In the sun-drenched, high-stakes world of Scottsdale AZ, secrets are the only thing more expensive than the real estate.Margaret Claire Russell, Maggie to her friends, has almost everything—a trust fund, a designer wardrobe, and a loyal boyfriend, J, who is constantly away on business more often than he's home. She travels to meet him for a passionate rendezvous, but they are far and few between. In the quiet heat of the Arizona desert, boredom is a dangerous thing.When her...

Fresh out of Kearney, Nebraska, twenty-four-year-old Mindy Williams is ready to take the corporate world by storm at her new investment firm assistant job in New York City. Stepping into the glittering fifty-story high-rise, she quickly realizes that the workplace culture is nothing like her quiet hometown. Guided by her fast-talking, adventurous new building friend, Jenn, Mindy learns that looking the part and networking are everything. When she attends the mandatory after-hours corporate...

Person perception is of great importance in everyday life and human science. Judgment of other people's characteristics and intentions is important for suc cessfully planning actions within a social environment. Questions about the formation of impressions and causal attributions are central to social psychology and the study of diagnostic judgment formation. The field of per son perception deals with questions of how impression formation proceeds, what characteristics and intentions are a...

Two young women, Jenny, recovering from a broken engagement, and Maya, fleeing professional disappointment, meet a sophisticated older man named Richard at a Florida Keys resort's beach bar. Drawn by his confidence and the promise of his yacht, the friends accept an invitation for a sunset meal that quickly transforms from casual drinks into something far more intimate. As champagne flows and inhibitions dissolve, the carefully constructed boundaries between the three begin to blur, with M...

The next set of stories that follow Margaret Claire Russel, Maggie to her friends, living in sun-drenched Scottsdale, Arizona, finds her continuing to navigate the highly complicated web of personal, professional, and romantic relationships that she's developed. The stories center on her intense connection with her traveling boyfriend, J, alongside secret, casual encounters with her close friend and workout partner, Cathy. Things become increasingly tangled when Maggie's former hookup, Vic...

Former rising college baseball star Ryan Jacobs thought his life was set until a devastating injury sidelined his career for good. Trading his bat for a suit, Ryan lands a job at a prestigious accounting firm and gets assigned to his very first big client: the Delta Tau Phi sorority house. Expecting a routine audit of books and spreadsheets, Ryan walks through the front door only to find himself surrounded by stunning, provocative women who are far more interested in negotiating "liquid as...

Trading the sunny beaches of Florida for the crisp, unforgiving slopes of Aspen, best friends Maya and Jenny are on a mission to redefine themselves after a tumultuous shared past. Seeking thrill and liberation in the thin mountain air, the two women strike a playful pact to pursue opposite desires for the night: Jenny seeks the reckless energy of youth in a no-strings-attached encounter, while Maya yearns for the commanding sophistication of an experienced, older man. Both get exactly wha...

In a city fueled by corporate ambition and a legendary "hook-up" culture, roommates Mindy, Jenn, and Cece navigate the fast-paced world of their high-end firms and vibrant nightlife. Their regular post-work gatherings at a favorite local hangout, Chloe's, frequently evolve into wild nights out, testing boundaries and shifting perspectives on romance and casual encounters. When a corporate meet-and-greet brings new faces into the mix, the trio finds themselves drawn into a web of temptation...

Twenty-something Ceyla "Cece" Sanchez is doing her best to navigate the fast-paced world of a bustling city, balancing her office job with a complicated personal life. Living in a cramped apartment with her boyfriend, Trey, and his roommates, she feels a quiet resignation as the spark in her one-year relationship fades into routine. But while Cece is contemplating whether she is settling for a life that doesn't truly fulfill her, her adventurous new friends and potential roommates Jenn and...

This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska’s pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how science and biological fieldwork has been carried out in Alaska in the last sixty years. This book tells the stories of how Klein did his science and the inspiration behind the research, while exposing the thinking that underlies particular scientifi...

Aims To some, the field of neurogenetics appears perplexing and indecipherable. In this volume, we will address this issue by providing clinicians with a framework for dealing with these disorders. This book is not intended to be an in-depth, comprehensive review of all neurogenetic conditions from 'A to Z'. Instead, we will provide a concise discussion using case studies to illustrate the most important and topical neurogenetic disorders. This case-based approach will make the book easy t...

This book presents Professor Lawrence R Klein and his group's last quarterly econometric model of the United States economy that they had produced at the University of Pennsylvania. This is the last econometric model that Lawrence Klein and his disciples have left after some 50 years of cumulated efforts of constructing the US economy model up to around 2000. It was widely known as the WEFA Econometric Model Mark 10, and is the culmination of Professor Klein's research which spans more tha...