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Author Rochelle Hassan delivers a pulse-pounding conclusion to her dangerous and alluring trilogy, The Buried and the Bound, inviting listeners into the realm of witches that churns beneath the surface of the mundane—just as it threatens to boil over....

As a young caregiver to her husband battling lymphoma, Meaghan reveals the raw details of her experience caring for a loved one, maintaining her identity, while also preparing for the mourning and survival of her husband's death. Meaghan's faith guides her through the unknown. She learns how to balance raising their grieving seven-year-old daughter and dealing with her own mental health struggles. When the man with Irish, emerald eyes rides into her life, Meaghan makes space for this kind man who teaches her that a widow can love again.

A tulku is a fully enlightened one (buddha) or highly accomplished adept (siddha) who chooses to be reborn again and again for the benefit of all beings. Most tulkus, though, are the rebirths of well-trained masters who are engaged in spiritual training and serving others. Tibetan Buddhists have, for well over a millennium, been meticulously following the tradition of finding, recognizing, enthroning, training, and venerating these revered figures who provide teachings of liberation for both monks and laypeople.

I was only four years old when I experienced the worst day of my life. When I watched my father take his last breath at the hands of someone else. Instead of letting the hate consume me, I found a safe haven in the arms of the only person who understood, our shared trauma bonding us in a way that taught my heart that I was incapable of ever loving anyone else. And over the years, our codependency transformed into something deeper. Something forbidden. Something no one would accept.

Instead of waking up eternally doomed to burn in the pits of Hell, I awoke in the courtyard of Castle Dominion. It is my very own loving succubus, Lilith, who tells me that I was once a feared Castle Core. So terrifying in fact—that my walls were torn down and the life force in my Core banished to Earth. Now along with my beautiful succubus and Desire—the first of my new dark harem—I will rebuild myself.

An older man, a wild night, and a love that defies all rules. I've been infatuated with Jake, the handsome older neighbor, ever since I laid eyes on him. This summer, I'm alone at my parents' lake house for a week, and I'm determined to make him see me as the woman I've become, not just the girl next door. Jake is older, more experienced, and utterly irresistible. When he finds me sunbathing on the dock, the explosive chemistry between us becomes impossible to ignore. One scorching glance, one accidental touch, and we're both igniting with desire. I'm hooked and eager to explore.

(Older man/younger woman age gap) My mom's boyfriend is furious when she puts me down, and he's determined to treat me like a Goddess to cheer me up. Damon is everything I want in a man. Yea, he’s older than me, and true, he’s dating my mom, but I still dream about him. When my mom starts screaming at me in front of him, he is furious that she’d insult me like that. He promises to make it up to me, and spoils me. As the night goes on, his praise and endless compliments go to my head. For the first time, I feel seen. Desired. Loved.

I can't take care of my sinful needs on my own. I need my Priest to give me salvation and make me fruitful. I am so pent-up. My parents thought sending me to do charity work for the church would set me straight, but my desires are out of control. When I go into Father Stone’s office, it’s with the hopes that I can calm my need by myself. Instead, he catches me with my hand in my skirt, my blouse tugged open.

Side Hustle Glow Up – How to Turn Your Creativity into a Bankable Design Business is your ultimate guide to cashing in on your creativity like the true boss you are. Nikki Stiles Baker delivers a bold, no-fluff, slightly sassy blueprint for turning your passion into a profitable, scroll-stopping brand.

In The Pastor as Midwife, Shawna Songer Gaines brings her pastoral experience alongside her research on the vocation and practices of midwifery to explore a vision of pastoral leadership that is shaped by the wisdom of those who walk alongside expectant mothers. Learning to pastor like a midwife helps us embrace what God is doing in our pain and see new life in unlikely places.

Following the death of the woman she believed to be her mother, 28-year-old Naomi Waters learns from a malicious aunt that she is not only adopted, but the product of a brutal rape that left her birth mother, Mary Rose Francis, a teenager of Micmac ancestry, in a coma for 8 months. Dealing with a sense of betrayal and loss, but with new purpose in her life, Naomi vows to track down Mary Rose's attackers and bring them to justice. She places her story in the local paper, asking for information from residents who might remember something of the case that has been cold for nearly three decades.

Want a glimpse into the hectic life of a hairstylist? I've spent the last thirty-five years of my life up to my elbows in hair. From shampoo assistant, to top stylist, to the owner of a hair salon for twenty years, I've seen this shaggy world evolve from simple beauty parlors to extravagant hair boutiques. From dysfunctional workplaces and nutty clients to the joys and sorrows of salon ownership, I feel it's finally time to lather up all the dirty details of what life is like behind the chair.

Vester's time as a receptionist at the Adventurer's Guild has led him to make some good friends and given him an opportunity to partake in a never before accomplished feat: Establishing a trading post within the Great Dungeon itself. Vester and his Party are going to need to venture farther into the Great Dungeon than they've ever managed before, and that means recruiting new members.

Destined by blood, bound by duty, and racing against time. The forgotten must unite to defy an empire, and prepare for a judgment that could end them all.

I never expected to survive. To be protected. Wanted. Or seen. But somehow, Dallas, Niko, and Rome have managed to do all three. They were always supposed to be temporary. A job. Just the three men hired to pull me out of hell. But ever since they asked me to move in with them, they've become something more. But I'm not healed. Not whole. And I'm not even being honest with them. They have no clue the past I've tried so hard to outrun is creeping in around the edges. And when they find out I've been lying to them... It could destroy everything.

Gabriel Grimm was supposed to be dead. Once, he was the golden heir—untouchable, unstoppable—until a scandal shattered his world, leaving his name in ruins and his body in a shallow grave. But Gabriel didn't die. He disappeared, forging himself into something harder, colder, unbreakable. And now, after years in the shadows, he's ready to take back what was stolen. Starting with her.

I’ve always had trouble talking to men, but my therapist shows me that true bliss is waiting for me. All I have to do is relax. Touch myself. Explore my body. And when I can go no further, he takes over. It’s my first time, and we don’t have any protection, but I’m eager to learn. He tells me I’m a Good Girl, and that all I need to do is lay back and take it. Take him. Right in his office.

They told us the legends, but they were full of half-truths and darker secrets. Vampires bask in daylight. Rain sears the skin. And human blood is poison…except for one rare type: A Negative. Octavia is an Aneg who has hidden in the shadows her whole life. Seth, heir to one of the most powerful vampire families in the South, is the anomaly who can't drink her blood.

You’d think I was already there, but when three alphas pulled me from a brothel, they sealed my fate in hell. Fighting for re-entry into the elite Echelon secret society, they need a noble omega to survive the Trial’s five deadly tests. Instead, they get me. I’ve never manifested and–as far as they know–don’t have a drop of noble blood. As we're trapped together in the clutches of the dark and dangerous Echeloln, my very presence is an insult. One they never hesitate to remind me of. Even when I manifest as the omega they need, their hatred only grows stronger. But so does mine.

1941 - Amid the bombs falling over London’s East End, the residents of West India Dock Road endure wartime with courage, defiance and a good dose of humour. From nights spent sheltering together in the Underground station to sharing gossip, pastimes and meals, they lean on each other as their world is turned upside down.