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Katherine was a Phoenix who had the ability to create fire at will. However, she had just been exiled by her people who were disappointed with the strength of her powers. This meant that she was put up for auction and sold to the highest bidder. That highest bidder was a power hungry Werebear named Mason Wilde. A bear that saw something in Katherine that others did not, however he was a bear that had a dark past and dark secrets of his own....

The complete first installment of the Bruins' Peak Bears stories. Books one through five now with an extra book zero backstory! Book zero: Lily - The year is 1885, and the dusty little town of Iron Bark is just a stage stop on the vast frontier. Lily Cunningham steps off the coach to find a strange man greeting her. Luther Campbell is dapper, rich, and definitely interested in her, but Lily senses something sinister about him from her very first glance.

Ex-US Navy specialists Carter Hunt and Jayden Takada are working one of their first jobs in civilian life - repairing a subsea data cable for an international telecom company - when their mini-sub is attacked by persons unknown wishing to stem the flow of information in and out of Egypt. They survive the encounter only to receive a call from Hunt’s ex-girlfriend, an archaeologist currently on an excavation at the Great Pyramid of Giza. She has a most unusual request - she needs someone to scuba dive inside the pyramid.

Tom Warren, a giant of a man in stature and physical strength, experiencing a deadly tragedy, turns to his new life as a mountain man in the largely unexplored mountain west, facing its many dangers in an attempt to forget his earlier life. Tom soon discovers new friendships among his kind at historic Fort Union, matched only by subsequent dangers and challenges from grizzly bears, renegade fur trappers, an Indian out to kill him and the rescue of an Indian maiden in distress which gains him more deadly enemies.

The second installment of the Bruins' Peak Bears stories. Audiobooks six to 10! Can be listened to as a stand-alone, but I recommend listening to audiobooks zero through five first. Includes Melody, Briar, Raven, Ebony, and Haven.

Sol is used to flying under his family's radar, unless focusing unwanted attention away from his more outgoing, older twin. The day comes when he pays a steep price for attempting to shield his brother. Running for his life, he is nearly run down by a car driven by Seth. Can Seth help Sol find his way back from the darkness?

Clover is here in Ireland chasing rainbows, trying to turn her luck around. It doesn't take long to see that this sexy woman isn't the end of me - she's the beginning. But while I have the luck of the Irish, Clover doesn't, and getting her to open up to me is no easy task.

Filled with guilt and self-recriminations over his identical twin Sol's kidnapping and abuse, Ben seeks counseling, which reveals he too has scars from his own suffering during the ordeal. He desperately tries to make amends with Sol, Seth, and his foster parents and to make himself a better man. Meeting sweet, funny, gorgeous Marty at the Crab Derby seems like fate is finally smiling on him; then he returns to college in Atlanta and spies Marty at his favorite local coffee shop.

Riffem wasn't a great wizard, at least not by the standards of the game. He couldn't cast big fireballs or powerful lighting bolts to devastate his enemies. He wasn't getting very far in his wizarding career and doubted he ever would. Then a chance encounter with a dragon at the local inn changed everything. Now Riffem is on a quest to find seven beautiful women for his new dragon lord, Thraxrax. Even with the help of Yth, an intensely cerebral mind melter, and the wanton dragonkin warrior Klaezarsta, he finds himself way out of his depth.

When high-powered business woman Tana Reynolds flew to Cairo for business, she thought that she might on the brink of something life changing. And she was right. But not in the way she expected. After blowing everyone away with a stunning presentation, Tana was surprised to find that a mysterious sheikh wanted her to join him for dinner. Tana accepted the invitation, and she was half expecting a lucrative business proposal to be put her way. However, the sheikh had a very different type of proposal in mind.

It is the night before Christmas, and all the pirates on Captain John's boat - including the goat - are excited. When most of the pirates have fallen asleep, Captain John and his cat see Father Christmas in action and wonder at the eight little reindeer that land on the pirate ship's deck.

Stuck in a dead-end job and living with his overbearing mother, Martin fantasizes about meeting the perfect woman and escaping to a life of adventure. A young man whose grip on sanity starts to weaken, he soon discovers that Mellicent, a sweet and very real girl from the office, just might be his rescue.

Thea returns to the Wandless Academy only to discover her friends are as out of sorts as she is. It’s only when she discovers she is an elemental mage - a mage so rare that only four other wizards in history had similar talents - that the pieces start falling in place.

How does a world equipped with bows, arrows and catapults, where steam power is just beginning to replace horses and sailing ships, avert a conquest from beyond the stars? Prince Regilius has been engineered to combat the Dalthin, a predatory alien species that enslaves worlds telepathically, and to do so he must unite his people. But when his mother murders his father, the land descends into chaos and his task may prove impossible. Faced with slaying the one who gave him life in order to protect his world, he seeks a better way. Set in a vast and varied land where telepaths and those with unusual mental abilities tip the course of events, Awakening goes to the heart of family, friendship and betrayal.

The savage murders of four mothers are an echo of a nightmare witnessed by a horrified city. Meanwhile, Julian Brody - dubbed by the press as "The Mummy Ripper" - dies in prison 20 years after his violent slaying of four mothers in the 1990's. D.I. Ruby Delpierro and Dr. Carl Flescher team up to catch the copycat killer before any more innocent women are slain. But is there something more to the case? With their professional relationship put to the test, Carl will have to conquer his demons to help Ruby stop the bloodshed and confront the killer's shocking true identity.

Six months ago, high school king Sumner Shadows tried to kill his friends. He led them to a cemetery and tried to bleed them dry. And he almost succeeded. But his friends lived through the horror, and ended up committing their own heinous crime in the process. They covered up what they did, and Sumner got away. That was supposed to be the end. But when a new girl moves to Armor Falls and has tangible evidence that Sumner might be back to finish what he started, the four friends he left behind are put to the test to learn what caused Sumner's sudden need to have them dead.

The rambling obsessions of a long dead relative or something more? When Gabe receives the battered leather journal of his great-grandfather, Archy, he is filled with disbelief. With pages filled with stories of a mythical monster called The Magdon, Gabe casts aside the diary as the by-product of a troubled mind. That is, until the madness begins to take shape in Gabe and his family’s lives.

In this audiobook, the background of the revealed, diptych, ecumenical icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father Encompassing All Hearts is presented, together with the related Consecration (Seal) Prayer to the Almighty Father. The icon apologia and canon are elucidated. The ecumenical importance of the icon of the Divine Heart for the universal Church is addressed, together with the basis for the icon in Sacred Scripture and Tradition, as well as its meaning for our present times and eschatological future.

To keep from obsessing on his job when not there, Clint attempts to escape his reality in the VRMMO world of Unexplored. There, in the persona of the heroic and adventurous elf, Cleave, he joins with a smart-mouthed kobold named Tarka and a gentle half-giant, Krug - the best kind of friend an elf could have, one that would gladly stomp into jelly anyone attempting to hurt his friends or the innocent - in a grand quest to find a powerful ring.

What do you get when ordinary email spam becomes infused with magic? Spellspam - and it's not supposed to exist. As far as Thea and her friends know, computers are meant to be inert vehicles for storing magic spells, not magical processors themselves.