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Once he served God as a priest. Once he served his country as a soldier. Now, he serves fate...and his need for redemption...by roaming the country as a professional gambler known only as the Preacher. He brings his high-stakes game of death and justice to a California casino that’s the temple for a deadly cult led by a brilliant psychopath with horrific intentions.

Mason Keller is broken, destructive, and the only man I've ever loved. I met him when I was just a child, but I knew there would never be anyone else. He lit my world with each smile and warmed my heart just by looking at me. But he was my brother's best friend...Which meant I was off limits. So he let me go and took my heart with him. Now everything has changed, and the obstacles that kept us apart all our lives are no longer in the way. He wants to claim me. He wants to own me. He wants to ravage my world. And if I'm not careful... I just might let him.

At 28 years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive, master boatbuilder, and begins to see a path forward. Alejandro offers Berg honest labor, but more than this, he offers him a new approach to his suffering, a template for survival amid intense pain. Nurtured by his friendship with Alejandro and aided, too, by the comradeship of many in Talinas, Berg begins to return to himself.

Money has the power of it all. Expensive cars, over-the-top parties, delicacies, and the opportunity to travel the world. But there is something more important than the pleasures of the heart: respect. Walk into a room and slam the table with your fist, saying that you want to buy it for $80 million, then you most definitely earn the respect of others. Christopher Voight is an over-the-top millionaire, soon to be a billionaire. Handsome, tall, with a witty smile and a smart ass when it comes to businesses, after a lifetime of tasting the forbidden fruit, he comes across Noelle.

The year is 2283. Though more than a quarter-century has passed since the end of the last war, the Galactic Confederation is still busy picking up the pieces. Whole sectors of the galaxy remain lawless, rife with corruption and greed. The criminal element has a well-established foothold on these sectors. It is a good time to be a bounty hunter.

Springtime for Snowflakes: 'Social Justice' and Its Postmodern Parentage is a daring and candid memoir. NYU Professor Michael Rectenwald - the notorious @AntiPCNYUProf - illuminates the obscurity of postmodern theory to track down the ideas and beliefs that spawned the contemporary social justice creed and movement. In fast-paced creative non-fiction, Rectenwald begins by recounting how his Twitter capers and media exposure met with the swift and punitive response of NYU administrators and fellow faculty members.

Between home-schooling, friends, a broken heart, and hiding the fact that her entire family can take on the forms of bears from the world, Nita’s life has been a little tricky, but she managed to find a good balance. When her old love, David, suddenly reappears out of nowhere, she loses that balance again. But in a good way. But David refuses to tell her why he’d disappeared for months without word or warning, and secrets both of are keeping threaten to push them apart, but not as much as the new threat that could cost Nita more than just her happiness.

Mithir Frighus and his sculpted physique are a woman’s dream, not to mention his determination and honesty. But when Verona Davison crosses his path one day, he decides his mission is to make her lose her mind and fall in love with him. Mission accomplished. However, Mithir’s past is coming back to haunt him. His family has other ideas and plans for the handsome man. And a bloodline feud, hundreds and hundreds of years old, is not making his life any easier.

When Rebecca, a single mother of one, met Cliff Perkins one night, she thought that was it. At 43 years old, with a blooming career, Becca’s only wish was to be loved and have someone near her to cherish simple things in life and be there for her. But Cliff, a handsome knight in his shiny armor, will soon prove to be the Devil in disguise. Rebecca will learn the hard way that sometimes it’s best to just take a break and observe. Because things aren’t always what they seem to be.

This World Is Full of Men tells the story of Joanna Adelson’s confessions about her sex addiction. Most of the re-encounters are filled with intense and steamy sex laps or masturbation. But something changes deep down inside her after a long term relationship she ends one day. Her addiction is more powerful than ever and her sex laps? It just keeps getting better and better. When an old acquaintance knocks on her door on night, Joanna engages in what she will later confess as love at first sight, or love at first sex lap.

The world is a dark and ruinous place; all that was once lush and teeming with life has long since burned to ash. Dragon shifters, called Drakes, now rule the world after overthrowing the humans who had ruled for so long. What humans and peace-loving shifters survived all now cluster on a single scrap of land in the middle of the wasteland. Trish, a Drake who once served the very humans her species helped wipe out, finds herself running these Neutral Lands with several other enterprising souls. However, their supplies are dwindling....

After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous pursuit that pits them against a ruthless gang of drug-dealing killers.

Nothing is at all what it seems, and for four strangers, they'll have to discover why before they're driven over the edge of madness. Within them are the keys to free themselves. They'll need to traverse a landscape of horrors and fettered secrets. Unknown to these prisoners, another four desperately hunt for their own freedom - a freedom denied them by the tormenting existence of a monster. They will have to rely on all of their talents and each other to defeat the beast.

January Dixon. She's the girl I've lusted after for years. A smart mouth and sharp tongue surrounded by soft beauty and a body I'd give up an organ just to touch. It's a tricky situation since she lives right down the street and dating a neighbor generally isn't a good idea. But this is Violent Circle, where normal may as well be a dirty word. Thanks to an impromptu fashion show where I tossed all self-respect aside and strutted my stuff in full bondage gear in front of our small town, she now owes me a date. And I plan to collect.

Barney Teegarden knows what it’s like to be alone. He knows what it’s like to have a romantic heart, yet no love in his life to unleash the romance on. With the help of a friend, he acquires a lease in a seedy apartment building perched high on a hill in downtown San Diego. The Belladonna Arms is not only filled with the quirkiest cast of characters imaginable, it is also famous for sprinkling love dust on even the loneliest of the lovelorn. At the Arms, Barney finds friendship, acceptance, and an adopted family that lightens his lonely life. Hell, he even finds a cat.

Murder - week after week, month after month, across the country. Pushed beyond his limits, one man takes on the establishment, the gun lobby, and corruption at the highest levels. To break the power of entrenched elites, he leads the nation on a grisly hunt. He's hunting them. And they're hunting him. One side will have to blink. In the meantime, people are dying. Term Limits is a thriller from the front pages of our newspapers. It couldn't be more topical.

If there is one thing that I have learned about success, it is that it takes effort in the right things and a willingness to persist long enough to win. I believe we all have an opportunity to make this world into anything we would like. I know you can choose to be anything you would like to be, if you’re willing to earn it. I will tell you just like I tell the individuals and businesses I coach: your success is up to you. I cannot go to the gym for you and give you my muscles; life doesn’t work that way. I trust that as you ponder what I’ve done for me and my clients, you will apply and adapt these methods to your life.

Three couples and all three are bonded to one thing: sex, red and fiery, filled with lust, passion; you can spend an entire life with a person and have literally no idea to whom you confess all your fears, emotions, and happy or sad moments. In a blink of an eye, it could all go south and the person near us, the one with whom we share a bed for years and a house may threaten our life. We may be blind and fall in love with a perfect handsome stranger who may not be so ‘’perfect’’.

Jimmy McTigue and the boys from Manhattan North Narcotics are doing "God's work", making collars and kicking down doors up above 96th Street in places like Harlem, Spanish Harlem, and Washington Heights - all the while having laughs. But when movie star Meg Cassidy; Artie Levin, her obnoxious agent; and the up-and-coming rapper he represents (hip-hopping about jihad, no less) arrive on the scene, things are bound to get dicey - and they do!

Three couples are all bound to one thing: sex, red and fiery, filled with lust and passion; you can spend an entire life with a person and have literally no idea to whom you confess all your fears, emotions, and happy or sad moments. In a blink of an eye, it could all go south, and the person near us, the one with whom we share a bed and house for years, may threaten our life.