Sheik Jiran and his beautiful wife Ava raised five strong, smart, attractive, and precocious offspring. In this bundle of short stories, learn more about Ramzi, Turk, Rais, Ciala, and Shantra and the shenanigans they got up to as children. It's the perfect primer for the first book in the series, Pregnant with the Sheik’s Baby, which comes out in February 2016.

She’d told him that they wouldn’t work! Princess Shantra had explained, in very great detail, to Sheik Laithir del Hassam, Ruler of Piora, that she could never measure up to his first wife’s vivacious and exciting reputation. But did he listen to her? No! The man insisted that a match between them would work. Now she was married to the man, trying to figure out how to make him love her when he had such a fabulous first wife who had tragically died. Sheik Laithir had vowed never to marry again. After his first, disastrous marriage, he never wanted to contemplate putting himself, or the citizens of Piora through another wife like that. But then Princess Shantra stepped into his world. She was refreshing and honest, kind and creative. And she responded to his slightest touch! The lovely princess didn’t think she could measure up to his first wife? Good! She would be perfect!

Caught! Princess Ciala couldn’t believe that she’d been captured and was standing in a police station, goons all around her. And the biggest (albeit incredibly handsome) goon of all was stealing her camera along with all of her research! She couldn’t let this happen. And when she found a way to escape, she took it. Unfortunately, the very next day, that same goon, even more dashing in a suit and tie, stood next to her brother and was introduced to her as Sheik Jurar al Tinoor of Drakar! Jurar was still fuming about a rebel’s escape – not to mention his realization that the rebel was a woman. And then he ran into her again in his rival’s palace! After listening to the lovely woman, and discovering a powerful attraction, he decided that the only solution was to marry her. But was she working with the rebel leader? The evidence was starting to unfold – against her!

In Montreal for political reasons, Sheik Ramzi del Abbas Samara discovers the lovely Mia Fortelle. Her eyes capture him and after a brief but powerful courtship, he convinces the lovely woman to marry him. As ruler, he understands his role and the need to find a wife and produce an heir. But until he finds Mia, he has resisted that irksome responsibility. For three incredible months, Ramzi believes that he has found heaven. And then the unthinkable happens! He finds her in the arms of another man! Mia is dumbfounded! After so many nights in Ramzi’s arms, blissfully loving the incredible man, she finds herself ousted from his life without any way to defend herself. And what’s worse, Mia is pregnant. Pregnant, alone, scared, and still in love with her husband.

Zľie Adebola remembers when the soil of Ors̐ha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zľie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises “Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors with sprinkles of Keats.”—The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Elle, Town & Country “Never again” became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Princess Diana’s tragic death. More specif­ically, there could never be “another Diana”—a mem­ber of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the Brit­ish monarchy. Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the trau­matic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey through the scandals, love affairs, power plays, and betrayals that have buffeted the monarchy over the last twenty-five years. We see the Queen’s stoic re­solve after the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and Prince Philip, her partner for seven decades, and how she triumphs in her Jubilee years even as family troubles rage around her. Brown explores Prince Charles’s determination to make Camilla Parker Bowles his wife, the tension between William and Harry on “different paths,” the ascend­ance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince An­drew, and Harry and Meghan’s stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monar­chy’s best efforts, “never again” seems fast approaching. Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevoca­bly change how the world perceives and under­stands the royal family.

Kara James was not “that” kind of woman. And if Hunter West thought he could simply kiss her senseless and get her into bed, well…She wasn’t going to be his one night stand. So why was he back in her life? And why was he demanding to purchase the most beautiful, perfect lake house she’d ever seen? And why did he keep kissing her as if she was the only woman in the world that mattered? Hunter West had lost the beautiful, voluptuous red-head six months ago. But no matter how many women he dated, none could get the fiery woman out of his mind. So he was going to get her back. And he was going to figure out why she kept running away from him! One way or another, the lovely Kara James was going to be his! The mysterious woman with all of her secrets was going to reveal all to him.

Trapped by a promise to his sister to not seduce "Jo", Prince Rais del Abbas Samara is stunned when Jo turns out to be "Joline" and she’s beautiful. He adheres to the letter of the promise through the end of the weekend, but once Joline is back in New York, all bets are off. Joline can't believe how raw and powerful her best friend's brother turns out to be. Unfortunately, his position as Minister of Finance and her family history make it impossible to follow through on the attraction she feels for the incredible man. He might be everything she could ever want in a mate, but he’s off limits. However, Rais is not one to be easily deterred – he’s determined to have Joline as his wife. Joline is just as resolved to avoid matrimony to the commanding prince. But how is she to resist him when he sets her blood on fire every time he walks into a room?

A picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and a funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control, and on the various justifications bureaucracies offer for their own existence.