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After running from a past destined to kill him, Snow has been hiding on the streets. Tell nobody your name. Tell nobody your secrets. Trust nobody! These are the rules of the streets. His entire life changes when he saves an eight-year-old boy from a violent end. Christopher Manos is one of the most powerful crime bosses in the country. Don't ask anyone to do something you aren't willing to do yourself. Secrets can get you killed. Trust nobody! These are the rules he lives by. When his eight-year-old nephew disappears, he never expects the boy's savior to end up being his own.

Falling stars are supposed to be a lucky sign, but not for Austen. Her new job as a secretary in an international games company isn't off to a good start. Her first assignment - decorating the Christmas tree in the lobby - results in a trip to the ER after Dee, the company's second-in-command, gets hit by the star-shaped tree topper. Dee blames her instant attraction to Austen on her head wound, not the magic of the falling star. She's determined not to act on it, especially since Austen has no idea that Dee is practically her boss.

A national bestseller in Canada, hailed by The New York Times as an “intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others.” “Required reading.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed A THEM AND AUTOSTRADDLE BEST BOOK OF THE...

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK A woman who’s used to going solo discovers that there’s one relationship she can’t run away from in this “hilarious, electric” (The New York Times) novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness, race, and community LAMBDA...

Morgan Hart is a bodyguard and martial arts expert. Her new client is renowned for being a stone cold Ice Queen—very hard to please, having fired her five previous bodyguards. Leigh Rayson is from a very wealthy family. She is straight and engaged to a man but Morgan can't help but be drawn in by her magnetic beauty. Morgan soon discovers that all is not what it seems and Leigh has been keeping secrets. Will Morgan get to the bottom of the mystery? And will she be able to resist the lure of her gorgeous client as she does so?

Ash wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als endlich eine eigene Familie zu gründen. Nach Feststellung seiner Sterilität und scheinbar unmöglichen Adoptionen, sieht er sich am Ziel angelangt, als er auf die junge Zoey trifft, die dringend Eltern für ihr ungeborenes Kind sucht – unter einer Bedingung: Sie gibt ihr Kind nur zu einem Paar. Ash ist verzweifelt, denn woher soll er so schnell den Verlobten nehmen, den er Zoey im Affekt vorgegaukelt hat? Zum Glück kommt ihm sein bester Freund Beau zur Hilfe. Er erklärt sich dazu bereit, seinen Fake-Verlobten zu spielen.

Julia Riley thinks she’s happy. The executive director of Boston’s Fledger Foundation, she and her wife, Carrie, are raising three children, one from Julia’s first marriage…but being content is not the same as being happy. Katie Brennan is the popular host of a network television morning show. She has two children and a husband who plays major-league baseball. Rumors of her husband’s infidelity are troubling. When the two women collaborate on a fundraising program for a new diversity center, they immediately strike up a friendship.

Someone is murdering the homeless in Detroit’s Cass Corridor―by immolation. These horrific crimes wouldn’t require an investigation by Charlie Mack and her crack team investigators, except that one of the burned bodies is her mother’s friend. There’s a lot wrong with this case: the police won’t admit a serial killer is on the loose, drug trafficking intersects with the deaths, and a rogue cop is involved. The timing also couldn’t be worse―Charlie and Mandy are finally moving in together.