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For Patricia "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, hockey is her only escape from her controlling husband and the isolation of her suburban life. When the drama on her team threatens that one happiness, Fitz takes matters into her own hands. She convinces three of her teammates - Michelle, Dawn, and Tessa - to join her in building a new team. The Darts. The Darts have the potential to be something fantastic - if they can survive their first season. As Fitz’s marriage takes a dark turn, she puts more pressure on the team to succeed.

Her life is far too serious to date a hunky superstar that plays a game for a living. Sam thought she’d made it home to Promise Lake - instead, a terrifying bridge collapse plunges her car into the waters, robbing her of her safe haven. She wakes firmly cradled in the powerful arms of Jake - her firm’s newly signed client and her ex’s best friend. Still, whatever feelings she has for him doesn’t matter. The fact that he saved her life doesn’t matter. He breaks her top two rules: Never date a client and never date an ex’s best friend.

Eddy Hart is out of town, and his partner and fiancée Claire Olson agrees to take on what she thought would be a simple missing person's case. Unfortunately, the missing person believes himself to be Sherlock Holmes and Claire to be Dr. Watson. She finds herself embroiled in an intrigue that began with the Knights Templar centuries before and continues to threaten humanity as the United States comes ever closer to being drawn into World War II.

When Shaye dropped out of college mid-semester, and moved to Lopez Island for the summer, she’d hoped to figure out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. Instead, she reconnects with childhood friends Jason and Nick, and good intentions spiral into harrowing confrontations. The summer ends in tragedy and Shaye flees the Island, haunted by her mistakes. Eight years later, Shaye is forced to return to the place she’d hoped never to see again. Now, she must face the people, and the pain she left behind.

Without the ability to reproduce on their own, the Arathians have been facing extinction. A decade later, they’d had their first sign of hope: Earthers could mate with them and bear Arathian-mixed babies. Ambassador Rexvan fights for his people in his own way: at negotiation tables. Now onboard the Adastra with Kor, Ty, and Lacy, Rex must convince the Grays to allow them to take Earthers to their homeworld so that they can find mates, and hopefully, create the next generation of Arathians.

Ashlyn MacLeod's life is all she ever wanted. She lives in London, attends a world-renowned university, and is one step away from getting her PhD in archaeology. Everything is going exactly as planned, until a humiliating rejection forces her home to the Scottish Highlands. Struggling with the loss of such a huge opportunity, she begins an excavation on her family's rural property, in an effort to finish her dissertation and save her career. As she digs into the wet dirt, she unearths much more than she bargained for.

Karincin's life has been dominated by familial expectations, duty, and celibacy. He attended all of the correct schools, won the worthy awards, and leads a cutting edge team at the Department of Space. His life is going exactly as planned, until he's assigned a mate. Aevum is nothing like he expected. She's free-spirited, passionate, and doesn't adhere to Karincin's pre-arranged life. She challenges everything he's been taught to believe, and awakens suppressed desires he didn't know he had.

Jilted. Living in a glorified closet. The world’s worst bar waitress. I just need to keep a roof over my head and make tuition payments until I can finish graduate school. Then my real life will start. But right now, long nights at the Speakeasy have me burning the candle at both ends and the wax melting all over my fingers. When a bar manager offers me a job taking care of his adorable five-year-old daughter, it seems like the perfect solution. I get a quiet place to study. Matteo gets a reliable sitter.

Morgan VanDolen is an accomplished athlete, but joining a softball team for the first time as an adult threatens to pitch some dents into her pride. In the face of a frustrating learning curve, Morgan finds inspiration in her new teammate: Marina Martin.

Laurel left Coal's Lake ten years ago as a grieving teen, now she's moving back with a baby boy in tow. Starting from scratch, she's hopeful shell be able to make her sons first holiday season in her hometown memorable. When she runs into her childhood friend, Brennan, old feelings come rushing back and its as if she never left.

I thought my college boyfriend and I were going to be together forever. But right before our senior year starts, he decides he “wants to see what else is out there”. With a shattered heart, I retreat to a local bar to ease the pain. Unexpectedly, though, my horrible day turns into a good one, thanks to a sweet and unbelievably hot stranger. And then, this awkwardness happens: I walk into my first day of class to find out that my new professor is the hot guy from the bar.

In this library, the books aren't the only thing worth checking out.... Alex has a job she likes, doing tech support at Cowling University, and a beautiful - if difficult - girlfriend, Jasmine. Life is good. That is until Alex's boss reassigns her to work in the university's saddest little library. Alex feels like she's been banished to a stuffy, quiet hell. Then Alex meets Cait, a living definition of "sexy librarian". She's hot, smart, and her accent is to die for. But Alex has a girlfriend she loves and a job to get done.

As Leger, Barok, Geart, and Dia face an empire growing ever more aware of the nation they rebuild, all eyes and armies are drawn to the East and the rise of a new enemy. Left unguarded, the dim flecks of magic lingering in the swamps and dark places begin to spill free. Struggling to survive, the once-isolated people of Enhedu must travel to places where the mapmakers have lied in order to confront the servants of a dark power. While beneath a broken mountain, a river of silver calls those who can hear to wealth beyond measure.

The laws that confine men have been swept aside, and the provinces have declared their independence. War had come to Zoviya, leaving those alone to fend for themselves. All the while, the Earth quakes, warning of magics long hidden in ancient places. Unhinged magics are taking hold of the innocent. Ancient plots are unraveling. In every corner of the Empire, ghosts stir and scratch at the stains long ago salted into the earth. The Vastness is coming.

The dark forest hid them from their destroyers. The matriarch of the forest wept for a century over their murder. The priests rewrote the songs and rhymes until the world forgot them and the conquerors abandoned their watch.

"Lessa Lamb narrates with a fine tone and timbre. She inhabits the youthful sound and elegant style of this layered audiobook. Her timing and sense of occasion add richness to its informed foray into all things wolf as she captures the drama, fear, and anxiety that underlie the immersive...

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Maura might have fallen in love with a princess as a teenager, but as an adult she’s all too aware of the obstacles between them. She’s the most-wanted pirate captain in the kingdom Juliette is princess of. It will never work. But when she receives a distress call from her princess, she doesn’t hesitate to ride to the rescue.

Acclaimed journalist and media celebrity Diana Willis can snag the inside scoop and truth on any story. But when her helicopter mysteriously malfunctions and plummets to the ground, everything changes, sending Diana down a maze of murderous intrigue and confusion. Waking up from a coma eight weeks after the crash, she struggles with the recurring dreams that reveal an extraordinary past life. Now, Diana's hell-bent on uncovering the secrets about those past memories. Delving into a world of mind control and past lives, the truth is more terrifying than she ever imagined.

When aspiring writer Amelia Fischer falls for the hot girl behind the bar, she has no idea what she's getting into. Mel Park may be one sexy bartender, but her personal life is an ugly mess. She's still digging out from the damage done by the disastrous end of her last relationship. Yet when Amelia starts visiting her bar, she can't help but notice and be intrigued by the quiet young woman.