The trap is set, and time is slipping away. After narrowly escaping arrest, Luciana Betarrini hurtles back to medieval Italy. Once there, she and her brother, Domenico, must decide how far they'll go to be part of the family, and if they're willing to risk their lives to hunt down an assassin. Meanwhile, Lady Tiliani Forelli's family has disappeared in enemy territory. Fearing for their lives-and secretly hoping to cross paths with the Fiorentini...

Footsteps in the darkness...The flesh begins to crawl...A madman with a blade...This twisted tale visits the legend and evokes a new set of nightmares. Journey into the realm of horror and the macabre in......Rip TideJack the Ripper will return and become someone's worst nightmare in this story of the macabre. From Whitechapel in 1888 he comes to the present day in this horror thriller. This is another twisted tale from the darkest recesses of a very...

Preston Life has hit me below the belt, and I have lost those I hold most dear. On my sister's deathbed, she made me swear I'd care for her baby girl as if she was my own. After six years of loving her like my daughter, we live a quiet and peaceful life. In the midst of more loss, I meet this couple, and unbeknownst to me, they are who I need to feel whole again. Hardy Dakota is my life, my wife, and my partner. We fit together like two jagged...

Brooke always said that his one true love was the sea... but he never guessed how right he really was.Wild as the seas he ruled, Poseidon was never one to listen when he was told to curb his wild ways. Passionate and untameable, Poseidon's rages were as terrifying as the storms he whipped across the oceans of the world, but when he calmed, there was nothing to match his beauty. When the goddess' rebellion divided the pantheon, Poseidon took refuge...

It's been fifteen years since Kimmy Devine promised herself she'd never move back to Rocky Cape, the idyllic South Jersey beach town where she grew up. She doesn't want to relive the crushing heartbreak and scandal that ravaged her world as a teen. Her younger sister Erin shares those feelings, the wounds she caused so many years ago forever binding her and Kimmy. Yet here they are, back in their hometown: Kimmy, floundering after quitting her high-powered...

After the death of his fiancée due to medical errors, hospital pharmacist Daniel O'Dwyer escapes to Oak Island, North Carolina. The only things on his mind are fresh sea air, fresh seafood, Fat Tire Amber Ale, and the avoidance of any type of healthcare institution. But fate and jellyfish draw him back, and reluctantly he agrees to go undercover to combat narcotic drug diversion at nearby Boiling Grove Community Hospital. With minimal assistance...

"When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story." --SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that...

A mystery that moves with the speed of a tropical storm. Buddy Rosen's comfortable life as a father, friend, and fun-loving kindergarten teacher, also includes an unusual hobby: collecting cast-off home movies he discovers at swap meets. As he views his most recent find, the flickering image of a man's face catches his eye, and the memories it evokes unleash a rip-tide of questions. With the suddenness of a summer downpour, the impact of that image...

Shy Vella is trying to experience more of life - but getting caught in an ocean riptide and rescued by a gorgeous billionaire wasn't part of the plan! When Brody saves her from the water, their immediate attraction could pull them both under… Brody doesn't want to be a hero, but he can't ignore the woman in the raging rip tides in front of his beachside home. Vella Clark shouldn't be in the ocean, but she's been practicing saying "YES!" to life,...

The gods of Olympus have been at war with their wives for centuries. Zeus, famously unable to control his divine desires was deserving of his punishment - to touch a mortal lover was to bring instant death. But out of every curse is born a prophecy, and so the immortal gods must discover a divine spark: a mortal with divine ancestry who could bear the brunt of the goddesses' curse and survive.To foil Hera's curse, the mighty gods of Olympus must set...