Sleepy little North Bend just woke up.The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn't happen in North Bend.As more bodies turn up, the single connection between all of the victims becomes clear—it's Jade, herself.With each new victim getting one step closer to Jade, time be...

A body, wrapped in plastic, is discovered in a ditch along a secluded country road. Detective Jade Monroe, and her partner, Jack Steele, arrive at the scene in minutes. Suspicious-looking evidence gives the impression that this young woman has been held captive.As days pass, more local women vanish without a trace. Jade and her team of detectives fear the worst.With precious time slipping away, Jade needs to pull out all stops to find this perpetrator, even if that means pu...

A taunting letter, claiming violence and death to the vile people of Washburn County puts Sergeant Jade Monroe and her staff of detectives on high-alert. The letter states they will see the author's work soon, but without forensic evidence, Jade has no way of knowing who wrote the letter or its validity.When the first victim is discovered, the carnage promised in the letter is realized, and as the body count escalates, so does the depravity of the murders.The media tags the p...

Nightmares of horrific murders has North Bend's local psychic, Kate Pierce, frantic with worry. The dreams are reoccurring and far worse than usual.Robert Lynch, a knife wielding lunatic, is about to be released from an Atlanta prison after being incarcerated for ten years. The connection between Kate and Robert is deeply personal and she remembers his threats. Kate fears he'll find her and take her life.With local law enforcement regarding Kate as nothing more than a carniv...

Darryl Sims, a long-forgotten murderer, has been locked up in a maximum security prison for the last twenty years. Only when the family farm is repossessed for back taxes and sold to a megastore does the full extent of his heinous crimes, and the crimes of his son, Max, finally surface. When the property is excavated, skeletal remains of women that have gone missing over the years are exposed.Max is now on the run with Jade Monroe closing in. Worthy adversary that he is, Max eludes...

Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition.

This book addresses key issues in perinatal mental health and discusses the different types of psychiatric care that may be appropriate for pregnant women, parents and infants, with emphasis on the need for joint care. The wide range of preventive measures, mainly applicable in primary care and the various potential curative interventions are examined in detail, with coverage of ambulatory care, day care and the role of mother and baby units. The importance of working in networks and joint...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding, and use of nature. The contributors use a wide range of approaches that serve as a valuable template for future environmental histories of the conflict.In his introduction, Brian Al...

Beyond the horizon the promise of a new world looms!For the 10th issue of the Sans. PRESS anthologies, 15 writers take on the challenge to remake the world.Facing dystopic futures or the pressure of rent, heartbreak or supernatural mysteries, the characters in these tales must find the strength to move forward, with unwavering belief in the better world that must lie ahead.With stories by Maeve Abyss, Sophia Blush, J. Cai, Conor Clohessy, C...

Space spy Eht Tsoc is on a mission to save Earth from a force unknown to him. But there's one problem: he doesn't remember that he is a space spy sent to save Earth.He forms an alliance with other people on Earth to help him stop The Admiral, a man living a double life as the man who saved the Earth and the man who some believed to cause the Earth to need saving.

An astrophysicist presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy. How is a galaxy billions of lightyears away connected to us? Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of night? In this exciting tour of a universe far larger than we can imagine, cosmologist Paul M. Sutter emphasizes how amazing it is that we are part of such a huge, complex, and mysterious place. Through metaphors and uncomplicated...

For readers concerned about the roots of the public mistrust of science, get the book that Publishers Weekly says is "an ardent appraisal of what ails the scientific establishment."Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt is the product of Paul M. Sutter’s long career in the scientific community, both inside and outside academia. Interweaving his own experiences as an astrophysicist with broader trends ...