It’s December, two years since I returned to Moonshadow Bay, and I’m about to marry Killian on the Winter Solstice. In the past two years, I've fought ghosts and urban legends, and each time I’ve come out triumphant, if scarred. Now, with the curse on the women of my family lifted, I can look forward to a long life doing what I love most, with the people I love best. And our work at Conjure Ink has been thankfully quiet as I adapt to my new disability. But a new threat arises to threaten not only the town, but the region. The Covenant of Chaos has been growing in strength, and their new leader—Mills McFarland—moves to town. The Court Magika charges the Crystal Cauldon with invoking a protector for Moonshadow Bay. But we find ourselves facing yet another problem that could prove deadly when one of our members falls under Mills’s spell. Now we must not only find a way to protect the town, but to rescue our friend and coven-mate from the Covenant of Chaos, all in the weeks leading up to my wedding! Includes the novella WEB OF DANGER! Themes/Tropes: Paranormal women's fiction; Paranormal romance; Paranormal mystery (NOT cozy); Ooo-spooky; Older heroine starts over; Supportive, faithful boyfriend; Hidden family secrets; Magical portals; Family of choice; Ghosts go bump in the night; Enchanted woodlands; HFN: Happy for now endings; Otherkin abound; Urban legends; Monster-hunting Heat Level: Extra-spicy/Explicit

In the aftermath of the dragon's retreat from our world, the only ones left behind are the ones who hate the humans, and those who love them. So things are still tense with the Dragonni who have stayed in our realm. But right now, I have far worse worries than this. Kilnakarn, the Kelpie King who abducted me and kept me as one of his enslaved concubines for two years, has tracked me down. He and his cronies are out to exact revenge, furious that the goddess Morgana saved me. Yutani, Talia, Wendy, and Wager are doing everything they can to help keep me safe, but sooner or later I'm going to have to face my worst nightmare, and either destroy him, or be destroyed.

The deployment of communications networks and distributed computing systems requires the use of open, standards-based, integrated management systems. During the last five years, the overall industry effort to develop, enhance, and integrate man agement systems has crystallized in the concept of management platforms. Manage ment platforms are software systems which provide open, multi vendor, multiprotocol distributed management services. They allow multiple management applications to run over core platform services which constitute the essential part of the management platform framework. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the features and technical character istics of distributed management platforms by examining both qualitative and quanti tative management capabilities required by each management platform service. The analysis covers the management platform run-time environment, the operational aspects of using management platforms, the development environment, which con sists of software toolkits that are used to build management applications, the imple mentation environment, which deals with testing interoperability aspects of using management platforms, and of course the distributed applications services which plat forms make available to management applications. Finally, the analysis covers the capabilities of several management applications, either generic or specific to devices or resources which run on top of management platforms.

Now that I know where Gretchen Wyre lives--the witch who hexed my great-great grandmother and all her female descendants--it's time to break the curse. I enlist my grandmother Rowan and my grandmother Naomi--who's visiting from Ireland--to help. But just because we know where Gretchen is, doesn't guarantee success. And some curses take on a demonic life of their own, and those demons aren't willing to vanish into the sunset without a fight.

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Web-based technology is rapidly penetrating many business areas, including systems and network management. This new technology is based on the Internet, offering benefits in terms of unification and simplification of systems and network management. Web-based Systems and Network Management is a practical guide to managing Web-based network systems. The first serious book on this subject - based on a three-day seminar developed by the author- demonstrates the use of Web technology , and shows how the various components of the Internet and Intranets must be economically and securely managed. Web-based standardization is taking three main directions: Port 280, JavaAPI, and Wbem (Web-based Enterprise Management). These are discussed in depth and the opportunities and limitations of each are addressed. The book not only handles the basics but also gives guidance on their use to simplify systems and network management.

Finally, the shadow man is gone. I’ve been on sabbatical, trying to work on a book, but I’m getting antsy to return to my job. And then, one beautiful April morning, Rebecca the Imp delivers a message to me: Briar, the Fae Lord who helped us when we were trying to save Tad and Hank from Bigfoot, has called in my debt. It’s time to repay the favor. A dangerous member of the sub-Fae has escaped from the Overking’s realm and it’s loose in Moonshadow Bay. If the Court Magika discovers that a sluagh is running around, it could endanger negotiations between the Witchblood and the Fae. So Briar assigns the task to me: find and destroy the sluagh. The trouble is, I can’t tell my grandmother about it, or any member of the Court. So it’s back to Conjure Ink, to resume work on a part-time basis, and to enlist the agency’s help in tracking down the sub-Fae. Can I manage to clear my debt to the Overkings? And can we destroy the sluagh before it goes on a killing spree through Moonshadow Bay?