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My name is Christine, and I'm on the run from a cult that wants me dead. Annabelle Lane is the cult's cunning and venomous leader, who forced me to commit crimes that are unforgivable. Annabelle's threats aren't to be taken lightly, and everybody knows that once you're in the cult, you're in it for life.

Ticking-clock action adventure follows after a young Turkish girl follows her pet goat into the wood and emerges in the company of the Algerian boy who finds it, prompting a village rumormonger to cry shame. Commissioner Muhammad is called on to intervene when a storied Algerian corsair captain is pitted against a Turkish shipowner vowing to avenge his family’s honor.

As a bartender in Las Vegas, Curtis seems to have the dream life. He’s single, lives close to the Strip, and only has to worry about when to pick up the next extra shift. No one knows the truth about what happened ten years ago, and no one knows how he spends three months every year: as a part-time elf for Santa Claus. When Curtis went to the Arctic Circle the first time, he thought he could escape the unthinkable. Now, the anniversary of the worst day of his life is coming up, and he’s been asked to do the unbelievable.

Tara has thrived in the unforgiving sand lands, where every day is a battle. But when her village is wiped out by the ruthless Prezedant and her loved ones taken, she'll stop at nothing to get them back. With an unlikely team by her side, including an orphaned boy and his devil cat, a dwarf storytelling trader, and a bitter young man, Tara sets out on a perilous journey through the ruins of civilization. Together, they'll face unimaginable dangers, fight for their lives, and try to uncover the truth about what really happened to the world that once existed.

My life is all about order and discipline. Logan was a distraction for one night only. But now we are tangled up in each other’s lives and there's no getting out. I’m not sure I want to. The attraction is as strong as ever and I can’t understand why I keep fighting it.

After a humiliating breakup, Gianna quit her job and returned to her family’s pizzeria, but she’s unprepared for what she finds loitering near the dumpster one chilly night. Kyle was abandoned by his friends and family when his fortunes took a sudden downturn. If not for Gianna’s generosity, he’d be living under the town bridge like a troll. As soon as his financial situation changes, he plans to return to the life he left behind and settle a few scores.

Eighteen year old Ariel is a senior in high school. This boy in her English class catches her eye: he is her dream crush. When she gets to know him, she realizes that he is a nightmare, rather than a dream.

Nicole Fleming and Dante LaPalma have nothing in common except an old man's legacy. Joe Corbet has promised that a great treasure awaits them—if they're clever enough to solve his riddles within nine months. According to Joe's will, Nicole and Dante must participate in several excursions. After each adventure, a new clue will be presented that will lead them to their next obstacle. Only when they've completed every task can they discover the treasure meant just for them.

Wally Finkelstein is your average Joe. Your typical underdog—not super attractive, not super wealthy, but he does have stability and happiness to offer. And to his girlfriend’s surprise, he turns out to be super in other departments.

I didn’t expect to be kidnapped by Keeran’s father—or tortured for his pleasure. When the she-wolf that stole my pack unites with my mate’s sworn enemy, everything seems dire. I’m not getting out of this one alive … not unless someone saves me that I don’t expect to. Someone with ties to Keeran’s past.

Kaius Braveheart has just been granted the rank of knight to the Ligera royal family of Rosado. His first task, seek out the Grand Mage Vincent Braveheart, his older brother, and Princess Alaia Ligera. He is to inform them that King Cecilio Ligera wishes to speak with them. A simple task surely, were it not for the rising tensions in his relationship with the two. His brother's growing mistrust for the Ligera family has caused a rift between the brothers.

No one knows me better than Faith. When I'm in the biggest fight of my life, she is the only one I think to turn to. It was only supposed to be temporary. I never imagined I would fall in love with her, or want to make her mine.

Banished from Drakopolis to the desolate frontier town of Glassblower's Gulch, Abel and his family must face a harsh new reality: life without dragons. Far from the lights and lizards of the megacity, Abel's new home effectively bans the great beasts. Anyone caught smuggling dragons is hauled away by the ruthless sheriff and her fearsome deputies. They have the only dragons in town, and they run the dreaded dragon rodeo, which pits those who fall afoul of the sheriff's "justice" against a wild dragon in a competition for their freedom. It's dragon versus human and only one can win.

A fast-acting virus has killed a majority of the world’s female population. With so few women on Earth, a new law is created. The Claiming Law allow groups of men to stake a claim on a female as their sensual property, and the Outlaw brothers are returning from the Terrorist Wars intent on declaring ownership of the women they love.

Derrick “Dez” Allen wants nothing more than to be on the big stage busting rhymes like KRS-1, Slick Rick or EPMD. He seems to be on his way when he discovers girls. Raging hormones, peer pressure, and the allure of money and drugs impact Dez’s life in ways that no one sees until one terrible Flicted decision–one that could cost him everything.

A Gradual Grace is Christina's third memoir. In the first, This Place You Know, she tells the story of her childhood on an outback sheep station, told in her mother's voice and her own voice and published by Ginninderra Press in 2019. The second, A Practice of Loss, tells the story of the breakdown of her marriage and the abduction of her three young daughters by their father. A Gradual Grace completes the trilogy.

Leaders have one thing in common: they come from a family. Family leadership is one of the most important concepts of life because family is the source of human ingenuity. With good family leadership, we can push for greater justice and racial equality in the United States and around the world, and maintain a more just and loving humanity.

I had given her my name, I had given her my protection, but that didn't mean I had any right to her. Ethan: I gave her a place to stay, and I owed my life to her brother, who died saving mine. It was only supposed to be until I was done with my deployment. But now I need her to stick around a little while longer. To help me secure a future from a father I never wanted to know and brothers who despise me. I never counted on needing or wanting Sabrina, nor falling in love with her.

In a town where gossip spreads like dust blowing in from the Mallee’s canola fields, something unspeakable is about to happen to sixteen-year-old Lauren. It’s bad enough she’s losing her mum to a horrible mental disease and that her best friend is leaving town, but now the only person she thought she could trust, is about to betray her. She can’t stay here. No one is going to believe the town cop could do such a horrific thing to his own daughter. There’s nothing left to do but run. Especially after the fire.

When her childhood crush invites her to Paris, Skye runs with her heart instead of her head. Her brother is in a jam and needs help—but what’s new. Daniel Valencia is her brother's best friend, and her lifetime crush.