Lily has almost given up on her happily ever after. Mark is just on the run and hopes to keep his hide intact. A chance encounter makes Lily hope again, and Mark find his stopping point. Lily comes from a family of witches, and she has got a curse over her head. The Winston family is large, full of wonders, happiness, but also bitterness. Mark is her chance to get involved with a man who resembles no one she has ever known. He is a strong man, full of secrets, and almost cold-hearted. Mark seizes his chance with Lily, but two questions remain to be answered. Will his past chase her away? Will her family secret come between the two of them? Lily and Mark bring together the characters of two romance series, infusing their lives both with suspense and paranormal.

She lets him dominate her in every way the night they meet... After sneaking off to have the hottest sex of her life with Dominic Cordes, the insanely sexy pitcher for Miami's major league baseball team, Lily Phillips can't imagine ever facing the man again. She acted completely out of character. But there's no way to avoid seeing him three months later at the wedding of their mutual friends. He can't get her out of his mind... Dominic hasn't forgotten a single moment with the tiny blonde who submitted to him so thoroughly that night. He should have called. Now he will have to face her wrath. Is one night of passion enough to forge a relationship? The steam between them hasn't abated, but starting a relationship proves nearly impossible between Lily's inexperience as a submissive, their hectic schedules, and an ex-boyfriend who does everything in his power to interfere. Is it worth it? When they're together, the world stops. But reality keeps threatening to tear them apart. Welcome to the Spring Training series by best-selling author Becca Jameson. Spring Training follows the lives of several major league baseball players as they deal with the fame and reality of life and love. This second book in the series, Catching Lily, features the pitcher and the woman who has haunted him since their chance meeting three months ago.

The year is 1957, and Bobby lives on the Tsartlip First Nation reserve on Vancouver Island where his family has lived for generations and generations. Bobby loves his weekend job at the nearby marina. He loves to play marbles with his friends. And he loves being able to give half his weekly earnings to his mother to eke out the grocery money, but he longs to enter the up-coming fishing derby. With the help of his uncle and Dan from the marina his wish just might come true.

If there's one piece of invaluable advice for women and girls of all ages, it is that there is nothing more important than creating and maintaining strong, positive and happy friendships with other women. In a culture that largely pits women against each other, I want to celebrate female friendships... all strings attached! If my 1998 diary is anything to go by, female friendships are incredibly complex and emotional but they're the mini love stories that make us who we are. For many women, friends are our partners in crime through life; they are the ones who move us into new homes, out of bad relationships, through births and illnesses. In The F Word I've set out to explore and celebrate the essence of female friendship at different life stages and in its many wild and wonderful forms.

Regency widow Lily Adler didn't expect to find a corpse when visiting a family friend. Now it's up to her to discover the killer in the charming second installment in the Lily Adler mysteries. Regency widow Lily Adler has finally settled into her new London life when her semi-estranged father arrives unexpectedly, intending to stay with her while he recovers from an illness. Hounded by his disapproval, Lily is drawn into spending time with Lady Wyatt, the new wife of an old family friend. Lily barely knows Lady Wyatt. But she and her husband, Sir Charles, seem as happy as any newly married couple until the morning Lily arrives to find the house in an uproar and Sir Charles dead. All signs indicate that he tripped and struck his head late at night. But when Bow Street constable Simon Page is called to the scene, he suspects foul play. And it isn't long before Lily stumbles on evidence that Sir Charles was, indeed, murdered. Mr. Page was there when Lily caught her first murderer, and he trusts her insight into the world of London's upper class. With the help of Captain Jack Hartley, they piece together the reasons that Sir Charles's family might have wanted him dead. But anyone who might have profited from the old man's death seems to have an alibi... until Lily receives a mysterious summons to speak with one of the Wyatts' maids, only to find the young woman dead when she arrives. Mr. Page believes the surviving family members are hiding the key to the death of both Sir Charles and the maid. To uncover the truth, Lily must convince the father who doesn't trust or respect her to help catch his friend's killer before anyone else in the Wyatt household dies.

Christmas and danger collide for these K-9 heroes. Enjoy four spine tingling K-9 unit novellas in one box set! When a diner owner is attacked and left for dead, her childhood friend turned K-9 cop offers a chance at justice—and love. She escaped a kidnapper, but now a killer has set his sights on K-9 dog trainer Lily Anderson. Can her fellow officer keep her safe? A woman inherits a house someone doesn’t want her to live to enjoy. Her K-9 officer neighbor must keep her alive to see the New Year. K-9 Unit officer’s new mission: protect a murdered diplomat’s daughter while she’s in the nation’s capitol. This box set includes: Texas K-9 Unit Christmas HOLIDAY HERO by Shirlee McCoy and RESCUING CHRISTMAS by Terri Reed Capitol K-9 Unit Christmas PROTECTING VIRGINIA by Shirlee McCoy and GUARDING ABIGAIL by Lenora Worth

Lily never knew she had a thing for bad boys. She’s a shapeshifter, a virgin, the last of her kind, and she’s been hiding out on a desert island for her entire life. Now that she’s joined the real world she resents her responsibilities to her species: To choose a mate and get to work repopulating the world with Light Ones who will protect all of humanity. Which is the very last thing she wants to do. And then she meets Matteo, a Rakshasa—those shifters who like to eat humans as snacks. Her sworn enemy. He’s been a prisoner of the Fates for a thousand years, and she has no business befriending him. Or worse, giving him her most precious commodity: her innocence. It’s the exciting conclusion to the Twisted Fate Trilogy! Twisted Fate Trilogy, in reading order: Of Love & Darkness Prim and Proper Fate Prisoner of Fate

Enjoy two action-packed page-turners featuring K-9 crime-stoppers solving thrilling mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat! DANGER STRIKES AT CHRISTMASTIME Texas K-9 Unit Christmas by Shirlee McCoy and Terri Reed In Holiday Hero by Shirlee McCoy, Emma Fairchild is attacked and left for dead in her own diner. Her childhood friend turned K-9 cop Lucas Harwood offers a chance at justice—and love. And in Rescuing Christmas by Terri Reed, a killer has set his sights on K-9 dog trainer Lily Anderson. When fellow officer Jarrod Evans appoints himself her bodyguard, Lily knows more than her life is at risk—so is her heart. Capitol K-9 Unit Christmas by Shirlee McCoy and Lenora Worth In Protecting Virginia by Shirlee McCoy, a mysterious intruder wants foster care worker Virginia Johnson out of her house. It’s up to Capitol K-9 Unit officer John Forrester to keep her alive to see the New Year. And in Guarding Abigail by Lenora Worth, Capitol K-9 Unit officer Dylan Ralsey must keep Abigail Wheaton, a murdered diplomat’s daughter, safe from a killer who wants to ruin everyone’s holiday.

Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection of books. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. Liming’s study blends literary and historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity. What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making.