In this prequel to the best-selling Friends With Benefits series, learn the hilarious backstory of how Victoria and Jillian meet.When two very different couples, one who's just getting started and one who's apparently just getting finished… meet on a cruise, the better halves become fast friends. While Victoria Wilde is sexually adventurous and getting back on track in her quest of living life to the fullest, Jillian Grayson is reserved and struggling to hold on to a nearly twenty-...

Escape to beautiful Emerald Isle, North Carolina and lose yourself in the hilarious, sexy and moving story of one woman’s journey through a life of love, loss and temptation.Never quite getting over the loss of her college soul mate, and settled into a marriage of safety and convenience, Doctor Ally Larson fights a forbidden attraction during a much-needed beach vacation. If battling her own desires isn’t disrupting enough from her getaway, dealing with her divorce...

Explore your own inappropriate thoughts in this best-selling hilarious and sexy romantic comedy. You’ll fall in love with Jillian and Brian as they navigate their forbidden attraction in this laugh-out-loud funny story featuring a bit of inadvertent voyeurism, some ill-advised skinny dipping, a smidge of public nudity, and, of course, a ton of unresolved sexual tension.After a devastating divorce and string of horrific dates, best-selling romance novelist Jillian G...

The long-awaited next chapter to the Victoria Wilde series, Second Thoughts, is part romantic suspense, part legal thriller, part medical drama, part steamy erotic romp and part screwball comedy.Victoria, Jillian, Brian, Jim, Caroline, and Rob are back in book four, the 400-page epic next chapter in the "Friends" series. Who will prevail in the Brookhart v. Grayson trial? Will Victoria have a boy or a girl, and will she finally find happiness? Will Rob figure out what the hell is g...

Victoria, Jim, Brian, Jillian, Rob, Laura and Caroline are back with more eye-opening revelations, steamy triangles and sexy surprises in the third book in the Victoria Wilde series.As Jillian and Brian's destination wedding date nears, Jillian's just released novel's complicated success threatens to destroy their big day. While Rob's new job grows extraordinarily more mysterious Brian's becomes infinitely more unfulfilling and both struggle to find the answers. Victoria finds it m...

For best-selling romance novelist Jillian Grayson, writer's block is a thing of the past now that her clandestine relationship with her son's best friend, Brian Nash, has lifted her out of a post-divorce funk. The prospect of breaking the news to her son seems daunting, but it's nothing compared to the nightmare of meeting Brian's superstrict, off-the-wall, disapproving parents. After Jillian, Brian and his younger brother Jim, learn an eye-opening secret about the Nash parents they all go...

He swore off women when his ex told him he might not be their daughter's father. But a paternity test confirmed he is, and Luke Young has dedicated his life to Corrine and his brothers' band. There hasn't been time for a girlfriend anyway. He's tried here and there, and the women in small-town Coral Canyon are certainly interested in him.But he's been thinking about his massage therapist for a while now...Sterling Boyd struck out on her own last year, right when Luke asks h...

Much has been written about coaching and mentoring. However, the focus has tended to be on business or professional development, with limited references to young people or youth work. Addressing this need, this unique text combines rigorous research with practical advice to examine coaching and mentoring in youth work, highlighting the purpose of these interventions in supporting the transition of young people from adolescence to adulthood.Written by an academic and practitioner te...

Heaven Turned Into Hell.When Od was growing up with his grandfather in the mesmerizing yet poverty-stricken countryside of Mongolia, he didn't know that his life was about to turn into a living hell. His own grandparents sold him to child traffickers who took him away from his village and turned him into a slave, along with other children from the region.A Beacon Of Hope.Od, Altantsetseg, Chinua and Khulan were all held captive by c...

The Gnostic Trilogy is the best-known and most important work by the ascetic philosopher and teacher Evagrius of Pontus. Among the writers of his age, Evagrius stands out for his short, perplexing, and absorbing aphorisms, which provide sharp insight into philosophy, Scripture, human nature, and the natural world. The first part of the trilogy, the Praktikos (The Practiced One), provides a diagnosis and treatment of the eight tempting thoughts. It was a foundational text ...

In Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America: Pulpit Discourse at the Turn of the Millennium, ten scholars analyze notable sermons from the fifty-year span between 1965 and 2015, during which the Protestant sermon has undergone significant change in the United States. Contributors examine how this turbulent time period witnessed a variety of important shifts in the arguments, evidences, and rhetorical strategies employed by contemporary preachers. Because religious practice is inextrica...

John Luke Robertson may be young and beardless, but he has a lot to say about growing up and discovering your purpose.John Luke Robertson, the oldest son of Willie and Korie Robertson and brother of Dancing with the Stars sensation Sadie Robertson, shares his story of what it’s like to grow up as a Robertson and all the fun and craziness that entails, as well as what he has learned as he has stepped out into his own unique experiences. He also shares what ...