Lisa paused, hands on Sevastyan’s ribs, staring at the bullet wound. “I’m trying to decide if I’m as brave as Rei.”Sevastyan kept himself still.Lisa took a shuddering breath. “If you’re really going to take them down, I’ll . . . I’ll be your slave. I’ll help you, from the inside.”Sevastyan, Rei, and Lisa are injured and their base compromised. Ellisandre is the only one left standing. And more attackers could come at any moment.Sev...

Combine hand lettering and embroidery to create stunning designs for self-expression, encouragement, activism, and more with this step-by-step guide to embroidered lettering.Lettered in Thread mergestwo unique art forms—hand lettering and embroidery—to create custom works of art. Artist and creator of Pretty Strange Designs, Ciara LeRoy is an expert at speaking through thread; her vivid, expressive designs catch your eye, and their messages linger with you...

Sanctum Book 2 • MXM • Romantic Suspense • Second Chance Romance • International Crime • Found Family • Interracial Romance • Trauma • Hurt/ComfortEllisandre speared another quarter of peach with their knife and held it up, meeting Sevastyan’s eyes. “Myths—the old ones—endure not because of their brightness. It’s their darkness. The stories might be of gods and heroes, but gods and heroes are gloriously terrible.“They consume their children, sl...

Absence in official records can have profound implications for social memory, civil rights, restorative and transitional justice, citizenship, social welfare, and redress for historical abuse. Scholars of archivistics and early modern New World imperial contexts have uncovered the epistemological problems that archival silences pose for historical research, and I contend that absence deserves separate conceptual treatment. Archival absences, both permanent and temporary, have particular re...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.In the latest volume of the long-established Social Policy Review series, leading experts critically assess key developments and debates in social and public policy over the past year.Offering a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary issues – including labour market transitions, migrant experiences, welfare governance and inequalities in care – this book brings together research that reflects the diversity and dyna...

' A harrowing, heartbreaking and yet heartwarming story.' MARY McALEESE'We all know Ciara as a warrior on the athletics track. Now she faces the race of her life with the same grit and determination we have come to expect from her.' SONIA O'SULLIVAN'This book is devastatingly brilliant. Ciara's life on the track has been world class and contrasting that with her cancer fight is compelling reading … I genuinely couldn't stop reading ...

Demon commander Loranna and her very inconveniently irresistible vampire are neck-deep in a war of knives, brands, and reaper houses. A cocky reaper named Rath offers to help bring the houses down from the inside—right before screaming shadows blow apart their bunker and whisk him away. Translation: the clock just started. (Dark artifacts, anyone?)Meanwhile, family intel lands like a stake: forged orders, branded enforcers, whispers of “shipments” (read: prisoners), and Radomir eye...

After a massacre that shatters the Vorigan line—yes, including a heart ripped from a chest—Bowen and Loranna drag what's left of their people to Tennessee and pick a fight with a would-be king. Human sectors seal shut, memory-wiped officials shrug, and the Royal Council plays politics while Radomir stacks the board with Duskrenders and cursed relics. (Skull of Ozith, anyone?)What follows is pure urban-fantasy war: pillar-shattering street battles to break the sector spell, midnight ...

A chance for redemptionBegins with a special dogSingle dad Ryan Tanner is fiercely protective of his daughter. So when a dog at the local rescue farm saves Ellie from a life-threatening allergic reaction, Ryan is determined to adopt Max as an allergen detection dog. There’s only one problem: trainer Brooke Sanders. She thinks Max’s unpredictable behavior makes him unsafe to place with a child. Convincing Brooke to give Max a chance isn’t easy, but convincing...

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope.This box set includes:A FORBIDDEN AMISH SUITOR (A Sisters of Stoneybrook Farm novel)by New York Times bestselling author Virginia WiseHopeless romantic Naomi Stoltzfus has always dreamed of finding her perfect match. When she meets her family’s handsome new farmhand, her thoughts go straight to romance. Gideon...

Sanctum Book 1 • MXM • Romantic Suspense • Second Chance Romance • International Crime • Found Family • Interracial Romance • Trauma • Hurt/Comfort“You wouldn’t touch me, if you knew what I’ve done,” Sevastyan whispered.Ellisandre’s fingers trailed over Sevastyan’s skin, certain and steady. “I know what you’ve done.”“Impossible.”“You’ve ruined lives. You’ve crushed dreams. There are souls that wake screaming to...

Perhaps no life is more emblematic of Montana's transition from a wild and contested territory to a settled and vibrant state than that of Henry Sieben (1848-1937). He arrived in Montana in 1864 with John Bozeman's first wagon train. A seventeen-year-old German immigrant, he was intent on making his fortune, and his story and that of the state are inextricably linked. From gold mining to freighting, from open range to homesteading, and from soldier/bachelor society to permanent family farm...