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18-year-old Jasmyn secretly resents her family's preference for her 8-year-old sister Katarina. Her jealousy grows when her grandmother, a dying witch, overlooks Jasmyn and chooses Katarina to inherit her magic powers. Although being second to her sister is something Jasmyn has grown accustomed to, this rejection wounds her like no other. Little does Jasmyn know she, too, has inherited some of her grandmother's powers. Resentment and envy are a dangerous pair, but when doused with magic, the chaos it creates is unimaginable.

Every psychopath in the Mulvaney family has a role to play. Archer Mulvaney is the gambler, a drunken reprobate making his living as a high-stakes poker player. Very few people know the real Archer, not even his brothers. But there is one man who knows far too much.Mackenzie Shepherd spends his days photographing endangered wildlife. He's also the brother of a sociopath and son to the woman who literally wrote the book on raising one. When his mother asks him to head a secret government project, it seems like the perfect excuse to run away from his life.But running from his past has Mac colliding straight into Archer. And that's a problem. For this project to be successful, Mac and Archer have to agree on every decision, and the two see eye-to-eye on nothing. Except, maybe the sex. The sex is off the charts.When Mac's old life comes back to haunt him, Archer insists on putting their differences aside to help keep him safe. But Mac, like Archer, is used to solving things on his own. Can they finally stop fighting each other to find the truth, or is their relationship the next thing on the endangered species list?Lunatic is a filthy hot, enemies to lovers, psychopath romance with an HEA and no cliffhangers. It features a sexy, roguish degenerate and a hunky bleeding heart ginger who love how much they hate each other. As always, there's gratuitous violence, very dark humor, more blood than a slaughterhouse, and enough heat to melt your metaphorical undies. This is book six in the Necessary Evils series. Each book follows a different couple.

Can past circumstances about social justice and racism continue to be relevant in this era? That is the core question addressed, and answered, in Fly in the Buttermilk, a poignant memoir by Rev. Dr. Robert L. Polk about his time, 1955-1960, as the 48th official Black resident (as he was told) in the state of North Dakota. Fly reveals the amazing story of a freshly minted, young, Black, urban, seminary graduate who dared to accept his first call as a pastor in the nearly all-white state of North Dakota. Polk has always had a deep and innate passion for race relations and social justice, all of which he endeavored to blend, both in his ministry to a tiny and decidedly rural parish and, later, as youth director in the Minot YMCA for over three hundred teens. The author revisits these days through wonderful and revealing stories, detailing how he was always seeking a deeper personal understanding as to why he was there, and constantly questioning whether his presence there was impactful. Essentially, Polk's memoir is exploring whether his Black presence had life-changing currency in the realm of social justice or was it just an anomaly? This candid memoir explores the highs, lows, joys and sorrows, daily routine, and lack of encountering his own people. Racism, although mostly muted, was, nevertheless, a significant ongoing presence and what he experienced then lives on in today's much less muted and increasingly divisive attitudes and encounters. His insights shed a light on the past with relevance to today as he wonders whether his presence made a difference, then and onward into the rest of their lives, of the White youth and adults he met. Fly In the Buttermilk answers that question with a resounding yes. The validity of his quest is confirmed by the many, who experienced the journey with him, who have remained in touch with him through all the years since.

A story of old-world vampires and modern-day witches. An alliance destined for centuries between two natural enemies is brought together by powerful ancients for the best of all mankind. Of course, nothing ever runs that smoothly. The only witch that can mend the past and secure the future is afraid of magic. When Clara Redfearn-a retired high priestess of the Eternal Flame Coven- purchases the contents of the old Stepney Castle, she has no idea what they will find. Though given the Castle's history, being occupied by the original Vampire Sovereign, Julien Laurent, and his family, the items should draw a curious crowd to her new antique store-Immortal Treasures. Sorting through a box of vampire artifacts, Olivia Parker -Clara's granddaughter- unknowingly discovers an ancient Timekeeper Journal. While she is frightened by its magical pull, there's a part of her that can't seem to put it down. As she cracks the spine on the ancient leather-bound tome and begins to read the first exquisitely written inscription -Julien Laurent SOV- every vampire named within its pages suddenly stops. Until today, time has been frozen within the cover while it waits patiently for its chosen interpreter- Olivia. They've been waiting more than a century for her. The one witch who can unlock the secrets inside the journal and the only witch capable of activating the resurrection key. What the vampires don't know yet is that Olivia Parker may possess the power, but she has no idea how to use it, nor does she care to learn.

Imagine if we just look at our time on Earth as life itself. What if we don't give it a title like a rough life or a bad life. What if we just say we learned, we experienced and we lived. As I went through this life, I have had struggles, heartache and sorrow. But those have allowed me to learn to have Triumph, Love and Joy. I have been blessed with true friends, a wonderful extended family, my loving husband of 26 years, my strong and amazing sons, two parents that love me, and that is what makes my world beautiful. That is Life Itself.

Una mirada a la libido desde lo más musical. El amor, la huida, el desengaño con cierto atisbo de insularidad. El autor recorre los sitios de cuerpos sin nombre con la recurrencia de una historia que se desdobla en lo aprendido y accidentado por la vida. Abstracto en ocasiones, figura dentro de lo contemporáneo. Huellas del aliento eterno una ocasión para encontrarnos en la mirada del otro que vuelve a nosotros.

Sam is the middle child in a family of two parents and three brothers. Dad helps Sam to understand that each child has a special place in the family, and that all children are gifts from God.