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After everything she's been through over the past ten years, Jess should be focusing on her healing. She should be figuring out where her future will take her. And she should be finding herself after her abusive husband ripped away her identity. Too bad someone else has different plans.

Three years ago, Lelle's daughter went missing in a remote part of Northern Sweden. Lelle has spent the intervening summers driving the Silver Road under the midnight sun, frantically searching for his lost daughter, for himself and for redemption. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Meja arrives in town hoping for a fresh start. She is the same age as Lelle's daughter was - a girl on the brink of adulthood. But for Meja, there are dangers to be found in this isolated place. As autumn's darkness slowly creeps in, Lelle and Meja's lives are intertwined in ways that they could never have imagined. 

Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds, becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation wants to exploit. Rosie, owner of Monk's Bar, serves members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who seek to employ them. Angel, ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed-up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing, is asked to perform a job for Rosie.

After being wrongfully imprisoned for the death of her abusive husband, all Jessica Smithson wants is to start a new life where no one knows her true identity. Maple Ridge is the perfect place to hide from the media circus battling to know who really rid her of the man. A question she can't answer. The last thing she expects to find in the small idyllic mountain town is the good-looking and very persistent Troy Carson. From the moment he sees her, the ex-Marine is determined to help Jess with her anxiety attacks and to get to know her better.

Lucas Carson was her brother's best friend. The man Simone sent letters to while he served in the Marines. The man she fell in love with. But while he was deployed, Simone's world caved in on her. She stopped sending him letters and stayed away from their hometown, too broken to return. Too broken to risk seeing him again . . . until a hit-and-run has her rushing back to their small town. And now, Lucas needs her help. He needs Simone to be his wife. He's gotten himself into trouble, and someone wants to take him down. 

Featured in ELLE magazine, Magnolia Street is a musically inspired Practical Magic fandom podcast! Each week, we’ll deep dive into the whole world of Practical Magic created by Alice Hoffman, including the movie and all 4 books! Your hosts are The Stinas: Kristina Babich and Justina Carubia. This podcast is our tribute to our favorite movie of all time, with a little bit of our own musical twist and lots of chaotic hilarity! ✨🔮 *SPOILERS ABOUND!* NEW EPISODES EVERY FRIDAY!

What secrets are hidden within the walls of a desolate farmhouse in a forgotten corner of Lapland? Early spring has its icy grip on Ödesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden, abandoned by many of its inhabitants. But Liv Björnlund never left. She lives in a derelict house together with her teenage son, Simon, and her ageing father, Vidar. They make for a peculiar family, and Liv knows that they are cause for gossip among their few remaining neighbours.

Seit Lektorin Steffi Sonntag weiß, wer ihr neuer Boss im Verlag wird, muss sie über eine alternative Karriere nachdenken. Niemand darf je erfahren, welch peinliche Erinnerung sie mit ihm teilt! Da kommt das unverhoffte Angebot, in einem einsamen Inselstrandhaus einen sinnlichen Liebesroman zu schreiben, wie gerufen. Auf der Nordseeinsel stolpert sie in die Arme von Mark, dem Sohn ihres tüdeligen Nachbarn. Bald schreibt sie nicht nur über die grünen Augen des lässigen Webdesigners, sie träumt sogar von ihm.

Despite Jess's initial reluctance to get involved with ex-Marine Troy Carson, her friendship with him is growing to be something more. But love cannot exist without trust, and trust is something she can't afford—not when she needs to cling to the secrets of her past. Not when she's hoping to be part of her daughter's life again. Too much is at stake if the truth gets out.

When she entered school at a recently integrated college in North Carolina, Adirah Messa was looking forward to a bright future. Then she met a man of another kind who turned her world upside down. After being turned into a blood-sucking being and then giving birth to a child fathered by the King of Vampires, Adirah thinks that life can't get any stranger. But when her ancient past becomes a part of the present, she learns that her son has a destiny that is out of her control. The only way to protect him is for old enemies to put their differences behind them....

Against all odds, Adirah Messa has been accepted to Billet University, a prestigious institution founded in the 1800s for people of color. Determined to excel, she arrives at the university intent on minimizing distraction and focusing on her studies. That goal is soon interrupted when she is noticed by members of the "in" crowd, who invite her to the most popular frat party on campus. Adirah finds herself smitten with someone of another race and is taken on a ride she can never return from. Unbeknownst to her, Adirah's newfound love is not only a master seducer.

One-night stand rule number one: Always check the condom’s expiry date.

As the future CEO of my grandmother’s fashion empire, I’m not supposed to want to design a line of fancy dresses for girls with special needs. But when I pull out all the stops and present my vision to my grandmother, she agrees to let me try on one very questionable condition. The condition? I have to complete every item on the bucket list I wrote in college.

Efter tio år som änka och ensamstående mamma längtar Rakel efter gemenskap. Vännerna har tagit avstånd mer och mer, hennes föräldrar har gått bort. Och när Rakels två döttrar väljer att åka på roadtrip i USA får hon plötsligt betydligt mer frihet än hon är van vid. Vad ska hon göra med sin lediga sommar? En dråplig vattenskada i familjens lägenhet gör att Rakel hastigt och lustigt blir hemlös. Lösningen på boendeproblemet blir en semester på pittoreska Västerö.

She’s pregnant with another man’s baby. He’s now the father to his little niece. A sexy rom com with all the feels! My software company has been my number one, two, and three priorities. But that all changes when I suddenly become the guardian of my three-year-old niece. Now my world has turned topsy-turvy with princesses and little-girl tea parties. When Hannah Morrell needs a place to stay after the pipes in her apartment burst, I invite her to move in with my niece and me. Hannah is a pediatric nurse, and given my situation, who could ask for a better roommate. Sounds easy.

Best friend rule number one: Never want the guy’s sister. Oops.

Der atmosphärische Thriller aus Schweden. Drei Jahre ist es her, dass Lelle seine Tochter morgens an einer Bushaltestelle absetzte. Seither ist sie spurlos verschwunden und der Vater sucht verzweifelt im düsteren Licht der Mitternachtssonne die Gegend ab. Zur gleichen Zeit kommt die siebzehnjährige Meja zusammen mit ihrer psychisch labilen Mutter mit der Hoffnung auf einen Neuanfang in diesem abgelegenen Teil Nordschwedens an. Als ein weiteres Mädchen verschwindet, werden Lelles und Mejas Leben auf eine Weise miteinander verbunden, die sie sich nie hätten vorstellen können.

A chance encounter with a masked stranger at a charity ball led to an incredible kiss and a night of hot sex. The kiss was my goal for that night, a baby step forward after my husband’s death a year ago. The hot sex? Not so much. You know what else hadn’t been my goal? To be knocked up by a man whose identity is a mystery to me.

For centuries, the Kingdom of Eledore has relied upon the kainen race's natural magical talents to retain its elevated and seemingly impervious status in the world, particularly above the humans in Acrasia. Plots and assassination attempts grow against the royal twin heirs, Nels and Suvi, as the Acrasians seem to be doing more than saber rattling against what they see as an evil, tyrannical nation.   

After her husband became an agnostic, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single" - struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts. In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found community in an unexpected place: an order of Catholic nuns in her neighborhood. As she spent time with them and learned about female Catholic saints, she began to see that she was not "spiritually single" after all - and that no one really is.