She wants to escape. He wants to win. Neither was looking for love, but sparks fly and their fates collide on the popular wolf shifter dating show, Mating Season.AspenI'm the lowest-ranking wolf from a pack that only exists to guard the shifter prison in our territory, but I've been planning my escape for years. I just have to make it through one more heat, then I'm done with this pack and the alpha-holes that run it.Everyt...

"Broken promises, broken bones, and some broken hearts. But, as always, Mating Season proves true love still exists…" -Jay RenfroRangerThey took her. And it was my fault. I had everything I never knew I wanted, and I let her slip through my hands.Revenge clouded my judgment, leaving me vulnerable and exposed, but I refuse to make the same mistake again.I'll find Aspen no matter the cost, and then I'll make those who...

Fate doesn't exist. But try telling that to the growling wolf shifter who thinks I'm his mate . . .This is not my week. Or month. Or year.My now-ex-boyfriend cheating on me with my best friend? I'd get over it eventually. Finding out my sister has Lycan wolf DNA and I have hours to get her out of the city before she's locked away in a government research facility? I definitely didn't see that one coming.To save my sister's life, we take off in the m...

FallonI messed up. Actually, my wolf messed up.I only came to this show to help my brother get revenge; not have my wolf literally latch onto a big, silent Alpha sitting alone in the woods and claim him.It turns out the Alpha wasn't all that quiet.Now I can't get his voice out of my head or the taste of him off my lips. He's everywhere. And he's not going away.I'm not sure I want him to leave.Fate is cruel. John is perfect–fo...

Have you ever felt like there was something missing inside of you? I have. It turns out that missing piece is a big, furry, and bratty wolf.As if navigating this newfound part of me wasn't strange enough, trying to communicate with a beast who is obsessed with a certain spot in the woods and the intoxicating scent a male shifter left behind is driving us both crazy.I'm hoping to keep us going long enough to help my best friend Kera navigate her new role as Alpha of the Cerb...

After my best friends fell in love with hot dragon shifters, all eyes turned toward me. Apparently, I might be the final puzzle piece to this new apocalyptic prophecy. Now we have to wait for the mysterious guardian to show up and decide if I'm worthy.No pressure or anything.I didn't have time for romantic fantasies—not when I have a six-year-old girl who needs me. But when the majestic dragon finally showed up and stared at me with haunted pain in his eyes, I knew...

I never expected life to be easy . . .As the youngest female Alpha in the region, I had to fight to keep my title and claim my pack. Through blood and sweat, I dragged Cerberus out of the dark ages and built a safe haven. I was proud of everything I'd done.Everything changed on what was supposed to be the best day of any shifter's life. All the walls I'd built came crashing down with one look at my fated mate.Never once in my wildest nightmares, did I expec...

Dragons were not on my apocalypse bingo card. Neither was getting kidnapped by one.Life has been crazy, so it shouldn't be surprising that I've been taken by a mythological creature and marked as a potential piece of an apocalyptic prophecy.Except I'm done being a victim. Dangerous claws or not, I won't cower to the scary beast who says I'm his fated mate.But Lucan isn't what I expected. He's a warrior who caters to my every need. Beneath his tough exterior...

You know what's worse than my ex-husband? The apocalypse.That's why I'm putting the past behind me as I drag my best friends to safety. My ranch is the perfect place for us to lay low while the world falls apart—as long as I can survive the small-town drama.But I wasn't expecting to come face-to-face with a smoking-hot trespasser who says he owns my property now. Kieran has another thing coming if he thinks he's staying on my land. I don't care if he's working for the gover...

AspenI may have sold my soul to pass the Luna Trials and earn my place on Mating Season, but I'm going to prove to everyone on this show that I'm not afraid of them.I belong here, and I swear I'll make whoever threatened me pay just as soon as I figure out how to ditch the dangerously sexy Alpha who won't let another male look in my direction.Ranger is a red flag walking. His dark past follows him like shadows. He calls to my beast in a way...

Bestselling author of Ella Enchanted and fairy-tale master Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing in this companion to the popular Writing Magic.Have you ever wanted to captivate readers with a great opening, create spectacular and fantastical creatures, make up an entire country, realize a dastardly villain, write an epic love story, or make your characters leap off the page? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Gail Carson Levine can he...

This manual is an indispensable tool for introducing advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students to the techniques of recombinant DNA technology, or gene cloning and expression. The techniques used in basic research and biotechnology laboratories are covered in detail. Students gain hands-on experience from start to finish in subcloning a gene into an expression vector, through purification of the recombinant protein. The third edition has been completely re-written, with new l...