Slammed by disaster. Playing for her life. With the tragic death of her husband and son, concert pianist Riley Forte’s life and career shattered. In a struggle to rally, her comeback performance bombs, her sponsor pulls out, and she faces the tattered ruins of a once-happy life. When the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Rainier traps her in an isolated community tormented by a relentless serial killer, it seems like the end of everything, but it brings a new chance for Riley. If she can evade the clutches of a demented killer. In a riveting action story filled with breathtaking suspense, Riley fights to hang on to the one thing she has left—her life—and the one thing she needs to turn it around—redemption. Fans of Jeffery Deaver, CJ Box, and William Kent Krueger will be captivated by this page-turner. “Just when I thought I had the killer in a cage, a bombshell reveal, chapters later, knocked me out of the park. This book is a force to be reckoned with and a must for the avid reader.” ~ Terry A. Benedict-Devine (reader, Amazon.com) If you like a gripping, suspenseful tale, grab your copy of Nocturne in Ashes today and prepare to burn the midnight oil!

Enjoy this steamy mountain man action-adventure second chance romantic suspense novel by contemporary romance author Lynn Burke... A child born of the wilderness, I don’t know many women. Never had one of my own. But sassy little Annie Charran owned my heart long before I stole her first kiss. She paid a high price for my actions, and even though I want her for life, I’ll never fit into the one she has planned for herself. Given the opportunity to beg forgiveness, I grab it—and end up facing death. With instincts overriding my senses, I take again. But this time, a wildfire flares, demolishing everything in its path. Survival means sacrifice, and for me, life trumps dreams. I’ll force Annie to give up what she wants most, even if it means I lose her forever. Wildfire is the third in the steamy romantic suspense Midnight Sun series. HEA guaranteed, this second chance mountain man novel can be read as a standalone. Perfect for readers who love strong, sassy heroines and protective mountain man heroes. If you’re a fan of Brittney Sahin, A.L. Jackson, Ivy Smoak, Gemma Weir, Nicole Snow, K.C. Crowne, Marley Michaels, & Ava Grace, you’re going to love the Midnight Sun series!

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divided into three sections: History-cal Violence, (Un)Comic Violence, and Revenge Violence. This division allows scholars to easily find intertextual materials; comic violence may function similarly across multiple comedies but is vastly different from most tragic violence. While the source texts move beyond Shakespeare, this book follows the classic division of Shakespeare’s plays into history, comedy, and tragedy. Each section of the book contains one chapter engaging with modern dramatic practice along with several that take textual or historical approaches. This wide-ranging approach means that the book will be appropriate both for specialists in Early Modern violence who are looking across multiple perspectives, and for students or scholars researching texts or approaches.

An idyllic shoreline town. A mysterious contagion of anxiety. A shockwave of suspicion, violence, and desperation. Everyone is affected. As the small Connecticut town of Whistling Rocks descends deeper into chaos, its residents face today’s all too common issues: how to live during a time of multiple crises and how to adapt to a dangerous, changing world. Midnight’s Warning is filled with memorable characters. JJ, a young man with autism has uncanny intuition. Three teenagers believe their morbid discovery in a park is causing the town’s contagious anxiety. Ricky, a drifter, turns to violence to relieve his angst and fears. And a psychic foresees calamities to come.

During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflects the first-ever forum for law and economics scholars to apply the analysis and methodologies of their field to the subject of wildfire. The only modern legal work on wildfire, the book brings together leading scholars to consider questions such as: How can public policy address the effects of climate change on wildfire, and wildfire on climate change? Are the environmental and fiscal costs of ex ante prevention measures justified? What are the appropriate levels of prevention and suppression responsibility borne by private, state, and federal actors? Can tort liability provide a solution for realigning the grossly distorted incentives that currently exist for private landowners and government firefighters? Do the existing incentives in wildfire institutions provide incentives for efficient private and collective action and how might they be improved?

Chronologically arranged entries on more than 30 writers from the Middle Ages to the present trace the pervasive influence of Arthurian legend on world literature.

In October 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history. Wildfire Loose describes how the fires started and spread so quickly through rural villages, down Millionaire’s Row in Bar Harbor, and across southern Maine beach resorts. Originally published in 1979, it remains the definitive account of “The Week Maine Burned.”