Strippers and strip clubs are all over the news and in movies and television shows. There are websites devoted to the subject of strip clubs and they do a tremendous traffic. There are no published statistics that I am aware of with a count of how many people visit strip clubs every year, but we all know it's a lot. TV talk show hosts we know and love have tried to figure out why, and I have some answers. It's my story, and the stories of just a few of the girls, but it will shed a little ...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures.While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves, and barbarians. As if avoiding death by the hands of these miscreants isn’t enough (particularly the barbari...

Da Vinci Code meets Tomb Raider in the award-winning thriller that #1 NYT author James Rollins called, "Full of action and suspense."Spain 1057: During a thunderous battle, the first King of Spain wrestles Alexander the Great’s priceless Egyptian weapon from invaders, but finds it holds a terrifying and mysterious power.A thousand years later, on a hushed, fog-shrouded Napa morning, gunshots and the sound of breaking glass rip through the morning’s silence. Maddy Marshall, ...

A grieving husband can’t live with his guilt…... he decides to die, not by his own hand, but in heroically helping the vulnerable.Since the peaceful Cotswold countryside offers limited opportunities for heroism, despite the presence of some weird and dangerous inhabitants, he ventures further afield. To his annoyance, new and unlikely friends mysteriously appear everywhere he goes, foiling his plans and sending him back to square one.Will he succeed or will he come ...

The three sons of a notorious mercenary should never have met…but now that they are sworn allies, the Scottish Borders will never be the same…Denied his rightful legacy, Maximilian de Vries devised a plan to avenge himself upon his father and see his own future secured. Allied with his two half-brothers, he descends upon ancient and mysterious Kilderrick, determined to seize the keep once promised to him, regardless of the price. A woman rumored to be a witch is the sole o...

When murder is your business, solving the case is personal …The Homicide Hunter’s riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth …All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by television star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit series Homicide Hunter and Homicide Hunter: American Detective air on Investigation Discovery, the #1 true-crime channel available in more than 8...

A remarkable collection, Robots through the Ages includes stories from some of the best writers of science fiction, both old and new.This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica t...

Alone. Powerless. Human.Tendira is a world of beastly shifters and deadly monsters…except me, the human queen.When my home is taken over by an angry pack who wants me dead, I'm forced to run, so I go to the one place my attackers won't dare follow: the Blood Pack.But the Blood Alpha watches his territory more closely than I imagined. His people catch me and drag me to their capital. Instead of killing me, they decide to keep me.The problem? ...

A brutal Frost King. A bastard fae bride. A bond neither of them wanted.Everly Elarion never asked to be chosen. A bastard with a dangerous lineage, she's spent her life surviving in the shadows of powerful men. Now, she's being forced to marry one.Draven Ashwynter, the Frostgrave King, rules the Winter Court with an iron will and a heart carved from ice. Just when the kingdom teeters on the edge of ruin, the Court's Visionary comes forth with a solution: t...

A tea-loving mortal with a warm heart. A worldly fae prince in disguise. Midwinter is brewing something magical.At the enchanting Winterfrost Market, renowned for its Midwinter celebrations, Elsie is run off her feet at her family's cozy traveling tea house.But the quaint town's festivities lose their luster when her mother fails to return from her journey to Midwinter Haven—a fairytale land in the north, rumored to be inhabited by elves, witches, and fae.

A mage with deadly magic. A royal thief fading to a curse. A forgotten love that will unravel their world.When Adira's crook of a boss sends her to a Las Vegas casino as one of his goons, her world turns upside down and she's tossed through the gates of a strange, dangerous world of mage courts and curses.Disoriented and convinced she's in a twisted afterlife, Adira is overtaken and robbed by a band of highwaymen whose seductive leader stirs something in he...

From day one of life, we begin to climb mountains of one kind or another. At first, "mountain climbing" takes the form of baby's struggle to inhale the first breath. Then comes rolling over, followed by crawling, and so forth. Naturally, the instinct to climb "over mountains" grows as a person develops a greater supply of climbing mustard, corresponding with greater physical, mental, and spiritual strength, and resolve.As life goes on, we discover new and different challenges, "mou...