Patience is a virtue. But what if you wait too long?While Xander Ekman’s dream of becoming a successful artist has come true, his love life has gone from bad to worse. Sick of the endless string of one-night stands, he accepts the challenge when his best friend, Erik, bets him that he can’t be celibate for a month. Now all he needs is a reminder to keep his distance in the heat of the moment.Troy Moriarty doesn’t have time for love. He’s too busy trying to keep his...

Love is love. But what if the fight for equality gets in the way of building a relationship?Lorcan Barrett has never considered himself relationship material. After his parents made it perfectly clear they’d never welcome a partner of his into their home, he learned to love his own company and now can’t imagine sharing his life with another. After a single passionate kiss with Eric Kavanagh—the night before he travels to Canada for three months—Lorcan’s no longer sure he w...

When everything changes, can renewal bring redemption?Shane Boyle left Dublin for America, burning most of his bridges, certain his future lay in Florida. When a family crisis forces him back to the city he grew up in, he knows his life will never be the same again. With his sister close to death, his mother and five-year-old nephew Danny need him not just to be around but also to be the rock they can depend on. Torn between panic about his new responsibilities and despair...

Can a young man find the courage he never knew he had when faced with losing everything he holds dear?A few months before his final exams in secondary school, nineteen-year-old Lennart Kelly discovers he’s inherited a house on Adelaide Road in Dublin from a grandfather he never knew. Having been ignored, bullied and abused for as long as he can remember, Lennart can’t wait to leave behind his father and the small town he grew up in. Moving away as soon as he finishes his e...

PatiencePatience is a virtue. But what if you wait too long?While Xander Ekman’s dream of becoming a successful artist has come true, his love life has gone from bad to worse. Sick of the endless string of one-night stands, he accepts the challenge when his best friend, Erik, bets him that he can’t be celibate for a month. Now all he needs is a reminder to keep his distance in the heat of the moment.Troy Moriarty doesn’t have time for love....

Er ist mein Beschützer – doch was, wenn seine Nähe gefährlicher ist als alles, wovor er mich bewahren soll? Helena Ich bin die Tochter eines skrupellosen Mannes, den ganz L.A. fürchtet. Was er tut, verabscheue ich. Was er von mir verlangt, bekämpfe ich mit aller Kraft. Gefangen in seinem Anwesen, umgeben von Kontrolle, Dunkelheit und lautloser Gewalt, will ich nur eines: Entkommen. Diese Hölle zu ertragen schaffe ich nur wegen ihm. Jeder Blick seiner blauen Augen lässt mein Herz schneller ...

In this extraordinary novel, a forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland—and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother."An unforgettable story about mothers, daughters, and sisters reaching inward for solace and strength when society has failed them, ultimately triumphant in love." ―Jimin Han, author of The ApologyAngelina Lee feels like she doesn’t belong. Newl...

Contextualizing and Organizing Contingent Faculty: Reclaiming Academic Labor in Universities seeks to develop a counterculture that eschews the neoliberal ideology and interloping market values in higher education. More than merely lamenting the disruptive effects of these marketplace values in higher education institutions, it develops both theoretical insights and practical organizing strategies pertinent to challenging new academic-capitalist values and behaviors. Contributors, local an...

Two grisly murders discovered in almost as many daysHelena Foster was called by her friend Chief Bueno to Saguaro National Park to meet and assist as a special consultant. After the medical examiner finished, Helena is mystified to learn Jeffrey's wedding band was in the mouth of the corpse.Helena discovers information about a shapeshifter, but when the shifter is found, she too has been gruesomely murdered. Her head sat on a pillow, eyes disturbin...

The mate I rejected made a grave error.He played his hand too early, and he underestimated what a shifter is willing to survive in the name of love.When my mates, my family, and my pack are all threatened, there will be casualties.Who deserves to survive?And when the pieces start to fall into place—who really gets what they deserve?

In this extraordinary novel, a forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland—and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother."An unforgettable story about mothers, daughters, and sisters reaching inward for solace and strength when society has failed them, ultimately triumphant in love." ―Jimin Han, author of The ApologyAngelina Lee feels like she doesn’t belong. Newl...

TAKEN. SILENCED.Decorated in gold, she landed at the feet of a man who hates her.She’d been taken, stripped of her name, and then her voice. One minute, she’d been a struggling college student. The next, she’s living a nightmare. Or at least, another one, because lessons from her brutal childhood would provide her with the tools to navigate her new reality with the man who’d won her.She will be resilient. She will endure.She needs him to survive as much as s...