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I spent college worrying about responsibilities and earning my teaching degree, so before graduation and moving to Atlanta with my best friend, Ross, I figure I deserve a little fun. I’ve never been with an older man, but the guy at the bar grabs my attention and doesn’t let go…for multiple rounds, all night long. The next day, when Ross introduces me to his dad, the last thing I expect is for him to be my hookup from the night before, in town from Atlanta for his son’s graduation. The best thing would be to pretend it never happened, which is easier said than done.

Money, sex, love, and murder--here we go again. We still got more money than you can count, the mind-blowing sex, and the fairy-tale love, but now that the murders have been carried out and vengeance is won, whose taste for revenge has been awakened? With so many loose ends to worry about, Miko, Derek, Brooklyn, and Aaron find themselves knotted in a string of deeper lies and greater deceit.

A career on the verge of collapse. A broken heart locked away. The last thing they need is strings.
Jake Davenport is the best striker in the English Premier League. Or he was until his off-pitch behavior left his captain with a broken nose, and Jake suspended. Indefinitely. He flees to New York to lay low. But peace is fleeting when he's sharing an apartment with his free-spirited first love, who insists on friendship and shoves him outside his comfort zone every chance she gets.

Closeted teenager Jeremy is sent to live with wealthy relatives after his mother enters rehab. Struggling to fit into the posh world of Ballena Beach, Jeremy joins the high school swim team, dates a popular girl, and begins to think he may have landed in paradise - until his great aunt Katharine starts to dictate his every move…and a late-night phone call insinuates that his father’s accidental death was not so accidental after all. As Jeremy grows accustomed to the veneer of a fabulous life, so grows his need for answers - as well as the danger of immeasurable harm.

If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend. For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a public-school music teacher, Jerry Kupchynsky, known as Mr. K - a Ukrainian-born taskmaster who yelled and stomped and screamed, and who drove his students harder than anyone had ever driven them.

Micky Ferro has lived her entire life according to other people's expectations. She married a man, had two children, and became a dutiful stay-at-home mom in suburban Sydney. Until she realized, with a little help from her best friend, that her picture-perfect life wasn't making her happy. On the first anniversary of her divorce, Micky decides it's time for the next step in her journey and gets a job at her neighborhood coffee shop, The Pink Bean.

Corey Fenwick keeps her bitter past as hidden as the sweet centers inside the handmade chocolates she sells to a growing list of upscale customers. Experience has taught her the only person she can rely on is herself, so her best-friends-with-benefits relationship with Matt is perfect—no strings attached. After his last girlfriend deemed him “boring”, Matt Ferber watched her ride off on the back of a Harley with a rock musician. Figuring he’s doomed to “let’s just be friends” with the women he cares about, the arrangement with Corey suits him fine too.

Straitlaced Jean has just broken up with her overgrown baby of a boyfriend. At 30, she's always done what's expected of her - by her traditional parents, by her demanding boss and by her disaster of an ex-boyfriend - and if she doesn't have some fun now, when will she? Taking her life into her own hands, she decides to do something that takes her out of her comfort zone and embarks on a sexual awakening. A woman heels-over-head, and not head-over-heels, in love. Jean's sexual liberation is off to a cracking start when she meets married-but-open pianist Gabriel.

Kit Corrigan always dreamed of being a star. In order to get there, she needs to break up with Billy and leave her family in Rhode Island behind for the bright lights of New York City. After Kit meets with Billy's father, Nate, things get easier - until she realizes that Nate's help comes with "strings attached". Kit soon uncovers a mystery she must solve in order to protect the ones she loves in this stunning story.

Carissa is a high school teacher and an accomplished violinist with lifelong aspirations of joining the orchestra she fell in love with as a child. Single-minded and meticulous in her pursuit, a chance encounter with Kyle makes her question what she really wants out of life. Kyle's life is going exactly the way he wants. Well...almost. With the hottest comic book shop in Charleston and a steady group of close friends and family, he's just waiting for love - and maybe he’s finally found it in Carissa.

Raised on a bar stool, Charlee spends her youth drinking in the dark dives of New England and Montreal with a father who flees from woman to woman. As an adult in one of her father's haunts, she encounters the man whose flaws and attractions will make her face every emotion that confounded her dad. She longs for companionship, but from her father she has learned to trust only her own will and crave solitude. Can she overcome a life of defiant independence and her distrust of affection?

Bartender Chancy has her orderly life turned around when she is in an accident leaving her with no transportation. When a mutually beneficial business agreement between Remy and Chancy turns into undeniable attraction, will the two ignore culture norms to explore their intense desire for each other? Follow Remy and Chancy as they join the characters of the Trophy Wives Club and Pleasure Workers in a continued journey of love and exploration. Is love possible when women from two distinctly different social tracks are brought together by fate?

Fresh out of a 10-year relationship, Emily Brookstone wants to let loose. But she's not exactly the let-loose type. When she gets invited to spend a no-strings-attached weekend in Aspen with eight other women, the words "good for you" come to mind. Maybe a fling with a charming stranger is just what she needs. Alex Murphy travels the world for her job. She has no trouble getting dates wherever she lands, and life is full of short-term escapades and fantasy weekends. Yet finding someone to share life with feels impossible. Until she meets Emily.

Political literacy can be compared to smart shopping. Increasing one's political awareness is like reading the ingredient labels in the grocery store. It gives people a better sense the relevance, accessibility, and potential of political agency on a personal level. This serious, sometimes alarming, but always empowering book offers insight into the benefits to both individuals and societies of cultivating greater political literacy.

My name is Asaf Maoz and I am a professional musician. In this podcast I’m hosting various people for an intimate conversation about their career journey and lessons learned through their professional path. Together we try to see if there are parallel ideas between their field of expertise and the world of music.

Three reasons I’m getting in a car with a stranger by Josie Woodmere: My piece-of-crap car is on fire on the side of the highway, the guy in the truck doesn’t look like a murderer...in fact, he’s hot, and even if he tries something, I’m confident I could take him. The hottie in the truck, Brinn McRae, turns out to be straitlaced and so not my type. Plus, I’m not looking for romance. I have to find a job and my estranged brother. I don’t know if he’s man I want, but I’m positive I’m the girl he needs.

Cielo "Lo" Valdez doesn't believe in second chances. Surviving cancer taught her that life is too short to spend time on someone who wronged you. But Aidan O'Toole is determined to show her that life is best spent together. When the tough-as-nails Texan moved to Galway for medical school, she wasn't looking for love. Aidan, a gorgeous, tattooed, mandolin-playing lawyer, slipped past her defenses. They each fell hard and fast. But when Aidan was given the opportunity of a lifetime—to move to London and record an album—he took it, breaking Lo's heart.

Penguin presents the unabridged,downloadable audiobook edition of The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel, read by Andy Secombe, including musical interludes recorded by the author himself. Edinburgh, 1888. A virtuoso violinist is brutally killed in his home. But with no way in or out of the locked practice room, the murder makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey to investigate under the cover of a fake department specializing in the occult.

Laura attends a Vegas conference to prove that her marketing skills justify a promotion. After a spicy weekend fling, she returns to Miami to find that her boss has been replaced by her Vegas lover. She never expected to see Fox again, but now she works for him, and she's the only one who can provide the records he needs for his investigation. Fox finds the numbers don't add up. The company should be flush with funds but is barely making payroll. He vows to bring the thief to justice, but all signs led to Laura. Can he follow his heart while making sure that justice is served?

Long before the world bowed down to the band Whispered Words, they shattered me to pieces when they walked away. Now, after five years apart, they're back to fix what they broke. If I let them... Before our fall, Callum, Rad, Kieran, and Asher were mine. My everything. My rock stars. My future. Until they weren't. All it took was one night. One massive lie. One false accusation. And they were gone. Leaving me with a broken heart, a restraining order, and a baby on the way.