"I am in awe of her talent."- Julia Quinn In the fifth installment of USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's charming Palace of Rogues series, a rakish spy finds more than he bargained for in his pursuit of an earl's enchanting runaway fiancee. The mission: Find the Earl of Brundage's runaway fiancee in exchange for a fortune. Child's play for legendary British former spymaster, Christian Hawkes. The catch? Hawkes knows in his bones that Brundage is the traitor to England who landed him in a brutal French prison. Hawkes is destitute, the earl is desperate, and a bargain is struck. Fleeing a savagely shattered dream, the sheltered Lady Aurelie Capet finds refuge in an alias and the warmth and kindness of the Grand Palace on the Thames-until a gorgeous, mysterious disturbance to her peace literally topples through the door. An unexpected, fierce desire that feels destined, dangerous-and devastatingly sweet-ignites between the sheltered beauty and the jaded spy, and as they slowly unravel each other's shocking secrets Hawkes closes in on the truth about the earl. Soon it's clear they can have no future without vanquishing the past: Hawkes knows that loving her means avenging her. Aurelie knows that loving Hawkes means freeing him to do that, no matter the cost.

The first study focusing on the composition of new plainchant in northern-French confraternities for masses and offices in honor of saints thought to have healing powers Starting in the fourteenth century, northern France saw the rise of confraternities and other lay communities of men and women, organized around trades and religious devotions dedicated to specific patron saints. The composition of new plainchant for masses and offices in honor of saints thought to have healing powers occupied an important place in the devotional landscape of the region. Sarah Ann Long's deeply researched new book highlights the decentralized nature of religious and spiritual authority from 1300-1550, which allowed confraternities to cultivate liturgical practices heavily influenced by popular devotional literature. It challenges pre-conceived notions of the power of the Catholic Church at that time, and the extent to which religious devotions were regulated and standardized. The resulting conclusion is that confraternity devotions occupied a liminal space that provided a certain amount of musical freedom. Examining musical culture at the intersection of the medieval and early modern eras, this work explores such subjects as manuscript production and early music printing; and it investigates not only plainchant, but a broad range of musical styles from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. These include polyphonic embellishments of chant written by some of the most famous composers of the era, which were performed at the French, Burgundian, and Papal Courts.

Long has created a fabulous series set against the feud of the wealthy Eversea and Redmond families of Pennyroyal Green, Sussex. There will be plenty of romance, scandal, and interconnecting characters to enthrall any fan of Regency-set novels!

USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long continues her Palace of Rogues series with a brand-new romance about an ambitious American and a headstrong British heiress. He's the battle-hardened son of a bastard, raised in the wilds of New York. She's the sheltered, blue-blooded darling of the London broadsheets, destined to marry a duke. Their worlds could only collide in a boardinghouse by the London docks...and when they do, the sparks would ignite all of England. Nothing can stop Hugh Cassidy's drive to build an American empire...unless it's his new nemesis, the arrogant, beautiful, too-clever-by-half Lady Lillias Vaughn. The fascination is mutual. The temptation is merciless. And the inevitable indiscretion? Soul-searing-and the ruination of them both. Hugh's proposal salvages Lillias's honor but kills their dreams for their futures...until they arrive at a plan that could honorably set them free. But unraveling their entanglement inadvertently uncovers enthralling truths: about Lillias's wounded, tender heart and fierce spirit. About Hugh's stunning gentleness, depth, and courage. Soon Hugh knows that as surely as he'd fight a thousand battles to win her...the best way to love Lillias means breaking his own heart.

A broken truck, a broken career, and a breakup heard around the world land superstar John Tennessee McCord in Hellcat Canyon. Legend has it that hearts come in two colors there: gold or black. And that you can find whatever you're looking for, whether it's love ...or trouble. JT may have found both in waitress Britt Langley. His looks might cause whiplash and weak knees, but Britt sees past JT's rough edge and sexy drawl to a person a lot like her: in need of the kind of comfort best given hot and quick, with clothes off and the lights out. Her wit is sharp but her eyes and heart-not to mention the rest of her-are soft, and JT is falling hard. But Britt has a secret as dark as the hills, and JT's past is poised to invade their present. It's up to the people of Hellcat Canyon to help make sure their future includes a happily ever after. "Julie Anne Long's writing glows with emotional intensity and strong, passionate characterization." JAYNE ANN KRENTZ

A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building. Delilah Swanpoole, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, "Dear Dull Derring," is a lot more interesting-and perfidious-dead than alive. It's a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man. But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. When the charismatic naval hero tracks a notorious smuggler to a London boarding house known as the Rogue's Palace, seducing the beautiful, blue-blooded proprietress to get his man seems like a small sacrifice. They both believe love is a myth. But a desire beyond reason threatens to destroy the armor around their hearts. Now a shattering decision looms: Will Tristan betray his own code of honor...or choose a love that might be the truest thing he's ever known?

USA Today Bestseller! "Julie Anne Long reinvents the historical romance for modern readers." -Amanda Quick From USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long comes the second book in an exciting new historical romance series, the first since her beloved Pennyroyal Green series. He has devil's blood in his veins. At least, that's always been the legend. How else could the Duke of Brexford's notorious bastard son return from the dead? The brutal decade since Lucien Durand, Lord Bolt, allegedly drowned in the Thames forged him into a man who always gets what-and who-he wants. And what he wants is vengeance for his stolen birthright . . . and one wild night in Angelique Breedlove's bed. Angelique recognizes heartbreak when the enigmatic Lord Bolt walks into The Grand Palace on the Thames, and not even his devastating charm can tempt her to risk her own ever again. One scorching kiss drives home the danger. But in the space between them springs a trust that feels anything but safe. And the passion-explosive, consuming-drives Lucien to his knees. Now his whole life depends on proving his love to a woman who doesn't believe in it . . . because his true birthright, he now knows, is guardian of Angelique Breedlove's heart.

Sparks fly when a daring diva clashes with an ice-cold war hero in the newest thrilling romance in USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's Palace of Rogues series. She arrives in the dead of night, a mob out for blood at her heels: Mariana Wylde, the "Harlot of Haywood Street," an opera diva brought low by a duel fought for her favors. But the ladies of the Grand Palace on the Thames think they can make a silk purse from scandal: They'll restore her reputation and share in her triumph...provided they can keep her apart from that other guest. Coldly brilliant, fiercely honorable, General James Duncan Blackmore, the Duke of Valkirk, is revered, feared, desired...but nobody truly knows him. Until a clash with a fiery, vulnerable beauty who stands for everything he scorns lays him bare. It's too clear the only cure for consuming desire is conquest, but their only chance at happiness could lead to their destruction. The legendary duke never dreamed love would be his last battleground. Valkirk would lay down his life for Mariana, but his choice is stark: risk losing her forever, or do the one thing he vowed he never would...surrender.

She was a naive country girl. He was a billionaire's spoiled son. He was her first crush, her first heartbreak...and now her sworn enemy. As Avalon Harwood's fortunes soared, Maximilian "Mac" Coltrane's plummeted, and he had to fight his way back to where they both began: Hellcat Canyon. Now Mac and Avalon will play dirty-in more ways than one-to get what they each want: the glorious old abandoned Coltrane mansion. But when Avalon snaps the house up at auction, she discovers there's something awfully familiar about the extremely hot caretaker...Mac might have a heart of stone, and the abs to match, but Avalon-the dazzling girl whose heart was always too big and too reckless for her own good-was always his Kryptonite. And just like that, the stakes change: suddenly they're fighting not just for a house, but for a magic they tasted only once before and never since-long ago, with each other, at Devil's Leap. "Julie Anne Long's books are sexy and adorable!" -New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis

Julie Anne Long has created a fabulous series set against the feud of the wealthy Eversea and Redmond families of Pennyroyal Green, Sussex. There will be plenty of romance, scandal, and interconnecting characters to enthrall any fan of Regency-set novels!

This is poetry is written in a form that will open the minds, hearts, souls and imagination of each reader. There will be a poem written in this collection in which someone can relate to. There are poems written which will take some readers back down memory lane, to those days and times when they were with that special someone, or before they married their mate, a lost love who can never be forgotton. Some of the poems written here are very inspirational and will help uplift the spirits of readers who might be going through a rough time in their life, there will be a poem about faith in God and just the words along will make the reader feel lots better. These poems are written for the young as well as the old. The poems will display some of the circumstances that a reader might be going through right now or have gone through. Some of the poems will bring back the sparkle in your smiles when you read them and think of your love ones or days gone by. They will make you laugh, cry, be happy, love and most important of all have faith in God.

This is a short story fiction book written about parents who were considered weird by their children, as well as their community and society for the ways in which they both treated their children and behaved towards their neighbors and friends. The children had to endure much hardships and pains. They were obedient children and did exactly what their parents instructed them to do even if it wasn't normal. The oldest child, Belinda decided one night while in her bed crying she had took enough of this torture coming from them and made up in her mind that she had to find a way to help end this awful plight she and her brother was going through. She couldn't find no way out, everything she did or tried had failed. They wouldn't listen to anything she had to say to them. Neither one of her parents were kind or compassionate enough to lend a listening ear to Belinda and what she had to say. It was either their way or no way. That is the way things were in this home. Her parents had no idea that Belinda was talking to God, asking him for guidance because she needed his help and that is when God decided to give Belinda a revelation, that night. When she received the revelation Belinda was able to go to sleep peacefully knowing that everything was going to be alright because she had gotton a divine revelation from God instructing her on how to deal with her parents problems. After her revelation that night, things in her home began to change drastically. Her parents became more responsible, loving and kind, they both began to communicate to her and her little brother more. Her parents stopped mistreating her friends and the neighbors also. They began to go to church and turned their lives completely around.

This book describes the ways in which one can overcome their adversities no matter what situation in life they are going through. It describes how the reader overcame her advertisites and was able to continue living her life normal the way in which God intended it to be. It discusses some of the advertisities that the author had to confront and the things she did to see her way through them all. This book explains to the reader ways in which to deal with the trials and tribulations that they might be experiencing. It helps the reader to understand how to handle a circumstance when it just happens suddenly without any warning. Let you know what to do when life throws a punch at you unexpectedly. It is filled with good information on how to keep your faith and go on even when it seems as though there is no way out. The author discuss the ways in which she found a solution to her problems in this book.

The author argues that we need a completely new paradigm concerning the nature of persons, and thus of the God which they make in their own image. The revolutionary decentring of the earth in the universe (Galilieo) was followed by the revolutionary decentring of the human in the biosphere (Darwin). Now we are living through the even more revolutionary decentring of the 'I' in the world, a movement from that which is normal (having persons in society) to that which is moral (loving persons in community).

Long's trilogy about the three orphaned daughters of a murdered government official continues in this second steamy Regency-era novel. Original.

An enigmatic secret agent helps a young lady in London find the truth of her birth in this poignant tale of love and danger. Original.

This work covers a range of models and approaches to advanced communication within the context of contemporary community health care nursing. Theoretical definitions of communication are given and the intricacies involved in initiating, maintaining and closing a therapeutic relationship are examined. The essential skills for health giving communication, relating to information giving, health promotion, counselling and the therapeutic use of the self are highlighted. Barriers to effective communication are discussed, together with practical suggestions for overcoming these barriers.