Big truck, big dog, big hair, bad attitude. Roxy Abruzzo is a loud-mouthed, sexy, independent-minded niece of a Pittsburgh Mafia boss trying to go (mostly) straight. She'd like to stay completely out of her uncle Carmine's shady dealings, concentrate on the architectural salvage business she runs, and keep her rebellious teenage daughter on the straight and narrow. But Roxy knows where all the good intentions in the world usually lead ...

Although the risk of death and great bodily harm were foreseeable, rather than changing their conduct they chose to run the risk. A sinister gamble virtually assuring death with the greatest possible violence. It is apparent that both corporations had willfully entered into an amoral and criminal quagmire that the law can only begin to address. The children's mortal wounds are quintessential examples of theocratic and bureaucratic corruption fulfilling their deadly potential.

Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude. Roxy Abruzzo, bestseller Nancy Martin's latest creation, is the sexy, streetwise niece of a Pittsburgh crime boss, and she's trying to stay on the straight and narrow . . . most of the time. But now and then temptation is just too much for hot-blooded Roxy. As she prowls the mean streets looking for architectural treasures, she can't help swiping an ancient Greek statue that's not exactly hers. Then the statue's owner, heir to a billion-dollar steel fortune, gets himself killed, and the police investigation sweeps Roxy into a mess that requires all of her wits and wiles to escape. All this plus a dotty grand dame, a slippery lawyer, and an avaricious socialite or two makes for a lethal combination of danger and desperation—with Roxy in the middle. With her wicked sense of humor and a devilishly clever premise, author of the beloved Blackbird Sisters mysteries, Nancy Martin has started another outstanding mystery series with Foxy Roxy.* *(Previously published as Our Lady of Immaculate Deception)

I'LL LOCK HER IN A GILDED CAGE AND THROW AWAY THE KEY. The night we met, she thought she was tasting freedom.I devoured her once and left before I even knew her name. Four months later, Bratva business leads me to the house of my enemy with one objective:Burn it down and kill everyone inside. That's exactly what I plan to do...Until I find her cowering before me.The innocent girl from the club.My beautiful caged bird. I'm not here to save her--I'm here to ruin her.But something stops me in my tracks.Something I never expected. Did she say that's my baby in her womb? GILDED CAGE is the first book in the Kovalyov Bratva duet. Artem and Esme's story will conclude in Book 2, GILDED TEARS.

In a near future ravaged by killer hurricanes, rampant overdevelopment and increasingly underdressed waitresses, ex-newsman Jon Templeton has had the worst Thursday of his life. He's forced to fight off an amorous co-worker at the PR job he hates, only to have his wife discover his admirer's panties in his pocket. Now he's dead, interrupted on his way to his heavenly reward by Eli, an elderly Rastafarian surfer who claims to be the Supreme Being. Still reeling from having lost any chance of redemption in his human life, Jon is offered a mission: Discover for the surprisingly clueless deity the true identity of Lucas Scheafer, deputy to the Rev. Lawrence Whitaker and his sultry wife, Veronica, leaders of the sexually free-wheeling Church of the New Revelation, headquartered in America's new Sin City, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Jon's quest is paralleled by that of Mako Nikura, reluctant heir to a weapons and aerospace fortune, who hopes to find the secret to his father's death and its connection to the domestic terrorist organization SHAG. Little do Jon and Mako know, but their paths lead to the same exceptionally odd - and potentially cataclysmic - destination.

The battle for men's souls is intensifying in these last days, and there is a growing urgency that we no longer walk by our feelings, but by faith in the sure testimony of the Word of God. From the Garden of Eden until now, Satan has mingled truth with a lie: "Hath God said?" Knowing that deception is an end time sign, we must seek now, more than ever, to know the truth in order to expose his lies. The Immaculate Deception first challenges readers to lay aside the doctrines and traditions of the Catholic Church and begin to question their salvation by no other source than is revealed in the Word of God. Secondly, the book reveals the truth surrounding Mary, the Blessed Virgin and Mother of Jesus, who is being used by Satan to attack the Catholic Church in these last days. The Author's ministry spans fourteen years of teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ in prisons, missions and jails in Arkansas and Tennessee. She graduated Bible College from Forward Ministries - Global Ministries and Relief, Dr. Leon Van Rooyan, and is a member of Church of the Harvest. She has been a guest speaker on Christian radio, and has spoken to women's groups and churches in Tennessee. More importantly, her passion is for winning souls, and this book is an extension of that outreach to win souls in the Catholic Church.

Sexy, smart, Raechel Jones is in her last year of college and about to enter medical school. That is until she meets suave, charismatic, rich NFL superstar Texas Reynolds. Rae and Texas embark on the Diamond Life, a life filled with sex, money, and power. But Rae's world starts to crumble after a series of events. The man that she fell in love with (Texas Reynolds) has a deep dark secret that Raechel didn't know existed. Raechel finds herself caught up in a deadly web of lies, betrayal and murder.

Did you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool enough to believe himself to be the Second Coming? And that's nothing compared to what happens when comedy gets its grubby paws on the confessional. Enter fifteenth- and sixteenth-century French farce, the "bestseller" of a world that stands to tell us a lot about the enduring influence of a Shakespeare or a Molière. It's the sacrilegious world of Immaculate Deception, the third volume in a series of stage-friendly translations from the Middle French. Brought to you through the wonders of Open Access, these twelve engagingly funny satires target religious hypocrisy in that in-your-face way that only true slapstick can muster. There is literally nothing sacred. Why this repertoire and why now? The current political climate has had dire consequences for the pleasures of satire at a cultural moment when we have never needed it more. It turns out that the proverbial Dark Ages had a lighter side; and France's over 200 rollicking, frolicking, singing, and dancing comedies—more extant than in any other vernacular—have waited long enough for their moment in the spotlight. They are seriously funny: funny enough to reclaim their place in cultural history, and serious enough to participate in the larger conversation about what it means to be a social influencer, then and now. Rather than relegate medieval texts to the dustbin of history, an unabashedly feminist translation can reframe and reject the sexism of bygone days by doing what theater always invites us to do: interpret, inflect, and adapt.

Patricia Pollard is wealthy, beautiful, and needs Sam McCloud's help. Mrs. Pollard is upset by the indiscretions of her preacher husband, Peter Pollard; and to make matters worse, her best friend's husband, the corporate financial officer of Pollard's religious empire, has disappeared. As a private investigator in the North-Central California City of Modesto, McCloud struggles to keep his relationship with the gorgeous Mrs. Pollard on a professional level. "Mac" enlists his cousin, Swede Anderson, the owner of the Downtown Athletic Club, to assist in the investigation. The twists and turns extend into Hawaii, Mexico, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with treachery everywhere. As Mac and Swede follow a confusing trail of clues in Norman Adkins's disappearance, they discover a network of slavery, drugs, and murder and attempts to discourage both of them in the pursuit of the truth. As it turns out, the truth can be stranger than fiction.

When United States President Geoff Collier is confronted with the most dramatic event in history, it is immediately followed by a shocking revelation that threatens to crumble the foundation of Christianity. After vigorous debate with his advisers, Collier buys into the evidence suggesting that extraterrestrials have made contact. When he announces the momentous news, rumors quickly spread that aliens visited two thousand years ago and perpetrated an incredible deception about the life of Jesus Christ. Whispers of a hoax trigger mass confusion and are magnified by acts of terrorism. Blamed for the chaos and for making a mockery of all that Christian believers hold dear, Collier is dismayed and angered. Collier comes to believe that an attack on a Libyan weapons of mass destruction site will rekindle respect for the United States-and credibility for himself. But the assault results in a toxic cloud that threatens life on Earth. Collier is again assailed by public fury, but soon the cloud mysteriously dissipates. Now acclaimed for his decisive action, he overcomes his political foes and resurrects a spiritual path for himself and those who had wavered from their faith. The Immaculate Deception creatively meshes science fiction with the most controversial issues of today's headlines-terrorism, politics, and religion-resulting in a stunningly provocative story.