Samantha Klaussen hates Christmas, living alone and running her family pawn shop in York, Alaska, she doesn’t waste time thinking about what the holidays could be. Instead, she throws herself into work and waits for her opportunity to restore her family’s legacy. When a rough, dirty, and handsome stranger rolls into town one night he changes everything, and she may finally get the chance she’s been waiting for if only she could stand being around him long enough to convince him to see things from her point of view... Luke Summers was cold, wet and in need of a drink when he stumbled into a bar in York, Alaska. A shifter, who doesn’t quite fit in anywhere. He longs for family and acceptance. When a bar fight goes bad he accidentally puts Santa in the hospital, and suddenly everything changes. It’s only a week before Christmas, and now he’s in charge. Some things around the workshop are going to change. If only he could convince the only interesting woman in town that he wasn’t such a bad guy... The clock starts ticking down to the big day, and when things start to get out of hand, Luke and Samantha find themselves, with the help of a few eager elves, forced to work together to save Christmas and possibly find love in the process... KEYWORDS: free shifter romance books, free pnr, free romance ebook, free shifter romance series, wolf shifter, bad boy, bbw, fated mates, paranormal romance with sex, curvy, gothic romance, new adult, clan, pack, series, fantasy, steamy romance, paranormal romance books for adults, reformed rake, contemporary romance, hot romance, hot shifter romance, shifter romance series, instalove, ott, over the top, shifter conflicts, new adult, urban fantasy, alpha male, werewolf, shapeshifter, wounded hero, romantic suspense, womens fiction, action adventure, military love, outlaw, rebel, thrilling, great chemistry, enemies to friends, secret baby, pregnancy romance, supernatural, legend, folk tale, second chances, freebie, free ebook, free novel, free novella, alpha male, female protagonist, stories, story, college, hero, complete series, box, box set, boxed set, bundle, anthology, sexy, sensual, seduction, contemporary, current, new 2019, best of, breeding, mating

Within Obsession and Lies is the sexy, action-packed first book in A Court of Gilt and Shadow Series by bestselling authors Stacy Jones and Harper Wylde. Power. Obsession. Lies. Other people dream of being special. They wouldn't, if they knew what a nightmare it is. Arawyn would give anything to be ordinary and rid herself of the power that lives inside her. Dangerous and alluring, it's caused nothing but pain and horror, making her the dark obsession of anyone who gets too close. After years of barely containing it, Arawyn thought she had control... until the night it bursts free and pulses like a beacon. As threats emerge from the shadows, each one more fixated on her than the last, she finds her life infiltrated by three mysterious men. A mafia boss, a psychopath, and a killer. Rathe, Viper, and Fear are much more than they seem. They taste of power and feel impossibly familiar. They call to her soul in a way she's never experienced and might have answers to questions she's been asking her entire life. But darkness and secrets surround them, ones covered in blood and mire. When the monsters stalking her endanger not only her power but her life, she'll have to make a decision: take a risk and let these dangerous men in, or do what she's always done-walk away and try to survive on her own. Trusting them would be a mistake. Yet, she may not have a choice. The monsters hunting her aren't human and they're out for blood. Rathe, Viper, and Fear might be her only chance of making it through this alive. There's only one problem. They aren't human either... From bestselling authors, Stacy Jones and Harper Wylde, comes a darkly seductive new series that blends romance, danger, and the supernatural into an unforgettable read.

Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.*

Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey--a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam--made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His father had been a POW of the Vietcong; his family came to America as "boat people." Following the suicide of his sister, Pham quit his job, sold all of his possessions, and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert, around a thousand-mile loop from Narita to Kyoto in Japan; and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon, where he finds "nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness." In Vietnam, he's taken for Japanese or Korean by his countrymen, except, of course, by his relatives, who doubt that as a Vietnamese he has the stamina to complete his journey ("Only Westerners can do it"); and in the United States he's considered anything but American. A vibrant, picaresque memoir written with narrative flair and an eye-opening sense of adventure, Catfish and Mandala is an unforgettable search for cultural identity.

Nine tales of paranormal fantasy and romance from USA Today and Amazon Best-selling authors! This collection has something for everyone. From second chances to last chances, passion-filled nights with steamy shapeshifters to dark days with not-so-wicked witches, alternate worlds and supernatural events. Dive deep into secret worlds that will leave you breathless. Tough As Nails - Aimee Easterling - A runaway werewolf stumbles across a stalker as she struggles to grow into her own skin. Dark Intent - Lisa Swallow - A reaper is forced to choose between two dying humans, one slated for Heaven, the other for Hell. Lust at First Sight - Katie Salidas - Who wouldn't spring at the chance for a one-night-stand with a werewolf? Not a Witch - Debbie Herbert - A Ouija experiment goes terribly wrong for two young witches. Black Friday - Kate Corcino - Christmas shopping becomes even more treacherous after the world as we know it disintegrates into dust. Blue House Magic - Catherine Stine - Can a seer find a cure for the baffling plague drifting down from the enemy north before it's too late? Dream's End - L.G. Castillo - An archangel weighs dreams against responsibilities as she decides whether to give a fallen angel one last chance. The Hex - Lucy Leroux - Betrayed becomes betrayer when this witch puts too much juice behind the hex on her ex. Take Me - Susan Stec - A myth has no name, no sex, no flesh, and no identity...until it wears one of you.

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