Grange Abbey is the family saga of the Bannon construction dynasty, through the hard times and good, through recessions and growth, tragedy and success. Spanning generations, we see how James and his sons Frank, Simon and Paul come from humble beginnings to create a powerful construction empire and we also see the personal costs that success entails. It takes grit to build a dynasty. Do the Bannons have what it takes to maintain one?

Winnie Ahearne fears that Veronica Bucholz, who is pregnant with Winnie's great-grandchild, has been kidnapped. Her grandson Axel and his friend Kennedy try to solve the case while keeping the authorities at bay and Winnie safe from the kidnappers.Winnie has other plans as she and Axel's girlfriend Jules do some investigating on their own. Will they find Veronica in time? Or will they discover that the real target of the kidnapping was someone else?Win...

“WELCOME TO NURSING, MY NAME’S COVID” follows the journey of a newly sober, novice nurse who begins his career one month before the pandemic. David Delaney is in recovery and needs to maintain next to perfect balance to maintain his sobriety when COVID hits his long term care facility. As a new nurse overcoming addiction we see how he responds to absolute pandemonium and chaos. A list of colorful characters and comical situations highlights his inspirational journey through the human condi...

The Expanding Spaces of Law presents readers with cutting-edge scholarship in legal geography. An invaluable resource for those new to this line of scholarship, the book also pushes the boundaries of legal geography, reinvigorating previous modes of inquiry and investigating new directions. It guides scholars interested in the law–space–power nexus to underexplored empirical sites and to novel theoretical and disciplinary resources. Finally, The Expanding Spaces of Law as...

Critical legal geography is practised by an increasing number of scholars in various disciplines, but it has not had the benefit of an overarching theoretical framework that might overcome its currently rather ad hoc character. The Spatial, the Legal and the Pragmatics of World-Making remedies this situation. Presenting a balanced convergence of contemporary socio-legal and critical geographic scholarship, David Delaney offers a ground-breaking contribution to the fast growing fie...

Black and white Americans have occupied separate spaces since the days of "the big house" and "the quarters." But the segregation and racialization of American society was not a natural phenomenon that "just happened." The decisions, enacted into laws, that kept the races apart and restricted blacks to less desirable places sprang from legal reasoning which argued that segregated spaces were right, reasonable, and preferable to other arrangements.In this book, David Delaney explore...

Orson Reid: college freshman, gamer, and quite possibly the legendary boogeyman of the magical world. And you thought your life was weird.It all started the night Orson kissed his best friend, Elyse, and she kissed him back. Yes, the kiss was life changing, but in ways Orson never could have imagined. It seems he contracted a "virus" that is making him taller, faster, and stronger. But his life doesn't go completely off the rails until the night Elyse shows up at his house, strips ...

A thrilling prequel to the unputdownable Paragon Society seriesFireball blasting battle-mages, shapeshifting soccer moms, and a best friend who is more than happy to throw punches now and ask questions later—Wyatt Murphy is in for a supernatural thrill ride of reality-bending proportions.If he can just avoid the school bully, survive the big dance, and outrun blood-magic wielding bad guys, his night may turn out great.

What happens when you accidentally bring one of the world's most powerful blood-mages back from the dead?Orson Reid and his friends are about to find out.But first they'll need to deal with the Paragon Society's ever-growing web of lies, an ancient shape-shifter blood sport and a very unexpected display of magic ability—but not necessarily in that order.Whoever said being the good guys was easy, was dead wrong.And to complicate things even f...

Shape-shifters, battle mages, and blood magic–wielding bad guys, or, as Orson Reid calls it—Tuesday. Luckily for Orson, the rumors are true, he is the Ollphiest, the monster that even monsters fear.Now, as the newest member of the Paragon Society, Orson is eyeballs deep in a crash course on battle magic. He spends his days training with Lucy, who attempts to slice, dice, and set him on fire. Seriously.So, when the Society directs them to check out a possibl...

A secret society of mages and shape-shifters is at war with blood magic–wielding bad-guys. It would be super cool if the world weren't, you know, in danger of being overrun by evil buttheads.When the Paragon Society needs a situation contained, they call in their top battle mage, Lucy, a dual-blade wielding, fireball throwing, kicker of butts.But a traumatic injury has fractured Lucy's psyche, leaving her trapped deep inside her subconscious. The Society an...

Orson and his friends are heading for an epic magical showdown, and not everyone will make it out alive.The millennia-old Paragon Society is on the brink of destruction. The heart of its power has been reduced to rubble, most of the leadership killed, and Marcus, the blood-mage, is once again on the loose, wreaking havoc.It feels like the bad guys are winning.All hope is not lost. Heidi Aldridge, a reformed blood-mage, may hold the key to unraveling...