An amusing, inspiring novel about a disillusioned, middle-aged accountant who spends an eye-opening, empowering day with a quirky college girl named Kyla.

The Mayan Calendar ends in December 2012. The world expects Armageddon, desolation, horror. The destruction is tempered by the cleansing of the air, water, earth. The One comes in an unexpected form, carrying within his body a virus that can correct the damage in human DNA. It is transmitted in only one shocking way. Those chosen to receive this Gift become younger, their diseases and infirmities gone. The powerful creature visits Moscow, Paris, New York, healing the rich for a great price. He makes his home on the deserted island of Aruba where he shares a special gift with Adam and his wife, one that will change their lives forever.

Jerry is a well-educated man. Not only does he have a college degree, but he's street-smart, having grown up selling drugs on the streets of Savannah, Georgia. He enlists in the army, but upon his return to civilian life, he goes back to his old, dangerous ways. After receiving his MBA, though, he finally realizes it's time to move on; he heads to far-off Chicago, Illinois, looking for a new, clean start. He meets Karen-a beautiful woman who seemingly comes from a different world. She is highly educated, and her family fought brave battles in the Civil Rights movement. Jerry can't help himself; he falls head-over-heels in love. Karen shows him a way to live a life of love, but she also shows him how to love "her"-in the bedroom and out. It's never easy to escape the past, though, as Jerry soon discovers. Along with his newfound feelings for Karen, the skeletons in his closet come knocking. Can two people from different places and different backgrounds survive the sins of the past? In order to defeat dangerous obstacles, Jerry and Karen will have to lean on their passion for one another-or else fall into old habits and lost love.

There is nothing in common between the king of France's brutal suppression of the Knights Templar Order in 1307 and a small, backward, closely knit community of serfs living in the rural island of Malta who are dominated by religion and superstition. Until Jacques, a Templar knight who manages to escape the wrath of the French king, sails away from France to seek refuge in Sicily but got lost in a storm and lands his battered boat on the shore near the serfs' hamlet. For centuries, the serfs' sexual deprivations and close association with their farm animals has driven them to practice unnatural sexual intercourse with their animals and with members of their families, and even with the local priest, perversions of bestiality and incest which, however, they manage to keep as a close secret within the confines of their community. This ancient way of life suddenly faces the unthinkable hazard of exposure when Jacques becomes fascinated with Maria, a young, beautiful, and unblemished goatherd, and inevitably they both fall in passionate love with each other. This attracts the envy of the rest of the hypocrite inhabitants, especially the females, who fail to recognise the chasm that exists between their sexual perversions and the normal sensual attraction between a man and a woman in love. Maria and Jacques are persecuted and forced to flee, and they sail to the safety of Palermo, in nearby Sicily where they marry. While Maria vows to return someday to avenge herself on her compatriots, would she, a simple goatherd, succeed in coping with the vastly different town life in cosmopolitan and fashionable Palermo? A compelling novel about love, hate, war, sex, and revenge in a medieval society.

She is a beautiful, sensual, and sexy woman who needs passion, welcomes experimentation, and wants to fulfill her sexual fantasies. But even she thinks all those wants and needs sound like a dangerous combination for a fifty-five-year-old married woman. She is about to learn just how destructive her choices can be. /p>

As she begins looking for lovers online who can satisfy every wanton, animalistic desire that her husband cannot, she meets both younger men and older men-and all but two are married. Despite being new to the world of affairs, she enthusiastically plunges into covert, wild liaisons with a corporate attorney, a police officer, a doctor, a grad student, a French Canadian, and a young executive. She soon discovers, though, that the world of online sexual escapades is a game, and she is not privy to all the rules. /p>

She is a fantasy, an erotic cocktail, and every man's wet dream. But she is also a professional, respectable lady, and the epitome of married innocence. Only time will tell if she will ever be able to separate her intense sexual desires from what she really needs to find in the end-herself.

Beautiful women can-and will-stoop to ugly acts in the name of love, lust, and power.

In the face of unspeakable erotic betrayal, no one is safe. Behold how lust and passion can quickly cloud judgment-and how wrong choices will forever change a friendship. These lifelong friends will soon learn that beauty is truly only skin deep as the true ugliness of their souls is revealed by the most horrific of acts and emotions.

As young girls, January, Jasmine, Monica, Charlene, and Terry vowed to be friends forever. As teens, their emerging passions began to test the bonds of their friendship. As adults, lust, deception, and treachery cause their lives to come crashing down. Can their friendship survive the ultimate betrayal?

Their passion for life is what connected them as friends, but now this same passion threatens to break them apart. When the dust settles, who will be left standing and able to pick up the pieces? Can friendship triumph over betrayal?

It was Lt. Rick Bollinger's last assignment in Afghanistan! He got his men through it fine! They were high fiveing each other when he was called into his Commander's office and given a telelgram from his father! His younger sister had been brutally beaten and raped by a gang of Mexican illegal's back home, and could possibly lose the sight in one of her eyes! Rick arrived home only to find that the police leads had dried up, and politically, their hands were tied! Rick's hand weren't!