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Die Götter des Altertums leben und die moderne Welt ist ihr Spielball. Mitten drin steckt Atticus O' Sullivan, der zweitausend Jahre alte Druide. Neun fesselnde Erzählungen, die nicht nur der Druidengehilfin Granuaille zur Anschauung dienen, sondern den Hörer gleichermaßen das Lachen und das Fürchten lehren. Im alten Ägypten nimmt Atticus an einem Überfall auf die Geheimkammer unter der Bibliothek von Alexandria teil. Doch wer hätte gedacht, dass im Team des Wachdienstes ausgerechnet zwei ägyptische Götter arbeiten?

Rowan wollte immer schon Kostümdesignerin werden, doch nach einem Schicksalsschlag begrub sie ihre Träume unter einem Berg aus Schmerz und Schuldgefühlen. Bei einem Job als Produktionsassistentin trifft sie an einem Filmset den gefeierten Hollywood-Star Zackary Butler. Vom ersten Moment an spürt sie eine tiefe Verbindung zu ihm. Doch Rowan weiß, dass sie sich zuerst der Trauer stellen muss, die sie seit Jahren in einem selbstzerstörerischen Teufelskreis gefangen hält, wenn sie ihrer Liebe eine Chance geben will.

Cat should be afraid of Brigan—the devastatingly gorgeous stranger at a Halloween party whose very presence makes everyone else fall at his feet. But while his supernatural allure drives others to mindless obsession, Cat somehow keeps her wits…even as she surrenders to temptation. When this cursed being realizes she alone can see his true nature, one night of searing passion could break a centuries-old spell—or doom them both.

Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery and expression of our essential being. After 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. On Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights to "open ourselves to that mysterious element that enters in the hidden and quiet moments and sparks a revolution in the way that we perceive life."

Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest.

Ash wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als endlich eine eigene Familie zu gründen. Nach Feststellung seiner Sterilität und scheinbar unmöglichen Adoptionen, sieht er sich am Ziel angelangt, als er auf die junge Zoey trifft, die dringend Eltern für ihr ungeborenes Kind sucht – unter einer Bedingung: Sie gibt ihr Kind nur zu einem Paar. Ash ist verzweifelt, denn woher soll er so schnell den Verlobten nehmen, den er Zoey im Affekt vorgegaukelt hat? Zum Glück kommt ihm sein bester Freund Beau zur Hilfe. Er erklärt sich dazu bereit, seinen Fake-Verlobten zu spielen.

Hailee DeLuca hat einen Plan: Die Zeit, in der sie sich zu Hause verkrochen und vor der Welt versteckt hat, ist vorbei. Sie will mutig sein und sich trauen, all die Dinge zu tun, vor denen sie sich früher immer zu sehr gefürchtet hat. Doch dann lernt sie Chase Whittaker kennen - und weiß augenblicklich, dass sie ein Problem hat. Denn mit seiner charmanten Art weckt Chase Gefühle in ihr, die sie längst verloren geglaubt hat. Und nicht nur das. Er kommt damit ihrem dunkelsten Geheimnis viel zu naheDie neue Reihe von Bianca Iosivoni: emotional, romantisch, herzzerreißend!

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Fake-Herzen können nicht brechen,. echte dagegen schon. ---. Das kann doch nur ein Scherz sein!, denkt sich Mason Ashcroft, als seine Penthouse-Nachbarin Sam Johnson ihn bittet, sie als ihr Freund zum Jahrgangstreffen ihres Elitecolleges zu begleiten. Erstens hält er sich aus diesen Kreisen seit Jahren, so gut es geht, fern und will nichts als ein normales Leben führen. Zweitens ist Sam unglaublich attraktiv, aber leider so tiefgründig wie ein Onlinedating-Profil. Und drittens: nein. Einfach nur nein. Sie ist tabu. Aber er hat keine Wahl.

It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, and Charlotte and Seth are not looking for romance. Armed with emotional-support bear spray, Charlotte is in self-imposed isolation and on guard from men. Having a stalker can do that to a person’s nerves. Just across the hall and giving off woodsy vibes is Seth, a recently divorced arborist. As in today recently. Heights, he’s fine with. Trust? Not so much.

Alexander de la Grip is known in the tabloids and gossip blogs as a rich, decadent, jet-setting playboy who spends most of his days recovering from the night before. With a string of beautiful conquests, he seems to care about nothing and no one. Isobel Sørensen has treated patients in refugee camps and war zones, and is about to depart Sweden for a pediatric hospital in Chad.

WREN HACKERLY refuses to quit. Figure skating has always been her life, but when her ex humiliates her on the ice and her career is on the line, she needs a comeback. With her college team's morale and donations plummeting, she has to find a way to keep people interested. MILES DAVIS is North University's golden boy, famed for his hockey skills and movie-star looks. After a team tragedy, he's the only one still struggling to bounce back, making it hard to even think about hockey when it used to be the only thing on his mind.

For years, I have been living in secret, in a safe haven called Eridian for wolves and others alike inside The Deadlands. Hiding from the Highers' laws and the eyes of the Elites, the Highers' weapon, I make sure we survive the best we can while we live our simple lives. When we collected a female in need to bring her back to Eridian, it was supposed to go as planned, like any other time. And it did until a letter changed it all. As Alpha of Eridian, I have to keep our home a secret and my pack safe at any cost. Even if the cost is me.

Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Ft. Benning, Georgia. A dutiful officer’s daughter, supportive sister to a troubled twin brother, and caring friend to her roommate, Elodie, Karina always puts the needs of others ahead of her own and prides herself on being a fixer of broken things—whether it’s the house she’s just bought or the fragmented family she works hard to keep intact. Like anyone who has grown up around an army base, Karina also knows the background noise that follows men and women home from war.

Small-town police officer Silas Sloane knows every resident of O'Leary, New York. He's earned the love and respect of its citizens, though living under the small-town microscope grates on him. But though he's good at his job, there's one thing he's not good at: commitments...until Everett Maior, widower and O'Leary's newest citizen.

When I left for college, I put 1,000 miles between my future and my past. I'd made a choice - I was going to cross back to the other side, to live with the living. I just didn't know how. And then I met Nate Preeter. An All-American baseball player, Nate wasn't supposed to notice a ghost-of-a-girl like me. But he did. He shouldn't want to know my name. But he did. And when he learned my secret and saw the scars it left behind, he was supposed to run. But he didn't.

The first time I met Jax Blackwood things went a little sideways. I didn't know he was Jax Blackwood - who expects a legendary rock star to be shopping for groceries? More importantly, a blizzard was coming, and he was about to grab the last carton of mint-chocolate chip. Still, I might have walked away, but then he smugly dared me to try and take the coveted ice cream. So I kissed him. And distracted that mint-chip right out of his hands. Okay, it was a dirty move, but desperate times and all that. Besides, I never expected he'd be my new neighbor.

To the small town of Landmark Mountain, Callum Landmark is a man of few words and is considered to be the family grump. Uninvited and unexpected, I crash into his world like a wrecking ball and disrupt the delicate balance of his carefully constructed existence. Forced to live together due to my life's unexpected adventure, I find that the more time I spend with him, the more I see beneath his impenetrable exterior and into the heart of the man that not many are privileged to witness.

I wasn't always in love with Colton Calloway; I was in love with his younger brother, Kyle, first. Kyle was my first one true love, my first in every way. Then, one stormy August night, he died, and the person I was died with him. Colton didn't teach me how to live. He didn't heal the pain. He didn't make it okay. He taught me how to hurt, how to not be okay, and, eventually, how to let go.

Richard Ramsey is the guitarist for the world’s hottest new band. Gifted. Charismatic. Hot as sin. Lend your ear, and he’ll steal your heart. Nah, you can’t have his, considering he left it in his hometown years ago. He knows better than going back. But it’s his younger sister’s wedding, and there’s no way he can say no to that. He should have known she would be there, invading his senses and making him thirst and hunger for what he wants most.