Business Fiction

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan returns to The Hunted series Ben Knight has spent his life protecting those in need and helping abused women escape their terrible circumstances. He’ll stop at nothing to save the lives of his clients, especially the hauntingly beautiful Kate...

The global coffee trade is a collision between the rich world and the poor world. A group of graduate students is about to experience that collision head-on. Angela, Alex, Rich, and Sofi a bring to their summer research project in Guatemala more than their share of grad-school baggage—along...

Upward: The Power of Looking Up offers inspiration, insight, and encouragement on how changing our perspective can transform our lives and the world around us. It is a story book full of ideas and practical advice, including interviews with incredible people who have chosen to think and live differently. Through the power of our body and mind, nature, creativity, and community, Upward provides a timely collection of thoughts, suggestions, and evidence on the power of looking up, for us now and in the future.

Желая победить в дуэли, я не только призвала в наш мир того, кому запрещено здесь появляться, и умудрилась связать наши судьбы. Но Аресу и этого показалось мало, раз он сделал мне предложение руки и сердца. О, Вездесущий! Я таю! Не представляла как-то себя в роли счастливой невесты… Стоп! Лучше бы на время выбросить из головы все чувства и подумать об испытании во дворце. Император, блондинистая черноглазая зараза, очень сильный менталист. Что будет, если он раскусит преступницу?

In Thailand, two men hire a pair of international pirates to smuggle them, a small team of mercenaries, and some equipment aboard a freighter at a Russian port. It's frighteningly easy, and the ship sails east, toward the western coast of North America. In Washington, D.C., a CIA analyst has...

The latest "high octane thrill ride"* from the international bestselling "CEO of Suspense"— hailed by critics as "perhaps the finest of the contemporary thriller novelists"** Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston ands working for an electronics giant, a...

She can speak all languages. He can smell evil intent. They're enemies. They crave each other. Secret magic, international settings, a conspiracy plot, star-crossed lovers, and sharp writing The Demon in Business Class is a stunning debut novel spanning continents and genres. Zarabeth travels the world for a shady executive, laying the groundwork for global war. Gabriel offers a second chance to the criminals that a visionary leader sees in dreams. One rainy night in Scotland, they meet...Now, it's complicated.

Amelia is forbidden fruit, but tonight I'm going to take a bite. I know that I shouldn't, but I'll do whatever it takes to claim this curvy goddess as my own. She may resent my wealth and the fact that our parents got hitched, but that's not going to stop me. I'm going to save her tonight, and then I'm going to make her mine.

What really happened when Queen Elizabeth II met Marilyn Monroe? This stunning historical novel imagines the summer that bonded the world's two most famous women, both thirty years old and chafing against the façade of global celebrity. On a cool early-autumn evening in 1956, a glittering array...

Zwei Fremde. Eine Reise ohne Wiederkehr. Stephanie und Jasmine haben nichts und doch alles gemeinsam. Die beiden Frauen kennen einander nicht, aber befinden sich im selben Flugzeug – die erfolgreiche Stephanie auf einer Geschäftsreise und die mittellose Jasmine auf der Flucht vor ihrem gewalttätigen Freund. Dann verschwinden sie spurlos. Einige Tage später schreiben sie ihren Freunden die exakt gleiche SMS über denselben Mann. Und plötzlich werden ihre Nachrichten immer verstörender ... Steig ins Flugzeug. Sprich mit niemandem. Bleib am Leben.

Morgan Siler is one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful K Street law firms, its roster of clients stocked with multibillion-dollar corporations. The obsessive efforts of its senior partner, Peter Morgan, have transformed it from an old-fashioned business into a veritable Goliath. As Peter...

Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say: "Some of my best friends are...(Black, White, Asian, etc.)"? or "I don't think of you as...(Gay, Disabled, Jewish, etc.)"? or "I don't see color, I'm colorblind"? These statements and dozens like them can build a divide between us and the people we interact with. Though well-intended, they often widen the diversity gap sometimes causing irreparable harm personally and professionally.

Unfinished Business focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement - his ordinary plight is sharpened, becoming increasingly urgent. Having lived in a modern condition, confusing pleasure with happiness, wanting the dream to deliver, what do you do when you notice the shadows begin to lengthen on the lawn?

The unthinkable has happened to Victoria Fox! While she works to solve the latest mystery, the weather in Belle's Cove is not cooperating. It's snowing in July when it should be sweltering hot!

Tumult in Mecca masterfully weaves Henrik’s personal quest for fulfilment with the global turbulence of 1979, capturing the tension between career and adventure, ambition and family, security and risk.

Business and Pleasure shouldn't mix. Yet, that's exactly what I'm contemplating after Seattle's most eligible bachelor strolled into the diner where I work and made me an offer I'm having a hard time refusing. Beckett Anderson has the looks and money to get the attention of any woman, and yet he wants me to be the one at his beck and call. If I accept, I'm to be his assistant in and out of the boardroom. In exchange, I'd finally have a chance to use my college degree and escape the cycle of poverty I've known my entire life.

Can’t find love? Good. I’m your guy. I mean, not your guy per se, but the guy to find you the love of your life. I’m the best damn matchmaker there ever was. Except when it comes to my own life. Why bother? I’m too busy setting up other couples and enjoying success anyway.

The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead. Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? Perhaps a greater social consciousness and community-based living will take over or, conversely, the competition for limited resources may result in everyone fighting for themselves.

I’ve never walked down the aisle, but I get paid to stand beside it. Why, I’m a wedding planner is beyond me. Oh, yeah. I love the pretty dresses, the food, the glamour, and glitz. Getting dressed up and owning the night, though I always go home alone. It’s a weird setup. Being in business is all I’ve ever wanted, and yet, the one I chose depresses me beyond belief.

“So you and the dog are a package deal, then?” “Yes. But just so you know, Mr. McAllister—I’m not for sale, either.” School librarian and Comfort Paws cofounder Belle Darling will do anything to keep her reading assistance program going at Bluebonnet Elementary—except sell her...