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Qhuinn has finally found a mate able to give him an offspring and continue his bloodline--though his heart still belongs to another. Blay has likewise put his feelings for Qhuinn aside, but when the battle for the vampire throne intensifies, fate brings these two soldiers together once more.

Charismatic bar owner Rowdy Yates isn't the kind of man women say no to. So when he approaches waitress Avery Mullins, he fully expects to get her number. However, the elusive beauty has her reasons for keeping her distance--including a past that might come back to haunt them both. Avery spends her nights working for tips--and trying to forget the secret Rowdy is determined to unearth. But when history threatens to repeat itself, Avery grows to rely on Rowdy's protective presence.

When the intimidating Edison Stokes hires her to catch a thief, all Emma Greyson has to do is sip a magic potion and predict the turn of a card. But when murder strikes, Emma realizes that unless she and Edison come up with a scheme to outwit a merciless villain, she's going to die, or lose the man of her dreams forever.

She's known as the Wicked Widow, for rumors abound that she dispatched her husband to the next world. But Madeline Deveridge has a more vexing problem than her scandalous reputation. Her husband's ghost is haunting her! She must exorcise him, and turns to Artemis Hunt, master of secret arts, for aid.

Dusti Delaney enlists Kieran O'Toole to teach her poker so she can win enough to pay for her sister Abby to finish school, and widow Ronny Logan tries to resist her attraction to her new neighbor, Austin Hawke.

Tohrment will have the chance to regain everything he's lost--if he can overcome the bitterness roiling inside him.

Gyles Rawlings, the handsome Earl of Chillingworth, is a man determined to stay in control of his destiny. Even as he vows to marry a dutiful, blue-blooded lady soley for the purpose of fostering progeny, he deviously plans to fulfill hus most sinful pleasures with a brazen strumpet. But standing at the altar on his wedding day, he unexpectedly falls in love with Francesca, his beautiful bride-to-be. He never thought he could find all he wanted in a single woman, and now must struggle to win her heart.

Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as is--both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Creating characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack, and the boys in a world where only the fittest survive.

Women are turning up dead. And Lisa O'Malley digging into a crime means trouble is soon to follow. She's a forensic pathologist and mysteries are her domain. She's not a believer, and her journey toward faith is a fascinating look at how a forensic pathologist views the Resurrection. Quinn has found loving her is easier than keeping her safe. Lisa O'Malley's found the killer, and now she's missing too.

Betrayed by the two men in her life -- Alec D'Urberville, her seducer/rapist and father of her fated child; and Angel, her intellectual and pious husband -- Tess takes justice, and her own destiny, into her delicate hands.