Devil S Promise

San Antonio is full of secrets, and seventeen-year-old Erasmo Cruz investigates the strangest of them. After gaining renown for surviving the city's legendary Ghost Tracks, he has set up shop as a paranormal investigator. But helping exorcize other people’s demons doesn’t seem to relieve his own; his best friend Rat has abandoned him, his grandmother is nearing death, and his own health has taken a sudden decline. None of these hardships can prepare Erasmo for the story his newest client brings him. Two decades after a strange ritual at a rural ranch, Bradley Erickson is being hunted by the Devil. In exchange for the life of his dreams, Bradley must surrender the blood of his child. The case hurls Erasmo into a dark web of cults, bargains, and broken pasts. Only one thing is certain: the Devil keeps his promises.

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are holidaying on the English coast when they discover a corpse on the beach… which then disappears. They can get little help from the nearby village, populated by strange and unfriendly characters. Then the corpse suddenly reappears in their cottage and they are attacked by persons unknown. Watson comes to, and discovers that months have passed, and Holmes is not the man he remembers. What has happened to his friend? Does it have something to do with a dead devil worshipper, whose children happen to live in the cursed village?

After the death of her father, Catriona goes to stay with long-lost relations in Drumwithie Castle. Handsome 21-year-old Jamie calls her Cat, for the faerie cat associated with the Other World who roams the Scottish hills. He believes that Cat was meant to come here so that all the castle's secrets would be revealed - most of all, what it is the ghost girl who visits the tower wants to tell them?

Despite the overwhelming opposition on the left to the war in Iraq, many prominent liberals supported the war on humanitarian grounds. They argued that the war would rid the world of a brutal dictator and liberate the Iraqi people from totalitarian oppression, paving the way for a democratic transformation of the country. In A Pact with the Devil Tony Smith deftly traces this undeniable drift in mainstream liberal thinking toward a more militant posture in world affairs with respect to human rights and democracy promotion. Beginning with the Wilsonian quest to ‘make the world safe for democracy’ right up to the present day liberal support for regime change, Smith isolates leading strands of liberal internationalist thinking in order to see how the ‘liberal hawks’ constructed them into a case for American and liberal imperialism in the Middle East. The result is a reflection on an important aspect of the intellectual history of American foreign policy; establishing how a sophisticated group of thinkers came to fashion their recommendations to Washington and working to see what role liberalism may still play in deliberations in the country on its role in world events now that the failure of these ambitions in Iraq seems clear.

[Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Western Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, spousal sharing, sex toys, public exhibition] Driven by insatiable desires, Megan Spawn leads a secret life filled with taboo liaisons. Luckily, she doesn't have to choose when it comes to a lover--she's married to two men, the notorious outlaw Devin Spawn and the distinguished Caleb Walker, who only whet her appetite for sensual pleasure. When Megan catches the eye of Caleb's gorgeous partner, Dr. Randolph Sinclair, temperatures begin to rise. No woman can resist the passionate bedside manner of Doctor Sin. Not even Cassandra Huntington, a red-headed beauty who would rather solve the problems of the world than risk accepting his stimulating cure, is immune to the seductive charms of a sinful rogue in a white coat. Note: excessive physical violence inflicted on heroine by villain ** A Siren Erotic Romance

In 1988, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering suit against the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), at the time possibly the most corrupt union in the world. The lawsuit charged that the mafia had operated the IBT as a racketeering enterprise for decades, systematically violating the rights of members and furthering the interests of organized crime. On the eve of trial, the parties settled the case, and twenty years later, the trustees are still on the job. Breaking the Devil's Pact is an in-depth study of the U.S. v. IBT, beginning with Giuliani's lawsuit and the politics surrounding it, and continuing with an incisive analysis of the controversial nature of the ongoing trusteeship. James B. Jacobs and Kerry T. Cooperman address the larger question of the limits of legal reform in the American labor movement and the appropriate level of government involvement.

PROTECTED. WORSHIPPED. HIS. If the past has taught me anything, it’s that the safest place for me is in Blade’s arms. Our souls are two pieces of the same scarred and fragile puzzle. We got our happily ever after, and attempting to cut him out of my life is something I will never do again. Or so I thought. Even the hardest stone crumbles under pressure, and our once-unbreakable bond is being tested in a way neither of us are prepared for. The road we’ve walked has always been paved in landmines rather than gold, and we’ve hit countless snags along the way but have always made it out alive. This time feels different, though. Will our love get blown to pieces? Or will this restore what’s been broken?