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Some weekends, somebody doesn't wake up.Joanne Pruitt is fifty, teaches AP Chemistry in suburban St. Louis, and has been married for twenty-seven polite years. In February she wrote a letter to Nicole Barrett, her husband's former office manager, who quit the practice to run a lake house with her husband and another woman. In March Joanne sent her a list: five things she wanted and had never asked for.In May the invitation came. Memorial Day weekend at Marchetti Point, a gl...

He thinks he hired the perfect trap. He walked right into hers.Grant Whitfield is forty-six, a Carmel city councilman running for the Indiana Senate on three words: Values That Hold. He also has a twenty-nine-year-old campaign manager in his bed and a quiet wife, Nora, he can't afford to divorce before November.So Grant comes up with a plan. He hires a discreet investigation firm to give his wife something to fall for, then catch her doing it. Within weeks, a gorgeous marri...

Every married man pays. This one paid with his life.Cass Byrne is twenty-nine, the hostess at the best chophouse in Clayton, and very good at a very bad game. With her partner Rafe behind a long lens, she seduces rich married men, and then she makes them pay to make the photographs disappear. Four men in three years. Nobody gets hurt. Nobody goes to the police.Then she sets her sights on Julian Ashby, the forty-seven-year-old banker who married into the oldest money in St. ...

The rent was too low. The landlord was too charming. The house rules were filthy.Jade Carter is twenty-seven, an ER nurse, and — as far as anyone at 2117 Menard Street can tell — broke after a bad breakup. The top-floor apartment in Victor Hale's Soulard brownstone should have been a temporary landing. Then she reads the brass-framed card in the foyer.Rule for May: Introduce yourself properly.Victor is fifty-two, silver-haired, magnetic, and very clear about how his...

Three gorgeous new neighbors. One very lucky husband. Or so he thinks.Mark Delaney is fifty-four, owns the biggest pool and spa store in Carmel, Indiana, and has the best lawn on Larkspur Court. He also has a marriage that went quiet years ago. His wife Claire is polite and pleasant and sleeps with her back to him.Then a moving truck pulls into the empty house next door, and three stunning young women climb out.Ivy is a red-haired personal trainer with a laugh you c...

Three men wanted her. One of them would never let her go.Lena Marsh is twenty-five, gorgeous, and the best bartender in St. Louis's Central West End. Her father walked out when she was nine, and she has been chasing older men ever since: men with silver at their temples, heavy watches, and the kind of certainty that makes the whole world go quiet.This summer, she has three of them.Richard is a married heart surgeon who takes her apart in a hotel room every Tuesday a...

Three couples. One glass house on the lake. A long weekend with no rules but theirs. And a dead man in the cove by Sunday morning.Nicole Barrett is thirty-eight, runs a St. Louis dental office like a Swiss watch, and has sex with her husband every Thursday night. It takes about eleven minutes.So when Greg comes home with an invitation to a lake house at the Lake of the Ozarks for the Fourth of July weekend, from a couple he barely knows, Nicole says yes before she can talk ...

On Monday, December 20, 2010, Jessica Eberhardt, a twenty-six-year-old mother from High Ridge, Missouri, did not come home. For eight days her family searched for her. Christmas came, and with it the first white Christmas in St. Louis in five years. Then, at about three o'clock in the morning on December 28, police found her body in the passenger seat of her mother's snow-covered car, in the parking lot of an urgent care center in Arnold.Police later said she likely died of a drug ...

When singer Julia MacAllistair sits down at a piano in her attic to play one of her late great-grandmother’s favorite pieces of music, she doesn’t expect to wake up on the floor of a Chicago concert hall in 1906, dressed in period costume with a sea of concerned faces peering down at her.How did she get there? How will she return to her present day life? Why has this happened?In her stunning and epic new novel, writer T. E. Scott weaves a rich tapestry of intrigue, danger a...

An affirmative post-structural philosophy of organisation inspired by Arnold Gehlen's philosophical anthropology, Michel Foucault's history of medicine and Gille Deleuze's early philosophical works. This book offers a deep and detailed analysis of the problems faced and their solutions.

Have you ever sat in your classroom before the first bell and whispered, "Lord, help me make it through today"?You're not alone.Teaching is more than lesson plans, grading papers, and managing classrooms. It's encouraging discouraged students, making difficult decisions, celebrating small victories, and faithfully showing up—even on the days when your own heart feels weary.Before the Bell Rings is a 190-day devotional created specifically for Christ...

The absurdity of American politics. The absence of reason. Animal Farm meets 1984 meets The Handmaid's Tale meets the madness of MAGA. This is White Rabbit - the escape from the insanity that is Donald Trump's America.When a radicalized MAGA conservative woman runs for public office to 'save America', she naively joins a religious cult that's a front for a terrorist group. When she enlists them to eliminate the competition, a disastrous chain of events unfolds....