Chance Washington only has a few things on his mind when he embarks on a trip back to his hometown. Completing the assignment for work that's sending him there in the first place, helping his mom make progress on her fixer-upper home, and catching up with some of his best friends who he doesn't get to see often enough. What is not a part of those plans is hooking up with one of his best friend's little sister. But it doesn't take long for him to realize that just because you walk into a game with a strategy, doesn't always mean things are going to go as planned.Londyn Miller isn't looking for a relationship; a casual fling more her thing after blowing through the limited dating options in her hometown. But when a handsome - familiar - face returns to town for an extended stay, the decision to pursue him for a little fun is an easy one; as long as she's sure not to let that fun turn into real feelings while also managing to keep it all from her overprotective big brother.Just like Chance, Londyn quickly learns that plans and strategy can only get you so far before you're forced to make in-game adjustments. And when those in-game adjustments evolve into something neither expected, it becomes a race for the finish line that Chance nor Londyn saw coming...

With the internet, smartphones, and video games easily available to increasing portions of society, researchers are becoming concerned with the potential side effects and consequences of their prevalence in people’s daily lives. Many individuals are losing control of their internet use, using it and other devices excessively to the point that they negatively affect their wellbeing as these individuals withdraw from social life and use their devices to escape from the pressure of the real world. As such, it is imperative to seek new methods and strategies for identifying and treating individuals with digital addictions. Multifaceted Approach to Digital Addiction and Its Treatment is an essential research publication that explores the definition and different types of digital addiction, including internet addiction, smartphone addiction, and online gaming addition, and examines overall treatment approaches while covering sample cases by practitioners working with digital addiction. This book highlights topics such as neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychodynamics. It is ideal for psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, health professionals, students, educators, researchers, and practitioners.

It wasn't the physical pain that stayed with me, it was the emotional mind games that I still suffered from. Two years later and I still carried those scars everywhere. But then two megastar athletes walked into my life with their own kind of games, and suddenly hiding wasn't so easy. Their games made me forget my issues. Made me feel safe again. Made me laugh again. Made me trust again. Made me forget I even had a reason to hide in the first place.And with them, I ultimately agreed to the craziest game of all--a new relationship that would test friendships, boundaries, and trust.The problem was....once I let my guard down......I was found. My past intertwined with my present to complicate an already perverse situation. Despite my past, despite the obstacles, and despite the forbidden games we play..... can our new relationship find a happy ending? And if we do, will I be forced to choose between them? Neither of them? Or will I get to keep them?Both.*This is an adult sports romance designed to be fun, quirky, and lite.....with a little bit of dark sprinkled in. MFM leads and an HEA.

Documents the history of the video game Tetris and looks at the role games play in art, culture, and commerce.

We think we’re relating to other people–but actually we’re all playing games. Forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne’s classic is as astonishing–and revealing–as it was on the day it was first published. This anniversary edition features a new introduction by Dr. James R. Allen, president of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant Life magazine review from 1965. We play games all the time–sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like “Martini” (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like “If It Weren’t For You” and “Uproar,” to flirtation favorites like “The Stocking Game” and “Let’s You and Him Fight,” Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives. Explosive when it first appeared, Games People Play is now widely recognized as the most original and influential popular psychology book of our time. It’s as powerful and eye-opening as ever.

Jada has endured her husband's infidelities for the past two years. The first time she caught Ben in the act, he promised that was the first and last time he would be unfaithful to her. She loves her husband, so made the choice to stay and give him another chance, but the lies and deception continued. His infidelity is taking a toll on her mentally and emotionally. Jada's at an impasse and doesn't know what to do to take control of her marriage.Erika, her best friend, presents Jada with an idea she never would've considered before. Cheat back. Beat Ben at his own game. At first, Jada can't stomach the idea of having sex with another man. She's only shared that kind of intimacy with Ben since their college days. Eventually, Jada comes to the conclusion that it's time for Ben to take a dose of his own medicine. Jada meets two completely different men, Wayne-a successful businessman, and Elijah-a starving artist following his dreams in the Big Apple. The dynamics of the game change, revealing secrets that could destroy her world. Will she beat Ben at his own game, or will Jada be scarred for life, attempting to play a game she was never equipped to win in the first place?