BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Bing West's No True Glory and The Strongest Tribe.With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-day march to Baghdad that takes you behind the scenes and to the front line...No one reporting on the war in Iraq had the unique battlefield clearance afforded the authors of this dramatic eyewitness account. Unlike embedded journalists confined to a single unit, West...

Getting pulled over on Christmas Eve isn't what Regina wants to deal with. She just wants to go home, make some red and green pudding, and maybe get in a couple of Christmas movies.But when she realizes who is pulling her over, suddenly, Regina doesn't mind so much anymore.Because Sailor Baxter is a sinfully hot woman, and they've been dancing around each other for a while now.So, when Sailor makes her a deal to get her out of her ticket, Regina snags it with both h...

Helena is struggling to deal with a shocking twist in her unconventional personal life when someone kills her friend and employee. To catch the witches or warlocks responsible, Helena and the police will need to seek the help of an expert in magic - her old flame.It’s been nineteen years since Helena has seen Emery’s father Aiden. She thought it would be a happy reunion for her and Aiden as they work together to solve the murder, but she is sadly mistaken. Aiden turns out to be yet...

Meet Helena Graves, monster hunter for hire, in this action-packed urban fantasy short story prequel!When an innocent boy goes missing on Halloween, Helena vows to do everything in her power to find him. With the help of a few shape-shifting friends, they pick up the scent of the vampire responsible for the child’s disappearance.Helena is no stranger to dangerous villains. She’s fought more than her fair share thanks to her own strange supernatural heritage.Reluctan...

Monster Hunter Helena Graves has her hands full planning her daughter’s 18th birthday and preparing her for the possibility of inheriting Helena’s rather complicated powers.She doesn’t have time to get dragged into shifter politics. But she can’t sit back and do nothing when the shifters and vampires are on the brink of war, not when her boyfriend Dominick is a vampire, and her best friend Henry is a werelion.Unfortunately, when a pack of wolves attack Helena, tensions betw...

After a run-in with the Sebring Beach police department where a vampire’s servant ended up dead, Helena Graves is offered two choices – help the local PD chase down wanted monsters or spend the next ten years in prison.Since she has a teenage daughter to raise, it was an easy decision for her to make.Between running a somewhat controversial business, tense teacher conferences, and killer supernaturals on the loose, there's never a dull moment in Sebring Beach or Helena’s li...

Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of racial and gendered hierarchies f...

A Short Sapphic RomanceWhen all the flights are canceled and Mavis is stuck at home for the Christmas holidays, she decides getting drunk on wine and contemplating her feelings for her best friend are the way to go....Until she sends a very risque text to said friend... that includes a picture.Mavis has either started something amazing, or she's just destroyed her relationship with her best friend, hence making this the worst Chris...

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides West, Jarick, and Grabbe's introduction to and concise commentary on Judith, Greek Esther, and Tobit. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers....

After a run-in with the Sebring Beach police department where a vampire’s servant ended up dead, Helena Graves is offered two choices – help the local PD chase down wanted monsters or spend the next ten years in prison.Since she has a teenage daughter to raise, it was an easy decision for her to make.Between running a somewhat controversial business, tense teacher conferences, and killer supernaturals on the loose, there's never a dull moment in Sebring Beach or Helena’s li...

The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar genres and unfamiliar characters began during the 1870s and extended until she died in 1894...

A Short Sapphic RomanceWorking on Christmas Eve isn't something anyone wants to do, much less Avalon. But when she's called out for a noise ordinance, she knows she's got to check it out, though she can probably place money on it that it's just some grumpy old person being a Grinch.Though, what she doesn't expect when she gets there is to find Senna wrapped up in Christmas lights, unable to get herself loose.... And she's just conf...