A Human hybrid and an Alpha Were claw against the bonds of fate in the highly anticipated companion novel to the New York Times bestselling Bride. Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries long rift between species. Instead, it made her a target, prey to the ruthless political machinations between Weres, Vampyres, and Humans. With her enemies closing in on her, she has only one option left-if he'll have her. As Alpha of the Northwest pack, Koen Alexander commands obedience. His authority is so absolute, only a fool would ... |
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Мара, Сейди и Хана са първи приятелки, но преди всичко са учени. Въпреки че научните им дейности ги изпращат в различни точки на света, момичетата са сигурни в едно: когато става въпрос за любов и наука, противоположностите се привличат, а опонентът ти може да те накара да изгориш... Изданието съдържа три горещи STEM новели и ексклузивна бонус глава. Под един покрив Инженер еколог разбира, че на учените не им трябва да съжителстват заедно, когато се оказва заклещена със съквартирант от ада - омразен адвокат на петролен гигант, който на всичкото отгоре не иска да остави термостата ѝ на мира. Приклещени заедно ... |
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Скарлет Вандермиър плува срещу течението. Третокурсничка в Станфорд и състезател по скокове във вода, Скарлет предпочита да стои на заден план, концентрирана да влезе в медицински университет и да се възстанови от контузията, която почти сложи край на кариерата ѝ. Няма време за връзки – поне това си повтаря. Лукас Бломквист е капитан на отбора по плуване, световен шампион, златно момче на водните спортове благодарение на дисциплината. Така печели медали и чупи рекорди: пълна концентрация с всеки замах. На пръв поглед Лукас и Скарлет нямат нищо общо. Докато една дълбоко пазена тайна не изплува на повърхността и ... |
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Серина Парис е сирак, вълк без глутница и единствена по рода си. Тя е първият хибрид между човек и върколак и появата ѝ би трябвало да сложи край на вековната вражда между видовете. Но вместо това Серина се превръща в мишена на безмилостни политически машинации между върколаци, вампири и хора. Враговете я обграждат от всички страни и младата жена има една-единствена възможност пред себе си - в случай, че той се съгласи. Като Алфа на глутницата на Северозапада, Коен Александър изисква подчинение. Неговата власт е толкова абсолютна, че само глупак би заплашил партньорката му. И няма значение дали Серена отвръща на ... |
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Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious Kingkiller Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. Nolan's loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone. What's even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to ... |
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Under One Roof. An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell-a detestable big-oil lawyer who won’t leave the thermostat alone. Stuck with You. A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry-and love-to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator. Below Zero. A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station and the only person willing to undertake the dangerous rescue mission is her longtime rival. From the New York Times bestselling author of ... |
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The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig-until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite ... |
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Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange again... Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It's clear from the way he tracks Misery&# ... |
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Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through-and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can&# ... |
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Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It's such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother's best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life. But not ... |
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Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships-at least, that's what she tells herself. Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It's how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips ... |
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"В любовта и в науката всичко е позволено." Ру Сибърт може и да няма всичко, но има достатъчно - неколцина приятели, на които винаги може да разчита; финансовата стабилност, за която копнее като дете; и успешна кариера като инженер по бионанотехнология в Клайн - един от най-успешните стартъпи в областта на хранителната промишленост. Светът ѝ е стабилен, приятен и трудно извоюван. Докато едно вражеско поглъщане и обидно привлекателният му ръководител не заплашват да сринат всичко. Илай Килгор и бизнес партньорите му искат Клайн, точка. Илай обаче си има собствени причини да натиска за тази сделка - а той ... |
