In the gray, quiet city of Bellhaven, grief is a business—and Hattie Moss is the best at it.For eleven years, Hattie has been the steady hand in the chapel, the architect of the final hour, carefully shaping the mourning of others so they might survive it. And for those same eleven years, Constant has been standing at the edge of the room. He is a seven-foot-tall, mended man of fired clay and ancient history, a silent fixture at the back of four hundred funerals.Wh...

Introducing Chills, the first installment of the Distinguished Rogues series. Bestselling regency romance author, Heather Boyd, brings readers a lively tale of reckless spending, fraudulent correspondence, and the humorous twists and turns of falling for the right rogue…London, 1813Jack, Marquess of Ettington, is at his wits’ end dealing with his twin sister’s distress. Under her name, he’s summoned Constance Grange, his vexing former ward, to Lond...

Coming face-to-face with the scoundrel who broke her heart on the eve of her wedding to another man could not be more awkward or ill-timed for Lady Sally Ford. When she accepted London’s most eligible earl, she hoped her heart had healed enough to learn to love him after they tied the knot. Her betrothed has no idea she was once engaged to an ambitious sea captain who betrayed her, and Sally has never forgotten or forgiven Captain Hastings for leaving her behind as he made his fortune at s...

Every great family has a few secrets. The wild Randalls of Hampshire excel at them.A lady should be the image of elegance and calm, but those words have never applied to Mercy, Duchess of Romsey. A widow and mother, Mercy is lonely and floundering to keep the estate afloat. When she discovers the existence of Leopold Randall, her husband’s estranged cousin, Mercy immediately offers to help him locate his missing siblings if he helps her return the estate to order.L...

Video Game Law is aimed at game developers and industry professionals who want to better understand the game industry or are in need of expert legal guidance. Given the rise in international competition, the increasing complexity of video game features, and the explosive growth of the industry in general, game developers can quickly find themselves in serious trouble, becoming vulnerable to copyright infringement claims, large-scale piracy, and even cybersecurity breaches. Not eve...

For one wicked night…Benedict Abernathy, an untitled but wealthy gentleman visiting London, is heartily sick of his celibate existence. Determined to leave his shattered heart behind and move on with his life, he accepts an invitation for a night of debauchery in the arms of London’s infamous courtesan, Lottie Townsend.…she will indulge his every desire.Lady Charlotte Goodchild has fallen far from privilege and longs for one night of pleasure with ...

Widowed Nicolas Westfall, the Duke of Stapleton, cannot prevent the upcoming debut for his youngest daughter no matter how much he wishes her eventual marriage wouldn’t leave him all alone. Convinced to host a Christmas Ball to prepare her for the season, he’s aware he’s considered a catch on the marriage mart too, but Nicolas is drawn to companion Gillian Thorpe instead.Gillian was hired to prepare the duke’s daughter for her first season, but its not easy when the girl hasn’t the...

The new stylish mystery from acclaimed bestseller William Boyd takes you deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken and every step could be fatal.‘Boyd does shadowy worlds and moral complexity better than anyone’ OBSERVER'For page-turning glamour, you can bank on a William Boyd novel to hit the spot' GUARDIAN'Extravagantly enjoyable' THE TIMES‘Storytelling gen...

Endarkened Narrative Inquiry reimagines inquiry as a relational, embodied, and ethical practice. Drawing together theory, lived experience, and guided reflection, it challenges detached models of research and invites more accountable, responsive ways of listening, interpreting, writing, and representing knowledge.Conceptual grounding is paired with reflective prompts that ask readers to examine positionality, responsibility, and representation in knowledge production. Refl...

In the rainy city of Bellhaven, pastry chef Vivi Trân has spent nine years perfecting her craft, her life measured in flour, oven-baked scars, and a series of polite "yeses" that keep her moving from one job to the next. But when a mysterious matchmaker's card appears, Vivi finds herself at a gate she's passed a thousand times, stepping into a secret garden that defies the laws of nature, and into the life of Lucky, a Fae bound by ancient, restrictive magic.Forced into a thirty-day...

What do you see?Pattern: The Restorative Power of God's Embedded Word is a journey through Scripture, lived experience, faith, family, athletics, failure, and choice-built around the discovery that wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and truth are not isolated ideas. They move in relationship.Beginning with a simple recurring structure-START - PRESENT - END - START-Victor R. Boyd, II traces how that pattern develops into:

A new standalone seriously (steamy) romantic comedy! Meet Trystan Montgomery. Suit monkey, commitment-phobic serial dater. No more than three dates, unless he hasn't ... you know.Emmy:What a disaster! I only just made my flight to New York to help my uncle, and the phone I’m holding is not mine! It seems to belong to some commitment-phobic serial dater who’s never made it past four dates (according to the constant notifications he's getting ...