It's true what they say, "No good deed goes unpunished."Taylor Lewis loves her life. She doesn't have a fancy house or a lot of money, but she has the perfect family and friends. But everything changes the night she stumbles upon an attempted kidnapping.Taylor tries to put a stop it and finds herself captured and drugged. Held prisoner by evil men who will do anything to make their "boss" happy, Taylor fights to keep herself from being sold on the black mar...

Bouncing around from one foster home to the next is nothing new for Parker. With her eighteenth birthday approaching, she's ready to be free of the system and be on her own. But when a social worker places her in a new home, Parker will discover what it means to be part of a family who will do everything in their power to keep her safe.

Burnout doesn’t happen overnight.It builds quietly - through striving, people-pleasing, unprocessed pain, and the pressure to keep going when your soul is asking you to stop.From Burnout to Breakthrough is not another productivity guide or quick-fix self-help book. It’s a compassionate, Scripture-rooted journey for anyone who feels exhausted, overwhelmed, or distant from God.Written from lived experience, Amanda Perry gently uncovers the hidden roots of bur...

This is an unvarnished, first-person recount of a life lived under the constant shadow of trauma and abuse. Behind the deceptive facade of a house on "School Drive," the author details years of escalating psychological and physical violence.The memoir exposes how love and family were twisted into tactics of control and manipulation. The author recounts instances of being assaulted while holding a baby, threats involving weapons, and the relentless emotional warfare designed to brea...

William, a talented and enigmatic rockstar who finds himself reconnecting with his long-lost college friend, Evie. As their paths intertwine once again, they discover that their bond runs deeper than they ever imagined.After achieving fame and fortune as the lead vocalist of the internationally renowned band, William has never forgotten his unrequited love for Evie. Despite their years of separation, his feelings for her have only grown stronger. Melissa, also, has a successful car...

In Walking Miracles I talk about the traumas that formed my life and made me who I am today. I chose to write about my trauma and bring it to the world as a means to help others who are going through the same thing. This book is a collection of short stories and poems as well as letters from my abuser, which outline the story of my traumas. In here I created a character known as Grace Hope, who undergoes a lot of challenges against a serial rapist, and in the end she became a symbol of my ...

Harley Lowell had a normal family until her father unexpectedly abandons her and her mother. With a crushed heart, she moves on with her life and focuses all of her attention on her college education.A year later, her life is turned upside down when her missing father shows up without explanation and forces her into the protective arms of three sexy, mysterious, and incredibly infuriating men.Unable to leave, Harley tries her best to avoid the men, but the longer she's with t...

'HONEST, PRACTICAL, AND DEEPLY EMPOWERING' Gino Wickman, Author of Traction & Shine, Creator of EOS®As an entrepreneur with ADHD, some of your traits like creativity, hyperfocus, and risk-taking are rocket fuel for starting a business. Others, like trouble with attention to detail and time management can make running it feel impossibly overwhelming. Traditional business advice, designed for neurotypical brains, often leaves you stressed, doubting ...

This new book is an edited collection of papers arising from a conference on Law and Development in the twenty-first century held in 2001. It is in honour of the work of Dr Peter Slinn.

This book is the first to explore what design can do for sociolegal research.It argues that designerly ways—mindsets that are practical, critical and imaginative, experimental processes and visible and tangible communication strategies—can be combined to generate potentially enabling ecosystems, and that within these ecosystems the abilities of a researcher to make meaningful contributions and to engage in meaningful research relations, both within our research community and in the...

This volume establishes a theoretical framework for exploring the role of host state legal systems (courts and bureaucracies) in mediating relations between foreign investment, civil society and government actors. It then demonstrates the application of that framework in the context of the south Indian city of Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore). Drawing on the 'law-and-community' approach of Roger Cotterrell, the volume identifies three mechanisms through which law might, in theory, ensure tha...

'HONEST, PRACTICAL, AND DEEPLY EMPOWERING' Gino Wickman, Author of Traction & Shine, Creator of EOS®As an entrepreneur with ADHD, some of your traits like creativity, hyperfocus, and risk-taking are rocket fuel for starting a business. Others, like trouble with attention to detail and time management can make running it feel impossibly overwhelming. Traditional business advice, designed for neurotypical brains, often leaves you stressed, doubting ...