Miranda is beautiful, but deep within her is a fire that is not of the Earth. She knew she was different, but she could never have imagined her love, the huge warrior waiting far across the Galaxy. There are other forces at work, and Miranda unknowingly holds secrets of the Celestial Ancients. Her huge, muscle-bound warrior must possess her totally – just as she must possess him.

Stranded on a remote island and struggling to survive following her husband's attempt to get rid of her permanently, Anna begins to fall in love with Turner, the captain she hired to run her yacht. It seems they will be there forever with no hope of rescue, but the yacht, 'Juliette', may have ideas of its own.

From ragpicker, to thief, to whore. For a girl brought up in the slums of New York's Five Points, born to one of the immigrant families whose dreams of a new life ended right there, that was her most likely career path. Some, maybe, would find a husband, and perhaps he would neither spend their little money on drink nor beat her regularly; perhaps, but probably not. With no work, no prospects and no hope, few could avoid the depression that drove men to drink, crime and violence.Ma...

"He shoots! He scores! The crowd goes wild," says Bryan, a four-year-old African American boy who dreams of someday playing professional basketball. Bryan is a huge basketball fan and enjoys mimicking the players from the teams. In this amusing yet heartwarming story, Bryan learns from his family that becoming a professional athlete takes a lot of determination but that it starts with education and discipline.

Healthcare Quality Management: A Case Study Approach is the first comprehensive case-based text combining essential quality management knowledge with real-world scenarios. With in-depth healthcare quality management case studies, tools, activities, and discussion questions, the text helps build the competencies needed to succeed in quality management.Written in an easy-to-read style, Part One of the textbook introduces students to the fundamentals of quality management, in...

Essie was a pilot, flying missions against insurgents in the desert. She was efficient and beautiful, and the object of desire of every young man. She never made mistakes. Never. Except… just once, on her last mission before leaving for a new job at NASA, and it was a fatal mistake.She kept the presence of mind to eject just in time, but then there was the insurgent with a rifle, a white flash, and then…She was certain she was dead. There was nothing but coldness and darknes...

Daphine lived on Earth, in an alternative dimension where women were expected to be totally subservient and docile. She always knew there was something wrong with her existence, but what was the alternative? To be exiled, to live among the hunters outside the safety of the cities, where life would hard and comfortless, and where, if she did not fit in to this society either, she might well end up as no more than bait to trap wild animals.And yet, Daphine was certain there had to be...

Cassandra Chamberlain always stood out. It was hard not to at 6’1” and 165 pounds with jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. And if that wasn’t enough, she was also brilliant, having graduated from Harvard at 15, taught at MIT at 19 and been nominated for the prestigious Magellan Award at 25. But she’d never really fit in. Not with her peers, not with her contemporaries, only with her family. But everything changed when Earth was attacked. Cassandra and her niece, Victoria, were the only ...

In the distant future, with Earth near barren and men willing to commit to marriage almost non-existent, a group of young women leave to find husbands in the Outer Colonies. On their way they're hijacked by men from a rebel planet called Gaia.Gaian men can only make love to a woman they match and Dr. Sarah Johnson turns out to be the match for the most hated Gaian of all, General Garran Doranth. To keep their promises, these two must look beyond what they think they know and learn ...

First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes baby in a baby carriage. Just not necessarily in that order. . . .Braxton: I should probably be dead or in jail right now. Instead, thanks to some tough love, I worked my ass off and now I own a string of tattoo parlors throughout the Pacific Northwest. And yet the one thing I’ve always wanted—a family—still seems out of reach. When my best friend gets married, I’m just hoping to blow off s...

The Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) has become the preferred interview format at many health professions programs and medical schools. Applicants seeking admission to these schools face considerable anxiety preparing for these interviews because of a lack of resources available for guidance. Our detailed advice, based on evidence from research in the field and perspectives of admissions faculty, will provide you with the insiders' perspective. Inside:How can you best prepare fo...

Before tragedy left her crippled, Artemis “Temi” Sidaris was a world-class tennis player at the height of her career. The sport was her passion, her dream, and all she ever wanted to do. Fighting monsters… was not part of the plan.But when a pair of pointy-eared strangers offers to heal her injury if she’s willing to wield a powerful sword to protect humanity… how can she resist?Destiny Unchosen is a 21,000-word novella that takes place between Torrent and the forthcoming T...