J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.

Secrets, sins and a scandalous affair Crispin de Feaux, Marquess of Avenmore, has always done his duty and knows the time has come to find a suitable wife. But when the intrepid Tamsyn Perowne saves his life off the Devonshire coast, Cris is unable to tear himself away… The widow of a notorious smuggler, Tamsyn would never make an appropriate bride. And Cris has secrets that could tear them apart before they've even begun! Yet, for the first time, Cris is tempted to ignore his duty and claim Tamsyn as his own!

Phoenix, Arizona was supposed to offer me freedom. From my mother, from my life that she loves to remind me has amounted to nothing. I decided to spend an extended vacation in town during my friend Ken’s wedding, see him get his happily ever after, then head back home to Ohio to fix my failure of a life. But after one grave mistake on Camelback Mountain, I find myself lost in my savior Aimee’s captivating eyes. She’s a vanlifer who can’t stay in once place for long. Does this wanderer run through lovers like she does towns? The Arizona sunshine has warmed my bones after a stint exploring the bitter cold of Minnesota. Soon, I find myself itching to travel again on my never-ending life on the road. But a life like that has left me lonely and at the first touch from another person in as long as I can remember, suddenly I’ve got everything on hold for Cris, a woman I barely know. Valentine’s Day is well under way putting thoughts in my head that we have a chance together. Can I get this tragic beauty to start a new life on the road with me? Cris and Aimee’s Valentine Promise is part of Max Watson’s Bubble Bath Romance collection. Each standalone short story is intended to be read in one sitting—in a hot and steamy bubble bath! Each book features steamy romance with an HEA.

CRIS (Catania Relativistic Ion Studies) is a new series of Topical Conferences to be held at regular intervals in Catania or in its environs. Aim of the CRIS Conferences is to gather active researchers from several countries to discuss specific hot topics in the field of heavy ion physics.The first CRIS Conference, CRIS '96, has been devoted to “Critical Phenomena and Collective Observables”, a quite hot topic after the recent experimental evidences of a liquid-gas phase transition in finite nuclei found by the EOS and ALADiN Collaborations and the progress made in the understanding of the relevance of collective observables, like flow and balance energy for the study of the Nuclear Equation of State.