Ella's bestselling work, The Torn Series, is a collection of books about the life of Melissa Williams. Throughout the series, you'll feel as if you're walking right alongside Melissa through her life's journey. You'll need to buckle up because the Torn Series takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride. Not only will you cry through her struggles, but you'll also celebrate in her triumphs. Throughout the Torn Series, you'll see Melissa make some good and not-so-good decisions in her life...

Humans made a deal with the Stryxian males: Help us defend Earth, and when the war is over, we'll send you women to help rebuild your dying species.Now, the war appears to be over and Trinity Bentzer's number has been called in the lottery. Only, instead of winning a boatload of money, she's getting some badass winged alien she's never met. Trin's not thrilled to be shipped off and matched up, until she meets Raig. Maybe she hit the jackpot, after all.Comma...

Xarik Tek-ra is one of few of his kind who do not want to take over the Stryxian empire by force. He is a Vanyi—one of the rare, silver-scaled Stryxians possessing devastating mind powers.When he finds an unconscious human female in the middle of nowhere and returns with her to his settlement, his mala is awakened. She may be his true mate, but she is terrified of him. It was other Vanyi who had abducted her, making winning her trust the greatest challenge of his l...

This book examines how the writings of the thirteenth-century nun Gertrude the Great of Helfta articulate an innovative relationship between a person's eucharistic devotion and her body. It attends to her references to the biblical, monastic, and theological traditions, including attitudes and ideas about the spiritual and corporeal senses, in order to illuminate the affirmative role Gertrude assigns to the body in making spiritual progress. Ultimately the book demonstrates that Gertrude l...

Throughout her life, Melissa Williams has hoped for a relationship with someone who can appreciate her for who she is and for the love that she is ready to give. When a friend from her hometown asks for her hand in marriage, she’s ready to take this next step with him until she realizes that her heart is yearning for someone else. Little does she know, thousands of miles away in West Africa, Orpheus Frank follows his mother’s advice to leave Liberia to find his Queen in America. In this Fi...

When Brandy Trentler's wealthy family insists she marry the jerk who cheated on her, she signs up for the Stryxian mate lottery.Who knew her number would be drawn in the first round? Nothing goes right after that - the transport ship is attacked, she is captured by the enemy Morr-ta aliens and thrown in prison. When a gorgeous Stryxian warrior rescues her, she thinks she's won freedom and her fated mate, but he has some big, bad secret, and apparently, it's a deal ...

When Axika Naxek is tasked with upgrading a newly acquired human space station, he comes straight up against Gwen, a brilliant human female whose strategic mind is integral to operations.He thinks little of the weak humans he is in charge of, but to his astonishment, she ignites his mala and his interest. He can resist the sparks between them for a while, but the day will come for him to claim her as his. Gwen Jadin disliked everything about the Stryxian lottery, i...

Torn 3: Surviving the Human Snake Pit is a continuation of the passion and pain that exists in the life of Melissa MeMe Thomas (Williams). Torn 2 ended with a nail-biter after Melissa received a message on her phone that will change everything, and in this book, youll finally see what was actually on that text message that tests Melissas faith in God all the more. Now that shes divorced and living the single life again, she finds nothing wrong with igniting old flames, but is there enough ...

Arus Bor'vak understands machines better than people. He likes them better, too, so when human women begin to populate the Stryxian settlements, he finds it best to give them a wide berth.They're beautiful, soft, and utterly incomprehensible, and none captures his attention like Keira Becker, the strong ex-lieutenant who makes him lose his tongue in her presence.Keira Becker finds the brilliant Stryxian engineer very attractive, but his aloof demeanor makes...

An original collection of personal essays blending food writing and memoir, and exploring subjects ranging from Cher's canapes in the film Mermaids, to the way in which food can become a language we use to communicate things that are too difficult to say, via a history of cookbooks that have their foundations in grieving and loss, and one writer's experience of the six kitchens she's made her own over the years. Funny, astute and thought provoking, In the Kitchen explores the importance of...

Mazak is a weary cyborg mercenary about to settle his debt to a deadly trade lord.He is furious when one last job is demanded of him—to deliver a captive human female with an encrypted message inscribed on her arm to a dangerous space station before the message fades from her skin.It should be straightforward, but Mazak's outdated cyborg systems are malfunctioning, making him vulnerable. To make matters worse, the female lights a fire in both of Mazak's syn...

What happens when life throws together a busy, enthusiastic, doctor-daughter and her bereaved, disenchanted, dependent father? What happens when science meets stubbornness and a parent needs parenting?Following her mother’s death, Dr Helena Popovic puts her medical training and beliefs to the test when she becomes the carer for her elderly father, who has encroaching dementia.A passionate medical practitioner and international speaker, Helena finds herself living out everyt...