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Kristen and the team head to Winston-Salem where a friend of the Consociation has been gruesomely assassinated at a local conference center. But all is not as it seems when the assassins target Marie, the DRC’s dragon-shifter leader. Chasing one lead to the next, there is a chance that each might be a trap. There are some Realms no human should enter. This paranormal procedural episode will change Kristen–and the team.

Always the rebel and the oldest of the Monroe sisters, Isabelle returns to Hideaway Bay for surgery and recuperation. But she’s never stayed in any one place long enough and soon grows restless. She decides to look for the father that abandoned them, threatening the fragile peace the sisters have forged since their grandmother’s death.

Months ago, Ahnjii fell through a gate to Earth where cryptids live hidden among humans like herself. Much to her delight, her unusual truthsense ability allows her to see their real, undisguised forms behind their sigil-enhanced glamor. Always accompanied by Khimmer, the mind of her adaptive Nightarmor, Ahnjii learns to hide her abilities and secrets while daring to delve into the tempting excitement of Earth.

When Lily Ford returns to her lakeside hometown of Hideaway Bay for her grandmother’s funeral, the reunion with her estranged sisters is anything but easy as old wounds surface quickly. Recently widowed and still reeling from the secrets her late husband left behind, Lily finds herself at a crossroad, questioning everything about herself and the people she thought she knew.

When Kristen accepts a job with the FBI, the last thing she expected was to join a team inside a secret department that investigates magical crimes originating from other Realms. Kristen always kept her magic a secret, but as the newest member of the Department of Realm Containment, she uses her quick wit and mastery of spells to delve into the true dangers that threaten our existence. Kristen must rapidly catch up or risk the lives of her team.

Kristen and the DRC team investigate a bizarre series of deaths in Tallahassee where the victims’ bones shatter without a visible cause. Baffled and frustrated by the inexplicable, the local law enforcement hinders the team. When her dragon-shifter boss and her vampire teammate are sidelined in the investigation, Kristen and Finn are on their own. The bodies are still dropping, and the team is stretched trying to hunt down every lead before they too, become one of the casualties.

Alice, the youngest of three Monroe sisters, still holds out hope that the uneasy relationship with her two sisters can be mended, an improbable wish since they live in different parts of the world. After her grandmother’s funeral, Alice returns home to Chicago and her high-powered career but thoughts of Hideaway Bay and the house her grandmother left to the three sisters are never far from her mind. When it seems that her career comes at too great a price, namely her personal life, Alice heads back to Hideaway Bay to start over again.

Are you trapped in the frustrating cycle of sleeplessness and insomnia, desperate for restful sleep? Sleep deprivation has reached epidemic proportions across the globe. In the US alone, one in three adults does not get the sleep they need for good health, and the consequences are extensive. Poor sleep is linked to a host of severe and chronic health issues.

Change is inevitable. And sometimes it’s confusing and difficult, even when it’s good. We can’t keep change from coming, but we can allow it to transform us rather than derail us by facing it and embracing it through the lens of God’s unchanging promises to us. We’ve all heard the...

Eugene law student and intern at a local law firm, Haddie is adjusting to her and her dad’s unnatural abilities. He’s lived with it for centuries, but she just found out this year. Now, she’s dealing with a new addition to their family and a friend who has disappeared. The trail leads to a disquieting series of bizarre raves where people go missing, lose their minds, or die. Someone, or something, disturbing is hiding amid the colorful lights and music. Haddie races against time before her friend becomes one of the casualties.

Ahnjii’s goddess Nyx bars the portal against the otherworldly enemies from entering Earth, but she can’t hold on forever. Ahnjii and her witch mentor Friday must find the sleeping god on Earth to close the gates. However, when the high Fae and knights start their own personal war. Ahnjii must bring the allies together at all costs. If she fails, the enemy who twists minds and battles for control of the portal will gain ground. Book four in the Khimmer Chronicles pulls Ahnjii in too many dangerous directions, one of which is back to a place she’d thought she’d left behind forever.

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Eugene law student and intern at a local law firm, Haddie discovers more about herself and her dad than she was ready to delve into. Shocked by gruesome deaths that defy the laws of nature, she searches for rational answers to otherworldly incinerations. To learn the truth, she investigates the two bizarre deaths of a local businessman and his wife. Haddie races against time, obsessed with saving the firm's client, the businessman's mistress, who the police accuse of impossible murders that the young woman couldn't have committed.

Join Ahnjii Fate in the epic conclusion to the Khimmer Chronicles series as she embarks on a mission to save the peoples of Earth. Ahnjii must locate the sleeping god Ipnys while the goddess Nyx holds the portal gates closed against the relentless enemy. Meanwhile, the allies are embroiled in disputes that threaten to tear them apart. Ahnjii’s unique abilities may hold the key to victory if she can unite everyone to work toward a common goal.

Eugene law student and intern at a local law firm, Haddie unites with an unusual ally to delve into the disquieting organization known as the Unceasing. Her dad, Thomas, has his own troubles with an anonymous admirer who boldly attempts to recruit him to a dubious cause; worse, his fan has been stalking him since his last alias as a soldier in Vietnam. Following a lead in Boise, Idaho, Haddie and Thomas race to build a crew to investigate the Unceasing, never expecting to spark a backlash so quickly. However, if Haddie doesn’t take a risk and act fast, her team might be lost.

Haddie, her dad, and her friends are all at risk in a twisting turn of events. The Unceasing are back and stronger than ever. Her coworker has already been coerced; will one of her friends be next? In a race against time, Haddie and her team rally to find the source of this strange power and stop it, but they might not be enough. Haddie is faced with heart-wrenching decisions, and the choices she dares to make might cost her everything as she stands up against someone who can turn her own team against her. Will she be able to turn things around the second time? Who will she lose?

It took me 37,287 words to describe the impact sexual trauma in the military has had on my life. It has taken me over 30 years to come to terms with my experience where I can now write about it and speak about it. I want to educate people about rape in the military. Perhaps I will be able to help others by sharing my experience. To keep silent just perpetuates the violence and reinforces the culture of rape that has been accepted in the military. My insight in this book will be helpful to both practitioners helping veterans and to other veterans suffering from sexual trauma as well.

So, let me set the stage. I’m in a meeting with no less than 15 people sitting around a giant conference table; my turn to brief is approaching. I am briefing my boss and the senior staff; he happens to be a 3-Star General, and, by the way, I am the only female in the room. I start feeling warm, but warm is an understatement; it’s like my blood is starting to boil; I immediately think that the thermostat has gone wild, but no one else is reacting or sweating.

Emilie, the 19-year old daughter of a Sioux mother and a Scottish father, finds her home destroyed when her tribe is caught up in the US-Dakota war of 1862. Her mother is sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, and Emilie sets out to find her father, Jack Ferguson, who has been missing since the beginning of the war. With help from two new and unlikely friends, Eustis and Anders, she begins a treacherous and emotional journey to track him down. Along the way, she meets a mysterious figure, Roger Paltrey, from her father's past who seems to know important things about him.

Life on Earth is becoming more interesting for Ahnjii, but it’s about to turn dangerous for her and Woo when a new cryptid come knocking. Rather, when one rips her front door off. She meets her match in martial prowess against this otherworldly creature.