She's loved him since he saved her from her evil stepmother all those years ago. He's sworn to never love her for fear of tainting her innocence with his criminal past. What do you do when the one person you love is the one person who can’t have? Broken Rebel is an intense, ultra-sexy standalone novel set in the world of the Lawless Kings. Sherilee Gray’s raw, hard, beautiful, deeply-emotional voice will leave you breathless long after the last page.

A Broken Peak Pack kind of Fish out of Water Romance He's afraid of commitment and she’s on the run after witnessing something she never should have seen. But she’s his true mate and gives him hope for a future … if he can convince her he can keep her safe. Finley doesn’t want or need a mate. Broken Peak isn’t safe for a female or pups. His wolf has other ideas. When a female he’s never met is threatened, he’s convinced the only place she’s safe is at Broken Peak. Living with the Pack and him. As his mate. Maggie Iotor is running for her life to a rumored place of safety and finds a sanctuary she didn’t think existed for shifters. There’s only one problem… She needs to leave Broken Peak behind to keep the shifters who live there safe from the deranged leader of her Gaze set on bringing her back into the fold whatever cost. With her father’s life in the balance, destiny and love confront the danger head on, but will it be enough for Finley to convince Maggie everything she thinks she knows is wrong? Will Maggie turn her back on the wolf her animal has claimed as or mate and will Broken Peak lose its Rebel? Or can she accept everything Finley and Broken Peak can give her?

A Hidden Clan Kind of Runaway Bride Romance He’s a retired SEAL and friend of Broken Peak Pack, she left her clan and the mate chosen for her behind. But she’s his first love and he’s determined to save her … if they can navigate the relationship minefield. Boone Freeman has a legendary reputation as a SEAL, both as a team leader and a man who doesn’t do relationships. Ever. After retiring from the Navy, at the request of his old friend Vixen he comes to Broken Peak, where fate has plans for him that includes more than just missions. When he finally talks with one of the shifters in Hidden Clan, she threatens his commitment to no commitments. Bella is beautiful, intelligent, and a fierce mountain lion shifter, but she has a problem. The male her former Clan Chief chose for her won’t take no for an answer, even after she ran away to the sanctuary of her uncle’s clan. When her rejected mate’s obsession turns deadly, love confronts the danger. Will Bella lose the man she loves or will her love be enough to save Boone?

These essays are a distillation of Jerome Braun’s work in interdisciplinary social science, and especially sociology. Thus they exemplify pragmatic critical theory by dealing with culture and personality, cohesiveness and nihilism in modern societies, and the relation between community and democracy.

***LORDS OF SIN NOVELS ARE STANDALONE ROMANCES THAT CAN BE READ IN ANY ORDER*** Her touch is his salvation… His touch is her destiny… She strokes his fevered body with her healing hands and wills the tortured rebel back to life. He’s a total stranger, yet Shivahn Armagh feels she’s known him forever. Then the Irish beauty discovers he’s an Englishman, the enemy she’s sworn to hate. Still, she cannot forget the gentle caress of the prisoner she’s been sent to revive. She risks her life—and her heart—to set him free. They call him the Griffin, legendary warrior for the Irish cause, an enemy who’s eluded the English for years. At last, Kristian Montague is captured and set for execution—a death he welcomes—but his healer refuses to let him escape to hell along with the demons in his soul. Shivahn scorches her way into Kristian’s heart even as he resists. She follows him into battle, across perilous seas, determined to uncover his deepest secret, reckless of the danger it might mean to them both…

Set against some of history’s most colorful and dramatic events, USA Today bestselling author Angel Payne’s Lords of Sin series features swoon-worthy heroes who embody all we love about gorgeous alpha men and the bold women who tame them. Be swept back to times when passions were exchanged in shadows and candlelight…and romances could very well seal the fate of nations.