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Happy ever afters are for suckers, and Cat Keller is no sucker. After years of watching her mother go from marriage to marriage, heartbreak to heartbreak, she’s put a set of rules into place–never stay the night, never bring a boy home–to avoid the same fate. Then she meets radio deejay and local heartthrob Jude Oliver. One by one, Cat’s rules bend and break under Jude’s patience and persistence. Soon, only one rule remains: no falling in love. Can Cat keep the walls around her heart intact? Or will she face her biggest fears and allow herself to fall?

After the Second Kingside War, magical folks like baker Lillie Dean are once again able to live freely and use magic openly. Lillie is taking this new freedom to heart, and has just moved to the seaside town of Silverkeep to start a brand new bakery and begin her life again. But all is not sweet in the idyllic village, especially when Lillie gets a threatening note saying if she doesn't get out of town, everyone will find out about her villainous past.

After the Second Kingside War, magical folks like baker Lillie Dean are once again able to live freely and use magic openly. Lillie is taking this new freedom to heart, and has just moved to the seaside town of Silverkeep to start a brand new bakery and begin her life again.

Forced to marry a traitor to the Realm, Bridget helps her fiancé face the music.

She was a blue blood socialite. He was an organized crime kingpin. His business never spilled over into her restaurant, until her best friend and one of his henchmen caused a problem. How do you get rid of a dead body when the police have cameras watching all the exits? Through the kitchen, of course.

Some killers are made through years of systematic abuse. Some killers are the product of the societal misfortune of not being able to escape the worst portions of the lowest economic areas. Then there are the killers like Mercy. The rare ones. The ones who are born evil and are drawn to violence and the suffering of others with the same natural inborn instinct that allows any predator to hunt.

When werewolves clash with witches and break a peace treaty all hell breaks loose. Spells and teeth claim eyes for eyes while vampires pit the groups against each other in their own long game for dominance. But super naturals forget just how smart and dangerous witches can be. When the fae and a ghost that can kill both get involved, the balance of power will never be the same.

From wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable energy will further accelerate as electric vehicles become less expensive than traditional automobiles. Understanding the implications of the energy transition will prepare us for the many changes ahead.

It started as an innocent game among friends. Then the changes of teenage years pushed the game beyond boundaries of childish fun. Girls and boys notice each other’s changes. Infatuations become crushes. Crushes lead to physical curiosities. The game becomes a catalyst of desire. When a tall, dark, handsome man moves in next door, the girls take more than a passing notice. One girl more than the others. A crush becomes an obsession and unrequited love leads to drastic actions. Only those who dare shall succeed.

Get the next three books in the Weary Dragon Inn Cozy Fantasy series, including Beasts and Baking, Magic and Molemen, and Veils and Villains, in a convenient audiobook bundle.

Children who died before being born return to earth to seek vengeance for the lives they were denied.

It's the wedding of the year in Pigsend, at least if you talk to Vicky Hamblin. The bride-to-be is dead set on making her wedding to baker Allen Mackey the most perfect spectacle in the history of weddings, if only to impress her two snooty aunts. Bev's in charge of hosting them at the Weary Dragon Inn, along with a carefully-curated list of other family members, all designed to impress. But when things start going awry, and Vicky suspects someone might be out to sabotage her wedding, Bev's on the case once more. Can she find out who's out to get the bride before the big day?

Iovah and Eryki are both Celestians, creatures that influenced the creation of all things as the human species know them to be. But Iovah was never the one god and Eryki is not the devil as have been described. Iovah performed an immoral experiment on the human species. Eryki seeks to rectify the damage the experiment created. Their fight over human kind shook the heavens over Earth. Now the human species has a choice to make. Accept the truth and heal the damage or continue to embrace the great mistake and plunge head long into oblivion.

In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market.

Bev's on the hunt to understand her mysterious past, and that means a visit to her dear friend Merv. The six-foot moleman doesn't have the answers, but takes her to the secret, underground town of Lower Pigsend, thriving with all the magical creatures seeking refuge after the war. Upon returning to the Weary Dragon, Bev is confronted by sentries from the underground town. They accuse her of stealing a magical talisman that protects the town and - even worse - have threatened to arrest Merv for building a tunnel to the surface.

Spring is on the horizon, and the Weary Dragon Inn is getting its annual deep clean. But before Bev can even finish scrubbing the windows, Carpenter Earl's workshop goes up in flames. Earl's convinced the local kids are behind the mischief, but when more buildings come crashing down under mysterious circumstances, Bev's on the case once more.

Warm beds, quaint mysteries, and the best rosemary bread this side of Pigsend Creek. Welcome to the Weary Dragon Inn. Bev may not know who she was before she showed up in the quaint village of Pigsend five years ago, but that doesn’t bother her much. She’s made a tidy little life for herself as the proprietor of the Weary Dragon Inn, where the most notable event is when she makes her famous rosemary bread.

The Witzel Solstice Party is the highlight of an otherwise quiet winter season in Pigsend. But when Vellora and Ida Witzel start receiving mysterious, threatening letters, the party—and their own safety—may be in jeopardy. Across the street, Bev's got an inn full of suspects—and a freak winter storm to keep them all in one place. They all have their secrets, and it's a race against time and melting snow to figure out who's blackmailing the butchers—and which secret they're threatening to expose.

The Harvest Festival is the most-anticipated event in the quaint village of Pigsend, and Bev and the Weary Dragon Inn are ready to welcome visitors from near and far. But when strange occurrences begin happening, including the destruction of Bev's beloved herb garden, Bev's got to put her sleuthing hat back on to uncover the truth.

Jacob Marley is not trying to save his friend from beyond the grave. The three ghosts Marley sends to Scrooge are not benevolent beings come to save a lost human soul. The real story is as dark as a winter’s night. Sinister beings summoned by a dark heart are sent on a mission of murder and death. Ebenezer must fight for his life against monsters whom Marley controls by the possession of their names.