FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF LGBTQIA ROMANCE ROBIN JEFFREYA Family Business storyAlex serves liquor neat, but his love life is messy as hell…Forced to flee the UK because he witnessed his cousin’s murder at the hands of a ruthless drug lord, bartender Alexander Harris has found refuge at the Bronze Arrow in New York City. A sophisticated and select bar that seeks to redefine luxury, the Bronze Arrow also happens to be a front fo...

Chance Hale is more interested in running around with fascinating women than following in his father's footsteps as head of the billion-dollar tech company Halcyon Enterprises. Called home for an important announcement, Chance seeks to liven up the weekend retreat by bringing along the first interesting woman he finds: an alluring young lady named Cadence Turing, who claims to be visiting his home planet Arrhidaeus from the planet Paraesepe. But when someone turns up murdered, all evidence...

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer capitalism. Waste of a Nation offers an anthropological and historical account of India’s complex relationship with garbage.Countries around the world struggle to achieve s...

The system is falling apart. Political turmoil leaves no one's life untouched, including captain of industry Chance Hale and detective-story-obsessed android Cadence Turing. Recently reunited after successfully solving the murder of Chance's father, the pair struggle to find their footing in a rapidly changing world. The death of an android rights activist puts them in the path of a desperate killer with everything to lose. As they navigate the planet Arrhidaeus' seedy underworld in search...

Relationships are never easy. Captain of industry Chance Hale and android detective Cadence Turing know that better than most. Struggling to find their place together, an attempt on Chance's life soon eclipses all other problems. When the attack on him is linked to a recent murder, things begin to spin completely out of control. Drug runners, freedom fighters, law enforcement officers - everyone and everything seems to be conspiring against Chance and Cadence as the pair are forced to reck...

Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the causes and patterns of this decline.In few regions has the apparent decline in conflict been as dramatic as in the Asia-Pacific, with annual recorded battle deaths falling in the range of...

Two puzzles of modern Indiaone well known, the other overlookedform the core of this book. For fifty years, the state of Kerala has been famed, first as a home of Communists, then as a perplexing model of development. But why Communists? And why development, especially in a place where the economy usually underperformed even lowly national averages? Part of an answer lies in the unusual place of women in Kerala and their changing role in the past 200 years.Another part lies in the other, ofte...

Lee Coleman isn’t looking for another heartbreak. Eight months ago, he fell for a woman who chose someone else, and he’s spent every day since trying to forget her. When a blizzard forces him to take shelter in a remote mountain cabin, the last thing he expects is a second chance—with the one who got away.Rachel Malone’s done with love. After catching her ex cheating, she’s promised herself no more hearts, no more hopes—just freedom. But being snowed in with a rugged cowboy who kno...

A damsel in distress... The day of a young woman's wedding should be the happiest day of her life, but for Aylen Ware, it is the worst. Raised from a young age in a secret splinter sect of the Fundamentalist Mormon Church, Aylen has spent her life suppressing her true self and living in constant fear of violence and abuse. The Elders of the church claim that she has been chosen to be the eighteenth bride of a man three times her age and renowned for his cr...

A dancer starting his life over and a man struggling to come to terms with his traumatic past find love and emotional healing in this gay romance.The only commitment Tameron "Tam" Kis wants to make is to his dance career. Life's been pretty shitty, but dance got him through it and now he's ready to focus on what he loves. He doesn't have the bandwidth for any distractions—especially not his sexy, not-quite-straight new neighbor.Driver Ellis doesn't need anyth...

Wallace Avery, bookworm extraordinaire, is not out at work in either sense, as a gay man or as a fox shifter. He likes his privacy, and he's quite content in records management, thank you: filing papers and spending his off hours quietly.When the opportunity he never wanted is thrust into his lap, he has to decide what to do about it. Police work and a pay raise, and probably stress up to his eyeballs, or trying to stay in his old life and pretending he's not capable of so much mor...

Dive into a world of passion and suspense with USA Today bestselling author Amanda Siegrist’s captivating series that will tug at your heartstrings.He wanted to forget her.She longed for a second chance.The flames of their love never died.Ethan McCord has spent the last ten years trying to forget his high school sweetheart, Penelope. When she left town for college, she took his heart with her, leaving him ...