The year was 1925, and New Orleans thrived in the paradox of its own unique heartbeat, the rhythmic pulse of jazz echoing through the narrow streets of the French Quarter, coiling around the wrought-iron balconies like the tendrils of a beguiling serpent. Gas lamps, flickering like distant stars, painted the cobblestone alleys with a sepia glow, casting shadows that danced to the soulful tunes pouring out of smoky jazz clubs. The city's heartbeat was jazz, an audible heartbeat that resonat...

The night draped itself over Bourbon Street like a heavy velvet curtain, and the city of New Orleans came alive in the clandestine embrace of a jazz-filled speakeasy. The air was thick with the smoky residue of secrets and the haunting strains of saxophones that lingered like whispers. Jack Callahan slipped through the beaded curtain at the entrance, a silent silhouette against the backdrop of dimly lit tables and the glow of illegal spirits. The room pulsed with the hypnotic rhythm of jaz...

Jack Rose examines the social, economic and political forces which have shaped the towns and cities of the UK since the Industrial Revolution.The unrestricted and largely unplanned development which followed the Industrial Revolution created unacceptable living and working conditions for which a century of legislation failed to provide a remedy. In the last fifty years of economic, political and legal changes have all affected the shape and speed of development through rent control...

In Hollywood’s Golden Age stars were everywhere. As well as entertaining us in the local movie theatre many of them came to our home, our very own living room. Here they would perform radio versions of big-name films. Screen Directors Playhouse was famous for the lavish use of stars in their productions. Listen now and find out why it really was just like having your very own film studio in your living room.

Expect Miracles reads a plaque Rose Giuliano Jack bought just a year before her diagnosis. In Fireweed, she recounts how this level of hope and tenacity helped her through treatment with chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to survive leukemia. During her two years in treatment, Giuliano Jack connects more deeply with spiritual experiences she has had since early childhood. She rediscovers her family history in a small town in southern Italy and a long line of seers who receive messages...

A spunky human innkeeper drowning in magical pests, a brooding orc brewmaster, and the fake engagement that could save them both.I've poured my heart and soul into reviving my aunt's inn after her passing, but a pixie dust mite infestation threatens to destroy everything. Their glittery trails of destruction have infiltrated the guest rooms, and the cost to eradicate them will leave me penniless.I'm desperate for a solution.Enter Thorak Ironfist, th...

His to devour. His to claim. His to keep?I only went out to the supermarket. Then I was abducted. By aliens. Freaking aliens! What the hell? So now I'm on another planet, at the mercy of one massive alien predator . . . And what an alien he is! Big muscles everywhere, handsome, winged, and with a burning desire to eat me. Whole.Jyr is the leader of a fearsome alien species known as the Gryn. Dark and dangerous, winged and clawed, these pre...

If he claims her, all will be lost. If he doesn't, he loses himself.Myk is the rogue alien warrior's brooding weapons master. Fresh from his hell-like forge, he's the definition of an alien angel of death. He thinks he knows what will heal him.He wants a child.And he's chosen me to fulfil this desire.I can't deny that there's something about Myk that calls to my bruised heart. An alien bad boy who needs my help. But do I want to give him my ...

He wants to set her soul alight. She wants to watch him burn . . .I made a mistake, now he's going to make me pay.Meet Kyt, the rogue alien warrior version of a playboy. He's all devilish good looks and angelic alien badness. He lives for the party, until my nearly catastrophic error means he's put in charge of me.Playboy no longer, he's just become the boss from hell and he's in the perfect position to ensure I do his every bidding.If I don...

She's the mate he desires . . . He's the nightmare she wakes up to . . .He's a terrifying brute of a male that I can't help but fear.Ripped away from Earth and everything I know, I'm stuck in a lair of alien warriors, including him. The one that stares at me, threatens me. Hates me.Until he brings me his broken feather and asks me to mend him. What else can I do? Back home, I was a falconer, training and taming birds of prey.What are the cha...

A siren pop star with a stalker problem, a gargoyle bodyguard with a heart of stone, and a completely unexpected wedding weekend.Life has been a whirlwind since my debut album dropped, but not all of it is the good kind. Turns out, audiences aren't the only thing I'm attracting—I've got a stalker. My manager insists I need protection, and before I know it, there's a big, hunky gargoyle bodyguard at my door.Graeme is my polar opposite in every way. He's a ma...

A city girl who's inherited a small town magical storefront, the minotaur single dad next door, and a rivalry that'll drive them both wild.I thought I had it all figured out—a thriving career in the music industry, a promotion on the horizon, and enough work to keep me distracted from my love life (or lack thereof). Then, boom! I inherit a storefront in a strange magical town from a witch grandmother I never knew existed.And, oh yeah, turns out that I'm a w...