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Is he pulling away? Did the texting suddenly slow down? Are you staring at your phone wondering what to send — or whether to send anything at all? Take a breath. Hi, I’m Chase. I’ve been on the other side of this dynamic. I used to be the guy who pulled back. I’ve also spent years helping women understand what actually happens inside a man’s head when communication shifts. And here’s the truth most people won’t tell you: The wrong...

A thousand years ago the Darkness came—a terrible time of violence, fear, and social collapse when technology ran rampant.GOLD MEDAL: Feathered Quill Book Award - 2016 - Science Fiction/FantasyWINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Summer 2015 - Best Science FictionWINNER: Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence~~~“But what are we without dreams?”The vicars of the Temple of Light brought peace, ushering in an era of blessed simplicity. For ten centuries they have kept the madness at bay with “temple magic,” and by...

The goal was simple: win the game and don’t get attached—but Alaska had a way of complicating everything.Helene sometimes feels invisible, but with her sister's medical bills piling up, joining a reality survival show in the Alaskan wilderness seems like the only answer. If she wins the prize money, she can help her sister and finally prove to herself and everyone else that she has what it takes.Theo has his own reasons for needing to win. The adventure store he’s...

Incense and Peppermints…Who cares what games we choose? Little to win, but nothin' to lose.Peace demonstrations, sit-ins, burning of the U.S. flag, following the escalation of the Vietnam War are leading to a catalyst known as the Sixties. A music revolution, flower power, hippies, and drugs are carrying - young and old - into a new decade. All the while Mary Monroe is caught between being an innocent good girl and an autumn of riotous parties filled with drugs and...

CIA Agent Dave McClure is going to face the biggest and most deadly challenges of his career. First, in Jerusalem and then in Japan… In this nail-biting thriller, the CIA is struck by several threats at once. First, several abduction attempts are made on US Embassy employees in Jerusalem. CIA Agent Dave McClure is sent to speak with the station chief at the embassy, but he soon finds himself up against a cell of Hezbollah terrorists. Back in the States,...

The second twisting mystery in the acclaimed Slim Hardy Mystery Series from Jack Benton, a series which is fast becoming a classic.A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery.On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor.Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case.As Slim begins to ask questions...

With her housemate Blake away and her lover Chase also absent, Sam Westin embarks on a backpacking trip in the North Cascades, hoping to photograph the elusive gray wolves. Blake, reeling from a recent breakup, has taken a six-week job far away in Evansburg, caring for three gorillas while their owner, Dr. Grace McKenna, is on vacation. But events take a dark turn when the baby gorilla is shot by an intruder, prompting Grace’s lover, Detective Finn, to investigate. Sam’s...

An ambitious young milliner. A shy noblewoman fleeing an arranged marriage. Love is a risk neither can afford.Solange doesn't have time for love. She's too busy working her way up in the Parisian millinery trade. Her goal: to become rich and lift her family out of poverty. So when a beautiful aristo whirls into the millinery fascinated by hat making, Solange isn't interested. Or so she tells herself.Louise-Marie hates the fancy parties she's dragged to at Versailles and never wanted...

Constance Price wants nothing more than to love and be loved most ardently. However, when her father vanishes at sea and she’s forced into a wretched engagement, Constance flees her home in search of Papa, the one man who can turn the tides of fate.Almost as soon as her journey’s begun, an unusual storm capsizes her boat, sailing her unconscious body into the ocean’s depths. When she wakes up, she finds herself imprisoned in an unfamiliar place hundreds of feet...

Sydney Harrett has endured years of working long double-shifts at her step-father's restaurants with one singular goal: Keep her younger sister, Ava, safely at boarding school. As Ava approaches graduation, and Sydney discovers that Tad is selling more than just food and drink at his establishments, the clock is ticking to find a way to continue to keep Ava safe. There's one big problem: She has never been allowed to know which school Ava was sent to.Ward McKinney fosters his...