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The wedding is just the beginning...Gideon and Lee have spent a year in chaotic married bliss, with all the trimmings - a dog, tricky in-laws, and a baby girl they both adore. But even the best of lives can be fragile, and a shocking family loss hits their new world like a demolition ball. Gideon has little energy left to investigate a murder that's taken place in the fields outside Dark. He still has his duties to his community, though, and with Lee at his side, he begins to unfold the mysterious death of Farmer John Bowe.

The Guardian. Wächter deines Herzens. Ein Überraschungsurlaub auf der Südsee-Insel Bora Bora. Das ist Dereks genialer Plan, als er den arbeitssüchtigen, erfolgsversessenen Kellan genau dorthin entführt. Drei Tage voller Spaß, leckeren Cocktails und unvergesslichen Abenteuern warten auf sie. Doch als sie sich auf dem Heimweg befinden, geschieht eine Katastrophe, die ihr Leben von der einen Minute auf die andere vollkommen ändert. Derek und Kellan sind plötzlich auf sich allein gestellt und müssen ums bittere Überleben kämpfen.

The dual forces of good and evil take center stage in the fourth installment in the Jimmy McSwain Files, one that finds the tortured, sexy detective battling an unforeseen enemy: happiness. Yet murder will soon rear its desperate chill, hurtling Jimmy into the highest society and the lowest of lives.

Struggling to feel worthy, Gawain knows some sins can never be forgiven. He may be considered a knight, but his past was never so noble, and the fear he won't ever have a future is one he can never let go. Imprisoned for over 1,500 years, Galahad knows that freedom can be an illusion, especially if the only way to defeat the witch is by staying caged for eternity. And then maybe nothing, not even Gawain's love, can free the chains around his heart.

Kay of Isca knows Charles St. John is his fated soul mate, but between battle, duty, and saving the world, staying in the same reality, never mind the same bed, is proving a bit more of a challenge than either stubborn man will admit. The malicious armies of Morgan le Fay are gathering, and the chance that one of their friends has already been lost to evil is a real possibility too terrifying to contemplate. Nothing is ever as it seems, but unless Kay can unravel the vile plans centuries in the making, they won't just die before they get a chance to love.

Finally, everything is going good for Carter. He's not a slave. He has a roof over his head. He's fixed his alien language translator and now can talk to Pykh and Siel, his protectors. Thankfully, they aren't promiscuous alien hillbillies. They're loyal men who love him, and Carter loves them back. Our space marine is ready to settle into a new life on the fleaf'akhie planet and be happy. But now there's another problem. On this planet...he's the girl? And not just any girl, but a pale, delicate, exotic princess who must be bowed to, courted, and entertained with poems.

Read by the author, Harry Josephine Giles. Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and...