How can things you only glimpse for a moment sear themselves into your memory? ~Alessandra, Mobster’s Bones Alessandra has a problem. It's not that the Mafia is the only life she knows, her father and best friend being members. She's being followed. Her stalker destroys the one thing Alessandra thought they could never touch. She's now forced to flee the only home she's known, Palmetto. How can someone be so beautiful? The morning sunlight is coming through the blinds on my window casting a glow around Alessandra. She has been here for a week, and we have fallen into a routine. It is sort of like she has always been here. Imagining her leaving, gives me an unwanted stone in my stomach. ~ Troy, Mobster’s Bones Troy has his life planned out perfectly; graduate from Notre Dame with honors, get married, live a quiet life with his wife and kids in the suburbs. Just like his parents and their parents before them. Things don’t work out according to plan - the scaffolding of his life is crumbling before his eyes. Troy’s plans didn’t include the daughter of a mob enforcer showing up at his door and sleeping in his bed. Are Alessandra and her mafia family worth throwing away the life Troy has always wanted? This book can stand alone or be read as Book 5 in the Mobster Series. (Book 1 is Mobster’s Girl) Mobster Romance (Organized Crime Romance) #mobsterfiction ARE YOU READY FOR THE BEGINNING? Follow Antonio and Megan’s Story for free, download Mobster's Girl and get Awakening the Mobster for free. www.amyrachiele.com**

A man looking for a new beginning. Hunter Donovan is a writer who dreamed of penning the great American novel but settled for a job running the family business, Donovan Books. Trapped publishing other people’s stories, Hunter buries his frustrations in vodka and an endless parade of one-night stands. A woman with a secret. Cary Anderson is the perky, petite, and staunchly determined editor who is well versed in erotica fiction. But Cary has a kinky side that she is struggling to keep hidden from the world. Fed up with dwindling sales, Hunter hopes to breathe new life into his publishing house by breaking into the risqué world of erotica. He hires Cary to rescue his company and she is keen to show her new boss everything she knows. But what starts out as a lesson in sexual fiction turns into an unexpected roller coaster ride of disastrous romantic encounters. And just when Cary helps stir Hunter’s creative voice, he uncovers the truth about her wicked ways. Some ties that bind can cut right to the heart in…The Bondage Club.

We’d all changed.Matt grew a harder exterior.I’d had chronic nightmares triggered by post-traumatic stress.Kara had distanced herself, turned a little colder.Charlie had become less protective and more accepting of what I wanted.And Luke… well, he’d become agreeable.But then there was Derek….After watching Conan’s lifeless body collapse to the floor, eighteen-year-old Julie Little only expected life to get easier. After all, what was left to fear? But her expectations for a happier and easier life crumble when she’s haunted by reoccurring nightmares of love, loss, and death. She’s slipping away, losing herself. And when she needs nothing more than a shoulder to cry on, nearly everyone around her is suddenly consumed with their own problems and fears.Only one person steps up, and he’s the only person who has what it’s going to take to save her… she just has to learn to let go and trust him… once and for all.

Narrated by Destiny, this heartbreaking — and timely — story of refugees escaping from war-torn Syria is masterfully told by a foreign news correspondent who experienced the crisis firsthand.Tareq lives in Syria with his warm and loving family, until the bombs strike. He, his father, and his younger sister are the only survivors, and they have no choice but to go to Raqqa, where they have extended family. But Raqqa is a stronghold for Daesh, the militant group claiming to follow the tennets of Islam, yet who really exist only to enable violence and intolerance. Tareq's family leave quickly, and Tareq heads to Istanbul with his cousin. From there, reunited with his younger sister, they flee successfully to Greece.This is a story of resilience in the face of darkness, and of one boy's courage in desperate circumstances. But it is also the story of all wars, of all tragedy, and of all strife. With Destiny as a narrator offering perspective and context,...

Flower Readings, A Romance Book by Lilliana Rose

Sang Sorenson’s abusive mother is secure in a hospital, and her father has vanished to a new family of his own, leaving Sang and her sister to fend for themselves. Sang is hanging by a thread, and her only hope is a group of boys she feels she barely knows. She’s never really alone. The Academy team has stepped in, promising to protect and care for Sang. Kota, Victor, Silas, Nathan, Gabriel, Luke and North take over, showing Sang they can be depended on for anything. But just because the parents are away, doesn’t mean Sang’s life has become any easier. The newfound freedom will have a higher price than any of them had imagined. Principal Hendricks now wants to use Sang to exploit Academy secrets. Mr. McCoy has his own dark plans for her. Enemies are closing in. Sang will need to learn to believe in the boys, and the boys will need to learn to trust her if they want to survive their rivals. And each other. The Academy, Relentless Trust

Ten teens are left alone in the wilderness during a three-day survival test in this multi-authored novel edited by award-winning author Shaun David Hutchinson.At Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor-education program designed to teach troubled youth the value of hard work, cooperation, and compassion, ten teens are left alone in the wild. The teens are a diverse group who come all walks of life, and were all sent to Zeppelin Bend as a last chance to get them to turn their lives around. They've just spent nearly two weeks hiking, working, learning to survive in the wilderness, and now their instructors have dropped them off eighteen miles from camp with no food, no water, and only their packs, and they'll have to struggle to overcome their vast differences if they hope to survive. Inspired by The Canterbury Tales, the characters in Feral Youth, each complex and damaged in their own ways, are enticed to tell a story (or two) with the promise of a cash prize. The...

“His presence was electric. The tiny pulses of excitement made her shiver inside. But so did the fear. The feelings were almost indistinguishable…yet completely irresistible.”Emily Hilbright's life is toxic. The negative threads curling around and strangling her. The nights of fear, the days of depression, the frantic struggle to stay sane. Her conscious world was consumed with the most basic need to survive. If her mother's abusive hand didn't break her, the nightmares would.But what about him? The boy in her dreams that had turned her world upside down. Was he her savior or her tormentor? Did it even matter? Because she knew she loved him. Needed him. His presence a taunting tease that was as maddening as it was helpless...for the simple reason that he existed only in Emily's mind.Or did he?Good and evil play out in a distorted landscape where dreams and reality clash and sanity and madness are impossible to tell apart. What is Emily left with when her world crashes down around her and the new love she has discovered is ultimately her killer?Irresistible Fear is the first book in The Redeeming Trilogy...the dark story of a girl, a boy, and a love that could destroy them both.

Ethan Daniels is The Guardian, the vigilante who haunts the nightmares of every criminal in Crown City. Set between the first two novels in the Dark Guardian Series, Dark Guardian & Dark Guardian: A New Dawn, this standalone short story elaborates on some of Ethan Daniel’s early struggles as The Guardian as he attempts to thwart the dark forces that have ruled over Crown City for so long. .

Many years ago, Jack Swyteck saved Theo Knight's life. Theo grew up on the streets of Miami 's roughest neighborhood and lost his mother to a violent crime. Although his uncle Cy tried his best to raise him right, by the time he was a teenager, Theo was on death row for a murder he didn't commit. Jack was the lawyer who proved him innocent. Now a successful bar owner, Theo has turned things around. But he needs Jack's help again, this time more than ever. An escaped convict from the old neighborhood shows up at Theo's back door, asking for help. In return, he'll finger the man who murdered Theo's mother. But the answers aren't so simple, and soon Theo's own life is in danger. Jack and Theo must piece together a twenty-year-old conspiracy of greed and corruption that leads to the very top of Miami 's elite, while revisiting a past that Theo has tried hard to forget. But Theo also has the opportunity to seek the revenge that has fueled him since the day he found his mother dead in the street on a hot Miami night. Last Call is a brilliant and bullet-fast thriller, complete with revelations that no reader will ever forget.

Fame. Power. Money. Sex. Love. This continuation of USA Today bestselling The Keatyn Chronicles series follows the lives and loves of those who work at Captive Films. Hot, successful, playboy Riley Johnson, whose business success far exceeds his success in love.  Movie star, Keatyn Douglas, whose epic love story has spawned a series of books and movies.  And Dawson Johnson, who joins Captive with a tragic past.  Expect lots of drama, sex, and tabloid-worthy events.Books 8-12 are contemporary adult novels and can be read as a standalone series.**