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For 155 days, Will Foster has been locked in medical quarantine without his consent. The doctors claim he is infected with a deadly virus, but this is a lie. Encoded in his DNA is a mutation that provides immunity from disease for all who possess it, source code that Vyrogen Pharmaceuticals aims to commercialize as a multi-billion dollar gene therapy. Against all odds, Foster escapes his laboratory prison and steals a virulent strain of bubonic plague as insurance. To help him unravel the mystery inside him, Foster contacts the only person he can trust - a former lover and microbiologist living Vienna - and the two become fugitives.

It was one of those beautiful, balmy days on Calypso Key in the US Virgin Islands. The sky was blue and a cool breeze was blowing in off the ocean as Harry and Amanda took their vows. All of their friends were there and all was well with the world…and then the sky fell. Harry draws the line at getting involved when the death of one of his father’s friends intrudes upon his wedding day, until he finds out he owes the girl’s father a debt he can never repay. And so he is dragged into an investigation of not just one murder, but two—and the wealthiest, most dysfunctional family he’s ever met.

Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking-show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's luck does not improve. Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law puts her in charge of the Women's Club annual gala. While making plans at the country club, they hear a volatile argument between the new head chef and the club's manager. Not long after, the chef swan dives to his death at the bottom of the grand staircase.

I don’t like "jocks" or playboys. In fact, I teach women how to kick their asses. I do this so no one has to be a victim like I was. Never again would I depend on a man. They either leave or hurt you. Like a phoenix, I rose from my circumstances. I made myself strong. Secure. I pushed childish things aside and focused on my stable future. But when he walked into my life, he ruined everything. He tricked me. He made me want to love. Lust. Trust. He was used to flaunting his money, but it was his body I wanted. And he wanted mine…or so I thought.

After her father remarries and gets wrapped up in his new family, young witch Victoria just wants to enjoy a quiet, simple life with her best friend Red. But when her cat Calypso reveals magical secrets, Victoria's plunged into a paranormal world she never could have imagined. Her new stepmother, Ann, rubs Victoria the wrong way, but she can't put her finger on it until her father ends up in a coma after a murder attempt and Ann and her daughter Alice raise Victoria's suspicions.

I didn’t think someone was going to come save me when I needed it the most. The moment he swooped in and protected me, it was over for me. Sometimes things happen for a reason even if I’m not sure why. Walking home, it was just supposed to be a normal night. But when I’m attacked, he comes out of nowhere and I see a man of stone. Ambrose, a sexy gargoyle with the body and face of a Greek god who is a little reclusive but knows how to make me want it.

An innocent love brings forth the passion in my heart. But I’m forbidden to feel that way towards him because he is a beast. I lost my family to a Griffin in the most savage way. Since then, I have been hunting Griffins and not daring to let anything happen. I don’t know what would come from it, but I didn’t expect him. Griffin, one of the beasts who is very handsome and innocent, knowing how to make me feel weird. I see how he looks at me even though he is afraid. He makes me realize that he isn’t one of the bad ones.