A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands—KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz—laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s.It was the age when heavy-footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard-rock landscape. But that all changed when into these dazed and confused mid-'70s strut-ted four flamboyant bands that reveled in revved-up anthems and flaunted a novel theatricality. In ...

When years ago we read in Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall” the following lines:—Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations’ airy navies grappling in the central blue—we little dreamt that not very far from the beginning of the twentieth century the fancy of the poet would become the fact of reality; that in the great European war in which the nation is so strenuously engaged, “the wonder that would be” would come to pass. Though happily, at present, in ...

Single Mother- ✔Dead Father- ✔Motherless Childhood- ✔Librarian- ✔Black Rimmed Glasses to Fit the Job Description- ✔The Biggest A-hole in the World for an Ex- ✔✔When you're born, you never know what life will throw at you. You make the best of it no matter what happens. That's been my go-to since infancy. Then the charming, bald-headed, blue-eyed Brent came along, and I thought all the suck in life had been flushed down the drain. Ha! That's w...

I'm the Sergeant-At-Arms for the Demented Sons MC. A year ago my life went to shit, and every priority I ever had changed. Being a single dad on the run was never on my radar, but that was the hand I was dealt.I didn't think shit could get worse.Then fate dumped a raven-haired beauty in my lap, and all hell broke loose.Trying to keep my two-year-old daughter and a hot mess of a woman alive while still protecting my club threw my adrenaline into overdrive. Strung tig...

Pregnant- ✔Single mother of two - ✔Biker best friend – ✔Ex that’s still a D-Bag – ✔ ✔New Years is the time for new beginnings. I thought I’d gotten that when I visited Texas over Thanksgiving. Then again, very little has changed. I’m still a librarian living in the same house. My daughters are growing up fast. Sure, I’ve acquired a new best friend, who’s convinced me it’s time to give dating fair shot. Which isn’t exactly easy when I’m pregnant with an As*ho...

- WRECKED & RECLAIMED -Once upon a time, my heart was broken. Wrecked beyond repair.Then I met him, a man who wasn’t like anyone before.Who didn’t see the world like others saw it.He wasn’t supposed to fall in love with me. The girl nobody wanted. A soul destined to save others, when she couldn’t save herself.I didn’t believe him when he said I was his.But darkness belongs with darkness.And love doesn’t always equal pain.Maybe...

Pregnant- ✔Deaths - ✔A Baby – ✔Stress that could make even the strongest woman crack – ✔ ✔A year ago if you told me I’d wind up where I am today, I’d have you committed for insanity. Now that I’ve opened Pandora’s Box and survived more than most have in their lifetime, Death has knocked on our doorstep and welcomed himself inside. Learning that life isn’t always fair comes at a price. The question is, how much do I have to pay before I get a real chance at h...

Life is simply life. It's unfair and sometimes cruel.I should know.Since the moment I first drew breath, I was an orphan. Unwanted. Unloved. The small blonde girl everyone picked on.My story isn't one of happiness, if that's what you're thinking.The person I love most in the world is gone. And in the darkness I've been reborn, into a person I don't recognize.Her name’s Rosie. In the beginning, when our love first began, that name meant something diff...

The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring public opinion to forward specific goals, and beyond. Deterrence in the 21st Century asks how, and if it is indeed possible, to deter an enemy in the realm of information warfare.Setting the stage with an ove...

Finally find out what happened during those missing four months, as the thrilling adventure continues!He’s under my skin…After Katmere, I shouldn’t be surprised by anything. Including the existence of a world beyond my world called the Shadow Realm. Yet here I am, stuck in a strange, dangerous place with the worst of the supernaturals, the monster that other monsters fear: Hudson Vega. He might be Jaxon’s brother and ridiculously hot, but he’s a complete bona fide pain in m...

AbelA knock at my door reveals a very pregnant woman.Good news: I'm not the father of her baby.Bad news: I am the father of the baby her sister is carrying.I'm the bad boy, rock star, playboy ice hockey star.I collect paychecks and shell out broken hearts.Now I'm collecting the storm of pregnancy hormones and shelling out foot rubs.How am I supposed to go from the hottest bachelor in the world… to being c...

- VOLUME 1 -I'm a biker and a woman raised by my family, the Sacred Sinners. Growing up an MC brat, I've known nothing but leather, booze, club whores, camaraderie, and chrome. The name's Eva "Bink" Cummings, and this is my story.At the ripe ole age of thirty, with no husband or kids, being a part of a motorcycle club isn't all fun and games. Things are changing.The moment my world collides with the six-foot-eight biker who helped raise me, I find out the hard way t...