is for everyone. Whether you're male or female, young or old, unfit and overweight, or the fittest you've ever been, this book will introduce you to yoga and the astounding benefits it can start having in your life.

When Jackson gets expelled from high school, his rich uncle sends him to Stonyhurst in England, where he'll learn to control his rage and use it for world peace or something less exciting. What Jackson doesn't know is that at night, selected members of the school go underground, where the real education begins. The true purpose of Stonyhurst is as dark and twisted as the original Grimms' Fairy Tales. Between Jackson's lucid nightmares and the demonic horrors hidden below the surface, not everything is what it seems. Teens are going missing and someone wants Jackson dead.

The Terran Republic's outlying worlds are disappearing. The stars themselves vanishing without a trace. As the Republic panics, Star Command dispatches Admiral Drex and the Fifth Fleet to investigate. A meeting with the Drakon Confederation reveals the nature of the threat, as new alliances are made. But the balance of power in the galaxy has shifted, and war looms on the horizon. The ancient gods of the Drako, long thought to be nothing more than myth and legend, have returned after aeons.

His heart’s desire. His life-long friend. Separate women…or one and the same? Clarkson Dalton abandoned his books and poetry to join the Confederacy, determined to protect his family’s South Carolina plantation and the women who live there. Instead of garnering honor and glory, however, he missed most of the fighting as a prisoner of war. Three years stewing in shame and humiliation would have driven him mad, except for the packet of letters he carries home tucked next to his heart. Missives from his betrothed, Kimberly, whose sweet, passionate words literally kept him alive. Melissa Fleming has been cleaning up her mistress’s messes for almost as long as she can remember. One task, however, was no hardship during their temporary London exile—writing letters to the man Miss Kimberly discarded like a soiled bit of lace. Missy fell for the sensitive, scholarly Clarkson years ago. Though the signature on the letters was not her own, every word of love was real. Now that the war is over, it’s time for Kimberly and Missy to return home. And Missy is about to discover there’s a mess awaiting her…and this time, cleaning it up could break her heart.

True leadership is not about being able to control others with threats or coercion, but rather the ability to exert influence by inspiring others. Although it sometimes seems that certain individuals are simply "born leaders", the truth is, leadership is an art form that can be mastered by anyone. The rewards for becoming a person who is able to lead effectively and exert influence are practically endless.

Armed with a talking battle axe with a split personality, Klondaeg roams the world in search of adventure. He has battled dozens of monsters, avenged his parents, and defeated the Klondaeg Hunters, but now he must face his greatest challenge yet. An old enemy has returned, and he plans to summon the most dangerous monster in all of history. It’s Klondaeg versus the end of the world in the final five episodes of Klondaeg the Monster Hunter!