Love makes us all braveDARIOAfter escaping my controlling ex-boyfriend and moving to Redwood Bay, I swear off men for good. The only company I need is my new rescue dog, Queenie. Meeting gorgeous firefighter Lochlan Bell at puppy training class doesn't count because he's straight, yet for some bizarre reason he's decided to become my friend. When he suggests pretending to be my boyfriend for Thanksgiving to stop my concerned family from worrying ab...

YOUR REALITY SHATTERSThe occult world collides with the everyday. The underworld runs over. Wild "nature" smashes assumptions about "civilization." Old Worlds prey on the New. But some of the most devastating collisions occur between worlds within worlds...Horrific Scribes Presents: Worlds Collide offers 25 works about horrifying confrontations between realms by Barry Charman, Iluka Chayan, Emmie Christie, Christopher Degni, Zary Fekete, Tracy Frit...

Originally published in 1952, The Scientific Study of Personality contains an account of experiments carried out at the Institute of Psychiatry (University of London) during the five years which had elapsed since the publication of Dimensions of Personality. These experiments were integrated into a consistent conceptual scheme of personality, description and development, covering neurotic and psychotic as well as ‘normal’ people.The first chapters give an introduc...

From the USA Today and AMAZON best seller of The Reckless Series, HJ Bellus, comes a sexy romance: DIRTY."Wrong Has Never Been So Right”Survival.It's all about the next dollar.It started out as a job, but has morphed into an addiction.Money flows and life is good.Women respond to my mere presence, begging for one more taste.I was the King, on top of the world.It was all a game and ...

The problem of economic development in the Global South was recognized as one of the defining challenges of the twentieth century. Professor Duller, a Dutch economist who worked in advisory and research capacities across various developing nations, demonstrates in Development Technology (originally published in 1982) how these challenges could be addressed through the application of specially designed or adapted technology.The author observes that development planners had ...

In the middle-of-nowhere town of Schweizer-Reneke, the quiet is a lie. Beneath the surface of Sunday sermons and routine farm life, a truth buried fifteen years ago is finally rising from the grave.When a savage murder shatters the town's peace, Detective James Van der Linde, a man of tailored suits and deep emotional scars, is thrust into a hunt for a predator unlike any seasoned detectives have seen. Haunted by a past he cannot o...

I’ve always known Evelyn was the one for me. She is the reason I live, my every hope, dream, and promise of the future. She is my moonbeam.When she discovers my secret life, however, our bond is broken and she completely shuts me out, wanting nothing to do with me ever again. This was not acceptable. Without her, I am nothing.To survive, I decide to take matters into my own hands. Sometimes, life doesn’t go as planned, but there are always still choices. She could wallow in...

Merek Slatter is the wild card on the Silver Star Ranch in Texas and always has been. He’s blessed with his granddaddy’s love of the ranch yet haunted with chasing that gold buckle eight seconds at a time.Tensions are high on the ranch when circumstances threaten to take it under. His dad and brothers pressure him to stay home and become an active cowboy on the ranch. However, Merek is addicted to the road and rodeo. He’s home anytime he can be and provides plenty of money to keep ...

Sequel to Yakuza PrideEx-Navy SEAL Brendan O'Farrihy enrolls in kendo classes to investigate a Honolulu dojo acting as a front for a yakuza syndicate. Or at least that's what Brendan's client, Senator Harris, believes. Through his kendo instructor, the cocky, short-fused, gorgeous Kinosuke Yonekawa, Brendan learns the criminals who are supposedly using the senator's son, Kenneth, to expand their activities into the US, seem to have severed any yakuza conne...

Twenty-two-year-old foster care survivor Luke Kearsey got out of his abusive relationship and then got out of the country. Now he lives in England, where he works at a burger bar. Maybe his life is directionless, but at least he's safe.When thirty-six-year-old schoolteacher Paul Blackwell meets Luke at a club, neither man expects anything more than some no-strings-attached sex. Paul is still grieving the death of his partner of five years, and he's not looking for anything serious....

If it wasn't for bad luck Maverik wouldn't have any luck at all. He is the oldest of the Slatter brothers and the protector of his family. He’s a hometown legend and has one best friend, his dog Jake. Life is simple with Maverik. He loves working cattle on the ranch and keeping the dynasty his granddad built alive and well.He's never believed in second chances.When Maverik looks into the eyes of Ella James in the middle of his hometown grocery store, he finds himself starin...

The last thing I expected was to find a crazed gunman, bleeding to death in my woodshed. My cabin deep in the Montana mountains, I am all alone and helpless when Body O’Rourke takes me captive, threatening to kill me if I didn't help him.The man is dangerous, an admitted killer, who had forced himself on me, so why didn't I run for my life when I had the chance? Why did I nurse him back to health? Why did he make me quiver with unknown sensations every time he gazed at me and pract...