Make it Work: Practical Advice for a Strong and Lasting Relationship to Make Your Marriage WorkLove is a beautiful journey, but it's not always a smooth ride. Relationships require effort, patience, and a willingness to grow together. A healthy relationship is one that is built on trust, respect, and mutual understanding.In this audiobook, we delve into the practical steps and techniques for making relationships work. Whether you're just starting out or looking to reignite th...

As the future Queen to the Light Fey Kingdom, Franchesca has been betrothed to the future King of the Dark Fey her entire life. For a marriage of their Kingdoms is required to unite the Fey Realm, bringing peace to all its people.This is her life.Her fate.Her future.Yet, how can she live up to her royal responsibilities when the ultimate betrayal forces her to flee?Can she be the Queen the two kingdoms need?Or will she give the Fates - and thei...

"You need to understand something, Angel. Once you let me touch you, there's no going back."Reed Walker, notorious playboy, is running for New York mayor. He wants to deflect attention away from his less-than-wholesome image. The past has no place when you're trying to win the people's vote.So he propositions me: Pretend to be his girlfriend until election day. Help him to look dependable, trustworthy, and loving—someone people can relate to.It shou...

From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though these events affect us all, some members of society are more vulnerable to harm than others.This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species, and ecosystems. Using feminist methodologies, the contributors to Public Catastrop...

I see you, Roman. You want to fight me, and then you want to be so good for me.We’re lost boys, wild and forgotten. Born into a world of poverty and crime, my two best friends and I have nothing to rely on except each other. But I have a plan: if I can film viral BDSM porn, I might rake in enough cash to get us out of this trailer park before we become another gang violence statistic. Kink is a rich man’s game—high-end clubs, dungeons full of toys—but maybe two dirt-poor b...

"The first rule of F*ck Club...we don't talk about it. We just do the job and get paid."And Riley Steele did his job very well. He'll be the first to admit that his current life isn't the one he'd foreseen. It's not even one he really wants, but after his parents died and he was left to care for two siblings and a mountain of debt, he was willing to do almost anything.Now, after almost ten years of being paid to pleasure, he's almost numb to it…and...

Do you still harbor hurt and pain from past experiences?From Stuck to Limitless is an anthology featuring individuals who share their harsh truths about trauma and survival—from childhood sexual and mental abuse, adult traumas, and debilitating health issues.Through such truth-telling, we learn we are not alone and that it is only by sharing that we can heal ourselves and give hope to others.This impactful collection of essays from some of today's changemakers will ...

I agreed to be a stranger's maid of honor because of the perks.How was I supposed to know my grump of a boss was the best man?Reid Hunt has it all—he's a partner in a private equity firm, his bank account is bulging, and he gets anything he wants at the snap of his fingers.How do I know?I'm his executive assistant.The jerk has me running around New York City at breakneck speed doing menial tasks.I didn't earn a degree from a ...

Kneeling in the mud at the Oakmont Racetrack, Victor Quick waits for his death. His last thought is "Petey, I hope you nail this guy." Peter Quick is good at solving complicated problems. The metaphorical black spider in his brain spins strands whose nodes light up at salient, crucial points. Even Pete doesn't know how he interprets the messages, he simply does. Pete had helped his friend and brother-in-law, Homicide Captain John Pelton, solve other crimes: a child killing, several robberi...

A vulnerable woman being followed. A PI determined to protect her. Former lovers embroiled in an intense mystery thriller fraught with intrigue and danger. A sexy, romantic, suspenseful ride through the atmospheric 1940s.“Lister’s hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction.” Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review of The Big Goodbye.Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy “Soldier” Riley, a wounded, woman-haunted knight errant in Michael L...

Murder They Wrought is a mystery fiction anthology. Five stories tell tales of people and situations gone awry. The stories include Flood Insurance, published first as a standalone story with a sample of Pink Lady (the sample included in Flood Insurance), Strangers, The Amber Hart, and The Twelve Hours.

Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain,...