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After leaving Glebe Point, Maryland over five years ago, Charlene Morrison has returned to the sleepy town she grew up in on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the one place she hopes she can start over, rebuild her shattered life, and escape the abusive relationship that almost destroyed her.Surrounded by a loving family, and the refuge of Glebe Point's small town comfort, Charlie opens a gourmet cupcake shop and begins to take charge of her life again. She has a plan, and after her last relationship there's no room in it for a man. But she didn't plan on Cooper Barone, the sexy real estate agent who owns the business next to her shop and makes her question her self-imposed celibacy.Cooper knew the first time he met Charlene she had baggage-secrets. Despite his attraction to the whiskey-eyed beauty, he thinks getting involved with her would be a mistake. Unfortunately, every time he sees her, he does something stupid-like kiss her-and sampling those honeyed lips only makes him want her more.As Charlie and Cooper begin to grow close, Charlie believes she's turned a corner and happiness may be within her grasp. But just when everything seems to be working in her favor, the past rears its ugly head and she must dig deep within herself for the strength to confront it head-on, or lose everything she loves most.

Passion. Love. Lies. Must Be FATE.For Gabriella Fiorelli, starting a new life with her young daughter in the sleepy town of Glebe Point is just what she needs-no complications. But when she meets handsome lawyer Justin Morrison, complications are the least of her worries.Passion and past collide in a delicate web of lies and love, and as Gabriella comes to grips with a heartbreaking choice, will her world come crumbling down?

Will the Masks of Deception steal their Chance for True Love?Sparks fly when Delaney Brannigan and Blake Morrisson meet at the Glebe Point annual costume dance. Known only to each other that night as the leopard and the Lone Ranger, Delaney discovers soon afterward that the cowboy she thought had ridden off into the sunset never to tempt her again, is none other than the man she came from New York to find and discredit. Against her will, she is drawn into an overwhelming attraction to Blake, an attraction she can't give in to if she wants to keep the one thing she values more than anything else.During a chance encounter with an old friend, Blake discovered he has a son he never knew existed. Finding the boy has been the only thing he cared about for months-that is until Delaney Brannigan came to town. Now the bewitching woman has him thinking about settling down-but then he discovers Delaney isn't who she appeared to be, and Delaney's hopes and dreams are shattered as the truth threatens to uproot her world.Will these two lovers lose one another in a web of deception, or will the small town boy and the girl from New York find a way to trust their hearts and discover a once in a lifetime happiness?

Can Rachael escape the danger that threatens her by finding the love she thought she'd never find?A woman who values her independence above all else, Rachael Gooding excels at keeping men at a distance. Wielding her exotic good looks and razor sharp wit to intimidate rather than attract, she's managed to avoid the pain and complications she knows would come with a serious relationship.At the top of her game, Rachael believes all's right with her world, but when a dangerous, unknown stalker begins to threaten her, she's forced to turn to Detective Eugene Simms, a man she's wildly attracted to but has never been able to intimidate-one she fears could break her carefully guarded heart if she gave him the chance.When a man from her past is murdered in the park across the street from her apartment, Rachael must decide whether to tell Simms about her past and risk exposing everything she's spent the last ten years guarding so carefully. But telling all she knows may mean giving up something she's always wanted but never thought she could have.

Passion. Second chances. When murder's a game...be careful how you play. Abby Carpenter is a woman with a few problems: a little red diary that has a way of showing up at the worst times, a creepy coworker trying to sabotage her career, and a philandering ex-husband who won't stay dead-and now, the CEO of the largest account to land on the doorstep of the marketing firm she works for, happens to be a man she made a complete fool of herself over fourteen years ago. Abby's convinced if he recognizes her the firm could lose the account, and she could lose her job.Gage Faraday can't shake the feeling his new account manager, Abigail Carpenter, reminds him of someone, he just can't place who. As he begins working with her to develop a marketing plan for his company's new development, he realizes they've run into a snag-he's developed a major attraction for his new business associate-but, he's a man who goes after what he wants, and he wants Abby.Just when Abby begins to think things may finally be going her way, her ex turns up dead-very dead-and she becomes the primary suspect in the murder investigation. Now she's being pursued by a relentless detective, a sleazy tabloid reporter, and a man who won't take no for an answer. Will the forces working to tear Abby and Gage apart prevail, or will destiny have its due? Find out in this sexy, sassy romance with a touch of suspense.

What do you hold dear?Lady Emalyn has kept a cherished treasure hidden in the cushion of a green velvet chair since the age of six. No one has ever seen it, including her beloved husband Owen and her devoted housekeeper, Fiona. When Emalyn learns treasure hunters are near, she fears for the safety of her find. As she and Owen begin a journey into a world that neither of them could have imagined, Emalyn learns the value of the true treasures in her life.

Can one girl sacrifice herself to save the one she loves…Following their daring escape from the demon realm, Amber and her friends become caught up in a war between good and evil. They must join forces with the Queen's warriors to overthrow a malevolent force that has spread across Avaveil, the land of the Fae.But, as her powers grow, Amber is faced with the real possibility that she is a danger to the ones she loves. Her full strength is yet to be tested in a way she can't comprehend.Dragons, faeries and humans stand side-by-side as they are drawn into a battle of cunning, magic and surprising revelations. Can Amber survive long enough to see her dreams fulfilled?

One girl holds the key to an ancient pact that could destroy the world...When sixteen-year-old Amber Noble's dreams begin to weave into her reality, she turns to the mysterious Connor for help. His links to the supernatural world uncover a chilling truth about her hometown and a pact that must be re-paid with blood.As her father alienates her, and the Guardians take her best friend, her true destiny unfolds, and she begins a quest that will see her past collide with her present.Drawn deeper into the world of witchcraft and faeries, it is only at the end of her journey that she realises how much she could lose.

As a nation divides, a new threat surfaces…As President Harwell begins 2027 in Washington, D.C., he finds himself facing not only a war against Syria but also a fractured nation as Texas declares to legally separate from the United States. Now it's up to Secret Service Agent Heath Bishop to unravel the mystery behind the terrorist attacks while contending with the wealthy and powerful Samuel Tillman's elaborate plan to gain control of the former lone star state. As Texas moves forward in its attempts to be an independent republic, the operatives within Samuel's organization will stop at nothing until Texas is under their control. Will the United States be able to repair the damage, or will additional states join Texas in a quest for independence?

Earth teeters on the edge of a razor sharp blade.With the Summit on barely-unified tenterhooks and hellkin bubbling into Earth with no sun to stop them, Ayala Storme has her hard-won family, an uncertain new love, and a team of allies-half of whom have betrayed her in the past.When the cities of North America begin to fall to demon hordes, Ayala has to fight her way back into Nashville in a desperate hope to save her city. With the witches trying to find the original source of the imbalance that allows hellkin a tie to Earth and the Mediators ready to draw their swords every time they see a shade, time is ticking away.The witches are working as fast as they can, but what they find may shake the foundations of everything Ayala has ever known-and the answers needed to salvage what's left of Earth may only lie beyond Earth itself, in the sixth hell.The battles are over. It's time for the war.

Stripped of her Silver Scale, made a pariah by the Summit, and with a price tag the size of Kentucky on her head, Ayala is on her own.Gregor Gaskin is still missing, and when Ayala discovers he's far outside the Mediator territory line, she will unravel more about the Summit than she ever thought possible.Finding Gregor will take her far from home, but catching him might hit her right where she lives-and Gregor's plans may just release hell on earth before she can stop him.

After months of training a budding army of human/demon hybrids, Ayala and Carrick have worked out most of their differences. Who gets to use the bathroom first in the morning. Who'll feed the bunny before they go out to make mayhem. Who gets to keep the jeeling claw they found in Forest Hills. You know, the important stuff.But when Gregor sends them out with their battalion of shades and the mission quickly lands on the wrong side of Ayala's "don't kill norms" moral line, she quickly discovers that maybe morality wasn't the motivator behind Gregor's pet project-or at least not when money's involved. And when a trio of shades starts murdering the populace in Nashville again and targeting places and people significant to Ayala, her desire to help her own comrade shades stay on the good side of the Mediators will place her at their mercy again.With the Summit fracturing and demons closing in on the city, saving the shades and herself may cost Ayala everything.

Mediator Ayala Storme kills demons by night and handles PR by day. She avoids Mediator luncheons and a fellow Mediator who's been trying to get in her pants for years. She does her job. She keeps her sword clean and her body count high. But when a rash of disappearances leads her to discover that Nashville's hellkin are spawning a new race of monster on human hosts, Ayala will be the first line of defense against these day-walking killers.That is, until one of them saves her life.Dodging the Mediators and the demons alike, Ayala's new knowledge of the hybrids' free will challenges everything she's ever known about her job. Racing the clock and trying to outrun her comrades and enemies alike, she's not sure who will catch her first…

Journalist Brenda Contay Doesn't Look for Trouble-But It Keeps Finding Her...When she said "yes" too often in college, she became "the anything goes girl." Pretty soon her sex life figured in locker-room graffiti.But when Brenda Contay makes it big on local TV as WDIG's Lightning Rod reporter, everything seems to be turning around for her. Except succeeding in tabloid TV because your butt looks good in Levis isn't much different from Anything Goes.That's why Brenda quits television to learn the truth behind an old lover's death. Vince Soublik drowned recently, off a tiny island in the Pacific. But All-state swimmers like Vince don't just drown.When she gets to the island, Brenda learns that Vince's death was collateral damage in a scandal of global proportions. And since it involves one of the ten richest men in America, Brenda's chance of living to break the story is next to zero.But you never can tell about The Anything Goes Girl: she just hates to lose.

At the Knowing One's wishes, Nolyn Lirai is thrust into the overwhelming responsibility of being the Forentan mage council's second. Kiya na'Citali is a young mystic and a spiritwalker with the ability to cross the threshold of life and death at will.Now Nolyn and Kiya must work together and face the shadows that swallowed the lost city of Andar before an evil can revive age-old hatreds and destroy everything they hold dear.

The students of Almek's true test begins as they learn to embrace the power and knowledge of the Guardians of Time. But their sacred haven is not the sanctuary it used to be... The tight-knit group of friends discovers a curse born during the war between the warriors and mages that, if not stopped, threatens to destroy not only them, but all hope for healing the Timeless One.

Antonio DeLuca knows exactly what he wants in life.Lucia Bonavera knows exactly what she doesn't.Destiny has something completely different in mind for each of them.Betrothed at birth but never having met, pragmatic inkeeper, Lucia, and sexy architect, Antonio, consider their grandfathers' thirty-year-old marriage pact a meaningless relic. Neither had any interest in meeting the other, but when Antonio travels to the States on holiday, his grandfather blackmails him into visiting Lucia at her family's winery in the Virginia foothills. When he does, their mutual disinterest is replaced by an unexpected, yet undeniable attraction.When Antonio makes a decision that keeps him in the States indefinitely, Lucia decides she's tired of always playing things safe, and follows her heart, straight into Antonio's welcoming arms. But Antonio has a secret, one that impacts Lucia as much as him. A secret that could destroy her trust in him forever.