But when I rescue Beth Johnson from a blazing inferno, I know she's the one. And I fall head over heels in love with her at first sight. I can't focus on my work, and I can't think about anything except her. She's consumed my mind, and she's not letting go. I've got to have this girl in order to calm down. I've got to make her mine. I'm going to keep this curvy girl forever. I'm going to make her my curvy bride. Beth: When Vince rescues me from the burning apartment building, I fall head over heels in love with him. And to think that I had given up on love until I saw him. He's everything I ever wanted in a man. He's my dream guy. Tall, muscular, and so alpha that it's almost unbelievable. And yet, he's such a gentleman as well, always holding the door for me and making sure I'm happy. I want him more than I've ever wanted anything in life. And I'm going to do everything I can to get him. I'm going to make Vince Stanton my forever man. Firefighter's Curvy Bride is an instant-love, happy-ever-after steamy alpha BBW romance story, featuring an older alpha male with a younger BBW. This is a standalone story.

     He came across a young widow that needed help with her security. Oh so that was the reason that she gave when Amber called. But Amber wasn’t looking for advice. She was looking for something far more basic, primal. Amber had needs that were going unfulfilled and Jim was more than happy to help her out.

    But the shops and restaurants are filled with seasonal residents and tourists who are in town to escape even worse temperatures in the desert cities of Tucson and Phoenix.Locals and tourists alike are thrilled when the Rim Country Renegades came to town for the annual Pioneer Days celebration, recalling the days of the Wild West with cowboy poetry and putting on their trick roping and fast-draw shooting demonstrations. But when something goes terribly wrong during a staged shootout between the town’s handsome sheriff and vengeful outlaw Billy McKinney, and someone is left lying dead on Main Street, the entire Big Lake Sheriff’s Department scrambles to figure out what happened.Was it a tragic accident in spite of all of the safety precautions put in place to prevent something like that from happening? Or was it something more sinister? Were rumors of an illicit affair between the dead man’s wife and the outlaw really true? Was the sheriff betrayed by a man he considered his best friend?Spurned lovers, secret jealousies, and long-held resentments come to light in the search for the truth. A truth that will leave many wondering just how well they really know the people around them.Meanwhile, an unlikely hero emerges to save another woman from certain death. A hero who once again will have the people of Big Lake asking the same question, do we ever really know someone and what they are capable of?One reviewer has referred to the Big Lake mystery series as “Mayberry Meets Twin Peaks.” It’s a combination of humor and intrigue that launched New York Times bestselling author Nick Russell’s first Big Lake book into Amazon’s Top 100 Paid Kindle books for over 78 days, and Big Lake Shootout, the twentieth book in this popular series, is sure to be a hit, too!

    

     Submissions included within this volume are officer accounts of horrific crime scenes, strange sexual injuries, odd drug-induced behavior, shocking deaths, and warnings from RNs and M.D.s regarding publicity stunts and wacky ideas. Just when you think you've seen and heard it all, you'll turn the page and stand corrected.

    As a teacher, she’s determined. As a mother . . . she’s unstoppable. Alexandreia went to work expecting a normal day in her classroom. The last seventeen years had taught her that expecting the unexpected IS the norm when you work with children. However, after the EMP 'thinking on your feet’ became her survival mantra, not just a job skill. As an amateur prepper, Dreia's instinct to exit the city quickly was delayed by a strong sense of responsibility for her students. In her quest to do the right thing, her path filled with terrifying obstacles of a collapsing society. The most dangerous proved to be human. With a one track mind, she decided to do whatever it takes to make it home to her family, because her children are worth crossing lines. But will she make it home in time to protect them from the threat she didn’t see coming? This is book one in the Bennett family’s quest to survive when the grid is destroyed and good people have to make hard choices. Buy it now and put yourself in Dreia’s boots!

    Although they are now in a good space, others are finding it hard to cope with the unexpected events of life’s lessons. Angel and Mark have suffered the loss of their baby girl. Mark just wants to make it right. However, Angel is on another mission. In the wake of her demise may come a blessing in disguise. Things are finally looking up for this couple or, so it may seem. Everyone pays a price when living their dreams, but will Angel’s cost her everything, including her life? Felisha finds herself in the unlikeliest of situations and learns that life can be taken away at any given time. Because of her new outlook on life, she finally wises up and makes a major decision. A decision that could possibly stir up more drama than she ever anticipated. Dillon comes face to face with Rihanna and finds out the most SHOCKING NEWS of them all. Will he and Zoe stand the test of time? Or, will someone end up walking away and never looking back? Drunk In Love 4; A Must Read!

    Peter Sykes lifts the lid on the good, the bad and the ugly in the NHS, based on real-life situations from his 40 years experience at the sharp end of medical practice.Some of these stories will make you laugh, a few will make you cry and others have a surprising twist in the tail.They feature patients, doctors and nurses, blood, sweat and toil, life and death, heartache and joy.

    The power-grid across the United States crashes, leaving all computerized machines crippled, sending the country into a disastrous tailspin. Alice Shepherd is working the emergency room when hundreds of injured people pour in needing help. With no electricity, resources are limited—Once the back up generators fail, the hospital will not be able to handle the influx of patients being brought in, guaranteeing that all hell will break loose. Everyone is speculating and panicking. No one knows what really happened. The only thing everyone can agree on is their simple, convenient, technological world is gone. Everyone is left to fight—Kill or be killed. Survive or die.

    The State Government is on the verge of collapse. State Pensions are gone. Banking is disrupted.State jobs are eliminated, and it washes through the economy like a tidal wave. Violence Looting. Wholesale destruction of property. Frank and Jane knowthey must escape. But how?They have a Motorhome. They can Bug Out!Follow Frank and Jane as they fight their way out of California. What dangers are waiting for them outside? Why are military convoys and tanks moving southand west on the roads? Why are checkpoints being set up everywhere?Is Martial Law coming? Are the preppers right?What is going on across the southern border? Scary people are coming across.Soldiers from Venezuela. Islamic Fighters.US Army and Private Militia forces are waiting to take them on, and Frank and Jane must thread their way through the battles. They have the perfect Bug Out Vehicle. Will they survive?Can they bug out and find safety?

    Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."After a political protest is hijacked by anarchists, mob mentality takes over and violent riots start breaking out in many of our major cities.At the same time, part of the west coast is trying to recover from a series of devastating earthquakes, severe drought, and widespread wildfires.These, nearly simultaneous events, cause a record drop in our modern-day stock market, and due to a national debt of over $28 trillion, the value of the dollar is on the edge of collapsing causing massive layoffs to start taking place across the country. Our enemies see our weakness and know it's time to try and take their place as world leaders, but they know they must find a way to neutralize our military strength. Two countries have come up with a way to do just that and have set everything into motion. Vince and Kim Johnson live on a farm 40 miles to the southeast of Kansas City, Missouri.After serving 17 years in the Army, due to an injury, Vince had to take early medical retirement. Now, the most he thinks he must fight is his ongoing pain. Little does he know that a chain of events is about to take place that will test all his training and leadership skills.They are reunited with family, inexperienced friends, plus four of the men Vince served with while in the Army, to prepare and try to survive what might be the start of the actual apocalypse.*ADVISORY: Our three-book series isn't for everyone as it's intentionally written to be a bit provocative, and contains some adult language.

    The shores and waters of the East River are the "DMQZ," the uninhabited area that separates uninfected Manhattan from the slowly dying borough of Brooklyn.Jacob Hale is a Manhattan police officer rising in the ranks of the Safe Zone military government until a bank heist gone wrong lands him on suspension and under suspicion. On a quest to clear his good name, Hale finds himself drawn into a web of conspiracy, terrorism, and revolt - and into the orbit of a mysterious woman who may be the key to it all.

    Spring has arrived, and Grace Ann Bryant's days are filled with crabby council members, a brooding bard, turbulent townspeople, and a pouting phoenix. At least her daughter is having a great time with the pixie that she caught. So much for that mom to daughter, heart to heart talk about fairies. Grace is neck deep in the issues of Shady Grove and her family. The last thing she needed was a wind sylph determined to destroy Shady Grove. The crew has to find out what got her panties in a wad while a mysterious man lurks around town. Grace is sure she knows him. Everyone insists that she give him some room, but she's tired of being told what to do. It's time Grace takes things into her own hands.The winds are picking up in Shady Grove. Will Grace and the town survive the tumult? Watch out, Shady Grove! It's comin' up a cloud.Gully WasherGrace and company face enough rain and turmoil to swallow Shady Grove whole.As spring rains cause the swamps to rise, Shady Grove and its citizens decide that it might be best to shut off the town from the rest of the human world. Grace Ann Bryant, the Queen of the Exiles, and Levi Rearden, her bard, unsuccessfully attempt to protect the town with a huge ward. They need the songbook that Jeremiah Freyman took into the Otherworld, but do they risk the unknown to retrieve the book from the Summer Realm. During the midst of this crisis, Grace’s nemesis, Stephanie Davis, returns to Shady Grove despite being banished with a shocking announcement. Following her arrival, a flood of new problems including a traitor in the fairy council plague Grace’s life. How will Grace handle the nastier parts of her duties as queen? Can she make the tough decisions even if it means sending her servants into the Otherworld or executing a traitor? Will her father’s power drain her has it had once before?Dylan, Levi, and Grace tread water while trying to keep the town from sinking.Moonshine in a Mason JarJust when you thought you knew the whole story…Once upon a time (isn't that how a fairy tale is supposed to start?), there was a sheriff who was brought to a town full of fairies to keep the naïve fairy queen in check. His abilities could crush her life in an instant. Dylan Riggs was recruited by the Sanhedrin to keep daily watch of the exiled fairy queen known as Grace Ann Bryant. They sold him a fairy tale of a town full of fairies where he could settle down and produce an heir.However, from the moment Dylan Riggs walked into town he made mistake after mistake. He found himself entangled with a dangerous and selfish fairy queen. His daily reminder that he made the wrong choice taunted him as his “partner” on supernatural cases. How did he shed the consequences of his mistakes to find himself with the only woman he has ever loved? What sacrifices were required to keep her safe as she plodded around obvious to the danger lurking around her life? Will Dylan get his Happily Ever After?Moonshine in a Mason Jar is Dylan Rigg’s story. You just thought you knew everything about Shady Grove’s Phoenix Sheriff. From the day he walks into Shady Grove until the days following his birthday party, Dylan’s story comes to light in this book. Moonshine is about finding the truth and realizing it isn’t always what you thought it was.

    

    Wielding incredible power, Jed grows up next door with his childhood partner, Erin Constanza, sharing Jed’s monstrous secret of what his Mom thinks of as raising the ‘Dark Superman’. Jed and Erin, now a policewoman with the Sacramento Police Department, find out their lives have been catalogued by a secret government group formed to watch Jed’s growth into adulthood power. They want to harness Jed’s blood lust for their own purposes. He’s happy to oblige.