This book synthesizes what the DeRose Method is, a lifestyle proposal emphasizing quality of life, fulfilling human relationships, culture, good nutrition and optimal health. Some of the tools used are breathing re-education, stress management, and organic body techniques to improve muscular tone and flexibility as well as other techniques utilized to achieve emotional relaxation and mental concentration. All of these tools ultimately aim to increase consciousness and self-awareness.

The whole world watched Klara Dornwell's lights go out.One year ago she was a rising neon artist throwing the switch on the biggest commission of her life, live on camera, in front of everyone who mattered. Half of it died on the wall. Her fiance stepped to the microphone, called her a fraud who could not do her own work, and ended their engagement on air as an act of public conscience. The clip went national. The woman who could not keep the lights on. It cost her the commission, ...

You can burn a new brand over an old one. You can run a fresh iron across a steer's hide and register the new mark at the county and swear on paper it was always yours. But the scar tissue underneath never lies. Run your thumb across it and you feel the ridge of the old iron the new burn tried to bury. I read brands for a living. I know a stolen mark when I feel one. And my sister stole everything I had, and re-branded all of it, and never once thought the one person alive who could read t...

Harper Larkstone spent the night with a stranger who watched her strike an old neon tube to life like it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, and by dawn he was gone and she did not even have his last name. She told herself it was one perfect night in the Mojave and nothing more. Six weeks later, standing over a burner in her failing sign shop with a copper taste on her tongue and a test in her hand, she understood exactly how much more it was going to be.Harper restores ...

At dawn on the Kettering road, Sabine Warrthorpe saw her husband's truck parked outside room seven of the Cottonwood Motel, and then she saw his business partner step out into the cold in his coat. She did not go in. She drove home, packed a bag and her four-year-old daughter, and left the mill her father had left her, and the man nineteen years older than her who had promised to keep it running and keep her safe.Sabine grinds heritage wheat on water-driven stone the way three gene...

The fog comes in off the water the morning the foreclosure notice lands on Blythe Prycestead's bench, and the first person through the door of her net loft is the one man who has no right to stand there. Kellan Rookhaven left her three years ago. He is an Under Wolves patch, he is the reason her daughter has grown up without a father in the house, and he says he has come to fight for the loft her mother left her. Blythe has spent her life mending nets, hooking two fingers into the web and ...

The one-night stand who claimed my v-card is now my new boss…An automatic red flag that I chose to ignore.Because this hot alpha billionaire wants me as bad as I want him.So I agree to this twisted proposal of a no strings attached physical situationship.I wanted to stay focused on my career since I had just graduated college, butHe gives me all the things I never knew I wanted and needed.His passion for me m...

Annika Stanridge can put a number on anything. She grades grain for a living, one bite of a kernel and she knows what is sound and what is hollow all the way through, and she has never met a man she could not read the same way. Then she takes over the failing country elevator in Yarrow Flats and walks straight into five of them. The Inferno Demon Riders wear their patches like a dare, they blame her family for a brother who died in an ambush two years gone, and they mean to run her out of ...

The warp is the vow. It is strung tight the whole width of the loom, holding everything under one steady tension, and it is not any one day's cloth. It is the thing you true again every morning of your life so the days have something to run through. Nina Zelwick has woven that truth into a hundred coverlets on her grandmother's old barn loom, up a fog-drowned Appalachian holler, and she never once thought she would live to watch her own marriage fray thread by thread until the whole cloth ...

There are many humans who treat their dogs as members of their own family. Others, including dog trainers, think dogs are not people and treat them like animals. For some, dogs are not welcome inside the house and should live outdoors. Whether it is cold or raining, the animal has to deal with it, curled up, shivering, left alone in a flooded doghouse without protection against the wind and inclement weather. What is right or wrong?This book was written to share all the wonderful t...

The contract was read aloud while Freya kept her hands in the waxed thread, and by the last line of it she was married to a man she had met twice. Freya Grimaldi builds harness and saddles the way her father did, one locked stitch at a time, a seam that holds even when a single thread is cut. She agreed to the arrangement with Hugo Fontenot for reasons that made sense on paper and none that warmed a house, and she meant to make an honest life of it anyway. Then she found the lease, the tra...

Ripley Marsh knew what she wanted to do for a career from the moment she graduated college; she wanted a career with her family's thoroughbred racing stable in Upstate New York. Although her heart lies with the racing industry, not everyone in her family supports the risky move. Out to show her family that she can be successful, Ripley takes on a talented thoroughbred in hopes of getting him into the winner's circle.As if the family drama isn't enough, Ripley is torn between two com...