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To stop the chaos, sacrifice is all that’s needed to make everything right again. The gods gave the realm of the living a Goddess of Love. She just has to give the world all of her love.

I'm surrounded by the very people I vowed revenge upon. Instead of lashing out with sharp blades and knives, I'm stuck buying my time. I need the Shadow Guard's help if I'm going to save my demon mates from the claws of my enemies. The Shadow Guard are just like myself. They're made entirely from secrets, lies, and deadly dark magic, and now it's all spreading around us like wildfire. Nothing about vengeance is ever easy though. The chaos that surrounds me, it's like coming home. And my kingdom of a home, it's all about to come crashing down.

My goddess has endless aspirations for my future. I just don't think tricking the Prince of Hell to fall in love with me was one of them.... Three sinfully sexy hellhound shifters plot the prince's murder while using me as their pawn to earn the trust of the royals. It’s a foolproof plan, really. Too bad it's what they don’t know that will kill them.

What can I say? I’m a work in progress. I never planned on being 39 and still a virgin. Life got in the way and before I knew it I was almost 40 with a cherry that had yet to be popped. So, I pulled up my big girl panties and made a bucket list to accomplish before the big four - zero. Easy peasy, right? It only took three bottles of wine, the internet, and a dating site to flip my world on its side. What came next would consist of part disaster and part greatest thing to ever happen to me.

When you live in Hell, you're bound to get burned...I just never expected this kind of torment. And the one man who I thought I could trust in all of this is my worst abuser. Torben rejected me the moment we stepped foot into this ashen hellhole. He does their bidding by throwing me into deadly trials that are bound to break me. Sometimes he protects me from the brunt of it…and sometimes I think he wants me dead as much as they do. But I won't give them the satisfaction. Because I didn't come to Hell to die. I came to survive.

Everything I thought I knew was a lie. Roman isn't the rightful ruler of this realm. The Night Witch and her followers were never our allies. And the beast that lives inside of me is far deadlier than I ever could have imagined. We just have to hide my shifter for a little longer. We just have to make it through the cruel tests of the hell fae.

The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, world famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his thirty years younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, who was half her age, riveted people. Debate continues even today as to which one of them really was responsible.

I wanted a clean slate. La Playa carried too many painful secrets of my past. What was a bad-boy rider like me doing with a hot Latino doctor-to-be? All I know is we were like two moths to one another’s flame. But an Outlaw gang member can’t be caught in a secret love affair, can he? Diego is a free-spirited rider searching for his place in the world. But...a forbidden love threatens to tear their families apart.

Having a younger, beautiful sister is hard enough. Having one who’s on the cover of magazines and is loved by all? Torture. For single mom Marie Stephens, all she wants is to survive her new business, provide for her children, and ignore the intense feelings she has for her married neighbor. When her famous sister, Sadie, shows up after a five-year absence, Marie’s normal life ceases to exist. Add in their celebrity-obsessed mother, it’s no wonder they can’t get along. The most important thing Sadie and Marie will learn? Accepting your sister can change your life.

Volcanic ash has ruined the world and only remote outposts remain. At the castle in the mountains, covered by snow, everyone only sees shades of blue. Except for Jaisy. By day, she explores farther down the mountain. By night, she’s plagued with dreams of a panther and ghosts calling her name. When Jaisy’s job sends her into the dungeon, she discovers a hidden room filled with dangerous information. There are secrets within the damp, stone walls that those in control don’t want anyone to know. The leaders will kill to protect those secrets - even executing one of their own.

The Bliss, as they call it, isn't a perfect nirvana. It's conniving and twisted torment waiting for me to fall into the council’s claws at any moment. But I'm not sticking around to be their newest torment target. I've got my own kingdom of doom to deal with. And saving the lives of those deliciously wicked men of mine is more important than the inevitable deadly chaos in all the realms.

Beyond Kathryn Lucas’ first memory of her father’s tree lay a dysfunctional path of violence, heartbreak, and secrets within a family severely entrenched in the vicious cycle of abuse. A lifetime of fear drives her from her home, and the teenage girl finds refuge with an aunt and uncle determined to protect their niece. Distressing flashbacks unravel in Kathryn’s fragile mind among the turmoil encircling her as she struggles through adolescence and descends into her pain-ridden past.

Can a couple fall in love twice? The second time over the internet? Shannon Carter has succeeded at almost everything she's ever tried. Graduate from college with a Master's Degree in Education while dating Trevor, the love of her life? Easy. Open a learning center and run it single-handedly? No problem. Get through life without any affection from her parents? Who needs them? Believe in a lasting marriage? Not so easy. Months after she and Trevor have separated, Shannon struggles to remain the confident, happy person she's always been.

She's dreamed of being a great warrior. Instead, she becomes her world's worst nightmare. Aria is living the life of a healer, a position that's been forced on her to keep her away from her dream-walker abilities and her true desire of being a warrior. But there's one dream that refuses to leave her alone - a man in a barren landscape of sand and rocks and ur'gel, deadly creatures designed for war.

Aria is finally feeling like she's figuring things out. At least, she's not fumbling her way through adventure as much anymore. At least there's that. But there is no way to reseal the prison. Too many ur'gel have escaped, making the breach even bigger. And the only thing they can do is to wait for Dag'draath to break out as well. They have no weapons against Dag'draath, though. He's a god of evil. In the fight before, they had Onen, the man of Light and everything good. There's no way to resurrect him.

She was born to right a wrong and to serve justice. Torn from her deceased mother’s womb, she knows what is expected of her even before she takes her first breath. Her quest for vengeance starts as a child, and determined to see her task to the end, she acts as opportunities present themselves. She is Naranda, daughter of Mysteria and Trance, last of the royal line of Dragon.

Everything Aria tried to do in order to save her brother and help those closest to her has made everything worse. She's now alone with Beru, trying to figure out a way to fix what they've done, to undo what they've started. But Aria still can't get over the fact that Beru is a traitor to Onen Suun, the only man who dared to defy Dag'draath. Beru was the reason Onen Suun was forced to sacrifice his life to save the world.

Bubbles Marlowe thought she could handle anything HoloCity threw at her. But when a rogue scientist goes missing, the cyborg detective has no choice but follow him out of the world she knows, to a distant city even darker than her own.

Someone You Know is an anthology of twelve unforgettable Canadian true-crime stories by Story Hunter podcast producer, host and writer Catherine Fogarty. Each story reveals the haunting truth and statistical reality that a person is more likely to be murdered by someone they know than by a stranger. And while “stranger danger” is often the stuff of our nightmares and Hollywood horror films, sometimes those who are closest to us are even more dangerous than strangers.