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the pied piper of hammelin  is kind of a dark fairy tale, and it's retelling is no less dark. as frequency opens, fiona jones witnesses something horrific 9 years ago. something that connects her to the darkness that lies beneath the surface of her hometown of hamm. she sees her father and two councilmen beat up a guy for fulfilling their request. the town of hamm had been overrun with teens who were into drugs and other undesirable things. so the pit viper took them away. and got beat up for his troubles. except he promises to return and fiona gave him an apple. that moment of connection shouldn't mean anything, but when fiona's boyfriend gifts her a pit viper record the name is too distinctive to belong to anyone else. and just when she'd started to believe that small town life wasn't so bad, everything starts to change for the worse. all her friends are obsessed, only fiona finds the pit viper's music off-putting. it turns out she has ...

sean and molly finally get their story in just this once , we really got to know them in the wedding date bargain , and even then it was obvious that there was something there. when things become undeniable, they decide to cross the lines of best friendship and try and get their feelings out of their system. it's just sex. except it's not just sex. it's everything. they've been a couple without being a couple for so long. they don't know how not to be. distance and boundaries aren't their thing. and it's messy and it's everything they never thought they wanted. but it's also them and it's perfect. molly gets a little too stubborn in the end, because she keeps turning this guy who is telling her he wants her and is showing up every day for her, because she'd rather believe something he said before. so that was a challenge, especially because there's this scene where he is so utterly wrecked and beside himself and so freaking in lov...

in the follow up to garden of thorns , rayce and rose need to find their way through their conflicting interests. everything is still rolled up in the gardener. even captive, he holds too much thrall over rayce for rose's peace of mind, and too much thrall over rose for rayce's. but these two still love each other, they would do anything for each other. even when they are at odds. so their journey isn't easy. what they have to do to win isn't a walk in the park. It's war, the war of the wilted . and it's not just the rebellion that's at stake. it's the fate of two kingdons. it's life and death. and this story remains just as captivating as it was in the first book. i can't wait for this story to continue. even as rose and rayce overcome great odds, it seems like there's another twist to the game. **war of the wilted will publish on october 1, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publihsing (entangled...

i think some of this scene was inspired by a date with my now-husband...

 Laurelin Paige is proud to launch the first book in The Ryder Brothers, the first series in her new Spark line!  Short, steamy sparks of romance, these quick reads will be released in Kindle Unlimited and will deliver the steamy passion that Laurelin Paige is known for. Even more exciting, fellow authors Kayti McGee and JD Hawkins have joined Laurelin to bring you The Ryder Brothers - Three complete stand-alones featuring ex-boy band members Nick, Jake and Jonas Ryder! Keep reading for more information on the series...

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after surviving the ordeal of having her father convicted of running a ponzi scheme, the last thing lenore bradshaw, lenny to her friends, needs is halsey sherwood, of the con artist sherwoods hanging around and claiming to help her. the problem is he is helping her. and in fool me forever , the problem isn't lenny and halsey's attraction to each other. it's that they aren't supposed to end up together. he's a con artist from a long line of con artists, and lenny is trying to play it straight and do good. and how can she do good if she's constantly surrounding herself with criminals. the sherwoods do bad things for good reasons. the con the con and redistribute the ill-gotten goods. when lenny is tricked out of money by a perfect sherwood target, she finds herself partnering up with halsey to bring the bad guy down. and the more she sees of halsey the clearer it is that he is not the villain she's made him out to be. but can he be the hero in h...

a potion for passion   finds miss flora hartington indulging in her fascination with itinerant medicine man, lawrence campion. posing as dr. l.e. champaign he has a whole host of tisanes and medicinal tonics that he sells at fairs and markets in small town england. part criminal, part quack, part healer, lawrence is many things, and flora doesn't always see them. she tends to see the best of him. he's been her hero for so long, that even when he behaves shadily she finds excuses for him. but she's sheltered and he's been her hero for so long. when he accidentally gives her a bottle of hair dye instead of hair tonic and her hair turns red, she's furious and sets out to find him to ensure that he can help her change it back. somehow he convinces her to join in his show. and soon she is his partner in all things, madame julietta. being julietta gives flora a taste of freedom and of independence she never truly enjoyed before. and the halfway in love turn...

funny story, so the while you were sleeping reference here is literally lifted from a conversation i had with my high school boyfriend. we watched it on our first date and that was literally the only scene he enjoyed. it remains one of my favorite comfort movies, so his dislike of it, and our eventual break up had no bearing on my love for the movie.

the first book in the fire's edge series, the boss  finds crew chief finn conleth trying to figure out why fires have been chasing delaney hamilton. across the country. especially since they seem to be dragon-made and not natural fires. finn's crew are the huracán enforcers, a coalition of specialist dragons who are in charge of keeping humans safe from dragon-created fires and hunting down rogue dragons and ensuring that justice is served if they've caused harm. finn finds himself incredibly attracted to delaney but he refuses to act on this. he's been haunted by the death of the woman he'd thought he was mated to and can't bear to put another woman at risk. delaney doesn't even bear the markers of a potential dragon mate so his unnatural possessiveness and desire for her makes no sense. soon they determine that delaney is being stalked by a dragon convinced she is his mate. but it makes no sense, identifying dragon mates has been a long-estab...