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Angelo She's a mystery I shouldn't chase, a woman with no past and danger on her trail. I don't save people. I eliminate problems. But something about her makes me want to break every rule I've lived by. She shouldn't make me want things I've buried so deep I forgot they existed. They call me...

I have a secret. One that waltzed back into my life, threatening to ruin everything I've built. She should have been dead. She should have stayed away. But she did neither of those things. Instead, she came back hoping for answers she shouldn't seek. Now, I'm stuck playing the role of her protector when I'm the nightmare everyone is afraid of. I saved her once, but I was just a kid then. Now, I have an empire to run. One that is crumbling because of her. Will I find it in me to save her again? Or will I give in to my wicked desires?

Dr. Maxwell Stein, a seasoned child psychologist practicing in New York, is about to head off on vacation, when the past comes back to haunt him. A visit by a former patient, now a mysterious adult, takes him by surprise to deliver a priceless gift. Her simple message sets the wheels of his conscious and subconscious mind in motion 'til he is on the verge of derailing. His family, concerned and frightened by his changing attitudes, feels helpless.

The "free will" debate has never, conclusively, been solved, otherwise we would not have this conversation. There is basically one group that says, "We have free will", while the other group of people says, "We do not have free will". The great majority of people do believe we have free will. In this book, I present a third option, one that has never been presented before. My theory, called "Procirclism", goes far beyond the free will issue.

All Luniel has ever wanted was to be a Hunter like his master and mother. He's done all that he could to reach his dream and is one step away when fate comes calling. When one of the students he knows is chosen for something outside of her skill level, he volunteers to join her, to protect and guide. With his best friend at his side, he feels like they can take on the world. When the world answers his challenge, will he break under the strain, or will he rise up and be the Hunter that everyone knows he can be?

"In your most dire time, make your pledge and take your place under our celestial banner." As Sol tries to find his way through the trees, the last thing he wants is to spend another second lost in the wilderness. But when he gets back to civilization and learns more about the world they live in, he starts to think that maybe being lost wasn't so bad after all.

Clarissa is the story of a courageous German girl, who thwarted a communist plot to infiltrate NATO during the Cold War and found her true love. During the partition of Germany, intrigues between the East and the West flourish amid kidnapping, theft, and espionage schemes. As Clarissa participates in a high-stakes operation in which she is the target, she wonders, will the romantic Canadian Aurthur Lundy rescue her from adversity?

Cactus is a love story set against the backdrop of a war-torn Middle East. Two young architecture students, one Muslim and one Christian, find love and choose to spend their lives together. Theirs is a union that survives impossible odds. He is a Muslim man dedicated to, and responsible for, his mother and sisters in a family that has been utterly devastated by ongoing war in and around his home country; she comes from a family of devout Christians who do not want their daughter to marry outside of her faith.

A thrilling and moving lyrical descriptive poem in the style of legendary Australian bush poets Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson and Henry Lawson. Australian bush ballads are renowned for their easy flowing style and comfortable rhythmic pace and this poem is a beautifully crafted example of that art. A desperate Australian farming family caught in a drought and under threat of mortgage foreclosure in a few days, form a plan to enter their horse Bonny Blue in a horse race (the Carling Cup) with 16-year-old son Jack to ride her.