Abandoned at the age of five, Johnny Avalon was tossed from foster family to foster family. Growing up, he was determined to be the master of his own fate. Overcoming insurmountable odds, he quickly became streetwise. He played the game well enough to be a millionaire before the age of twenty-five. His wealth gave him power and influence to control others. All the players in Chicago knew Johnny. Many feared him, but few respected him. His search for his identity leads him to a country and people he knows nothing about. Driven with desire, he is forced to face his greatest fears.

Callum Flint has lived a life most only dream about. Growing up in a loving family with supportive parents and countless opportunities to find his niche, Callum finds himself doing what he loves as a production manager of a large construction company based in Ireland. Now confident that he can direct his own path, Callum finds himself swept away and fumbling for the super suave nature he usually permeates as he finds himself face to face with a feisty pub waitress in the heart of Ireland. Chloe Wakefield has spent all of her adult life as a loner. With all of her family gone and having moved to a foreign country right out of high school, the hard-working Montana native is determined to make a new life for herself. After years of heartbreak from which she never intended to recover from, Chloe finds herself in the unexpected grips of an emotional roller coaster with her one true soul mate. Through life's twists and turns, Chloe's life falls back and forth from the easy predictability of being alone to the frightening vulnerability that comes with giving the heart away to another. Follow along as Chloe and Callum find through life and death, victory and tragedy, and love and loss, who they are truly meant to be and the beautiful disastrous life that they are truly meant to live.

As an undergraduate advisor, Mary was accustomed to helping students with their academic and personal problems. When she starts to have intense, bizarre, and sometimes terrifying dreams, she must face her own past, and a daunting truth. With humor and love, her friends and family keep her sane, while meditation and faith spawn the courage needed for her journey. As this is an erotic mystery, there are slippery twists and turns until the very last page. Sultry seductions, unexpected passions, shifting identities, and contemporary relationships thread throughout the story. What else is it about? Race, rage, rape, repression, revelation, redemption.

When Barry's military orders come through he is forced to return to active duty in Iraq and leave Tracie-the one woman willing to do anything to please him-behind. Barry and Tracie's love is exciting and intense; it is a sexual love bursting with erotic adventures, and Barry tells it all. He misses her terribly and is counting the days until he sees her again. But when tragedy strikes and she believes that Barry has been captured or dead, his fellow squad mate, Malik, pays Tracie a visit back home. He is curious to see if she is as amazing as Barry led them to believe. When he finds out that she is all that and more, he will stop at nothing to have her.

His obsession with her takes an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Barry continues to fight for his life in a hospital in Germany. While he slowly recuperates, he dreams about the future that awaits him and his one true love. "Soldier Swagger" chronicles the sexy and exciting escapades of Private First Class Barry M. Williams, a new and unforgettable lady's man.

The start of an epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid—book two in her fan-favorite Game Changers series.

Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander’s game.

Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that—definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate.

Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane’s not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he’s as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him—except Shane. Publicly, they’re enemies. Privately, they can’t stop touching each other.

The smart thing to do? Walk away, once a few secret hookups turn into a struggle to keep their relationship out of the press. The truth could ruin them both. But for Shane and Ilya, secrecy is soon no longer an option…

In the 1960's Customs Agents worked hard played hard. This book will highlight some of the cases and the comical things that happened in the day to day activities of a Customs Special Agent. It is intended to make you laugh at some of the antics of fellow workers, as to what they said and did. Funny things that occurred while conducting actual investigations. This book was written as fiction, but taken from real life experiences. It is left to your imagination, where reality lies and fiction begins. It will give you insight as to how an Agent picks out a smuggler from a crowd of arriving airline passengers. It will take you through the passenger selection process to the final determination and seizure. This book highlights the achievements of John Rennish in major investigations, while bringing the realities of life and things that occur beyond your imagination. There are several seizures, of large amounts of narcotics, of jewelry and diamonds, as well as plant and animal material. Some of these seizures will make you laugh. This book also touches of the life of airport personnel and the way it really was in the 1960's and 70's.