Vows To Save His Crown

Sparks of passion fly in this royal marriage of convenience romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Hewitt. The only solution: A royal wedding of convenience! To save his kingdom, intensely private Prince Mateo Karavitis must take the throne — and a bride! But he can’t trust just anyone with the role. And he certainly can’t trust emotions to drive this all-important decision. Luckily, he has an ideal candidate in mind… Rachel Lewis is completely thrown by Mateo’s proposal. She’s known him for years, and has secretly yearned for him every single second. It’s an irresistible offer… But can she really share his palace — and his royal bed — without getting hurt? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

Two young princes on opposite sides of a war must decide between loyalty and love in this galaxy-shaking finale of the Bloodright Trilogy. “Skrutskie handily sticks the landing. Series fans are sure to be pleased.”—Publishers Weekly Gal and Ettian have never been farther apart. Once, they were roommates and best friends, each suffocating under a secret of galactic consequence. When Gal’s came to light—that he was heir to the Umber Empire and all of its brutal conquest—the two were forced to flee their military academy, fall in with a brewing rebellion to reclaim the Archon Empire from Umber’s grasp, and face their long-held feelings for each other. Then the rebellion discovered Gal’s identity and to save his life, Ettian had no choice but to unveil his own secret: that he was the long-lost heir to the Archon throne. With Gal as a political prisoner, Ettian began the fight to restore his own empire—and to open Gal’s eyes to the possibility of a galaxy reclaimed from Umber’s greed. But just when Gal was starting to come around, a team of Umber operatives rescued him from Archon’s clutches and dragged him home to take up his crown. Now, separated for the first time and in full command of the might of their respective forces, the star-crossed rulers find themselves truly at odds. And with the war reaching a tipping point, the time has finally come for Gal and Ettian to confront what they owe their empires, their friends, and each other if they’re ever to forge a universe where the two of them can be together.

Before the Gospels were written, long before the creeds of the Church were hammered out, Christ followers in Philippi sang a hymn of the Christ who, "although he was in the form of God . . . emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born as are all humans." But this emptied Christ never fit neatly into later theologies of the church, shaped by Greek thought, concerned with being and essence. In Philippians, Paul struggles, stumbling over his own awkward words to express his hope, his eschatological faith, that he might "gain Christ and be found in him . . . and participate in his sufferings by being conformed to his death, if in some way I may reach to what goes beyond the resurrection from the dead." Might we better comprehend Paul's inchoate, even mystical, faith in Jesus Christ with aid from a less empirical world of thought than our western heritage offers? Might the thinking of Mahā[set macron over a]yā[set macron over a]na Buddhism guide us toward an awareness of a truth in the Christian faith that is more profound than anything reducible to historical "facts," or even to human language?

USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Hewitt delights with this dramatic reunion romance with a pregnancy twist! Newlyweds torn apart Can their baby bind them again? After battling to survive a plane crash, Nico Santini returns to his wife, Emma, and discovers three shocking revelations. First, he’s presumed dead! Second, Emma is pregnant with Nico’s child…and last, she’s about to marry another man! Left homeless and heartbroken when Nico disappeared, Emma was prepared to make a convenient match for her unborn baby’s sake. Yet his return brings with it an onslaught of emotion—anger, relief…desire. Nico won’t abandon his heir, and Emma must trust in their passion to help put the pieces of their marriage back together… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.