These opening sentences begin a few of the stories within; stories of intrigue, fascination, and suspense.It was just an old cloak—the kind you see people wearing in those movies. You know, the kind of cloak people wore to escape from Paris and the guillotine during the French revolution…Steven Tyler was wailing about love in an elevator as John eased the blue Civic off the interstate, down the exit and into the Burger King parking lot…My new husban...

Two years ago Eleanor Dryton lost her husband, her job and her friends.She lost everything about her old life that ever mattered to her.All she had left were her will and a burning desire for revenge.Now, El has served her time for being an unknowing partner in her murdered husband's crimes. Her prison sentence has toughened her up and she's learned that she can be bad.But when her search for revenge leads her to a man who takes bad to a completely di...

Parker St. James is managing partner in a prestigious Georgetown art gallery, located just outside Washington, DC. She gets more than she bargains for when she discovers intruders are using her basement storeroom for illegal activities. They threaten to implicate her if she goes to the police. So, she keeps the secret. But, when she meets the tall, bronze Adonis, Charles Carson, everything changes. She is instantly attracted and feels compelled to confide in him. But, she hesitates. Can sh...

How do young black students respond, resist, and work to transform their school experience? How do young people adapt, survive, and then succeed in spite of their negative school experience? For an increasing number of marginalized black youth, the paths to social success can actually lie outside school walls.Black Youth Matters presents a compelling, empirical picture of black youth who creatively respond to permanent school exclusion. Structural approaches to social stra...

Increasingly, pathologists are being confronted with the effects of a number of complex devices on the body. Cardiac pace-makers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, ventricular support systems for the heart are well established, and vascular and other protheses are being used in increasing numbers. New joint systems, contraceptive devices used as drug delivery systems, and the use of new cement materials all provide challenges in terms of their pathology. The articles in this text col...

A dead file should have stayed buried.Years after a covert operation destroyed his career and reduced his life to something smaller and quieter, former officer under non-official cover Paul Andrews is pulled back in by one impossible detail: a sealed commercial claims file tied to the operation that broke him has been reopened, and inside it is a handwritten correction from a man who should be dead.That means one piece of the past survived.Now Paul is back in the sa...

In 2065 a nuclear strike was initiated that almost resulted in the annihilation of all life on Earth.On the 11th October 2078, leaving behind their irradiated homelands and heading out into the night, mankind start the hugely ambitious and dangerous task of building a permanent colony on Mars.The year is now 2102 and, against the odds, the Sanctuary colony and its inhabitants have thrived.Meanwhile on the distant planet of Ashen 2, a team of scientists have made an u...