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Tara Lewis is a woman who plans everything—host of a hit TV show, media darling, and perfectly poised bride-to-be. But when she travels to the misty shores of Scotland to wed, fate has other plans. After a chance encounter on a lonely country road, Tara is thrust into a world where time bends, legends breathe, and a chivalrous knight from another century stands between her and the life she thought she wanted.

Rae Lambers is over the moon when she inherits half a house from her mentor, Thomas Gregory. The property is a gorgeous Victorian on an island in San Francisco Bay. But the house comes with a snag. The other half has been bequeathed to Thomas Gregory's son, Michael, a man Rae carried a torch for during high school.

Time traveler Amara will do anything to save her wounded companion and the precious cargo she carries, even if it means convincing troubled entrepreneur, Max Griffin, to trust a woman again - and himself. As Max and Amara journey across Egypt to face her nemesis in Greece, Amara realizes an even greater danger threatens her newly found freedom: she is falling in love.

In this lush paranormal set on the shores of the Nile, an elegant stranger persuades a sculptress to join in the search for a lost Egyptian temple. During the search, Karissa uncovers the truth about her father and the reason why she is obsessed with big, black cats.

Veronique Dunn has lived on the streets of Londo City since she was eight years old - an orphan in constant danger of being arrested. Three days before her 18th birthday, she sees an audition announcement for a new Citizen Symphony. This is her big chance. She might be a rag-tag street rat, but she can play the piano like an angel. And in three days, she will be able to step out of the shadows. But staying out of trouble for three days is a real challenge. Her mentor is murdered. She discovers an agent of the Overseers is looking for her.

After the regime executes her husband for treason, Eva Wilder is cast out of her home, stripped of status, safety, and illusion. Eva has only one option: disappear, and trust no one. She intends to do just that—until the tide washes up a half-drowned stranger with blood on his hands and fire in his eyes.

Step back in time to an Edwardian London blanketed by a nuclear winter, where humans are ruled by mysterious overlords and love is forbidden. Strict laws keep citizen in check, until one man decides he's had enough. His desperate act starts a cascade of events that rips Londo City apart and fractures longstanding loyalties - including those of the two brothers who rule Londo and two sisters who decide to follow their hearts, no matter the cost. As the sisters fight for their lives, they uncover dark truths about themselves - and the devastating secret behind human survival.

Back country guide Jack Hughes has a problem. He has been hired by a software billionaire and his beautiful fiancée, Claire Coulter, to find a legendary fountain-of-youth in the California wilderness. Much to Jack's consternation, he discovers Claire can read the minds of animals simply by touching them. Jack can't allow her to touch him or even get close, for fear that she will discover his well-protected secret.Yet, the deeper into the California wilderness they travel and the more dangers they face, the more Jack finds himself yearning for Claire's special touch and a whole lot more.

Marissa Quinn, a Montana rancher with a serious independent streak meets her match when a botched time-travel experiment threatens the life of her sister and transports a domineering warrior from ancient Gaul into modern day Seattle.

Sentenced to burn at the stake for sorcery, animal-lover Merofled volunteers to assist a warrior find the gargoyle that is threatening her village, and help rescue the boy it has captured. She's going to die anyway - why not do something positive with her life? So, off she rides with a local farmer and the handsome, war-weary soldier. Merofled secretly hopes that if she and her comrades succeed in saving the boy, she might be granted a pardon. But on the quest to find the gargoyle, Merofled discovers that the men plan to kill the creature she has vowed to defend.