The swoony single-dad firefighter needs my help, but he might be too hot for me to handle.I'm in Cozy Creek for two reasons: To get over my breakup and help my grandmother run her bakery while she recovers from a sprained ankle.I am absolutely not here to fall in love.But my grandma's smoking hot firefighter neighbor keeps rescuing me—from the side of the road, from a tree (don't ask), and then finally from my ex with a steamy kiss in a bar....

I made a mistake, and now he wants to punish me.Everyone knows better than to steal from a Romano, but I was desperate. I was so close to getting away with it as well. I had one foot out the door, and I was hauled back into the club by security.When Leo Romano steps in to the office, I know I’m a dead woman. There’s no escape. They tied me to this chair, and I can’t get myself out. The look in his eyes sends shivers down my spine and it doesn’t help that Leo is drop-dead go...

Kelly Kaye Walker is an international speaker who was searching for a way to teach manifesting in a way that every person in the room would easily understand. When she realized one day that her manifesting process was nearly identical to ordering lunch at a drive-thru window, her Drive-Thru Method of Manifesting was born. Finally she had a reference that every person could relate to - because everyone has been through a drive-thru for food.What is manifesting? It's the process by w...

Completely updated and revised, Cruise Ship Tourism, 2nd Edition covers the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruising, combining the latest knowledge and research to provide a comprehensive account of the subject. Despite the industry growing rapidly, there is a substantial gap in the related literature, and this book addresses the key issues for researchers, students and industry professionals. This second edition: - Reviews the fundamental principles of the industry, the cru...

Hedda Gabler, a deceased General’s daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford. Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to establish a menage a trois. Then a former flame arrives in the brilliant but dissolute Eilert Lovborg to rival her husband for an academic post. After a drunken orgy, the manuscript of Lovb...

Eighteen-year-old, Bronwyn Littleton is in love with a stranger she met on a summer night a year ago.A stranger who was tall and broad in a way that made her feel safe. He had dark blue eyes that she can’t stop drawing in her sketch book. And he had a deep, soothing voice that she can’t stop hearing in her dreams.That’s all she knows about him though.Until she runs into him again. At St. Mary’s School for Troubled Teenagers–an all girls reform school–where she’s tra...

Human cloning.Technology evolves faster than we do.The law shields us from our worst temptations.But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach—perfection and ascension… or delusion and destruction.In this collection of clone-themed stories, ten of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality, our built-in societal restraints, and reflect upon our state of grace.Similar is not necessarily the same.“CLONES: The Antholog...

A man. A leash. A second chance.When Sarah hires a dog walker, she’s expecting someone quiet, invisible, forgettable. She’s not expecting a man who seems to understand her grief without words.The Dog Walker is a quiet, emotionally resonant novel about the people who enter our lives when we stop expecting anyone to stay. It explores the fragile beauty of connection, the complicated strength of men who choose gentleness, and the kind of love that doe...

This latest edition of Lonely Planet's Experience Great Britain travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic region with all the tools you need to create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from combing beaches for prehistoric fossils along Britain's Jurassic Coast; to raising a glass to award-winning English fizz in the vineyards of the southe...

Feisty women spanning six centuries ...The twenty-three stories in this collection depict ordinary women—from the 1470s to the 1970s—who meet life’s challenges with fierce determination.An unhappy housewife in 1950s California gathers the courage to escape an abusive marriage. When local men are shipped off to WWI, a young Yorkshire woman joins others to keep a munitions factory at peak operation. As her land and way of life are threatened, a nineteenth century Chi...

Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth.Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features 50 different voices from across the Portsmouth community and beyond. Our readers range from teenagers to those in their nineties, including experienced actors, writers and volunteers from the pub...

A profound change in the world order becomes apparent within a pandemic. These are real life stories of the HIV and AIDS pandemic that reveal a truth. You cannot manage the future without knowing the past. The contributors to this book are experienced with the HIV and AIDS story as medical professionals, patients, family and friends. They are feisty individuals who have been prepared to discuss ideas and explore the social history of their lives. This book is about understanding and reveal...