One night destroyed everything I loved—my family, my peace, my future.Now baseball is the only thing keeping me together. It’s the one dream I refuse to lose, even if stepping onto the field means battling panic attacks, whispers from my past, and a teammate determined to see me fail.Then Kade Maxwell crashes into my world. Literally.One collision in the school parking lot. One heated moment in a janitor’s closet where his copper eyes lock on mine and the air crackl...

I thought the trail had gone cold. My baby sister vanished without a trace, and I’ve been chasing shadows ever since. But a call from the morgue drags me into a case I can’t walk away from… and into the path of a woman I’ve never been able to forget.Maggie Marx.She was my rival in the streets and my weakness in secret. The wrong girl from the wrong side. Off limits. Untouchable. And exactly what I wanted.She’s still got the grit, the bite, and the curves that make a...

The Nantucket Haunted Hike Presents: Haunted Nantucket Island is the culmination of two years of interviews and research as made by author WB Alexander in the field of Nantucket ghost stories. All twenty two you will find in this book are true and told by those who witnessed the occurrances.

He Bears the Cape of Stars is one of our two paired masquerade-themed anthologies. It features 17 stories exploring wlw relationships developing, growing, and changing while the characters attend or participate in masquerades!Our contributors stretched their imaginations to present innovative stories exploring what a masquerade can be…and, of course, tell rich, engaging tales of wonderful queer folk finding love, companionship, acceptance, the queer platonic relationship of their d...

"One last job." You've heard it a million times. It sounded so simple to Nico Harper and his friends. Get in, grab the stuff, and get out. Maybe make some memories along the way. After all, when you're surrounded by the people you trust, and you've got an ironclad plan that could never fail, nothing can go wrong. Right? What happens when something you could've never planned for throws a wrench into your operation?What happens when everything you once knew turns out to be a machinat...

Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599).The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness with the canonical Spenser, and a sense that attention especially to Spenser’s musical qualities, and the distinctiveness of his poetic style compared with that of his contemporaries, could displa...

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including details of physical description, diet, introduction and invasion pathways, breeding behaviour, natural habitat. It also looks at the environmental impact of each species, as well as current and future...

B. Alexander offers this coming-of-age novel for several young people. These young people have a special bond from their participation in scouting. Scouting sets these teens on the right track and offers some incredible experiences, including hiking and camping. It provides leadership opportunities to other members of the troop, and they appear to be set to tackle lifes challenges. Unfortunately, as the teens grow to be young adults, the negative influences of their environments prove to b...

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of treason on the day of his marriage. He is directly imprisoned in the fortress of If without any investigations being conducted. Edmond does not give up and he is determined to find his way out. The endpoint is the Isle of Monte Cristo which hides a great fortune. Will Dantes free himself from the imprisonment? Will he find his way back to his fiancée? Will he prove his innocence or will he die trying?Find out the answers in one of the most famous...

"A piece of perfect storytelling." (Robert Louis Stevenson)Trust. Betrayal. Revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo is the quintessential masterpiece of Alexandre Dumas. In Edmond Dantes we find an early materialization of the modern superhero. He is a dashing young sailor imprisoned unjustly for treason. While in prison he meets a holy man who imparts to him all his wisdom of languages, philosophy, science, and literature. The "abbe" also divulges the profound secret of a hidd...

The Hague, 1672: A prize of 100,000 florins is offered to the person who can produce a perfectly black tulip – a feat considered impossible. But at the very moment when Cornelius van Bearle is on the brink of achieving the impossible feat, he is imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. The story of his delicate tulip’s tumultuous journey to The Hague is absolutely riveting, and an event you don’t want to miss.

Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, aut...