Somebody knows her secret. Can Sophie keep her wolfish alter ego under wraps?

Sophie Garou seems to have it all: a great job at a prestigious accounting firm, a closet that rivals a Nordstrom showroom, and a terrific boyfriend who isn’t afraid to use the “M” word. There’s just one little itty-bitty problem: Sophie is a werewolf – and HER time of the month has a whole new meaning.

Needless to say, life among yummy flesh-and-blood humans is no piece of steak… er, cake!, but regular doses of wolfsbane tea and a mother who runs a magic shop have helped Sophie keep her paranormal pedigree under wraps. Still, when a sexy, golden-eyed werewolf prowls into town, Sophie finds herself struggling to keep her animal impulses in check – not to mention trying to keep things on track with her super hot (and super HUMAN) lawyer boyfriend. What’s more, someone is threatening to expose Sophie for what she really is. And when her mother is accused of selling a poison-laced potion, Sophie must sniff out a culprit before the fur hits the fan.

"A swift-paced, fun romp through supernatural Austin." – Charlaine Harris, New York Times best-selling author

"Sophie was a delight, and Howling at the Moon was like a big bag of potato chips… I kept reaching for the next page, and the next, and the next…" – Mary Janice Davidson, New York Times best-selling author of the Undead series

"This hilarious werewolf tale will keep you laughing — and begging for more!" – Fresh Fiction

This is the FOURTH book in Edgar-winner Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series.

"A delightfully modern sleuth." --Minneapolis Tribune

"If you haven't discovered Smith yet, now is the time to do so . . . Move over, Sara Paretsky." —KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA)

WHAT'S THE ETIQUETTE WHEN YOUR HOSTESS IS ARRESTED FOR MURDER?

San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz has occasion to wonder when she and her weekend hostess, Marty Whitehead, find a body floating in the 30-foot kelp tower at the Monterey Aquarium, and Marty's promptly dragged off to the slammer.

Rebecca quickly grasps the Emily Post solution—sign on as Marty's lawyer, try to keep her client's two young kids out of the deep end, and somehow avoid drowning in the sea of lies gushing from Marty's mouth--and everyone else’s. There’s a lot of intrigue among the aquarium's oceangoing primates, as well as rumors of a pearl beyond price.

For Rebecca, the sea and all its animals have always held a huge attraction, but now her attention turns to a particularly fine specimen of homo sapiens--hot marine biologist Julio Soto. As her investigation picks up speed, she finds she better act fast to keep Julio from sleeping with the fishes he collects. Because if she doesn’t, he could be next in line for the shark tank—along with Rebecca herself.

Author's note: I wrote this after I'd written the first book in the Skip Langdon Police Procedural Series, which is a much darker proposition than the Rebecca Schwartz books. Usually. But some readers have remarked that this one is a good deal darker than the three previous titles in the series. It does have some scary scenes, but I think Rebecca kept her sense of humor. Try it--money back if you don't like it! I promise. Just write me at juleorleans@cox.net. --Thanking you in advance for your kind indulgence--Julie Smith

"Nobody gets inside her characters like Julie Smith." -Linda Barnes, author of the Carlotta Carlyle series

"Smith is a gifted writer." -The Washington Post Book World

This special Christmas edition of Dare to Want More includes a bonus short story, A Very Dare Christmas. Only available for a limited time so grab your copy today!

Books 1 – 3 of the Dare to Love Series
3 books in one amazing package! Each stand alone.

Dare to Love
She arouses his dominant and protective instincts
And he will do anything to possess her …
And does.

When billionaire Ian Dare gets one glimpse of the sensual and irresistible Riley Taylor, he knows that he must have her. But any future he might have with Riley means he'll have to confront his past--a past he'd rather forget. And that's something this NFL team owner won't dare to do--not even for love.

Dare to Desire
He knows how to score
… on the field and in the bedroom.

But Alex Dare isn't prepared for the injury that sidelines him into early retirement. Still, if it means working closely with the one woman who ever meant more to him than a one night stand, he's all on board. But there is no amount of wealth or charm that could persuade social worker, Madison Evans, back into Alex's bed.

Good thing Alex loves a challenge. But soon seducing Madison becomes more than just a goal, it just might define his future.

Dare to Touch
He doesn’t do anything half way … in bed or out.

And when Dylan Rhodes, Travel Director for the Miami Thunder football team, decides to pursue Olivia Dare, he goes all in. When the Pro-Bowl takes them to the desert oasis of Arizona, Dylan is determined to make sure their time together isn’t all business. What happens while at the luxury resort is life altering but when Olivia admits her deepest secret, will Dylan be able to prove he’s a man with staying power? Or will Olivia be disappointed again, this time by the most important man in her life?

SILVERS HAS SOLD OVER 500,000 BOOKS, AND IS A DRAGON AWARD NOMINATED AUTHOR

Meet Callie Penrose. Is she Heaven’s Devil, or Hell’s Angel?

Callie is a middle-class, Midwest American girl. And a wizard in training. She works for Roland, a member of the Vatican Shepherds – an elite group of twelve warrior priests who travel the world smiting whatever offends them or their Good Lord.

One problem. Callie isn’t a huge fan of churches… Not even a minor fan, really.

She trains with Roland only to learn how to use those strange magical powers inside her. And because Roland had once saved her and her friend from monsters in a dark alley.

But when a Heavenly spear enters an auction in Kansas City, and Roland is gravely wounded, Callie finds herself forced to step up as an interim Shepherd, and her first night on the job puts her in a bidding war against the infamous Nate Temple – the billionaire wizard from St. Louis. And when demons, shifter bears, vampires, and Nephilim attack the auction for the spear, Nate and Callie are forced to join teams, and one-time foes become hesitant allies.

Callie must learn where she stands as a wizard. Will she hide behind a man, or light Kansas City afire with a name of her own? And will she finally come to appreciate God? Or will the demons and monsters in the shadows take her for themselves?

Because Callie soon learns she isn’t just a wizard, and it was never just about the spear. Monsters have evidently been hunting Callie her entire life, and now, they’ve finally found her…

If you like Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, Linsey Hall, K.F. Breene or Shannon Mayer, you will LOVE the first installment of the Feathers and Fire series.

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The safety of royal life shatters in an instant . . .

Karna Dunjour dreams of learning weapons and combat. Instead, the princess is stuck at a prestigious foreign university with other dragon shifter royals. It doesn’t help matters that Karna sucks at her studies, especially compared to her charming and talented twin brother and their perfect older sister.

But when an enemy tribe attacks the school, the safety of royal life shatters in an instant. The strike aims to wipe out the Dunjours, forcing Karna and her siblings to flee.

Fearing the worst for her family back home, Karna must find a way to survive. With the help of handsome and mysterious Dmitri, Karna finds a man who can show her how to exact vengeance. But she’ll have to abandon her identity and enter a shadowy world. Can Karna become the assassin who will save her family, the throne, and her people?

If you enjoy books by Sarah J. Maas, Marissa Meyer, Kiera Cass, or Rick Riordan, you’ll devour the action-packed romance and drama of the Assassin Dragon Princess Trilogy by Christine Castle.

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A career soldier who survived a deadly riot in Cairo, and a reclusive mythology expert from Montana, race against time to find the product of legends that’s cutting a bloody path across the continent.

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One snowy evening, a stranger with a horribly scarred face stomps on the porch of Stella Hunter’s house, holding her latest book of myths and legends. He points to the bloody fingerprints of the book’s now deceased owner, marking a passage of the Peacetaker myth. When she asks how he came by the book, he tells her he took the controversial book from the lifeless hand of a traffic fatality in Cairo. And suddenly, Stella could swear that somewhere a clock started ticking down to doomsday. After all, the fate of humanity depends on whether she was right or wrong when she wrote her infamous book.

"The Room is a compelling story of possession, evil, and the struggle of a family dealing with the unknown."
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Don and Faith Paxton just moved into the house of their dreams--a 1929 remodel. Add a great job and two vibrant twins, and there's nothing else a family could ask for. Except for some peace. Before the smell of new paint fades away, the house's history starts seeping through. From an attic room, Don's transformation commences. His dreams become nightmares, his actions become inexplicable, and he slowly becomes the house. Can he save himself and his family before the transformation is complete? Or, will the room consume them all?

At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison.

In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions. 

In Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all.

Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state of permanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldn’t remember a thing.

Now, at a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness--the girl’s grandmother--asks Brunetti if he will investigate. Brunetti’s not sure what to do. If a crime was committed, it would surely have passed the statute of limitations. But out of a mixture of curiosity, pity, and a willingness to fulfill the wishes of a guilt-wracked older woman, who happens to be his mother-in-law’s best friend, he agrees.

Brunetti soon finds himself unable to let the case rest, if indeed there is a case. Awash in the rhythms and concerns of contemporary Venetian life, from historical preservation, to housing, to new waves of African migrants, and the haunting story of a woman trapped in a damaged perpetual childhood, The Waters of Eternal Youth is another wonderful addition to this series.

Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—delivers a psychologically, morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present.

Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin’s enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joe’s son, Tomás, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, his wife’s homeland.

A master who moves in and out of the black, white, and Cuban underworlds, Joe effortlessly mixes with Tampa’s social elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, the Lansky-Luciano mob, and the mob-financed government of Fulgencio Batista. He has everything—money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity.

But success cannot protect him from the dark truth of his past—and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full.

Dennis Lehane vividly recreates the rise of the mob during a world at war, from a masterfully choreographed Ash Wednesday gun battle in the streets of Ybor City to a chilling, heartbreaking climax in a Cuban sugar cane field. Told with verve and skill, World Gone By is a superb work of historical fiction from one of “the most interesting and accomplished American novelists” (Washington Post) writing today.

From New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson comes a heart-stopping Romantic Thriller...

An assassin risks everything when he falls in love with an FBI agent hunting her sister's killer.
 

This book will make you smarter, more capable and more creative, super-fast - whatever your IQ.

Have you ever had a problem at home, work or in a relationship that you just couldn't figure out how to solve? Have you felt stuck and frustrated because you can't come up with a good solution? Maybe it's a problem that's been niggling at you for ages, draining your energy and making you unhappy. Or maybe it's an ambition or project which you can't seem to complete or achieve, no matter how hard you try – but it would make such a difference to your life if only you could.

Have you wasted precious time or money on ineffective solutions? Has the issue caused you stress or hung a cloud over your life? Has your potential suffered because you can't see how to achieve your goals?

How much better would your life be if you were able to overcome your obstacles super-fast? If you could have instant epiphanies rather than wasting your time spinning your wheels? Wouldn't you feel lighter and freer knowing that you can solve issues in a snap? Wouldn't life be easier and more enjoyable when you can simply eradicate problems and get on with your goals?

Blending science, psychology and philosophy, INSTANT WISDOM: 10 Easy Ways to Get Smart Fast will teach you tools, tweaks and techniques that will make you smarter in mere minutes or seconds, boosting your creativity and expanding your mental horizons. The strategies include methods that geniuses and peak performers use to get amazing results.

You will learn:

+ Einstein's top tool to be ultra-inventive (you can do this in your sleep)
+ The “Alice in Wonderland” technique that helps you learn anything (it's fast and fun)
+ A way to boost your creativity that is so simple that kids can do it (it's literally child's play)
+ How to fool your brain into being super-focused (an actor used this trick to land millionaire-making roles)
+ An ancient technique that will make you much wiser (a famous philosopher's secret weapon)
+ How to become cleverer doing things you love (this surprising method leads to happiness and success)
+ The tactic top athletes use for ultimate performance (but you don't even have to leave your chair for this)
+ A delicious way to boost your logic (granny knows this trick, but I bet you don't)
+ The “Smart Stranger” method for achieving instant insight (this is a genius way of solving any problem)
+ How to get great minds to improve your intelligence (no bribes required)
... and much more.

When you can boost your brainpower instantly, you will be able to solve personal problems much faster, become a better worker, save precious time on projects, and achieve your goals at lightning speed.

Instant Wisdom contains personal stories, surprising studies and real examples. It contains a variety of exercises, so you can use the tools immediately.

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She thinks I’m an arrogant jerk but my Irish charm will work its magic.

When I first saw Poppy I was instantly hard.
I accidentally walked in on her changing, her big beautiful body clad in nothing but a white bra and panties.
As the world’s top lingerie photographer I’m used to being surrounded by half-naked models but none of them make my body react the way hers does.
Turns out she’s never been touched which makes me want her even more.
She says she hates me, despises me even, but the magazine is forcing us to work closely together in a tropical island paradise.
This will be fun. I like a challenge.
I’m going to take her.
But what if she takes my heart?


***Full length novel with no cliffhangers, no cheating, and guaranteed happily-ever-after.***

“Sometimes, you have to take a chance.”

As a marketing executive, Heather Stanton is used to spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of town, leaving it all behind.

Heather never expects to run into her independent, free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does she expect the turn her life takes when her aunt is suspected of murder.

Putting her own problems aside, Heather teams up with a handsome ex-private investigator to clear her aunt’s name. But will Julia’s innocence be questioned when the odds turn against her in a race to find the killer?

I never expected to fall for Riley, but she's all I think about.

She knows how much I want her, too. That's why the beautiful tease is trying her best to break me.

Like being caught in the riptide, she's impossible to resist.

And no matter how hard I try, I can't stay away.

She's completely wrecked me.

*This is a steamy standalone romance with a HEA.*

Betrayed and jilted, Jennifer Dewitt finds solace in a new job and new city. Men and marriage are not on her radar. Adrien Merrill's divorce leaves him bitter and jaded. In Cajun custom, pride rules. Yet Adrien aches for a woman to fill his days with laughter, his nights with passion, and his house with children. He sets his sights on Jennifer and runs right into stubborn, mouthy and independent. He soon discovers the line between pride and love is as whisper thin as a fine silk thread.

When the sun and the moon fall in love, they create a storm that no power on Earth can control.

When the war between humans and gods began, Ayla became one of the lost gods whose parents belonged to different pantheons. Disowned from both families and shut off from the Otherworld by a powerful spell that closed the veil, she’s been on her own for over three centuries and has evaded both hunters and gods. But when a handsome young man catches up to her at a bus station and helps her escape from a hunter, Ayla knows hiding is no longer an option.

Claiming he’s also a lost god, Thomas at least offers companionship, but when he pulls a former hunter into their midst and insists they may be able to reopen the veil to the Otherworld, Ayla finds herself falling deeper into worlds of intrigue, conspiracies, and magic. And she’ll have to decide if returning home is worth the cost of losing the only thing that’s kept her running from the war for so long: her soul.

When in Rome do as the Romans do... nah, bugger that for a joke.

From being trapped in a plane with broken landing gear high above the Grand Canyon, to facing arrest in Hong Kong for holding up traffic in a bathrobe, to being accosted by three aggressive locals entering a men's washroom in New Delhi Airport, what else can go wrong on a trip?

These are one man's enthralling stories of wandering our planet that the Travel Channel doesn't want you to know. Simon explains exactly what not to do when you find yourself in a hairy situation.

Nobody travels like this anymore. Maybe for good reason. Simon Williams doesn't go looking for trouble in life, but when he finds it he never keeps his sarcastic mouth shut.

Travelling - it leaves you speechless then turns you into story tellers. Ibn Battuta

Are you tired of doing church and ready to experience being the Church?

For many pastors and church leaders, ministry is an exhausting, frustrating, and even fruitless endeavor. Driven by programs and cultural trends, churches are competing to stay relevant and effective in a hostile world. What if there were a better way—a way of rest and of power—the way of abiding?

Nate Sweeney, Directional Leader of Catalyst Church in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Founder and Directional Leader of the Abiding Network, writes from his experience of leading a church through the transformations needed to become a true Abiding Church. Nate’s passion is to see people come to Christ and live in relationship with Him. To that end, he assists church leaders and planters in creating an environment of true discipleship.

In this book, you will learn:

• How to evaluate your own walk and begin habits of abiding
• How your church can start looking to Christ instead of the pastor to meet its needs
• How to move past conforming to standards and into transformation of lives
• How to redefine church growth and health on biblical grounds
• How to create a focused, God-honoring blueprint for your life and ministry
   

Plus, application-focused workbook sections will help you develop concrete steps to put the abiding principles to work for your individual and local church needs.

If you are ready to move beyond church growth strategies to the greater call of a spiritually growing church, The Abiding Church will give you an inspiring look at the joy and fruitfulness of a gospel-centered, disciple-making fellowship that lives and thrives in Christ.

When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations.

When his alluring daughter, Jamie, returns from America wanting answers, finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics.

With help from ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer from back alley bars to government offices, through anti-nuke protests to military conspiracies. When two more bodies turn up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and duty, violence or procedure, before the killer silences his next victim.

THE MOVING BLADE is the second in the Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi series by award-winning author Michael Pronko.