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Money, power, prestige...trouble. Dax Coulter is The Player. Forget prodigal son, forget black sheep. Most of the Coulter family would just as soon disown Dax for his bad boy, womanizing ways. But, with his career in jeopardy and the Coulter legacy on the line, he needs to turn it all around. Too bad the one person who can help him has legs for miles, curves for days...and is his best friend's little sister. For once he can focus on the game and not on her body, right?

Chronic list-making, event planner, Jaya Trudeaux Westhorpe, envisioned a fairytale ending once she married hotel magnate, Alec Westhorpe - complete with a steamy, extended honeymoon and an eventual family. What she didn't expect was a baby on their doorstep and a family-phobic husband. When reformed playboy, Alec Danthers Westhorpe, married the woman of his dreams, he thought he'd finally found his happy ending. But a long-hidden secret threatens to jeopardize what he holds most dear.

Spunky artist manager, Jessica Stanton, isn't looking for love. She's looking for a savior. When a business rival steals yet another of her rising stars, she's in danger of losing everything she's worked so hard for... and the only person who can save her fledgling business is the one man she shouldn't want.

Doors that close by themselves. Items that move without human help. Visions of a handsome spirit in the moonlight. Visiting the Welsh castle that is her ancestral home, Bria Leighton is frightened by eerie happenings. Unseen. Unheard. Untouched. Desperately lonely. For more than two hundred years, a curse has trapped Nicholas Pierce, the last Earl of Beaumarith, in his family castle. The words of the wicked sorceress hint that the curse can be broken, but the riddle of moonrise and true love's embrace seems impossible to solve.

Zinnia Franklyn met the love of her life when she was just 15 years old, and then lost him to Hollywood three years later. Now he’s arrived on her island, hotter than ever, and ready to pick up where they left off. There’s only one problem…he’s supposedly engaged to his costar. Reed Sinhawk, television star of Engaged to a Werewolf, has only ever loved one woman. And the moment he walks back into her life, he’s determined to make her his. But will the tabloids, a jealous costar, and his overbearing father succeed in destroying his one chance at happiness?

Darryl is on a quest for peace. His chance at fatherhood was taken from him long ago, and an IED in Iraq ensured he’d never get another. In Big Falls, the McIntyre brothers hire him to keep an eye on their beautiful cousin Sophie in case her criminal ex shows up. He doesn’t expect to fall head over heels.

Lucy Heron knew Los Angles was a little weird, but dangerous magic is upping the ante and making art 3D. At first, it was just one incident, but trouble never stops there. Graffiti is peeling itself off the walls and starting fights on the streets of LA. Paintings are coming to life and stepping out of their frames. Tucked at the bottom of the art is the only clue—the tag, VX.

Wes Brand is the black sheep of the family. But lately, he's become friends with an old Shaman named Turtle who has hidden reasons for wanting to put Wes in touch with his Comanche roots. Turtle convinces Wes to impersonate legendary warrior Wolf Shadow, to drive archaeologist Dr. Taylor McCoy away from her dig site. His failing health provides plenty of leverage and he's not ashamed to use it.

I had my whole life planned out—until, that is, my husband of 28 years dropped a bombshell on me. At a mall food court, no less. Now that I’m going through a decidedly unplanned divorce, the one place I want to be is my family’s theme park in Gallows Bay. Don't get the wrong idea, it's not the happiest place on Earth (TM). But it does have something special that sets it apart: magic. Real. Magic.

"Dusted": Being a highly skilled predator doesn't necessarily put you at the top of the food chain at Club Nexus. A southern vampire with a hankering for blood and wanton violence may have bit off more than he can chew. "Demonized": The demon attorney we love to hate has his eye on a certain rockabilly human. Too bad she's brought a crossbow loaded with holy-water-dipped bolts for this night on the town. "Jinxed": Just when Jinx needs a carefree girl's night out with Ivy, a smoking-hot demon tries to buy her a drink. She really is the unluckiest human on the planet.

Everything is on the line as Diana Sheen's team rebounds from the sneak attack on their base with aggressive moves in all directions. Nylotte's evil ex-boyfriend on Oriceran? He'll discover that taking the wrong person captive is a recipe for disaster. The artifact cult? Readying their biggest trap of all for Diana and her team, one that could prove fatal. General Ehrlich, and his secret super-soldier operation? Forced on the run, he's fully equipped to make a last stand and kill anyone who tries to take him.

Best-selling author David Drake has been creating top-notch military science fiction, space opera, and fantasy novels and stories for decades. In this all-original collection, a stellar line-up of writers pays tribute to Drake with stories as broad in range as his own fiction.

Magical medieval artifacts are on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They are the perfect target for magical thieves. Look out Lucy Heron. It's not the usual menace looking to steal a strange magical crown. Good thing Lucy and the Silver Griffins are on the case. Meanwhile, the Underfoot Brigade are on a case of their own. Monsters are in the underground tunnels. Time to find out why.

Super-powered Hericane will stop at nothing to find out who killed the woman she loved. But when she teams with Bonnie Taggart, internal affairs investigator for the Superhuman Protectorate, the search leads in unexpected directions. Fighting their way through the darkest corners of Isosceles City, Hericane and Bonnie tear the truth from criminal chimpanzees, crooked promoters, and hateful cops, only to fall prey to a terrible trap.

The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come? Multi-award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series.

Beth Chase is too busy planning perfect weddings to worry about the lack of action in her own love life. But if she was looking for a man, she wouldn't be looking at Colin Pratt. Her boss swears that Best Man Colin is a quiet scholar and science fiction writer who couldn't possibly cause a fuss at his own brother's wedding. He's clearly never met the man in question.

Things I want to do: Get my family's theme park ready for the holidays, enjoy my daughter’s improved cooking, and chill with my favorite ghost on the astral plane. Things I have to do instead: Spend my time trying to stay one step ahead of a vengeful pirate. And that means tracking down three hundred-year-old clues before he does. But that’s not all I have to deal with. I’ve got family drama to work through. And the arrival of a mysterious man who wants a job as the Pied Piper of the Enchanted Forest might end up costing me one of my best friends.

Since moving back to my family’s theme park in Gallows Bay, my life has been a teensy bit weird. But that’s okay because I’m finally settling in. I’ve reconnected with my family. Impressed my childhood crush with what he thinks are mad plumbing skills. And even gone on something kinda like a date. But then my daughter shows up unexpectedly. Am I happy that she’s married? Yes! The problem is, she’s married to the absolute worst person for her, and now she’s on the verge of ruining her life. That’s when the fairies show up.

Veterinarian and single mom Emily Hawkins’ world is turned upside down when her precious little girl is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Only a bone marrow transplant can save three-year-old Matilda Louise. Emily isn’t a match, but she’s determined to find someone who is, and that means tracking down Tilda’s biological father and his filthy rich family, a family she believes would’ve preferred her little girl had never been born.

Emily is juggling college with the opening up of a new server for the space battle game PlanetCrash. Not only is the game itself exciting but there is a way to make money from it. Despite loving the role of a marine, able to take on a variety of enemies, from space pirates to aliens, Emily finds that her new group of teammates are leading her into dubious moral territory.