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'Honour is purchased by the deeds we do.'On the morning of the wedding of Princess Beatrice of the kingdom of Trasimene to the south of the brooding shadow of the Black Mountain, news was brought to the royal court that the feared one-eyed beast had broken free of his imprisonment and was rampaging through the land towards Trasimene. The beast was coming for Princess Beatrice, it was said, to avenge the loss of his right eye and the jewel she had stolen three years ago from the lair of the beasts in the Black Mountain.But not all is as it seems in this fairy tale adventure about friendship and kindness, courage and honour, and the battles won by things other than superior numbers and might.Can one recalcitrant princess save the kingdom of Trasimene from the evil at its gates?

"A fast-paced Sci-Fi novel of adventure, suspense and romance on a post-apocalyptic earth. Trapped in a web of deceit and danger, two young women make dangerous alliances with the local Militia."The end of the world had come and gone. Those who remained after the apocalypse did whatever it took to keep themselves alive, and to preserve what civilization survived. Sometimes they broke laws and defied the will of the draconian government agencies who were supposed to keep anarchy at bay.Lacey Delaney, head of Laughing Mountain's Portal committee, flouted government edicts by helping Portal Runners smuggle desperately needed goods, services and people to the Forbidden Colonies.Joyce Higgins has a stalker who is terrorizing her and her young sisters. When she and her sisters are accused of being clones by the Parallel Genetic Agency, they take refuge in Laughing Mountain. A Clone isn't considered a human being with rights under the law, but the property of whoever created it. Deputy Mark Connors says he can protect them, but can he?Malachi Sullivan, sub-commander of the free militia, is one of those who hold the line against the tyranny of an overbearing government aided and abetted by powerful industrial giants.Lacey and Malachi had been in love once, but a treacherous woman broke them apart. Now they must put the past behind them and work together to save their town and preserve the secret of the Portal to the Forbidden Colonies.

What if, after many long months of desperately searching for answers one arrives at your door...yet the answers scare the hell out of you and will change your life forever? A dark and dangerous man - Modern day rules and customs don't apply to Noel Posas who has held the title of Dream Master since his youth. He's a man in search of his village's reincarnated healer and will stop at nothing to bring the child back to the Mexican jungle where he is desperately needed. A mother searching for answers - Elise Colby refuses to believe that her son Matthew's recent strange behavior is the result of a psychological disorder, and she's not about to put him on mind-altering medication. Eager to help her son and confident that the dark Indian who came to her door can help them both, Elise acts on instinct and goes with Noel to his luxurious cave-home. A passionate affair that wasn't part of the plan - Elise has no intentions of living life in the jungle; she only wants her son to be cured. Noel's thoughts are solely on honing Matthew's healing powers so his people will continue the old ways he fights so strongly to hold on to. But Elise and Noel share many of the same strengths and vulnerabilities, and soon find sanctuary in each other's arms. A kidnapping that could destroy them all - Someone in the village isn't happy with the arrival of the two outsiders and kidnaps Matthew Colby. The deranged curandero has a double murder planned that will eliminate the people who stand in his way of reigning as supreme healer. Will Noel stop him in time, or will he lose the people he has grown to love and will his village be without a healer once again?

The Legend People of canyon country are protected by the indigenous Tribes, but that protection prevents Nascha from finding out what happened to her missing mother. When another of the Legend People shows up in Nascha's canyon on a quest to beg leniency from the ruling Coyote, Nascha is given the opportunity to get the answers she seeks. On their way to the Coyote's canyon, they get caught in the downdraft from a plane that carries them off course to Illinois. Now they must enlist the help of the pilot to get back to Utah.Pilot Devin Sike mistakes the mysterious woman who follows him at the airport for an Indian Princess. Lost, she asks him to transport her back to Utah-a request he's disinclined to accommodate-until she triggers an echo in his heart, a pinger beacon that synchronizes when she touches him. The more he finds out about her, the more determined he is to come to terms with his own lost heritage.Their journey enlightens them both to a destiny neither expected.

With the Chamber of Eternity secure, Otto must now recover the second piece of the Immortality Engine. But that task will be far from easy. For the second piece, The Heart of Alchemy, lies far to the east in the fabled Celestial Empire. Assassins, undead, monstrous beast, and demon worshippers all stand between Otto and his prize. And even more daunting, Valtan, the last living arcane lord, is determined to stop him. The cost be damned. Can Otto overcome the forces arrayed against him and take the next step down the road to immortality? Find out in The Heart of Alchemy, the sixth book in the Portal Wars Saga.

The Shadow Watchers were introduced in the Crossroads Crisis Center novels. Now they return with their own stories…SHE BROKE THEIR ENGAGEMENTIn Seagrove Village, former Shadow Watcher, Tim, receives a stunning text from his ex-fiancé, Mandy, on their long dormant, secure phone. She is in trouble and needs help. Against the team's objections-Mandy had broken their engagement to marry another man-Tim responds…and discovers NINA, Nihilists in Anarchy, an international terrorist organization the Shadow Watchers have tangled with before, is after Tim's team again. This time, through Mandy.NOW SHE RETURNS RISKING BOTH THEIR LIVESThe breakup had devastated Tim, but what he discovers now forces him to work with Mandy to reveal yet another layer of operatives in the NINA organization. A layer that, for Mandy, strikes terror close to home and makes her The Marked Bride.FEW ARE WHO THEY SEEM. FACTS ARE MERCURIALEven those fighting this formidable enemy with the Shadow Watchers are withholding vital information that endangers the lives of all the Shadow Watchers and leaves Tim and Mandy wondering: Can they reveal the truth and protect the nation's interests and stay alive? Can the team succeed in the fight against the enemy and its own side?THEIR SURVIVAL IS IN DOUBT, THEIR FUTURE UNCERTAINWhen all is done, who will survive? And of the survivors, if Tim and Mandy are among them, will they stand together, or again be robbed of their future and forever forced apart?

Welcome to Down and Dead, Inc., where, to Live, Sometimes Ya Gotta Die.MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS DOESN'T KEEP TROUBLE AWAYDaisy Grant is in a heap of trouble. Minding her own business, walking to her car after leaving work, she stumbles into a mob turf war and now somebody wants her dead. Actually, several somebodies want her dead. She may be small-town to the bone, not at all the type of woman to deal with the Southern Mafia, but being on her own most of her life has taught her how to get creative fast!NATURALLY THEN IS WHEN YOU MEET THE MAN OF YOUR DREAMSThe way-too-attractive restaurant owner, Mark Jensen. He didn't mean to rescue anybody just by offering them a job, and he certainly didn't mean to endanger his business or himself and need go on the run because of a stubborn, sassy woman. But things rarely work out the way we intend, and in survival situations, a man does what a man has to do.THE PROBLEM IS WHO TO TRUST. WHO IS GOOD? WHO IS BAD? HOW DO YOU TELL WHEN THEY ALL SEEM HALF-CRAZY?Soon Daisy and Mark are up to their ears in so many wacky characters with secret agendas it is impossible to know for fact who is after them and who is on their side.HARD TRUTHS ARE INEVITABLEAs events unfold, Daisy and Mark learn many hard-knock lessons about life. The most important one?To live, sometimes ya gotta die. And sometimes dying right takes…practice.

The Shadow Watchers were introduced in the Crossroads Crisis Center novels, now they return with their own stories…PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEMSuperstar Elle Bostwick is kidnapped in London. But who has kidnapped her? NINA, a ruthless, powerful organization of opportunists who will do anything to anyone anywhere to gain access to something Elle has that they want? The CIA, who is equally determined to prevent NINA from gaining that desired access? Why kidnap a superstar singer? Why Elle? And why does she not know what they're after?Elle mysteriously appears at a Shadow Watcher's wedding reception, and Nick Sloan is ordered to keep her safe indefinitely. Yet the Top Secret entity issuing the orders doesn't say safe from what or who is pursuing Elle. Not even why, which is atypical. Why is this happening now?OLD WOUNDS RUN DEEPNick and Elle have a history. Determined to never need or want or love anyone because of his horror show of a family, Nick left her without even saying good-bye. He didn't know Elle had been walking wounded, too.Now she's burst back into his life-with baggage that could get him and the other Shadow Watchers killed. Who is on their side? Who is the real enemy? What does that enemy really want? And most importantly, will they find out before they end up dead?CAN LOVE HEAL THEM? IS IT ENOUGH?Nick willingly risks his life for Elle, does does he dare to risk his heart? Does Elle dare? Both have little reason to trust…except for the hope of love they find in each other. Can love heal such deep wounds? Spare the lives and the hearts of Nick and The Marked Star?

Welcome to Down and Dead, Inc., where, to Live, Sometimes Ya Gotta Die.MAKING THE BREAK IS EASIER THAN KEEPING THE BREAK Christine Branch is elated. Finally her sister, Caroline Branch Easton, has made the break from her abusive ex, Martin Easton, and returned to Dallas to Christine's ranchette to heal. Only Martin refuses to let her go. Within twenty-four hours, his thugs are doing everything they can to intimidate Caroline into returning home. Christine knows she must do something to get her sister the time and space she needs to heal and stay safe-and she concocts a plan:OPERATION SWITCH AND BAITThe sisters trade lives and Christine baits the thugs into following her. It works! Caroline undergoes counseling, eventually divorces Martin, though he refuses to accept it, and the operation continues…until Martin shows up at the ranchette and issues a return-home ultimatum. But Caroline isn't the woman she had been under his constant barrage of abuse. Not anymore. And she has had enough. Caroline ends the operation, resumes her identity and disappears.Christine continues with the switch, hoping the confusion of two Carolines will assist her sister in making a clean getaway. On Christmas, Caroline calls Christine. A chef from Dallas is assisting her. She's in Even, Georgia, but within the hour, she is leaving for a place called Sampson Park. She can't say more about it now, but will call again as soon as she's settled.THE LONG WAIT BEGINS... AND CONTINUES…But Caroline doesn't call. Three months later, Christine remains unable to find out anything on the mysterious Sampson Park, or to pick up a single trace of her sister. Caroline has vanished. Panic has set in, and drastic measures are required. All that's left to try in finding out what happened to Caroline is the one thing Christine fears most: Christine must risk leading Martin to Even…and pray hard doing so doesn't get them both killed.Has Caroline escaped, or is she underground, Down and Dead in Dallas?

Everyone wants to be normal. After a boating accident in the summer, nothing will ever be normal for Gemini again. Pulled under by a rogue wave, Gemini drowned. Beneath the surf she transformed into something...other...but she can't remember what. Since her resurrection she's been haunted by the lure of the sea. The pills her mother forces her to take do nothing to keep the mystical world at bay. No one believes her; not her family or friends. In self-defence against the mocking high school crowd, Gemini dresses as an EMO. If she can't be normal then no one needs to be close to her. A heartthrob of a boy with powers she's afraid of says he's her protector, while the new boy in school, the Captain of the Hockey team, simply wants to be her boyfriend. She's not sure who to trust and things become complicated when her parents are kidnapped. Outside of trying to pass math, Gemini must learn how to embrace the pain of transformation and return to the sea. All this while trying to learn exactly who and what she is. The power of the sea can't be denied.

Duty - a word most women understand. Honor - a word men strive to attain. What happens when a woman, expected to embody the word duty, desires more than the life she was pre-ordained? She falls from grace.Isabella, known as Izzy to her fellow angels, dares to step out of her destined role and take up arms in a heavenly war. As punishment she is stripped of her wings and banished to the Earth plane. Worse, the sisters who joined her mantra of freewill fall to Earth with her. Tasked with surviving in a realm filled with sin, Izzy becomes the leader of this unlikely, untrained group of six. Together they form a band where they literally learn to harness their heavenly voices and sing for their supper. Nathanael was born a warrior angel but the only way he can fully get his halo is to marry. But fate is playing games and his pre-ordained wife has become The Forsaken. Determined to change things, Nate risks it all and falls to the Earthly realm only to end up in serious trouble - and getting his hide saved by the most beautiful and unconventional angel he has ever laid eyes on. Sparks fly when Nate and Izzy realize they have been set on the path of self-discovery together. But destiny is a passionate thrum Izzy has learned to ignore. Nate quickly discovers honor is useless without the woman he loves by his side and he's willing to sacrifice it all to prove it. Izzy knows all about heavenly sacrifices. She will not abandon her sisters to the Earthly realm and would rather battle demons than admit she has feeling for her soul-mate. Her pride might be the greatest threat to them all.

The sweet innocent lips of a Highland lass awaken something fierce within Cael's damned heart and the discovery she's part Tuatha, a human-fairy hybrid, unlocks something even more potent in her blood. One kiss sends Tara's normal life in rural Cape Breton out the window. Damned by his queen, Cael knows he's also cursed by the Fates who have unwittingly tossed an innocent into his skillful hands. Worse, the secret Tara's withholding from him is a matter of life and death for both his homeland, Tir Nan Og and Earth. Sadly. He was fairy cursed…damned to the eternal plane of Earth, looking to end his life for good, until he heard the sweet song of a teenager, who spoke directly to his heart. Now the forbidden never looked so good. Fall in love with the Highlands of Cape Breton and discover the power of true love.