The best man I’ve ever known told me he loved me—and I rejected him. It’s been months since that night, when he showed me what it was to kneel at the feet of a man capable of incredible tenderness and delicious agony in the same breath. Months since he opened his heart to me. And months since I crushed it without hesitation. I thought I was doing the right thing for everyone. Especially the band we’ve sacrificed everything for. Because Elias “Ice” Turner isn’t just my bandmate, my closest confidant, and my every wildest fantasy come to life. He’s my ex’s best friend. Being with Ice would ruin everything. Our lives. Our Band. Me. And I’m not even sure I care anymore. Go ahead. Ruin me, Daddy.

In this volume, a well-known psychoanalyst, dance therapist, and educational consultant chronicles her clinical work with deeply troubled children who fall between the cracks of our diagnostic and educational systems. These children, who frequently turn out to have been sexually or punitively abused, have no real emotional home despite the fact that they live in materially comfortable circumstances. In spite of their apparent brightness and precocity, they do not thrive in the classroom, where their disruptive behavior, tendency to act out, and fragmented learning bring them to the attention of teachers, counselors, and school psychologists. Standard diagnoses do not explain their plight; such children are neither retarded nor learning disabled nor neurotic. Through poignant case studies, Siegel reviews the developmental circumstances that bring these middle-class waifs to a critical impasse with both their parents and the educational establishment. Time and again she discovers that the children's expectable developmental course has been derailed by their accommodation to parental abuse and deformed parental expectations. Psychodynamic treatment invariably uncovers the maladaptive solutions that fueled the children's behavioral and learning disturbances. This volume speaks to a broad clinical and non-clinical readership: psychoanalytic clinicians; psychologists; counselors; social workers; art, dance, and music therapists; special education teachers; child therapists; and child care workers. They will all join in admiration of Siegel's treatment approach which focuses on what is healthy in deeply traumatized children and, in so doing, helps debunk the myth of the untreatable child.

Using scant historical and personal records as a starting place, the author recreates the lives of his great-grandparents-farmers who traveled West to settle in Illinois-reconstructing six generations of family history in the process. (Biography)

The love of Edie’s life has returned to Lost River. And she didn’t come alone… Ten years ago, the woman Edie loved walked out of her life forever. Or so she thought. But now Jesse Walker is back in Lost River, turning Edie’s life upside down once again. And the sparks between them are as bright and hot as ever. All it would take is one look, one touch to set that old flame ablaze again. Even the unexpected appearance of Jesse’s Daddy-slash-fiancé isn’t enough to put out the fire between them. If anything, Grant’s presence only fuels the desire threatening to burn Edie alive. And as reckless as it may be, Edie can’t resist the flames…

Self-obsessed. Arrogant. Jerk. I mean…which sensible man would have nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist in his own office? And which sensible girl can avoid all those naughty thoughts then. He’s in his forties – old enough to be my father. OMG…those green eyes that I want to drown myself into, that smooth voice when he orders me around, and don’t even get me started on the muscles…and those hard abs I saw that day in his office… oooh Lord! Have Mercy! Because I am compelled to… Call him DADDY! He says, ‘Age brings in experience,’ and I am so ready to surrender my V-card. We are going great, But then he decides to change things. I can’t! I can’t allow him to ruin my career. So what…if I am head over heels in love with him and the baby in my belly is his!

Crystal longed for her father's love, but she felt only rejection. Added to that, she grew up in a home where incest and sexual molestation seemed "natural"-even from a very young age. But when her neighbor raped her and other men abused her she blamed herself. What have I done to make them do this to me? Her low self-esteem and depression led her into alcohol and drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, thoughts of suicide, self-destructive habits and dabbling in the occult. As an adult, she searched for her identity and purpose in life through being a wife, a mother and serving God. But miscarriages, failed adoptions and years of infertility kept her from her dream of being a mother. Crystal turned to adultery to find value in herself. But this only added to her guilt and shame. She believed she didn't deserve to be forgiven. At her lowest point, however, the heavenly Father filled her with His love and revealed her identity to her as Daddy's Little Princess. Crystal Narby served as a youth pastor for ten years and was involved with the Yokefellow Prison Ministry for many years. She was also a volunteer counselor for a domestic violence/rape crisis hotline. Presently she ministers healing and deliverance through Bible studies and speaking engagements. Her mission is to love the Lord and live a fasted life, according to Isaiah 58:6-7, and to go into all the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ, as commissioned in Mark 16:15-18. Crystal resides with her husband, Greg, and their son, Jayden, in Dubois, Pennsylvania.

Kathrine Rivers can't get over the seperation of her parents, she is then hit with another blow. Her mother and older brother dies in an accident. She now has to go away and live with her father, she doesn't really have a choice. Changing environment and attending a new school is hard enough already, though she has Sam, her brother's friend who is her watch dog. But he is over protective and won't let her be with the Luke who she has fallen head over heels for. Why doesn't he wants to see her with Luke or any other boy? How much can Kathrine learn from her wild, teenage adventures?

They’ve kidnapped the wrong woman—Longarm’s! Deputy Marshal Custis Long is bringing an accused murderer to Colorado for a fair trial, when he hears tell of a gang of savage killers on the loose. But it’s not Federal business, so Longarm moseys along, his prisoner in hand… When Longarm stops for his sweetheart, Emily, he finds that the same raiders have kidnapped her, after murdering her parents. Catching them won’t be easy, but Longarm has an unlikely ally—his prisoner. Together, they’ll ride hell-for-leather, knowing that their only hope is if the killers stop long enough to take advantage of their captive—the woman Longarm loves…