I was only three the first time I lost someone I loved. And I was thirteen when my world shattered beyond repair. Thrown into a nightmare—desperately trying to pick up the broken pieces of the girl I was before. Escaping the demons of my past, I'm ready to disappear for good. But before I go, I want one more glimpse of the man who unknowingly gave me the strength to live. Except the pain I see hidden behind his cold eyes pulls me in so far I can't leave. I can't stop watching—waiting for the obsession that binds me to him to be severed. Until I get caught. Sebastian Reed doesn't know who I am. But when he finds out I hold the answer to the question that's been slowly destroying him, he will do anything to get at the truth. Even making a deal. Except I didn't expect him to keep me in his penthouse until he gets what he's owed. Sebastian has the power to cut me deeper than any of the scars marring my body. But the more time we spend together, the deeper desire burns between us, and the harder it is to remember why I have to leave. What should have been my downfall might be the only thing that can save me. Frayed Obsession is the first book in the Frayed Trilogy and is NOT a standalone. This romance book contains dark themes that may be triggering to some. Reader discretion is advised. For all content warnings, check the author's website or the author's note inside. Keywords: hidden identity, forced proximity, dark romance, alpha hero, billionaire romance, possessive hero, who did this to you, billionaire, slow burn, criminal, morally grey hero, dark romance series, protector, ceo, suspense, romance novels.

I was twenty when he claimed my heart. Mending the broken pieces until it glowed with warmth. Shining a light on the darkness that had its claws in me. Then he tore it out of my chest. Sebastian said he’d protect me. Promised to keep me safe. But I lied. And it all fell apart. I thought I knew everything about my monster, but the nightmare I had escaped is nothing compared to the hell he has dragged me into. My soul is crushed. My love lost. And when all is said and done, I don’t know whether I’ll be strong enough to keep from falling into the abyss. Tattered Love is the final book of the Frayed Trilogy and is NOT a standalone. This romance book contains dark themes that may be triggering to some. Reader discretion is advised. For all content warnings, check the author's website or the author's note inside. Keywords: dark romance, alpha hero, billionaire romance, possessive hero, who did this to you, billionaire, slow burn, criminal, morally grey hero, dark romance series, protector, ceo, suspense, romance novels.

She'll do anything to find her sister's killer...although she'll wish she hadn't. Because the harder Ava Hale looks into her sister's murderer, the more secrets she uncovers about Kesley, and the more she begins to think that the girl she called sister was a liar. A sneak. A stranger. And Kesley's murderer could be much closer than she thought... A debut novel from Wattpad award-winner Kara Terzis, Frayed is a psychological whodunit that will keep you guessing!

Things with the already married Harry went sour quickly when she found out their affair had a bigger repercussion. Heartbroken, Trista had to do what was best for everyone. Just as planned, she and Lindsey went to visit Emma in Greece. Trista thought this vacation was going to be a way for her to heal and come to terms with the gargantuan mistakes she'd made in the past. Taylor Montgomery thought himself a rational man, but meeting the fiery Trista made him think twice. Her mask slipped enough for him to see it, once in a while. She carried pain and secrets hidden within. Her fire mixed with that vulnerability made him want to protect her all the more, but Trista wouldn't have any of it. One thing Trista should know about the tenacious man, though. He's not the kind of man who gives up easily. Come what may.

In the Fray collects David Gushee's most significant essays over twenty years as a Christian intellectual. Most of the essays were written in situations of ethical conflict on the highly contested ground of Christian public ethics. Topics addressed include torture, climate change, marriage and divorce, the treatment of gays and lesbians in the church, war, genocide, nuclear weapons, race, global poverty, faith and politics, Israel/Palestine, and even whether Christian ethics is a real academic discipline. Quite visible in the collection is Gushee's deep research interest in the Nazi era in Germany and how the churches fared in resisting Nazi intimidations and seductions and, finally, the Holocaust. All essays reflect the desire for a church that has learned the lessons of that period--a church with resistance to racism, militarism, nationalism, and other social-ideological toxins, and with the discernment and courage to resist these in favor of a courageous allegiance to the lordship of Christ at the time of testing. Considerable attention is directed to contesting some of the public ethics found in the author's own US evangelical Christian community. Concluding reflections on Gushee's ethical vision are offered in an illuminating essay by senior Christian ethicist Glen Harold Stassen.

An unforgettable novel of sexual obsession and its calamitous consequences.

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In this pulse-pounding new novel from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Kellerman, psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis search the past for clues to a crime that may or may not be real. Now available in a tall Premium Edition.

In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making as a practice that could upend conventions, threaten state structures, and wreak political havoc. Elaborating on this example as a prehistory to the more recent phenomenon of “craftivism”—the politics and social practices associated with handmaking—Fray explores textiles and their role at the forefront of debates about process, materiality, gender, and race in times of economic upheaval. Closely examining how amateurs and fine artists in the United States and Chile turned to sewing, braiding, knotting, and quilting amid the rise of global manufacturing, Julia Bryan-Wilson argues that textiles unravel the high/low divide and urges us to think flexibly about what the politics of textiles might be. Her case studies from the 1970s through the 1990s—including the improvised costumes of the theater troupe the Cockettes, the braided rag rugs of US artist Harmony Hammond, the thread-based sculptures of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña, the small hand-sewn tapestries depicting Pinochet’s torture, and the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt—are often taken as evidence of the inherently progressive nature of handcrafted textiles. Fray, however, shows that such methods are recruited to often ambivalent ends, leaving textiles very much “in the fray” of debates about feminized labor, protest cultures, and queer identities; the malleability of cloth and fiber means that textiles can be activated, or stretched, in many ideological directions. The first contemporary art history book to discuss both fine art and amateur registers of handmaking at such an expansive scale, Fray unveils crucial insights into how textiles inhabit the broad space between artistic and political poles—high and low, untrained and highly skilled, conformist and disobedient, craft and art.

Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror. Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former life as an intelligence operative during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Alexandra, a high-powered job in image management for whole countries cannot prepare her for her missing brother’s sudden reappearance. In a culture of limitless surveillance, Jeremy and Alexandra will go to great lengths to protect what is closest to them. Spanning decades and continents, their saga brings them into contact with a down-and-out online journalist, shadowy security professionals, and jockeying technology experts, each of whom has a different understanding of whether information really protects us, and how we might build a world worth trusting in our paranoid age.