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He's a neurotic serial killer. She's his sweet, innocent maid. Or...is she?Marlowe Spencer-Astor is a killer in crisis. It’s been one hundred seventy-four days since his last murder, and not even therapy—forced upon him by his overbearing mother—can reignite his bloodlust. But then he stumbles upon Minnie. She's filthy, half-starved and homeless.She's the one. The perfect victim. His missing muse.There’s just one problem—

Everyone has daydreamed about being in a relationship with their celebrity crush, right?Jules has spent over a decade escaping into a vivid fantasy: a life where she's confident, loved, and married to Hollywood's golden boy, Chris Jones. It's been her safe place, her secret, her maladaptive daydream.Until she meets him. And he recognizes her.As fantasy crashes into reality, Jules must confront the life she's been avoiding and the version of...

They have two things in common: murder and me**.**Darius. The professional.Bishop. The vigilante.James. The survivor.Holden. The psycho.Then there's Kit. The empty shell. The broken bird. Kit doesn't know why these four killers want him. Why they're obsessed with him. But from the moment he stumbles into that crime scene, there's no escaping their desires—or his.Contains mature themes.

The future of leadership begins with trust―and it starts withinIn Whole Leaders, Wild Trust, leadership expert Dr. Rob McKenna redefines what it means to lead in a world fragmented by broken promises, disconnection, and low engagement. Backed by research with thousands of leaders and organizations, this book reveals how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt―and why whole leader development is the key to sustainable performance and well-being.McKenna ...

A thoughtful, poignant look at the AIDS crisis in the United States that includes primary source interviews, history, medical research, and cultural touchpoints.The AIDS crisis in America is complex and composed of countless individual stories of grief, love, and advocacy. Its history shows the power of youth activism, how creativity and community can be vehicles for social change, and how bigotry and misinformation led to inequality in care.The early days ...

He has twenty-nine days to live. Just enough time to save a kingdom—or burn one down.Rafa, prince by blood and smuggler by trade, has always known the clock on his life is ticking. A prophecy sealed his fate twenty years ago, and now, with only twenty-nine days left, he's ready to meet the end on his own terms. But first . . . he has a promise to keep.His twin sister should be queen, if not for the tyrant wearing their father's crown. To se...

This cyber-erotic romantic thriller, written by two queer icons in the 1990s, has been "rebooted" for today's readers.In this rowdy cyber-romance originally written in the 1990s, two people meet online and fall in love in every guise they can manage. As Scratch and Winc go from anonymous lovers to accidental heroes and gender outlaws, they expose the shadowy Web stretched between technology and capitalist greed, nearly becoming roadkill on the internet superhighway...

A discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly’s self-fashioning to a rigorous critique of her genre. White Limozeen (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton's first major failure two years previously with the release of Rainbow. This book is a case study in how an album is sold and a persona constructed. The album had a complex relationship to the country music genre at a time when the genre was in the middle of major sonic and cultural shifts, and it represents how country music s...