Clay Tibor loves a wicked French heel, but not when the shoe is attached to a dead body sprawled on the floor of the shoe shop where he's working. Two weeks ago, the owner of the shop passed away, and Clay now works for his son, Nathan. Nathan might be hot, but he knows nothing about shoes. Clay wished it was his biggest problem, but shoe ignorance is a mere inconvenience compared to being accused of murder.Nathan's brother, who is technically co-owner of the shoe shop, is a cop who...

York Winter and his packmates are attacked by a rivaling werewolf pack at a lumberyard. Injured and exhausted, York runs into a part of town he's not familiar with, and when the enemy is closing in, he takes his chances and escapes into a bear-owned bakery.Torbjorn Holt doesn't do people, and he doesn't do wolves no matter what the pull in his heart is trying to tell him. He's learned his lesson and will not have wolves in the bakery, and he'll definitely not mate one. Luckily, York...

Murder isn't as much fun as it's made out to be, neither is being rescued by a grouchy cop.All Noel Chance wanted to do was ask a woman a few questions about a kidnapping that took place thirty-seven years ago for his cold case podcast. He didn't think someone would shoot her right in front of him.While hiding from the murderer by the dill pickle in the food cellar, he calls Bo, his brother's best friend, who is a cop. Bo takes his sweet time to come to the rescue, and once...

Zev Nightfall has a secret. For two years, he's been the beta in a loosely knitted werewolf pack, but he's not a werewolf. He's a crossbreed, part wolf, part fae, which is a death sentence in most packs. That's not his only problem. One night he meets Otis, a vampire. Shifters and vampires aren't friends, yet fighting is the last thing on Zev's mind.Otis Miller is in the middle of rebuilding his rockstar persona. Again. A hundred years ago, all he had to do was to move when people s...

Ilya Lewis is gonna kill his best friend Vera. She not only persuaded him off his couch and into the creepiest nightclub in the city, she also didn't show. When Ilya learns the bar is split into two halves, and he's been let into the wrong side, it doesn't make things any better. Once the doorman determines which half to let you into, he won't let you into the other.Ulric Moon hates the Ruby Tooth. But as a bounty hunter, he must go where the trails lead him, and tonight it's landed...

The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning shows teachers, administrators, professional development providers, and researchers how to use translanguaging to level the playing field for bilingual students in English-medium and bilingual classrooms. The term translanguaging can be understood in two different ways. From a sociolinguistic perspective, translanguaging can be understood as the dynamic language practices of bilinguals. From a pedagogical ...

Detective Thaddeus Ezax is in over his head. He's the only wizard in Rockshade's Paranormal Investigations Department, and it was his name that got him the job. The Ezaxs are known as some of the most powerful wizards in the world, but Thaddeus isn't your average Ezaxs. Is it any wonder his family shuns him?When a kidnapping case is dropped into his lap, Thaddeus must act fast. While most five-year-olds can cast a location spell, Thaddeus can't and is forced to get creative. When he...

Three years ago, Dax Howard got out of a bad relationship and swore never to date again. He loves his picturesque cabin outside Nortown and is looking forward to three weeks of quiet over the holidays. He hadn't foreseen a stranger turning in on his driveway in the middle of a snowstorm, claiming he's there for a date.Ellis Rush has risked his neck driving in a snowstorm to meet his friend Daniel and his boyfriend Dom for a double date he agreed to go on as a favor. Reaching the des...

Years ago, empath Elijah Long made a bad decision, and he is still paying for it. He's kept hidden from his abusive werewolf ex for years, but when he wakes in a dark room, cuffed to a wall, he knows he's out of luck. Elora, his psychic sister, will come for him, he just has to endure long enough to give her a chance to find him.Captain Kol Jaecar of Rockshade's Paranormal Investigations Department detests slow times at work, so when Elora wants time off to search for her brother, ...

Oswald Sattle has been sleeping in his Toyota Camry for the last 273 days, the exact number of days since he discovered his fiancé cheating on him. Now, out of money and out of options, he's on his way to Nortown. Aiden, an acquaintance from his past, has offered him a job opportunity he can't turn down, no matter how much he'd like to.Joshua Roth moved to Nortown four years ago, and he has everything he needs -- a job, friends, peace and quiet. He's not looking for a boyfriend; no...

After seven years of being on the move, Arlo Barman wants nothing more than a place to call home. But unbeknownst to him, Arlo is a caladrius healer, so staying in one place has never been an option. The compulsion to separate himself from those he's healed is all-consuming and leaves him little choice but to pack up yet again.Nash Silver is the only werewolf in his small coastal town. Living undetected in a human world is imperative for his kind, and he and his small circle of fri...

Abe Cooper is starting over. For fifteen years he's lived the life that was expected of him, but not anymore. He's packed up his things, bought himself a cabin in Northfield, and managed to secure a job at the local high school teaching gym and coaching the football team. But his new beginning didn't include running into Crazy Joe on his first trip to the grocery store.Jonas Raghnall has everything he needs -- good friends and a job he loves. He's worked hard to get over what happe...