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Risk taker. Thrill seeker. I used to be both, until a bullet took me down. Months later, I’m back on the job, but I’m no longer the reckless man I was before. I’ve learned to be cautious. Then I meet Michele, a young single mother. I might be fifteen years older than her, but she makes me feel unstoppable again. Suddenly, I’m yearning for something more than the short-lived rush of any mission. Until my undercover agent’s assignment takes a deadly turn. Before I know it, I’m running headfirst into danger. Again. Only now I have a lot more to lose than I ever did before. Keywords: Romantic Suspense, Police Romance, Cartel romance, secret identity romance, Contemporary Romance, Protector Romance, Love Undercover Series, Latinx Romance, Hispanic Romance, Interracial Romance, Multi-cultural Romance, Chicago, LK Shaw, L.K. Shaw, L. K. Shaw, Dark Romance, Bad Boy Romance, Steamy Romance, Sexy Romance, Hot Romance, HEA, HFN, Dominant Heroes, Sassy Heroines, Strong heroine, Romance Series, Hot Romance, Insta Love Romance, Slow Burn Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Age Gap Romance, May to December Romance, Broken Hero Romance, Suspense Series, Romantic Suspense Series, Dominant Hero ...

I don't care that she's the boss' cousin and far beyond my reach. I've been patient, but now I'm claiming what's mine. Giovanni One year. That’s how long I’ve wanted Francesca. I’ve worked my way up the ranks, dedicating my life to the syndicate while I tried easing her fear of men. The time has finally come for me to claim her. Francesca Seven years ago, my family’s enemy took everything from me. I’ve been determined to get it all back. When those same enemies nearly kill Giovanni, our friendship changes to something more. Until a secret emerges that could destroy everything.

I never imagined I’d get caught in the crossfire between the D.E.A. and the Mexican cartel. After a failed kidnapping attempt, a bodyguard attaches himself to my hip. Why does it have to be Victor: my best friend’s brother? It doesn’t matter that I’ve had a crush on him since I was sixteen; we rub each other the wrong way. Except now that we’re forced together something changes between us. I trust Victor to keep me safe, but can I trust him with my heart? Keywords: Romantic Suspense, Police Romance, Cartel romance, secret identity romance, Contemporary Romance, Protector Romance, Love Undercover Series, Latinx Romance, Hispanic Romance, Interracial Romance, Multi-cultural Romance, Chicago, LK Shaw, L.K. Shaw, L. K. Shaw, Dark Romance, Bad Boy Romance, Steamy Romance, Best Friend's Brother romance, Younger Sister's Best Friend Romance, Sister's best friend romance, Friends to lovers romance, Sexy Romance, Hot Romance, HEA, HFN, Dominant Heroes, Sassy Heroines, Strong heroine, Romance Series, Hot Romance, Insta Love Romance, Slow Burn Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Age Gap Romance, May to December Romance, Broken Hero Romance, Suspense Series, Romantic Suspense Series,...

INCLUDES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED BONUS MATERIAL! Get the first three books in the Love Undercover series in one single set. Forbidden romance, best friend's older brother, second chance romance. All your favorite tropes with sexy alpha men and the strong women they love. In Too Deep - A forbidden romance between Ines Rodriguez, a Chicago PD officer, and Tomás Gonzalez, an enforcer working for the cartel, but also a man with secrets. What happens when the truth is exposed? Striking Distance - Victor Rodriguez vows to protect Estelle, his younger sister's best friend, after a botched kidnapping attempt. She can trust him to keep her safe, but can she trust him with her heart? Atonement - Preston Thomas has been trying to atone for his greatest sin. Two years after a single night of passion, Landon Roberts returns to his life. She has her own sin to atone for. Can these two lost souls find forgiveness and love amidst a drug war?

I’ve worked hard to rebuild the life I nearly destroyed. The private investigation firm I've started with my brother could be my shot at redemption. Our first case: find the supplier of Rapture, a new, lethal drug being sold on the streets. I’m determined to do some good and make up for the sins of my past. One of those sins just walked through the door, and her name is Landon Roberts. Two years ago, a chance meeting in an empty bar led to the most intense connection of my life. The anguish in her eyes echoed the pain inside me, and for a single night we offered each other comfort. Until the morning when she disappeared without a trace. Now, she’s the D.E.A. agent tasked with finding and eliminating the source behind Rapture. Which means I plan on spending a lot of time with her, because I have no intention of letting her get away again. But the powerful man behind the lethal drug won’t let anyone stand in his way of making money. Can Landon and I survive a drug war and find love and forgiveness for our sins? Keywords: Romantic Suspense, Police Romance, Cartel romance, secret identity romance, Contemporary Romance, Protector Romance, Love Undercover Series, Latinx Romance, ...

Bridget Carter unknowingly tempts me with her chocolate-colored eyes, long red hair, and bold attitude. She’s awfully bossy for a sub. Which only makes the sadist inside me rumble with the need to come out and play. I bury my feelings deep, because I refuse to become a monster. But life has a way of laughing in my face. When Bridget shows up at my office begging for help, all I can do is agree. I’ll do anything for this woman. When danger arrives at her doorstep, the rules change, and I will do anything to protect her. Even unleash the beast.

The moment Katherine Marsh walks through the door of my precinct, dirt-covered and full of fear, instinctively I know she’ll be my downfall. Already my career is in jeopardy, and all I’ve ever wanted was to be a cop. I’m fighting not only corruption in our judicial system, but my attraction to a witness. She tells me I only see things in black and white. When a murderer sets his sights on her, the line between right and wrong blurs, and I discover that maybe laws are meant to broken if it means protecting the woman I love.

There’s no such thing as love at first sight. Except, there is. Livvie and I were college kids, just starting our lives, the day we met. Our connection was instantaneous. We had to fight against those who said we were moving too fast. Who said we were too young. That we’d never last. We showed them otherwise. Our love isn’t perfect. It’s messy and sometimes complicated. Despite all of that, our love is… Forever.

“Please, don’t leave me here.” He did it anyway, and the moment he walked out the door, my love turned to hate. Now he’s back and thinks all can be forgiven. When my worst nightmare comes for me, Leo vows to protect me. But how can I forgive the man whose leaving utterly destroyed me?

For five years I've been deep undercover within the cartel, and I'm on the verge of bringing the entire organization to the ground. Until she shows up. Gabriela is the new girlfriend of the boss' nephew, but there's a spark of attraction between us. It flares to life, burning hot, before we can stop it. She's become a distraction that will get me killed. Especially once I discover her secret. Now, I have to do whatever it takes to protect her. Soon a surprise enemy emerges from the shadows. Can I keep Gabriela safe or will neither of us make it out alive? Keywords: Romantic Suspense, Police Romance, Cartel romance, secret identity romance, Contemporary Romance, Protector Romance, Love Undercover Series, Latinx Romance, Hispanic Romance, Interracial Romance, Multi-cultural Romance, Chicago, LK Shaw, L.K. Shaw, L. K. Shaw, Dark Romance, Bad Boy Romance, Steamy Romance, Sexy Romance, Hot Romance, HEA, HFN, Dominant Heroes, Sassy Heroines, Strong heroine, Romance Series, Hot Romance, Insta Love Romance, Slow Burn Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Age Gap Romance, May to December Romance, Broken Hero Romance, Suspense Series, Romantic Suspense Series, Dominant Hero Romance, Alpha, Dom,...

Betray (verb): to deliver to an enemy by treachery After being sold to a sex trafficker by her drug-dealing boyfriend, Phebe Lawson fully understands the meaning of betrayal. She would have wished for death to come and take her away, except, she knew wishes were wasted on people like her. Until the day he entered her life. His arrival sparked a longing inside her that, maybe, hope wasn’t a useless emotion after all. Heal (verb): to make sound or whole Donovan Jeffries was the charming one. The flirty, social Dom of the local BDSM club, Eden. Soon though, he closed himself off, vowing to never give his heart to another woman. Until the day Phebe entered his life. Her despair touched a part of his soul he’d thought forever lost, and he would move heaven and earth to piece all her broken parts back together.

Evelyn “Evie” Vincent and Sebastian Nichols can’t stand each other. Or can they? When Sebastian hires Evie’s father as a handyman on his run-down ranch, the two are constantly running into each other. Sebastian is far from friendly, so Evie avoids him, even though she’s secretly hurt. The truth of the matter is, she’s the first woman he’s been this attracted to since his wife died, and he is fighting against it. When a threat from Evie’s past puts her life in danger, Sebastian realizes he’s fighting a losing battle. Can he save the woman who’s healed his damaged heart before it’s too late? *Author’s Note: This book was previously published as part of Elle James’ Brotherhood Protectors series. It has been revised and approximately 5,000 new words added.

D/s power exchange. Suspense. Happily Ever After Includes: Forever There’s no such thing as love at first sight. Except, for Gareth and Livvie there is. Their love isn’t perfect. It’s messy and sometimes complicated. Despite all of that, their love is…forever. Submission Follow Marcus and Penny as they explore the dark and decadent world of Club Eden. Until Marcus’ past threatens to tear them apart. Desire Bridget and Connor couldn’t be more different. She’s confident and fearless. He’s hiding his true self behind a mask. But Bridget has a secret that proves to be dangerous.

Love. Empowerment. Family. Includes: Redemption Miles and Josie have been friends for years. For one of them, though, unrequited love is a bitch. So is PTSD. Both have to go through hell to find love on the other side. Protect Katie’s the key witness to a murder. Webber’s the cop investigating the crime. From the moment the two meet, sparks fly, but could she be his downfall? Betrayal Betrayed by her boyfriend and sold to sex traffickers, Phebe has a long road to recovery. Donovan admires her strength, but keeps his Dominant side from her. Can she heal from tragedy and embrace the submissive hidden inside her?

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In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing, reviewing, and working fieldnotes into finished texts. They discuss different organizational and descriptive strategies and show how transforming direct observations into vivid descriptions results not simply from good memory but from learning to envision scenes as written. A good ethnographer, they demonstrate, must learn to remember dialogue and movement like an actor, to see colors and shapes like a painter, and to sense moods and rhythms like a poet. This new edition reflects the extensive feedback the authors have received from students and instructors since the first edition was published in 1995. As a result, they have updated the race, class, and gender section, created new sections on coding programs and revising first drafts, and provided new examples of working notes. An essential tool for ...

This book explains the conflicting feelings of anxiety and empowerment that women, historically excluded from masculine discourse, feel when they read and write, and it analyzes narrative strategies that reveal this ambivalence. Anxious Power draws upon feminist literary theory, narrative theory, and reader-response criticism to define women’s ambivalence toward language. It is the first collection to address issues of ambivalence in narrative by women, to trace those issues from the medieval period to the present, and to outline a theoretical framework for understanding them. The contributors address a broad spectrum of female literary voices ranging from familiar British and American writers (Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Willa Cather), and those less well known (Jane Barker, Caroline Lee Henz, Susan Warner, Sarah Grand, and Fanny Howe), to European, Canadian, African-American, South and Latin American, and Asian American writers (Christine de Pizan, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Margaret Atwood, Harriet Jacobs, Toni Morrison, Clarice Lispector, Sandra Cisneros, and Maxine Hong Kingston). Anxious Power considers forms of women’s narrative ranging from fairy tales through...

Frank Chin is perhaps the most instantly recognizable voice in Chinese American writing today. A self-proclaimed "transcendent Chinaman pagan heathen barbarian," Chin searches out (or stumbles on) the right people and situations, vividly recording the outcome in distinctively American terms. Here are six of his best essays, spanning the past forty years. Making his way across the U.S. to Cuba, Chin is arrested as an American spy some time between Castro's revolution and the missile crisis. He meets Ben Fee, the man who integrated San Francisco, and is introduced to Southeast Asian gangs and culture in San Diego. He discovers Chinese bachelor society along the California-Mexico border and travels to Singapore, where he speculates on the fear and suppression of Chinese culture among Chinese Singaporeans. Back at the home front, he encounters the new white racism along Interstate 5 during the Gulf War.

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Addressing developments since the book's initial publication in 1982, Kurtz provides a new introduction and updated bibliography. He discusses the publicity and controversy surrounding Oliver Stone's film JFK, the new books and television programs that have dealt with the different conspiracy theories, new information about the possible role of organized crime in the assassination, and certain materials from the Kennedy autopsy that have only recently come to light.

The first of our series of holiday bundles, Realms of Wonder features fourteen novels of science fiction or fantasy by various award-winning and bestselling authors. For $2.99, you're getting fourteen novels, each the first book in a continuing series, containing over 1.15 million words in total, and a savings of almost $50 if each title was purchased separately. This bundle is only available for a limited time, so purchase your copy before it's gone. Titles included in this collection: The Birth of the Dread Remora - by Aaron Rosenberg - Book I of The Tales of the Scattered Earth The Parting - by David Niall Wilson - Book I of the Novels of the O.C.L.T. Haydn of Mars - By Al Sarrantonio - Book I of The Masters of Mars Trilogy City of Iron - By Chet Williamson - Book I of The Searchers Series Exile - By Al Sarrantonio - Book One of The Five Worlds Trilogy Blood River Down - By Charles L. Grant - Book I of The Quest for the White Duck Trilogy A Malady of Magicks - By Craig Shaw Gardner - Book I of The Ebenezum Series Symphony - By Charles L. Grant - Book I of The Millennium Quartet Lost Things - By Melissa Scott & Jo Graham - Book I of The Order of the Air The Phoenix Bells - By...

Collecting What If? (1977) #1-12. Titanic tales of triumph and tragedy in the mighty Marvel tradition — with a twist! Overseen by the Watcher, the most offbeat series of all revisited major Marvel moments, asking the tantalizing question: what if? Imagine that a young Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four! Consider the Hulk with Bruce Banner’s brain! Envision a world where the Avengers never existed — or one where they assembled in the 1950s! How about the FF with different powers? Daredevil’s secret exposed? Cap and Bucky surviving World War II? The first time Jane Foster wielded the hammer of Thor, a different Hulk or multiple Spider-People? Some of the ideas that shook Marvel’s foundations began in the realm of remote possibility! But can even Uatu believe his eyes when Jack Kirby reimagines himself and his fellow Bullpen legends as the Fantastic Four?!

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

A New Bundle Featuring Six Novels of Humorous Science Fiction and Fantasy. The next of our series of eBook bundles, A Hilarious Half-Dozen features six humorous science fiction and fantasy novels by various award-winning and bestselling authors. Priced at $2.99, this box set offers a $20 savings over purchasing the titles individually. Titles included in this collection: No Small Bills - by Aaron Rosenberg Slaves of the Volcano God - by Craig Shaw Gardner Dr. Dimension - by John DeChancie and David Bischoff Blood River Down - by Charles L. Grant After Things Fell Apart - by Ron Goulart The Destiny Dice - by David Bischoff

Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.