If We Dare by JH Croix

Have you ever gone on a fake date? With your brother’s best friend?

It all started when he rescued me from a dumpster. Not my best moment.

Grumpy, broody, too hot to handle Walker needs a date for a wedding. Let the complications begin.

One wedding. One weekend. Two hearts. It’s all for show, right?

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USA Today Bestselling Author J. H. Croix lives in a small town in the historical farmlands of Maine with her husband and two spoiled dogs. Croix writes contemporary romance with sassy women and alpha men who aren’t afraid to show some emotion. Her love for quirky small-towns and the characters that inhabit them shines through in her writing. Take a walk on the wild side of romance with her bestselling novels!

About The Call of Magic – Book One of the Fool’s Journey by A. R. C.

Freshly graduated from high school, EMMA LIE has never let go the betrayal her father served her. On the eve of her college departure, burdened with grand designs, Emma finds herself branded by a strange mark.

Bewildered by its appearance, Emma becomes distracted, then suspicious, of a captivating boy named THIES KRAUSMANN. Suspecting he bears the same symbol, she brings him closer and, amid a passionate moment, demands the truth from him. His cryptic answers skew her reality forever. Magic is real. The impression on her arm is an invitation by FATE.

Called by magic, invited by Thies and his mysterious colleague, Emma refuses their offer to join a cabal of magicians.

An unknown assailant chooses that hour to strike, and Emma is thrust into the world of magic, stolen away from her home even as the aggressor orders the kidnapping of her mom.

They’re transported to the Citadel, the stronghold of the magic Legion. Emma seeks reassurance from Thies, her only lifeline in that strange city. Compelled to trust him, pressed through Orientation, and shown the terror of the Merim, Emma wants nothing more than to return to her life. The secret war being waged by the Legionnaires beyond the Well in the Land of Magic is not her destiny.

She is told by the HIGH PRIESTESS that she cannot return. She is a recruit, now, bound by blood.

Lofty intentions derailed, her mother in mortal danger, and forced into military servitude, Emma struggles, resenting her captivity. Within hours, she alienates the other recruits and, resisting their overtures of friendship, plots escape. Rebuffing Thies’ attempts at romance, pushed to his side by the brutal training regimen, Emma battles for her own heart just as she fights for survival.

Battered by periods of torturous instruction, she finds herself losing ground. Thies is persistent. The moments they shared before her forced entry into the Legion were a reality she never imagined could be hers. Still, she plans desertion.

Strange things occur in the Citadel. The Legionnaires hold her suspect, THE PROFESSOR follows her in the hallways, and a magical parasite has escaped the Land of Magic. When Emma stumbles on a means of escape, her intentions to flee bear fruit. She must find the time and power to explore a mysterious set of tunnels. Days pass, and though Emma had originally shut herself off from friendship, she finds her teammates are as persistent as Thies. Her feelings for Thies intensify, but she cannot abandon her mother, or the life she had planned.

Emma is ordered to help clear the dangerous parasite. In a show of tremendous magic, the parasitic goop forms into a man-shape, claiming it will find her just as she and her companions annihilate it with their combined powers. Yet remnants of the slime are discovered after. It has not yet been destroyed as they had hoped. Despite this setback, Legion life must go on.

In Legion rite, Emma is paraded before the veterans at a ball. Dressed to perfection, plied with alcohol, Emma’s heart gives in. She and Thies fall into love.

In the hours after, Emma is caught in her daily attempts to escape.

Imprisoned, struggling against Thies’ heartbreak, Emma is forced to explain her actions. She learns that the parasite has become aggressive, that it is sentient, even. At the promenade, it abducted one of her teammates. Those who were closest to her disappear one by one.

It comes for Emma, but is driven away.

Intent on saving her friends, with Thies at her side, Emma agrees to act as bait, engaging in a dangerous mission. She joins the High Priestess and the Professor, racing against the opening of the Well. When Thies is captured, Emma has no choice but to chase after him. They enter the Land of Magic.

Confronted by the parasitic extension of a Merim’s power, the pair engage in a desperate battle against a powerful foe. And just when they have won an astonishing victory, another Merim arrives.

Emma dispatches the proxy of the first, and the second Merim disappears. Thies lies on the ground. Though unwounded, he rises inexorably into the sky. Fearing for his life, Emma clings to him with desperation, but is knocked unconscious. She awakens to a world without her love.

Unknowing whether Thies is dead, she vows to return him to the land of the living.

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“Hello.”
A figure approaches you on this dusty road called life. Indistinct and familiar, unknown but knowing, they are nobody and the every-man. “May I tell you a story?” they ask, wasting no time.
“What kind?” you reply, impatient with interminable day. Fraught with distraction. You’re unsure you want anything new.
“Some, light and airy, still others dour and dread-riddled. Love and death, black dreams and bright hope, man and his fellow, red war and high peace. All can be found here. The cynics, the broken, the strong, and the weak, all woven into one. You need but only listen.”
“Tell me more?” you inquire after minutes of thought.
The storyteller nods. “Though you might not like each tale, inevitably you will find your hero within. Some to hate, and more to admire. It cannot be else. Hide and reveal, warn or conceal, incite or enchant. So falls the nature of storytelling, a reflection of the soul. Only the cruel would change these tales to fit own beliefs.”
“And should I not wish to hear them?”
“No matter that I sing my yarns to a single body or many, they must be told. It is my honor, my duty, my obligation.”
“But who are you?” you demand.
“If I were to speak base truth about myself, I would say that I’m a dreamer. It holds a double meaning. I daydream regularly, oft to diversion. And though my nightly dreams come and go without memory, that which they tell me changes my mood daily.”
“To this point in life, dreaming has never gotten me anywhere.”
The figure leans in, as if sharing a secret with a friend.
“But it will one day.”
The longer the figure speaks and the more that you listen, the more you perceive that you aren’t alone. Others surround you, attend with you, know the words as you do. Love and tears, heartache and fears, it is good to share these worries amongst friends.
For what is existence, but a semi-sweet story?

Lying Hearts by Kelli Callahan

I made a promise when I was ten.
She was my best friend, my soulmate.
I knew it then and I know it now, fifteen years later after that promise was made.

Luna Nightingale.
My moon.
My regret.
My love.

I spent so many years living with the lie I spread about us, the lie that broke my promise to her.
She left town after we graduated because she hated me.

But she was back.
And she still hated me.
And I didn’t care what I had to do, I’d get her back.

No matter how many fires I had to face to gain her trust in me, I’d fight until the last breath left my lungs.
I made a vow. And I planned to renew it.

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Kelli writes hot and steamy romances with delicious alpha males who will not stop until they get the women they crave exactly where they want them. Kelli’s heroes are tough as nails, hot as sin, and underneath the rough exterior is a heart of gold begging to be unleashed. If you think you can tame them, you’re probably right, but it won’t be an easy journey.

Make no mistake, Kelli’s stories will give you the happily ever after you need, but they’re also steamy and packed from cover to cover with exactly what you’re looking for late at night when you leave your panties by the door.

About Valkyrie Playbook

Sixteen-year-old Hilda has thought she was living with a mental illness for most of her life, but all of that changes when she meets Tyler, who claims to be einherjar, one of Viking god Odin’s warriors.

Tyler tries to convince Hilda that she’s a valkyrie, a supernatural, Norse being, responsible for culling the dead who are worthy of fighting alongside Odin and his wife, Freya, in the end of days battle of Ragnarök.

Hilda has a hard time believing Tyler’s story at first, but when he helps her astral project to Sessrúmnir, Freya’s domain in the afterworld, she realizes she has a role to play in the fate of the planet.

Can she prevent the world from suffering its catastrophic fate once Ragnarök has begun?

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Elise Abram has been a high school teacher of English and Computer Studies for more than 20 years, providing coaching to writers of all ages and at all levels of development from middle school through Ph.D. candidate. She is a former archaeologist, editor, publisher, award-winning author, avid reader of literary and science fiction, and student of the human condition.

Abram is best known as a science fiction and young adult novelist, but her writing interests are diverse. She has published everything from science fiction for adults and young adults to young adult paranormal, police procedural, young adult contemporary, middle grade chapter books, and picturebooks for children.

About Promise’s Letters From the Road to Astroworld

The ’80s was an era of cute boy bands and singers. Prince, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, and The New Edition were just some of the few that made girls swoon. Urban gangs were descending on small-town America. Hattiesburg Mississippi was just such a town. “The Folks” from up north brought their drugs and gang symbols. They also caught the eye of Della and her friend Thelma, a couple of teen girls coming of age. Della falls madly in love with Cheeseburger while he pays her scant attention. What happens when her fantasies take over her heart? Can she face an unpleasant reality?

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Charles W. Harvey is a native Houstonian and a graduate of the University of Houston. In 1987, Charles was a 1st place prize recipient of PEN/Discovery for his short story Cheeseburger, which went on to be published in the Ontario Review. In 1989 Charles Harvey was awarded the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Grant for Writers and Artists. Charles has been published in Soulfires, Story Magazine SHADE, High Infidelity, The James White Review, and others. He is the author of the novels The Butterfly Killer, The Road to Astroworld, Antoine’s Double Trouble, and Maura and Her Two Husbands. He is also the author of several story and poetry collections.

About You Are Not Welcome!

“You Are Not Welcome”, is a story illustrated and written by noted artist Richard Cortez. This book teaches the importance of acceptance and diversity.

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Richard Cortez is noted author, artist and illustrator

About Super Dog Zam: A Helping Pal for Grieving Children (Ages 6-9)

This book is a beautiful and moving allegory of loss and coping, and is particularly poignant for children who may be dealing with death and grief for the first time.

This version of Super Dog Zam targets the 6-9 year age group to aid in your family’s grief journey. In this edition, we aim to provide an introduction to the concepts of death and grief in a relatable, uplifting story, followed by a workbook including age-appropriate questions to guide children through their own thoughts and feelings about the subject.

The Super Dog Zam Grief Healing Books were created to offer families with grieving children a self-help tool that could be used at home to help young hearts and minds through the difficult grieving process. By using these books, adult friends and family of grieving children have an opportunity to take responsibility and action towards healing, rather than becoming frustrated by the lack of information and support so often encountered by families facing grief.

The Super Dog Zam Grief Healing Book Series is part of Zam Academy, a grief healing program for schools. Additional books in our series are available for ages 3-5, 6-9, 10-12, and teens in 3 languages: English, Spanish, and Italian.

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Susan Binau (born in Denmark in 1964) is a Keynote speaker, entrepreneur, published author and global philanthropist. Founder at SoulCare Group, Celebration Sky and Global Voices of Courage.

For the past nine years, I devoted my time and skills to help families affected by terminal illness and grief. I have developed programs, books, and tools in collaboration with my partners.

Starting the Danish charity "Stoette Foer Afskeden" in 2011 with composer Niels Eje www.musicure.dk and SerenityGte Foundation USA, we have donated more than 15,000 "AngelKIT" and "Heart Packages" to terminally ill families in five countries.

About The Last Fight Of Human Race

Humans have always believed that they are above all species,but how will the humans react when they find out that a group of species ,more cunning and deadlier than the human race and is ready to take its place.Read this exciting Sci-fi thriller to find out.

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Sanyukta’s love for writing began since she was 5 years old.She followed her passion by writing fan-fiction on her blog .When she is not writing she loves to paint,get lost in her favourite music or watch light-hearted cartoons.

About In-Laws and All: A Survival Guide by Bracha Loren, Psy.D, LMFT

In-Laws and All: A Survival Guide explores the complex in-law dynamic and how to overcome obstacles preventing harmonious relationships. Though it is a serious and sometimes painful topic, the book is seasoned with humor. With clinical vignettes and the lessons learned from them, Dr. Bracha Loren demonstrates how to restore relationships that seem doomed, and turn them into flourishing ones. In-Laws and All: A Survival Guide covers traditional heterosexual marriages along with same-sex marriages and other committed relationships.

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Bracha Loren has practiced as a marriage and family therapist for more than twenty years. Her experiences, both professionally and personally, inspired her to address the many issues with in-law relationships.
Beyond her clinical experience, Loren taught "Making Marriage Work," a program designed to guide pre-marital couples in establishing their married lives. She also taught a master's level course to marriage and family therapists on how to approach and treat individuals and couples. Loren leads a series of courses in increasing intimacy between couples and has lectures extensively and led many group discussions on the topic of in-laws.
Loren is originally from Tel Aviv, Israel, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. When she is not seeing patients, Loren enjoys lecturing, writing, dancing, traveling, and creating adventures with her nine grandchildren.

About Selfishly

Selfishly is a book of poems that captures the heart and leaves desire in the soul. It will leave readers wanting more.

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Leatra is from St. Louis, MO., and after moving to Texas, she pursued a career in broadcasting and writing. Selfishly is her third book. She enjoys reading, writing, and putting puzzles together. She also enjoys watching Indie films.