Betrayed, deceived, broken. They are the only words used to describe who I have become. Make no mistake, I let this happen. But do you want to know the thing about letting someone into your life? It can be undone. Lucas Rossi may think he has won this round. But I have news for him. I’m going to win every other one he sends my way. My heart may be in shackles, but my head has perfect clarity. SHACKLED HEARTS Is book 2 in Chanel and Lucas Duet. It is a part of the Chained Hearts world.

Sailor My husband sold me. Not only did he sell me, but he told me he loved me while doing the deal. What lies he tells. Only fools believe him. Unfortunately, one of those fools was… .. me. Keir Not in the habit of buying women. I didn’t need to. I was a king of my realm, the devil you whispered about in your sleep. So when his debt fell due, he sold me his wife. And I was happy because I wanted to play with her like any fool would. And play with her, I did. Pity, in the end, I would have to kill her. *Mafia Romance*

Lucas I was obsessed from the beginning. And once I have an obsession. It's best you don't get in my way. Chanel I tried to stay away. He was the one who was whispered about on the streets. The viper that, once he had a taste, would hunt you down and collect you. And Lucas liked to collect things. One of those things was me. Sinful Hands is Book 1 in the Chanel & Lucas duet, and is part of the Chained Hearts Duet world.

When the king of the underworld wants you. You have no place to run. No matter how hard you try, no matter where you go. He will find you. It’s just a matter of, do you want him to find you. Or do you want to run.

After losing his wife in a horrific car accident, Charlie Grimm believes that he deserves to pay for the life he stole. Haunted by his irreversible mistakes, Charlie vows he'll never fall in love again, and who could see past his criminal conviction anyway?MacKenna Christensen strives to support all of her parolees. But when she discovers Charlie is her client, she refuses to help him. She can never erase the gruesome images of his wife's death. Yet when she sees Charlie's anguish, she realizes he's not the reckless monster she imagined.As the disdain between Charlie and Mac turns to desire, guilt tears them apart. Is Mac willing to take a chance on a client at the risk of losing her job? Can Charlie forgive himself and open his heart to Mac, or will she become one more regret?

A former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years, The Shackled Continent is engrossing, highly readable, and as entertaining as it is tragic. Guest pulls the veil off the corruption and intrigue that cripple so many African nations, posing a provocative theory that Africans have been impoverished largely by their own leaders' abuses of power. From the minefields of Angola to the barren wheat fields of Zimbabwe, Guest gathers startling evidence of the misery African leaders have inflicted on their people. But he finds elusive success stories and examples of the resilience and resourcefulness of individual Africans, too; from these, he draws hope that the continent will eventually prosper. Guest offers choices both commonsense and controversial for Africans and for those in the West who wish Africa well.

"When Pelly sees her best friend, who disappeared six years ago, in a coffee shop with a strange man, she's determined to discover the truth of her friend's disappearance and rescue her from her current captor"--

Heart’s Ache is a collection of traditional-style poems that seeks to express for others what their own hearts have been struggling to express. It's about pain and love, loss and surrender, desire and youthful loneliness. It’s about fallen man’s longings for a higher experience of love; his memories of a fallen Eden, his visions of a distant heaven, and his painful awareness that pain and love are never separated. It’s the poetic result of one young person’s desire to allow pain to be felt, to express it in words, and then to continue trusting in God’s goodness to do exceedingly above all that we could ask or think. It’s about bravely connecting with the inner yearning for God’s love and the love of His people, even though pain is always sure to be present in some measure. It’s about loving, and then loving again, never ceasing to look in hope for God’s own abundant provision of love and reciprocation. He who loves deeply hurts deeply, but never will the soul of man experience love's rapture like those who bear their cross and wait for God’s blessing.

Joey I married, and I did all the things asked of me. Then she ran away. That was the end of it, or so I thought. Until I found her again. This time, should I let her get away so easily? Adora I was falling for my arranged husband hook, line, and sinker. He was everything I was not. And yet everything I didn’t know I needed. Until I was forced to run. I just hoped he didn’t catch me. 5

"Innerspirations" takes the reader on a journey of the author's self-discovery from pain to triumph through poetry. It edifies and exhorts those feeling hopeless, lost and brokenhearted to persevere in spite of life's adversities; and allowing God's strength to be made perfect in their weaknesses (2 Corinthians 12: 9). We all face adversity in our lives and have our own battles to fight. Transition is not only frightening, but extremely difficult to endure. Yet, when allowing God to lead and guide us into His Truth, the rewards are priceless. The only constant is God and Change-acknowledging and accepting God's Truth is liberating. God's Truth can hurt, but it ultimately heals. Phenessa shares her experiences in hopes of inspiring and healing others.