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Kennan McClain approaches his childhood sweetheart’s father with the idea of marriage, and is told he must get to know her first. When Gillian convinces her father to allow them to marry later that day, he quickly realizes that they don’t know each other as well as he thought. Will they be able to get to know one another quickly enough for a marriage to work? Or will his responsibilities as laird keep them apart?

Mika Walters is a normal woman working in the not-so-normal world of New York fashion. As longtime assistant to uber-sexy photographer Alejandro Vega, she's tired of being the girl in the background. Just once she wants Alejandro to look at her with the same smoldering look he gives to his willowy models and now she has her chance. Stranded. After a travel mishap where the rest of the crew and the models can't make the remote island location shoot for another three days, Mika is taking her moment to catch Alejandro's eye and put herself in front of his camera.

There is no magic pill to achieve the perfect relationship. All relationships take work, dedication, and commitment. By exploring the different cases presented here, maybe you can learn tips and strategies to improve the many different aspects of your relationships.

Sendung vom: 26 April 2014 auf GreatSounds.FM / Interview mit Simon Phoenix.

After Phoenix discovers that all of her friends are either engaged or already married, she’s convinced that love is in the air for everyone except her. Cupid’s bow and arrow skip over Phoenix by happenstance as she struggles to accept her chances of walking down the aisle next to the love of her life are officially screwed, no thanks to her best friend Xay and ex-boyfriend Asher, who is keeping a few secrets of his own.

Only on the bedrock of consent, does an erotic journey establish its trajectory for an adventure of discovering an unquantifiable, and as yet unknown, treasure. A treasure locked away, hidden beneath societal norms and customs. Only those who choose a willingness to endeavor beyond the mediocrity of cultural conditioning, are those deserving of the treasure. A perseverance and determination to navigate the ship of relating through the currents of consent are presumed as absolute. And only those wholly dedicated to this exploration will find the treasure.

Ashley Rice is broken. After being rescued from the clutches of a crazed shifter who kept her drugged and malleable for four years, she is recovering with the help of her family and a psychologist. Evan Harmon is the private investigator who rescued her. At the moment of escape, he knew she was his mate. Fighting his own instinctual need to take his Fated mate, he keeps that detail to himself to allow her time to heal.

As a young man is thrust into a journey of spiritual awakening, he is met with the inner demons that have tormented him since childhood. Wandering through the dark fantasies of his inner life, he's met with a life-changing decision in his outer life that will forever alter his direction. As he reaches the core of his darkness, he is met with the emotionally shattering reality of a childhood trauma that has haunted him his entire life.

The audiobook is a story about two brothers, Kelvin “Kels” Johnson, Jr., and Malik “Lil Ghadi” Johnson. Each of them had eager desires to follow in their father’s legacy for success and power. They wanted to finish the goal their father, Kelvin “Ghadi” Johnson, Sr., started before his incarceration, as well as try to achieve the goal of getting out of the game without getting scarred like their father did. Kelvin “Ghadi” Johnson, Sr.’s name ran throughout the streets of the Eastson Neighborhood, but not even his name could stop what his sons were about to face.

Alisha and Diana are young sisters living at Jane and Finch, a Toronto suburb full of immigrants trying to build new lives in North America. Diana, the eldest, is the light of the little family, the one Alisha longs to emulate more than anyone else. But when Diana doesn’t come home one night and her body is discovered in the woods, Alisha becomes haunted. She thinks she knows who did it but can’t tell anyone about it.

This amazing, easy-to-follow, effective guide is a book like no other. Imagine easily turning your man into a romantic! Imagine having a partner who is there for you, no matter what, and waking up every day to the certainty and security of knowing your man not only loves you with all his heart, but lives for showing you that in a million ways for the rest of your lives. Take this incredible opportunity to make your relationship what you dreamed it could be. You deserve to be happy. Listen to the book, live the results.

With the weight of the world and a failed marriage, Danielle has a drunken night drowning her sorrows. Heartbroken, devastated, and loaded with debt, Danielle has to pick up the pieces of her life. Assuming things couldn’t get any worse, she was dealt the deadliest blow of all. To stay above water with the countless credit card bills, foreclosed home, and repossessed cars, Danielle is forced to take on a part-time job. Chance meetings, a knight without the armor, and apparent foes within her circle will make themselves visible. Can she allow love to live within her ever again?

Secrets once buried with the dead are revealed. And even Ela doesn't see them coming. Talon now holds Ela's heart, even though she still mourns for Luka. His death taught her one thing. She needs to prepare for the coming war. She needs to learn how to harness her powers before the world is brought to its knees. With her parents in prison for treason, the threat of danger is a constant companion. Any moment, she could be seen as the enemy.

Talon has shown up in her life, telling her she's not crazy and that she shouldn't be afraid of her gift. That's easy for him to say. He's not the one seeing everyone die. But when he takes her to Mortals Landing, a city of extravagance and beauty unlike anything she's seen before, she's seen not as a freak but as a valuable asset. She's in a whole new world with entirely new dangers. Someone is after the Wraiths, stealing their magic. She knows that Talon will be targeted next. She knows this. But she fears she won't be of any use.

How to Understand and Live with Social Anxiety emphasizes the idea that social anxiety is not a disorder, not something that needs to be fixed, but a developed conditioning of the mind to think and believe in negative realities. The audiobook, through a step-by-step process, helps listeners slowly understand their mental illness within the distinctiveness of their own context and gives them the tools to rewire their thought processes.

Anya and her sister, Dawn, grew up with their parents teaching them how to use magic. Unbeknownst to her sister, Anya is a nephadin, the offspring of an angel and a demon. Anya, being the more powerful of the two, is envied and secretly hated by Dawn. In young adulthood, their rivalry comes to a head when they both fall in love with Seth, the prince. Anya’s accident in the woods brings the prince right to their door and into their hearts.

The Black Sapphire was a concept that Ruth toyed with for a few years. She studied dialect to help enhance one of the main characters, "Mattie." In the story, an unsolved crime shows its ugly face when Detective Adam Reynoir starts investigating. Mattie, the home's housekeeper, and her son, Jarell, decide that they are going to continue staying in the home, even after the dismembering murders have been cleaned up. As the story unfolds, Mattie takes Detective Reynoir on a tour of the home, trying to get him to understand in her way that the murders were no accident.

Augee: Guardian of Hohala tells the story of the Hohalians - a nonviolent people who live in abundance in a remote, idyllic country. Across the ocean from Hohala, the Volcarons live in destitution. Led by a psychotic genius named Morgoratt, the Volcarons embark on a voyage to conquer Hohala. When the peace-loving king of Hohala orders his citizens to go into exile to avoid bloodshed, a young rebel, Nicholas Stone, abandons his people - and his love interest, the Hohalian princess - to travel into the wilderness in search of a miracle, guided by what he believes is the mysterious hand of the gods. He discovers a peculiar, fire-breathing infant creature....

It's wartime New York, 1943. Jessica Minton, an up-and-coming young stage actress, is pondering the mixed blessings of rehearsals for a play that just doesn't seem to be jelling, the attentions of a reliable beau she isn't quite sure she wants to marry, and playing referee for her sister and brother-in-law's tempestuous marriage. Just as she thinks her life couldn't get any crazier, she becomes entangled with deceit, espionage, and murder when an unsettlingly attractive stranger makes her the unwilling custodian of a mysterious package in a Manhattan stalked by fifth columnists.

The daughter of the Sentinels pack and MC alpha, Cameo Cruz moved across country to escape her pack - and the wolf she can never have. Making a new life, she embraced her freedom and went to school. One night partying with her best friend shatters her bubble of safety, and she’s forced to do the one thing she swore she never would: ask for help.