The Killers Last Word

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Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

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Putnam's Word Book by Louis A. Flemming

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The sharp, twisting pain woke me from a dead sleep. Ethan wasn't home, and his phone was answered by Chloe, my husband' s childhood friend. She dismissed my agony, urging me not to be "so dramatic" before hanging up, leaving me alone to dial 911 through blinding pain. At the hospital, the doctor's

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The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer

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To the Last Man is the story of Arizona's Pleasant Valley War, one of the most legendary conflicts of the Old West. A venomous feud between cattle ranchers, the Isbels, and sheepherders, the Jorths, plunges both families into a deadly cycle of vengeance. Yet, even as their families spiral into annih

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There was a girl that was ready to face her death without having any regrets by shutting everyone down. She had not experienced falling in love with a person and taking risks. However, when she decided to go to college, she met a guy. And without any notice, her life was slowly changing. Is she fi

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The sun fell hot upon the bosom of the Nile and clung there, vibrant, hesitating, yet aggressive, as if baffled in its desire to penetrate beneath the river’s lurid surface. For the Nile defies the sun, and relegates him to his own broad domain, wherein his power is undisputed.

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A long time war between the Gods and the Titans gave birth the end of all the Gods. Harry the last Gods was born by Athena, she was the only Gods to survived the battle, before dying, Zeus teleported her to Earth as the last hope for the Gods and Human, which later gave birth to another era for the

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Ellie had a perfect life, her family was of the highest rank, a perfect lineage, an example to be followed by the whole pack. But in a single day everything collapses in front of her, Ellie was betrayed and abandoned, unfairly judged and executed by her own family. The gods have given her a second c

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In the Dreamrealm, darkness gathered like a stormy sea. Aethon, the last of the ancient Dreamweavers, stood alone. His eyes, once bright with the magic of the realm, had dimmed. The Dreamkillers, malevolent beings from a realm of darkness, had been invading the Dreamrealm, corrupting the dreams of

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The Last Extraction is a gritty war-zone adventure about Captain Ethan Cross, a special-ops soldier whose helicopter is shot down during a secret mission in a lawless country called Kandara. Left for dead, Ethan discovers that his mission was never meant to succeed. The scientist he was sent to extr

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Welcome to the most dangerous dating show on Earth. Every year, the supernatural elite are invited to compete on a luxurious island where alliances are forged, rivalries turn deadly, and love is supposedly the prize. Cameras roll, viewers vote. Winners leave famous, bonded, and powerful. No one tal

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This Housemartin Classics edition includes the full original text as well as an easy to use interactive table of contents.

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“As I wondered how I got here, why am I here? Did they find me … no I must run , I don’t want to be part of this world , I made a promise , no no no ooo ‘Peter wake up !!! I am back, it was a dream .. so I thought , my world or the world I know now is about to change … Come , and see the world of

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The Last Man Standing In the end of the world, only few humans will leave. But what will our protagonist do if he is the last man alive on Earth?

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Two worlds are fighting, good vs evil and humanity is in between. When two most powerful worlds clash, can humans interfere? Or the demons will be the last ones standing? Not only that, but the good ones were really the cold-blooded creatures. How can the underworld turn humanities look with the up

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Damian Blackwell built his empire with cold logic, fierce ambition, and zero apologies. Billionaire, alpha, and unstoppable-until a mysterious letter from his late father shatters everything he thought he knew. "Destroy the one woman who sees through your soul." That woman is Aria Voss-his gre