A Kate Cavanaugh and Renato Lopez adventure: Kate investigates the murder of a charismatic photographer found dead in the Florida Everglades, who left behind a string of broken hearts. With the help of Detective Renato Lopez, Kate will need to determine who had the greater motive for murder, the scorned lovers or their jealous husbands. Reader review: "Super story."

Kate Cavanaugh Mystery Collection includes books 1-4: Murder on Caye Isle, The Murder of Micco Black, Murder on the Blue Swan, The Hunt for Sarah. “A cleverly potted murder/mystery with a big dollop of sexy romance.” The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.

A Kate Cavanaugh and Renato Lopez adventure: While in France, Kate and Renato partner with Lieutenant George Velay to solve the murder of a young woman found hanging from the upper deck of a luxury yacht in the Old Port of Marseille. Reader review: "Another page-turner in the Kate Cavanaugh series."

A Kate Cavanaugh and Renato Lopez adventure: A decades old cold case of a missing twelve-year old girl collides with the recent discovery of an elusive serial killer who may be a woman, and leads Kate and Renato on an international chase. Kate and Renato are a modern, contemporary version of a crime solving couple in the tradition of Hart to Hart and Nick and Nora.

While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City," it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor. In this book, Brandi Thompson Summers documents D.C.'s shift to a "post-chocolate" cosmopolitan metropolis by charting H Street's economic and racial developments. In doing so, she offers a theoretical framework for understanding how blackness is aestheticized and deployed to organize landscapes and raise capital. Summers focuses on the continuing significance of blackness in a place like the nation's capital, how blackness contributes to our understanding of contemporary urbanization, and how it laid an important foundation for how Black people have been thought to exist in cities. Summers also analyzes how blackness—as a representation of diversity—is marketed to sell a progressive, "cool," and authentic experience of being in and moving through an urban center. Using a mix of participant observation, visual and media analysis, interviews, and archival research, Summers shows how blackness has become a prized and lucrative aesthetic that often excludes D.C.'s Black residents.

In this tale of vengeance, the wife of a federal appeals court judge is murdered. The FBI conducts a cursory investigation, and then mysteriously closes its file. Flavored with American-Italian family relationships, the characters move through a web of deceit and determination to unravel a dark conspiracy centered around an occult society and a ruse that reaches into the Oval Office, The author merges his knowledge of the law's complexity and majesty with the murkiness of power politics to construct a whodunit set in the triangle of Western Pennsylvania, idyllic Sicily, and labyrinthine Washington.

Historians have traditionally viewed the Creek War of 1836 as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that in fact the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after peace was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west. Ellisor’s study also broadly illuminates southern society just before the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek country, also called New Alabama, these ethnic groups began to develop a pluralistic society. When the 1830s cotton boom placed a premium on Creek land, however, dispossession of the Natives became an economic priority. Dispossessed and impoverished, some Creeks rose in armed revolt both to resist removal west and to drive the oppressors from their ancient homeland. Yet the resulting Second Creek War that raged over three states was fueled both by Native determination and by economic competition and was intensified not least by the massive government-sponsored land grab that constituted Indian removal. Because these circumstances also created fissures throughout southern society, both whites and blacks found it in their best interests to help the Creek insurgents. This first book-length examination of the Second Creek War shows how interethnic collusion and conflict characterized southern society during the 1830s.

This book describes the struggle of Indian tribes and their governments to achieve freedom and self-determination despite repeated attempts by foreign governments to dominate, exterminate, or assimilate them. Drawing on the disciplines of political science, history, law, and anthropology and written in a direct, readable style, American Indian Tribal Governments is a comprehensive introduction to traditional tribal governments, to the history of Indian-white relations, to the structure and legal rights of modern tribal governments, and to the changing roles of federal and state governments in relation to modem tribal governments. Publication of this book fills a gap in American Indian studies, providing scholars with a basis from which to begin an integrated study of tribal government, providing teachers with an excellent introductory textbook, and providing general readers with an accessible and complete introduction to American Indian history and government. The book's unique structure allows coverage of a great breadth of information while avoiding the common mistake of generalizing about all tribes and cultures. An introductory section presents the basic themes of the book and describes the traditional governments of five tribes chosen for their geographic and cultural diversity-the Senecas, the Muscogees, the Lakotas, the Isleta Pueblo, and the Yakimas. The next three chapters review the history of Indian-white relations from the time Christopher Columbus "discovered" America to the present. Then the history and modem government of each of the five tribes presented earlier is examined in detail. The final chapters analyze the evolution and current legal powers of tribal governments, the tribal-federal relationship, and the tribal-state relationship. American Indian Tribal Governments illuminates issues of tribal sovereignty and shows how tribes are protecting and expanding their control of tribal membership, legal systems, child welfare, land and resource use, hunting and fishing, business regulation, education, and social services. Other examples show tribes negotiating with state and federal governments to alleviate sources of conflict, including issues of criminal and civil jurisdiction, taxation, hunting and fishing rights, and control of natural resources. Excerpts from historical and modem documents and speeches highlight the text, and more than one hundred photos, maps, and charts show tribal life, government, and interaction with white society as it was and is. Included as well are a glossary and a chronology of important events.