Violent Accounts presents a compelling study of how ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of violence and how perpetrators and victims manage in the aftermath. Grounded in extensive, qualitative analysis of perpetrator testimony, the volume reveals the individual experiences of perpetrators as well as general patterns of influence that lead to collective violence.Drawing on public testimony from the amnesty hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the b...

Navy SEAL vet turned private investigator Logan Wild has a thirst for justice - and one-time flings. But when he meets Stella "Stormy" Knight, he finds himself craving more from the mysterious beauty.Everything's naughtier after dark....Stella "Stormy" Knight is an expert at hiding - her feelings, her past, and her identity. Sometimes, all that hiding takes its toll, and she needs to come out from under that heavy suit of armor and cut loos...

Indulge your inner vixen. You asked for naughtier lovers, with the same fierce loyalty as The Bradens. Meet the Wild Boys...four sinfully sexy, uber alpha brothers, about to fall head over heels for their leading ladies. The Wild Boys After Dark series is loosely tied to the Love in Bloom series....Everything's naughtier after dark....No last names. No strings. No ties.Except of the silk variety.Dr. Heath Wild and Allyson Je...

When’s the last time you picked up a business book that was so engaging you couldn’t put it down? Steve Difillippo was only 24 when he opened his first Davio’s restaurant. Since then, he’s wowed Julia Child with his pomodoro, overlooked some triple-X rated shenanigans at Table 7, taken on American Express, gotten himself into Time and Newsweek (for taking on American Express), cooked a rabbit for Stevie Ray Vaughn, inadvertently gotten a guest divorced, whipped up some ta...

What if survival required you to unlearn who you are? How far would you fall to save yourself? Sometimes happiness is a long way down.The Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague's daughter. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have been. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career capsizes in a storm of accusatio...

Raymond Mackey is a struggling crime writer. His friends call him Mack. But friends are in short supply these days. Mack’s 30 years as a homicide detective came to the kind of abrupt, ignominious end that tends to make friends dry up and blow away. It matters little that Mack was never actually a mole working for a shadowy, seemingly omnipresent mob boss. Somehow, the evidence was there anyway, and the scandal ended everything for him overnight. Lucky to stay out of prison, Mack lives in a...