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In 1941, WWII begins for the United States, and life will never be the same for three women as they send their husbands, brothers, and friends off to war. Ruth, a young wife and teacher, Lilly her teenage sister-in-law, and Helen, a British war bride, learn to cope while they forge an impenetrable bond and grow to be stronger than any of them ever dreamed possible. When one decides to go to the front lines as part of the American Red Cross Clubmobile program, how can they cope with her absence - and more telegrams reporting loss?

The life-changing Christian story. “I had a dream about Heaven”! exclaimed Priyanka...Running up to her mom one morning, four-year-old Priyanka nonchalantly mentioned that Jesus had taken her and her two-year-old sister Deepika to Heaven during the previous night. In the days that followed, the sisters amazed their parents with their vivid descriptions of what they saw and experienced in Heaven and Hell over the course of several visits there.

Summoned from her contemplative life in the abbey, Alexandra Ashford finds herself at the mercy of her malicious guardian, a cousin she fears and despises. He plans to force her to marry his crony and so forfeit her estate. Her only chance of escape is to trust the wounded man imprisoned by her cousin. Taken captive and chained to his torturer's floor, clan laird Ian McGregor is left for dead after a brutal beating. He has little hope of escape. But when his enemy's betrothed offers him freedom and asks for his help, he realizes revenge could be sweet indeed.

What's a girl to do when the guy she falls for is married to another man? This is exactly what happened to me. Seeing Josh Kendal stroll out of the Mediterranean Sea wearing tight navy swim trunks and looking like a hot new James Bond was a truly delicious moment. Catching sight of his wedding ring was like a kick in the shin and meeting his gorgeous husband, phew, that was enough to make any girl groan at the cruel joke God was playing on her. But all was not as it seemed, and when Josh needed a woman to sort out a 'delicate predicament' I was the one for the job.

The threat of my blood union to Vlad Dracula looms over me. Though I am no longer his prisoner, Vlad Dracula’s voice echoes in the recesses of my mind. His blood binds us together in a twisted matrimony in spite of the deep hatred for him that burns within my soul. I yearn to be free from this darkest of magic, for I fear that he will return one night and that I will not be able to resist the call of his blood.

Rita, the only daughter of billionaire Senator Obaseki, hides behind her reputation as a spoilt wealthy heiress with no ambition to cover up a painful past. Former soldier Nosa Edosa believes the senator to be the epitome of greed and political corruption. Failing to bring him to justice through legal means, his last-ditch effort involves kidnapping the man's daughter. The plan is simple, the execution flawless...until love gets involved.

English settler Grace Ashwell flees an abusive lover in Hobart Town, with six-year-old Violet in tow. In her head, escape is easy: find work in the northern settlements and earn enough for passage home to London. But the terrain beyond the settled districts is wilder than Grace could ever have imagined. She and Violet find themselves lost in a beautiful but deadly land where rain thunders down mountains, the earth drops away without warning and night brings impenetrable darkness.

They say only the brave ride Bridles Lane at night. Vicar Richard Dodge speaks of ghosts and demons, conducting elaborate exorcisms in his churchyard overlooking the lane. And with the villagers sheltering in fear, local smugglers carry their haul up the road to be hidden in the safety of the church. Isaac and Scarlett Bailey have spent their lives hiding contraband in Talland church. Forced into free trade by their father's mistakes, they want nothing more than to escape the smuggling syndicate and build a life above the law.

Druid Twilight: The Loom of Destiny is an epic journey to first-century ancient Britain, a fictional story set in a pivotal historic time. The key characters, Caedwyn and Brianna, each with long Druidic ancestry, are at the center of a reawakening of ancient powers that some believe will result in an apocalyptic catastrophe for the world. Druid Twilight is an allegorical tale of our times: an age of transition in which ancient powers clash with the emergence of a new way, a new system of beliefs that may either engulf the archaic ways or force their unexpected expansion.

Changing Wax is an action-adventure comedy, taking place in the fantasy world of Wax, which resides just 762,522,000,005 light years from Earth (give or take half a light year depending on Earth’s rotation). Wax revolves around rules established in the ancient Master Book of Magic, rules that don’t always follow basic logic or sanity. The story follows three adventurers: Gorath the misfortunate monk, Odd Drip the Imp who is too smart for his own good, and Thomas Twostead, a teenage girl born on the wrong side of Wax’s never-ending war between Light and Dark.

A young girl meets the god of a heaven dimension when she falls sick in a psychiatric ward. Golleta is a god who needs and her help to rid his world of the evil Demon Queen. With the help of Cloud, a shape-shifting quest leader, Vallery experiences both the world of a hospital and that of a parallel universe.

Seven hundred years in the future, the Jegg - a powerful alien race - invade Earth, wiping out half of the Terran Confederation. In a hidden base under the Sahara Desert, a team of scientists works to mount a resistance against the invaders. Their plan is to fit an Earth ship with Jegg folding-space technology and travel to the other side of the galaxy to find a mysterious energy source...one that could help them defeat the Jegg. But just before departure, catastrophe strikes.

Isaac Bailey returns home after four years at sea, expecting a welcome from his family. Instead, he finds his parents' graves and his sister, Scarlett, waiting to be rescued from the orphanage. Against his will, Isaac is thrust into a world of smuggling, forced into the service of wealthy syndicate boss Charles Reuben. "Prove yourself trustworthy," says Flora, the witch's daughter, "and the chance for escape will come."

Running away isn't always an escape...After a traumatic experience with her graduate school professor, Anne Fleming disposes of all her possessions, boards a plane, and plans to check out of life. But a chance meeting on an international flight leads her to Wildfell, a gothic mansion north of London. At first glance, Wildfell seems like the perfect place to hide out, and Anne is intrigued by its strange atmosphere and history of disappearances and deaths.

Angel World is no heaven.... Held prisoner, Violet never anticipated her long-lost mother would be the poisonous queen of angel world. Or that she’d be forced to rule as a corrupted princess or risk a perilous escape. When a harem boy angel draws Violet into the dark court, she’s thrown into deadly trials that even her monstrous powers may not be able to overcome. If she refuses, both the snarky angel and geek vampire she loves will be enslaved to a powerful cult.

As the masters and special section begin to expose and disrupt the machinations of the Lyrans, Penelope must struggle with the dichotomy of God and thedevil, the harshness of war, and the myriad challenges of the nine universes. In the process, she discovers an ancient secret hidden beneath the streets of London itself. In order to prevail, she must first learn about the true nature of justice, master the tigress within, and ultimately, accept the terrible consequences of her actions.

Druid Twilight is an allegorical tale of our times: an age of transition in which ancient powers conflict with the emergence of a new way; a new system of beliefs that may either engulf the archaic ways or force their unexpected evolution. Nature, the elements, and time itself are at play in this intense and engaging shamanic narrative. It is an omnibus publication that includes both original books, plus the author’s notes regarding story locations, and more. A love story at heart, it is a tale of the clash of enormous powers, betrayal, retribution, and rebirth.

Nothing could’ve prepared Violet for initiation into the Legion of the Phoenix. Perilous. Deadly. Nightmarish. When three wishes offer her deepest desires, she should know better than to trust them. Now, she must face the vicious mage’s challenge. If she doesn’t, the seductive vampire geek she loves will be kept forever as their pet, whilst her snarky angel lover will be executed, only to be resurrected as a slave.

Arabella Holmes - yes, daughter of that Holmes - wants to return to her job as a purveyor of abnormal science. She has temporarily been demoted to a botanist, until her love interest, Henry Watson - yes, that Watson - can help her get her less-than-professional outbursts in check. Henry is tired of his new role as doctor, tired of the lack of adventure, and tired of keeping Bella's escapades out of the papers. Five girls are missing. Gone from locked rooms in their own houses. Arabella and Henry are called upon to help solve the kidnappings, but all they unearth is more danger.

This is why fallen angels fear the light.... Snatched to the under world, Violet discovers that the father who abandoned her as a baby is the tyrannical king of hell. She's forced to battle in the bone carnival to prove her loyalty in a court of the wildest vampire rebels ever to be cast out of angel world. Or else she won't be able to save the angels...or her sister. When she defies the anarchic vampire court, she's tested in three impossible Devil's quests, which risk letting out the worst monster of them all: and it's inside her.