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Siobhan comes to New York with a purpose: She wants to become a successful artist. To pay her bills in the meantime, she's the hostess at The Stone Room, a bar for the beautiful and the billionaires. She's fine with being on her own - until tech billionaire Derick takes her breath away.

Mona Mireles is a quintessential overachiever: a former spelling-bee champion and valedictorian of her college class, she has a sterling résumé and a wall of plaques and medals in her bedroom that stretches floor to ceiling. She's also broke, unemployed, back at home with her parents, and completely adrift in life and love. Seven months out of college, she’s desperately trying to reassemble the pieces of her life after the Wall Street job she had waiting for her post-graduation dissolves in the wake of the Great Recession.

It's been a month since her traumatic breakup with Derick, and Siobhan now lives in Detroit, where she can support herself and her painting career. But suddenly Derick's back after flying halfway across the country for her. And though Siobhan's body comes alive at his touch, she doesn't know if she can trust him again.

Twenty sizzling stories where control is everything. Whether you like to wear the trousers or be ordered out of them, these stories will have you a slave to your fantasies in no time. Every kind of sexual domination and submission is explored in Power Play, from tongue-in-cheek role play to intense BDSM.

Since Siobhan has made it as an artist, she's ready to start a life in New York with the love of her life, billionaire Derick Miller. But their relationship has been a rollercoaster ride that has pushed Derick too far. Will Siobhan be able to win back her soul mate?

Presenting an audio anthology of Victorian ghost stories to chill you to the bone this holiday season.

Successful foreign policy is largely invisible. It often means paying up front for benefits that are hard to see until you lose them.

Ghost stories from the golden age. Six great writers weave their spell in creepy, insidious style.

Cunning. Corrupt. Charismatic. The degenerate characters in this collection shun conventional morality, and will stop at nothing to get what they want... These five sensational dramas, set in locations ranging from 16th century Venice to Victorian England, revolve around their unscrupulous actions – and the devastating consequences of the choices they make.

Five years ago, Kendall Hart's life changed forever. A tragedy forced her to grow up fast and become a responsible adult overnight while her friends were still enjoying high school. She lives and breathes work, leaving no time for a social life, and her circle of friends is small. She has no room for complications in her life. Then Tristan walks in. Tristan O'Neal is forced to return home when his father becomes terminally ill.

Averi Rain has always been in love with one man. The problem is, he's always loved everyone else. Ian O'Neal has been known for his reputation with the ladies, and has never really cared about any of them for longer than a one-night stand. He's known Averi since they were both in high school, and had always harmlessly flirted with her, never really seeing her for the woman she's become.

Whether it's history itself getting lost in the stone silence of a lighthouse or the time flow of medieval armor clashing from the grave into the now of your mind, this year's honor roll of top stories from Tell-Tale Publishing will pull you up in your chair and set your pulse racing. But that's what you want...isn't it? There will be thoughtful dilemmas to keep you pondering, moral choices and choices for the oldest of reasons - love - and, above all, the test of love versus fate.

In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it-with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed by the Texas Rangers, Antonio finds himself launched into a quest for revenge that endangers not only his life and his family, but his eternal soul.

Now in its fifth incarnation, Tell-Tale's horror anthologies have become an annual benchmark of emerging talent and well-told stories. The select seven featured here will yank you backward and forward again in time, visiting the exotic and the seemingly mundane, at a pace and a pulse calibrated for Halloween chills. Beware of a cat named Sabrina and a Celtic goddess with a passport to Salem—yes, that Salem. An old farmhouse could hold more vivid memories than just its mortal foundations, and think twice about rescuing the sister of a young boy if you find yourself in a desert.

This chilling collection includes: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" by Henry James, "The Shadow" by E. Nesbit, "Monsieur Anastasius" by Dinah Maria Mulock, "John Granger" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and more.

Eight years ago, Jolene Anderson left her family and friends behind to study fashion design abroad. As she began to soar in both her professional and personal life, without warning, her world came crashing down. Broken, she retreats to the only place she feels safe...home. Ryder Brisson is getting his life in order. His military service has prepared him for civilian life with his own security firm. His future is looking bright, but there's one thing that would make his life complete...the one he's loved all of his life, Jolene.

This third and final collection of Classic Ghost Stories contains these chillers: "Mr. Justice Harbottle" by Joseph Sheridan Lefanu; "The Seventh Man" by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; "Some Haunted Houses" by Ambrose Bierce; "Miss Dulane and My Lord" by Wilkie Collins; and more.

Callie and Justin are living their fairy tale. They are so close to having the family they've always wanted when suddenly, Callie finds herself fighting the insecurities she's been feeling all her life. This time, the results could be deadly. Can Justin help heal her pain, or will the stress drive them apart?

Jane Carter's life has never been easy. Leaving her parents behind only to be abandoned pregnant by the one man she thought she could depend on, she had a sense that things just weren't going to be easy for her or her precious daughter, Jolene. She's so skeptical about life that she thinks she's dreaming when she catches the eye of handsome, successful architect Jay Anderson. Will Jay be willing to accept her and her child, or will she be forced to return to a past that just won't go away?

Callie Brandon wasn't looking for love. It always seemed destined for someone less ordinary. But when sexy architect, Justin Brisson sets his determined baby blue eyes on her, she starts to wonder if love has designed her very own "happily ever after."