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1) Dare
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The truth is that Amber Colbright has waited her entire life for a guy, like Reese Shaw. Fresh out of college and ready to start a new chapter, the couple has big plans for a serious life together. Recently engaged, they are off to a great start with decent jobs and an even better first home. But, the real world isn't so simple.
In order to play with the big kids you have to get a little dirty. It's the first life lesson she's learned since the day...
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Six-months is a long time in the life of a serial killer with active cravings. Jimmie Putnam has made a lot of changes. Now, with his own ice cream shop, hiding bodies is easier than ever before. With sixteen kills under his belt, Jimmie is cocky. And, the cravings are only getting worse: Have you ever just been in the mood for ice cream? You can't really say why that craving comes on. But, you can't sleep, even at 2 a.m. until you get it. So, you...
3) Harem
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The quintessential outcast. She was nothing more than the girl with stringy hair who came from amessed up home. The last one picked but first with her hand up, they looked right past her.To them, she was invisible.But Kimberly had a secret: All along, Kimberly was the single person running the show.Until now.Now?She was tired of riding alone.
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You can't pick your kin or the risky games they play. Every family has its secrets but for Elise Reddick, entangled roots have turned deadly, leaving her torn between twisted memories and cold realities.
Estranged from her family of origin after a horrific crime, Elise tries to move on in the tiny town of Red Leaf while under investigation for her ex-boyfriend's murder. There, she forms new relationships and encounters more lies as she slowly unravels...
5) The Cabin
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The Cabin
Justice is bitter.
It began with a simple hope and a need but got crazy quick.
For lifelong besties Suzie and Heather, it was obvious there would be a price for sweet justice eventually.
Karma is-after all-a subjective thing. And, pain and pleasure can be as tangled as friendship.
But, it's not always so complicated. We have all been there. We know that justice can be sweet. So what if, Heather and Suzie wondered, they found a way to turn...
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Dr. Patricia Hamlet is no rookie when it comes to head games. In fact, after losing her therapy license to unethical experimentation, she's determined to show her former supervisors just what the word 'unethical' means.
Now, using her former private practice, Hamlet will train the unsuspecting student – Dakota Newman – how to manipulate both hearts and minds.
Together, they will master the darkness. Only, Dakota, in it for the right reasons, has...
7) Daddy's Girl
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Stephen T. Morrison was an ordinary father who wore sensible shoes every day to a job he couldn't stand. It was no different than his marriage — something he did because it was "the right thing to do." Day in and day out, things were the same. The only highlight to his day was messages from the meaningless fling he called Baby Girl; a woman he'd finally broken vows for just to feel alive. It-and she-didn't matter, really. His wife, Kathy, had checked...
8) Just Things
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Sometimes, the cravings just take over. Jimmie Putnam is an ordinary man by any measure. By day, he works as a law clerk. At night, when he can't fight the cravings, he becomes a collector. He takes great care of his human Things, buying them cherry lipstick and reading to them from his journal. When they've, been on their best behavior, he even takes them out of his freezers... Sometimes, the need is just too deep. Florel Ross has been mostly invisible...
9) Rotten
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Spoiled plans were simply not an option for Jonah Dunn.It didn't matter that Emery Swinn, his she-devil boss, thought she could have anything she wanted by simply batting her eyes and making others do her dirty work.Jonah, who had lived enough for three lives, knew exactly what he wanted and wasn't going to let Her Highness stop him.With eyes set on rookie intern Danielle Mosley, Jonah had every intention of doing whatever it took to win her affection....
10) Circus Freak
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Step into the madness…My name is Samantha. In theory, or Hebrew or even Aramaic it means God heard" or Listener." Epic, really, considering I've never believed in God and that I'd rather poke my ear drums out with dull spoons than listen to the daily yammering around this place. I've never been a listener. Truth is, I take after my mother, who'd also rather be on stage. I guess that comes natural when you grow up as a side show act in a freaky-assed...
11) Smoe
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This life of a circus freak ain't easy. It's especially difficult when you're part of a conjoined twin big top act where disagreements are a daily thing. It's worse when your twin is in love with a killer and you can't convince him to run the other way - even if you are the one with the legs. If you do, he'll kill you anyway. Same can be said for the guy in love who can't get a moment's privacy. All the carnie brothers ever dreamed about was being...
12) Being Martha
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Martha knows things. For starters, she wants away from the big top. But, it won't be easy.
To finally, be free of the circus life, she has to find herself. That will mean facing reality. And Martha, unlike the rest of the oddities, knows the truth.
There are actualities that come with working in the circus:
1. You don't apply for no reason.
2. No one is, who they seem.
3. It's impossible to leave unchanged.
The carnival's resident bearded lady, is...
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Be wary whom you give your heart to.
They may steal your soul.
Soul Less is the full length novel, based on Erin Lee's popular horror shorts, including ‘Praying Mantis’. Readers are calling it one that will "haunt my nightmares" and "scary as heck." Soul Less is sure to leave you with hairs standing on the back of your neck and wondering if people are really who they say they are.
14) Kept
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KeptAn Erin Lee ThrillerInspired by a true storyBree's destiny had always been kept.Like a dirty secret, it was nearly impossible to escape a certain dark fate. A victim of circumstance determined to survive, she only wanted someone to trust. But it wouldn't come easy.First, it was the family life that forced her to run away from home at age fifteen.Next, it was her son's father, Le, who pulled her from friends, locking her into a toxic web of abuse...
15) The Retreat
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Trigger warning. That's what the front entrance should say. Instead, it lies the same way the outsiders do. Week after week, it cheerfully ushers unsuspecting loved ones and visitors to the registration desk where they'll sign day passes to visit us: the broken girls. The lost. The forgotten. The damaged. The twisted. Every Saturday-Sundays on holidays too-outsiders will visit with no clue what really goes on in the place they've sent us to where...
16) Thing Fifteen
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My name is Beverly. I'm more than a Thing. Every town has its legends. I would know, I am one of them. I am the girl they tell campfire stories about. The "well-liked librarian" who was going places until she was kidnapped and eaten by the Ice Cream Man. I am the warning parents tell their children about, the woman whose remains were never found... There's so much more to my story than how I died. My name is Beverly Watkins. I was twenty-seven years...
17) Moving On
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Every friendship starts with a hope and a need.It was obvious when Heather and Suzie teamed up that they'd be besties forever:Killing is-after all-a bonding experience. And justice and karma are best friends too.But it's not always so simple. We've all been there. We know that friendships can be complicated. So what if, Heather and Suzie wondered, they left it all behind and tried to mend a relationship gone astray? Maybe, if they ran far enough,...
18) The Ranch
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Every business starts with a market and a need.It was obvious when Heather got out of a quick stint in county lock-up that there was a need for someone to give karma a little shove in the right direction.We've all been there. We know the pain of moving on. But what if, Heather and Suzie wondered, moving on could be pain-guaranteed-for the ones who'd hurt them?Welcome to The Ranch:A place where clients are encouraged to order justice ala carte. Torture...
19) Vegan
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Breaking the rules can be deadly. Following them can be worse.
The Ten Golden Rules: They are simple.
Do not mistake humble for weak, nor meek for frail.
Don't confuse empathy with stupidity, or honesty with foolhardiness.
At no time, underestimate the power of gratitude.
Always be appreciative and sincere.
Forever hold true the virtues of integrity and patience.
Never assume.
The Ten Rules of Karma: They are certain.
Expectations based on pretenses...
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Tears.They were the big guns women brought out when pouting didn't work and wallets got wedged between socks – locked up tight in drawers because chicks were expensive.It wasn't like best friends Victor and Drake were new to this. Successful, decent-looking guys with careers and healthy futures ahead, they'd had their share of trophy girlfriends. But dating Sylvia and Sara-twin sisters with the ability to pitch astray aerial assaults at uncooperative...
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