Contains the four volumes of the Marked & mated series. Harper Burns was just abducted from her house by four big, bad shifters. When she finds out her father traded her for his life to a wolf king, she's ready to escape. Sebastian Roarhart is shifter royalty. He's been cursed and needs to have a child or die. Now, he has to convince Harper to see him as more than some man holding her hostage. Harper knows one thing for sure: she can't let him die. Robyn...

A powerful, award-winning examination of the tragic series of events that followed a desperate bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro in 2000 that turned deadly when a SWAT team took evasive action against the drug-addled hijacker. The tragic event was broadcast live on Brazilian television. Shows the incompetence of police at the scene. Traces the social deprivation that led the culprit to that point. Includes interviews.

"Subject: Marine Reservist Jackson Savage. Current Status: Security expert, ready for his first assignment. Mission: Playing Santa at a local bar. Obstacle: A woman who tempts him to be very, very naughty. Jackson Savage is all ready to start an exciting new career at a local security agency. But for tonight, his job is to play Santa ... until his good friend and co-marine Maxine "Max" McGuire sits on his lap, ready to tell him exactly what--or rather,...

1867. Addy wants nothing more than to leave her small Illinois home for the gold-rich hills of Colorado, where a teaching job awaits. But her plans are thwarted when a band of outlaws rob the very bank in which she is withdrawing her savings, taking her hostage in the process. Rogue and ruthless, her captives sweep her off to the country with evil intent, but one man stands in the way. Ex-Confederate soldier Parker Cole doesn't understand his own...

They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there. Because Maggie has done things to Nina that can't ever be forgiven, and now she is paying the price. But there...

Can unemployment turn someone into a ticking time bomb? Once-feisty human resources director Alain Delambre has lost all hope of finding a job and everyday feels increasingly more marginalized. When a recruiting company finally decides to consider him for a position, he is willing to do anything to get the job and regain his dignity, from lying to his wife or borrowing money from his daughter in order to pay for the final test of the selection process:...

Snowed in with a couple of psychopaths for the winter ... When two small-time crooks rob Reykjavik's premier drugs dealer, hoping for a quick escape to the sun, their plans start to unravel after their getaway driver fails to show. Tensions mount between the pair and the two women they have grabbed as hostages when they find themselves holed upcountry in an isolated hotel that has been mothballed for the season. Back in the capital, Gunnhildur, Eirikur...