Dive into the dark underbelly of South Miami Beach. Detective Trace Strickland's life is shattered when his girlfriend, Nora—a beloved dancer—is brutally murdered. As suspicion tightens around him, Trace is driven to clear his name, launching a perilous investigation that plunges him into the city’s seedy underworld. Uncovering a web of organized crime, a sadistic serial killer, and the mysterious Camila—Nora's secretive confidante—Trace finds himself tangled in a deadly game. Camila, a dancer with her own hidden past, becomes more than just an ally as they race against time to uncover the truth. Together, they confront their darkest fears and track down the ruthless mastermind behind Nora's murder. Sweet Demon Love Baby is an electrifying thriller, filled with pulse-pounding suspense, relentless action, and twists that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Step into the dazzling world of South Miami Beach, where glitz and glamour hide a sinister truth in The Most Beautiful Insanity, the electrifying start to the South Beach Crime Thriller Series. When a gorgeous fashion model dies from a suspicious overdose, the dark side of the glamorous modeling industry is thrust into the spotlight. Enter Detective Trace Strickland, who plunges headfirst into the city’s pulsating nightlife, uncovering a twisted web of lies that leads straight to Drexel Waters—a dangerously charming male model with a taste for excess. Not only is Drexel responsible for the girl's death, but he’s also an old friend of Detective Strickland, making this case personal—and deadly. As the billionaire father of the victim sets out on a ruthless quest for vengeance, a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with Drexel at the center. Detective Strickland must navigate a maze of betrayal, danger, and moral ambiguity. But in South Beach, where everyone has something to hide, even the police can’t be trusted.

Ancient war between witches and demons climbs to a new level. It’s up to five Divinities, their Guardians, and a pair of Siamese twin hellhounds to protect the power source and the worlds from a fate far worse than anyone can imagine. This incredible saga unfolds in a series of four novella-length stories, each a stand-alone paranormal romance. In Forgotten Visions childhood sweethearts reunite to search for the power source before it falls in the hands of evil, while visions of a past forgotten sparks an old flame and new desires. In Death’s Storm Divinity, Khloe comes face to face with death, and he claims to be her guardian. She is torn between her desires for the dark predator and the painful loss she has endured at the hands of her enemies. In Dark Divine, Zach is powerless to resist Divinity Lydia, and while she may understand him like no other, trusting her might unleash a new dark power that could destroy them both and put everyone they love in danger in the process. The final story in the sage, Awakened Desires, Divinity witch, Desiree Sanders has made a lot of bad choices in her life, but trusting the demoness, Samoan, should earn her the award for traitor of the millennium. After several failed attempts to set things right, Desiree turns to the dark, sexy Death Demon, Lex for help saving her son and ending the war.

SOUND OF THE CROWD: A DISCOGRAPHY OF THE '80s is the ultimate record collector's guide to the 1980s. In the era of multi-formatting, picture discs, coloured vinyl, multiple remixes, funny shaped records and tiny CDs you could lose down the back of the sofa, this book lists every format of every single, EP and album released in the UK in the 1980s by over 140 of the decade's biggest acts, from ABBA to Paul Young. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expanded to include even more acts than ever before, with additional sections to cover Band Aid-style charity congregations and compilation albums from the early '80s K-Tel efforts through to the Now That's What I Call Music series and its competitors. Compiled by Steve Binnie, editor of the '80s music website Sound of the Crowd and writer, producer and co-host of the unconventional '80s chart show Off The Chart, broadcast weekly on Mad Wasp Radio.

What is the result of a romance between an angel and a demon? In Samira’s case, her being born. And if things weren’t complicated enough, she has an angel and a demon as guardians that were appointed to her by her now dead parents. With senior year hanging above her head and college applications due, Samira is trying to be as normal as possible while questions and threats seem to follow her like a shadow. Can she succeed in vanquishing all her threats, or is her being half-angel and half-demon going to take its toll on her? How long can she remain going unnoticed while angels and demons are hunting her down because she shouldn’t exist? With the help of her guardians that are constantly at each other’s throats, Samira is going to have to find the strength within her to survive each day. Can she do it? Will she be able to take on her new role in life and learn to fight for her life? In Samira’s case, she has no choice but to. As if her senior year in high school wasn’t stressful enough.

Get ready for the deadliest party of the year… With every day that passes, Harper is one step closer to being trapped inside the Order of Shadows forever. Someone in town will stop at nothing to end Harper’s life, a mysterious girl from Jackson’s past reappears, threatening to destroy everything, and a shocking truth about Harper’s mom finally comes to light. But nothing compares to what happens the night of the annual Halloween Ball. Get ready for the party of the year, because in Peachville, there’s a fine line between good and evil. That line is about to be crossed... Read the Complete Shadow Demons Saga: BEAUTIFUL DEMONS (Book 1) INNER DEMONS (Book 2) BITTER DEMONS (Book 3) SHADOW DEMONS (Book 4) RIVAL DEMONS (Book 5) DEMONS FOREVER (Book 6) EMERALD DARKNESS (Book 7) FORGOTTEN DARKNESS (Book 8) BEYOND THE DARKNESS (Book 9) DECEIVING DARKNESS (Book 10 - Coming Soon!) This book is approximately 61,000 words.

Bilongo is a tale of romantic obsession that weaves its way from an American merchant ship plying Oriental waters onto a string of beaches in Central and South America in which the central character, Rawley Aimes, is torn between his love for his wife and his consuming desire for another woman. This book blends the themes of love, betrayal, redemption and the use and the abuse of occult power in a surrealistic form of writing which restricts the reader to an objective view like that of a hidden camera.

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Homo! Queer! Fag! Freak! Pervert! I heard the names. I looked at my enemies. I yawned. Little did my tormentors know I was long immuned to being singled out for violent verbal and physical abuse. My mother had conditioned me well. This monster began her reign of terror over me when I was only three. Yet, she and the thugs that followed were dismayed to discover that here was one flamboyant freak who didn't crumble or hide away in a closet. By my freshman year in college in l962, I was already married to the handsome, college rebel, Billy Dragon. He was the first of a long line of sexy, complex, straight men who would make my life heaven and hell for the next fifty years. Strippers, convicts, preachers, priests, Wall Street moguls and wrestlers. I knew them all until September 11, 2001. On that date, I watched the love of my life, Police Officer Devereaux, race into the Twin Towers where he perished before my eyes.