Ella is a realtor by day and alone by night. Ever since breaking up with Linc, her world has been less Ella than stellar, complete with frozen meals and a needy cat. But after two years, Ella is contacted by Linc, who is interested in purchasing an uninhabited island some three hours from their coastal town. Apparently he only trusts her. How lucky is she? Millionaire Lincoln Ellis is engaged and looking to expand his real estate efforts. Only one realtor will do, his ex-girlfriend and the love of his life, Ella. Much to his chagrin, Ella isn't the kind, compassionate woman she used to be. She's angry and hostile and refuses to let him in emotionally. And he's pretty sure he knows why. Their relationship didn't end on a good note. When a violent storm renders his boat useless, he and Ella have to find a common ground to survive on the island. It's not easy with his ex holding a grudge the size of Texas and all those old feelings determined to resurface every time he gets close...

Book 2 of the Golden Queen Series Here is the text for book two, Beyond the Gate: In The Golden Queen, Gallen O'Day was able to fight off the alien dronons and their golden queen, but now he discovers that he can no longer hide on his home world. Betrayed by his uncle, he soon finds himself an outlaw--forced into exile by entering the ancient world gates, where he begins a new adventure, seeking to save a world from a foe far worse than the dreaded dronon: a race of biologically engineered supermen. In a land far more dangerous than any that he had ever imagined, he is forced to accept a new role in the galaxy as a Lord Protector, even as the alien dronon continue to close in on Gallen and the people he loves most.**About the AuthorDavid Farland is an award-winning, international best-selling author with over 50 novels in print. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award for “Best Novel in the English Language” for his science fiction novel On My Way to Paradise, the Whitney Award for “Best Novel of the Year” for his historical novel In the Company of Angels, and he has won over seven awards—including the International Book Award and the Hollywood Book Festival, Grand Prize—for his fantasy thriller Nightingale. He is best known, however, for his New York Times best-selling fantasy series The Runelords, which will soon be made into a graphic novel and, likely, a movie. Farland has written for major franchises such as Star Wars and The Mummy. In the video game industry, he has been both a designer and a scripter and was the co-leader on the design team for StarCraft: Brood War. As a writing instructor, Farland has mentored dozens who have gone on to staggering literary success, including such #1 New York Times Bestsellers as Brandon Mull (Fablehaven), Brandon Sanderson (Wheel of Time), James Dashner (The Maze Runner) and Stephenie Meyer (Twilight). Farland judges L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future, perhaps the largest worldwide writing competition for new fantasy and science fiction authors. He has worked in Hollywood greenlighting movies and doctoring scripts. He set the Guinness World Record for the largest single-author, single-book signing. David Farland has been hailed as “The wizard of storytelling” and his work has been called “compelling,” “engrossing,” “powerful,” “profound,” and “ultimately life-changing.”

MISTY WITLOW heads to the beach near Los Angeles to enjoy the sun and videotape a greeting for her mother. An enormous shark, pale white in color, surfaces in a deep channel near her. The school bus sized beast rams the rocks she is standing on, knocking a tooth loose into the water. She retrieves the hand sized tooth, and convinces a skeptical scientist this supposedly extinct creature is alive.

The memoir from the greatest relief pitcher of all time.

Casca returns to the city of Constantinople seeking vengeance on the Brotherhood of the Lamb for the deaths of his woman and child, but to reach the man he wants more than any other he must find a way into the inner chambers of the Imperial Court. So he trains as a charioteer to gain imperial favour, but the Eternal Mercenary soon discovers that every success brings new dangers, where intrigue and betrayal lurk hand in hand. Casca’s quest takes him from the speed and excitement of the Hippodrome to the ravaged war-torn land of Italy, from the sun-baked lands of Persia to the sumptuous luxury of the Empress's bed chamber, where a wrong move or word could spell disaster in his plans to bring down the fanatical sect. And when he finally confronts the man he has sought to destroy, he finds his powers of strength and immortality are no match for intrigue, double-crossing and imperial protection.

From the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and nonfiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science.Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and set out on a multicity speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato's brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make of Google, and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher's depth and a novelist's imagination, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us--from sexuality and...

The third novel in the dark and sexy Imnada Brotherhood series about shape shifters in Regency-era England. Will their desire conquer evil ’s wrath? Major Gray de Coursy, Earl of Halvossa and exiled heir to the five clans of the Imnada shapechangers, must regain his throne in order to save his people from a deadly war with the Feybloods. First, however, he must break the curse he has lived under since the final chaos of Waterloo. Desperate, he resolves to steal the Imnada’s most sacred relic—the mysterious crystal of Jai Idrish—to help him. When he receives a visit from his childhood companion Meeryn Munro, Gray is surprised by her offer of help . . . and by how the girl of his memories has grown to become the woman of his dreams. None of Meeryn’s powers as anointed keeper of Jai Idrish have prepared her for the threat of battle, but it’s the passion Gray arouses in her that she finds herself fighting. In a perilous quest spanning two realms, Gray and Meeryn must outwit and outrun a cunning enemy. And only the strength of the warrior, the magic of the priestess, and a love greater than death can reclaim a crown and win them a future together. **