Knot A Chance

Life is good—until it comes crashing down around him… US Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Stefan Lundquist exercises complete control in all things—professionally and personally. As a Shibari expert, he creates beautiful works of art on women's bodies with his ropes. But he makes sure they understand their physical relationship has an expiration date. Cassandra Myers knows she has to abide by Stefan’s rules, but when she falls for him, she refuses to sign another contract and asks him to remove her collar, knowing her love is unrequited. Despite her anguish, she tries to move forward, focusing on her job as a cardiac rehabilitation tech and going to nursing school. When Cassandra discovers her new patient is none other than the man she can’t stop thinking about, she's determined to help him recover while trying to hide her feelings and protect her own broken heart. But Stefan’s new lease on life has him realizing how short his time on earth could be. Can he convince Cassandra he now wants more than a temporary arrangement, or has he lost her forever? Come meet the Doms of The Covenant and the submissives who bring them to their knees. knees. ***The Doms of The Covenant series is a spinoff of Samantha A. Cole’s popular Trident Security series.

The inspiration for this volume of essays is a British-German conference held in 1998 in Rauischholzhausen Castle near Giessen (Germany). 15 authors from the United Kingdom and Germany deal with problems of competition and convergence of European legal systems in the context of important fields of law, for example Constitutional Law and the law of ethnic minorities, Criminal Law, Telecommunication Law, Contract Law, Securities, Law of Employment, Law of Procedure and Health Law.

The tenth in the New York Times bestselling Cassandra Palmer urban fantasy series.

Chance Meetings That Tied the Knot is based on true stories about people from every imaginable background and circumstance. Each story is a heartwarming example of a chance meeting with the goal of finding true and enduring love. These stories further illustrate that circumstances, choices, and personal awareness are key in producing such chance meetings. At the core of this book is a new heightened awareness that in our everyday lives, love is waiting. Use these stories to uplift your spirit, or guide you toward the path of love.

One of the most significant unsolved problems in mathematics is the complete classification of knots. The main purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the use of computer programming to obtain the table of knots. The author presents this problem as clearly and methodically as possible, starting from the very basics. Mathematical ideas and concepts are extensively discussed, and no advanced background is required.

There have been exciting developments in the area of knot theory in recent years. They include Thurston's work on geometric structures on 3-manifolds (e.g. knot complements), Gordon-Luecke work on surgeries on knots, Jones' work on invariants of links in S3, and advances in the theory of invariants of 3-manifolds based on Jones- and Vassiliev-type invariants of links. Jones ideas and Thurston's idea are connected by the following path: hyperbolic structures, PSL(2,C) representations, character varieties, quantization of the coordinate ring of the variety to skein modules (i.e. Kauffman, bracket skein module), and finally quantum invariants of 3-manifolds. This proceedings volume covers all those exciting topics.

THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CASSANDRA PALMER SERIES! Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits—talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren’t usually dangerous; they just like to talk…a lot. The undead are another matter. Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she’s forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won’t help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire—and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay....