Once upon a time… A sister told her brothers, “Eventually, a girl is going to come along and flip your worlds upside down.” She was right… ...and Nate was the first to fall. After saving Remi from a house fire, Nate’s instantly drawn to her...like a moth to a flame. He should forget about her, the way he does with everyone else he saves. However, that’s easier said than done when he can’t stop thinking about her or those pretty green eyes. They are almost branded into his brain. It breaks his rules to visit her. Even if it’s to check she’s okay. But screw it...Nate’s rules can go and burn. The woman from the fire is more than he expects; funny, sweet and hot as hell. Suddenly those careful plans he has in place no longer seem important. Can Nate create something unique with the woman of his dreams, or will his past, jealous best friend and her crazy ex-boyfriend take the spark that is their attraction and make it disappear in a puff of smoke?

It's possible they're a match but first the two men will have to survive trial by fire. Chief Flynn is fighting smoke and flames, tirelessly protecting the lives and property of fellow islanders from yet another spate of fires. Arson or accident? When injury puts him on the sidelines, West Coast Forensics Arson Investigator Kimball Frye offers his assistance. Frye is The Most Irritating Man in the World, a condescending know-it-all who rubs Devon the wrong way. Or does he? Decades ago an arsonist stole his family from him since then Frye has devoted his life to putting them behind bars. At forty-nine, he doesn't believe in permanent relationships, instead preferring the company of interchangeable younger men. Is the arsonist trying to shift the blame onto Devon, or trying to kill him? If it's the latter it just might work. Feeling the pull of attraction to Devon as the firebug grows bolder is inconvenient. Will Kimball listen to his heart or his head? The younger men he's always preferred are nothing like the solid, stalwart Fire Chief. #SlowBurn #OppositesAttract #LoveLaterInLife #ProtectiveHeros #Bickering #SlowSlowSlowBurn Real Risk is the third in the West Coast Forensics series and can be read as a standalone but may be enjoyed more if you read Real Trouble and Real Danger first. It is dual POV following Devon Flynn and Kimball Frye as they bicker and fumble their way to their happily ever after.

Starting over leads them right back to their beginning. And straight into trouble. Soren Jorgensen has just one regret - getting involved with bad boy Dany Petyr. Dany had warned him, but Soren let his heart take the lead and he'll never be the same. A new job in a new town offers Soren a fresh start. He won't make the same mistake again. Then Dany shows up in the middle of a case, turning Soren's tidy world upside down. Dany regrets hurting Soren. But if he could go back in time he'd make the same decision. His history is too toxic for a man like Soren. Piedras Island is the perfect place for Dany to hide out, until--well, possibly forever. When a local man is murdered tensions on the island rise, and accusations fly. Will Dany run again, or can Soren convince him to stay this time and face the danger head-on, together? The West Coast Forensics series is dual POV and follows a different couple in each book as they try to stop killers, unravel mystery and find family they can call their own. grumpy sunshine, opposites, age gap, found family, small town, friends to lovers, a dire need for coffee. Did I mention grumpy?

An epic novel of genius and obsession — apocalyptic, lyrical and erotically charged. Spanning three centuries and two cultures, Hunger’s Brides brings to vivid life the greatest Spanish poet of her time, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and plumbs a mystery that has intrigued writers as diverse as Robert Graves, Diane Ackerman, Eduardo Galeano and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Why did a writer of such gifts silence herself? At the time of her death in 1695, Juana Inés de la Cruz was arguably the greatest writer working in any European tongue, yet she had never set foot in Europe. Instead she was born among the descendants of the Aztec empire, in the shadow of the mountain pass Cortés and his troops descended on their advance to Montezuma’s capital. A child prodigy from a barbarous wilderness, her beauty and wit provoked a sensation at the viceregal court in Mexico City. But at the age of nineteen, still a favourite of the court, Juana entered a convent, and from that point her life unfolded between the mystery of her sudden flight from palace to cloister, and the enigma of her final vow of silence, signed in blood. After a quarter-century of graceful, often sensuous poetry, plays and theological argument, Sor Juana chose silence, which she maintained until she died of plague at the age of forty-five. Drawing on chronicles of the conquest and histories of the Inquisition, myth cycles and archeological studies, ancient poetry and early Spanish accounts of blood sacrifice, Hunger’s Brides is a mammoth work of inspired historical fiction framed in a contemporary mystery. In the dead of a Calgary winter night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding — in his arms he clutches a box he has found on her table addressed to him. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected, now-disgraced, academic. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students, and for a brief time his lover. Brilliant, erratic, voracious, she had disappeared two years earlier in Mexico, following the thread of her growing obsession with Sor Juana. Over the ensuing days and weeks, as a police investigation closes in around him, Gregory pieces together the contents of the box she has left him: a poetic journal of her travel in Mexico, diaries, research notes, unposted letters, and a strange manuscript — part biography, part novel — on Sor Juana. Hunger’s Brides is a dramatic unveiling of three intimate journeys: a man’s forced march to self-knowledge, a great poet’s withdrawal from the world, and a profane mystic’s pilgrimage into modern Mexico, in which the bones of the past constantly poke through a present built on the ruins of the vanquished. Excerpt from Hunger’s Brides “From the moment I was first illuminated by the light of reason, my inclination toward letters has been so vehement that not even the admonitions of others . . . nor my own meditations have been sufficient to cause me to forswear this natural impulse that God placed in me . . . that inclination exploded in me like gunpowder. . . .” —Sor Juana, in a letter of self-defence written to a bishop in 1691, just before she took a vow of silence

Abridged Science for High School Students, Volume I is a general science book that provides a concise discussion of wide array of scientific topics. The book is designed to supplement integrated science courses. The contents of the text cover a wide variety of scientific disciplines and are not structured in any way. The coverage of the book includes discussions on matter, heat, weather, gravity, time, and evolution. The book will be of great interest to anyone who wants to have access to a wide variety of scientific disciplines in one publication.