A sheltered young woman fleeing abuse. The tattooed rebel who befriends her. Can their unlikely attraction turn to love? A young woman on the run When her alcoholic father's abuse escalates, eighteen-year-old Mia flees the only home she's ever known. She needs to run far and fast. She needs to start a new life. After a lifetime riddled with dysfunction, she craves normal--and safe. Love is the last thing on her mind. Until a sexy stranger enters her world. A globe-trotting rebel Tattooed, pierced Damien is everything Mia's mother warned her against. Restless and free-spirited, he’s the rogue son of his wealthy family. As their friendship deepens, Mia’s attraction to Damien intensifies. Still, she never expected that he might return her feelings. Until the night he kisses her. When attraction flares into passion, will Mia play it safe--or will she follow her heart? Complete series available! Over the Edge is a steamy new adult romance series. If you like emotional ups and downs, witty dialogue, and stories of young romance and new beginnings, then you’ll love this sexy page-turner! Vol. 1 is the first part of this two-volume series and ends on a cliffhanger.

A relationship under fire. A fight for survival. Can their love weather the storm? A struggle for acceptance Damien and Mia’s relationship deepens, but powerful forces threaten to destroy their newfound love. When Damien’s wealthy parents learn of his relationship with Mia, they’ll stop at nothing to rip her out of his life—and his heart. A battle for survival When Damien’s mother unleashes her worst, Mia finds herself on the verge of losing the future she’s fought to build. Can Mia and Damien stop his mother’s vindictive quest to ruin Mia’s life? Or will her money and power destroy Mia and tear the young lovers apart? Complete series available! Over the Edge is a steamy new adult romance series. Vol. 2 is the second and final part of this two-volume series.

From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing essays ranging widely on topics from tourism to immigration, from environmental battles to interethnic relations, and from law to film. Taken together, the essays reassess the contributions of a diverse and multicultural America to the West, as they link western issues to global frontiers. Featuring the latest work by some of the best new writers both inside and outside academia, the original essays in Over the Edge confront the traditional field of western American studies with a series of radical, speculative, and sometimes outrageous challenges. The collection reads the West through Ben-Hur and the films of Mae West; revises the western American literary canon to include the works of African American and Mexican American writers; examines the implications of miscegenation law and American Indian blood quantum requirements; and brings attention to the historical participation of Mexican and Japanese American women, Native American slaves, and Alaskan cannery workers in community life.

A playboy heir. A near-bankrupt floral designer. A fake marriage gone wrong—or could it be right? Ronan I was born into money, but I can’t touch my trust fund until I turn 35. Unless I get married. But I’m not a one-woman man, and marriage isn’t a trade-off worth even considering. Until now. With my business on the line, I need to tap my trust. And to do that, I need a wife. Ava’s beautiful, classy, and smart. She’s also a hell of an actress, and more than capable of fitting into Hamptons society. In every way, she’s the perfect fake wife for me. Except I want to tap her, too. Ava I never imagined I would consider a fake marriage. All I wanted was to get my business off the ground, and someday—eventually—to meet Mr. Right. But with my dreams about to end in bankruptcy, Ronan’s offer is my only way out. Unfortunately, there’s a catch. When he looks at me, my knees turn to rubber, and when he touches me, my body lights up like a g*ddamned disco ball. He’s anything but Mr. Right. He’s domineering, stubborn, and hot-tempered, and while he knows how to turn on the charm, I can’t let myself fall for it—or for him. He’s my financial salvation. But if I don’t protect myself, he could break my heart. Heir of the Hamptons is a steamy, standalone romance with an HEA. If you like sizzling romance, sexy banter, and characters you’ll laugh and cry with, then you’ll love Ronan and Ava’s story!

Through their search to achieve a sense of academic identity the authors in this volume have brought us new textures and ideas from their research to help us all in our creation and location of spaces we can claim as our own. Working within the traditions of academic scholarship, we are reformulating what we see and presenting it in a previously unexplored perspective of connections and possibilities. Through our presentation of this view, we are asserting a new location for the academic identity negotiation that will challenge and reinforce our positioning within scholarly endeavors. The articles contained in these pages are themselves markers of identity produced within and created to define the academic culture. From this base of academic tradition, the essays contained in this volume share grounding in the exploration of culturally produced markers of identity pulling from various academic disciplines. Through the examination of the performance of identity markers, each scholar develops and reveals connections that we may utilize in our ever-expanding perspective of scholarly subjects and approaches.

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DIVA collection of interdisciplinary essays examining the ever-changing communities and discussions connected to American popular music./div