Revenge is a dish best-served cold… Or is it? These wallflowers are about to find out, as they plot against those most deserving. Can society handle a wallflower's revenge? Or will their targets topple one by one? This guidebook outlines many things that might interest a wallflower scheming for revenge. It has short snippets detailing their reason for revenge, notes of encouragement for those seeking their own, and lists to help achieve their ultimate goal.**NONE OF THE SNIPPETS AR...

Seventeen emerging and established authors from around the world reimagined clocks and wove them into beautiful speculative and dark stories.As you move from one narrative to the next, you'll find yourself lost in fog, grasping at a young love, risking it all to save a dying world. Pages will swallow you whole as you slip through time, challenge what it means to live, and create an automaton. With poignant representations of queerness, disability and mental health issues, grief, lo...

This open access toolkit offers a collection of almost 30 methods, practical examples, workshop outlines and tips for creative facilitation, as well as resources and relevant academic references. The ideas and methods collected in this toolkit are intended to support new ways of thinking and doing in our work as change agents towards regenerative societies. Compiled by a research team collaborating through the SUSPLACE Innovative Training Network, it is the result of our collective researc...

In 'Weighed Down,' Mary Pearson invites readers to explore the intricate relationship between self-perception, beauty standards, and the ever-evolving landscape of health consciousness.The narrative unfolds with co-author Brigitte Botten dissecting the misleading dichotomy of 'good' and 'bad' foods. The authors debunk the myth that certain foods bear a moral weight, emphasizing the inherent purpose each one serves in our bodies. Nelly Rose, citing psychologist Glenn Mackintosh, fur...

No room at the inn? What about in her heart?After her husband’s death left her a tenant in her own home, Lucy Thorne’s future was bleak. Turning neighbor Dudley Rose’s long-abandoned home into a thriving tourist destination was not her idea, but it did temporarily solve one of her problems. Yet with every year that passes without seeing Dudley again, Lucy has stubbornly clung to the hope he’d return. If he did, he would discover that he was dearly longed for.Widowe...

A Regency romance with wit, passion, . . . and cats!Take one wallflower and thoroughly disgrace her.Add an earl who thinks a jest is always in good fun.Stir together with a spark of romance.Sprinkle with the bon ton.Bring to a boil with passion and vengeance.Simmer through the London Season.Let cool with a breeze of regret.Finish with a deliciously happy ending.Miss Evelyn Blythe is content with need...

When two disillusioned people accidentally meet, finding a common bond in scandal will give them back hope.The Honorable Laurence Bannerman lingers in London to avoid joining his family at his father's country estate in Surrey to celebrate Christmastide. As the third son and a fourth sibling, nothing was ever expected of him, so his behavior has been quite scandalous. That is until he meets a woman who makes him long for a wife and wish for a change… but dogs don't change ...

Nothing ushers in the holidays like mistletoe… and murder.Widow Mary Tomlinson isn't looking for romance. At four and thirty, she's content enough to keep house for her brother in London, but when the opportunity to act as chaperone for her niece at a Christmastide house party comes her way, she jumps at it. Even more when she discovers the party is hosted by Viscount Stanwick, a man she used to fancy in her youth. The fly in the ointment is his brother and the troubling a...

When Thomas Hardacre, the cold-hearted Duke of Stanthorpe, receives an invitation to Christmas dinner from his widowed neighbor, Mrs. Anna Rowntree, his initial reaction is to say no. Even though he once shared an incendiary mistletoe kiss with the sweet-as-a-sugarplum daughter of his former estate steward, Thomas has since placed her on the “do-not-ever-touch” shelf. He suspects the comely but lonely Anna wants more than “dinner,” and while the idea of bedding her sets him aflame, he’s su...

Digging for the truth requires a person to dirty their hands, but it might also set them free.Graham Islington—Viscount Aldren—is no stranger to life's foibles. After being given his title from the Regent for heroic services to the Crown during the war, he's used his retirement from the military as an excuse to find scandal and sin in the beau monde. But when a rare bejeweled parasol handle once belonging to Louis XVI is discovered in his bed—along with the dead b...

Winner of the 2024 Maggie Award- Best Published Historical RomanceSecrets, Lies, and a LockEver since her father’s unexpected death, Cecilia Chenoweth has felt like the heroine of a bad Gothic novel. In addition to leaving her alone and destitute, her father made a deathbed confession that it was no mere fever that took her mother’s life some twenty years ago. Then he pressed a sinister key into her hands, bidding her to go forth and uncove...

A delightful new series introducing the ladies of the Mayfair Literary League from USA Today Bestselling Author Lana Williams. The series has charmingly spirited heroines with a love of books, dashing rogues, humor, steamy kisses, and twists you might not see coming.One bold move could change their futures...Bonded by books and united by a purpose, the Mayfair Literary League takes on a new agenda—For Better or Worse. The bachelors of London wo...