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In Book III of the trilogy, Tamras must make her own hero’s journey. She ventures into the unknown and encounters a more formidable enemy than any she has ever faced. Character is destiny, and the destiny of Tamras and all her people will depend upon choices that come less from the skills she has been taught than from the person she has become—from her own heart.

A dog named Slipper almost ruined my life. The uncatchable stray snuck on the patio where I was waitressing and knocked me straight into Lee Powell's lap. My fist slammed into his junk. Then I accidentally flipped his breakfast platter onto his pants. I thought it couldn't get any worse, but when I bring my brother to baseball practice, I discover his new coach is none other than Lee, owner and founder of Powell Dog Sanctuary, and he's not happy to see me.

Featuring New York Times bestselling author Victorine E. Lieske. Readers will love this collection of six novellas - three contemporary and three historical - all with one thing in common: Romance.

"All the women of my family had gone to war... Now my turn had come... So, it is the custom that a free woman leave her mother's house to bind herself and those of her blood to a neighboring clan, either by the sword or by the cradle." So begins the story of young Tamras, as she embarks on her journey to become a warrior's apprentice. This epic story is not about battles and armor, but rather about relationships, coming of age and wisdom, and deep insights into the human experience.

Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost 15 years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect.

Not all who wander are lost! Digital Nomads For Dummies answers all your questions about living and working away from home, short term or long term. Become a globetrotter or just trot around your home country, with the help of experienced digital nomad Kristin Wilson. 

Nina Spadaro, Ed.D., Tiffany Rush-Wilson, Ph.D., and Rives Thornton, M.S. bring counseling skills to life in this multi-media e-book. The inclusion of innovative video demonstrations, acted out by the authors, provides an invaluable supplement to the engaging, highly readable text and is a bonus for students who learn best by observing. This seamless integration makes the book a user-friendly tool for both the beginning counseling student and the experienced professional alike. The authors outline microskills - verbal and nonverbal techniques that are counseling building blocks. They also ...

In this memoir, Amanda walks us through her adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s), and traumatic adulthood to provide a clear picture that it is never too late regardless of the circumstances, if you have breath, there is hope!

In this book, we see Tamras’s world open from the House of Merin and its immediate environs into the lands beyond its borders. She meets other peoples, whose ways are different from those she knows.

She's hunting for the truth. He's hunting for a killer. Neither is safe. In 1943 wartime New Zealand, a body on the rocks near a US Marine Corps training camp sends a reporter and a US Marine Major Harry Wilhelm in search of a killer. Dive into a fast-paced blend of mystery, history, and romance in this first book of an engrossing trilogy that takes place in a unique South Pacific setting. Reporter Kate Hardy is sent to Camp Russell, the largest of the US Marine Corps training camps, to see what’s going on. The Marines have been training for an invasion, with landing boats coming ashore ...

Ten years ago I left my marriage and the love of my life. On paper my husband checked the boxes. 1. Devastatingly handsome. 2. Wild and carefree. 3. And a skilled lover . . . if you know what I mean. But Corjan Powell was a bad husband. We were too young to be saddled with a lifetime of resentment and regret. After a year of confrontations and no change, I didn't even give him the chance to refuse divorce papers. One disastrous fight too far, I wrote him a note and I left. "But Bree, what happened over those ten years?" you ask. Resentment. And regrets. 

Teagan knows what she wants, and how she's going to get it. She's in her last year of law school and appearances are important to her family. But when her parent-approved boyfriend isn't cutting it between the sheets or beyond, she decides to leave him behind—right at the start of summer season...and it sucks being single when there are weddings and black-tie events lined up. Teagan's a fiercely independent woman who knows she doesn't need a man...but people ask so many questions. Enter, Heath.

In late 19th-century New Zealand, Sergeant Frank Hardy, ex-British soldier, battles for survival and for his own life as he carves out a new existence for himself and his family in the prehistoric but stunningly beautiful bush. An atmospheric and engaging series.This audiobook includes three captivating historical mysteries from New Zealand. The audiobook includes: Not the Faintest Trace, Recalled to Life, and A Dark and Painful Mystery.

When Sergeant Frank Hardy's father, James Hardy, arrives from England, he's accompanied by a woman he met on the voyage. In forced quarantine on Somes Island in Wellington Harbor, Frank is visited by a man claiming to be a detective from the Chinatown Squad in San Francisco, who warns Frank that his father is in deep trouble. The woman has enemies, and they are on the way to New Zealand to find her and kill her. If James Hardy gets in their way, he's a dead man.

After Sergeant Frank Hardy watches the invasion of a peaceful Māori village by the Armed Constabulary, with crops destroyed and innocent men imprisoned, he lays down his rifle and swears never to shoot in anger again. Then he learns that a contract killer has come from America to avenge the death of a crooked detective from San Francisco. The killer is targeting the Hardy family. Can Frank save his wife and children without relying on his weapons?

Twenty-six authors to agreed to write stories based on the Tarot... with the Tarot cards determining which story subject the authors would write. We took a tarot deck and the list of the twenty-six authors: read the author’s name, shuffled the deck, and drew a card. That tarot card and its traits were all the authors had to go on. The card was removed, the deck was reshuffled, and the next name was read off. Never Fear - The Tarot, contains twenty-six stories based on the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana and the four cards of the Minor Arcana. Award-...

Sergeant Frank Hardy is an ex-soldier from Her Majesty's 57th Regiment who is scraping out a living in a small New Zealand settlement by driving a coach and playing rigged card games. But he's haunted by nightmares of things he's seen and done in wartime. When he's asked to find two missing Scandinavian settlers, he refuses - until he catches a glimpse of the cousin of one of the missing men.

A photograph taken in the middle of a battle and a letter handed to Harry Wilhelm by a dying Marine complicate the lives of Kate and Harry as their story continues and their romance reaches new heights. In late 1943, Harry Wilhelm is sent from New Zealand to fight with the US Marine Corps during the attack on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. When a war photographer snaps a photograph of him bringing in a body from the surf, his image is seen around the world, with unintended consequences. Back in New Zealand, Kate Hardy is spooked by a sighting of an old enemy. She flees back to her ...

What happens when an eccentric, germophobic actress with an excessive need for cleanliness meets her messy match? A very untraditional Opposites-Attract sapphic romance that not even Hollywood—or Shakespeare—could script. Cordelia Wainwright is a superbly capable actress but a supremely incapable adult, who is plagued by decisions from her past that prevent her from accepting both love and her sexuality.

Throughout fiction, there have always been heroes who have fallen from grace. Champions of honor, decency, and order who have become villains through some traumatic event or a deep personal flaw. Blackest Knights is a collection of 19 tales by some of independent fantasy's best authors that follow a collection of those heroes who fell to temptation. From tales of bloody-handed hypocrites to space pirates, you'll find some truly fascinating works within.