Burl is the story of one man's unlikely rise from the coal mines of Appalachia to the pinnacle of journalism. After being diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease as a child, Burl Osborne pioneered home dialysis treatment and became the 130th person to undergo a live kidney transplant in 1966—then an unproven, high-risk operation.While managing his challenging illness, Burl distinguished himself early as a writer and reporter with The Associated Press, eventually rising to the...

The riveting biography of Burl Osborne, former chairman of The Associated Press and publisher of The Dallas Morning News, who waged and won one of the last great newspaper wars in the U.S.Burl is the story of one man’s unlikely rise from the coal mines of Appalachia to the pinnacle of journalism. After being diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease as a child, Burl Osborne pioneered home dialysis treatment and became the 130...

Introducing "Beautifully Damned" by Jane Wolf, a poignant and captivating collection of poems and short stories that explore the depths of the human experience. Drawing from personal struggles and connections with those around them, Jane Wolf offers a unique perspective on the beauty and pain of life. Through their raw and honest prose, readers will find themselves drawn into a world of emotion and introspection, where the lines between joy and despair are blurred, and every moment holds t...

Celia and her friend have wandered into a notorious wolf hangout, and she's frightened but intrigued. When a chance encounter with an alpha wolf awakens a desire in her to give herself over to him, will she defy her husband and let herself be pursued by the alpha? And what will she do when the entire pack shows up?

I’ve seen a lot of ghosts in my time. Murder victims. The unjustly dead. One elderly woman who refused to accept she’d passed on because she still had bridge night on Thursdays.What I have never seen before is a ghost who isn’t dead yet.Blonde ponytail. Pale pink coat. Plush rabbit dangling from her hand. She stood across the street outside the pharmacy, translucent and unmistakably dead.Ten minutes later, she was solid. Very much alive. Handing me ...

Born human, raised by wolves, Firekeeper seems the last person anyone would choose to back as a candidate for heir apparent to a royal throne. Nonetheless, when Firekeeper and her wolf “brother,” Blind Seer, travel with Earl Kestrel’s expedition into the kingdom of Hawk Haven, the earl thrusts the wolf-woman into the midst of the heated intrigue surrounding who will be chosen as the heir of elderly King Tedric.Soon, the only thing the competing factions seem able to agree upon is t...

Supernaturals and humans have always lived in harmony in Whitefall Cove… until now.When local witch Harper Jones returns to her magical hometown of Whitefall Cove, she keeps finding herself in the middle of murder mysteries. It all starts when her high school nemesis turns up dead and Harper’s determined to bring the killer to justice. Together with her familiar—an orange furball named Archie—and her hilarious Gran, who thinks bedazzled Ugg boots are the height of ...

Being a private investigator who can talk to ghosts means my mornings are rarely peaceful.But when the ghost of schoolteacher Sandra Greaves interrupts my coffee demanding justice, even I know this one isn’t routine.Sandra doesn’t remember everything. Just enough to know someone wanted her quiet. And as I start digging into school finances, questionable payouts, and a board determined to protect its reputation, it becomes clear her death wasn’t random....

Meeting your future in-laws is stressful. Meeting them while standing over a dead body? Slightly worse.I was already a bundle of nerves flying to Chicago to spend time with Detective Kade Galloway’s family. I had rehearsed answers. I had packed appropriate outfits. I had mentally prepared to make a good impression.What I had not prepared for was tripping over a deceased golfer and watching her ghost pop up in front of my future mother-in-law. Because appare...

The bridal expo was supposed to be harmless. Champagne samples. Overpriced lace. Women arguing about peonies.Instead, I’m kneeling beside a dead model in a room full of wedding gowns.This was not in the plan.I was already juggling seating charts, cake tastings, and the minor inconvenience of our dream venue burning down when a model collapses at Firefly Bay’s bridal expo. Dead. Very dead.So now, instead of finalizing flower arrangem...

Oh, now she's in trouble. Cassie's boyfriend has left her all alone while he goes on a business trip, leaving her lonely and horny. Sending the well-built guys of his gang (or, as he calls it, his "pack") to keep an eye on her is not helping matters. When an accidental brush with Caleb starts heating things up, Cassie had better decide quickly: stay loyal to the boyfriend who is gone, or give in to what she's feeling for Caleb? If only there were a way to do both.

How can any self-respecting, slightly clumsy, highly caffeinated private investigator pass up a dare?Short answer: she can’t.Long answer: she absolutely should have.Now I’m attempting to survive an entire week without coffee. No caffeine. No lifeline. No mercy. My mood is questionable, my patience is nonexistent, and that’s before I discover a dead body on my front lawn. Because apparently the universe decided caffeine withdrawal wasn’t challenging ...