Kirsten S 2nd Chance

Healing a Wounded Heart... Kirsten Trigger has lived in Poet for a year now with a big secret. She's made good friends, owns the successful consignment shop, Twice Loved, and has exciting plans for the future. This has been the best year of her life. To save his own sanity, Grant Adams made a hard career change and is the newest hire at the Poet Fire Department. His days as a paramedic are over. Now the reluctant executor of his estranged stepfather's estate, Grant hires Kirsten to help liquidate the assets through her shop in order to donate the proceeds to charity. So begins their unexpected friendship. Little do they realize the collision course they're traveling.

Healing a wounded heart... Kirsten Trigger has lived in Poet for a year now with a big secret. She's made good friends, owns the successful consignment shop, Twice Loved, and has exciting plans for the future. This has been the best year of her life. To save his own sanity, Grant Adams made a hard career change and is the newest hire at the Poet Fire Department. His days as a paramedic are over. Now the reluctant executor of his estranged stepfather's estate, Grant hires Kirsten to help liquidate the assets through her shop in order to donate the proceeds to charity. So begins their unexpected friendship. Little do they realize the collision course they're traveling.

The Women's Murder Club returns for another thrilling crime investigation. Will their skills be enough to take down a brutal madman? A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable. In this "inventive" installment of the Women's Murder Club, James Patterson proves once again why he is the #1 master of the murder mystery (Sunday Times).

"Love inspired inspirational romance"--Spine.

Justin Nichols had it all and hits rock-bottom when its stripped from him. But when he lays eyes on his high-school sweetheart a fire lights inside him and makes him realize theres something left in life worth fighting for. Kristen Delanie had her heart broken at age sixteen and finds herself face to face with the man responsible. He not only made her self-conscious but also left her feeling inferior. She knows in her heart the only way to get rid of her insecurities is to let him back into her life, but at what cost? Almost immediately, someone is trying to send Kristen a message by turning her world upside down. Is the strangers focus on her, or is it coincidental that it didnt start happening until Justin waltzed back into her life? The whole situation leaves them both wondering, is it possible to get another chance?

That Love is the first book in Danny's Duet and is a great jumping off point for new readers to the series. I first met the ridiculously handsome Danny Diamond at a party some fifteen years ago. He had brilliant blue eyes, a sexy smirk, and a muscular body. We had a crazy, instant connection. So, I did what I had to do—threw myself in his direction and kissed him. And that kiss … was like a freaking fairy tale. At least it was until he stopped it because he was married. In my tipsy state, I replied with something cheesy like, “Don’t promise me forever, just promise me tonight.” And after a kiss like that, who could blame me? Clearly, I wasn’t thinking straight because I would never sleep with a married man. But in that moment, I kind of wanted to. I thought maybe we could be friends instead, but he couldn’t. He was a hotshot rookie quarterback with a wife and a new baby. He was living his dream. Right now, my life is not perfect. Sure, I’m an award-winning actress, and everyone thinks I’ve got this glamorous celebrity life—that is, until my longtime boyfriend is caught on video in an Amsterdam brothel, and our love becomes tabloid fodder. And that brings me to where I am now—hiding out from the paparazzi and staring at a shirtless, sweaty Danny, who is drinking milk from a carton at his neighbor’s house. I want to impulsively kiss him again because he looks even better than I remember, but I don’t. Because I don’t know that his marriage is over. Or that he feels the same way about me. Or that we might actually have a shot at that forever kind of love.

In the United States and most parts of the world, law, policy, policing, and prevention work addressing domestic and intimate partner violence is created and enacted based on a violence model. Likewise, it is generally believed that all victims of intimate partner homicide are victims of intimate partner violence, through physical abuse, prior to the incident of homicide, and that this violence is reported beforehand. Voices of Intimate Partner Homicide takes a critical look at these misconceived notions and sheds light on multiple non-violent forms of controlling behavior that precipitate intimate partner homicide. The book bases its critical examination on a content analysis of court-filed Petitions for Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence. Through these records, as well as corresponding police and homicide reports, the accounts of the victims, and their relationships with their offenders, come to life. Recurring coercive control tactics are coded and analyzed across multiple accounts, including intimidation, isolation, and humiliation, to illustrate the ways in which individuals are threatened prior to homicide and the true extent of harm that happens in the absence of physical violence. Considering the victim’s responses, as well as their interaction with law enforcement and the court system prior to their death, the author challenges current legal and policy initiatives made to address and protect victims from intimate partner violence and argues that non-violent controlling behaviors deserve more attention in lethality risk assessments that are utilized throughout the United States. For practitioners, advocates, researchers, and students, this book provides an intimate and important account of the causes and consequences of intimate partner violence prior to homicide and a rare window into the victim’s overall experience.