Challenging widespread assumptions that persons who are preferentially attracted to minors—often referred to as "pedophiles"—are necessarily also predators and sex offenders, this book takes readers into the lives of non-offending minor-attracted persons (MAPs). There is little research into non-offending MAPs, a group whose experiences offer valuable insights into the prevention of child abuse. Navigating guilt, shame, and fear, this universally maligned group demonstrates remarkable resi...

Kitty Winter is in trouble. She can just about make rent by posting photos to subscription service SecretStar, but now an exploitative agency called Wayward Talent is attempting to seize control of her account. The law can't help ... so it's a good thing Sebastian Moran and Jay Moriarty are the furthest thing from the law.But as Moriarty and Moran set out to dismantle Wayward Talent, an old enemy of Moriarty's resurfaces — one eager to tear apart not only the con, but Moriarty and ...

Enter the world of Throne of Glass in this 8-eBook bundle of the complete, #1 bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas, author of the Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series."One of the best fantasy series of the past decade." -TIME MagazineIn a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has c...

Dr. Megan Garrison, mate to the Badari Warrior pack’s senior enforcer Mateer, is perilously close to the due date of their baby when she’s kidnapped by human malcontents in Sanctuary Valley. The kidnappers threaten to harm her and intend to ransom the half human-half Badari child to the evil Khagrish scientists in return for their own lives.Mateer and his fellow Badari launch a desperate effort to save his mate and child but the situation is made more complicated as Megan goes into...

When Lola Burns lands on Lady Rample’s London doorstep, begging her to throw a Halloween party, there’s not much to do but oblige. Especially when Aunt Butty gets involved. Naturally, that means a trip to an abandoned manor house that comes complete with its own ghosts.However, the glamorous costume party soon turns into something more deadly when one of the guests is poisoned. With spirits running amok, starlets going missing, and threatening letters popping up willy nilly, will L...

A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance.Book 8 of the Hope Walker Mysteries!Some of the best chess players in the world have descended upon Hopeless for the prestigious Western States Chess Championship. *But something has gone terribly wrong.*And as usual, investigative reporter Hope Walker is trying to unravel the puzzle.There's just one problem.

For Mack McKinley and his team of GhostWalker killing machines, urban warfare is an art. But despite a hard-won knowledge of the San Francisco streets, Mack knows from experience that too many things can still go wrong. Danger was just another part of the game—and now he’s come face-to-face with a woman who can play just as tough. She’s Jaimie, a woman with a sapphire stare so potent it can destroy a man. Years ago she and Mack had a history—volatile, erotic, and electric. Then she vanishe...

Brendon WalkerMy life took a wild detour when my twin brother decided to go and fall in love, leaving me to pick up the pieces and learn how to exist alone. Navigating this new chapter has been like trying to two-step with a cactus—prickly and awkward. I'm on the brink of waving the white flag, but there's a hitch: I can't stop thinking about her.Cheyenne Montgomery, the dazzling, sassy, world-famous country music sensation, whose voice could charm...

This book issues a powerful call to action: queer justice requires the abolition of the prison industrial complex. Bringing together historical, empirical, pedagogical, and personal essays that welcome readers into the complex and hopeful work of abolition, this collective project highlights a range of anticarceral resistance work. Intersectional and actionable by design, Abolition and Queer Justice features the voices of scholars and activists from across queer criminology and in...

'BRINGS ALL THE BEAUTY OF DEEPEST FRANCE VIBRANTLY ALIVE' - Irish Independent on SundayBruno, Chief of Police's beloved Dordogne town of St Denis is tearing itself apart. Can he keep it together in the gripping eighth instalment in this internationally bestselling series? St Denis may be picturesque and sleepy, but it has more than its fair share of murder and mystery, as Bruno knows all too well.When Bruno is invited to the 90th b...

The brilliant novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time.No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks...

Someone's playing with fire....There's no escape. A serial arsonist is on the loose, and as the death toll continues to mount, DCI Whitney Walker calls on forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish for help. But Lenchester isn't the only thing burning. There are monumental changes taking place within the police force...and there's a chance Whitney might lose the job she loves. She has to find the killer before that happens. Before any more lives are lost.