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Eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow knows he has to make a good showing as a mentor in this year’s Hunger Games, a televised gladiator-style fight to the death among 24 children from Panem’s districts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From freak storms to trees that appear to grow over night, Weylyn’s unique abilities are a curiosity at best and at worst, a danger to himself and the woman he loves. As amazing as these powers may appear, they tend to manifest themselves at inopportune times and places. That tornado was the first of many strange events that seem to follow Weylyn from town to town, although he doesn’t like to take credit. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. ![]() Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. You can read this before Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. 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The Duality Principle, book 1 in the Portland Rebels series, is a steamy summer romance featuring a nerdy heroine and a reformed bad boy finding their HEA.with a little spanking and outdoor sex along the way. But when their trial agreement starts heating up, both Jack and Lilly must decide what will tip the scales: the letter of the law.or love? Warning: All rise for a book that contains a wounded submissive and a Dominant who wants to retrain her while retaining control of his heart. Their carefully worded agreement guarantees that. Jack offers to become Lilly’s mentor for both the courtroom and the playroom, but tells himself it’s not a relationship. She’s starting fresh in a new city as a paralegal, but meeting Jack reawakens all her old demons-and her lingering desires. Once a shining star at law school, Lilly Sterling’s dreams died when the Dom she trusted left her heartbroken and lost. Until he meets a young woman with shadows in her eyes even darker than his own. 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