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How to Start a Cleaning Business is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand guide to starting and running a successful domestic cleaning agency, based on the author's own experience. Compared with other business start-ups, a cleaning agency offers many advantages. Professional cleaning business has the tendency of lower up-front costs than other businesses, and this is one of the few businesses you can begin working on immediately with little capital investment and start making profit.

Join Mercy, Rafael, and Bowen on another adventure as Rafael tries to keep Mercy in line and Bowen tries to keep his secrets hidden. 

Alma Stone, an American representative of the United Nations, travels abroad to help with efforts to improve the budding new infrastructure of Kuwait City. It’s there she meets Hamza Hassan, a kind, humble man seeking to help make the world a better place. They meet each other from entirely different walks of life, but they find in one another a similar perspective to their own. It’s in this perspective they discover a sense of belonging neither knew they needed yet both realize they can’t live without.

Mages. Sirens. Demons. Dragons. Gryphons. A Federal Paranormal Unit. Attackers of magic. The Mercy Temple Chronicles will hook you! Mercy Temple lives in a world where paranormals are a thing. Humans know of their existence, but the two species don’t interact. Or so it is thought. She’s a bounty hunter. She’s good at what she does.

Mercy Temple lives in a world where paranormals are a thing. Humans know of their existence, but the two species don’t interact. Or so it is thought. She’s a bounty hunter. She’s good at what she does. There’s been a killing in Sector 18. Not just any old sector. The werewolf sector. Not just any old killing. An alpha. And as for the timing? A few short days before the full moon, when all the werewolves will be shifting and wreaking havoc. 

Mercy Temple lives in a world where paranormals are a thing. Humans know of their existence, but the two species don’t interact. Or so it is thought. She’s a bounty hunter. She’s good at what she does. There’s a growing darkness within Mercy. Dark voices fill her mind. Just when Rafael is starting to open up, she shuts down. She’s lying to those who care about while she single-mindedly pursues tracking down the mage that zursed her. Rafael’s plagued by nightmares and a past he can’t escape. He needs help of the magic kind.

Mercy Temple lives in a world where paranormals are a thing. Humans know of their existence, but the two species don’t interact. Or so it is thought. She works for a bounty hunter, doing any job he needs done. From killing someone, to finding someone, to bringing them in. She has a love/hate relationship with the bounty hunter. He knows her secret, and that’s how he keeps her working for him. But still, he pays her well.

Mercy Temple lives in a world where paranormals are a thing. Humans know of their existence, but the two species don’t interact. Or so it is thought. She’s a bounty hunter. She’s good at what she does. There’s a major disturbance in Sector 21. Attacks. Explosions. And...gargoyles. How can that be? Gargoyle are long extinct. Or are they? 

Mercy and her accomplices are knee deep in enemies, and many of those are hybrids. Until a new enemy arises, the nefaries, beings made of shadow, untouchable by the typical weapons. Rafael’s former home in Sector 2 is no longer an abandoned area. There’s been talk of a resurgence in the population in Sector 2. Except it’s not the kind of population that makes Rafael - or anyone - happy. 

Mercy’s in a bind. Her best friend, witch Gigi is lost in the dark coven sector. Damien, Rufus, Bowen are all out of reach. The only one she can turn to is Rafael. The one who held a gun to her head the last time she saw him. Heartbreak has to take a back seat to finding Gigi. Rafael needs to get over her secret and help her on this mission. Demon Rafael’s had more than enough of Mercy’s lies. But when it comes down to it, he can’t let her go into that godforsaken sector to find Gigi alone. Problem is, can he get over Mercy’s betrayal long enough to work with her?

There are whispers the Savannah coast is home to the deadly pirate, Alligator George, but Christine Fryer needs a peaceful escape from her father's disapproving stare. Captain Nathaniel Butler knows it's time to put his smuggling operation to rest now that the American Revolution is over. He needs to make one last expedition to pay off his remaining debt, but his plans are threatened by the meddlesome sister of his best friend. As Savannah society throws a privileged young woman and a desperate man together, the marsh will reveal their secrets and their hearts.

Mysterious necromancers. Wicked summoners. Fierce witches. Occasional familiars. Military experiments. Secret councils. Forbidden alliances. The Academy of Ancients will suck you in. Briar’s free. Or is she? With the necromancers and the undead still loose, the masters that control these heinous creatures might as well be.

Of most interest to Bennet was Mr. Darcy of Pemberley. When Fitzwilliam Darcy attends the Meryton assembly, he befriends a quiet, intelligent gentleman. In frequent visits to his friend’s home, he becomes acquainted with the Bennet family of Longbourn. Yet Mr. Darcy is distracted by a strange feeling of having met some of them before. 

Julia Scott flees an arranged marriage and a cruel stepmother to live with her uncle in the West Indies. Attacked by pirates and desired by island natives, the only person she can trust is John Smith, if that's his true name. Reaching her uncle's station in Antigua, Julia must face her feelings about her traitorous family, a dashing new suitor, and the guardian angel John Smith, who has no qualms sporting counterfeit names and less than what is proper attire.

Bertha decides running a brothel is no longer for her and wants to start a new life. Unfortunately, not everything goes according to plan. During one night in the forest, while she's trying to help a werewolf in need, something happens and she loses her magic. She only realizes her power is gone when she arrives in Southern Kingdom to visit her dear friends, Queen Catherine and Princess Lucy. 

Briar Shroud has gone from foster child to full scholarship at the Academy of Ancients. Cool, right? Not quite. Her upperclassman mentor Zachary sucks. He's hot, but he sucks at being a mentor. And a friend. And a person. Her roommate's a paranormal, and the whole school is underground and a secret. Know what else is bad? Briar learns she's a witch. And a rare type of witch, to boot.

Meet Catherine of the Southern Kingdom - a foul-mouthed, unladylike Princess who never anticipated three dhampir Princes aiding in her quest to save her sister’s life. Catherine is next in line to become Queen of the Southern Kingdom; she’s a fighter not a leader. She’d much rather slay dragons alongside the royal guard than wear a crown. During an outing in the forest, her sister Lucy is kidnapped by the Drakin Clan - cruel dragon shifters who’ve been terrorising surrounding kingdoms for decades.

It has been two years since the Battle of Terminus, and the Empire is losing in the Universal War that resulted from it. In the wake of the chaos and confusion they created, the Empire seized key planets across the Light Realm Universe, but are rapidly losing territory to the ever-growing Alliance forces. Seeing the Empire weakened and with no other options, the Emperor decides to turn his eyes to gathering valuable resources - starting with the planet neutral Sohrann.

Will you be fast enough? A 15-year-old girl with a gift for violence and nothing left to lose, Constanter is running. To escape the farm she grew up on in a remote part of the Western Lorian empire. To forget the family and the life she can never return to. She runs east, toward the distant war she knows only from the tales of travelers - a 20-year long conflict, opposing the Western and Eastern halves of the empire.

When her parents were murdered 11 years ago, leaving her physically scarred during the event, dragon shifter Astri never learned the identity of their killer. That is, until he appears to her in a nightmare. The powerful Duke Jorgen not only rules the city of Rivenna where she lives, he is also responsible for her parents’ death and for the disability she’s had to bear most of her life. When the chance arises for her to compete to become Duke’s assistant, she realizes this is her opportunity for revenge.