Kate Logan needs a safe haven, a place to start over after her modeling career disintegrates in scandal. But her hometown of Aspen Lake isn’t the sanctuary she hoped. Her vow of a low-key life is disrupted by a break-in and other strange happenings at her boutique. As the chair of Aspen Lake’s Gothic Revival Festival, she’s also drawn the ire of a religious fanatic. Kate is up to her stilettos in drama and intrigue including one sexy carpenter who’s determined to get in her way. New to tow...

A committed doctor to Vancouver's inner city, nothing fazes Sophie Monroe--until a pregnant teenager shows up at her clinic on Christmas Eve requesting sanctuary and claiming the baby's father is one of the city's most influential businessmen. Sophie is in over her head and thankful when aid shows up in the form of an attorney who's a little too confident and a lot too sexy. Family Law expert Caleb Quinn just wants a date, a chance to prove he isn't the elitist jerk Sophie assumes. Helping...

Ever since a devastating family tragedy seventeen years ago, Grace Bighill has struggled to keep her remaining family from falling apart. Then the discovery of her mother's body in the woods unearths a connection to a decades-old murder case, and Grace is dragged into a politician's bitter bid for revenge. Constable Mike Davenport's days in Aspen Lake are numbered. He's ready to take his next step up the career ladder somewhere a lot more cosmopolitan. He's avoided any emotional attachment...

What he's sworn to protect, she's willing to sacrifice to save those she loves... When dedicated teacher Lily Wheeler interrupts a vicious gang attack on one of her students, she vows it won't happen again. But her rash interference puts her in the path of a cold-blooded killer and the constable tracking him--a man she has little reason to trust, but can never forget. Constable Chase Porter returned to Aspen Lake to see justice done, not renew old acquaintances. But when he rescues the wom...

Qui n'a jamais rêvé de passer les fêtes de fin d'année dans un superbe chalet en pleine montagne, entouré de neige ?Lorsque Billie, insouciante jeune femme de vingt-trois ans ans, décide de prendre la route, malgré la tempête de neige qui s'annonce, elle est loin d'imaginer qu'elle croisera la route d'un ours. Et sûrement pas que l'ours en question s'avérera être un charmant cow-boy bourru au coeur tendre, coincé au milieu de nulle-part.Et si l'amour rimait finalement avec li...

This bookengages in cross-tradition scholarship, investigating the processes associated with cultivating or nurturing the self in order to live good lives. Both Ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers provide accounts of the life lived well: a Confucian junzi, a Daoist sage and a Greek phronimos.By focusing on the processes rather than the aims of cultivating a good life, an international team of scholars investigate how a person develops and practices a way of lif...

Karyn Cook has been the happy caretaker of Scottish Terriers over many years. As with all dogs, each has had its own personality and attitude, but Ginger has an independent spirit, while very smart and funny, with a calculating character. This book of Ginger’s adventures is absolutely true. She has insatiable curiosity and insists on sharing her discoveries each and every time! She is a joy to know and love.