Heart Snatched By A West Coast Goon

Ashley Collier is a twenty-eight-year-old woman who co-owns a trucking company with her older brother. At the age of eighteen, stage one cancer invaded her ovaries, resulting in her inability to have children. She meets thirty-one-year-old Antonio Washington, who owns Bud Love, a dispensary in Los Angeles after a business meeting. The two are immediately attracted to one another, but Ashley's past has her fighting off her feelings. Antonio maneuvers his way into her life, and they agree to take things slow. Everything is going well until the topic of children is brought up, causing Ashley to second guess whether she should reveal her truth or not.

Mariah loves her fiancé, Seth Travers. But when Seth leaves to make his fortune in Montana, ahead of her arrival, she starts thinking for herself. Finally arriving by steamboat, Mariah learns that Seth has taken ill and sent his best friend, Creed Devereaux, to escort her to Virginia City. Mariah wants nothing to do with the rough-edged bounty hunter who's just killed a half-breed murderer in front of her. But an unexpected detour sends the pair through dangerous mountains... alone. Forced together, their loyalties to Seth are put to the test while their path converges with a man who has Creed dead in his sights. AWARDS: RITA Nomination, Romance Writers of America REVIEWS: "An action-packed, sensual love story, brimming with danger and peopled with an unforgettable mismatched couple who overcome all odds to find true happiness." ~Harriet Klausner, Romantic Times WILD WESTERN HEARTS, in series order Holt's Gamble Renegade Bride Renegade's Kiss Chase the Fire

"This splendid collection of Monsignor Rice's writings magnificently captures the turbulent and important decades of labor and social strife in which Rice played so important a role. If you want to understand modern labor history, you must read this book, for if you don't know Monsignor Rice's life and times, you are missing a most important part of the nation's life and times from the 1930s to the 1990s". William Serrin, former New York Times labor reporter and author of Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town

Continue to ride the wave with Sanaa, Slim, Robby, and Michelle as the drama continues in A Dopeboy Stole My Heart Part 2! Sanaa, who was recently heartbroken by her ex-boyfriend Slim, has been through the mud. Not only had she been cheated on since she had moved to Denver, Colorado, but she recently found out that her step cousin's baby was really his. Trying to move on and find the love with Robby that she couldn't get from Slim was a challenge because the universe kept throwing curveballs. Will Robby and Sanaa make it, or will everything meant to tear them apart succeed? Robby, starting as a two-bit hustler and now making his way to kingpin, had happily accepted his throne. He was doing well for himself, had a beautiful girl by his side, and was slowly making his way to the top. The problem was, at the top, haters stayed lurking. Can Robby escape the jealousy and greed that comes with the top position, or will he be taken out for good? Although Slim and Calista become a thing and are living well, Slim still feels like something is missing. Never getting a hold on his mental health disorder, and still refusing to take his meds, Slim slowly spirals out of control. He will stop at nothing to get Sanaa back and make her his girl forever. After cheating on Robby, Michelle gets dumped and goes buck wild. Her choices landed her in rehab, where she recovered and is now clean. She meets Future, who she falls head over heels for and who loves and adores her. Will her past catch up to her and give her a deadly ending? Ride the wave while we go through this fast-paced, epic finale. With the shootings, kidnappings, murders, and lots of drama, this hot new saga is guaranteed to keep you turning pages!

Directionless yet driven by a fervent desire to make something of himself, Doug "The Thug" Smith took his only marketable job skill--amateur boxing--and followed an unlikely career path to become a hockey enforcer, a.k.a. "goon." Entrusted with aggressively protecting his teammates from tough guys on the opposing team, he punched, elbowed and cross-checked his way up the ranks of minor league hockey to win a championship ring and the respect of his community. His entertaining underdog story is the subject of the cult-classic motion picture Goon (2011) and its sequel Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017).

In this mesmerizing new novel from bestselling author Lisa Black, the discovery of a young man’s corpse leads forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner into a dark and dangerous web of lies . . . Life and death have brought Maggie Gardiner full circle, back to the Erie Street Cemetery where she first entered Jack Renner’s orbit. Eight months ago, she learned what Jack would do in the name of justice. More unsettling still, she discovered how far she would go to cover his tracks. Now a young man sprawls atop a snowy grave, his heart shredded by a single wound. A key card in the victim’s wallet leads to the local university’s student housing—and to a grieving girlfriend with an unsettling agenda. Maggie’s struggle to appease her conscience is complicated by her ex-husband, Rick, who’s convinced that Jack is connected to a series of vigilante killings. Also a homicide detective, Rick investigates what seems like a routine overdose on Cleveland’s West Side; but here, too, the appearance belies a deeper truth. Rick’s case and Jack’s merge onto the trail of a shadowy, pill-pushing physician who is everywhere and nowhere at once, while Maggie and Jack uncover a massive financial shakedown hiding in plain sight. And when Rick’s bloody fingerprint is found at another murder scene, Maggie’s world comes undone in a violent, irreversible torrent of events . . .

An old tale tells of one of the universe’s most prized treasures titled the Araknyd, which was the embodiment of the eight ultimate chakras of the universe. The chakras were represented by its eight legs, which were separated from it. Some said it would grant the user the aptitude to become the ultimate being, and some said it was able to give life as easily as it could take it away. The Araknyd was held inside a temple on a pedestal, dormant, waiting to be activated by all eight of its legs, which were each protected by an oracle, a part of a group called the 8-Legged Anatomy. Along with the treasure, there was a prophecy that spoke of a young man who was immune to poison. He could harness all eight chakras of the universe, and he would be the one that brought them all together. When a boy named Paul meets a ravishing spider named Roxy, she takes him to a place where he learns about the legend of the Araknyd. Before long, they also conjure a demon named Violet that gets added to the team. The three of them embark on a quest, defeating deities of anguish, making baneful decisions, and risking the fate of existence to retrieve those eight legs and not only awaken the power, but stop the completed Araknyd from falling into the wrong hands.

Van Bueren is a man's man. He likes scotch, long legs and Die Hard. His world is direct with no room for spoilsports. He paints, he philanders and he loves bacon. When he goes to an LA party and has his lights punched out, he wakes up in Paris and has to walk a fine line between disbelief and acceptance. The Pantheon has been working on project Paragon for a long time, and they need new talent, like Van. Apparently, the math and science folks have got it all wrong. Armed with that knowledge, people are now trying to kill him! With the help of his mysterious bombshell assistant, Evette, and his totally boss Mustang GT, Katie, he's got to stay one step ahead of his enemies, and two steps ahead of the trail of emotional wreckage he leaves in his wake. Tossed between two feuding secret societies, will he survive to once again swing his libido like a medieval weapon? Will he save the day, the girl and, more importantly, his car?