Jacob O’Connell just wants a simple life: a career he can enjoy, a wife, kids, and a home of their own. As he closes in on these modest goals, significant time lapses begin to develop in his memory, forcing him onto a precarious search for answers about the many mysteries behind who he really is, including the wondrous yet frightening truth of his hidden abilities. But nothing is easy, and Jacob and his wife Sara soon become aware of a formidable enemy — a malignancy that has been lurking ...

This authoritative and practical guide provides a thorough account of the law and practice of professional indemnity insurance. Topics examined include the basis of cover, entering the contract, block notification of claims, aggregation, and the exclusion of cover for fraud and dishonesty. The book also considers the standard terms and policy wordings involved in claims policies and the associated issues that can arise in practice. In addition to providing analysis of English case law, the...

For the first time, a textbook that brings together classical predictive control with treatment of up-to-date robust and stochastic techniques.Model Predictive Control describes the development of tractable algorithms for uncertain, stochastic, constrained systems. The starting point is classical predictive control and the appropriate formulation of performance objectives and constraints to provide guarantees of closed-loop stability and performance. Movin...

SOME SECRETSWhen Liv Dugan ducks out of work for lunch, it’s just an ordinary day. When she returns, she stumbles onto a massacre. All her colleagues at Zuma Software have been shot. Only luck has left Liv unscathed, and that might be running out . . .WILL FOLLOW YOULiv suspects the shootings are tied to her past—and to the package she recently received from her long-dead adoptive mother. Sensing she’s being followed, Liv jumps into a...

A chilling photograph cracks open a decades-old mystery in this suspenseful novel by New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards.When aspiring attorney Lisa Grant begins investigating cold cases for District Attorney Scott Buchanan to make ends meet, she discovers a photo of a missing family where she herself bears an uncanny resemblance to the missing toddler. Together Lisa and Scott unravel a terrifying web of criminal connections that could destroy ...

Have you ever felt as if someone else got your life?Carlotta Wren has always wondered what her life would've been like if her father hadn't been charged with a white-collar crime, and if her wealthy parents hadn't fled town to avoid facing the music, leaving her to fend for herself and to raise her younger brother Wesley.And now with a twist of fate, she's about to find out...Praise for the BODY MOVERS seri...

After doing three years in prison, Rix is following the rules. He's not wearing his leather patch, nor is he anywhere near his clubhouse, but he will make the person who put him away pay. For now, he's going to enjoy living free, especially with his sexy neighbor.Work is all Anna-Beth has known. She doesn't know what fun is anymore, not until she attends Rix's party. He's dangerous and his smile melts her panties right off. They're two people having fun and one day, it will be over...

Mehl Ramps Up the Suspense in This Brand-New U.S. Marshals SeriesMercy Brennan followed in her father's footsteps in a law enforcement career, but she has no interest in any other connection to him. A U.S. Marshal in St. Louis, Missouri, she's assigned to a joint task force with the St. Louis PD that puts her back into contact with her father and in the sights of St. Louis's most powerful gang.When the gang has reason to believe Mercy has possession of some...

Nothing is ever fair in love and war, especially when the woman of your dreams is the same one seeking to destroy you.If he plays his cards right, Hollywood (Jayce Morris) is hoping to become a newly patched member of the Gold Vipers, a notorious biker club located in the Midwest. Life is good and he's never been happier, until he becomes the target of an assassin. A woman who isn't just psychotic, but the most beautiful creature he's ever laid eyes on.Growing up in foster ...

Paige Avery had been deep, undercover with her brother, James. Their target had been spotted, but something went wrong. The bullets came from everywhere, killing most of the people in the room. Sent to retrieve them, Rebel Marshall popped in and took the unconscious Page and James back to her home to recover. If Paige and James hadn’t already been immortal, they would have died for sure. As it was, Paige was too weak to shift, and until she could, it would be a long recovery.Heath ...

It's everyone's favorite form of insult comedy (as seen on MTV!) -- hundreds of crushingly funny one-liners about "yo' mama" -- and all yo' other relatives -- sure to shut people's mouths or make them howl with laughter.Yo' mama is so fat, when her beeper goes off, people think she's backing up.Yo' mama is so old that when she was young, rainbows were black and white.Yo' mama is so fat, she eats Wheat Thicks.Yo' mama is so dumb that when she saw...

Tourmaline Harris’s life hit pause at fifteen, when her mom went to prison because of Tourmaline’s unintentionally damning testimony. But at eighteen, her home life is stable, and she has a strong relationship with her father, the president of a local biker club known as the Wardens. Virginia Campbell’s life hit fast-forward at fifteen, when her mom “sold” her into the services of Hazard, a powerful attorney: a man for whom the law is merely a suggestion. When Hazard sets his sights on dis...