This is the final report of the bipartisan CSIS Task Force on Reforming and Reorganizing U.S. Foreign Assistance. As the Trump administration attempts to curb government spending, particularly in foreign assistance, this study reviews past attempts at reorganizing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Department of State, and it provides recommendations for the new administration. The task force consisted of former civil and foreign service officers and is co-c...

Brad is short of cash. He's lost his job, and if he can't find the rent money by Friday, he's going to be evicted. He answers a job to work as a strip-o-gram, but ends up getting more than he bargained for.

Their assignment is to catch a serial killer. Unfortunately, that also means they have to work together.Determined to save his career after an involuntary relocation to the Boston field office, FBI profiler Luis Gomes can't afford any distractions. His newest task is to develop an analysis of a serial killer with connections to previous murders in the area, but Luis knows little of the city's criminal history. When the local detective assigned as his liaison turns out to be Donovan...

BLOOD BROTHERSFletcher Daniels has family. The family he chose. His Navy SEAL family.Those who share his DNA are dead to him, except his brother Kyle.When Kyle disappears, Fletcher is forced to confront his "blood" family, whose mere presence makes going through Hell Week at BUD/S feel like a walk in the park.Saving Kyle is fraught with intrigue and betrayal. With his real "brothers" at his back, and the addition of a tough sheriff who's decided Fletcher is ...

"Hi! I'm Dr. Dream, and I'm probably the hottest guy you'll ever meet. I have silver hair, but I'm young at heart. I have lots of fans, but I'm looking for my Number One. Is it you, younger guy? Hit me up!"ER Deputy Chief Stone Dooley got the surprise of his life when he learned his twin daughters had signed him up for a gay dating site, without his knowledge, three years after he became a widower.What was supposed to be a quick drink and an apology for his daughters' prank...

Can they make their relationship work when all the odds are stacked against them?The would-be highwayman killer's case is closed, and Luis has been cleared to return to work. He and Donovan are starting their new life together. When people start dying at Assonet Ledge, it seems like a typical case for Donovan until one of the victims turns out to be a missing person from out of state, bringing the FBI into one of Donovan's cases yet again.The park ranger at the site is ever...

Search and Rescue: Book FourSearch-and-rescue worker Spencer Helmsley has everything he needs: a job he loves, a flight partner he'd die for, and an amazing dog.Then he flings himself out of a helicopter to rescue Theo Wainscott.Stuck on a raft in the middle of a flood with the most stubborn, argumentative man in the world, Spencer soon finds himself asking not how they'll survive but what'll kill them first—the water, each other… or the se...

Tragedy brought them together. Love will forge them like steel.The last thing Benny expected was to find himself in the middle of an active shooter event on campus. Canyondale University isn't the type of place he imagined becoming the center of such brutality. After getting shot in the thigh, he would've been dead if not for the SWAT member who rushed to his aid at the moment one of the gunmen was bent on finishing the job.An explosion of violence...

Everybody needs to be rescued sometime.Veterinarian Mitchell Brannigan gets off to a rocky start with his new neighbor when someone calls the town to complain about the noise. Mitchell runs a shelter for rescue dogs, and dogs bark. But when he goes to make peace, he meets Beau Pfister and his fussy baby daughter, Jessica… and starts to fall in love.Beau moved out to the country to get away from his abusive ex-husband, but raising an infant alone, with no support network, is...

Rebuilding a relationship isn't as easy as either Luis or Donovan thought. Re-establishing trust while trying to take down a human trafficking ring in a hotel overflowing with ghosts? That might be impossible, even for these two.How do two people rebuild trust when they've been betrayed by the people they trusted most? Luis and Donovan want to stay together and make their love work, but the situation is tenuous. Boundaries must be drawn, and both are afraid to step too close to the...

Sequel to Bad to Be GoodBad to Be Good: Book TwoWhen a former mobster's past catches up with him, will it end the quiet life he's been struggling with, or transform it into something he couldn't have imagined?Sometimes Gerome Meadows longs for the excitement of the life he left behind for Witness Protection. But when he stands up to a bully in a bar to protect a homeless man, his past comes very close to home—and it's no longer what he wants...

Jake Devlin knows trouble when he sees it and he wants no part of it. His quiet, peaceful lifeis a hard-fought dream. And the man who stumbles through the backdoor of Jake's bar—beaten tohell—he is trouble with a capital T. The last thing Jake needs is to get involved with the sexy andsecretive stranger. He definitely shouldn't offer him a place to stay. But…he does…Murder and mayhem follow Detective Miguel Conway. One minute he's working a case, and the...