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She owes me an heir. As the Don of the Bellini Mafia, the only way to secure my family's bloodline for the next generation is by having a son. Which is easier said than done when your wife runs away in the middle of the night, early on in your marriage. After years of searching, I finally get a...

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son, Tomas, is taken, she’s back to square one...and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that’s not all...Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer Bragi, on her side, Sonja puts her own plan into motion to bring down the drug barons and her scheming ex-husband and get Tomas back.

Debts must always be paid. The task was simple: fill in for my best friend as the lifeguard at a private birthday party. But the next thing I know, I'm pulling a little girl out of the pool and resuscitating her. That's when I learned a key detail my best friend failed to mention. The party was for a pint-sized mafia princess, and I'd unknowingly saved the life of the Don's four-year-old daughter. Now, in Matteo Bellini's mind, he owes me a debt.

My family owes the Bellinis a debt. And I've come to learn quickly that their family motto is: "Debts must always be paid." In this case, that means a life for a life. My life, to be exact. I'm being served up on a silver platter, forced to marry a mafia man, sight unseen, shackled to the...

For wealthy socialite Katrina Vandenburg, business meetings and charity galas are all part of her orderly, structured world - one that gets blown to hell after finding two dead bodies in the same day. The police think she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. FBI Special Agent Dayne Andrews thinks otherwise. Dayne and his K-9, Remy, are tracking a cold-blooded killer, and that trail...leads straight to Kat. 

Beneath the unrelenting sun of Accanter's summer, an ugly conspiracy is underway. A desperate mother asks Watch Officer Thea March for help. Her daughter has gone missing. No one else at Thea's Watch Station will help the mother. More bad news follows when a body is found. A young man who had...

Thracius "Tracy" Belmanor has struggled to do his patriotic duty in the wake of the loss of the love of his life, Empress Mercedes de Arango. Amid a desperate war, the Solar League cannot afford his grief, nor the political instability of admitting the depth of their relationship. It is for duty alone, both as a soldier and as a father, that he has entered into a loveless marriage that makes him part of the royal family to shepherd his son and the Solar League towards what seems to be humanity's triumph against its foe.

The quest for Earth's domination remains the primary directive of an ancient, inhuman enemy. Challenging this alien bid for iron rule, an elite force led by former magistrates wages war against Earth's enslavers. These rebel commandos are resourceful, dedicated and possess the immutable human willpower to survive — by any means necessary.... 

Professor Elliot Brand was done with adventures. When his former lover Ashra Shah calls him to Antarctica, he knows he is getting himself into trouble. Guarded by a military unit, hidden deeply in the uninhabitable parts of the frozen continent, a ruin was found that could be the most significant archeological find in history. Elliot Brand doesn't need long to understand that if they don't act fast, it might very well be the last one, too...

A year after the Commonwealth won the war with the Theocracy, the interstellar cruise liner Supreme is on its maiden voyage, carrying a host of aristocrats thrilled to be sharing in a wondrous adventure among the stars. Then a collision with a pirate ship leaves the cruiser powerless and becalmed in hyperspace. And they’re not alone. Now, the mysterious force that’s living on this floating graveyard is coming for Supreme’s crew and passengers. As madness starts to tear at their minds, they must fight to survive in a strange alien realm.

Major Joshua Speed has escaped our time back to his native 1950s, but the past ain't what it used to be. Alien invasions, costumed criminals, and Red martial artists dominate his days. He's beginning to wonder if something is very wrong with the world.

Brought to you by Penguin. How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma and her team know a high-profile assassination is being planned. But...

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references, Alice is left bereft. But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her. Alice finds herself being seduced all over again.

The last thing Steven remembers was waiting in a prison cell for the results of an appeals trial. His crime: speaking out against unfair treatment of workers. His opinion of his sentence: it's political. Next thing he wakes up on a commercial ship run by the Merlin Company, where he meets Luciane, Rollo and Jack, fellow prisoners of an inconveniently political nature, and the four will be sent down to a planet where a research team has vanished. Everything needed to survive and return is on the abandoned base, and all the company wants is to know what happened to twelve scientists.

As a hurricane barrels through the Louisiana bayous, the animal population is forced to deal with the tumultuous upheaval of their world. Sheriff Sid and his wife are caught completely off-guard by the natural disaster unfolding around them as they battle not only the turbulent winds and flooding waters, but heinous acts committed by other creatures inhabiting the backwaters.

Meanwhile, Gillan McArdle’s academic career is ending because of one stupid lapse of judgement. Offered a short-term contract, he lands on the Hebridean island of Harris to investigate obscure animal bones. Quickly dismissing the unicorn skull as a thinly disguised fake, he can’t deny there’s something unusual about these bones. Baited by rumors of a majestic tusked horse roaming the uplands, Gill begins to suspect someone is manipulating him. As he gradually unravels the mystery of the skull, he grasps a disturbing conclusion: If this creature does exist, the evidence suggests it’s a killer.

Frankie and the A.C.T. freed billions from corporation control with the Nano Liberation. But the corporations won’t go down without a fight. Sent on a routine mission, Frankie and her team are ambushed. Trapped in a vast building, she’s separated from her squad and cut off from the outside world. Now an elite mercenary group is hunting them down. Frankie must face vicious gangs, deadly cyborgs, and deal with her troubled past to save her friends and survive.

Heisman Trophy winner Casey Reddick is set to take the NFL by storm. But, after a freak injury ruins his Super Bowl dreams, he never expected the saving grace of getting drafted into private intelligence. And, he’s devastated again when his intel on an imminent attack is ignored, and the violent blast costs him his beloved sister. Vowing to prevent more innocent deaths, the QB-turned-spy moves into field duty to hunt down a terrorist with a thermonuclear-sized chip on his shoulder.

When Steel picks up a CIA asset with classified intel in the Bahamas, his team is hit hard and the mission blows up. A Russian Oligarch and a Russian SVR operative will stop at nothing to prevent Steel from delivering intel that will expose the criminality of a hundred powerful men. Fighting for his life, Steel asks for help from an old acquaintance - a reluctant cartel hitman. Worse, Steel's partner, Christie, has a family emergency and she has to leave Steel - but even Montana isn’t going to be safe.

Zyrah Duban-McGregor, the sole survivor and only direct heir to the Duban fortune, along with her aunt and her aunt's children, is forced to hide on the planet Kaùsan as her uncle and his brother intend to kill them and take over ownership of the Duban corporation. Geologist Katia Cummings is sent on an illegal secret mission to Kaùsan to find molybdenum mining sites. An accident leaves her and aide, Cora Kanaka, trapped a thousand kilometers from the nearest help.