Obsession is the deadliest viceCarrera.A word whispered in fear.A name to avoid at all costs.Until I come face-to-face with it.Abducted.Held against my will.Prisoner of a war I know nothing about.Captive to a ruthless cartel prince who wants more than my freedom...He wants me.I should hate him…But the deeper Valentin drags me into his bloodstained world the harder it becomes to resist.Until that...

A fundamental assumption of court administration since its creation as a profession has been the inevitability of growth. There will always be more cases. This will require ever larger courthouses, more judges, more staff, newer technology, and larger budgets. But what does recent history tell us about civil filings?What Is Happening to State Trial Court Civil Filings?: The Unsolved Riddles reviews the experience of five states over the last 16-41 years. The findin...

Running Behavioral Experiments With Human Participants: A Practical Guide provides a concrete, practical roadmap for the implementation of experiments and controlled observation using human participants. Covering both conceptual and practical issues critical to implementing an experiment, the book is organized to follow the standard process in experiment-based research, covering such issues as potential ethical problems, risks to validity, experimental setup, running a stu...

Vengeance is NOT my middle name.It’s in my blood.It’s tattooed on my skin.It’s with me 24/7. The thing that drives me.It’s also what brings me to Rawley Heights. No one would willingly come here otherwise. But me? I don’t have a choice.Here, everyone fears the Heights Crew. They’re not just some small-town gang, they’re the real deal. Crime. Sex. Murder. Angry, self-obsessed dudes with bad attitudes.And they’re exactly who I ...

Now a top 20 Amazon best seller!My fiancé’s nephew knows every sin I’ve ever committed. He’s about to become the deepest and darkest of them all.My name is Rory Carter and I do bad things. There’s a charred soul under this angelic exterior and sometimes, I wonder if my weekly confessions to the Sinners Anonymous hotline will be enough to heal it.Marrying the 70-something head of the Cosa Nostra to save my father is the only good deed I’ve ever done. I’m burning and ...

Wolf Pack is the inspiration for the new original series on Paramount+ and is a winner of the prestigious Aurora Award and the Silver Birch Award.Nothing gets between a wolf and its pack…Most of the time, Noble, Argus, Harlan and Tora are like any other teenagers, prowling the halls of their high school in search of new crushes and true friendships, all while trying to keep up their grades. Except these teens are anything but ordinary…Disco...

I came to the Heights with a purpose.Join the Heights Crew. Move up the ranks. Make it implode from the inside out.But more than anything, make them suffer as much as I’ve suffered over the years because of them.I planned everything…or so I’d thought. I had a contingency plan for my contingency plan, but that was before I met them. The few members of the crew who’ve already irrevocably changed my life.I thought I knew what I wanted, and I st...

In the Heights, everyone fears the Heights Crew. I wish I had the luxury.I can’t afford to run away from them, I have to run to them. Why? Because now they’re my only chance at survival.Johnny, Brawler, Oscar, Magnum—I hope we can all come together to get out of this. It’s going to take a lot more than luck to free me from the wrongs I’ve been accused of. Like relying on the one person I’d rather put a bullet in than place my life at his feet.It’s done now, though. ...

I don’t belong in the Heights.Truth be told, no one does. It’s dirty, grimy. Riddled with crime, the destitute, and the desperate. Where the family unit doesn’t always mean a mom, a dad, and two-point-five kids. It’s whoever gives you the time of day.That’s how the Heights Crew came about. The only relationship that counts in the Heights is if you’re a part of the Crew. There, gang ties are thicker than blood. More important than money, safety, or any other promise we’re su...

This city tells a story of a man seeking vengeance....Renzo Marchesi gives me two choices when he walks into my art gallery: help him find his brother's killer or suffer the consequences.He's a mafia prince.... Heir to the Marchesi throne. A man consumed by his demons. Beautiful. Ruthless.I don't belong in his world, and he doesn't belong in mine.Still, I'm not the spoiled politician's daughter he thinks I am....This is the City of Thieves, where lie...

The bestselling and award-winning Steele Shadows series continues in this new Protector Romance spin-off series, packed with page-turning mystery, steamy angst, exotic locations, and four dangerously attractive mercenaries.She was supposed to be the mission.She became his undoing.When American schoolteacher Samantha Greene goes missing in Mexico, the US government calls on private military...

From best-selling author Xavier Neal comes an all-new, witty, forced-proximity romantic suspense stand-alone novel....The assignment is simple.Don't let the client die.Don't let her get kidnapped.Don't sleep with her.It's the last part that unexpectedly complicates things for me after I'm introduced to the most beautiful and brilliant woman I could've ever envisioned.And it only gets worse when we have to stash ourselves away in a small town ...