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HELD CAPTIVE BY A ROGUE

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Time 7h 9m

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The wild and spirited Kathryn Grey excitedly joins her father and his new wife in London for the season. Her stay there is only brief though for after attending her first ball, which ends in total disaster, she knows she must flee the city immediately. She must get away from the town's most sinister lecher, Lord Roger Chatsworth, Earl of Somerset. Alone and frightened she embarks on what will be the most perilous journey of her young life. That's where she meets Lord Christopher Steele, the infamous rogue of all London. Now destiny awaits this unlikely pair, when a chain of events and unusual circumstances thrusts them together.
  
       Who will come out victorious in this battle of wills between the arrogant Marquis and his fiery captive?  Will he finally allow himself to find true love or will his pride and arrogance forever prevent him from ever experiencing it?All Rights Reserved

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Killer Instinct

Three months ago, four kids were run off the road by a drunk driver and pronounced dead at the scene, leaving their families to grieve and wonder why accidents had to happen. The four left behind families, and namely, five specific siblings: all seniors in high school but not all similar. The five don't interact too often, but a common thought brings them together: what if their siblings had been murdered? As they begin to work together to find out who killed their older siblings, the five begin to realize that they might be getting in over their heads--for the four families have secrets that intertwine them beyond what anyone could have imagined, and the five teens find themselves in possession of the very secrets that may have got their siblings killed in the first place.