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Series
The mediator (Adult) volume 1
Language
English
Description
All Susannah Simon wants is to make a good impression at her first job since graduating from college (and since becoming engaged to Dr. Jesse de Silva). But when she's hired as a guidance counselor at her alma mater, she stumbles across a decade-old murder, and soon ancient history isn't all that's coming back to haunt her. Old ghosts as well as new ones are coming out of the woodwork, some to test her, some to vex her, and it isn't only because she's...
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 22
Language
English
Description
Vampire Justin Bricker has a way with women, so he assumes that his courtship of his future life mate will be easy, until she flees from him and, after turning her to save her life, he discovers that she is already married.
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is rescued from a psychotic vampire by Anders, an immortal creature who claims that she is the woman destined to be his life mate, Valerie Moyers tries to resist her fate as Anders battles her former captor.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Creating an algorithm to improve his internet dating employer's match success rate only to be fired for being too effective, Sam Elliot develops a computer program that creates compelling human simulations that allow people to say final goodbyes to lost loved ones.
5) Mariana
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After inheriting her sixteenth-century childhood home, Julia Beckett is astonished when she is transported back in time and into the body of Mariana, a woman who is struggling against treachery for her love of Richard de Mornay.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women's self-defense nonprofit and lives alone. When her bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee -- the selfish, cruel blond bombshell -- who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly leads her to the love of a lifetime....
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 11
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When vampire Decker Argeneau saves the life of Danielle McGill, who is the target of a group of rogue vampires, he must convince the beautiful doctor that he is her immortal soulmate and destined to love her forever.
Series
Dark series volume 27
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dark crime: Blaze seeks revenge for her father's death in this new story set in the world of the Carpathians. Dead by twilight: A female vampire joins a mortal detective to catch a vampire on a murder spree. Cimarron spirit: Archaeologist Annie Carmichael literally unearths a vampire who believes she is his mate.
10) Stygian's honor
Author
Series
Breeds volume 27
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Window Rock, Arizona, is the last known location of Honor Roberts, who vanished when she was just thirteen. It was her only sanctuary from Breed research that would surely have ended in her death -- one such insidious experiment should, indeed, have killed her. That she lived is both a miracle -- and a great mystery. Stygian's mision is to find Honor Roberts, no matter the cost. Now, with the help of Liza Johnson, assistant to the chief of the Navajo...
Author
Series
Amoveo legends volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Kerry Smithson's modeling career ensures that she will be admired from afar, which is essential since mere human touch sparks blinding pain and terrifying visions. Every good model needs a heavenly bodyguard .... Dante Coltari is hired to protect Kerry from those who know who she is -- or more importantly what she is -- and want her dead because of it. Nothing could have prepared him for the challenge of keeping her safe. But, strangely, his lightest...
12) Phantom game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Two predators collide with unbridled passion in this intoxicating GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Jonas 'Smoke' Harper has watched his brothers find their perfect mates, never imagining he'd actually meet someone who complements every part of him--even the monster that lurks within. But his instant connection with Camellia goes far beyond wanting the intelligent, beautiful, and lethal woman in his bed....
Author
Series
End of forever saga volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Young and handsome, Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. His world is turned upside down by a love affair with Josephine, a mysterious young woman who takes him by storm. But she is not what she seems, carrying secrets that tear them apart--perhaps forever. So begins Julian and Josephine's extraordinary adventure of love, loss, and the mystical forces that bind people together across time and space. It is a journey that propels Julian toward...
Author
Series
Dark warrior novels volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Bound by the gods. Champions against evil. The Dark Warriors have taken their battle from ancient Scotland to the modern world -- where a woman's love is the most dangerous lure of all .... Ever since that fateful night, he can't stop thinking about her. A timeless beauty in a nightclub, she moved across the dance floor like an angel, surrendering to the music -- and casting a spell that could only be magic. When Phelan took her in his arms and kissed...
Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 17
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
One late night leads to .... Kidnapped! When Jeanne Louise Argeneau left work, she never thought she'd end up tied down by a good-looking mortal. More attracted than annoyed, she quickly realizes there is more to her abductor than meets the eye. One desperate act leads to .... Love? Paul Jones has need of a vampire, and only Jeanne Louise will do. He just has to convince this beauty of a Vamp to help him .... never imagining that he would fall in...
16) Warrior untamed
Author
Series
Warrior series (Melissa Mayhue) volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Descendant of the ancient Pictish royal line, Bridget MacCulloch fears nothing, so when brash Halldor O'Donar rebuffs her offer to help defeat the foe that killed her father, she refuses to surrender her quest. But Bridget's need for vengeance is equaled only by her growing attraction to Halldor. Descendant of the Norse god Thor, Halldor must find the missing Sword of the Ancients, for only with this weapon can he overcome the loathsome monster that...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the "bona fide international hit" (The New York Times Book Review) The Little Paris Bookshop. In Nina George's New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, beloved literary apothecary Jean Perdu is inspired to create a floating bookstore after reading a seminal, pseudonymous novel about...
Author
Series
Works like magick volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Darkwyn, a former Roman warrior turned dragon, has landed in the 21st century--in stark-naked human form--needing the help of Works Like Magick to build a new life. His first job is as a bouncer in Drak's Place, a club for wannabe vampires. But that's just a cover--his real assignment could kill him. Bronte McBride is on the run from the mob with her twelve-year-old nephew, Zachary. They both know too much, and a place like Drak's offers the kind...
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Language
English
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"In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before. Across these seemingly unrelated...
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Kosuke can see the red string of fate. But fate can be cruel. He can see that his crush, Yuka, is tied to someone else. One day, Kosuke sees the end of both his and Yuka's strings of fate. They have met the love of their lives. Each couple gets closer and closer to each other. Kosuke must watch helplessly as fate works its will... !"--
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