Maria is a wanted woman. She’s wanted by an Aztec trafficker, a cartel boss, the people she fights for, and now the Devil she can’t resist. Her journey begins as a would-be immigrant turned vampire in Juarez, Mexico until the injustices of the world turn her into something else.Forced to leave her home and family, she embarks on a journey across Mexico seeking those answers. She learns a new language and how to survive as a vampire. To ease her restlessness she fin...

This go-to guidebook helps agile practitioners overcome upskilling challenges in their organizations through effective Dojo coaching.Agile has changed the way we work in our organizations. But by demanding constant innovation and product delivery, individuals and teams struggle to find time to improve their skills. That's where the Dojo comes in. Dojo-style coaching encourages this kind of learn-by-doing form of skill development, one where guided breakthroughs and upskilling happe...

A lovers-to-enemies lesbian romantic thriller which proves killing is hard, but falling in love might be a death sentence.Two elite, undercover, rival assassins are drawn to each other after meeting at a nightclub to unknowingly carry out a hit on the same man. For lone wolf American assassin Verity, their connection is so intense she thinks she might want to risk falling for gorgeous Mexican translator Reina. Too bad Reina's next contract is to kill Verity—a woman...

Raid a dragon's hoard for her dowry? It seemed like a good idea at the time...Madelena isn't in love with her friend Armando, but his marriage proposal offers the security she needs. She sympathizes with him—his father insists Armando must either find a bride or join the army. Armando would rather become a husband than a soldier, but his ugly face has scared away all other eligible ladies despite his family's wealth. Although she harbors only friendship for Armando, Madele...

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgivenessFrom her earliest memories, Minu felt like an outsider. It wasn't just her peculiar name, but also her light skin and cinnamon-swirl hair—so unlike the dark features of her Mexican family—that drew comments from neighbors and strangers.No one took her questions seriously, leaving her yearning for answers. Meanwhile, she had to endure her father's violence, her mother's negli...

What if your only hope for saving your family meant stepping into a kidnapper's trap?Savannah school principal Deirdre Stephens seems to have it all until a family trip to finalize the adoption of an orphaned boy spirals into a nightmare. In a flash, her spirited four-year-old daughter is abducted, and days later, her husband vanishes without a trace.As Deirdre frantically searches for answers, she slowly uncovers shocking secrets surrounding her husband's ...

Always Have Enough offers a pathway to creating wealth, written for those doing it for the first time. Maria Melchor offers a holistic formula to financial success that will make you feel richer from day one. Using the Always Have Enough plan, you will learn how to:- Address mindsets from childhood scarcity that affect money attitudes in adulthood- Choose your own money values and make empowered financial decisions- Make your debt disappear (hint: an...

When I tell people who don’t speak Spanish what “prieta” means—“dark” or “the dark one”—their eyes pop open and a small gasp escapes. … How do I tell them that now, even after the cruelty of children, “Prieta” means love? That each time “Prieta” fell from my grandmother’s lips, I learned to love my dark skin. My Ita called me Prieta. When she died, she took the name with her.Yasmín Ramírez spent her twenties feeling lost—working an intensely taxing retail job and turning to bars fo...

In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the "echoes" she inherited from her mother—visions which often distort her reality. One morning as her sister, Mercy, rushes off to work, a disturbing echo takes hold of Grace, and within moments, tragedy strikes.Attending community college for the first time, talking to the boy next door, and working toward her goals all help Grace recover, but her estrangement from Mercy takes a deep toll. And as Grace's echoes bring ghosts and ...

A practical, accessible guide to how women everywhere can cultivate their own inner señora through simple yet radical ways hard-working, resourceful Latina women for generations have found to refresh, renew, and take time out for themselves.Robust or struggling, tireless or fatigued, traditional or future-bound—anyone in any stage or walk of life can become a “radical señora.” And in our post-hustle culture, post–“Boss Babe” era, when the pandemic and “Quiet Quitti...

"I am ready to join the Sisterhood of Viggy after reading The Rotting Room**. Time to take my vows, now that I've novitiated on this awe-inspiring novel, and commit myself to a lifelong calling of reading whatever Parr Hampton writes." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of** Wake Up and Open Your EyesSister Rafaela, a newcomer to the cloistered Sisters of Divine Innocence, yearns for redemption from her horrific past. H...

This new and expanded edition of the acclaimed and successful book by nationally-recognized student advocate, activist scholar, and contemplative educator, Laura I. Rendón, will surely find new audiences who are eager to create teaching and learning environments where the learner is fully present and engaged using the full capacities of mind, body, and senses; and where the learning experience can be simultaneously subjective and objective, a view which challenges the privileged notion tha...