Once upon a timeRecent lottery winner Jackie Barrett wanted peace and quiet away from the newshounds and the endless stream of suitors who were offering her one absurd marriage proposal after another. So, when she awakened from her nap in her brother's cabin to find seven men staring down at her, she felt more than just a little like Snow White. It was just too bad that bachelor #8 was the prince who kissed her awake-because sexy Mike Hamilton had everythi...

Jesse Kingston doesn’t want to go home to Bristol, New York, but his boss has ordered him to do so. Jesse loves his job as a New York State forest ranger, and the Adirondack Mountains forests have been his only home for a long time. His job is the one thing he’s been able to commit himself to wholeheartedly with the total assurance that he won’t be hurt. And now, even that has turned on him.His boss has given him an ultimatum—go home and get his head on straight, o...

She had twelve months to make a baby…Or, according to her father's will, she'd lose her beloved farm. Trouble was, Emily Kingston was wildly wary of men. In fact, the only male she'd ever trusted was her childhood sidekick, Rian "Kat" Madison, who'd rescued her from countless scrapes, who'd promised to always be there. And even Kat had up and vanished without a trace.But suddenly, sixteen years later, Kat was back. All muscle and mystery, he was the perfect c...

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond is an exploration of psychoanalysis’ often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its multifaceted heritage.Throughout the chapters, the contributors write about psychoanalysis’ relationship with queerness, the ways in which queerness is represented in the psychoanalytic archive, and how that archive endures in the present and creates various disruptive effects ...

Responding to widespread interest within cultural studies and social inquiry, this book addresses the question 'what is a mathematical concept?' using a variety of vanguard theories in the humanities and posthumanities. Tapping historical, philosophical, sociological and psychological perspectives, each chapter explores the question of how mathematics comes to matter. Of interest to scholars across the usual disciplinary divides, this book tracks mathematics as a cultural activity, drawing...

Who wants Samantha Ellis dead?Firefighter and arson investigator Samantha Ellis has a tough facade that belies her beauty-pageant exterior. Even in the hottest fire Sam stays cool-unless her boss, smoldering chief detective AJ Branson, is anywhere near the scene. Brooding AJ has made a mess of romance in the past, and he's sworn off love-and Sam-at all costs. But he can't deny that the sparks flying between them are hotter than any four-alarm blaze. And wh...

Their marriage had gone up in flames the night Detective Luke Sutherland and arson investigator Rachel Lansing's home burned down — and their daughter disappeared in a mystery of fire and smoke. Now, the firebug was back. And when Rachel got the call to profile what could be her daughter's killer, she could not say no, though it meant seeing, working with — longing for — Luke every day.There he was, all charisma, brooding good looks and fierce attitude. The chasm between t...

A Love To Last a Lifetime…Seven years ago, Honey Kingston and Matt Logan had a passionate affair that ended abruptly when he left town to join the rodeo. And though the strong-willed beauty tried to forget Matt's warm gaze, she couldn't help but remember their love…each time she looked into her little boy's blue eyes. So when the former rodeo daredevil returned to town, Honey found herself engulfed in a whirlwind of deep-rooted emotions, unable to distance herself f...

He needed a woman...Grant Waverly was a confirmed bachelor-until he found out he was married! Apparently he'd really married Katie Donovan, his college sweetheart and one and only true love, seven years ago. Now his boss expected Mr. and Mrs. Waverly to join him and his wife for two long, very important, very intimate weeks!And got a wife!There was a time when Katie would have given anything to be married to Grant.....

Forest ranger Jesse Kingston is more comfortable with wild things than people. But his secret pain won't stop him from returning home to uncover the mystery behind his best friend's fiery death. Even if it means dealing with the woman carrying his friend's baby.…Karen Ellis has her own reason for coming to town-Jesse. Her unborn child has the right to know the truth about its father's death, and only Jesse can help her learn it. But their investigation is stoking some dangerous emb...

"Unearthing the Final Shadows of a Victorian Master." For the true connoisseur of the macabre, the journey does not end with the well-known classics. Volume 18 of the A Book of Ghosts series represents the deep-strata of Sabine Baring-Gould's supernatural imagination. This volume is dedicated to the rare, the obscure, and the previously uncollected—stories that bridge the gap between his work as a folklorist, a priest, and a pioneer of English horror. The Scholar of the Supernatural: In th...

Revealing how Canada’s first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada.In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the...