I came here to be a companion. I never meant to be a rebel—or to fall in love with one. Calix Callisto would never have been my first choice for a mate. Despite his looks, he’s young, impetuous, and a little bit superficial. We should never have gotten along. A gymnast back on Earth, I’m everything he’s not—intensely disciplined, coolheaded, and a problem-solver. As it turns out, though, we balanced each other out. We even became…friends. Friends with benefits, no less. And then Ixion devolved into rebellion, and we had to make a run for it. Now I’m no longer bound to him by any program—just the need to help each other survive. And we’re good at that. We’re good at everything together. I want to keep it that way, too—which means no falling in love. Nothing that could eventually break apart our friendship when we realize that this won’t work permanently—and was never meant to, in the first place. There’s danger coming at us from all sides, and we don’t need distractions. Not when Calix is a whole distraction himself. And me? I never wanted to fall in love anyway. Not on Earth, and not on Ixion. Not anywhere. Until we’re separated, and I learn a terrible truth— Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you’ve lost it. Maybe forever. Enchanted by the Alien Rebel is a full-length standalone sci-fi romance featuring a gorgeous alien rebel and the tough-as-nails human companion who find love in the most unlikely of places. If you like sexy aliens, galactic adventures, and a happily ever after for our hero and heroine, you’ll love this new series! Each book in the Ixionian Fated Mates series can be read as a standalone, but it’s recommended that they be read in order for the greatest enjoyment. Book 1: Chosen by the Alien Warrior (Ivy and Cassian) Book 2: Tempted. by the Alien Commander (Cherise and Azrael) Book 3: Enchanted by the Alien Rebel (Trace and Calix) Book 4: Charmed by the Alien Playboy (Deryn and Ambrose)

Participating in the Ixionian exchange program was only ever supposed to be about my body. It was never supposed to be about my heart. Commander Azrael Emrys is everything I’ve never wanted in a man—or alien. He’s dutiful to a fault, arrogant beyond belief, and focused on only one thing—commanding and caring for the soldiers under his command. But some things are out of even his control. When an AI malfunction lands us on another planet, I see a new side to Commander Emrys. One that makes me feel desires I didn’t know I had—and longings I’d long since given up on. But the nascent rebellion is here too, and the Commander has wounds that I might not be able to heal. I came here to be a companion. But the Commander tempts me to so much more. Tempted by the Alien Commander is a full-length standalone sci-fi romance featuring a handsome, horned alien commander and the beautiful companion who tempts him to desires he gave up on long ago. If you like sexy aliens, galactic adventures, and a happily ever after for our hero and heroine, you’ll love this new series! Each book in the Ixionian Fated Mates series can be read as a standalone, but it’s recommended that they be read in order for the greatest enjoyment. Book 1: Chosen by the Alien Warrior (Ivy and Cassian) Book 2: Tempted by the Alien Commander (Cherise and Azrael) Book 3: Enchanted by the Alien Rebel (Trace and Calix)

Christmas elf Tinklebelle Holly is a screwup. Demoted to a job in the reindeer division after one infraction too many, she hates her job, hates her life, and despises the North Pole. But when a surprise visitor arrives from Elven High Council, and Tink is assigned to show him around, everything changes. Jax Grayson is a dark elf, and unlike anyone she’s ever met. Looking past his obvious hotness, Tink knows he has a secret, and the audit he’s supposedly performing doesn’t feel legit. After an unexpected tragedy occurs, Tink’s life is thrown into even greater turmoil, and it seems like Jax might be the only one Tink can truly trust. Can she help him figure out what’s happening on the North Pole, or will Jax be her worst mistake of all?

Workers from the Syrian diaspora have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades, building multimillion-dollar apartment complexes, toiling for backbreaking hours in grocery stores. From the mid-2000s, liberalising reforms saw accelerating levels of poverty among workers, often paid as low as $20 per day. Instead of ‘opportunity’, workers faced the prospect of indefinite economic exile, the unending drudgery of hard labour, and a constant struggle to make ends meet. But in 2011, revolution came to Syria. Rural towns and villages exploded in revolt, but even those workers who remained in Beirut found means to protest at a distance. Their movement, which this book identifies as ‘rebel populism,’ represents an early instance of an increasingly common global contentious political formation, a form of mass politics that emerges not via a charismatic orator or developed ideological convictions, but through the weaving together of grievances aimed at the ruling class.

The author shares his observations and opinions of the Navajo and Hopi Indians he came into contact with while stationed for over 8 years as an Indian agent and Superintendant of the Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservations in Arizona's Painted Desert region.

She knew trouble when she saw it, and he was definitely trouble. After spending years dealing with her flighty mother, a café on the edge of ruin, a misbehaving backyard fountain, and tea that may or may not be increasing the libido of her elderly neighbors, Fiona Campbell has had enough. She’s ready to move out, get away from her mother and all the craziness that accompanies her, and start a life of her own. The last thing she needs is another complication, especially one like Matthew Monroe. When he walks through their door with a guitar on his back and a sexy gleam in his eyes, Fiona knows she should stay away. She doesn’t trust him, or his motives, but there is something about Matthew that draws her close, against her better judgment. And when disaster strikes, it seems he’s the only one she can turn to for help. But Matthew represents all the things she’s spent a lifetime trying to escape. She has her future mapped out in detail, including what kind of man she should date. She wants safety and predictability, but could it be that the best thing that ever happened to her is the one thing she never planned on?

American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of "enchantment" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation.