The fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Medicine remains the definitive, pocket-sized guide for every healthcare professional committed to providing exemplary care for patients with life-limiting illnesses. This handbook is designed to empower its readers, both specialists and generalists, with the knowledge and confidence to alleviate suffering, manage complex symptoms, and honour the unique worth and dignity of every individual and their family. Fully revised and...

The Drunken Promise is a steamy romance novella that explores coming-of-age love, heartbreak, overcoming tragedy, and rebuilding what was once lost.Blue and I, we've been through everything together. She's been my best friend ever since I can remember, all the way through now, our senior year of high school. And she still has no idea that I'm in love with her. When she asks to have her first time with me, only because she trusts me so much, I'm not sure I can go through ...

A third of all proceeds generated from A Nickel and A Trinket go to charities fighting against human trafficking.Stefan works street corners around town, giving strangers the gift of their Time of Death in exchange for a nickel and a trinket. He's unknowingly exploited by his family, which pushes him into a fame he never wanted, and all the while they're keeping secrets from him. Devastated by a sudden death, his world is thrown into turmoil, kicking off a...

Book One: Scarlet's Naughty ChristmasAfter nearly quitting her job as Santa's helper, Scarlet changes plans when she meets the new—and incredibly sexy—mall Santa, Luke. Can Scarlet get this Santa to stuff her stocking this Christmas?Book Two: Charli's Sexy ValentineThe noisy upstairs neighbors have nearly cost Lars his job. But after confronting them, Charli and her roommate have an offer he can't refuse. Be Charli's Valentine's date and they'll never make another p...

I made a horrible mistake with my ex-husband. And now, I suffer the consequence of being forced into bankruptcy. My lawyer, August, is so kind and compassionate. But his comforting touch has other thoughts rising. When my case is closed and my time as his interior designer is over, can I keep my luscious lawyer by my side?When the tragically beautiful Ashaya falls into my office, I'm reminded of my past. I know I have to do everything in my power to help set her free. But I quickly...

TeresaI finally realized my dream of opening my own café. Trouble is, my grand opening just so happened to coincide with the entire world shutting down. Can my luck get any worse than a freaking global pandemic right when I finally took my nose off the grinding stone? So while I waited for the world to open up again, I've been stuck here, in my lonely café, obsessing over a pie recipe like it could save my dying dream. Then one day, Eren, a local celebrity food blo...

Phoenix, Arizona was supposed to offer me freedom. From my mother, from my life that she loves to remind me has amounted to nothing. I decided to spend an extended vacation in town during my friend Ken's wedding, see him get his happily ever after, then head back home to Ohio to fix my failure of a life. But after one grave mistake on Camelback Mountain, I find myself lost in my savior Aimee's captivating eyes. She's a vanlifer who can't stay in once place for long. Does this wanderer run ...

"I want to lose my virginity," she says, "and I want it to be with you."My best friend says this after one night of youthful troublemaking and a bottle of stolen vodka. She says that but I still remember those baths we used to take together. I remember showing off our first whiskers of body hair."I want it to be with someone I trust. Someone I care 'bout. That's you." Her hot whisper tickles my ear and I squirm. But I can't ignore the slur to her words, the sluggish grind o...

It's Christmas, which means screaming kids, carols on repeat, and angry impatient parents giving me the evil eye. Every year I think this part-time gig as Santa's helper will fill me with Christmas cheer and every year I'm left at Santa's altar while he's off drinking himself into a stupor. It's time I gave up and quit this nonsense already. But then the latest Santa rent-a-drunk—Luke—turns out not to be a drunk at all. In fact, he's a hunky hottie that has me drooling and falling all over...

By any measure, Juan Terry Trippe was a remarkable business leader - a visionary, devious, shrewd, deeply flawed, and ultimately inscrutable genius. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Harvard man, once called him "the most fascinating Yale gangster I ever met." Trippe built Pan American Airways from a single scrap of paper - a license to fly airmail from Key West to Havana - into the world's largest airline. In the process, he all but single-handedly shaped the world of air travel. If Juan Trippe ha...

When life slipped through his hands and the old self began to fracture, Max Watson Jr chose a different path: truth.Free The Mind is a 25-chapter guide to inner freedom-told from the ground level of transformation. From Texas to the quiet of Kennett Missouri, through fasting, discipline, morning walks, and prayer, Max learns to break the loops that keep us small: fear, comparison, temptation, and distraction. With living metaphors-the caterpillar becoming the butterfly, the Armor o...

A raw look at the dark side of everyday life, loss, parenthood, longing, and loneliness.In this collection of illustrated short stories and poems, a young boy plays in the forest but someone or something comes chasing after...A man on a desolate farm remembers the ghosts of his past, who seem to call to him from the edge of the forest…The toll of Grim's bell echoes around a small town…And more chilling tales within...if you dare.