Drawing on in-depth research and on-the-ground reporting, journalist Dawn Marie Paley reveals an oft-overlooked transformation in how power is organized in Mexico. On any given day, nearly a quarter of a million troops from the Army, Marines, and National Guard patrol the countryside and the streets, tasked with detaining migrants, policing communities, making arrests, and overseeing prohibition. Today, generals and admirals control customs houses, airports, railways, ports, and even luxur...

She betrayed him once. Now she will risk everything to save him.Basil Fairfax, Viscount Whitley, does not forgive easily. Least of all the woman who shattered his trust and vanished without a word. Élise Marchand was everything he never expected—brilliant, beguiling, and impossible to forget. He had intended to make her his wife…until he learned the truth. She was a spy and he had been nothing more than an assignment.Élise loved him despite knowing she shouldn't. N...

Lady Aletheia Lockwood has no intention of spending Christmas trapped beneath the same roof as Jasper Bellamy, the scandalous Duke of Blackthorn—the man who once stole her heart, shattered it, and disappeared without explanation.But when a fierce snowstorm strands them at a secluded country estate, avoiding Jasper becomes impossible. Especially when unfinished arguments turn into stolen glances, old memories, and kisses far too tempting to resist.Jasper never stopped loving...

Frederick Olliver and Lyle Gaynor are an unlikely pair. He is an introverted, bookish medievalist who still lives with a flatmate, while she is a glamorous, wildly successful playwright who refuses to leave her marriage because it secures her social standing. Frederick does not belong in Lyle's high-powered world, yet fate has other plans. When Frederick's long-gestating opus is seized by his publisher in a last-ditch attempt to save their struggling business, it unexpectedly becomes a mas...

Dennis Orphen is a young, clever novelist with a keen eye for a good story. This time, however, his material is drawn from the romantic woes of his closest friend, Effie Callingham. More than a decade earlier, Effie's husband-the superstar writer Andrew Callingham-abandoned her for a younger, prettier woman. In the years since, Effie has stubbornly defended his reputation, clinging to the desperate hope that he might one day come to his senses and return.When Dennis's novel is publ...

Not All Shapeshifters Howl at the MoonIt’s the night of the full moon and you thought werewolves were bad enough. Now you have to worry about what else might be stalking you through the streets! Were-bees? Were-llamas? Were-siphonophores? Even the ocean isn’t safe! In WERE-2, the latest anthology from Zombies Need Brains, we return to the back alleys (and oceans) in the dead of night to discover what other were-creatures might see you as prey. Not until yo...

Drusilla writes about happily-ever-afters for a living, but she never expected a real-life monster to crash through her sanctuary. When Cyrus, a vampire on the run from a vengeful hunter, collapses into her remote North Carolina cabin, Drusilla doesn't offer him a glass of blood--she holds him at gunpoint. Cyrus is exhausted, bleeding, and desperate. Fleeing from his ex-lover turned hunter, Summer, he's spent a lifetime being treated as a predator. But in ...

An exploration of Frida Kahlos life, art and singular vision, revealing the story of an artist caught in the contentious worlds of post-revolutionary Mexico, Communism and Surrealism.

Forensic Anthropology Training Manual, fourth edition serves as a practical reference tool and a framework for training in forensic anthropology. It introduces readers to the field of forensic anthropology, including methods for identifying, recovering, and analyzing human bone in medicolegal contexts. An introductory chapter situates forensic anthropology within the forensic sciences and its historical framework. Much of the first half of the volume covers bone biology, growth an...

A hunter with a secret. A necromancer bound by legacy. A haunting past that refuses to rest…The rise of the Dark Wing is in motion, and it's up to Hunter, Tito, Vinny, and Amora to rescue Kimiko Yang from a cursed fate, but Kimiko isn't the only one cursed by the Dark Wing.Hunter Collins may have survived the Dark Wing, but his time is running out. He must embrace the monster within him and accept his fate, just as Tito must embrace the return of his soul… ...

CaseyMilaya...the one that I let get away. She is not as far from me as she thinks she is. She haunts my dreams; I desire nothing more than to receive a second chance to prove I can be the man she loves and the one who will stand beside her forever.TashaI have finally found my purpose, the one that lets me explore my every desire, help with the family business, and pursue my author dreams. The only thing mis...

A gilded invitation, a bewitched castle, and the duke she never meant to want…Lady Rosina Ganderton has no intention of becoming anyone's obedient bride. With her sharp tongue, untamed wit, and a stubborn devotion to her own freedom, Rosina has mastered the art of outmaneuvering expectation. Love, after all, is one entanglement that she refuses to be caught in.Anton Marcus, Duke of Sinclair, never walks into a room without an advantage. A strategist to his bones, h...