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London, 1372. Bittere Reue verspürt Sir Gilbert Wolford, als er die junge Lady Valerie mit der Witwenhaube erblickt. Denn er war es, der ihren Mann in ein tödliches Gefecht entsandt hat. Immer wieder kreuzen sich ihre Wege im Savoy-Palast in London, wo Gil auf den Einsatz nach Kastilien wartet. Doch dann erhält der Ritter eines Tages vom König persönlich einen pikanten Befehl: Er soll Valerie heiraten! Gil muss gehorchen, aber es schmerzt so sehr. Denn er will keine Ehe aus höfischem Gehorsam, er will das Herz der schönen Witwe, will ihr heiße Liebe und Kinder schenken.

Bloody murder is the last thing on Barbara Hollis's mind when she agrees to travel to a sleepy little town to keep house for her widowed brother. Aside from chasing after her irritating young nephews, she thinks the biggest challenge she'll face is learning to cook a proper soufflé. But a bizarre encounter on a train quickly draws her into a more complicated and dangerous future than she bargained for....

Lila Angeletti fought hard to get away from her family and build her own life. After years of not letting anyone get too close, she falls for a man only to have him break things off with no explanation. Then she finds out she's carrying his baby. Determined to give her child the life she never had, she tracks down the father to tell him, but if he wants nothing to do with them, she'll raise this baby alone.

Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love, and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again. But now she's being stalked, and a man she's been attracted to for years is offering her not only his protection but a chance at happiness as well. The only problem is he's a patient, which makes him off-limits.

Suspicion. Lies. Murder. Barbara Hollis didn't expect to encounter any of these in small town life. With a murky past to hide from, moving to quiet little Cobbsville was supposed to be a perfect escape. But a neighbor who has her own dangerous secret to conceal soon becomes as big a threat as the crazed lunatic who is setting fire to houses around town . . . Even as a terrible new doubt surfaces against her brother, Barbara is intrigued by an attractive new acquaintance who happens to be the local mayor. But will one more distraction prove welcome . . . or deadly?

It is said that the Neverseen King comes for a bride every hundred years. I thought it was only legend—until he came for me. I am one of twelve assassins forced to compete for the hand of our unseen king, who I'm beginning to doubt is even human at all. Why he needs a bride, much less one who wields a blade isn't any of my business. All I'm trying to do is get out of here with my life and my heart intact. I don't want to care about the mysteries I begin uncovering about the king, about why he never shows his face, about his palace that turns into a nightmare after dusk.

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Once upon a time, Skye Xenos had a friend. He didn't know it, but he was the only reason she could survive the hell that was her home. Then he left, breaking a piece of her that could never be repaired. Now, over a decade later, he's back, and bad things start happening to her. A coincidence, or did he really return to destroy the remaining pieces of her heart?

Tap into the wisdom of the body with down-to-earth practices like “Surrendering to the Breath” and “Befriending Feelings” that allow the body to become the source of mindfulness. Willa Blythe Baker introduces meditation practice as the cultivation of a way of being, rather than a way of doing. It is a way of being that is self-aware, self-compassionate, and embodied. This way of being is not limited to practice on the cushion or on the yoga mat—somatic mindfulness is available at any moment, activated by attention to the body’s wisdom and its teachings.

As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature. With its sense of hope and purpose, rewilding is breathing new life into the conservation movement and enabling a growing number of people to enjoy thrilling wildlife experiences previously accessible only in remote wilderness reserves.

Sixteen-year-old Song Liena is just one of the many peasants in the empire until the discovery of her unexpected magic upends her world. She's ripped from her family and forced to join the hundreds of elite magic-wielders fighting to graduate from the empires rigorous Academy with their lives and honor intact.

Phoebe Lynch doesn't want to be her boyfriend's punching bag any longer, so she runs to the other side of the country to get away from him. Lying to her family about why she's really there, all she wants to do is find the woman she used to be before she got beaten down and lost all her self-esteem. What she doesn't want is to fall for another alpha male. Especially one who could crush her battered heart.

Julia Garamond is a reporter who won't let go once she catches a hint of a story, and this one is personal to her. When she crosses paths with one of Prey Security's teams, she knows together they can take down the powerful Mikhailov Bratva, who she believes is involved in a plot to overthrow the government. The last thing she expected was to meet a man who stirred up new feelings. Feelings she won't run from no matter how much he wants her to.

In Hillbilly Hollow, even the dead want the last word...When an eccentric local artist meets an untimely end during the annual Flower Festival, Emma gets pulled into two cases at once. First, the murder investigation. Second, the hunt for a dangerous burglar who has the whole town on edge. After all-brawn-and-no-brains Sheriff Tucker declares the death an accident, Emma's search for the killer hits a dead end... until a vengeful ghost comes calling. Can Emma decipher the mad ramblings of the disgruntled spirit?

If you have a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), your journey together through the teenage years to adulthood may be complicated—not to mention confusing, rewarding, and financially challenging. This book offers scientifically validated guidance to help you raise your tween, teen, or young adult on the autism spectrum. It contains supportive advice for finding good medical and psychiatric care, helping your teen learn executive functioning and social skills to navigate middle and high school, and talking to your teen about sexual development and sexual activity.

A Criminal and an Irishman is the story of Pat Nee's life as an Irish immigrant and Southie son, a Marine, a convicted IRA gun smuggler, and a former violent rival and then associate of Whitey Bulger. His narrative transports the listener into the criminal underworld, inside planning and preparation for an armored car heist, inside gang wars and revenge killings.

The relationship between early Mormons and the US was marked by anxiety and hostility. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt governments across the globe. Mormons envisioned divine deliverance by way of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American people. For the Saints, these violent images promised a national rebirth that would vouchsafe the protections of the US Constitution and end their oppression.

If you’ve never particularly thought about lemons and limes, you may be astounded by what you’ll learn in Save Your Life with the Phenomenal Lemon (& Lime!). When you put the easy-to-accomplish, easy-to-understand suggestions into practice, you and your loved ones will experience improved health, strengthened immune system, heightened emotional well-being, increased longevity, and pH balance.

Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home is Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe has spent almost half a century observing the slow turn of the agricultural year, the church year, and village life in a series of rich, lyrical rural diaries. Beginning with the arrival of snow on New Year's Day and ending with Christmas carols sung in church, Next to Nature invites us to witness a simple life richly lived.

Ever wonder why mothers and daughters can be so different and even seem to speak different languages? Mended gives you conversation starters to speak life into your relationship with your mother or daughter. Discover powerful words that usher in healing for wounded hearts and rebuild, restore, and reconcile your connection. Set new patterns going forward as you find common ground and put your relationship ahead of your differences, learn what to say when you don't know what to say, and grow closer when you do hard things together.