They are monsters: Mariah, the reluctant rebel who has become a god to others of her kind, and Gabriel, the vampire, who loves her at his own peril. They have returned to the Bloodlands, where their story began-to face the horrors of Mariah's past and the uncertainties of Gabriel's future- and to make a final stand, for their lives-and their love.

Courtney Tyree was born and bred in Washington, DC, growing up in a traditional Catholic family. She's deeply connected to her city and currently works at the DC Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center for the Police Services department. Her job title consists of a Program Support Assistant (Police Dispatcher). Her journey started with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and a minor in Forensic Science from Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia. Ferrum is a small private college that is smuggled in the dense smoky landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Later, she earned her master's in engineering, specializing in Cybersecurity Policy and Compliance, from The George Washington University. Writing her first book was a challenge, but Courtney pushed through. She poured her own experiences and traumas into its pages, aiming to heal and share her story with others. As a Pisces, she's deeply intuitive and empathetic, traits that shine through in her writing. She hopes her book resonates with readers, shedding light on mental health struggles. The process of writing has been rewarding, marking a significant milestone in her personal journey.

2078. The Future, as it was once called. A better time you imagine? Most would say yes.Jordan would say they'd switched one evil for another...Ever since the SDCT-the Scientific Department for Cancer Treatment-made a scientific breakthrough, creating a cure for cancer and therefore saving billions of lives from the cruel disease over the last few decades, the world seems to be a better place.But the Cure came with a side effect. The Recipients need to consume human blood along with it, and as Jordan has the rarest blood type, she needs to donate every week. To keep a tight legal structure between Recipients and the rest of the population, the FDR-Federal Division for Recipients-was created, making her job as Sergeant at the NYPD hell on earth.The real trouble, though, begins the day she becomes burdened with a case that will force her to extend the law to its limits. Worse still-the new Lieutenant, Aiden Davis, has set an eye on Jordan, and it doesn't help that he is an unrelenting, too-hot-to-be-allowed ex-marine and more intense than she can bear. But her past makes it impossible to get involved with anyone without resurfacing memories of the one fateful night she desperately wants to forget.And when the one man she'd never wanted to lay eyes upon again-the man who had inflicted pain on her worse than anyone could ever imagine, the man who had drained her until there was nothing left-shows up once again, her growing attraction toward the new Lieutenant seems to be the least of her problems...

It was once said that you must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible . . . Alli Carson has been through her own personal hell. With her father, the President of the United States, recently dead and her mother in a coma from a terrible accident, she has poured herself into her training to become one of the best FBI agents at the Fearington Institute. Her inspiration and solace comes from the one man with whom she has ever felt a kinship, National Security Adviser, Jack McClure. But when Alli becomes the prime suspect in a murder at Fearington, a wide ranging investigation is triggered, involving local homicide detectives, the secret service, the FBI itself, and Alli's own uncle, the billionaire lobbyist Henry Carson. And yet nothing is what it seems. What follows is a treacherous journey that leads Jack and Alli into a complex web of lies and deceit. Using Jack's unique gifts to see the through the labyrinth of manipulation, their investigation leads them into the dark heart of the international slave trade, tied to a powerful Albanian crime lord whose ability and influence in global terrorism grows with each day. The two find themselves in the crosshairs of vast global enterprise, one that lurks in the shadows of power and has infiltrated Washington and their lives in ways neither of them could ever have imagined. And hidden deep among it all sits a terrifying criminal mastermind, someone fueled by a hatred that can never be quenched, and a mind that knows neither feeling nor mercy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States’ food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 continuing to frame national policy despite dramatic changes in production, processing, and distribution throughout the twentieth century. In Food We Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the history of food safety policy in the United States, analyzing critical moments in food safety history from Upton Sinclair’s publication of The Jungle to Congress’s passage of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. With five case studies of significant food safety crises ranging from the 1959 chemical contamination of cranberries to the 2009 outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter, In Food We Trust contextualizes a changing food regulatory regime and explains how federal agencies are fundamentally limited in their power to safeguard the food supply.