Law Number 1: Never Fall For Your Boss! Too late, since Charlotte Evans has been secretly head over heels for Jake Hamilton ever since she started working at his family's renowned Philadelphia law firm. She's too smart to expect the die–hard bachelor to suddenly turn into Mr. Right, until he starts putting the moves – on her! Jake's prowess is legendary – in and out of the courtroom. He's never met a woman he couldn't seduce, except Charlotte Evans. Jake's lovely assistant may be the only ...

Many children and teenagers refuse to attend school or have anxiety-related difficulties remaining in classes for an entire day. School refusal behavior can contribute to a child's academic, social, and psychological problems, impact a child's chances for future educational, financial, and personal success, and significantly affect family functioning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been shown to be a highly effective treatment for youth who exhibit this behavior. The third edition ...

The collapse of communism, the rise of identity politics, and struggles over global governance have combined to create new challenges for the Left: How to do justice to legitimate claims for multiculturalism and democratization without abandoning the Left's historic-and still indispensable-commitment to economic equality? How to broaden the understanding of injustice by adding cultural and political insult to economic injury?Adding Insult to Injury tracks the debate sparke...

The Cirque de Charnu has come.They will clean out the demons and the suicides and move on. As long as they stay within the rules, Jill Kismet can't deny them entry. But she can watch—and if they step out of line, she'll send them packing.When Cirque performers start dying grotesquely, Kismet has to find out why, or the fragile truce won't hold and her entire city will become a carnival of horror. She also has to play the resident hellbreed power against the Cirque to keep t...

A senator in a grueling race for the presidency. The prickly journalist covering his campaign. A forbidden—but undeniable—passion that could ruin both their careers…Meet Senator Jonathan Warner, a billionaire politician amid his party’s grueling primary season. His lifelong dream? To win the presidency and improve the lives of the American people. The last thing on his mind as he travels the country meeting voters? Romance.Until beautiful and prickly journa...

Sexy but cynical Sean doesn't believe in love. But he hasn't met Amber yet...As a die-hard romantic cynic, chef Sean Baldwin no longer believes in love and ridicules friends who settle down and get married. The idea of a dream woman strikes him as complete nonsense. Until he glimpses Amber Garvey through a crowd in small-town Journey’s End and experiences an unprecedented lightning bolt moment.Given her disastrous history with romance, Amber plans to avoid ...

She wants a husband and kids. A billionaire international player? Absolutely not…Samira Palmer isn’t dating anymore. Not after last time. And especially not bad boys. Her career is the only relationship she wants to be in these days, and they’re damn good together. Even if she can’t bring her job to the costume ball as a date. She didn’t expect fate to literally run into her in the form of a handsome, green-eyed Frenchman.Jean-Baptiste is not just handsome-...

History without the stiffness and polish time creates.Canada’s journey to Confederation kicked off with a bang — or rather, a circus, a civil war (the American one), a small fortune’s worth of champagne, and a lot of making love — in the old-fashioned sense. Miss Confederation offers a rare look back, through a woman’s eyes, at the men and events at the centre of this pivotal time in Canada’s history.Mercy Anne Coles, the daughter of PEI delegate G...

President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six.Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmati...

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins.Table of ContentsLight Winds With a Chance of Velociraptors – Michelle Ann KingTrucks in Reverse – Christopher CervelloniThe Illuminator Leaves – Molly EttaOne Divided by Eternity – Filip WiltgrenThe Abjection Engine – Y. X. Acs...

Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other. The two approaches offer very different accounts of the functioning and legitimacy of democratic institutions. Although both highlight the importance of democratic consent, their accounts of such consent could hardly be more different. Constitutional economics models individual...

Star football player Jace Rovers has a secret. And not just any secret—a shocking secret . . . He writes romance. The kind with swords. And dresses. And kissing.Nobody knows. Not the other kids at Twin River High. Not his overbearing parents. And certainly not the millions of fans who've read his book on the writing platform Scribbles. And that's the way he plans to keep it.Except suddenly one of the other football players grabs his notebook in jest and starts reading a kis...