Persecution, nave nobles, blood thirsty pagans, a mysterious organization, and a riveting love story that will throw the reader into a world where greed and conflict rule over truth. As Chalser Baldwen struggles with his personal identity and his new friend Flint fights his own demons, the two travel the land until fate calls on them in the form of a captured slave. They are shown their true calling; to purge the land of a hypocritical and evil organization led by a tyrant whose greatest w...

One small town. One powerful pride. One detective whose secrets could change everything…Detective Aaron Dresden lives by two rules: protect his town and protect his family. As the eldest of the Dresden Pride, Aaron shoulders the responsibility of keeping their tiger-shifter legacy hidden—while juggling his very human career as a cop. But when whispers spread about abused women vanishing into thin air, Aaron finds himself caught in the crosshairs of more than just c...

Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys a...

A nearly disastrous car wreck in Germany launches 12-year-old Gabriel Zanadu, Alexander, his 14-year-old brother, and their two dogs, Thunder and Lightning, into a sinister adventure near the famous German castle Neuschwanstein.Unexplained eavesdropping, death threats, and heart-pumping danger drag Gabe, Alex, and the dogs into the clutches of a little-known foreign terrorist network. After they are kidnapped by the terrorists, the scraped and bruised boys battle their captors in u...

When you journey through the castles rooms with the main charactersEmma and Titus, Isabella and Zeb, Olivia and Oliveryoull discover how you, too, can become one of the greatest love stories ever told. After all these years of humans walking around on earth, the statistics remains the same: 50 percent divorce and another 40 percent do not have the kind of marriage they wish for their kids. Only about 10 percent are living an authentic happily ever after. How the 10 percenters got there is ...

The field of research related to neurocritical care has grown significantly in recent years, and the clinical demands for current and dependable expertise has followed suit. It can be a challenge for the neurocritical practitioner to keep up with cutting-edge evidence-based research and best practices, especially regarding the role of pharmacotherapeutics.In the treatment of neurocritical disease states, pharmacotherapeutic strategies are increasingly relevant. Neuropharmacothe...

Dominic Marshall is sick to death hearing about Pete. The way the women keep going on about him Dominic swears that the first time he sees the guy he's going to punch him in the nose, then drain him. There is no way in Dominic's mind that any one person could be that great.Piccadilly Bartholomew or "Pete" to everyone who knows her is in trouble. She had to do some work for the man she'd just broken into his 'secure' computer system by telling him not only how she did it, but also s...

Aaron MacManus, the new master vampire of the realm just wanted to go out and meet some of his subjects and to figure out what needed to be done to set things right.April and Demetrius Carlovetti own an air service and are the most trusted and well liked vampires in Aaron's realm. What he didn't expect when he visited them was betrayal. His own bodyguards try to murder him and blame it on the Carlovetti's.Sara Temple was not a vampire. She pilots planes for the Carlovetti A...

The second book in the Aaron's Kiss series finds Colin Larimore being literally run down by his future mate. Mistakenly, he believes that the Fates have played a horrible trick on him to give him a mate that would sell her own children in order to feed a drug habit.Shade Doe is homeless and is a thief to survive. She doesn't want to be either, but without an address she can't get a job, without a job she can't afford to get an address. It's an endless cycle. When she befriends two s...

Bailey Morrison isn't human. She is a beauty, with all the right parts to make up a stunning woman but there is so much more of her. She is also a hired killer to the Queen of all magick.Her DNA ~ mixed up like a lethal cocktail gives her abilities unlike anyone has ever seen. And when she is to help Pete Marshall, computer wiz for a pack of wolves, she gets involved with Aaron and his kiss of vampires as well.Tristan St. James likes order. He lines things up in neat rows, ...

Sam Hunter lived a double life. On the surface she was a baker, but behind the scenes she smuggled people away from abusive situations. Being the owner of Sam's Baked Goods gave her a place to call home, a place that was untouched by her secret life.Tucker James was a vampire fleeing from his cruel maker. He came to Aaron's Kiss in hopes of swearing allegiance to Aaron MacManus and becoming a member of his Kiss. He just wanted to be a part of a realm of vampires that didn't starve ...

Shawn MacFarland is heading to Aaron MacManus home when he makes a stop at a bar in Columbus to feed. He wants to leave his master because he is a pretty bad guy. He wakes up to find blood on his clothes and a switchblade stuck in his ribs and can't remember how it got there and what has happened. Everything is a blur because now his memory is gone as well. What was he doing there? He knows it wasn't a robbery because he has all his credit cards and his id so he at least knows who he is. S...