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Told from two lively first-person perspectives, Ego Free Leadership brings listeners along for Encore's incredible success story. They'll see a CEO overcome his unconscious resistance to modeling the change he wants in his team and discover a time-tested road map for eliminating the destructive effects of the ego in teams and organizations.

When the vampires conquered the world, humanity became cattle. Bailey Graves survived by keeping her head down until a chance encounter with Alaric Vexmoor shattered her oppressed world. Alaric isn’t just a vampire. He’s the Black-Eyed King born, not made, feared even among his own. Cold, ancient, merciless… and for the first time in centuries, he wants a consort. From the moment he marked Bailey, she stopped being prey and became fire. Bound to him by blood and desire, Bailey is pulled into a world of brutal politics and immortal power. Alaric demands everything, her loyalty, her ...

When Leah travels to Vegas for her best friend's bachelorette trip, she vows to leave her financial worries behind for a carefree weekend with her girls. However, that same stress from home pushes her to boldly walk up and kiss a sexy, smooth, millionaire named Brees whom she didn't know. That one kiss set off a chain of events that put her and her friends in rooms they could never have imagined. Will everything that happens in Vegas simply be a memory, or will the consequences of everyone's actions follow them home? One Chill Millionaire.

I'm Clint Holmes. I was an ambitious guy with a busy life and a growing business. Sure, North Dakota wasn't a tropical paradise, but I was happy enough - until tragedy struck. Now the only thing that matters is finding the person responsible and making her pay. But Bethany Banks is a Harvard-educated shark used to swallowing her enemies whole while playing dangerous corporate games. How can a blue-collar oil man like me possibly beat her? The moment I lay eyes on my beautiful nemesis, the answer is obvious. I seduce her.

I waited until marriage. But now I need to know what to do on my wedding night. And who better to teach me than my priest? In order to please my husband, I'm going to turn to the one man I trust above all else: the priest I've known my whole life. He'll teach me all the moves I need to make sure I'm a good little wife, willing and eager to please! Adults only!This is a highly charged erotic SHORT! With special bonus stories! Includes language, situations, and content that some readers might find objectionable. Read at your own risk! It gets rough in there! Trigger warning.

I've lived in the shadows. Now I have the chance to escape from them and start over. My cousin and best friend sent me to Alaska to get away from my family. A fresh start. I should have known my past wouldn't let me go that easily. As I fight to overcome it, deadly secrets are revealed. I may not survive. Can I manage to be happy? Three infuriating men seem to think I can, even though I've rejected them. Will the shadows finally consume me?

When Nick goes to avenge Chill, things don't go as planned and he ends up laying helpless on the floor praying he gets a second chance at life. Dixon is still having a hard time collecting Keys’s money but with the help of Snoop she just may be on the brink of a breakthrough. Tasha and Krystal are both trying to figure out life without Nick, only they both end up with him back in their lives one way or the other. Who will walk away from Chill and Tish’s wedding weekend into their own happily ever after and who will feel the wrath of all the drama they caused? Still On Chill With A ...

Created by Blake Edwards (of Pink Panther fame), Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC radio in 1949 starring film actor and crooner Dick Powell. Powell had recently played Philip Marlowe in the popular RKO film Murder, My Sweet and jumped at the chance to play a suave detective on radio. Richard Diamond was a light-hearted New York-based private eye who enjoyed ribbing the cops and singing songs to his millionairess girlfriend, Helen Asher (played by Virginia Gregg). It’s theme, “Leave it to Love,” was whistled by Powell at the top of each episode.

In the New Republic, every woman must marry five men. It’s the law. Welcome to the apocalypse. Includes Theirs to Protect, Theirs to Pleasure, and Theirs to Wed.

Poisonous girls whose kisses will kill. A fateful eating contest with the devil. Faeries who return to Ironside, searching for love. A junior prom turned bacchanalia. In twelve short stories, eerie and brimming with suspense and unexpected humor, Holly Black twists the fantastical creatures you thought you knew in ways you’ll never expect.

One botched heist. A city on the edge. And an outlaw who dares to outrun his sins. After a heist at Meiggs Wharf goes terribly wrong, Brick Driggers and the rest of the outlaws in the Black Bone Outfit scatter, each man desperate to outrun the ghosts of their criminal past. Brick rides north to the rugged frontier town of Canyon City, Oregon, where he builds a new life – from outlaw to beloved preacher, husband and father. He slips into his new identity with ease – until his past comes knocking. When the old gang resurfaces, demanding one last job, Brick is torn between the man he was ...

One night changed everything.... Daphne’s a beauty who doesn’t know it. A wallflower blossoming into the belle of the ball. A beautiful lie. My lifelong obsession. Her father stole from me and now I’ll have my revenge. I’ll steal her away, take her to my castle. Lock her in my tower. Make her a captive to her passions. She’ll crave the one who keeps her. She’ll crave me. I’m the masked phantom in the shadows. The Minotaur in the labyrinth. The danger her father warned her about. More monster than man. She’s Beauty, and I’m the Beast.

Dray Sinclair will inherit the world one day. The devil in Prada has no use for masks—not at Bluestone Academy. I should be among them, the Snakes, the future kings and queens of this world. But I am ostracised, a deadblood— And I pay the price for that everyday. I have one goal I cling to: Finish my senior year... I just need to avoid Dray Sinclair at all costs to do it. At Bluestone, Dray Sinclair sheds that mask moulded for high society, drops his disarming smiles, and when I stare into his eyes through the tears of my own, I see the depths of his darkness. I see the emptiness ...

Johnny Dollar was America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator! Enjoy sixteen of his greatest cases from radio’s Golden Age!

The shocking and affecting memoir from a gold-star widow searching for the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death, this book bears witness to the true sacrifices made by military families. When Green Beret Bryan Black was killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, his wife Michelle saw her...

The detective character, Sam Spade, was created by Dashiell Hammett for his crime novel The Maltese Falcon. Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. The character is most closely associated with Humphrey Bogart who played Sam Spade in the third and most famous film version of The Maltese Falcon. In 1946, one of radio’s top producers (William Spier) brought “Sam Spade” to CBS radio starring newcomer Howard Duff with Lurene Tuttle.

A reckless warrior, Kieran Broderick was half-Irish, yet bound to fight for the English crown. So when King Henry decreed that he take an Irish wife to quell rebellion there, he had little choice. Newly dubbed the earl of Kildare, Kieran travels to Langmore Castle, seat of the lawless O'Shea family, to choose a bride. When he picks Maeve, a fetching lass who seems sweetly submissive, he soon learns she's a fiery, clever woman. When she refuses to allow him into her bed or her heart, he finds himself fighting the most daunting battle of his life.

As members of the transgender community fall victim to a sequence of brutal murders, FBI Agent Maya Gray steps into the shadows where identity and death intertwine. Plunged into the heart of a community where trust is as fragile as life itself, Maya must piece together the killer's cryptic message before another soul is silenced in their journey towards truth.

Tragedy and heartache seem to be waiting for Drew Carter at every turn, but college offers Drew a chance to start over - until an accident during a physics experiment leaves him blind and his genius friend, Benjamin Berg, missing. As his sight miraculously returns, Drew discovers that the accident has heightened his neuron activity, giving him skills and sight beyond the normal man. When he begins to observe fierce invaders that no one else can see, he questions his own sanity, and so do others.

Don't all women wish men came with a warning label or a caution sign? That would be ideal and save a lot of heartache and pain. Meet Anika, Mia, and Legacy, three friends going through the trials and tribulations of love and heartache. Young and deep in love, they can't seem to let go of the men they've fallen madly in love with. When Anika is forced to face the truth she was so determined to find, her world comes crumbling down, and she has to decide whether to love herself first or stay in a relationship that could destroy her.