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Meet Lucky Beaumont: casino mogul, mother, monster, angel fallen and remade. To mortals, she's a billionaire with a smile sharp enough to draw blood. To those who cross her path, from bullied children to broken men to the wicked who think they'll never fall, she is something far older, far kinder, and far more terrifying than the legends ever dared to tell.

Kidnappers grabbed Jenna in broad daylight, right in front of her children and their horrified classmates. Her family was issued an insane ransom demand: $25 million in cash and jewels, payable by the end of the school day, otherwise they’ll never see her again. As Jenna’s mother scrambles to gather the money, detectives Mo Butler and George Ortega follow the trail of the kidnappers, which will lead them through a sordid landscape of jealous lovers, broken dreamers, and twisted schemers. But every second counts, and there’s one thing Jenna Wade doesn’t have: very much time.

Every deal has a cost. Every soul has a story. And the Devil remembers all of them. Meet Lucky Beaumont: casino mogul, mother, monster, angel fallen and remade. To mortals, she's a billionaire with a smile sharp enough to draw blood. To those who cross her path, from bullied children to broken men to the wicked who think they'll never fall, she is something far older, far kinder, and far more terrifying than the legends ever dared to tell.

I look back on my childhood with a mixture of emotions. They were the best and worst years of my life. My friends Chris Lester, Charlie Beaumont and Louis Johnson would probably agree. We were the best of friends, always together and there for each other. Our bond would be tested one dismal October morning, when we'd commit a murder in the woods around our hometown. What followed was a cover-up whilst trying to pretend nothing had happened.

Cameo characters people this gentle mystery, set in the imaginary town of Potterton and centered around its marina. Deaths, kidnapping, rescues and a mild romance weave in and out of the story. At the centre is Kevin, a semi-recluse boatman, whose peaceful evening is rudely interrupted when a female neighbour calls for his assistance in rescuing a drowning child.

State Trooper Casey Bombaro works too hard to have time for a love life, never mind a family. But when a missing persons case leads him to three scared kids and eventually their uncle—an old friend from Casey’s college days—all that changes.

When single dad Quinton Jackson gets stopped for speeding, he thinks he’s lost both his freedom and his infant son, who’s in the car he’s been chasing down the highway. Amazingly, State Trooper Wyatt Nelson not only believes him, he radios for help and reunites Quinton with baby Callum.

Before you come with me, away from Silver Hollow, away from The Union, and away from all that is safe and comfortable, take a moment to look around you. Know that just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Delta Malone, shaman, shop owner and unbeknownst to her, destined soulmate of the rarest dragon, is about to embark on the greatest adventure of her life—she will attempt to pit the most powerful vampire against the fiercest dragon in an effort to control her own destiny and prevent the elimination of mankind.

Can a couple be more opposite than a thief and a cop? Mattias Dumont stole to survive. But when he saw how his theft hurt people, he resolved to change. Now, helping to investigate a rash of burglaries, he crosses paths with James. Police Officer James Levinson doesn’t trust thieves, and that includes Mattias. But as they work together, Mattias and James realize there’s something deeper between them than just the physical attraction neither can deny.

Carlisle police officer Dwayne knows what Robin is doing the moment he lays eyes on the young man at Bronco’s club. But he doesn’t know that, like him, Robin also comes from a family who cast him out for being gay, or that he’s still lugging around the pain of that rejection. Robin leaves the club, and soon after, Dwayne decides to as well - and is close by when things between Robin and his client turn violent. When Dwayne finds out Robin is the victim of a scam that lost him his apartment, he can’t leave Robin to fend for himself on the streets.

When a former mobster’s past catches up with him, will it end the quiet life he’s been struggling with, or transform it into something he couldn’t have imagined? Sometimes, Gerome Meadows longs for the excitement of the life he left behind for Witness Protection. But when he stands up to a bully in a bar to protect a homeless man, his past comes very close to home - and it’s no longer what he wants.

Longboat Key, Florida, is about as far from the streets of Detroit as a group of gay former mobsters can get, but threats from within their own organization forced them into witness protection - and a new life. Richard Marsden is making the best of his second chance, tending bar and learning who he is outside of organized crime...and flirting with the cute single dad, Daniel, who comes in every Wednesday

School’s out for summer, and these dads are ready to ship their kids off to camp. Not just because their kids are monsters - whose aren’t? - but because they’re ready for some alone time to let their hair down and their fangs out. You see, not only are the kids monsters - their dads are, too. Even the most dangerous of creatures has a soft spot. These bad, dangerous dads love their kids to death, but they need romance.

Breaking the Rod of the Sadist: Gyinaye (The Survivor) is prose and poetic piece written to invoke a compelling note of pleasure, trials, tears, and joys of a successful end to a total “life’s journey’’....

Gyinaye is a collection of poetry inspired by what the writer sees, feels, and hears from his many travels around the world of a searching mind - a true account of the different spheres and phases of natural beauty; historical and cultural diversity to soothe the listener's mind. It is a rich unveiling of the beauty of indigenous Africa’s natural resources and the power of nature on human life.

Dr. Richardson is recruited by a secret society of powerful arsenals comprising of the world's most powerful, toughest, and richest men in the world to develop a serum that will bring to an end the suffering of mankind. In his defense, when asked, he assures the panel that the model he's building will reset the cravings and desire for war and leave behind good memories of how the world can be a better place.

The city is divided; which side do you stand on? The authority’s? Or the lowcases? Across Neon, the elite and the protesters are rising to battle for their future; for their children and the generations to come. To keep down the boot, or to rise from the darkness. Just what is freedom anyway when the walls of your oppression are everywhere you look?

Zac was a straight A student, class president, most likely to succeed, but by the age of 25, he was a college drop out. Zac peaked too soon.... He was once the golden child who was ever blindly falling forward. That is until tragedy stops him short. Now, failing out of college, he begrudgingly moves back home, with frazzled over protective parents and an older sister who can no longer stand him. Lost, he finds solace in old acquaintances and new friends that causes ripples of change in all of their lives.

It was ash on fingertips and vast. Stepping upon it gave the impression that it had come not from below, buffed by millions of years of wind slicing against rock, but rather from above; that, perhaps, it had drifted down and settled here. This is the post-apocalyptic sandscape that Calix and Annora must navigate - when they're old enough to join the scavenger crews outside of the domes, that is.