If you never speak of the past, can it be erased?Lacey Edwards has a past.A past that changed her life forever.A past she wants desperately to forget.Lacey is quiet and reserved compared to her best friend Becca Fox. They became instant friends when Lacey moved to Maryland nine years ago. Becca helped pull Lacey out of her introverted shell to experience life. By high school, Lacey was active in the club scene and would occasionally have to drag Becca with h...

The Wild West - a lonely, windswept backdrop of arid plains and mountainous ranges inspiring the fantasies of many with its lawless mythology.In truth, the West was wild for only 30 years in American history, so why not dip into the minds of three of your favourite authors and see how they have brought to life the wild, unrestrained and lawless nature of many of the West's residents. These three stories will inspire your minds and tease your romantic notions of wha...

If the decisions you make don't define you, what price would you pay to change them?"Close your eyes. This is the darkness I see, I feel, I live because of my choices."I spent my life running. Running from my past. A past that changed my life, robbed me of my childhood, and bound me for a life of silence. Silence protected me from further hurt. When I couldn't control my life, I found reprieve in my silence. Dark, cold silence. I'm trapped, trying to find my way out, trying...

Gertie knows she doesn't have a picture perfect life, but feels blessed with what she does have. So what if love left her heart shattered and broken? She has a great job at Simple Luxury, an apartment in Houston with her sister, Mabel, and an outspoken, no-filter, church-going Gram back in Eufaula, Oklahoma where she was raised after her parents died.Things are going well for Gertie until the man who broke her heart shows up in Houston. Tyler knew he had made the biggest mistake of...

Lucy Randall is a chameleon—changing her personality to whatever her latest boyfriend wants her to be. Punk rocker. Life-size anime. Nudist. The list goes on.When Lucy's best friend, Alec McDermott, has had enough, he dares Lucy to stop dating for one month and 'find' herself. Lucy agrees, only to have her sisters rope her into spending a week at a dude ranch with sexy cowboy Tanner Harris. Knowing she already wants to cowgirl up, Lucy drags her roommate Gen, Alec, and Gen's six-mo...

Destructive Release is the third and final book in A Destructive Novel Series and picks up where Destructive Choices left off.A single grain of sand produces a beautiful pearl. How can something so precious come from something so painful?Grief-stricken, Lacey realizes reality has caught up to her.Her silence has kept her trapped as if she was a frightened little girl. When Lacey finally speaks up, what she unburies will forever haunt her.The choices she make...

If you never speak of the past, can it be erased?Lacey Edwards has a past.A past which changed her life forever.A past she is desperate to forget.Lacey is quiet and reserved compared to her best friend Becca Fox. They became instant friends when Lacey moved to Maryland nine years ago. Becca helped pull Lacey out of her internal shell to experience life. By high school, Lacey was active in the club scene and would occasionally have to drag Becca with her. One...

Founded in 1478 and not permanently abolished until 1834, the Spanish Inquisition has always been a notorious institution in history as an engine of religious and racial persecution. Yet, Spaniards themselves did not create its legal processes or its theoretical mission, which was to reconcile heretics to the Catholic Church. In this volume, leading international scholars assess the origins, legal practices, victims, reach, and failures of Spanish inquisitors across centuries and geographi...

In the early seventeenth century, thousands of children in Spain’s Navarre region claimed to have been bewitched. The Child Witches of Olague features the legal depositions of self-described child witches as well as their parents and victims. The volume sheds new light on Navarre’s massive witch persecution (1608–14), illuminating the tragic cost of witch hunts and opening a new window onto our understanding of early modern Iberian life.Drawing from Spanish-language source...

This is a dark cowboy romance set at Hallow Ranch, home of the Langston Brothers and their morally grey ranch hands.BeauI made a promise long ago to protect her. As we grew up, I fell in love with her. I was ready to give her everything, to be anything she wanted. Then, instead of riding off into the sunset together, she left me broken and confused. Six years later, I thought I was over her. But when I found out she was in danger, I did the only thing I cou...

Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered. Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean amplifies such findings by looking at law and its consumers in the Mediterranean, broadly imagined, between 1500 and 1750. The volume’s essays enhance our awareness of how crimes were defined, evidence was offered, and forensic aware...

Dillie Price has put off college for far too long, but caring for Granny had been worth the sacrifice. Now Granny is sporting angel wings, and Dillie is determined to keep two promises she made to her beloved grandmother: (1) Get a college degree, and (2) Save herself for the One. That's right . . . No hanky-panky before marriage!Holding fast, Dillie is going to college and working at Holiday Helpers as an event decorator. But when sexy Texas rancher Jack Rogan walks into ...