Lady Enigma is a successful cat burglar who wont take crap from anyone. Even when thugs try to steal her most recent find after an apartment complex robbery, the Lady is not threatened. Shes capable of besting them before speeding off in her luxurious Corvette. After a night of adventure, Lady Enigma decides to step into the Gemini Club for a drinkand thats when everything changes. Enigma meets handsome, shy Phillip Sydney and feels an immediate attraction. After a bit of foreplay, she takes him back to her place to show him the art of lovemaking, Lady Enigma style. The next morning, shes back to her usual tricks or is she? Has this quiet young man awakened something in hersomething that might make her give up her thieving ways? In the midst of her identity crisis, Lady Enigma once again encounters thug trouble. When Phillip stands up for her in a fight, Enigma suspects shes falling for him. Will she be able to renounce the cat burglar lifestyle and tell Phillip about her true identity? More importantly, who is Phillip Sydney really, and why does she feel as though shes met him before? Perhaps her lover has an enigma of his own

?Crack shot.? ?Enigma woman.? ?Good with ponies and pistols.? ?A much-married woman.? ø What if such an unconventional woman?and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional?were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband?s bullet-riddled body was found in the couple?s Burbank apartment, police issued an all-points bulletin for the ?beautiful, dark-haired widow.? The ensuing drama unfolded with all the strange twists and turns of a noir crime novel.øøøøøø ø In this intriguing cultural history, Kathleen A. Cairns tells the true tale of the first woman sentenced to death in California, Nellie May Madison. Her story offers a glimpse into law and disorder in 1930s Los Angeles while bringing to life a remarkable character whose plight reflects on the status of woman, the workings of the media and the judiciary system, and the stratification of society in her time. An intriguing cultural history, Cairns?s re-creation of the case from murder to trial to aftermath casts an eye forward to our own love-hate affair with celebrity crimes and our abiding ambivalence about domestic violence abuse as a defense for murder.

Sunni, her stepbrother Dean, and an art-student friend trace the footsteps of a labyrinth built in Blackhope Tower by a sixteenth-century artist, and suddenly find themselves trapped inside his painting, trying desperately to get out.

This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa—the archetypical snake-woman—have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame. The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids—from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara—and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.