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How do you make your own aquarium pet using a dried pig's ear and bodybuilder's protein shake? Was St. Pestival a vegetarian? Can you fly a Mercedes-Benz? Who was Baboonistotle? The answers to all these questions and many more await you in WOWF, nyaaargh, ker-BING!, the first collection of correspondence between Richard Bhindi-Carstairs and an unsuspecting world.

Stanley Pargo has only just arrived in Suburbia, and already, he wants out. The principal of his new school is a monster of tyranny, and Stanley’s teacher is even worse. Every day, she conceives new and terrible ways to torment him - each one worse than the last and all with a single goal in mind: forcing Stanley to learn his place.

In the first installment of this epic adventure series, young Stanley Pargo realizes he’s forgotten more than just his home when he wakes up alone and lost at sea. His rations are dwindling, and with no memory to guide him, Stanley loses all hope of finding his family until he meets a talking crane who knows far more about Stanley’s peculiar past than he’s willing to reveal. With the bird’s help, Stanley reaches land and takes shelter in a dark tower that stands as crooked as the man who built it.

Cassie Laine never wanted to be sheriff, but when her father, Sheriff Laine was ambushed and killed along with his posse, she had little choice. The little town of Apple Blossom was dying. No one in their right mind would take the job! To make matters worse, an annoying Englishman, one of six brothers passing through and now helping some of the townsfolk out, was assigned to her.

Ever since Kit Mathison took control of the modest estate he inherited, he’s had nothing but setbacks. When the roof of his house caves in and makes the place unlivable, he’s frustrated but not surprised. How much will this disaster cost? Where will he stay while repairs are made?

With a name like “Poseidon,” I’m feared on the spot. I come in like a force of nature, and destroy anyone who challenges me or hurts those I love. In my country, loyalty and rage runs deep. I know my obsession with Oleander will lead to my ruin, but every touch of her naked skin against mine strengthens my addiction to her. She’s both bellissima and brillante, with a fiery passion and a commitment, like mine, to save the world.

Women swoon at my British accent, but I’ve been in America most of my life—hacking computers by day and saving innocent women by night. A regular superhero. When I start getting close to Luisa, I want all disguises off. She’s falling for someone else, but I’m determined to wait it out—start a full court press to make her mine.

I’m more than muscle and mastery. I’ve got more than just my head in the game. We’re so close to finding our target, so close to putting an end to the reign of one of the biggest human trafficking rings in the world. This is the worst time for my commander to add a green agent to my team, especially one who lacks self-confidence. I don’t have the will or the manpower to train her, but there’s something about the woman that attracts me like no other ever has.

With a Tuscan backdrop of romance and innocence, 16-year-olds Miles Grinder Stone and Pia Deltetto learn of love and loss. After a whirlwind romance, they return to their separate lives with a hope of reconnecting someday.

Former M15 agent Keon “Edge” Edgemon is counting the seconds until he can get back to the one woman who’s piqued his interest. After a perilous mission for the Invincibles, Edge spends months in recovery from a gunshot wound that almost ended his life. Finally back home in Texas, he discovers that Lucy “Rebel” Marks is in jail for murder. Edge won’t rest until she’s free - and back in his arms.

As the youngest Barrett, I have a reputation that belies who I really am. Everyone believes I’m a billionaire bad boy who travels the globe seeking fun, wine, and anything fine—the antithesis of my older brother. But something is calling me—something I can’t quite understand. With enough money to want for nothing, is it possible that what I want has been right under my nose all along.

As the new commander of the UK Task Force on Human Trafficking, I have important work to do, and innocent lives to protect. There’s no time for mistakes or distractions. When I find Bexli—a woman I've loved most of my life—on a sex-slave-auction website, I’ll move mountains to rescue her. After the hell she’s endured, she needs my strong exterior more than anything. For the first time, my hardened shell just may soften with her touch.

Reporters need to back off. I’ve got a job to do. Being overworked, overwhelmed, and underappreciated, the last thing this M15 agent needs is a sexy and incredibly persuasive journalist knocking me off my game. But the terror in her eyes tells me she needs me—in more ways than one.

Retired and ready. After years of raising children by myself, taking in others as my own, it’s time for me. I’m finally ready to leave M16, and start the life I’ve dreamed of with the woman I’ve wanted for so long. There’s no turning back, no hesitation. I found my angel, and now it’s time to make her mine. Nothing can keep me away from her for one more second. It’s now or never. It’s a Christmas neither of us will ever forget. But when I’m kidnapped and miss my long-awaited date, you’d think I’d be ready to murder my assailant with my own two hands. And that’s the problem.

Letty Henderson wasn't looking for love. She was looking for more people to sell her milk and beef to. After a tragedy took the lives of her father and brother, it's all she can do to keep her little ranch running. And she wasn't the only one. The same tragedy took the lives of an entire posse, and with a town population of less than thirty, that's a lot. So is it any wonder when six English gents pass through town and offer assistance, that her head is turned in their direction?

Michelangelo is precise and perilous—a man to be respected. After spending four years in prison, serving time for the crimes I committed, I’m now ready to live a life very different from the one I previously led. Becoming an agent for K19 Allied Intelligence means I’ll play a part in taking down one of the world’s worst crime families—the Calabrian Syndicate. Like every other criminal society, the list of their acts against the innocent is long, the worst of which is human trafficking.

Ansgar knows how to listen to those spirits as he travels the wild lands of the North, and they’re telling him to watch his back. A vagabond viking with a unique approach to personal hygiene is looking out for him. Will one ally be enough? There are outlaws in the forest around them. And if the stories are true, there are trolls with a taste for human flesh not far beyond.

As an MI5 agent assigned to the UK's task force of the United Nations Coalition Against Human Trafficking, I've walked a fine line between right and wrong, always making sure to do what's necessary for the greater good. Kidnapping my commander for help is no exception. I do what needs to be done. But when I discover that the woman who captured my heart is still alive and in danger, I need all the help I can recruit to save my beloved Seshat.

In his debut YA Fantasy novel, Robert Cade Thompson invites you to meet Calum O’Brian, your average fifteen-year-old with dirty blond hair and a penchant for brown pants and blue tunics. But don’t let his ordinary appearance fool you; Calum’s exceptional note-taking skills and keen observations set him apart. In a clan where every detail counts, Calum’s abilities are both a blessing and a curse.

Rigby Croxford's introduction to the United States proves to be more perilous than anything he faced in Africa. His efforts to defend his famous brother-in- law, a television newscaster, from a sex scandal puts him at odds with men bent on destroying America.