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Lost Hollow constable Graham Gordon just walked into his abandoned childhood home for the first time in 20 years. Local teenagers have been spreading rumors about disembodied screams coming from inside. Now, thanks to a rickety set of cellar stairs and the hateful spirit of his dead father, he might never escape.

Astra Evans is a curvy, delicious firebrand who thinks that the only good shifter is a dead shifter. With two exceptions, of course. And Kane Ortiz is not one of those exceptions. Kane's a mountain-sized grizzly bear shifter who wants one thing. To avoid a group of shifters hunting him down. Except he's got a problem. Astra. That damned sexy hottie with the curves that don't end. Good luck, Kane. You're gonna need it.

Who wants to be immortal in a land where death feels like the only true escape? Étienne Arceneaux. Ancestor of Lézare. Released from the bonds of slavery by death. Only this was not the death any man would have wanted. The only remedy to avoiding that death was the last one he would have wanted. Except Étienne wasn’t given a choice. The high witch of Black Glade Coven, Latrice Mathieu knew that he would play an important role in the future of the New Orleans supernatural society. She never knew how much. See a side of Leandra Mathieu’s grandmother Latrice you couldn’t have imagined...

Meri’s a forensic pathologist with a spectacular arrangement with Notre Dame University—practically unlimited access to funds and a paid position to perform her dream research. The price she has to pay for this arrangement? Notre Dame occasionally loans out her highly specialized skills. Other than pose an occasional disruption to her research schedule, this arrangement works well. She’s got no problem with sinking herself into her work, especially now that philandering Josh Monroe is out of the picture. Deathbending bear shifter Dunnigan Youngblood’s got a hell of a problem. He’s...

Walk away if sexiness is offensive. This isn't the read for you. Josh isn't a redneck. More like a roughneck, except he doesn't work in the oilfields. He works in the Gulf of Mexico. He shrimps for a living. That's what his father did, so that's what he should do, right? Except it isn't what he wants. What he wants is Cassandra Ransom. He can't have her. Girls like her don't date guys like him. He's trash. That's what her mother always used to say to Cassie Ransom about Josh Tamez. That was before the painful breakup. And then Josh walks back into her life. More like he entrenches himself ...

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is perhaps the most famous ghost story of all. For nearly 200 years, this tale has singlehandedly extended the haunting season from autumn through winter, and ghost lovers everywhere are happy about that. Traditionally, A Christmas Carol is told and retold each year in every form from plays to movies and TV shows. But, originally, the tale was read aloud as folks sat by the hearth, drinking mulled cider or hot cocoa as they warmed their hands at the fireplace. Many of us first heard the tale as children.

Here is a meeting with George and Marion Kerby, a couple of free-wheeling ghosts, who meet up with respectable banker Cosmo Topper. This was noted by the New York Times, claiming: “Thorne Smith created the modern American ghost story, ghosts with style and wit; ghosts that haunt us still.” Others pointed out, “Smith was a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee.” The overall mood has a touch of silliness, but it provides lighthearted reading and listening, a matter of nonsensical escapism. For Topper it meant relief from a nagging wife with ongoing indigestion.

In this Longer Living and Longevity book learn about natural life expectancy hacks and lifespan tips to reverse aging, outlive everyone, and live to be over 100 years old. This book studies the cultures with the most people with and age over 100 to learn what to eat, what exercises to do and how to develop the brain health, mental health, and emotional wellbeing needed to live into an old age.

RocketShip is a sci-fi adventure featuring a little red rocket ship called Red. Red, along with his best friends Rex and Holli, travel the universe in search of people to save and help. Together, the team known as the "Rocket Rangers" journey into many adventures, and Red learns what it is to be a true hero and a friend.

The Blue Rose is a magazine dedicated to the television show Twin Peaks created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. A perfect read for fans of David Lynch, Twin Peaks and television. Issue 10 contents include: 1. Los Angeles filming locations for Twin Peaks. Yes, much of the series appears to be filmed in Snoqualmie, Washington, but it reality it was filmed in Hollywood. Tour location expert, Melanie Mullen, gives you all the locations from the Gazebo to The Black Lodge. This will be a great map for when you visit Hollywood, forget the stars home's, go visit Twin Peaks' filming locations. 2. ...

Witches and warlocks abide in Birmingham, Alabama, in three ancient Houses—Rose, Iron, and Stone. They arrived over a century ago to draw their powers from the abundant ores beneath Red Mountain. Rose Brighton, a Birmingham police detective, is the last witch of House of Rose. A terrifying encounter with House of Iron has mentally crippled her best friend. Rose battles to control her own abilities and the supernatural attraction that pulls her to a mysterious, handsome warlock.

When the world as she knows it comes crashing down around her, Erika Lily follows the plan her boyfriend Staff Sergeant Jason “Ransom” McIlwain had prepared for her. Caught off guard with him on a mission, Erika does what she can to secure her two dogs and family of friends. But with large gaps of her memory gone and manifesting strange powers, Erika does not know what happened to her or her friends, but she suspects it has something to do with the magic circle her group cast and their leader’s diabolical new wife, Jewel.

A hard-hitting book detailing the morals of humanity and what we can establish as our best moral principles to date. Leaving no stone unturned, this thought-dive into our conscious morals is sure to leave you thinking. With a positive goal in mind, this book has some difficult conversations and paves the way for future communication and greater well-being.

It's a Shifter Council Meeting. This one's being held at After Dark. The city's teeming with shifters. They're supposed to be cordial, but tensions run high when territorial disputes arise. Curvy tigress Veila has no business falling for Mark Martinez, the alpha of another tribe - a tribe the Tieros have had scuffles with that have lasted several centuries.

Shifter Cy's sister is missing. He shouldn't be crossing into Tiero territory to look for her. He should follow proper channels and notify the Tiero tribe. But he can't. He doesn't have the time to wait around for niceties and permissions. Until he's caught. Damn the luck. It doesn't help that one of his captors is a beautiful curvy tigress named Lila. He needs to escape to find his sister, but he hates the thought of leaving the stunning, bootylicious tigress behind.

Written expressly for solopreneurs and self-employed consultants, Dr. Heidi Thorne discusses key behaviors and attitudes that can lead to small business failures in one-person operations.

Shifter Vax Tiero runs After Dark - a nightclub that doubles as a haven for shifters. Man, did he screw up, falling for the curvy graduate student Callie Rivera. That's a no-no because of the Tiero Council Code. One of the tigresses is furious. This puts Callie in grave danger. Now Vax has two problems. Keeping Callie alive and keeping that he's a shifter secret from her. Wait. two?!? Make that three problems because his half-brother, an equally sexy shifter named Rafe is in from Europe for a visit. And he's got his eye on Callie.

Joe's got a problem. There's a curvy bear shifter trespassing in Bear Canyon Valley. And he's been charged with taking care of the matter. Looks like he's got two problems, because he didn't count on wanting her. She's a curvy bear shifter that wants to be left alone. Tell that to Joe.

Sexy bear shifter Tanner Navarro has an invitation to the wedding, he's got an invitation to Bear Canyon Valley, but he doesn't have an invitation to sexy, curvy Marti's heart--or bed. Marti's secrets are life or death. Tanner and his bear know they're up to the job. Now they have to convince Marti.

Meet Diggum, the local graveyard caretaker who lives in a small cottage at the edge of the lot. Diggum has spent most of his life angry with god, whom he blames for the devastating house fire that cost Diggum his family. But Diggum has a secret. It is a secret he will carry to his own grave. It is a secret that he hopes will finally get him his ultimate revenge on god.