Summertime, and the living's easy…At least that's what I'd hoped for when I decided to visit Hollywood's most sought-after director—A.K.A. my usually absentee father—for the summer. My vision of an idyllic break before starting grownup life after college comes to a halt when my dad puts me to work on his set.As an aspiring screenwriter, I'm eager for any experience. But my time is spent as the errand girl, fulfilling every whim of Hollywood's it actor: the ...

CHRONICLES OF THE CRYSTAL REALMS — Book OneSixteen years ago, the sky tore open.Five suns burned where one alone had any right to hang, and when the light finally faded, the world told itself a comfortable lie: that the wound had healed. It hadn't. It had only closed over — the way a scar closes over something still lodged beneath the skin.Now four children, born beneath that broken sky, carry marks they were never meant to understand. A prin...

He's a hot football star and a sexy-as-sin single dad. Zac Ledger is everything I never knew I wanted.A prince on a white horse swooping in to save the day... Isn't that every girl's dream? Maybe for some, but I've never expected to find my own happily ever after.I've made one bad dating choice after another, and it doesn't help that my only example of marriage is my dad leaving my mother before I was even born.I'll never be a believer in fairy tale...

My relationship with Cole isn’t a simple one.It’s complicated, frustrating and, at times, downright ugly.You see, I fell for a man who couldn’t love me back.Hard as I tried to avoid the dimpled prince of Seattle, life threw us together.As much as I resisted temptation, he burrowed his way into my heart.Sinful as our attraction was, our destinies were entwined.But don’t worry. Ours is a love story after all. I had no idea how our fairytale wou...

I never thought I'd be singing happy birthday to myself in a dungeon. And yet when a sinfully sexy demon crashes happy hour, that's exactly what happens. He’s known as the Lord of Chaos, and he’s mistaken me for my succubus doppelgänger. Happy birthday to me. When he tastes my blood, he finally understands I’m mortal. And I realize we have something in common: we both crave revenge.So we make a deal: I can stay in the forbidden city to hunt for my mom's killer. In return, I’ll help...

Elf Kurzgeschichten über die Zukunft finden sich in diesem Band. Die Zusammenstellung ist das Ergebnis des Schreibwettbewerbs »Zukunft schreiben« des Career Service der Universität Siegen. Ausgewählt von der studentischen Jury spiegeln die Texte ganz aktuell mit ihren zentralen Themen und Motiven Zukunftsvisionen in die literarische Form der Kurzgeschichte. Dabei scheint immer auch die Gegenwart, der sie entstammen, durch: technisch durchgesetzte soziale Kontrolle, Künstliche Intelligenz, ...

An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational wavesIn 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by the movement of large masses—as part of the theory of general relativity. A century later, researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed Einstein's prediction, detecting gravitational waves generated by the collision ...

Earth’s first warning doesn’t come from the sky—it comes from inside the human mind. Scientist Aris Thorne has been plagued by strange déjà vu episodes since childhood, flashes of moments that haven’t happened yet… or shouldn’t be happening at all. When a catastrophic anomaly tears through a secure research facility, Aris discovers the truth: his déjà vu isn’t a glitch. It’s a message—an echo leaking through hidden transdimensional portals created by an alien intelligence.As govern...

Dragons may be extinct, but the evil they fought isn’t, and it’s stirring once more.This is what the young scholar Alaric Thorne knows as he combs the Library of Alexandria for a glimmer of hope in the looming conflict. He learns that although the dragons may be gone, that doesn’t mean they’re truly lost forever. Some part of them remains in the ruins of the city they died to protect, buried and bound to a long lost artifact: the Soulforge Amulet.When Alaric sets out to unc...

Tackling the Essex underworld takes nerve. Is hard-bitten lawyer Daniel Connell up to the job?A mother's nightmare: her children taken from her because of unexplained injuries all over their bodies. Who will believe her story? When lawyer Daniel Connell receives a visit from his trouble-making old flame Victoria pleading for his help, he looks for any excuse not to get involved. But no one else believes her pleas of innocence and Daniel can see she is terrified. As ...

Lyme Disease is a substantial problem. While the CDC reported 427,000 new cases in 2017 based on surveillance criteria, actual numbers based on clinical diagnosis put that number at over one million. It is now well accepted that 10 to 20 percent of these cases go on to become a chronic illness.Dr. Dan Kinderlehrer's integrative approach offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive plan available for treating and beating this disease. It will discuss brand new treatments such as dis...

Three years after her first journey to Silicat, eight-year-old Rose dreams of returning, but her dreams have turned uneasy.Shadows whisper her name. Figures reach for her through the dark.In the waking world, her father, Wesley, struggles to publish the story they once lived. The publishers love the tale but want to change it-remove the grief, soften the truth, make it more marketable. To him, it feels like losing Silicat all over again in his heart.When Rose's nigh...