Rattled

Noelle Dubois had the perfect life. She’d studied in Paris, became a pastry chef, and had the love and support of both parents. In an instant, all that changed and now she’s back home in New York, without a job, taking care of her eight-year-old brother and living with her aging grandparents while waiting for her mother’s murderer to stand trial. Six months of limbo. Six months of waiting. Six months to learn that all she ever dreamed about has gone up in smoke. Sean Vines has dealt with his past and moved on. He has goals and dreams and only time and hard work will see them accomplished. Everything is on track until a pastry chef and an eight-year-old boy move in across the street. The funny thing about dreams, they can be altered by the people you meet, and that’s when you realize that maybe you just hadn’t dreamed big enough.

Only three things matter to Kelsey Fry: an envelope full of memories, a pink box full of hope, and a well-planned future, soon to be realized. Alex Dosek knows that Kelsey needs more than the tattoo he gave her. Once enemies, could they now be friends or more? Who would have thought a house full of boys would be a refuge for Kelsey? Alex and the rest of the Baxter boys come to her rescue, and all is well, but the past has a way of catching up with you, and Kelsey’s past reaches out with a phone call. Karma and balance. Prices are paid. The only thing left for Kelsey is Alex. The only thing Alex wants is Kelsey.

Scarlett Hannigan is really good at running away. She’s had quite a bit of practice. This last time, however, she ended up on the arms Tony Volta, and she was pretty sure he was THE ONE… until he wasn’t. Tony had finally found the right woman. One he wanted to share his life with. But then, one day, he’d come home and found her gone. She’d disappeared, just like she did when she left her family. Only Tony wasn’t willing to sit around and wait for her to return. Instead, he did what any reasonable, smart man who is desperately in love would do. He went to the one place where he knew that he'd eventually find her. When the day of reckoning arrives, Scarlett must face not only her family, but the man she loves all at the same time. Her family might forgive her. But can Tony? At the very least, he deserves an explanation, and she needs to get back her belongings. The most important being her heart.

Christian Sucato had spent his life wondering why he was abandoned at birth. When a DNA test matches him to a brother, Christian hopes that he will finally find the answers he’d always been searching for. However, he’s not quite prepared for the answers he’s about to get. Zoe St. John had thought she’d put her past and her family behind her. She’d accepted that her future would not have a happily ever after. Further, she was quite happy to be surrounded by her friends and fully embraced a future growing old surrounded by cats and dogs. At least, those were the plans until Andrew Lankford enters her life once again. Andrew Lankford had spent years looking for his mother and sister and as a last result decided to try the popular DNA tests. What he hadn’t counted on was being matched with a potential brother. He didn’t have a brother. Yet apparently he did. Through his brother, he also finds the one person he never thought to see again—his best friend from childhood—Zoe St. John. But, once the dust settles, will more fractures upset Christian’s world?

"Power, Privilege, and Entitlement situates entitlement among related terms that help explain inequality, such as power and privilege. This chapter defines entitlement and details the way entitlement is measured. Experiments that assess entitlement find reliable differences in women's and men's sense of entitlement. Men tend to have an inflated sense of entitlement relative to women. White individuals tend to have a higher sense of entitlement compared to people of color. In addition to entitlement to pay, research on academic entitlement is examined as well. Academically entitled students hold attitudes toward learning and teachers that they should receive more from their academic experience than they put in; that professors should bend rules for the them; that they should not have to work as hard as others. Academic entitlement is correlated with academic disengagement, cheating, and classroom incivility"--

A brief meeting An immediate attraction A weekend to remember. Christian Sucato wishes he’d never agreed to go on tour once he meets Bethany Dalton. But, he needs to go, and it’s not for the music. There’s someone he must find. Bethany Dalton has avoided men and complications through college but just as she nears graduation, Christian Sucato steps into her life and nothing is ever going to be the same. Their weekend together was mind-blowing and bone melting, but is it a fling or real? Will there be anything left when he returns? Two pregnancy tests. One positive result. His, not hers. And Christian is left wondering if he’ll ever have the one thing he’s always wanted. He’s not even sure he’ll live to have the chance. Will Bethany remain? Is it fair to even ask?

Warm, honest, funny, and empowering, Rattled! is an unforgettable memoir of a life that takes an unexpected turn—and a brave young woman who decides to follow where the road leads. Everything in twenty-six-year-old Christine’s life was going as planned—great friends, a promising job as a magazine assistant, New York City at her feet . . . even a cute guy. Until the fateful day she realizes she’s pregnant by said cute guy, whom she’d only been dating for a few months. The next thing you know, he bails and Christine is left to wonder, What now? Trading Manhattan for the suburbs, skinny jeans for sweatpants, and all-nighters with the girls for 3 a.m. feedings with a restless infant, Christine chooses to live a life that honors what’s important to her—and finds strength she didn’t know she had in the process.

Set in the fictional subdivision of Galapagoes Estates," Rattled is a very funny look at what happens when soccer moms, animal rights activists, dishonest real estate developers and, of course, rattlesnakes get together and fight for ascendancy in the rapidly developing New Jersey suburbs. Heather Peters is anxious to move to the newly minted development. All she wants there is a nice house. Well, a nice house and a nice piece of land. And of course a basement gym, a master bath with radiant heat, Jacuzzi and his-and-her toilets. She could make do without a media room if she had to. After all, the pioneers hadn't had plasma TV, and they'd survived. Heather is not your average suburban housewife—or maybe she is. Her fortuitous meeting with a endangered species of rattlesnake sets this first novel in motion. You may find yourself feeling sorry for the snake.