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It all started with a simple, yet sneakily difficult challenge from global best-selling author Harlan Coben: Pick a bird of prey, then use it as the inspiration for a brand-new story. The response from some of the best writers on the planet: Game on! The result: Eleven stories that are twisty, scary, surprising and bursting with imagination. An egg worth more than its weight in gold. A mysterious operative known only as Owl. An eagle-watcher who sees more than she should. Even a story that somehow places the Maltese Falcon in a nursing home.

Une rencontre peut-elle tout changer ? Alyssa a vu son monde s’écrouler lorsque ses parents sont morts dans un stupide accident. Du jour au lendemain, elle s’est retrouvée tutrice de son frère et de sa sœur. Abandonnant tout pour s’occuper d’eux, la situation n’a fait qu’empirer, jusqu’à ce qu’elle n’ait plus qu’une seule solution : fuir pour sauver leurs vies. Ace a toujours rêvé de fonder une famille, pourtant chacune de ses relations s’est soldée par un échec. Il ne s’attendait pas à ce que la nouvelle amie de Mia réveille en lui un sentiment enfoui depuis longtemps.

I stole from the wrong people, and now they're keeping me as a slave until I work off my debt. I'd run away, but the danger that they'll find me is too great, and, worse, they might find my sister too. She shouldn't have to pay for my mistakes. When a hot stranger joins the MC keeping me hostage, he's full of kind words and smiles for me. I've never been the type of woman to need a man for anything, but he might be my only chance to escape this life alive. Only, I'm too much of a danger to him, and I won't risk the people I love paying for my mistakes.

Flucht oder Veränderung? Glück oder Risiko? Vergangenheit oder Zukunft? US-Grenzschützer Henry Ace Rhodes wird bei einem Einsatz an der mexikanischen Grenze angeschossen. Die Zwangsauszeit vom Job sorgt schnell für Langeweile, bis er vor eine Entscheidung gestellt wird, die sein Leben verändert und er sich in Santa Barbara im sonnigen Kalifornien wiederfindet. Dort erwartet ihn allerdings nicht nur eine alte Freundin, die dem S.T.A.R.S.-Team angehört, sondern auch seine erste große Liebe, News-Channel Moderatorin Kelly Stanton.

Nate Gentry has been a rock for his two younger brothers since the day their mom walked out and left them with their abusive father. Now that they've grown up, he's watched Alex and Court fall in love and settle down. But Nate isn't made for romance. He keeps his relationships casual. And getting casual with his partner is a fantasy he can't shake...

Pepper Heart deve alla famiglia Tacone dei soldi. Molti soldi. E io sono l'uomo che ha il compito di riscuoterli. Così lei è finita qui, nel mio casinò, a cantare ed esibirsi sul palco. Ho promesso che l'avrei trattata con rispetto, se avesse fatto come le è stato ordinato. Ma non potevo immaginare che sarebbe entrata come una furia nel mio ufficio e mi tentasse, implorandomi di darle un assaggio della mia autorità.

When it comes to poker, Rose Alfieri and Levi Ivanovich have more in common than just playing the game. It’s what they’ll do to win. Rose is a lie detector in stilettos with a keen eye for body language and seeing a bluff in a single bead of sweat. Then Levi enters her orbit. A nightclub owner and renowned poker player, he’s on the verge of becoming the best. One obstacle stands in his way: Tito Ferragni, a champion who destroyed Levi’s family and left it in ruins. To win a tournament against his sworn enemy, Levi needs a secret weapon like Rose. She’s ready to play.

We're created from birth to unite soulmates and stop the monsters that would tear them apart. We're trained to fight, to kill… and born without the ability to feel the thing we give. A cupid can't feel love. A cupid can't have a soulmate. And a cupid can't fall in love with their sworn enemy, with the monster they're destined to destroy. Until… Theo.

For three years, Laryn Hardy has been a Night Stalker mechanic. Tirelessly working on their choppers, keeping the pilots safe with her skills…and falling ever deeper in love with Tate Davis. But the hotshot airman sees her as nothing more than a sparring partner, and it’s too painful to be overlooked by the man she’s wanted forever, which is why she’s been exploring contract options elsewhere. But when one interested party gets a little too pushy, she decides to lay off the job search. Just in time, too—because out of nowhere, Tate suddenly seems to have realized she exists.

What started as an adventure soon became hell. Piper Johnson’s thrilled to spend time in Timor-Leste with her best friend, a Peace Corps volunteer…until civil unrest erupts throughout the countryside, including an attack at the orphanage the women were visiting. With the aid of a SEAL team sent to extract the government employee, Piper flees with the only other known survivors - three young orphan girls. Beckett “Ace” Morgan has no time for regrets. Life is far too short.

Imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit, Maggie Lionetti is doing everything she can to keep her head above water. Including using a friend’s name and her car to make money. Too bad she crosses paths with someone who actually knows her friend…and knows she isn’t who she’s pretending to be. Shawn “Preacher” Franklin isn’t about to let someone cheat and steal from a Navy friend while she’s deployed. So he and his friends confront Maggie, and find out she’s simply a woman down on her luck.

Blind since birth, Corrie Madison relies on her other sharpened senses in her job as a chiropractor. Never did she imagine she’d have to depend on them to identify a killer. But when a man enters her practice, murdering everyone in his path, Corrie is the only witness - putting her directly in the killer’s crosshairs.

Having a crush on one of your brother’s friends is so cliché. But Reese Woodall isn’t too worried...it’s not as if she’d ever have a chance with the former Delta Force operative. For one thing, he lives in New Mexico, and she’s in Missouri. For another, since Woody and his team chaptered out of the Army several years ago, she hasn’t seen Gus even once. She’s free to lust after him from afar...but with her brother currently missing, Reese has far more important things to worry about.

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When Aspen Mesmer asks a complete stranger to kiss her one night in a bar, she never expects to have an immediate connection with the man. Kane “Brain” Temple knows he isn't the kind of man women look at twice, but when Aspen did just that after their explosive impulsive kiss, he's thrilled. But even as things between them get serious, someone doesn’t want either to be happy, and is willing to do whatever it takes to break them apart.

Lexie Greene hasn’t thought about Pierce Cagle in years. So when the popular boy she knew in high school shows up in the middle of the Somali desert, part of the SEAL team rescuing her and a coworker from kidnappers, she’s more than a little shocked. But her surprise turns to awe, then awe to respect...and attraction...when he saves her not once, but twice before they make it safely back to a US naval ship.

Renowned Chef Elodie Winters’ dream job, private chef to a powerful family in New York, quickly becomes a nightmare when her employer turns out to be the head of a notorious mob family. Now on the run, she thinks she’s finally safe, having landed in the middle of the Arabian Sea, cooking on the Asaka Express cargo ship. When the ship is taken by pirates, she can’t believe her bad luck...but it’s about to take a turn for the better.

When Devyn Groves needed a place to get away, she left her Midwestern state and headed for Texas, to the town where her Delta Force brother is stationed. It was supposed to be a brief stop, a safe and temporary refuge on the way to wherever she decided to settle next. Fast-forward over a year later, and she’s made amazing friends, is working part time as a vet tech, and is no closer to leaving. But there’s always the possibility...which is why she keeps Lucky, her brother’s teammate, at arm’s length. Even though it’s the last thing she wants to do.

The City of Lazarus, a once promising town in the middle of Hawthorne County, is the reason why many travelers have avoided Central Alabama altogether. The aftermath of the wrongdoings at the dreaded Hawthorne County Whiskey House has cast Lazarus into a never-ending downward spiral.

For Sidney Hale, rescuing dogs is more than a hobby. It’s a calling. A deep-seated need. An unstoppable compulsion. For reasons so unsettling, she shares them with no one…until she meets Decker. After coming to her rescue while Sidney battled to save a dog - literally - the gorgeous SEAL proves he can be trusted with her secrets, her safety…maybe even her heart.