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She was everything he had aspired to create within a Program. Emile was his prized possession, and he wasn’t going to let her go. Not without a fight, and certainly not without causalities. She was everything to him. And I was his ticket to getting her back.

All I ever wanted was to be a part of something bigger, to feel as though I belonged somewhere. I'd always been drawn to the movement of the flames. Mesmerized by their dance as they responded to their own private song. But this? These powers? I wouldn't wish them upon anyone.

We thought that the worst was over. We had never been more wrong. After seeking refuge within a small community in Georgia, Taylen and the others believed that they’d put the worst behind them. But the horror that they'd experienced at the hands of Troum had only been the beginning. Every single person has secrets. Some are just far more deadly than others. The Outbreak began with Troum, but he wasn't the only one with secrets to guard.

When Gemma drunkenly admitted her feelings to Ben, she never imagined they’d have a future together—let alone, that he’d feel the same way for her. And yet, fate put obstacles in their path….

Losing a loved one is hard. Learning to survive in their absence? That’s even harder. For Gemma Michaels, life had become difficult following her brother’s death, but the one thing that kept her afloat was the one thing she knew she shouldn’t have desired–her best friend, Ben.

For the first time in what feels like forever, Gemma and Ben are in a good place. He’s got a good job, and she’s finally able to focus on writing that book she’s always wanted to write. Even better? They’re on their way to finally making it official as they begin to plan their nuptials.

All they wanted was to regain control of their lives. But they failed to realize what they’d lose in the process. In this third and final novel in the Emile Reed Chronicles, secrets will be revealed, lives will be lost, and choices will be made. Every ending gives way to a new beginning.

When Emile Reed went back to Vesta Corp to save her loved ones, she'd been deprogrammed. Thirteen had regained control, forcing her to become a prisoner inside of her own body. She has been left to live alongside Thirteen, able to hear everything that occurs around her, but unable to react…until she sees him.

After 20-something years living as a weapon for Bilson Corporations, I decided that I wanted something else for my life - something more. I wanted more. But at what cost? I wanted to belong to the world that I had been sworn to protect, to be more than a shadow amongst the night. But my life was not my own to control. I have made plenty of terrible mistakes in my life, but with each mistake comes a chance to start over, to make things right. And I will see to it that I do just that. My name is Arabella, and I am more than a weapon.

I never thought I would be spending Christmas alone. My boyfriend - now ex - had other plans. And by other plans, I meant plans to sleep with one of my best friends. Now, I'm home for the holidays, dreading the questions sure to be thrown my way about Dave. Lucky for me, however, a blast from my past is also spending the holidays alone back home. Could Greg by the one I'm supposed to be with, after all?

I shot him a smile and spun back around to face my computer screen, unable to process what the hell had just happened. That was when I noticed a small Post-It note pressed against my Dell monitor. Scribbled across the neon pink sticky was a note from Jesse: Evie, what are you so afraid of? - Jesse. What was I afraid of? I was afraid of everything. I was afraid of letting people in. I was afraid of falling. But most of all, I was afraid of myself. I was my own worst enemy.

Two identities. One body. Seventeen-year-old Emile Reed may have died, but she isn't dead. Her body now belongs to Program Thirteen, where her every thought, every movement, is controlled. Until Emile begins to find her way back inside of Thirteen's core, where she manages to fend off Thirteen's programming to reclaim the life that she lost. But Charles McVeigh, the owner of Vesta Corp, isn't willing to let Thirteen go.

In Program 13, listeners are introduced to Program Thirteen, a young program recently created at Vesta Corp. Thirteen is Vesta Corp's pride and joy; their best program to date. But before Thirteen, there was Twelve. This is her story.

After a mysterious virus makes its way into the United States, the government demands that states seal themselves off from one another and do their best to protect their surviving residents. When the state of Florida is bordered off from the surrounding states, Taylen Fincher, a seventeen-year-old girl with a yearning for her former life finds herself wondering how much of what they've been told is true.

Is Love is a novelette series set in a world where natural love is forbidden. Girls are to be matched by the council in order to build a desirable society. Those who violate the Caiden Act are sentenced to live in the outer compounds, where the only thing that can save them is love. This is the first novelette in a series of three.

Her death will reveal the truth. Savannah awoke in the woods, her skin covered with cuts, blood dripping down her body. But she didn't know what happened. She didn't know why she was there, or why she was bleeding. And she couldn't figure out why she was standing mere feet from her corpse. Everyone thinks that she's run away, that she's finally hit rock bottom. But Savannah's death will reveal the truth. Some secrets are better left hidden.

Seventeen-year-old Maya Reed wants nothing more than to live a normal life, but when you’re an anomaly that shouldn’t exist? A normal life isn’t feasible. I died ten times. Ten times. And the only thing I remembered upon returning was his face. I could never recall his name, or who he was to me, but I knew he was a vital part of my past. He was the key to my future—a future I was desperate to retain.

THANKS FOR THE VENOM is a Buffy/Underworld Mash-up where Harley Sanders must face a wall of secrets…from her family, from her bosses, and from the one boy she’s interested in. With newfound powers and a bullseye on her back, she’s got to help the very people she’d been trained to kill. And you thought your high school experience was bad…You’ve got nothing on Harley!