A young woman is found one evening on a residential street in critical condition. Her subsequent death remains a mystery; the only key to what happened is an assistive device found on her. Mara McEdwards, a third generation detective, is assigned to the case. In no time, she is swept into a new world she has never heard of. A world where communication is silent and challenges await her. At the same time Mara struggles to search for clues, an explosive campaign of terror grips the heart of the cochlear implant industry. Mara McEdwards finds herself in a desperate race against time to catch the suspects, a ruthless psychopath and a sinister terrorist. Her mission comes to a climactic and shocking conclusion.

"A man is murdered on a sleepy island, and three people are accused of murdering him: an aging beauty queen, her guitar-teacher lover, and the widow"--

Combining three intersecting time lines from 1966 and 2030, the focus of "Deception's Legacy" is Andalucía, Spain where multiple religions lived in relative peace until the bloody Spanish Inquisition.

Is love worth the risk… An unhappy marriage taught Terri Powers never to trust again. Instead, she put all her energy into developing her inner strength and independence—creating the successful New York advertising agency she'd always dreamed of. Then she meets handsome, strong–willed businessman Clinton Steele. Try as she might, Terri can't fight the sensual attraction between them—or the desperate hunger that fires her deepest passions… …when everything is at stake? Neither Terri nor Clinton can ever imagine just how much is at risk. But when a stranger appears from Terri's forgotten past who calls himself a friend—his deception could destroy everything Terri has fought so hard to build. Now two wary hearts have to persevere, as long–buried secrets put Terri and Clinton's love to the most perilous test of all…

In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that undercover work is not a separate world, but rather it embodies a central discipline of good reporting—the ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public’s attention. Together with a companion website that gathers some of the best investigative work of the past century, Undercover Reporting serves as a rallying call for an endangered aspect of the journalistic endeavor.

Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Includes an illuminating Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hofstadter.

In this sequel to Vision: The Path To Danger, Clairvoyant Helen Staples steps in to a dangerous case just as her personal life shows a glimmer of promise. For two years Helen kept her self busy with missing person cases. Most of the cases only took a few days to solve, but all served to help distract her from the broken heart shed suffered after Martin Hamlins murder. When Quincy Hart invites Helen to dinner, she is looking forward to getting to know the handsome harbor master better. Their first date is put on hold when Helen gets involved in a kidnapping case. Upon touching the young secretarys scarf, Helen sees the danger that the woman is in. Its a perilous case that Helen cant turn away from. An international human trafficking ring is behind the womans disappearance and after two years of avoiding dangerous cases, Helen dives into what could be the most treacherous case of her career. As Helen searches for the secretary, using Key West, Florida as a base, she encounters a dangerous connection and blinding deception in the form of a mysterious millionaire who wants to possess Helen and her gifts.