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Everly Elarion never asked to be chosen. A bastard with a dangerous lineage, she's spent her life surviving in the shadows of powerful men. Now, she's being forced to marry one. Draven Ashwynter, the Frostgrave King, rules the Winter Court with an iron will and a heart carved from ice. Just when the kingdom teeters on the edge of ruin, the Court's Visionary comes forth with a solution: the king's fated mate has been found. He's meant to receive a match to his power. An equal. Instead, he gets Everly. She's illegitimate, defiant, and the last woman who would ever kneel to a king.

In Confessions of a Surgeon: A Deeper Cut, Dr. Ruggieri blows the operating room doors right off their hinges. It cuts deeper into a profession, even more mysterious then ever before. He candidly shares his thoughts on the patients that have impacted his life the most.

Elliot needs a Daddy, even if he doesn't know it yet.Is his old high school teacher the right man for the job?Or will their twenty-year age gap end the relationship before it can even begin? Finding his way in life all on his own hasn't been easy for eighteen-year-old Elliot Hedrick, but he's managed to hold it all together—even if it's just by the skin of his teeth. Between his warehouse job and pursuing a career as a professional ballet dancer, he’s been working sixteen-hour days and is still barely making ends meet. He's fraying at the seams—and he's so damn lonely.Thirty-eight-...

Heal Your Nervous System and Restore Inner Calm Are you tired of waking up feeling exhausted, trapped in anxiety, or feeling like something in your body is “off”? You’re not alone. Vagus Nerve Reset is a science-backed, four-week program designed to help you restore emotional health, relieve chronic stress, and rewire your nervous system using natural and effective techniques. When your vagus nerve is underactive, your body remains in survival mode. This can lead to poor sleep, slow digestion, increased anxiety, and lingering inflammation. This book teaches you how to calm your ...

Viscount Saye, eldest cousin of Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley, is startled one wintry day by the news that his beloved, Lillian Goddard, is to become engaged to another. Unwilling to lose her, he quickly plans a party at his ancestral estate to woo her away from her suitor. Twenty ladies and gentlemen respond to his invitation, eager for a fortnight of revelry in Saye’s inimitable style.

Amid conflicting narratives about the drivers of wealth and inequality in the United States, one constant hovers in the background: the US tax code. No political force has been more consequential—or more utterly opaque—than the 7,000-page document that details who pays what in American society and government. Most of us have a sense that it’s an unfair system. But does anyone know exactly how it’s unfair?

Ella-Loo and her boyfriend, Darryl, had been separated while Darryl was a guest of the state of Oklahoma, and now that his sentence has been served they don't ever intend to part again. Ella-Loo's got dreams. And Darryl believes there are better ways to achieve your dreams than working for them. So they hit the road, and when their car breaks down in Arkansas, they make plans to take someone else's. Then things get messy and they wind up killing someone - an experience that stokes a fierce, wild desire in Ella-Loo.

Tony Wolf, a troubled man and the FBI’s most esteemed undercover agent, is back after mysteriously vanishing without a trace. A specialist at infiltrating criminal organizations and taking them down from the inside, he lives his life in the shadows. But when he’s forced into the open during the rescue of two kidnapped children, Wolf becomes caught up in a massive federal manhunt. Faced with a traitorous agent and a ruthless, renegade biker gang he has crossed paths with before, Wolf finds himself in danger.

Struggling with the loss of friends and loved ones, the Hotamétaneo’o find themselves drawn back to the deep, mysterious woods of the Ozarks. Dark visions warn them that evil is once more stalking the unwary. Two bodies are found floating in Lake Taneycomo near the small town of Rockaway Beach, both killed under mysterious circumstances. Following their visions, the Hotamétaneo’o fear that these deaths are somehow related to the death of one of their own. They soon discover that the creatures they are facing are like nothing they’ve ever seen before. An evil that is as old as ...

Constance Chatterley seeks to escape from the confines of a loveless marriage and the upper class surroundings that suffocate her. When she meets the gamekeeper of Chatterley mansion, Oliver Mellors, she is mesmerised and infatuated by his no-nonsense demeanour and passionate touch. The two soon forge a profound bond as a result of their sexual compatibility and sociopolitical views.

I only wanted a cup of coffee. Alone. It was a simple request, right? Just stroll into the coffee shop on the corner, grab my usual cup of liquid nitrogen, and walk back out. All while minding my own business. But I had to walk in at that exact moment. Not 10 minutes earlier. Not 10 minutes later. Precisely when Savannah Fields needed someone to help her. When no one except me had the courage to stand up for her. After the incident, she looked at me like I was her hero. But I'm no hero. I don't even know who or what I am anymore. Who is Nick Tucker? A DEA agent? A criminal? Both?

In The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security at Speed, the chief information and information security officer at Wiley, Sean D. Mack, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to keep your business secure. You'll learn how to leverage the classic triad of people, process, and technology to build strong cybersecurity infrastructure and practices. You'll also discover the shared responsibility model at the core of DevSecOps as you explore the principles and best practices that make up contemporary frameworks.

Why do people self-injure? And what is the best way to respond when someone tells us they self-injure? Dr. Nicholas Westers, a clinical psychologist at Children's Health and Associate Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, collaborates with the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (ISSS) to interview the leading experts in the field of self-injury and self-harm as well as individuals with lived experience of self-injury and parents and family members of those who have self-injured. This podcast is meant to be a resource for parents, professionals, and ...

For Detective Sam Porter, the words "Father, forgive me" conjure memories long forgotten; a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades. Found written on cardboard near each body, these words link multiple victims to a single killer - discovered within minutes of each other in both Chicago and South Carolina - clearly connected yet separated by impossible miles.

Princess Annie is frustratingly (and luckily) resistant to magic. When her sister Gwen pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Annie stays awake. Now it's up to Annie to find a prince to kiss her sister and break the spell. But who is her sister's true love? And what about Annie's own happily-ever-after? Annie travels through a fairy tale land filled with characters both familiar and new in this original adventure from the beloved author of The Tales of the Frog Princess.

Written and read by Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of the bestselling book Permission to Feel, comes an essential guide for regulating how we respond to our emotions in order to transform our lives. Success in virtually every aspect of...

A quiet night turns alarming when hundreds of rats begin marching toward Sebastian's antique shop. Theo, Miku, Sebastian, and Mr. Black must follow the mysterious trail of the rat army to discover who is orchestrating this bizarre invasion. But as the investigation deepens, the friends realize the true target isn't the shop—it's Theo himself. Can this unlikely crew uncover the villain and save their alpaca before it’s too late? Welcome to the world of Theo, Miku, Sebastian, and Mr. Black! This book, the first in an exciting series, is an adventure-fantasy mystery story designed to ...

Build unshakeable confidence with a proven system based on original research. Break free from crippling self-doubt, readjust your mindset, and step into confidence—no matter the situation. As Dr. Cindra Kamphoff knows from working as a top sports and performance psychologist to business...

On the night of March 13, 1997, more than ten thousand people watched the same object cross the Arizona sky. Among them: the governor of Arizona, dozens of commercial pilots, aerospace engineers, air traffic controllers, and thousands of ordinary residents who happened to look up. The object — a massive, silent V-formation spanning an estimated mile to two miles — traveled 327 miles in 106 minutes without producing a sound. The Air Force called it flares. The governor spent ten years pretending he hadn't seen it. Then he told the truth. UFOs don't just appear over military installations...

A Mission Into Hell Venus was never meant to be conquered. Not by machines. Not by science. And certainly not by men. When a classified research outpost on the surface of Venus goes silent without warning, the official report is swift and convenient: catastrophic systems failure. But the final transmission tells a different story. Movement where there should be none. A signal that doesn’t belong. A silence that feels… deliberate. Something didn’t just fail. Something took control. The Most Dangerous Planet in the Solar System Commander Grant Rutherford leads Valkyrie Wing, an elite ...