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Twelve-year-old cousins Sophie and Jessica don't have much in common. Sophie loves hiking and her small town. Jessica would rather be shopping in a city. The only mystery is how they'll be able to spend the summer together. Then . . . they find a briefcase in the forest with a surprise inside. When they hear footsteps behind them and bad guys run after them, they have no choice but to work together to solve the mystery of The Feather Chase.

Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges - from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader. This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You'll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events.

When twelve-year-old cousins Sophie and Jessica take a class at a chocolate factory, they don’t expect to see bad guys in such a sweet place. Strange happenings make them wonder if they’ve uncovered another mystery, and they’re soon in danger. Can they find The Chocolate Spy in time?

Father Shannon Kearns is familiar with liminal spaces. He’s lived in them his whole life. And while his experience as a transgender man has often made it difficult for him to fit in—especially in the context of Christianity—it has also shaped his perspective in important ways on complicated, gender-transgressing aspects of theology and Scripture.

Vengeance was his mission—until she became his reason to live. Caspian was bred for war. Raised by the Aryan Political Movement and forged into a lethal weapon, he has only one goal now—destroy the Institute that turned him and his brothers into killers. Now that his brothers are both free and safe, he’ll do anything to keep them that way. The only option is to destroy the whole group and remove the threat completely. Nothing will stand in his way. Until her. Yasmine is a flower fairy on a rescue mission—and she’s not leaving without saving her brother. Determined, persistent, and...

Unwrapping a puzzling package and finding a clue launches twelve-year-old cousins Sophie and Jessica into the dangers of The Treasure Key. They're soon racing against time—and bad guys— to find long-lost treasure. Will they be the first to discover its hiding place?

Their reunion is inevitable — like the tides, the sunset and maybe like a Christmas miracle. Logan has spent years running — from his past, his memories, and the people who would kill him if they ever caught up. He drifts from town to town, drowning his regrets in quiet taverns, never staying long enough to remember who he was before everything went wrong. Until one winter night, in a small-town bar, he meets Sherry. She feels impossible to ignore. A stranger… and something heartbreakingly familiar. A beginning… and a loss he can’t quite name. As Christmas morning approaches, ...

Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support provides a clinical guide to relational sex therapy with individuals, partnerships, polyships, and alternative family structures where one or more of the clients are erotically marginalized. The book bridges gaps between the past, present, and future in the field of sex therapy and greatly expands the diversity of experiences and identities within the field, particularly the experience of multiple oppressions.

A flower fairy, a broken shifter and a love that bloomed in a cage. Bane met her by accident but from that moment onward, she became the center of his world. All the strength in his tiny body meant nothing if it couldn’t protect her from her abusive captors. Amira had given up on ever seeing freedom except in her imagination. Day by day she pictures vivid settings without bars, needles or violence. Her wolf spirit was crushed a piece at a time beneath the heels of their cruel experiments. And then she saw him and hope bloomed in her heart once more. But if they could not escape together, ...

Protecting what is most precious... one drop at a time. Dillon gives his undead life purpose by putting it on the line while hunting any vampires who kill the innocent humans of his city. The newest blood-thirsty resident in Pittsburgh, Mistress Serena, destroys the peace of the city one murder at a time. To complicate matters, one of her blood slaves is a striking young human male who triggers all his dangerously repressed hungers. Jason expects Serena to kill him, and after years of suffering, he is ready to surrender that final blood drop. But at the last moment he is suddenly given away...

A bargain that can save a soul and change a destiny. Chance I’m a fire demon of Abaddon, and honestly, my life is good. I’ve been blessed with good looks, a rewarding job and plenty of ways to satisfy my various hungers. Leading the Last Chance demons in our efforts to reform human souls keeps me busy and entertained. I just never expected my job to offer me anything like perfect lust or eternal love. The day I targeted Josh on a snowy mountain, I knew everything was going to change. He awoke a hunger in me that only he could satisfy. But how could I get him to overcome his fear and ...

The essential introduction or reconnection to the Bible for queer readers from the co-founders of QueerTheology.com. “As we dove back into the story of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, trying to look at it with fresh eyes, I realized I had visited the Garden of Eden before. It was as if, like Saul...

Death is nothing at all. Grief is very real. My husband had a stage 4 cancer diagnosis at 52 and died at 61 years. We had years to plan and explore our plan to write this book together, if possible after he died. I was a grief counselor for Hospice across his whole disease process. The After Death Communication stories of my clients gave us hope that not only would death not truly separate us, but could begin a different form of a continuing relationship. He agreed to provide proof for me that his consciousness survived after his body died. He did just that. This book is our story.

When I walked out of his office after the hottest sex of my life, I thought I'd left Max Douglas behind me forever - along with my favorite argyle socks and my self-respect. The last thing I need is the too-serious, too-sexy former Marine living across the hall from me while he acts as a bodyguard for one of my students. Especially since he fired me from my job tutoring his brother... after we hooked up. I shouldn't want him. I should despise him after the way he treated me. But he's exactly my type: older, experienced, in control...and it's obvious the lust is still mutual.

Where past sins meet unwavering grace. Kelly uses her psychic gifts to find lost children and save broken families. She’s strong and willing to fight in order to protect the weak and defenseless. She’s had to fight to save her own child and is happy to put her life on the line to help others in the same danger. finding a too-sexy, brainwashed, werewolf assassin bleeding in her backseat might prove more than this curvy, psychic, single supermom can handle. How much will she risk saving a lost broken man? Saxxon knew nothing of kindness or freedom. Captured with his entire werewolf clan ...

A Collection of the Amethyst Series.

Athair… After hiding from humanity for over a century, the Eagle Clan of Valàfrn werewolves must search for mates or face certain extinction. Athair has put aside his own needs to raise the clan’s orphaned children, but now he faces the hardest part of parenting—letting go. When it seems as if their destruction is inevitable, he’s forced to consider putting his trust in humanity once more. Hope… After a traumatic injury as a teenager, Hope struggles every day against her fears, fighting to maintain her own small safe world. But one night she’s suddenly attacked by what she can ...

Should they dream of love when it might tear apart their family? Deven Ochoa To Deven, Division Eight is more than a job. It’s his family, his life and his sense of justice. He’d willingly follow his boss into the pits of hell. That’s just the kind of tight they are. But when did there need to be more than the two of them? Despite his objections, Quinn hires a sexy young tech wiz who seems more magical than the Wi-Fi. And maybe more dangerous than their latest vampire hunt. Tessa DeAngelo She wasn’t looking for a job when she landed within the enigmatic agency. But Quinn offered her...

In the shadow of death, they found a reason to live. After years of torment at the hands of the Institute, Dain escapes captivity by surrendering to his primal side, taking refuge in his wolf form and vanishing into the wilds of western Virginia. Stripped of everything human, he expects nothing but solitude—until he crosses paths with Isabel Russell. She awakens his desire to fight back. Izzy is no stranger to pain. Facing the final stages of cancer, she’s left behind sterile hospital rooms in search of peace, hoping to spend her remaining days surrounded by nature. What she doesn’t ...

She'd do anything to protect her son, even walk right back into Hell. When her son turns to her in desperation, Sadrina knows there is only one place to find the answers he needs. Niflheim, also known as Hell, a place she'd once called home, and also where she'd spent nearly an eternity imprisoned. Regardless of the risk, she chooses to sacrifice her freedom and barter her body to the lord of hell, returning to the arms of the one demon she’s always loved and the place she fears the most. Pahele has no intention of sacrificing his lover again. Instead of being a prisoner or a slave, he ...