Some secrets can be dangerous. If I don't find a way to escape mine, I'll be dead soon. The day I fall for flirtatious Brian is the day my life starts to unravel. My friends think I am doing fine, but my smile masks a dark secret, hidden beside other burdens that are tearing me apart inside. No one knows how lonely I am. How the pain is swiftly making me numb to everything. How it's becoming harder to hold onto my faith in God. I've been pretending for so long that the lie protects me from the truth. It's easy to pretend you're happy when you lose someone or when the bullies torment you, or when you're dating the most popular boy in school. But when the queen bully's usual intimidation surges into something more sinister, and someone starts using my secrets to threaten me, my very life is at stake in more ways than one. *Previously published as indigo's struggle. Exclusive Revised Edition. Book #4 is a clean realistic mystery with suspense that deals with heavy-hitting topics like depression, peer pressure, the struggle with faith and sin, and suicide, appropriate for young adult and up.

The first collection of nonfiction work by the author in more than two decades features fifty-seven essays and reviews on a wide range of topics, including John Updike, Toni Morrison, grunge, September 11th, and Gabriel Garca Mrquez, among others. Reprint.

The riveting account of the landmark "Hit Man Case"--involving a man who hired a contract killer to execute his ex-wife, his severely brain-damaged son, and the boy's nurse--written by a noted First Amendment attorney who risked his reputation and career to take on the case.

"“….been hidden in the curtain that differs fantasy from reality.” Blaise Reynor who owned a perfect life, being a billionaire. But sometimes the actuality differs than what seems. Despite of owning the treacherous, that was flames. It was life that turned out to be a misery. Until someone stepped into his life, dragging him out of his decease. “The world’s reality is a lot more different….it’s anything but a wonderland.” Giselle Oslen, never in her existence wondered her surrounding will be turning into Fire. And the thing was, she owned the medium to mend it."

When Laura met Scott, they quickly became high school sweethearts. They looked forward to a life filled with happiness, but their dreams darkened when Scott lost his eyesight. Eager to regroup, the couple moves back to Scotts hometown in Carter, Texas. Its just like dozens of other small towns in that part of the state, with an oil company controlling its school systems, police department, and politics. Not long after they arrive, however, Scotts father, Jack, is found shot dead in his car. The authorities rule it a suicide, and Scott blames himself for his fathers death. He thinks that his blindness must have pushed him over the edge. With her marriage getting worse by the day, Laura begins to have doubts about her father-in-laws suicide. She knows that Jack Sellers was a man who loved himself too much to take his own life. When she questions the deputy sheriff and discovers that he, too, has doubts about the death, she sets out on a mission to catch a killer. Now, Lauras marriage and her life depend on finding a killer that few people believe exists in the small town of Carter. A Blind Intention will help catch Jack Sellers' killer.

Tragedy has forced sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein to swear off alchemy forever. He burns the Dark Library. He vows he will never dabble in the dark sciences again, just as he vows he will no longer covet Elizabeth, his brother's betrothed. If only these things were not so tempting

Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how certain European powers initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, and how it was an instrument of choice in World War II. Beau Grosscup shows that such methods, used initially as a means of terrorizing native populations in Africa and the Middle East, have become the primary form of terrorism in more recent decades. While such 'strategic terror' is not classed as 'terrorism' in the West, this reflects an unwillingness to confront the human costs and immorality of aerial bombardment. Grosscup argues that if terrorism is to be diminished, the role of aerial bombing in sustaining global violence must be recognized.