Sydney loves Kyler, but he is a player, and she won't risk their friendship by declaring her feelings for him. Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal, but in his mind, he will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Kyler hides his feelings for Sydney by bedding lots of other women. When they are stranded together in a snowstorm, their feelings come to the surface, but someone is stalking them, and they may not get out alive.

Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighboring societies unraveled in the face of extremes in temperature and precipitation. By tracing the occasionally counterintuitive manifestations of climate change from global to local scales, Degroot finds that the Little Ice Age presented not only challenges for Dutch citizens but also opportunities that they aggressively exploited in conducting commerce, waging war, and creating culture. The overall success of their Republic in coping with climate change offers lessons that we would be wise to heed today, as we confront the growing crisis of global warming.

Camilla Frost will make apple pastries for anyone who visits her family’s boarding house, unless they’re a dragon princess, a volatile vampire, or… an infuriating–but attractive–phoenix shifter. So when her father allows two shifters to stay, she tries to convince her family it’s a bad idea. They could burn the house down, they could destroy the apple orchard, or even worse… she might even begin to like them. Unfortunately the phoenix is charming and the dragon is becoming an unlikely friend. Camilla lets her guard down. When a member of her family is turned into a vampire, she’s afraid the shifters will hunt him down. Now the shifters’ presence in her home isn’t just inconvenient, it’s deadly. If they find out the truth, they could destroy the people she cares most about. *Frigid is the first book in the Frost Boarding House, is a prequel series to the USA Today Bestselling series The Siren Prophecy (Shifter Academy). *Set in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800’s, it’s filled with magic and slow-burn romance. It features a stubborn, unlikely heroine and a swoon-worthy hero.

Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.

The Arctic Ocean is a hard place to live. Frigidly cold, the ocean freezes during the long, dark winters. In summer, you can still find ice there. Readers will discover the plants and animals that live in, on, and near this special place, and the scientists who explore its mysteries.

Can one princess find hope before her best friend’s heart is turned to ice? Every year a man is chosen to make the journey up the forbidden mountain to appease the Frozen Queen, only to return with a frozen heart. When Crown Princess Bianca learns her best friend is this year’s chosen, she is devastated. And she’s willing to do anything to save Percival from that fate. Percival’s heartbroken when he finds the mark selecting him to be this year’s chosen. He’s Bianca’s personal guard – and he has been in love with her for years. But with the selection mark comes a warning: to disobey means death, not just for him but for everyone in the kingdom. Can Bianca save her people from the endless winter and prevent Percival from losing his heart? Or will all be lost to the frigid reign of the Frozen Queen? A Frigid Hope, a retelling of the Snow Queen, is a standalone novella, complete with tropes like he falls first and friends to lovers. It is part of the Hope Ever After series, a collection of twenty hopeful and uplifting fairy tale retellings. Each book is written by a different author so it can be enjoyed in any order. The proceeds from this series are donated to the O.U.R. (Operation Underground Railroad) to rescue children from exploitation and trafficking.