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Rose ist fast fünfzig, als sie Luc kennenlernt. Sie hat eine Ehe überstanden und zwei Kinder zur Welt gebracht, hat Liebschaften erlebt, Jobwechsel, Schicksalsschläge und Trauerfälle. Das Leben hat sie stark gemacht. In ihrer Handtasche steckt ein Revolver, der sie gegen die vielen Dreckskerle dieser Welt beschützen soll. Doch Luc ist anders, das spürt sie sofort. So charmant und zurückhaltend. Seit sie ihn kennt, liegt in ihren Augen ein neuer Glanz. Bis er sich eines Tages in seinem männlichen Stolz gekränkt fühlt und zuschlägt.

Paris, 1789 - Leo hat alles: Reichtum, einen Titel und zahlreiche Liebhaber. Bis zu der Nacht, in der er alles verliert. Ihm bleibt nichts, nichts als der Hunger und ein Mann, der ihn immer tiefer in die verführerische Dunkelheit zieht.

Rose a la cinquantaine, une vie derrière elle, avec ses joies, ses déveines, des gosses, un divorce. Et des mecs qui presque tous lui ont fait mal. Chaque soir, en sortant du boulot, elle se rend au Royal, un bar où elle a ses habitudes. Là, elle boit. De temps en temps, elle y retrouve sa grande copine Marie-Jeanne.

Plucked out of the harsh life I was living and thrust into a world of unimaginable wealth, power, and privilege, all I want to do is keep my head down and survive until graduation. But they have other plans - Mason, Finn, Elias, and Cole. Everyone at my new school calls them the Princes, and that’s exactly what they act like. They always get what they want...and who they want. And they want me. I’m not sure why, since they all seem to hate me. The Princes are gorgeous, flawless, and cruel. They own this town, and they’re determined to own me, too.

Jace Seren has been assigned his next task for the Dark Between Stars: visiting a rogue planet that was flung out of its orbit millennia past. Many Complexes await completion—promising Stardust, Boons, and danger. Jace will come up against many threats; Black Hole Conclave cultists seeking to drive the world into oblivion, Astral Demons from a different layer of reality who seek his destruction, and mercenaries chasing the bounty placed upon his head by the leader of the Nebula Alliance.

One week. If you survive, you choose a Cosmic Power ... If you survive. Jace isn’t one to give up. Not when his sister dies. Not when he loses his legs. And definitely not when The Cosmic System takes over Earth. With nothing more than his street smarts, the clothes on his back, and a river otter companion, he must survive a planet full of vicious predators that see him as an easy meal. If he can survive? He gets to choose a Cosmic Power and a Class. A path to ascension. A way to bring his sister back.

Lady Amelia Brockett - Meels to her family - is having the worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the failure of the family. But when her older brother tries to cheer her with a trip to the races, a chance meeting with Arthur, the widowed playboy prince of Wales, offers Amelia the opportunity to change her life - and Britain’s fortunes - forever.

After achieving Tier 3 as a Dark Matter Aspirant, Jace Seren and his allies—Priam Westerfold, Greg Bhastal, and Quinn Cipher—are on their way to Earth. Their mission is dangerous: take down all five megacorporations to clear the way for the Star Council to instill their control over the world and lift Earth’s civilization to its pinnacle of possibility. Corpo-mercs, cybered-up soldiers, lingering Aspirants, and Ascendants? That’s only the start of it. For the Nebula Alliance already has agents on Earth, and they do not take kindly to hostile takeovers.

Damon Hunt, the world's most ruthless thief, wants my skills for a dangerous job. Worse, he wants me...as his wife. When Damon Hunt—the thief my father trained instead of me, his protégé, the same one responsible for his death—strolled back into my life after years, I shot first and asked questions later. Then he had the nerve to ask for my help to recover the stolen Royal Heart, a Winston Isles Crown Jewel, from the underground Black Rose Auction.

The Rift was like nothing Pax and the others had experienced before. The scenario demanded they think outside the box and deal with a whole new level of threats. But with new dangers came new opportunities, and Pax and the others are more than ready to rise to the challenge.

A wave of kaiju spawn is fast approaching his Settlement. It'll be up to Pax and his allies to ensure their remnant of humanity can survive the hostile world around them. New dangers, however, bring new opportunities, and Pax is ready to push his power even higher. With elves and dwarves to bolster their ranks, Pax won't let anything destroy his Safe Zone. And once the Wave has been dealt with, Pax has his sights set on a larger target. He's after the biggest threat any of them have ever seen.

On the Imperial Pleasure Island, where excess is law and indulgence reigns, Jason reshapes the corpulent obscene legacy of Magnus Travon Thull, reforging himself into something the empire has not seen in an age, a hero emperor. He now commands the empire’s gaze with the ruthless gravity of a sovereign reborn. The empire hungers, though, for power, for pleasure, for dominion. But in a world where desire and submission are weapons, even a prince must tread carefully.

Noah was once a Mecha pilot leading the defense of Earth against the invading Parasites. Now he is just one lone man stranded on a strange planet, with nothing to do but endlessly fight and devour beasts to increase his strength in the hope of leaving that forsaken place. A new opportunity arose the day a spaceship crashed on the planet. Follow Noah as he escapes, enters the wider universe, and discovers the truth about what happened to Earth.

When the world ended, Pax found he had an unusual gift. With the ability to turn the souls of monsters he defeats into constructs; Pax plans to ensure that the women he loved were safe from the newly reopened Hollow Earth. Volcanoes might turn the sky black, and monstrous insects were spreading across New York, but Pax won't let that stop him from keeping Jenny and her best friend safe.

As princess of the Moon Kingdom, and daughter of the cruelest king our land had ever seen, I was well-versed in deceit and debauchery. The Sun Kingdom’s sly prince was no threat to me. Assuming that was a grave mistake. For the ever-present smirk, irritating charm, and adoring gleam in his eyes began to melt the ice encasing my heart.

Nando, the handsome, ne’er-do-well Prince of Varros, has grown bored with his aimless life of pleasure-seeking and debauchery. An unexpected end to his ennui arrives in the form of a maddeningly proper English spinster who challenges him with her glacial reserve. Nando can’t get enough of the icy, disapproving Miss Brett, and the more she rebuffs him, the more determined he becomes to make her his.

Jason wakes in the most unpleasant of circumstances, in a body not his own and in a world most certainly unfamiliar. The finery and splendor of the Grand Imperial Prince Magnus Torvon Thull Heir Apparent to the Thull empire is a world of gold and silver beset upon fine black and white marble. The women of this Grand Prince’s empire clamor for his attention amongst the parties, drugs, and (not-so-great minstrel music). Jason will have to fix the decrepit state Magnus’s body has sunken into from a life of decadent pleasures. While figuring out what the heck is going on.

Earth is gone. Noah is faced with a troubling decision. What does a man do when his entire world has vanished? The pirates are dead, the planet was erased, and now Noah knows a little more about what happened to Earth since he vanished in that wormhole. After witnessing the destruction of the planet he had been surviving on, Noah decided to follow Dorothy, the Queen of Oz. She had been instrumental in his final escape and she had the information he needed about this new universe. Though he had to say…Her planet was quite interesting.

He’s not your average Joe from the corner bar. He’s the heir to the crown. I should know, I’ve followed him for years. All my studying of the man who plays a starring role in my dreams pays off when I win a dinner with him. As if that wasn’t enough, he barters a deal with me that has him moving into my spare guest room. I forgot that fairy tales don’t exist though because just as I’m about to get everything I want, including the prince, I find out there’s someone in Prince Adrian Marx’s life I don’t know - his fiancée.

A kingdom built with secrets is bound to unravel. During the month of Amira, the silver moon emerges, and the kingdom of Zyra comes alive with anticipation for the annual ball. Mellana Goodwick, finally at the rightful age of 16, receives her first invitation, but when unexpected events take place, immediate regret sets in.