TWO BLOOD-SPATTERED STRANGERS awake, locked in the trunk of a car\u2014with a murdered cop and the smoking gun. Aside from raging headaches and no idea what\u2019s happened, they appear to have nothing in common. Troy thinks it\u2019s 2001 and he\u2019s still a combat surgeon fighting terrorists in Afghanistan. Emmy believes it\u2019s 2002 and she\u2019s still grifting a living from the streets of L.A.<\/p>\n Are they archenemies or coconspirators? Lovers or friends? What are they doing in the Caribbean, and why is a Croatian assassin determined to kill them?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Secrets, Sex and Scandals \u2026<\/p>\n Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy\u2026 Get ready. The storm is coming.<\/p>\n Nestled among rolling hills and painted with vibrant wildflowers, the bucolic town of Storm, Texas, seems like nothing short of perfection.<\/p>\n But there are secrets beneath the facade. Dark secrets. Powerful secrets. The kind that can destroy lives and tear families apart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Life for sixteen year old Savannah Franks has just been turned upside down. Her Mum\u2019s business has failed and they\u2019re forced to move into a maisonette in the rough end of town.<\/p>\n She doesn\u2019t want anyone to know her dire situation, not even her besties. So when the rest of the money for the school ski trip is due she can\u2019t be seen not to attend. Everyone is going! She just needs to find a job. Add that to the list of getting a boyfriend and losing her pathetic virginity.<\/p>\n But working every spare hour in a job she hates on top of school work and mounting secrets doesn\u2019t prove easy. Soon she\u2019s keeping so many she\u2019s not even sure herself what\u2019s true and what\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “When I think of my summers spent at Aunt Sookie\u2019s Malibu \u201cpad\u201d as she called it, I think about first kisses, first love, and first heartbreak. I think about my friendship with Rachel Donovan and her brothers Nathaniel (Nat) and Drew. I think of all the sunsets, dawns, and first attempts. And then there was this summer, the summer I grew up, in more ways than one, and everyone noticed, especially the boys, especially Nat.” \u2013 Summer Jones<\/p>\n Summer has always looked forward to spending her summers at her Aunt’s beach house with the Donovans. To her, summers at Aunt Sookie’s beach house was magical, especially getting to spend time with the Donovans – her best friend Rachel and Rachel’s brothers Nathaniel, and Drew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A gentleman professional killer with a bad case of OCD and zero tolerance for unsorted laundry, March isn\u2019t there to kill her\u2026yet. He wants the diamond her late mother stole for a sinister criminal organization. Island agrees to help him find it, facing the kind of adversaries who dismember first and ask questions later. Good thing she\u2019s got March to show her the ropes. And the guns. And the knives.<\/p>\n The buttoned-up Island is soon having a blast racing from Paris to Tokyo following the clues in her mother\u2019s will, and for the first time, she\u2019s ready to get close to someone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n After a rough deployment in Afghanistan, Murphy Dolan arrives home in the middle of the night, wanting nothing but his bed. Except, a beautiful stranger is sleeping in it.<\/p>\n Running for her life and hiding her identity, Kate Bridges claims a rental mix-up and refuses to move out. She’s the only person who can identify the most notorious hit man in the country, and she has no money left to keep running. But how long can she hide the truth from Murphy? And can she trust him when trouble finally catches up with her?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Five years ago, Shannon Astor left the beautiful high-mountain country of West Texas as a single mother. She was desperate for a fresh start and a way to keep the secrets of her past buried. It almost worked.<\/p>\n Until a chance to make a better life for her daughter leads her right back home. To the very place of the past betrayals.<\/p>\n But it also leads Shannon to horse-trainer Jack MacGowan–her handsome high-school nemesis, now a widowed father. His daughter looks so startlingly like her own that Shannon can’t help but question the circumstances surrounding her daughter’s birth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Lauren Olamina was only eighteen when her family was killed, and anarchy encroached on her Southern California home. She fled the war zone for the hope of quiet and safety in the north. There she founded Acorn, a peaceful community based on a religion of her creation, called Earthseed, whose central tenet is that God is change. Five years later, Lauren has married a doctor and given birth to a daughter. Acorn is beginning to thrive. But outside the tranquil group\u2019s walls, America is changing for the worse.<\/p>\n Presidential candidate Andrew Steele Jarret wins national fame by preaching a return to the values of the American golden age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed nearly too dangerous, too ruthless\u2014and if he isn’t careful, he’ll lose his wings. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred from his missions at any cost\u2026until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he’s never known before.<\/p>\n Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane. Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Zacharel is her only hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her salvation\u2014or her ultimate damnation?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Meet Austin, an eighteen-year-old whose body is much more fragile than his spirit.<\/p>\n Despite the painful effects of osteogenesis imperfecta<\/em>\u2014a rare disease that makes bones brittle and prone to break\u2014and the challenges of living with autism, Austin is an overcomer who inspires everyone he meets.<\/p>\n The Unbreakable Boy<\/em> is the raucously tender story of Austin\u2019s joyful embrace of life\u2019s tragedies and triumphs.<\/p>\n In honest, utterly real storytelling, Scott pulls back the curtain of his life to reveal personal and family struggles, from marital meltdowns to destructive bouts with addiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world\u2019s most powerful military order, the Templars. At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years, the tragic demise of this society of warrior-monks amid accusations of heresy has been plagued by controversy, in part because the transcript of their trial by the Inquisition?which held the key to the truth?had vanished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Idjit Galoot has a problem. He escaped from his master’s house for a brief romp around town, seeking out easy targets such as bitches in heat, fresh roadkill and unguarded garbage cans. When he returns to his house, the aged basset hound discovers that his master has packed up their belongings and moved to Florida without him. “Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed” is the story of Idjit Galoot’s ne’er do well owner and his efforts to work his way back to the dog that he loves. 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