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The World of All Souls

Author : Deborah Harkness

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 503 pages

File Size : 31,79 MB

Release : 2018-05-08

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0735220751

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From the author of The Black Bird Oracle comes a fully illustrated guide to the #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series—“an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy” (People). Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! A world of witches, vampires, and daemons. A manuscript that holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew—the forbidden love at the heart of the adventure. In The World of All Souls, Deborah Harkness shares the rich sources of inspiration behind her bewitching novels. She draws together synopses, character bios, maps, recipes, and even the science behind creatures, magic, and alchemy—all with her signature historian's touch. Bursting with fascinating facts and dazzling artwork, this essential handbook is a must-have for longtime fans and eager newcomers alike.



Mated by Midsummer

Author : Mina Carter

Publisher : Mina Carter

Page : 92 pages

File Size : 23,35 MB

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Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Weddings are awesome, as long as they're not hers. Not so awesome? Facing the Alpha she ran from... After living for years amongst humans, Kelli Copeland has to go home for her brother's wedding. She's hoping that a decade is enough for pack alpha, Max, to forget her, settle down and have a passel of kids. If she's lucky, he'll be old and grey to boot... No. Such. Luck. She's his. She's always been his... Alpha werewolf Max Daniels could have the pick of the females in Stratton, but he only wants one woman, the one who ran from him years ago. She's his fated mate. He let her slip through his fingers once, he's not about to make the same mistake twice. When he learns Kelli is back in town, he'll do everything in his power to make sure she doesn't leave again… The problem is, he isn't the only wolf in town with an agenda. This time, Kelli's departure might the more permanent kind.



Fated

Author : Tami Payton

Publisher :

Page : 60 pages

File Size : 46,66 MB

Release : 2019-07-31

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ISBN : 9781086171907

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Cammie LOVE, TRUST, FATE, AND A HAPPY EVER AFTER? Yeah, not something this girl believes in. My life has shown me that love is just another thing that holds you down. That you need to be there for yourself and fate can screw you over faster than a used car salesman. I wouldn't have survived my mother and her many men if it wasn't for my best friend, Gage. The only person I have ever trusted and even that took a while to do. I was alone in the world, no family, just me and Gage, until they showed up. Turns out I have a twin brother and my dad's alive, well f*ck me, and they've brought along a guy who I can't seem to stay away from. Turns out their all shifters, werewolves, whatever you want to call them, and I'm one as well. This strange pull I'm having to this new mysterious hot guy? He's not only my mate, he's my fated mate, and that alone could kill us both. Yeah, whoever said love can conquer all can kiss my a** MASONA MATE, LOVE, BEING VULNERALBLE, Yeah, sorry not this guy. I've seen the destruction it can do and won't let it pull me down. I've seen my friends and family in my pack become mated and it's become their downfall. Hell, it's the reason I became Alpha so young. So, wanting a mate and all that love bullshit, yeah, no thank you, don't want it, don't need it. Then my best friend Cameron finds his twin sister, and my wolf doesn't give me a choice, no matter how hard I try to fight it. She pulls me in, we're too much alike, neither one of us want this, but can't stay away. She's from one pack and I'm from another, it would be perfect, then we find out we're fated. Well, there goes my theory that being mated will be my downfall, because now we're screwed. A fated mate means being vulnerable in a way I've never been, and it could kill us both. I guess whoever asked the question 'Is love worth dying for?' was a fated mate, thanks dude.



Mating

Author : Norman Rush

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 498 pages

File Size : 18,74 MB

Release : 1992-09-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 067973709X

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic love even as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want. “Luminous…Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” —The New York Times Book Review “The best rendering of erotic politics…since D.H. Lawrence…The voice of Rush’s narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.” —The New York Review of Books The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a compelling waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a secretive and unorthodox utopian society in a remote corner of the Kalahari—one in which he is virtually the only man. What ensues is an exhilarating quest and an exuberant comedy of manners: “A dryly comic love story about grown-up people who take the life of the mind seriously.” —Newsweek



Wolf Mated

Author : Heather Renee

Publisher :

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 40,3 MB

Release : 2021-09-20

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781735474656

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Fighting fate isn't for the weak.CaitI am many things, but a supernatural being is not one of them. At least until a crescent mark appears on my wrist and everything changes. I've been marked by a wolf goddess, yet no one knows what that means, myself included.On top of that, I find out my best friend is a werewolf and her pack alpha is my supposed mate. Just like that my future is decided-unless I find a way out. RomanWhen fate sends a human mate my way, I'm certain it has to be a mistake. An alpha is supposed to have an equal at his side. Cait might be strong in her own ways, but what she is makes her an easy target in my world. Regardless, Cait is mine to protect and I have every intention of showing her this is where she belongs-in my pack, by my side.



Mated

Author : Avery Gale

Publisher :

Page : 166 pages

File Size : 50,87 MB

Release : 2016-04-27

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ISBN : 9781944472245

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Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains language and actions some may find offensive. Contains sexually explicit content. Menage MFM. Centuries of tradition have bound your soul to ours so tightly that neither time no trial could separate us. In Book 1 of the Wolf Pack series: Kit has avoided her parents increasing pressure to marry for years. Granted, her shifter parents refer to it as mating, but Kit isn't one to split hairs over semantics when the results will be the same. She'll lose her freedom and being under the control of an Alpha male doesn't appeal to her in the least. Kit knows that mating will also bring on her magical powers and what many would consider a gift comes with some hefty baggage. After seeing the burden those powers have been to her mother and grandmother, Kit is in no hurry to join in the never-ending battle between good and evil. But an evening of dancing with a friends ends Kit's hope of avoiding her destiny. Jameson and Trevlon Wolf had traveled the world looking for their mate, and they'd almost given up finding her when she walks in to their New York City dance club. But they quickly discover convincing the fiery-haired beauty to give them one week to prove being their mate won't be the end of the world was the easy part, because protecting her is going to be a lifelong challenge."



Her Vampire King

Author : Bianca Cole

Publisher :

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 13,95 MB

Release : 2020-12-22

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ISBN :

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They told me not to enter London and now I know why. The scent of blood is overwhelming. Only the most powerful vampires could stand a chance of resisting. My steel willpower is being tested, but no one is as strong as me. Until I scent her. A blood that calls to me.A blood that drives me insane. A blood I can't resist. I stalk her through the streets, tracking her. When I get my hands on her, the need is too difficult to resist. She's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Vampires don't mate, but this connection feels deep and sacred. My people have wanted me to take a wife for decades. It looks like I've just found her. They won't like it, but I don't care. I'm claiming this tasty, stunning human as my own. They will want to stop me, I'd like to see them try. No one can defeat me.I'll protect her, if it's the last thing I do. Her Vampire King is the fourth book in the Royally Mated Series by Bianca Cole. This book is a safe story with no cliffhangers and a swoon worthy happily ever after ending. This story has hot scenes and bad language, so if those kind of books offend you, you won't like this one. It features a dreamy over the top, possessive vampire king. As with most of Bianca's stories this book has elements of d/s relationship, if this content offends you, please don't read.



Mated: Have a Little Faith

Author : Diana McKinley

Publisher : Diana McKinley

Page : 480 pages

File Size : 28,61 MB

Release :

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1310761124

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What would you do if you saw your whole life mapped out for you when you were only an adolescent? For some, like young Omega Corwin Sullivan, the future is ripe with promise. He loves his wolf pack, his family, and this true mate, Malic, unconditionally, and is excited about the future they’ll all share together. For others, like Alpha Malic Campbell, however, the future looks like a prison cell. Malic resents not only the looming responsibility of leading his pack and region, but also having his mate predetermined for him by fate. In rebellion, he pushes every limit and tests every boundary on his way from teen to man in a race against the proverbial hands of time. Only to discover that the man he becomes, wants something very different than the boy he once was. But will it be too late for Malic to then win back the very shifter he worked so hard to push away – his mate and his other half? As a young man, Corwin must now decide if he can recapture what his younger self so naïvely believed in – a happily-ever-after for Malic and himself – and more importantly, does he still want it? CONTENT WARNING: Explicit Sex



Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating systems

Author : Robert L. Smith

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 710 pages

File Size : 45,14 MB

Release : 2012-12-02

Category : Science

ISBN : 032314313X

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Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems describes the role of sperm competition in selection on a range of attributes from gamete morphology to species mating systems. This book is organized into 19 chapters and begins with the conceptualization of sperm competition as a subset of sexual selection and its implications for the insects. The following chapter describes the relationship between multiple mating and female fitness, with an emphasis on determining the conditions under which selection on females is likely to counteract selection on males for avoiding sperm competition. Other chapters consider the female perspective on sperm competition; the evolutionary causation at the level of the individual male gamete; and the correlation of high paternal investment and sperm precedence in the insects. The remaining chapters are arranged phylogenetically and explore the sperm competition in diverse animal taxa, such as the Drosophila, Lepidoptera, spiders, amphibians, and reptiles. These chapters also cover the evolution of direct versus indirect sperm transfer among the arachnids or the problem for kinship theory presented by multiple mating and sperm competition in the Hymenoptera. This book further discusses the remarkable potential for sperm competition among certain temperate bat species whose females store sperm through winter hibernation and the mixed strategies and male-caused female genital trauma as possible sperm competition adaptations in poeciliid fishes. The concluding chapter examines the predictions concerning testes size and mating systems in the primates and the possible role of sperm competition in human selection. This book is of great value to reproductive biologists and researchers.