Richard Nixon, Vice President/White House Action Officer, and Allen Dulles CIA Director, met on a regular basis over the next six years. During that time it seemed objectives and ideas, such as the mind control experiment MKUltra, which involved soldiers, civilians, drugs, and conditioning techniques, associated with the CIA became extremely farfetched.

A biography of the former president uses interviews and research to draw a fresh portrait of the human rights activist and traces the religious and political forces that shaped him

What fire does not destroy, it hardens… Another arsonist has picked up where the last one left off. Only this new guy is even more dangerous and doesn't care whether the buildings he burns are occupied or not. Hundreds of people are put in harm's way, and it's up to us to rescue them. My firefighter boyfriend Travis—a calendar model with a sweet spot for dogs and lazy days in bed—is the last, best defense against the criminal. Every time we get a call, I hold my breath and hope that I'll see him again. And when we find our way back into each other's arms, we hold on tightly, racing to get all our loving in before the dawn. That's when the bad guy starts leaving clues at the crime scenes. Symbols drawn in spray paint that I've only seen once before. Emergency Love Series Flatline Backdraft Overtime Search Terms: fireman romance, dark romance, firefighter romance, dark erotica, new adult, new adult & college, Motorcycle Club Romance, Crime Romance, Romantic Action & Adventure, romantic suspence, romantic suspense, action adventure, HEA, happily ever after, true love, tradegy, tear jerker, thriller, romance thriller, romantic thriller, ptsd, addiction, contemporary romance, bad boy obsession, romance billionaire series, bbw, new, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire romance, tragedy, dancer, fire, fireman, hot fireman, chicago fire, fire fighter, fire woman, police, crime thriller, police woman, detective dog

Growing up in the south among a huge and eccentric extended family. Hilarious family reading.

As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.

In time one shall be hailed a king, another as Betrayer. Their third shall do an evil thing when freedom is denied her. Now Four and Five shall not survive; misfortune Six to gain by Seven’s will at least until reunion on the Plain. Though seven heroes journey forth; prepare their final stand, not all; I fear, shall chance to peer upon their journey’s end. Three children will seal the fate of nations: Lorelei the rebel vixen princess of Eludoran; measured against the yardstick of her heroic brother. Malachi her sidekick and cousin; resigned to mull over a love he can never have. And exotic Pendarynn; son of a jealous sorceress driven mad by revenge. Their paths cross in Eludoran, where they find solace with each other. Little do their feuding parents suspect what’s been going under their noses; a friendship the like of which has never been heard of before: One which might shatter old grudges and usher in a new age of tolerance and reason... --or bring everything crashing down around them.

The arrival of those twenty Africans, though they were not the first Africans in America, represented the vanguard of an institution and an industry that would, for 246 years, survive in the unkempt median lying between the merging lanes of the sociopolitical practices of the past and the oncoming traffic of advancing sociopolitical concepts of the future. Unlike the simple annotation in Rolfe s diary announcing the arrival of the 1619 Africans, the concept of advanced sociopolitical thinking arrived on the scene with the proverbial bang. Whereas Rolfe s announcement was a precursor to the institution of slavery, the new concept of natural individual rights was a precursor of its demise. Entering the sociopolitical spectrum from the lanes of evolving religious freedom, the notion of the natural rights of the individual was ultimately destined to clash with slavery s abject denial of such rights. The convergence of these two events, as though engaged in a turf war over morality, would, years later, crash into each other with the sound of cannon fire.

Angels’ lives hang in the balance, subject to the mercy of a society of potential allies. But you can’t save an angel’s life if you hesitate for a second or deliberate your own destiny with another agenda. When heroes need a hero, one woman with a conscience that needs no reason steps up and doesn’t stop to think about herself. A war is inevitable and alternative revelations transpire where only love can conquer hatred. But can it conquer death?

Finally after a hundred years in the dark, one vampire finds his way back to the light of his life. After doing the bidding of the Consortium for nearly a hundred years, vampire Graham Butler can't believe he's been assigned to save the life of a human female. Only, as he quickly finds out, Jessalyn Elwick is no ordinary human. Her blood contains special compounds that are beneficial to vampires, and her heart contains a love that spans a century and is just for him.

Unexpectedly, a loud crash came from the thick undergrowth. The bush parted, and a black charger leapt right into the middle of the make shift camp. Mounted on the back of the snorting animal, was a large man with a dingy boater on his head and a deep scar across his left cheek. In his left hand he held the reins of the well built animal, in the other a Colt revolver. Brit Smith pulled the trigger of the cocked pistol, and a fl ash of smoke and sparks fl ew from the barrel. Blood fl ew from the man's chest, who had been sitting on the second wagon, as he toppled off of the seat backwards. Smith steered the horse, and wielded the weapon at the man on the fi rst wagon. Another loud roar, the man fl ew from his seat.