In the Seven Women Project, cross-generational dynamic duo Karen and Meredith McCullough join forces to offer unconventional insight into the complexities of today?s ever-easy to pigeon-hole, but more difficult to pin-down ?modern woman.? With a creative twist on finding and celebrating your authentic self, this mother-daughter team helps readers uncover a never-before-revealed secret: that inside each woman there are seven women ? seven women with an abundant reserve of strength, talent, passion, knowledge, and ingenuity to help women recognize and reinvent themselves though all stages of life.
As a convicted witch, she's at his mercy. When Jinissa uses magic to save a child from a bad fall, she reveals herself as both a Calavrian witch and a spy. Jinny is convicted of witchcraft and condemned to torture and death. Before the sentence can be carried out; however, Lord Stephan arrives, announcing that the king wants to question the witch himself. A long trip over the mountains gives Jinny and Stephan time to get to know each other, and despite Stephan's well-founded hatred for her people, they begin to fall in love. But Stephan is loyal to his king, and Jinny is determined to escape. She's sworn to keep her people's secrets, even though she will never be welcomed back in her own country. And how can they afford to fall in love when it's certain that if Jinny doesn't escape, Stephan's king will be forced to kill her when she won't give him the information he seeks? Karen McCullough's first novel was published in 1990. Since then she's had many more published, ranging from mysteries to romantic suspense, to fantasy and paranormal.
Her fellow wizard is not the man she expects . . . When invasion by a coalition of unfriendly neighbors threatens her home town, Alsa knows the seed of their salvation lies within her. But her talent for wizardry won't help them unless she can learn how to use and control it, so she goes to the local wizard, who lives in a castle high on the side of a mountain. To reach his home, she must brave a bridge that appears to be made solely of light and the wizard's ferocious guard dragon. Neither the bridge nor the dragon is exactly what it seems. But then Alsa finds that a lot of things on the wizard's mountain are not what she expects, including the wizard. The bargain she has to make with him to get the lessons she needs shocks her and the training itself bears no resemblance to what she anticipated. Alsa has a lot of adapting to do and not much time for it. It will take every bit of her intelligence, courage, and compassion to master the magic, her home's enemies, the dragon, and even the wizard himself. Karen McCullough's first novel was published in 1990. Since then she's had many more published, ranging from mysteries to romantic suspense, to fantasy and paranormal.
Her fingerprints are on the gun, but Sarah swears she's innocent. Although Sarah Anne Martin admits to pulling the trigger, she swears someone forced her to kill her lover. Homicide detective Jay Christianso is skeptical, but enough ambiguous evidence exists to make her story plausible. If he gives her enough freedom, she'll either incriminate herself or draw out the real killers. But, having been burned before, Jay doesn't trust his own protective instincts. . .and his growing attraction to Sarah only complicates matters. With desire burning between them, their relationship could ultimately be doomed since Sarah will be arrested for murder if Jay can't find the real killer. 65,517 Words
Kristie Sandford's vacation is interrupted when a man jumps out in front of her car. She avoids hitting him, but when she stops to see if he's hurt, he demands she help him escape from the people chasing him. Kristie has an odd "gift"-she occasionally gets warning messages from a voice only she can hear. The voice tells her the man needs her help or he'll die. Jason Hunter is an SBI (N.C. State Bureau of Investigation) agent working on his own time searching for a friend. Will, an investigative reporter, disappeared while tracking down rumors of corruption in the bureaucracy of a small, North Carolina mountain town. Jason is grateful to Kristie for rescuing him, but dubious when she insists she has to continue helping him. Kristie is attracted to Jason, but the edge of danger she senses in him reminds her too much of the abusive family she escaped as soon as she could. Still, the voice said he'd die if she didn't help him, and the voice has been right before.
A dozen female Imagineers recount their trailblazing careers! Capturing an era--and preserving the stories they have told their daughters, their mentees, their husbands, and their friends--a dozen women Imagineers have written personal stories from their decades designing and building the Disney world-wide empire of theme parks. Illustrated with the women's personal drawings and photos in addition to archival Imagineering images, the book represents a broad swath of Imagineering's creative disciplines during a time of unprecedented expansion. Intertwined with memories of Disney legends are glimpses of what it takes behind the scenes to create a theme park, and the struggles unique to women who were becoming more and more important, visible and powerful in a workplace that was overwhelmingly male. Each chapter is unique, from a unique Imagineer's perspective and experience. These women spent their careers telling stories in three dimensions for the public. Now they've assembled their stories in print, with the hope that their experiences will continue to entertain and illuminate.
Lander's Moon By Eden Robins Free-spirited healer Selena Alvarez has a thing for bad boys. Yet she never imagined spending her Christmas vacation running through a snow-blanketed forest from a violent and abusive boyfriend, or being saved by recluse Lander Paletsos, a hunky shapeshifting immortal with an attitude. Snowbound in Lander's castle in the woods, they soon discover whether a beautiful healer's spirit is enough to mend the heart of a deadly beast. Paradise Designs By Ariana Dupre Tara Simms is determined to create a new beginning for herself this holiday season. She's purchased a new condo on Miami Beach in the ultrachic Paradise Designs Resort and Spa where there is no chance of paranormal activity. She's looking for a new man and thinks that David Blake, the lead realtor at the high-rise, is a good prospect. When Tara sees the spirit of a murdered woman enter her condo she freaks out. David offers his protection and his apartment. Together Tara and David must solve the murder and help the spirit into the light. Vampire's Christmas Carol By Karen McCullough Can Christmas Eve be any more fun? On her way home, Carol's car slides into a ditch in a deserted area. The only available shelter is already occupied...by a vampire. To Michael, Carol is the bait in a trap. In an effort to hold on to his soul, Michael has resisted the urge to drink human blood for almost a century. Now he hovers between human and vampire. If he doesn't drink human blood before the night ends, he'll die. Carol is pure temptation to him, the Christmas present from hell...or heaven.
A discussion of the archaeological research in the Bache Peninsula region of eastern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories which has produced a substantial amount of data relating to this poorly defined phase of Thule culture
Can their book boyfriends lead a book club of hopeless romantics to a real happily ever after? After losing at love twice, Barbara Wilton needs a change, some place far from her home in Boston, so she takes a position as manager of a small branch bank in Willow Ridge, Georgia. She's done with relationships and ready to concentrate on her career. The experience in Willow Ridge will help her move forward in the banking industry, but she doesn't plan to stay there permanently. Nevertheless, an invitation to join the Hopeless Romantics book club, a position on a planning committee, helping a little league team that needs coaching, and being adopted by a stray dog begin to wind her into the community. Chris Harper was a police officer in Charlotte until his marriage fell apart. With his mother and elderly aunt in deteriorating health, Chris returns home to Willow Ridge to help them and takes a job as chief deputy to the local sheriff. The wound left by his failed marriage is still raw and, despite his mother's nagging, he's not interested in pursuing any relationship, even with the attractive new bank manager. Fate, helped by a few local residents, conspires to push Barbara and Chris together. They meet during a false alarm at the bank and then he assists her with a car problem. But when his aunt receives a foreclosure notice on her house, Chris is angry with Barbara for not warning him that his aunt was behind on her payments. She agrees to help him work out the problem with the bank, but the deeper issues between them keep flaring. Can two wary, wounded people learn to trust again and find happiness together? Find out in this sweet, second chance, enemies to lovers romance. The Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge series are sweet, small-town contemporary romances. Each book is a standalone and can be read individually or as part of the series. Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge series Book 1: Falling for the Boss Book 2: Falling for the Fireman Book 3: Falling for the Doctor Book 4: Falling for the Deputy Book 5: Falling for the Hockey Player Book 6: Falling for the Single Dad Book 7: Falling for the Farmer Book 8: Falling for the Scotsman
Meg Brandt, department manager for Wambash's, seems to be a suspect when money disappears from the store. Rick Farrell, hired to beef up store security, solves the mystery and also falls in love w.
The Gifts and Home Decoration trade show provides Heather McNeill with the longest week of her hectic life. As assistant to the director of Washington, D.C.'s, Market and Commerce center, she's point person for complaining exhibitors, missing shipments and miscellaneous disasters. It's a job she takes in stride--until murder crashes the event. A major supplier of gifts and accessories is found dead in a dumpster, a wound to the head indicating it was no accident. Heather's first priority is damage control--keep the rumor mill from killing the trade show. The victim, Tim Bethel, left behind a trail of broken hearts--including his wife's. Though Mrs. Bethel may be the prime suspect, Heather thinks the true motive for murder involves Tim's business indiscretions, not his personal ones. But can she solve the crime before she loses her career, her sanity ... or her life?"--Publisher.
Heather McNeil routinely puts our fires and manages cascading trade show disasters as assistant to the director of the Washington DC Commerce and Market Center. But when brilliant engineer Chase Markham is strangled right in the middle of the new business technology show, Heather scrambles to keep the show running smoothly, while she tries to discover the murderer's identity.
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