A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday AnthologyTHE INVASION OF TORKby CLAIRE DAVIS and AL STEWARTAdam is cool, intelligent and drop-dead gorgeous - all the guys tell him so! When he is forced to start voluntary work at the local homeless shelter, all he worries about is keeping the clients well away from him and finishing the placement as soon as possible. Until he meets Tork.Tork is clever and funny. He makes origami models and reads Dickens. Tork has ...

Sometimes love happens when you are busy making other plans.Karen is a beautiful woman that always seems to have the worst luck with men. Her latest boyfriend was an abusive self-centered jerk who still lived in an era when women served men. Dealing with all these issues has exhausted Karen so much that she wanted to escape everything. She takes up a job to assist a troubled man who previously had a small business of his own. He is now broken and wants to end his life but Karen pro...

The new novel by the award-winning author of Winter RangeWhen tragedy leaves her life in shambles, Nance flees her Wisconsin hometown and its reminders of grief, creating a new life in the West. She is a scientist, specializing in rattlesnakes and attrition rates in dens, believing that "you can overcome fear, control the level of risk by being prepared, by knowing your subject." Now with a home in Lewiston, Idaho, overlooking the Snake River, and her marriage to Ned Able, ...

Cobweb ghosts are inconvenient—especially grumpy ones with bad breath. Don't they know silence is golden?Johnny Strong is the expert; he hasn't spoken in two years. Not one word to anyone except the ghost. The main purpose of life is to avoid people and not get noticed. Friends? He doesn't need them; and certainly nobody wants him despite what the ghost says.Until a new boy appears at Windybank—Finn Lyons, teenage wizard. He eats frogs, concocts potions, and is always hungr...

Niall has a boyfriend. Dan. His hot, beefy, bad-ass cop boyfriend, with protective instincts galore and an inexplicable weakness for a certain flighty – and flexible - dance major. Things are getting hot and heavy and Niall is realising exactly how cherished and wanted and safe he is in Dan's hands. And he thinks he just may have met the one man he can trust with his secret. But he hesitates, and the decision is taken out of his hands. Will he run? Or will Niall have the nerve to stick aro...

Can a broken heart ever be healed? Can love light up even the darkest of places?Shy Cal hides a shameful secret. An act he bitterly regrets and doesn't expect to be forgiven for. But he's been inside prison for so long that once he's released back into the world, it's only natural he starts noticing guys again.Like Troy. Young, sexy, loud and funny. Troy's had a difficult upbringing too, and maybe he doesn't know what it is to be loved, deeply, and forever. All he knows abo...

In a critical analysis of conventional understanding, leading authors Claire Davis and Marisa Silvestri present bold new conceptualisations of police leadership.Drawing on empirical research in criminology, sociology and leadership studies, they present a thoughtful critique of the nature and practice of leadership in contemporary policing. The book:- Critically explores the identities of leaders and their positions within wider organisational structures and processes;...

First love - coming of age - family - acceptanceWhen Charlie was eight years old, his mum bought him a microscope for his birthday. Since then, he's known how he wants to spend his life. There have been trials, and challenges, but now - finally - the day is here for him to start college with his lifelong friend Anthony Pace.Anthony is a red-haired force of nature. He writes poetry about their enemies and eagerly participates in all Charlie's science experiments without unde...

What do you do when the one person you hate the most becomes the one person you can't live without?A bully by day when it comes to business and money, a playboy by night when it comes to pleasure. That is the reputation that precedes John Knight. He lives life the way he wants, no concern for the opinion of others. He cares for no one, is completely we have all been there before. Not the type of person you want to rely on to survive. Down on her luck financially, college student an...

Mermen – Sparkling Waters – Gay Romance.As a young child, David Summers sees something he can't understand. A boy who lives under the water. A boy with a tail, and emerald eyes of the ocean. How to forget the pull of the sea? How to live after touching the beauty of destiny?David grows up with one thing on his mind – finding a way to be reunited with his one true mate. It won't be easy – humans and sea-kind are fundamentally different.A gay fairy tale of mermen, san...

From the author of Winter Range comes a powerful and frightening literary thriller of love, loyalty, and menacing secrets.Nance Able has finally recovered from the violent death of her first husband and is living a new life in the West with her second husband, Ned. When Meredith, her younger, errant sister, decides to move to the same town, Nance’s long-sought happiness is threatened.As a snake scientist, she is attuned to the dangers of the natural world, but she ...

Trigger point therapy is one of the fastest-growing and most effective pain therapies in the world. Medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, and massage therapists are all beginning to use this technique to relieve patients’ formerly undiagnosable muscle and joint pain, both conditions that studies have shown to be the cause of nearly 25 percent of all doctor visits.This book addresses the problem of myofascial trigger points—tiny contraction knots that develop in a mus...