Five years ago, Sebastian Laurent handed me divorce papers and called our marriage a mistake.He chose his billion-pound empire.I chose to survive.Now I am Adrienne Locke, the woman powerful companies call when everything is falling apart. I built my own fortune, protected my own name, and created a life my ex-husband can no longer control.Then Sebastian walks into my boardroom.His hotels are failing. His family is hiding dangerou...

He gave my place to his mistress.He forgot I built the empire that made him a billionaire.When Audrey Lennox returns early from Paris, her key no longer opens her own front door.Inside, Sienna Kade is wearing Audrey’s silk robe, sleeping in Audrey’s bedroom, and planning a future with Audrey’s husband.Bennett Haldane believes his marriage is already over.He believes Lennox House belongs to him.He believes Audrey will accep...

The first child called my husband Dad before I finished our fifth-anniversary toast.Rafe Calder told me we had no secrets.He lied.The little girl standing in the ballroom is his daughter. The boy beside her is her twin brother. And the woman watching me lose everything is the former wife he never told me about.For five years, every business trip hid another life.Even the night I lost our baby and Rafe left me alone, he was runnin...

He got my fertility doctor pregnant. Then he forged my name and told the world I was unstable.I built Aster House Fertility from nothing.It was my clinic. My dream. My life.I trusted my husband, Grant, to protect its money.Instead, he used my signature to hide eighty million dollars in debt. He copied private patient records. He planned to take control of my clinic and give my position to the woman carrying his child.I discover t...

Social Support and Health in the Digital Age discusses how theinformation age has revolutionized nearly every facet of human communication—from the ways in which people purchase products to how they meet and fall in love. These exciting new communication technologies can both unite and divide us. People who are separated by great distances can now communicate with each other in real time, whereas parents often find themselves competing with smartphones and tablets for their children’s atte...

The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships is the communication field’s most major, comprehensive volume of the study of social media and romantic relationship development. It is the first volume in the discipline of communication studies intended to provide an overview of romantic development that includes all types of social media, such as Tinder and Facebook. The volume contains several major communication and media scholars who have researched social media and romantic...

Bringing Religion and Spirituality into Therapy provides a comprehensive and timely model for spirituality-integrated therapy which is truly pluralist and responsive to the ever-evolving World of religion/spirituality.This book presents an algorithmic, process-based model for organizing the abundance of theoretical and practical literature around how psychology, religion and spirituality interact in counseling. Building on a tripartite framework, the book discusses the pra...

One of NPR’s Best Books of 2023. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture, Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions, and Lit Hub.“*Comedy Book*changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before.” —Seth Meyers“Energetic and wise . . . Comedy Book

In this delightfully charming rom-com mystery, a woman becomes accidentally entangled in a murder investigation (and with a handsome stranger) when her fake detective agency is enlisted to solve a real homicide.Emersyn Gray is definitely not a detective.Really, she’s an unemployed twenty-eight-year-old raising her beloved niece in the only place she can afford after her ex-boyfriend ran off with her life savings: a run-down, seniors-only apartment ...

In "The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read," the timeless allegory of spiritual journey is rendered accessible for younger audiences. Bunyan's original text, laden with rich symbolism and Christian doctrine, has been distilled into an engaging adaptation that captures the essence of the protagonist, Christian's, perilous voyage from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. The simplified prose and carefully chosen illustrations invite children into a world that bl...

In a cute new culinary cozy from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox, budding chocolatier Becca Ransom must solve a murder before she meets a sticky end.Former actress Becca Ransom lived her dream in Hollywood for seven years before returning to her hometown of Larch Haven, known as the Venice of North America. The Vermont town has canals instead of roads, gondolas instead of cars, and charming cottages plucked from the pages of a fairy tale. It’s also ...

Remove the chains that are keeping you from living a fulfilling life . . .Alcohol is one of the leading causes of addiction. It starts out as a simple drink with friends and then suddenly grown out of control. It manages to take control of your life and you find yourself powerless to regain the life it has stolen.Salvation comes in the pages of this book. It provides a simple to understand approach that educates the reader on sober resolutions basics, getting rid of temptat...