Miranda is beautiful, but deep within her is a fire that is not of the Earth. She knew she was different, but she could never have imagined her love, the huge warrior waiting far across the Galaxy. There are other forces at work, and Miranda unknowingly holds secrets of the Celestial Ancients. Her huge, muscle-bound warrior must possess her totally – just as she must possess him.

From ragpicker, to thief, to whore. For a girl brought up in the slums of New York’s Five Points, born to one of the immigrant families whose dreams of a new life ended right there, that was her most likely career path. Some, maybe, would find a husband, and perhaps he would neither spend their little money on drink nor beat her regularly; perhaps, but probably not. With no work, no prospects and no hope, few could avoid the depression that drove men to drink, crime and violence.Ma...

Stranded on a remote island and struggling to survive following her husband's attempt to get rid of her permanently, Anna begins to fall in love with Turner, the captain she hired to run her yacht. It seems they will be there forever with no hope of rescue, but the yacht, 'Juliette', may have ideas of its own.

Essie was a pilot, flying missions against insurgents in the desert. She was efficient and beautiful, and the object of desire of every young man. She never made mistakes. Never. Except… just once, on her last mission before leaving for a new job at NASA, and it was a fatal mistake.She kept the presence of mind to eject just in time, but then there was the insurgent with a rifle, a white flash, and then…She was certain she was dead. There was nothing but coldness and darknes...

Daphine lived on Earth, in an alternative dimension where women were expected to be totally subservient and docile. She always knew there was something wrong with her existence, but what was the alternative? To be exiled, to live among the hunters outside the safety of the cities, where life would hard and comfortless, and where, if she did not fit in to this society either, she might well end up as no more than bait to trap wild animals.And yet, Daphine was certain there had to be...

Healthcare Quality Management: A Case Study Approach is the first comprehensive case-based text combining essential quality management knowledge with real-world scenarios. With in-depth healthcare quality management case studies, tools, activities, and discussion questions, the text helps build the competencies needed to succeed in quality management.Written in an easy-to-read style, Part One of the textbook introduces students to the fundamentals of quality management, in...

"He shoots! He scores! The crowd goes wild," says Bryan, a four-year-old African American boy who dreams of someday playing professional basketball. Bryan is a huge basketball fan and enjoys mimicking the players from the teams. In this amusing yet heartwarming story, Bryan learns from his family that becoming a professional athlete takes a lot of determination but that it starts with education and discipline.

Spoiled rich bitch Tiffany Welborne always believed money and position would buy her out of any trouble. But after a night of debauchery and destruction on the tropical island state of Cascara, nothing could save her from a sentence in a privatised Correction House.Expecting preferential treatment, she is instead stripped of her clothes, her pride, and soon, her deepest inhibitions, as she learns to submit to new pains, new pleasures.For the House Director, the enigmatic Cy...

All Iris Jenson wants is a safe place to raise her autistic six-year-old son Thomas. She thinks she's found it on Haven, an Earther colony located within the Kalquorian Empire's borders. Making a fresh start under the watchful eyes of Earth's former enemy has its challenges, but it also possesses opportunities to live free of fear, something Iris hasn't had in a long time. Love is an added surprise when Haven's governor Dramok Ospar and his clanmates Nobek Jol and Imdiko Rivek enter the yo...

Cassandra Chamberlain always stood out. It was hard not to at 6’1” and 165 pounds with jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. And if that wasn’t enough, she was also brilliant, having graduated from Harvard at 15, taught at MIT at 19 and been nominated for the prestigious Magellan Award at 25. But she’d never really fit in. Not with her peers, not with her contemporaries, only with her family. But everything changed when Earth was attacked. Cassandra and her niece, Victoria, were the only ...

Imdiko Conyod's clanmates Dramok Erybet and Nobek Sletran are home from the war. However, he no longer knows these men. Changed by the horrors they've seen and done, they are very different people. How can he allow them to clan the traumatized Earther Rachel Hicks, whom he's come to love so deeply? And how can he not clan her when she's the only thing right in his life?Erybet and Sletran keep secret the truth of the terrible crime they committed on the Earther colony of New Bethleh...

This is a re-issue. No substantial changes from the original have been made.Dani Watson is a brothel worker on the planet Dantovon. Having escaped post-Armageddon Earth, she's resigned to spending several years in service to pay off her contract. Her one consolation is that she avoided being captured by the Kalquorians.When a Kalquorian clan buys her contract, Dani attempts escape. Crashing on a remote moon puts her life in jeopardy, leaving her and the clan of Gelan, Wynho...