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A fox making a name for herself in a wolf's world. I'm Kira Fairwood - fox shifter, bane of the werewolves, and also their employee. My job isn't just a paycheck. It's a way to ensure my unborn niece's heritage won't work against her when she grows up. So I dive right into bag a hot alpha werewolf who's using his bar as a front to murder human women. Unfortunately, I soon discover Thom is being framed. Then the true murderer begins to hunt the hunters. Can I keep my family safe by continuing to follow orders like a wolf?

I'm Kira Fairwood—fox shifter, bane of the werewolves, and also their employee. My job isn't just a paycheck. It's a way to ensure my unborn niece's heritage won't work against her when she grows up. So I dive right in to bag a hot alpha werewolf who's reported to be using his bar as a front to murder human women. Unfortunately, I soon discover Thom is being framed.

Therapy fails sex workers. Despite the wide range of sex work—from street-based to OnlyFans—clinicians too often focus on what they think sex workers need, instead of building trust, developing rapport, and really doing the work to understand the unique stressors that make quality mental health care essential for sex worker communities. Sex-positive therapists Theo Burnes and Jamila Dawson break down everything that mental health providers need to know to work effectively with sex workers, while dispeling the tired, pervasive myths that continue to impact treatment today

If Grace is being honest, she knows her choices skate past questionable and probably into destructive. But her heart is broken and the guy who broke it—her ex Josh—keeps hinting at a reunion. So when her best friends, Tiff and Camille, suggest they take a girls trip to help her get over her heartache, Grace doesn’t hesitate to recommend Cancún. She just doesn’t mention that Josh also happens to be there.

Four romance writers. Four failed marriages. Can they create the perfect man? Romance writers should be experts on love, but that’s not the case with Libby Day and her friends. Although they can come up with great stories on the page, their relationships in real life are all miserable failures. While on a writing retreat in the mountains, they decide to try to pen the perfect man—the kind that only exists in a novel.

The month of Darkness is quickly approaching. It is a time when the denizens of the night roam the land freely and the citizens of Arkdale lock themselves behind their high walls seeking refuge. This cycle has repeated itself for centuries. Now the world is changing. An ancient secret buried deep beneath the land mournfully sings of the approaching chaos. Now Walt, Rainna, Mallek, and Lucas must race to solve the enigmas of their ancestors before all that they know and love is plunged into eternal darkness.

Blame it on Hawaii’s rainbows, sparkling beaches, fruity cocktails, and sensuous breezes. For Heather Diamond, there for a summer course on China, a sea change began when romance bloomed with Fred, an ethnomusicologist from Hong Kong. One night under a full moon, Fred tells Heather the story of Chang’e, the moon goddess. He points out how the shadows form a rabbit pounding an elixir of immortality, but all Heather sees in the moon is a man’s face. Returning to her teaching job in Texas, Heather wonders if the whirlwind affair was a moment of madness.

I'm Kira Fairwood, rogue kitsune and couch-surfer extraordinaire. Three months after disowning my pack, I'm still trying to find a way home. Then a way home finds me. All I have to do is follow the advice of a murderer, trespass on an enemy alpha's territory, and nab a stranger who shares my fox heritage. Thom thinks it's a terrible idea, but he puts his not-quite-pack on the line to help anyway. Now, if I fail, I'll drag my new friends down with me. What could possibly go wrong?

Has anyone ever questioned your choice to be vegan? How many times have you engaged in an argument and just not had the right comeback? Armed with the facts and evidence provided by this guide, you’ll soon be on your way to "one-up" anyone who is trying or has been trying to discredit your choices.

On the night of Bel’s birthday, at the stroke of midnight, her world goes black. When she wakes, she is thrust into a new and frightening world—the underground Onyx City. It is a place rife with magic and creatures of the night. It is also a place of dark beauty, dangerous intrigue and ruled by a beast—the ruthless vampire prince, Ezra Blade. When Bel makes a desperate attempt to escape her captors, she trespasses through the royal gardens, and is caught by the prince himself. Now, her fate is in his hands.

Reaping darkness, the Shadow slicked steel with judgment and danced with death. Sixteen-year-old Aza inherited the power of shadow to rid the land of evil as Odriel's cold-blooded assassin. With her growing strength, Aza discovers the Shadow Plane—a realm of wraiths where screams haunt the winds, calling to her. Although her father forbids her from entering the dark realm, Aza can't ignore the beckoning whispers.

Aidan Thomas is a hardworking family man and a respected member of his community. He's also a kidnapper and serial killer who has murdered eight women. And there's a ninth, a woman he's renamed Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed where she fears for her life. When Aidan's wife dies, he and his thirteen-year-old daughter, Cecilia, are forced to move. Aidan brings Rachel along, introducing her to Cecilia as a family friend who needs a place to stay. After five years of captivity, surely Rachel is too brainwashed to attempt to escape.

I'm Kira Fairwood, fox shifter and reluctant heir to a cut-throat old werewolf. As this week's annoyance, he forces me to attend a series of contests that often turn bloody.

Has that air fryer you’ve gotten yourself been lying unopened in your kitchen? Have you been too intimidated by this seemingly high-tech contraption that you’ve avoided using it? If you want to fully utilize your air fryer and get the maximum benefits from it, then this guide is perfect for you. In This Air Fryer Book Is Not a Cookbook, you will discover: how to get started with the air fryer from taking it out of the box to using it for the very first time; how to choose the right air fryer based on your budget, needs, and cooking preferences; and more.

Samantha Barnes is ready to get out of her comfort zone. Preparing to study abroad, she wants to enjoy a final fling with frat brother Dylan Hunter before departing for Japan. But when Dylan demands more, she struggles to find a way to end their relationship without hurting them both. When love becomes a tightrope walk between control and fear, sometimes the worst thing that can happen isn’t breaking things off. It’s continuing on, especially when the consequences could be deadly.

This book will serve as an examination of a diet that has become a trend with celebrities and the main stream public. This book will provide the uneducated with a lot more information regarding the alkaline diet, which should be regarded as a lifestyle. This book will begin with a discussion about the facts surrounding this diet and will then examine how the alkaline diet has the ability to repair the immune system.

Space is such an amazing part of our worlds existence, but it can seem complicated to explain to adults, let alone kids! This book will trigger the natural curiosity within young children with amazing facts about the mysteries of space. From the very basics of what the galaxy is, right through to the name of the first man on the moon, this book relays the complexity of space into really easy and understandable explanations.

The DASH diet stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. It is a lifelong approach to healthy eating which aims at treating or preventing high blood pressure and hypertension. The diet encourages you to reduce the intake of sodium in your diet and to eat a variety of food items rich in nutrients that lower blood pressure, like potassium, calcium, and magnesium.

Isabel is having an existential crisis. She’s three years into high school, and everything she’s learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet—a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers. No, not in the comic book sense—these are real people, just like each of us, but who happen to have a power or two.

In 2019, emotionally lost foster teen Philo Nockby is suddenly told his dead parents were time-traveling agents and is whisked away to the year 3451. In this complex future, some humans evolved to have triple helix DNA and civilization expanded to live below oceans, in the skies, and rule over Antarctica. Philo and his new friends Raelyn, Alani, and Xendo must investigate human history and the ancient martial art of kineoka at the same academy that destroyed his family, to defend the world's future from the devastating secrets his parents fought to reveal.