Bennie Rosato the founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm hides her big heart beneath her tough-as-nails exterior and she doesn't like to fail. Now, a case from her past shows her how differently things might have turned out in Lisa Scottoline's New York Times bestseller, Corrupted. Thirteen years ago, Bennie Rosato took on Jason Lefkavick, a twelve-year-old boy who was sent to a juvenile detention center after fighting a class bully. Bennie couldn't free Jason, and to this day it's the case that haunts her. Jason has grown up in and out of juvenile prison, and his adulthood hasn't been any easier. Bennie no longer represents those accused of murder, but when Jason is indicted for killing the same bully he fought with as a kid, she sees no choice but to represent him. She doesn't know whether or not to believe his claims of innocence, but she knows she owes him for past failures-of the law, of the juvenile justice system, and of herself. Forced to relive the darkest period of her life, Bennie will do everything in her power to get the truth, and justice.

Dreams might be a heart’s desire, but nightmares are its obsession in the first novel of a dark romance series from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas. Erika Fane’s boyfriend's older brother is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than he is with her. But she saw him. She heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid... For years, Erika bit her nails, unable to look away. Now, she’s in college, but she hasn’t stopped watching him. He’s bad and the things she’s seen aren’t content to stay in her head anymore. Because he's finally noticed her. But Michael Crist knows the hold he has on Rika, how much she fears him. She looks down when he enters the room and stills when he’s close. He knows she thinks only of him. When Michael’s brother leaves for the military, leaving Rika alone and unprotected, he knows the opportunity is too good to be true. Three years ago she put Michael’s friends in prison, and now they’re free. Every last one of her nightmares is about to come true.

When rogue wizard Grendl flees the Empire, a disgraced wizard and a fanatical team of witch hunters are sent to track him down. But as hunters and hunted stray into the Northern Wastes, all bets are off as the corrupting touch of Chaos starts to affect them all. Original.

From the New York Times bestselling author comes the much-anticipated third book in the Rosato & DiNunzio thriller series

Aidan has made the discovery of a lifetime. The multiverse is not only real, but he has devised a way to tap into other universes and bring an aspect of that universe into this one. He’s tested it twice, but he knows he needs to share this power so that it doesn’t corrupt him. Bianca works in a lab next to Aidan’s. She is smart and capable. And Aidan chooses her to join him, sharing this incredible power with her. However, to get her on his side, he must change her, linking them together in ways he never could have imagined. Then when he demonstrates the machine on her, she is not the only one who changes. They both become corrupted. How far will Aidan and Bianca go? What will he change about them? Will they get to keep their incredible power over the universe or will they lose it all? Find out in Corrupted. This short story is 6,200 words long. It is the third book in The Multiverse Series.

In South African higher education, the images of dysfunction are everywhere. Year after year, often in the same set of universities; the problem of routine instability seems insoluble. The financial, academic and reputational costs of ongoing dysfunction are high, especially for those universities caught-up in the never-ending struggle to overcome apartheid legacies. Any number of explanations have been ventured, including a lack of resources, shortage of capacity, rural location, corrupt officials, and endemic conflict. Corrupted takes a deeper look at dysfunction in an attempt to unravel the root causes in a sample of South African universities. At the heart of the problem lies the vexed issue of resources or, more pertinently, the relationship between resources and power: who gets what, and why? Whatever else it aspires to be-commonly, a place of teaching, learning, research and public duty - a university in an impoverished community is also a rich concentration of resources around which corrupt staff, students and those outside of campus all vie for access. Taking a political economic approach, Jonathan Jansen describes the daily struggle for institutional resources and offers accessible, sensible insights. He argues that the problem won't be solved through investments in 'capacity building' alone because the combination of institutional capacity and institutional integrity contributes to serial instability in universities. Rather, durable solutions would include the depoliticisation of university councils and appointments of academics with integrity and capacity to manage and lead these fragile institutions.

The roots of an insidious Religious Humanism have for some time now steadily been growing deeper and deeper and taking a firm hold in the modern Christian Church in America and across the world. The lethality of this rooting is that Religious Humanism is filled with false teachings which are historically known as heresies.

This novel is based on fictional history of love, corrupted relationships, jealousy of romantic relationship in monogamy, polygamy, betrayal, and how you can survive it in the countryside or in any urbanized town where you've arrived in as a new lover in love who needs to meet a good partner.

This is book 1 of the Blacktop Sinners MC romance series! Books 2 and 3 of this dark motorcycle club romance are available everywhere now! Every stroke corrupts her more and more. It only took one night to change her life. One raw night that left her craving more and more of me. But I can’t stay here. Not with an innocent young thing like her. I’m too scarred by my criminal past. Too corrupted to lay my dirty hands on the pretty little virgin nurse. So I break her heart in order to save her life. Leaving Tess was hard. But getting her back will be even harder. Because just when I think I’ve severed all ties, my enemies find her, the only weakness I have left. Now, I’ll have to fight a war to protect my woman. If that’s what it takes, so be it. I’ve spent my whole life preparing for this moment. And I’ll spill every last drop of their blood to keep her safe.

Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the "least dangerous" branch of government. He was right then but wrong today. Since Hamilton's time the Supreme Court has become a cardinal example of Lord Acton's famous dictum: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." It is not a corruption of bribes, or even of bad intentions, but of taking upon itself the right to alter the Constitution whenever past principles offend present preferences of five or more Justices. Corrupted by Power shows how the Constitution is repeatedly changed to mean whatever the Supreme Court wants it to mean. Precedent is followed only when past decisions support current opinions. Otherwise precedents are overruled, misrepresented or ignored. A conspicuous example is the judicial manufacture of new First Amendment rights, including rights to advocate criminal behavior, publish degrading sex and extreme violence, and advertise vice. Can the Constitution be rescued? Discover what can be done.