This book investigates the birth and early evolution of the international aid regime in the 1940s and 1950s, considering how America established a postwar economic order in which aid was balanced against the establishment of the IMF as an instrument of economic discipline.Through the combination of the carrot of global aid and the monetarist stick of the IMF, the US was able to successfully draw most of the newly decolonising countries of the global south of the world into the glob...

Three warriors. Three wishes. One mysterious woman who never mentioned the cost…After years of battle and burdens he never asked for, Raff made a simple wish—to be free. Free from war, from duty, and from the complications of love.The wish is granted… but with a cruel twist.Now, people look through him as if he doesn’t exist. What begins as a welcome escape quickly becomes a quiet torment. Until one woman looks him in the eye—and sees him.In...

She’s got the powers of a dragon, and the Slayers are closing in…Kaylee just blasted her first date with lightning. She has no idea how, but when the creep pulls a sword on her, what’s a girl to do?Soon, she’s discovering a whole magical world she had no clue existed, all hidden in plain sight. And that lightning she summoned? Even among paranormals, that’s not normal.Turns out Kaylee is a dragon-kin, a half dragon/half human with the incre...

A human thief with no magic thrown into a Mage’s war. What could possibly go wrong…Aspen is a Norm. A human. Something that could get her killed—or worse—in this supernatural New York City.She didn’t plan on becoming apprenticed to one of the most powerful Mages on the Council.She really didn’t plan on taking part in a deadly magical competition against Isak, her handsome, aggravating, dangerous opponent.Yet as much as Aspe...

In this paranormal world, her death is just the beginningRiley’s seventeenth birthday should have been fun, but when a knife-wielding psycho attacks her best friend, of course Riley tries to stop him.Turns out, taking a knife through the heart isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.Neither is death.Instead of pearly gates, Riley wakes up alive and ensnared in a witch’s curse with twelve paranormals known as the Outcasts—including the inhumanly beau...

How can she stop evil if she can't even control her own dark magic?Skylar has a few problems:Getting out from under her famous mother’s shadow.Making it through the Academy of Magic without getting herself killed.And trying not to murder the devilishly handsome, so-infuriating-she-wants-to-strangle-him Asher once they’re partnered with each other.So when she discovers a new baddie gathering power in her city, someone with insane magi...

She was never meant to be hunted.He was never meant to care.Elara lives quietly among ink-stained pages and forest paths, recording the secrets of plants so healers may tend the sick. But she carries a secret of her own—one she does not fully understand—and discovery could prove fatal.Until the king’s Hunters come.They sweep across the Highlands in search of a powerful healer, seizing any believed to possess forbidden gifts....

Opposites attract in this steamy Scottish romance between a grumpy doctor and the single mother who lives next door, from the author of Whisky Business.Burned-out GP Alistair Macabe never planned to return to his tiny hometown on the Isle of Skye. Especially not to live next door to Isla, a newly single mom with zero time for grumpy doctors.But when Alistair needs a popularity boost in order to start taking on patients again, and Isla wants to ruff...

Revenge consumes the Highlander’s thoughts… until he meets the healer.Shade is a dedicated healer focused solely on gaining as much knowledge as possible to help those suffering and in need. Living in the heart of the woods, people come from all around to seek her help. Consumed with her work, she has had no time to find a husband and at twenty and six years most believe she is past her prime. She tells herself to pay no heed to gossiping tongues but when she is al...

All is not what it seems. Don’t trust anyone.The warning comes too late for Elysia.Alone and frightened Elysia hurries to do as her two sisters urged, ask Saber, who works one of the crofts, to wed her. She favors him and believes he feels the same about her. His throat is healing from an injury and his voice is slowly returning with her help. Elysia is no healer but having helped her sister Bliss, the healer of their clan, she has a bit of healing...

She runs from a forced marriage. He runs from lies. They both run from love.No! Absolutely not! Never! He dictates and drinks until drunk. I’d kill him before our wedding day has ended.Sorrell lets her step-brother know that she wants no part of the marriage he arranged for her. Unfortunately, the Clan Macardle is in dire straits and this marriage would prove beneficial. Besides, it’s not like there’s a line of suitors vying for her. She’s a spitfi...

The beauty is no match for the devil… or is she?In 11th century Ireland, a legendary warrior emerges, bearing a mixed heritage from both Irish and Viking bloodlines. Known as the fearsome Irish Devil, Eric of Shanekill has earned the favor of the King of Ireland through his valor. As a reward, he is offered a bride from Lord William’s three daughters. However, none of the options resonate with this formidable warrior, until he crosses paths with Faith, the marginal...