Emma Davis needs a do-over. In the midst of a contentious divorce, her self-esteem, as well as her once-thriving career, have hit rock bottom. Writing professor Evy Hanover is a newcomer to the town of Belmont, New York. Confident, free-spirited, and fun-loving, Evy can navigate whatever life throws her way – except the untimely loss of her one true love.Fate brings Emma and Evy together at a weight loss workshop, where they bond over broken hearts and a love for tacos. Determined ...

After suffering from and escaping an extremely abusive relationship with her ex-fiance Toni, Katalina Pierce is shipped to Cavanuagh Ranch by her two best friends. Katalina is determined to find herself again while sorting through the pieces of her shattered life. While at Cavanaugh Ranch she meets ranch owner and cowboy Casanova, Matthew Cavanaugh. Matthew is many things, but relationship material isn't one of them so how does he manage to sneak his way into Katalina's heart?After...

Fleeing with her daughter from her abusive boyfriend Evelyn Danielson takes the first bus out of dodge. Landing in California she must create a new life for them, but that is easier said than done. Between her daily battle with epilepsy; an invisible illness that proceeds to get worse, struggling to raise her spirited pre-teen daughter and trying to keep her head afloat, Evelyn is on the verge of breaking, her hope of survival diminishing with each passing day. To make matters worse she's ...

This collection brings together eighteen of the most memorable stories from the popular Exceptional Erotica publication on Medium: sharp, intimate, and unapologetically hot. Each tale is a wicked little miracle: compact bursts of desire, heat, and feeling, filthy and finely made.Stories by Megan Landon, Kat Vaughn, Crawford Hart, JK Mill, Paragonas Vaunt, Anton J. Pierce, Caffeline, Posy Churchgate, Polly Liticat, Aubrey Hawks, May Fellowbrook, D.A. Wright, Ryn Rehnard, Eli Casablan...

This is a specially-packaged collection of three interconnected horror novels.O R I G I NWhen linguist Andrew Dennison is yanked from his bed by the Secret Service and taken to a top secret facility in the desert , he has no idea he's been brought there to translate the words of an ancient demon.He joins pretty but cold veterinarian Sun Jones, eccentric molecular biologist Dr. Frank Belgium, and a hodge-podge of religious, military, and science pers...

This volume offers a diverse set of scholarly essays on the imaginative potential of corrections and sentencing research/practice that centers on the lived experience of the criminal legal system. The Editors define “lived experience” broadly, encompassing the subjective ways in which corrections and sentencing directly or indirectly affect a person’s daily life. They employ a diverse and expansive conceptualization of lived experience; for example, people with lived experience can be dire...

Mr Simeon Crosby, a retired executioner, comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk on his life's work. Whilst he has an eager following, there are also many people who strongly object to Crosby's profession and do not wish his melancholy shadow to be cast over their town. Protests have been organised and threats have been made. Detective Sergeant Brennan is tasked with overseeing the security of the controversial visitor and all seems to be going to plan…un...

Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right polity, they argue, is congregationalism, elder leadership, diaconal service, regenerate church membership, church discipline, and a Baptist approach to the ordinances.Each sectio...

Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan of the Wigan Borough Police has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living. So, when he finds himself investigating the case of a recently widowed young woman, Alice Goodway, who has suddenly developed "the Gift" of mediumship and has received a threatening letter, he embarks on the inquiry with no small degree of scepticism. But just as Brennan and his colleague, Constable Jaggery, consider how to proceed with the...

1894, Wigan. Miss Dorothea Gadsworth is interviewed for a teaching vacancy at George Street Elementary, but is ultimately dismissed as a candidate. The following Monday morning, her body is discovered in a locked classroom with a note by her side. DS Michael Brennan is called in to investigate what appears to be a straightforward suicide, but his instincts tell him there is more to this case than meets the eye. With the door locked from the inside, staff members with plenty to hide and a s...

Wigan is in the grip of a devastating national miners' strike and a harsh winter. Arthur Morris, a wealthy colliery owner whose intransigence on miners' pay is the main cause of the strike, is found brutally murdered in Scholes, a rough working-class district where he is universally hated and blamed for the grinding hardship the strike is causing. Detective Sergeant Brennan is tasked with finding the murderer and when a mysterious stranger is found bludgeoned to death, B...