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As Sita prepares to go into exile, her younger sisters stay back at the doomed palace of Ayodhya, their smiles, hope and joy wiped away in a single stroke. And through the tears and the tragedy one woman of immense strength and conviction stands apart - Urmila, whose husband, Lakshman, has chosen to accompany his brother Ram to the forest rather than stay with his bride. She could have insisted on joining Lakshman, as did Sita with Ram. But she did not. Why did she agree to be left behind in the palace, waiting for her husband for 14 painfully long years?

Surpanakha, Ravan's famous sister. Ugly and untamed, brutal and brazen - this is often how she is commonly perceived. One whose nose was sliced off by an angry Lakshman and the one who started a war. But was she really just a perpetrator of war? Or was she a victim? Was she 'Lanka's princess'? Or was she the reason behind its destruction?

Born during the churning of the ocean, Menaka is the most beautiful of all the apsaras in the world, with quick intelligence and innate talent. However, she craves the one thing she can never have: family. Elsewhere, after severe austerities, a man, now blessed with the name Vishwamitra, challenges the gods and dares to create another heaven. Fearing his growing powers, Indra, the king of gods, decides to put a stop to his ambitions by making Menaka seduce him.

After being exiled by my pack at 17, I've spent the last four years constantly on the move trying to avoid all ties to the shifter world. Unfortunately, I can't outrun fate. When I step in to break up a fight, the shifters involved realize I'm a rare male omega. Not only does that revelation put me in the crosshairs of competing packs that would do anything to control me, it also leads me to cross paths with an Alpha who claims to be my fated mate.

Kane is a six-foot-seven French Canadian. But, a year ago, he was a wolf. He'd been in the woods when a crazed, infected man attacked him. The next day, he transformed into a human. Now, Kane is searching for the Biting Man to get the answers he needs to become a wolf again and return to his pack. The only one who knows Kane's secret is a troubled young woman named Emelda. She needed out of a terrible situation; Kane needed someone who could drive. Wolves who become humans are terrible drivers. He also has a problem with moonlight.

Solomon Kane, „das Schwert von Gottes Zorn" gilt seit Jahren als verschollen. Aber als sich eine besiegt geglaubte Bedrohung erneut erhebt und ihre finsteren Krallen nach der Welt ausstreckt, ist der Puritaner die einzige Hoffnung der Menschheit. So machen sich zwei alte Weggefährten auf die Suche nach Solomon Kane, doch viel Zeit bleibt ihnen nicht, da der Feind bereits immer mächtiger wird.

Someone has been terrorizing my small town—a huge, horrifying beast, to be exact. He won’t stop rampaging until the villagers sacrifice an innocent. Lucky me! I’m the chosen one. I’ve been tied to a tree in a wedding dress and left as an offering to the cruel ruler of the hills. But once the beast approaches, I glimpse the lonely human beneath the wild hair and mountainous body. Yes, he’s very much a man…a man who will stop at nothing to claim me as his mate.

You know what sucks? In today's world, there are hardworking people like me drowning under medical debt—F* cancer—and then there are guys with way too much money. Guys who treat cash like a weapon, who shouldn't get to be both rich and unfairly hot. Guys like Abydos. When I finally land the...

Ever since I was old enough to hold a blade, I knew I wanted to become a Magical Knight. For years, I trained, waiting for the day I would receive a grimoire of my own. But magic can neither be controlled nor predicted and when it was my turn to take the test… I failed. I'm Null, a person born without a core. With this, all my plans have been upended, and the future lies veiled in mystery. However, a chance encounter one evening challenges everything I'd come to believe. As it turns out, I do possess a certain kind of magic.

Heads Will Roll is an Audible Original from Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her cocreator/costar (and real-life sister) Emily Lynne. Produced by Broadway Video, this is not an audiobook - it’s a 10-episode, star-studded audio comedy that features performances from Meryl Streep, Tim Gunn, Peter Dinklage, Queer Eye’s Fab Five, and so many more. Please note: This content is not for kids.

Once upon a time I had a name . . . For years, my life has been a nightmare. Trapped in a lab where humans use me as a test subject, they've stolen everything from me—including my memories. A careless mistake gives me the opportunity to escape, but the world outside is harsh and unfamiliar...

The contract said temporary. My heart missed that memo. No one escapes a hostile takeover quite like this! Six years ago, in an effort to avoid an arranged marriage, I walked away from my ruthless father's business empire and built a new life as Eastshore Isle's top realtor. I thought I'd...

They call him a beast. He treats me like a queen. I'm the least of my father's daughters, barely more than a shadow in Tarbert Keep. But the dangerous orc chained in the dungeons gazes at me as if I'm someone special. I should be terrified of Kragorn, Chief of Clan Bloodfire—with his vicious...

When people started to develop superpowers, the world changed forever. Me? I wasn't one of the lucky ones with powers. So I had to develop more mundane skills, skills which have taken me across the globe on dangerous missions. But there are some missions I’ve always had to refuse. I've never been able to take on a super. They're just too powerful. They're gods, whereas I'm just a man, even with all my knowledge and training. All that changes after I discover my dad's secret research project.

A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife. Soon separated but still living in the same apartment, he is threatened by a litigious dachshund and saddled with a stubborn case of erectile dysfunction in a world that seems held together by increasingly mercurial laws and elusive boundaries.

His entire life, both as wolf and man, Kane has been a hunter. Now, he is the one being hunted. A merciless stranger has emerged from the shadows, vowing to track Kane down and destroy him. To erase the Wolfwere bloodline from existence—just as this mysterious predator did to Kane's pack. But Kane has something this relentless hunter does not: an ex-criminal who's found the first hints of true joy in her life, and Emelda will stop at nothing to kill the hunter before he can take that away.

Puritan. Fiend. Fanatic. Solomon Kane. In the wake of several grisly murders, Solomon Kane has been summoned to Windsend, England, to determine a woman’s guilt. Is Sybil Eastey a witch? And is she behind these gruesome crimes? His first night in Windsend, Kane awakens from horrific nightmares only to witness a man being torn asunder. Fear quickly turns to something more sinister and the villagers are ready to lynch Sybil before Kane intervenes. Kane must establish Sybil’s true nature and solve the macabre mystery before more blood is spilt. However, nothing is what it seems in Windsend.

Just when I think I'm at the end of my rope, the universe sends a gorgeous, talented, and oh-so-caring nanny to rescue me. What's the catch? Every morning I wake up and remind myself I was the one who decided to kick out my horrible ex, and it's my choice to raise my kids alone. This is less...

Emelda Thorne thought her time with Kane was over. When he'd walked into the Canadian woods that final morning, she felt she'd closed the book on her life's greatest adventure. That together they had beaten incredible odds, then parted ways forever. One phone call from a stranger just changed all of that.

It's finally happening! After years of scrimping and saving, I have finally launched my landscaping business from the back of my garden shop. Oh, don't get me wrong—I adore making floral arrangements, helping people figure out their soil's right pH, and sharing a million other gardening tips...