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When the lights went out across Manhattan in the summer of 2019, Celine Harris wasn’t expecting her life to change. But after hours of sitting in the dark, the first face she saw—a stranger’s warm smile and kind eyes—stayed with her long after the power returned. Garreth King, rising musician fresh off tour, never thought a stalled subway could lead to inspiration—or to the woman who’d haunt his thoughts for years.

As Modern Magazine’s Sex and Relationship Director, Luz De Los Santos can talk about pleasure all day long. Nobody knows desire like she does. But love? That’s a four-letter word she’s never mastered. When her editor dares her to write The Love Bet—a feature testing her own theory that you can fall in love by the third time you have sex—Luz agrees. For research, obviously.

Eshu the Trickster needs a mortal form for his mischievous plans, but the only other Orisha who can help him swore off the practice ages ago. It will take careful scheming to convince the Original Architect to come out of retirement. Any misstep and Eshu will be thrown from the Sky Realm. What’s worse, Eshu hasn’t visited the heavens for several centuries. Would his former comrade even be the same? How can Eshu persuade someone he barely knows anymore?

You’ve been Forex trading for a while now and things are looking well, but you’re ready for that next big step. Or maybe you feel that your current strategies just aren’t working that well, and you’d like to explore some more extensive options? Are you actually making as much money as you could be? Would you like to be making more?

The Homelander enacts his plan only to realize his motivations are unfounded. Butcher confronts him and makes the one who raped his wife and caused her death pay with his life. Butcher’s true desire for destruction is then revealed in the form of a WMD crafted for supes but will kill many others, and to be stopped, Hughie must face Butcher alone. As the dust settles the long-lasting damage and betrayals are still affecting the survivors.

Butcher's full vendetta is revealed as is Vought-American's part in the events on 9/11. Gregg Mallory tells Hughie the history of the Boys and Hughie later confesses his real identity to Annie, Hughie returns to the fold as he and Butcher investigate a murder that may involve Jack from Jupiter. Butcher then returns to London to view the body of his deceased father and Butcher's full back-story as a one-man reckoning is revealed.

Tobias Stone, a troubled billionaire, lives an empty life devoid of love. Struggling to come to terms with his past, he uses his wealth to insulate him from the real world. Savannah Page, a debt-ridden single mom, struggles to make a fresh start. Fleeing an abusive marriage, she arrives in New York with her young son, determined to make a good life.

He eliminates the monsters that come from the rift. Vex is the third-highest-ranked striker in the Interplanetary Galactic Force, and he’s gaining fast on number two. Every victory, and every progression in rank, comes with upgraded weapons technology and magic defenses. But after a decade of loyal servitude to the IGF, he’s finding himself at odds with his fellow elves. His shadow fox phenome has begun whispering strange warnings. The monsters he’s hunting are no longer mindless beasts: They’ve somehow grown sentient.

After a brutal fight to the Mississippi River, Jonathan Fisher and the few survivors that follow him have begun their journey south. His task is clear and his reason to live has been renewed. Somewhere out there is power, working airplanes and a possible refuge from the nightmare around them. A small mute girl known as Geeda deserves a chance at life, and they want to make sure she has it. But it will not be easy. Lack of food, shelter and weapons makes their trip difficult. Foreign invaders, infected crazed citizens, and treasonous “Wranglers” make it perilous.

Are you sick and tired of sitting in that cubicle? Are you ready for the life of your dreams? One with no office that you have to call work, no commute to and from the wretched place, and no set working hours? Or, maybe, you love your job but still feel like you could use a little extra money on the side? Either way, options trading is one of the most surefire ways to launch yourself from that mundane paycheck-to-paycheck life and straight into one of complete and total freedom.

Are you feeling unfulfilled in your work? Are you looking for exciting new ways to earn money and learn new skills? Surveys have found that 45 percent of people are bored of their work. What if it didn’t have to be that way? What if there was a way for you to become a player in the biggest financial market in the world? Good news: There is! And you don’t need a masters degree to access it.

Forex trading, especially now in the year of 2020, is one of the greatest ways to free yourself from all of life’s trivial stressors and achieve true financial freedom.

Long ago, before the end of the gods, cursed crystal fragments lay hidden about the world. These objects were imbued with immeasurable power, yet to use one plagued the bearer with a heinous blight. Facing an empire's fleet of warships against his village's fishing boats, Jelani had no choice but to tap into the powerful and vicious Gods’ Glass. The reward for his heroism was stoneskin, which slowly consumes the body with stiff welts of rock. To all who know it - brewmasters and scholars alike - it’s a death sentence.

She’s a princess. He’s a demon. Both are fighting for control. Princess Shanaki, second heir to the throne of Ya-Set, has journeyed to a foreign land to serve as a pawn in her father’s game. Ikenna, demonkin, has been betrayed by his own. When the demons make a target of the princess to claim what is rightfully theirs, Ikenna moves against her first. Caught between beast and man, how will Shanaki save herself from the dark?

Lizzie is a pretty, but quite simple village girl when circumstances lead her to the artist Theo. She made a bad marriage to Lionel, a man who mistreated her and who then threw her out when she refused to sell her body on the streets for him. Now, she is trying to make her way alone. Theo is the rebellious son of a viscount, who left his privileged background to pursue his chosen career as an artist. His favorite subjects are pretty young women whom he loves to paint in the nude.

The first collection in the ongoing series of fantasy stories from the world of Esowon. You'll find dastardly beasts, tortured monks, and unexpected lovers in a set of tales that'll transport you to lands lost to time. Delve into these companion novellas to The Kishi, an African fantasy based on Angola folklore.

With no magic, no brawn, and no pirate crew, Zala seeks to steal back the one treasure that matters to her most: Her husband. To succeed she needs a ship - and not just any ship, but the latest, secret invention by the Vaaji Empire. An airship. Zala will have to use her wits to overcome scoundrels and nobles alike on her journey through the clouds. But if she's smart enough, she may just have what it takes to save her husband - and go down in history as the first sky pirate.

Following the loss of his family, Amana is determined to master the mystic arts and have his revenge. The only place he can learn to hone these abilities is with a group of pacifist mountain monks who rebuke the act of vengeance. If Amana is to achieve a power great enough to avenge his loved ones, he’ll have to embrace the philosophy of the Junga monks and keep his true intentions locked away.

What did it mean to be a hero in 1944? What does it mean today? On the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, these are the questions we ask ourselves as the world faces resurgent nativism, deep social divisions, and rising xenophobia. It’s no exaggeration to say that the gravity of our crises today echoes back to the crossroads of 1944. Finding St. Lo presents us with two distinct voices from the past.

Joe Mayfield’s happy, ordinary life comes apart when his wife’s HealthScore is slashed and she is denied cancer treatment. Frantic to save her, Joe hacks into the Yak - the national database the US created after CyberWar I.