A painful past. A wall of steel. And an ex from hell.Could the holidays get any worse? After his dad's death, Detroit FBI field agent Colton Ramsay didn't think so. His mom's on hospice and his ex-college sweetheart just married his ex-roommate--and now he's been assigned to investigate a murder in the icy wastelands of the Upper Peninsula. But when sexy ski hill manager Kyra Erikkson and her five-year-old son storm into Colton's life, he has a change of heart. Her chestnu...

This textbook fills the gap between the very basic and the highly advanced volumes that are widely available on the subject. It offers a concise but comprehensive overview of a number of topics, like general relativity, fission and fusion, which are otherwise only available with much more detail in other textbooks. Providing a general introduction to the underlying concepts (relativity, fission and fusion, fundamental forces), it allows readers to develop an idea of what these two research...

A ghost child left to die in a French forest, Contesse Blanchefort buries the horrors of her young life when a Bourgeoisie Revolutionary rescues and adopts her. Ten years later when, her Papa dies at the Bastille, Contesse's grim memories reemerge. Seeking her roots, she embarks on a quest across the English countryside, guided by a mysterious pagan woman and a rogue Gypsy. But when Contesse falls ill in London, her companions are forced to seek help.When the strange Gypsy bursts i...

The Final Book in the Pure Escapades Series!Lieutenant Elliott Masters spent two years unraveling Colonel Robert Sandstone's treasonous scheme to plunder the wealth of the American wilderness. Undergoing an elite military mission, Elliot and his best friend, Captain Will Creighton, spent all summer foiling the Colonel's treasonous plans and taking him in custody to await justice at Fort McHenry.With his mission accomplished, Elliot wants nothing mor...

Jilted by his betrothed and desperate to escape his family's strict Gypsy ways, Talon Barberry leaves England behind when he's hired by a French extremist to kidnap a diplomat's daughter sailing to New Orleans. However, he discovers that he is merely a pawn in the Frenchman's game, and his target is actually a spy hired by the Cabildo—the most beautiful spy he's ever seen.Hired to take her best friend's place on a ship bound for the West Indies, Talia Montrose uses her...

This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war.Rejecting the assumption that violence is simply a denial of reason or, at best, a pathological form of collective sadism, this book considers it ‘a cultural act’ that needs to be understood as underpinned by a series of shared and accepted norms and values stemming from a society at a given moment of its history and shaped by its la...

2021 Finalist--American Book Fest Best Book AwardsWould you enter a plantation haunted by the Past?Five long years.Librarian Avery Jackson has dreamt about restoring her grandfather's ancestral plantation forever. It's finally within reach. Her grandmother had other ideas. Avery must share the inheritance with Tulane's new rockstar history professor. Unfortunately, the man's chocolate eyes and sexy voice are a dang...

Handbook on Thermal Hydraulics of Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, Volume 3, Procedures and Applications includes all new chapters which delve deeper into the topic, adding context and practical examples to help readers apply learnings to their own setting. Topics covered include experimental thermal-hydraulics and instrumentation, numerics, scaling and containment in thermal-hydraulics, as well as a title dedicated to good practices in verification and validation. This book will be a valuab...

Second Chances aren't always easy... especially if they're forbidden.ShannonTwo years ago, I lost the love of my life, Cody Williams. We were best friends--we'd dated for nearly a year. But after my mother and Cody's father announced their engagement, she forced me to break up with Cody and sent me to Illinois to live with my father and attend college. Her excuse? Dating my soon-to-be stepbrother couldn't happen. It's taboo.Unfortu...

PURE ENCHANTMENT--PURE ESCAPADES BOOK 3**Award Finalist : "Fiction: Romance" category of the 2017 Best Book Awards**An infamous creole sea captain...a beautiful quadroon stowaway--a forbidden love that surges with the tides.A rum privateer on the run, Captain Alex Lafitte wanders the Caribbean aboard his ship, the Enchanted Lady, avoiding his infamous cousins at all costs. But when his childhood love, Talia Barberry, begs him to save her adopted son from th...

Handbook on Thermal Hydraulics of Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, Volume 2, Modelling includes all new chapters which delve deeper into the topic, adding context and practical examples to help readers apply learnings to their own setting. Topics covered include experimental thermal-hydraulics and instrumentation, numerics, scaling and containment in thermal-hydraulics, as well as a title dedicated to good practices in verification and validation. This book will be a valuable reference for g...

Handbook on Thermal Hydraulics of Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, Volume 1, Foundations and Principles includes all new chapters which delve deeper into the topic, adding context and practical examples to help readers apply learnings to their own setting. Topics covered include experimental thermal-hydraulics and instrumentation, numerics, scaling and containment in thermal-hydraulics, as well as a title dedicated to good practices in verification and validation. This book will be a valuabl...