Paintings and reflections that share a nurse’s personal experience of illnessIn the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of life-altering and life-threatening complications, resulting in two prolonged hospital stays and a lengthy recovery. During twenty-six days in the hospital, Davis experienced how suddenly a caregi...

I’ve spent my whole life as an outsider, a man bound by rules and social norms I don’t understand. But there’s one truth I definitely grasp: Eila Storm is the one for me.She’s wild and unpredictable and that usually sends me into a tailspin, yet I’m drawn to her like rain to a drainpipe. Eila gets me in a way nobody ever has, but she’s also chaos incarnate—determined to start an urban farm on an abandoned lot … without permits.The problem? Once I k...

'Marcus, you must help me!'Stunned by a dramatic appeal from his otherwise cool mother-in-law, Falco cannot resist. His brother-in-law has been diverted from his route to Athens University by a man whose newly married daughter disappeared, with her husband, while visiting the Olympic Games as part of an extended wedding trip. Suspecting a classic cover-up, Aulus enrols Falco's help in solving the case. And of course his mother-in-law hopes to hurry her son along to university by pa...

The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28–March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid’s subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond ablaze. What really happened, and how and why, are debated to this day. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh loo...

We struck a deal. All business. Now he's changing the rules.Five years ago, I married a charming Kiwi rugby coach so he could stay in the country. He got a path to citizenship. I got the money to open my bar and take care of my sisters.Then he left. And honestly? That was the plan.I don't do need. I've been the one everyone leans on since I was 15 years old, spreading peanut butter on bread butts to make sur...

Is Blood Really Thicker than Water?Life is good. Mac Davis, a former Marine, is now a cop reporter for the Seattle Examiner. He's had stories nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has a reputation as a hard-nosed reporter, and a good man to have at your back when trouble comes knocking.And even Mac admits, around him, trouble usually does.He has a career, a girlfriend, even a house. He has friends. He belongs.But his past is knocking on the d...

My life revolves around just one thing: my daughter. I don’t have the time or energy for anything else—not my foolish dream of an acting career and definitely not the annoying woman who opened a gym in the warehouse behind my garage.Piper’s a menace to society, between her loud music, hurling weights around like a shot putter, and her building that is definitely not up to code.Unfortunately, my kid thinks she’s the best thing since unlimited screen-time. It’s getting harder...

He can solve the mysteries of the universe, but can he unlock the secrets of her heart?As a celebrated astronaut, I've unraveled the enigmas of the cosmos. But the puzzle of what makes relationships work? That's always eluded me. I'm more comfortable studying life's building blocks than navigating the perplexing world of human emotions. After a scandal at my job, I return to my small hometown a disgraced outcast. But then I meet Abigail Baker.My ca...

Examining a series of El Ni�o-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global clima...

He hates me for some reason. I will not rest until I change his mind.People always like me. It's kind of my thing. All the employees at my tech startup think I'm the best boss, and the community partners and investors I woo not only trust, but adore me.Everyone likes me, except him.I may have been caught off guard when I accidentally insulted AJ Trachtenberg, but I'm pulling out all the stops trying to make it up to him…and it’s not working. Offerin...

They warned me a Storm was coming. They failed to mention she'd be gorgeous, relentlessly cheerful, and completely incapable of leaving me alone.And the worst part is that I don't mind.Eva Storm inherited the maple farm next door—the one that's been a vacant buffer between me and the rest of the world. From the minute she arrived, it's been loud and unruly over there when I'm used to solitude and silence.I wandered over to take a pe...

All I want for Christmas is my research back.A herd of rogue goats ate my hydroponic fir trees and now their owner is working off the debt in my lab like a chaotic star of wonder.Eliza Storm is everything I usually avoid—messy, unpredictable, and completely unimpressed by the precision of my greenhouse protocols. Worse, she thinks I'm a stuck up snob who's never gotten his hands dirty. Well, I think she's a reckless urban farmer with a demented donkey organ...