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The second book in the Acadia Duology, a forbidden friends-to-lovers romance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Archer's Voice. When the world as you know it has ended, when all that you love has been washed away, where do you find strength? Calder and Eden are free from the stifling grasp of Acadia, but the new world they've stepped into is just as isolating. Each convinced the other died in the flood that decimated their community,...

An old cowboy asks Gabe for help with his estranged sons When he was a teenager, Gabe Wager and his friends in the Denver barrio had no greater idol than Vaquero Tommy Sanchez. One of the rare Mexicans to break through into professional rodeo, Sanchez was a hero to every Hispanic boy with dreams of making it in a white man's world. By the time Sanchez's star faded, Wager was away with the Marine Corps, enduring terrors but supported by his memories...

For more than a thousand days, Alice Dempster has visited Ashton Falls' cemetery every evening to maintain the flame in a rusted lantern she has placed at the base of a tombstone. Regardless of the weather or her health, she performs her duty...a duty she believes in with all her heart. One night, after three years of performing her ritual, Alice finds a filthy stranger lying asleep near the headstone...a man who has seemingly appeared out of nowhere....

As it so often was, my choice was obedience, or pain. When they held the whip, or the cane, or the crop, my eyes always focused on the hands. The way the fingers caressed the braided leather of a handle, the way a maroon painted nail would catch the light as the cane sliced through the air, my bound body waiting to be reacquainted with its old friend agony. I knew what they wanted, what they expected. But I never cooperated. They'd never make me...

À PROPOS Tout juste de retour de leur mission d'infiltration dans la prison de Pelican Bay Supermax, au nord de la Californie, l'agent de protection rapprochée Ryan Lock et son associé Ty Johnson se retrouvent à Los Angeles pour assurer la sécurité d'une actrice d'Hollywood. La jeune femme craint en effet les représailles d'un petit ami violent, lui aussi star du grand écran, qui refuse d'accepter la fin de leur relation. Or comme Lock ne...

Luke Patterson is an undercover FBI agent whose cover is blown. Severely injured during his escape, his only hope of living lies in the hands of his dead partner's daughter. He had to live. The Mole was active again and eleven FBI agents lost their lives because of it. Luke feared he would be number twelve. Cory Sims was shocked when she was roughly, pulled into the arms of the man she knew as her father's partner. The amount of blood covering him...

Jan is remembered by her first words she wrote: May 12, 1941 Dear Diary My Diary, I will call you my Diary. You will be my Friend. You can talk to me. I can talk to you. We can be best friends. Diary Mother hit me one day. She hit me badly. I cried all night. Mother hit me hard. Father hit my mother today. He hits her every day. If mother keeps being bad, she will get hit. Mother cries every day. See you tomorrow diary. The...

Una novela adulta, intimista. De amor y de dolor. Dos hermanas, Trixa y Lola, descubren de niñas una pequeña playa de mar, casi oculta y donde por ley impera el silencio. Allí, año tras año, intervendrán con su imaginación para crearles historias de vida a los escasos concurrentes. Con el tiempo, sólo Trixa continuará con ese hábito casi obsesivo que parece resguardarla de la realidad a la que tanto teme, y también de un pasado que misteriosamente...

Mark left Freya stranded many years ago, when they were a young couple. Freya, now a well-known choreographer lives in New-York. She loves her life the way it is! Mark wants her back but will his dark history threaten their relationship again? Will they make it out together? Will love win this time around?