Amaya's father tried to murder her ten years ago to protect a terrible secret. Now, plagued by hazy memories of "The Operator," a man cloaked in mystery, Amaya's mind shifts between fantasy and reality. She longs for a normal life. But when she participates in a clinical drug trial to treat her Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, her world becomes even more fragmented and unreal. Her psychiatrist is the only person she can trust. But Dr. Cortez has demons of his own. As Amaya starts to remember the details of her past, and closes in on the identity of The Operator, Dr. Cortez becomes deadly in his determination to stop her. AMAYA'S OPERATOR is a psychological thriller that takes the reader inside the mind of a psychiatric patient and her psychopathic therapist.

CENTER> MOONDUST AND MADNESS. . .STARDUST AND SHADOWS. . . Bestselling author Janelle Taylor has taken her millions of readers to thrilling new worlds of romance with these novels of universal desire and intergalactic adventure. Now, the magic continues amidst the blaze of STARLIGHT AND SPLENDOR Many years have passed since Commander Varian Saar spirited the lovely Doctor Jana Grayson away from Earth aboard his starship and made her his. Now their son Galen, First Lieutenant of the Galactic Wind, seeks his destiny among the stars-and in the arms of a beautiful seductress who may be his doom. . .while his twin sister Amaya journeys to far-off earth-where her courage and her passions are soon put to the greatest test of all.

Characterizing entanglement is an important issue in quantum information, as it is considered to be a resource for many applications such as quantum key distribution or quantum metrology. One useful tool to detect and quantify entanglement are witness operators. A standard way to construct them is based on the fidelity of pure states and mathematically relies on the Schmidt decomposition of vectors. In this book a method to build entanglement witnesses using the Schmidt decomposition of operators is presented. One can show that these are strictly stronger than the fidelity witnesses. Moreover, the concept can be generalized easily to the multipartite case, and one may use it to quantify the dimensionality of entanglement. Finally, this scheme will be used to provide two algorithms that can be combined to improve given witnesses for multiparticle entanglement.