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When first written into the Constitution, intellectual property aimed to facilitate "progress of science and the useful arts" by granting rights to authors and inventors. Today, when rapid technological evolution accompanies growing wealth inequality and political and social divisiveness, the constitutional goal of "progress" may pertain to more basic, human values, redirecting IP's emphasis to the commonweal instead of private interests.

Raven Hunter, a musical prodigy, flees to the Hawaiian Islands to pick up the pieces after her marriage to her manager collapses. Instead, she experiences extraordinary and unsettling events that are beyond her understanding. Living in paradise, marine biologist Finn Taylor has the unconscious but effortless ability to understand the needs of the animals he cares for. His playboy lifestyle is most men’s fantasy. That is, until the night he meets the shy and elusive new island resident. Suddenly his life no longer feels like his own.

Colton Stone is a newly traded tight end, whose reputation is as battered as his football helmet. When he receives a vacation invitation from his new teammates, he throws old habits and caution to the wind and accepts. There he collides with Dr. Lillian Morgan, a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon, and his world unravels. A widow with two children, Lilly is looking forward to her friends' wedding. When she meets Colton Stone, his arrogant attitude only makes her long for the love she once took for granted.

After more than 210 years of serving his country as an airman in the United States Air Force–six moves, five deployments, two airframes, and countless days and nights without Harper by his side–Jake is more than ready to start the next chapter of his life. A life without a uniform. As his career comes to an end, he can’t help but reminisce over the life he and Harper have lived and the couple they have become.

When it comes to business, CJ Steele is on top of his game. But in his personal life, he’s been in a funk lately. After being burned one too many times, he’s not ready to put himself back into the dating pool just yet. Holly Jackson is an agent in the Texas Rangers. She’s as tough as they come at her job, and her job is all that she’s focused on.

After being sent into the woods to check on her grandmother, Meave “Red” Simmons finds herself being chased down by a pack of werewolves, led by Sói who tells her she has been sold to his pack. When Maeve manages to escape him and make it to her grandmother’s house, she finds the older woman has been brutally murdered, causing her to pass out. Later on, Meave wakes up to discover that she is in the pack’s manor and her ties to the pack go beyond her parents selling her to them.

The mysterious plant-like beings known as Witterkin have been attacked and begin a viral spread, destroying everything they touch. Nya, a wise woman, and Yaro, the town Windsinger, try to heal the damage and halt the spread. However, something goes awry, and they both slip sideways into another world.

Five months to plan a wedding really isn't long enough - but Calla and Wes don't want to wait any longer to tie the knot. To close out this magical year with a bang, they will say I do. What could go wrong? Calla Bond and Wes Westminister cordially invite you to spend the holidays with them.

Buddy McFee, Texas’s legendary fixer, is trying to hide his failing mind from the world. He takes on what should be an easy case, the DUI arrest of a young lifestyle marketer. When Buddy botches the case, his client, Trevor Birdsong, locks his front door and hangs himself with a necktie. Buddy’s daughter, Callie, had grown to like Trevor. She was the last person he contacted before his death and she feels guilty that she hadn’t been there for him. Meanwhile, Buddy worries that the suicide will tarnish his legacy.

Dee Walker can kick your ass. At least she thinks so and isn't afraid to say it. A no-nonsense spark plug, Dee keeps everyone around her hopping. When she meets fellow field hand Arthur Taylor, her colorful world becomes even brighter, when she makes him an offer he can't turn down. However, this story of a bright explosion of color in a monochromatic world isn't what you might imagine, as Dee's life doesn't exactly turn out like she thinks it will.

The holidays are fast approaching and Dominique Miller finds herself running from California to Alabama to escape her abusive ex, Elliot Milford, with her cat, Selene in tow. For a moment of respite, she stops at a café and quickly realises that she is not as ahead of him as she thought. Enter Edgar Himura, a truck driver passing by on his way to Georgia for a routine delivery. What originally starts out as kind gesture to wait with her for the police turns into an offer to take her along with him, which Dominique reluctantly accepts.

Calla Bond and the staff of Belladonna cordially invite you to the New Year's Eve event of the season. As things have simmered in the kitchen, Belladonna is now the must-experience spot in Austin, and this New Year's Eve party is one not to miss! Together with their favorite seven-year-old, the entire Belladonna team has whipped up special tasting and libation menus sure to make all mouths happy. Join us for a magical night as we ring in the New Year with joy, laughter, deliciousness, a champagne toast, and a midnight kiss theme!

A photographer visits the world's largest space theme park and faces a groundbreaking find.

In 2020, a year after an out-of-this-world encounter in Chinatown, Una Waters ventures into Yosemite National Park with General Ashcroft on their honeymoon. When a coded distress call pulls him unexpectedly away on duty, Una uncovers a UFO mystery and turns to compadre Jack Howser for help. Joined by friends from Explorers Club, their quest for answers leads to a string of unworldly campsites, ancient caves, living pterosaurs, and a military manhunt - all fueled by an alien conspiracy that threatens the survival of humanity!

In 2019, three years after recovery of a powerful Hopi artifact from a mystery cave in Arizona, Una Waters finds herself on special assignment from D.C. to Chinatown in New York City. Unexplained acts of violence, including a cyber breach at the NYPD threaten to disrupt the lives of immigrants, forcing military intervention from General Ashcroft, now with U.S. Cyber Security. When newshound and compadre Jack Howser arrives to investigate a reported UFO sighting, Una begins to realize an episode of "missing time" at the Chinese New Year's parade may hold the answers.

Forest Jenson lives the wild life, and the only thing he takes seriously is his career as a pastry chef. At 35, he still spends all of his free time hooking up, hitting the town, and refusing to settle down. Growing up and having a family are the furthest things from his mind until an old one-night-stand crashes the party to inform him he has a seven-year-old daughter.

In 1995, at the age of eight, Una Waters survived a terrifying encounter at 30,000 feet aboard Flight 564 from Dallas to Las Vegas. It changed her forever. After 21 years, and a decade away from the Hopi Reservation where she grew up as a child, a surprise plea for help brings Una back, to solve a mystery that threatens their traditional way of life. The U.S. Army's sudden interest regarding a cave discovery in the Sacred Peaks has triggered alarm, leading to violence.

Chicago journalist Erin Nichols isn't about to give up when she's fired for writing an exposé. But when a combination of murder, magic, and celestial events transports her through time and space to 1900s western Canada, city hall corruption becomes the least of her worries. But the past isn't any safer. Awaking to learn she may be the victim of some unknown crime, Erin takes shelter with the local Mountie - the picture of upright Canadian fortitude.

After graduating college, Kelsey Morgan left her small-town Virginia roots to make it in LA. After slogging for years in commercials and music videos, her movie career is finally taking off. But she's still miles behind her current costar and Hollywood playboy Patrick Lyons. Kelsey does everything she can to avoid Patrick off the set, hoping to not become fodder for the supermarket tabloids that scour the streets for Patrick, trying to get an exclusive look at him and his alleged woman of the week.

The soul of every restaurant is the kitchen, but at Belladonna, the heart is the front of the house. Nessa and Adam have long reigned as the most-envied and most-aspired-to couple at Belladonna.