"The last day in October began with a violation of the employee dress code and ended with a dead employee in the medical records department. I've always said I like my job because of the variety, but this was a bit much, even for me."HR director Kat Voyzey has a talent for getting things done. Tamping down office drama? Soothing egotastic executives? Dodging calls from her bully of a boss? It's all in a day's work at the Holy Heart Medical Center.When a beloved cow...

Ellie Tappet’s retirement plans were put on hold when her beloved husband Ronnie passed away. Two years later, with her children grown and the rest of her life ahead of her, she’s ready to have the adventure she’d planned before her life was turned upside-down. It's time to take her very first cruise!When she comes aboard the SV Adventurous Spirit, Ellie’s surprised to be assigned a cabin inside the cruise line’s singles club at sea, but she can tell her fellow travelers c...

Mandy and Me, the Lesson Horse is a story about me and my best friend forever, Mandy, who was by my side until I was twenty-three. I was in love with horses, and my greatest goal in life was to have one of my very own to love. I am 76 this year and wanted to leave our story behind for my great-grandchildren and their children to read. If anyone in the family ever wonders what I was like, they can read this book.Writing this story came easily because the words flowed straight from m...

They hired her to be an assistant. And they trained her to be a spy. But can Jessica survive the storms ahead?High up in Seattle's most luxurious office tower a powerful woman conceals a dangerous secret. Dana Duke, the CEO of a prestigious staffing firm, offers exquisitely trained executive assistants to the city's business elite. Her assistants are brilliant, beautiful, young, and willing to do whatever it takes to advance the agency's interests. In return, they'...

An unlikely lord finally meets a problem he can’t flirt his way out of in this adventurous and slyly light-hearted queer cozy fantasy featuring pirates, dragons, kidnapping, tea, and other high-fantasy delights for readers of Rebecca Thorne, TJ Klune, Sarah Beth Durst, and Travis Baldree.In theory, the dragoness of Summer can make any resident on her island the ruler, if the previous Lord Summer is so careless as to die without an heir. In practice, absolutely no o...

“Welcome to Butterfly Island! Enjoy our sandy beaches, sapphire blue waters, and achingly beautiful sunsets. We can’t wait to welcome you to the safest and most relaxing destination in the Caribbean…"Paul Gumbs can’t wait for his next chapter to begin. After years serving as security chief aboard the Adventurous Spirit cruise ship, he’s been hired as the newest member of the Butterfly Island Police Department. For Paul, there’s never been a better time to ...

Discover how to break free from self-hate and embrace self-acceptance with this transformative guide.Are you tired of constantly criticizing yourself and feeling like you're not good enough? This insightful guide offers a path to understanding and overcoming self-hate. It reveals how societal conditioning traps us in negative thought patterns and provides practical tools for cultivating self-compassion and inner peace. Learn to identify the voices of self-hate, cha...

In 1993, Nicola Dickenson fled Fisher’s Creek after a public humiliation involving her high school crush. She packed up her pride, her heart, and every intention of coming back—and built a life far away from the place that still knew her too well.Thirty years later, Nic is reeling from a bad divorce and a stalled writing career when an unexpected inheritance draws her back to the town she swore off. What should have been a brief visit stretches on thanks to car trouble, family obli...

Children learn more from what we do than from what we say. If we want our children to be happy and fulfilled, we must model that; we must be happy, fulfilled adults. Choose anything— light-hearted, generous, industrious, expressive— be that way yourself, and that is what your children will learn about how adults are. How can we, as parents, be who we want our children to become? We are often not happy, not fulfilled, not in touch with our deeper selves. This book presents a practice of com...

There is nothing Sadie DuChamp loves more than rocking out on stage behind her drum set. Her music career is a dream come true. But when her band breaks up and she gets evicted from her New York City apartment all in the same week, her life suddenly feels more like a nightmare. She finds herself with no choice but to retreat to her mother’s home in the suburbs of Chicago. The return also forces Sadie to face the guilt she has choked down since the last time she left.Jess Moran is f...

Now available as an ebook, Cheri Huber's second title, That Which You Are seeking Is Causing You to Seek (orig. ed. 1988), has become a classic of the genre. The deepest teachings of Zen are presented in lighthearted, often humorous language, making them accessible to the modern mind. For students of the Eastern wisdom traditions, the title says it all; for those on the way, the title is too intriguing not to look further. This is one of Huber's signature pick-up-and-start-reading-anywhere...

Successful Chicago-based artist Lauren Hansen is on a layover in Las Vegas before heading to what was supposed to be the vacation of a lifetime with her partner. Until, that is, that partner became an ex.Recovering from a nasty break-up herself, workaholic Penny Rothmoor agrees to meet Lauren for dinner, but only out of a sense of obligation to her mother.One thing leads to another, and soon Penny finds herself on a plane, jetting off to meet Lauren for a week on the beauti...