AJ, aka Rabbit, works at a seedy nightclub in order to survive. He dreams of saving up enough money to finally leave town… until the night his former high school math teacher, Mr. Sharpe, walks in. Little did AJ know Mr. Sharpe, is actually a deadly ex-hitman?! When Mr. Sharpe's former employer asks him to take on a dangerous mission, unfortunately for AJ, he's the perfect partner for the task. If AJ helps him, Sharpe promises freedom from his terrible life. It’s an offer AJ can’t refuse...

16世紀初頭・フィレンツェ。 芸術など文化活動が花開いたルネサンス発祥の地。 そんな活気あふれる華やかなる時代に、貴族家生まれのアルテが画家工房への弟子入りを志願する。 女性がひとりで生きて行くことに理解のなかった時代、様々な困難がアルテを待ち受ける。

Szerelem téren és időn át... Almássy Anna, a XXI. századi jogászlány akaratán kívül az Úr 1763. esztendejében találja magát. Kénytelen beilleszkedni a közösségbe, míg rá nem jön, miként juthat egyszer haza. Hamar megérti, a szabályok itt pofonegyszerűek: a vérhatalom jogán a földesúr élet és halál ura. A lány számára úgy tűnik, mintha a sötét középkorba zuhant volna vissza: pestis, máglya, pellengér, éhínség... Ám a rémisztőnek tűnő világban is létezik az az időtlen érzés, amelyet úgy hívunk, hogy szerelem. Anna egy napon találkozik nemes Oroszy Mihállyal - a fiatal földesúrral. Mindenben különböznek, mégis szenvedélyes vonzalom alakul ki közöttük. A mai értékek szerint nevelkedett lány és az előjogokkal született férfi eltérő világlátása drámai helyzeteket szül. Vajon a két világot összekötheti a szerelem? Karády Anna elsőkönyves szerző, balatonfüredi jogász, aki a város múltját és természeti kincseit kisiskolás kora óta kutatja. Az évek során szerzett ismereteinek a lenyomata ez a történelmi, romantikus debütregény, amely megmutatja, hogy a szerelmet sem az idő, sem a tér, sem a társadalmi különbségek nem képesek eltiporni.

On a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago’s snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body was discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong and drop the matter into their cold case files. Over a year later, Tracy’s sister, Sondra, still can’t come to grips with what happened. She throws herself into her work as a documentary filmmaker to try and forget the cruelty of her sister’s death. However, a chance encounter with a man from Tracy’s past rips the wound open and sends Sondra on a desperate search for answers about the secrets from her sister’s life that may have led to her death. As Sondra struggles to uncover what happened to Tracy, she’s launched into a tangled web of deceit and danger that put her on a collision course with life and death…

From the author of The Silver & Orchids Series comes a breathtaking tale of two kingdoms torn apart by magic and the star-crossed lovers who set upon a perilous journey to reunite them before they fall into ruin.Enter the world of The Riven Kingdoms.After the sudden death of her brother, Princess Amalia is charged with what feels like an impossible task—she must choose the next king. Youthful thoughts of love are pushed aside as she accepts her fate, setting upon a quest throughout the kingdom to find a man worthy of her father’s throne.Little does Amalia know, someone has already set his sights on her.Rhys is a man of secrets, and his mission is befriend the princess of Renove. Coax her to trust him, convince her to follow him.Betray her when it’s time.All goes according to plan until Rhys meets the princess. Amalia is a disaster. Never has he met someone so drawn to trouble. Never has he met someone so irritatingly likable.He’s not allowed to fall for her.She could never entrust him with a crown.But, unbeknownst to them, their unlikely partnership might be the key to saving their entire world from a darkness that’s slowly creeping from the wounded earth that separates one kingdom from the next.

Bestselling and award-winning author Lydia Michaels has created an earth-shattering world of excitement where passion and emotion collide in an explosive clash of secret fantasy lore and contemporary life-or-death suspense as immortals fight to find their destined mates before it’s too late! Adam Hartzler has always been an honorable immortal, but the fine line between right and wrong blurs when he is called to his fated mate. If he does not find and claim her soon, he will lose his soul and humanity, transforming into a vile predator controlled by insatiable bloodlust. Adam’s salvation relies on one mortal’s surrender. Will he find her in time or get sentenced to a tortured eternity as a vampire? Time’s slipping away, and so is Adam’s control. Passion and emotion collide in an explosive meeting of destined souls that begins with a ruthless betrayal when Adam unapologetically takes what is his.

Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer. 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed? Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.

All Delora ever wanted was to disappear. Thrown into the Veil for a crime she committed, Delora was discarded by the world. Although afraid of her oncoming demise, she accepts it as it would be a worldly escape from her problems. She didn’t expect that she would wake up from her deadly fall, nor that the person who saved her would be a Duskwalker. She’s wary about him at first, but Delora begins to realise there’s more to him than just a faceless monster. All he ever wanted was a name. After discovering that humans can be kept as companions, he begins planning for the day he finds his own bride. He still lacks humanity and there is much learn first. One morning when leaving his cave, a human suddenly crashes into him from the sky. Broken and sleeping, he gets to work on healing the woman. It doesn’t take him long to understand she’s wounded in a way his magic can’t heal. But will he be able to gain her affections, or will she come to hate him as he stumbles his way through learning about her – and more importantly, himself?