Who knew an arranged marriage could be so complicated?

When FBI Agent Lexi Carrington’s best friend goes missing while working a case, Lexi is willing to marry a stranger to get to the truth. Mixing the high society life, she left behind with her new fake persona could turn out to be a deadly combination no one could have predicted. Drug lords looking for revenge and a thief willing to kill to get what he wants is nothing compared to the meddling mother-in-law that’s living under the same roof.

With lives hanging in the balance and Lexi’s cover crumbling in around her, she is forced to work fast in order to solve this case before she becomes the next one missing.

A war beyond time. An enemy beyond space. A thriller beyond your wildest dreams. Three areas on the Earth’s surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil’s Sea of Japan, and a small region of Cambodia. Inside these realms, planes have disappeared, ships have vanished, and, in Cambodia, an entire civilization has been lost leaving behind Angkor Wat.

In 1945, Training Flight 19 disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.

In 1963, the USS Thresher, a nuclear submarine, is lost under unusual circumstances, part of a secret government investigation into mysterious gates.

Near the end of the Vietnam War, Green Beret Eric Dane led a team of operatives deep into Cambodia and encountered a strange fog near the legendary city of Angkor Kol Ker. His entire team disappears, attacked by strange creatures out of the fog. Only Dane survives to return.

He’s my one weakness, and my last hope. Now my ex-partner from HEAT wants to bring me in from the cold.

Cynthia
Three months ago, I was expelled from the off-the-books spy agency HEAT for insubordination. Among other things. Now I’d do anything to get back in the game. Anything except work with Derek Wilder again.

But when my tall, dark, and diabolical ex-partner offers me a chance to rejoin the agency, turns out I’ll even do that.

Now Derek is hiding something from me. As spies, we’re good at keeping secrets, but I’m going to uncover all of his, because one thing he can’t hide is that he wants me as much as I want him. And two can play this smokin’-hot spy game.

Derek
In my five-year espionage career, Cynthia Kessler was the only mistake I ever made. I should regret it, but I don’t. Now I’m tasked with bringing her back into HEAT for her most important mission yet.

With our careers and our lives on the line, the last thing we can do is pick up where we left off.

Could there be a better Christmas present than a luxury Caribbean cruise?

Dublin socialite Bunny McElroy thinks not and invites her family on one for the holidays. Her husband Richard is not so sure about it, and her son Gavin and his down-to-earth wife Fiona are apprehensive about spending two weeks cooped up with his family. But even they could never imagine the havoc Bunny’s two beautiful daughters, Sarah and Jess, will cause on board.

Meanwhile Tony Kenny, a wealthy Galway businessman, fed up with his wife’s family who descend on them every Christmas, thinks a cruise is the perfect way to escape them. His timid wife Ann is nervous about it all but, as always, Tony gets his way. His children are less than enthusiastic but, as it turns out, their handsome son Jack is pleasantly surprised by the action on board and his shy sister Emily begins to come out of her shell.

Declan Jordan is terrified that his sexy mistress Alix will reveal their affair to his classy wife Cassie, so he whisks Cassie away for what he promises will be a second honeymoon. However, it turns out to be anything but . . .

All he wanted to do is retire in peace.

YuFu works on a lunar methane rig, dreaming of the day he can retire to the planet and live in peace with his family. But he has to flee into space when he is framed for a terrorist attack he didn’t commit.

Can he prove his innocence while being pursued by police and killer cyborgs?

And who is assassinating government officials?

A collection of contest-quality cookies (and other sweets) for your seasonal celebrations!

This cookbook gathers together the best recipes from more than a decade’s worth of reader submissions to the Chicago Tribune’s annual Holiday Cookie Contest. It’s an eclectic and delicious mix of recipes both traditional and modern, representing diverse cultures and accompanied by color photos and helpful baking tips.

From cookie classics to twists on old standards, such as Tropical Nuevo Latino Cookies, Dorie’s Dark and Stormies, and Grandma Grump’s Peanut Butter Drizzles, Good Eating’s Holiday Cookies provides any home baker with a plethora of possibilities for any holiday party.

Heralded as the go-to guide for soon-to-be debutantes and ladies who’d recently made their debut, No Nice Girl Swears ushered in a “new etiquette” on its release in 1933, much to the shock—and delight—of the high-society crowd of jazz-age America. Today it is equal parts time capsule (how to dress for dinner on your transatlantic voyage) and timeless missive (how to ditch a date who’s had a few too many).

Worldly-wise socialite Alice-Leone Moats advises on everything from style and dating to travel and party throwing, and weeds through the dos and don’ts of weddings, weekend trips, and the workplace. Her wisdom, though steeped in the charm of her time, endures: treat others—and yourself—with respect, always put your best foot forward, and don’t throw a party without champagne. It’s just good manners.

‘Any rag and bone!’

Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the back streets of Ryhope. She learnt the ropes from her dad when he returned from the War. But when tragedy struck, Meg had no choice but to continue alone, with only her trusty dog Spot and beloved horse Stella for company. Now the meagre money she earns is the only thing that stands between her family’s safety and predatory rent collector Hawk Jackson…

Many say it’s no job for a woman – especially a beauty like Meg who’s noticed everywhere she goes. When she catches the eye of charming Clarky it looks like she might have found a protector and a chance of happiness. But is Clarky really what he seems? And could Adam, Meg’s loyal childhood friend, be the one who really deserves her heart?

In 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker’s Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day Parade. Baker had no idea his creation would become an international emblem of liberation, forever cementing his pivotal role in helping to define the modern LGBTQ movement. Rainbow Warrior is Baker’s passionate personal chronicle, from a repressive childhood in 1950s Kansas to a harrowing stint in the US Army, and finally his arrival in San Francisco, where he bloomed as both a visual artist and social justice activist. His fascinating story weaves through the early years of the struggle for LGBTQ rights, when he worked closely with Milk, Cleve Jones, and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Baker continued his flag-making, street theater and activism through the Reagan years and the AIDS crisis. And in 1994, Baker spearheaded the effort to fabricate a mile-long Rainbow Flag—at the time, the world’s longest—to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City. Gilbert and parade organizers battled with Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the right to carry it up Fifth Avenue, past St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Lynn Naismith gave up the job she loved when she married Ed, the love of her life, but it was worth it for the happy years they enjoyed together. Now, ten years on, Ed has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and things start to happen; things more sinister than missing keys and lost words.

As some memories are forgotten, others, long buried, begin to surface … and Lynn’s perfect world begins to crumble.

But is it Ed’s mind playing tricks, or hers…?