Broken Hearts & Happy Endings is KL Donn’s signature story telling. In this massive collection of books you’ll get to enjoy more than one genre or trope while getting the stories you love. Broken Hearts & Happy Endings - Volume 3: The Age Gap Collection - Five sexy as sin May/December romances that will leave you panting for more. Includes: Once Upon a Time Time Treat Me Taking Emmaline Tortured Duchess His Solace

My boss Grant O’Connell, the CEO of O’Connell, Thompson, and Taylor Enterprises, is sexy as sin. Too bad he’s also a tyrannical jerk. For the past year and a half, I’ve worked my ass off for him and obeyed his every command. But one day, out of the blue, he fires me. I later discover it’s because he found an unsent letter that I wrote to him – a letter that described all the dirty things I would like him to do to me… ***The first standalone book in the OTT Enterprises series featuring alpha male businessmen and the women they want to make theirs.*** WORD COUNT: 6,200

Broken Hearts & Happy Endings is KL Donn’s signature story telling. In this massive collection of books you’ll get to enjoy more than one genre or trope while getting the stories you love. Broken Hearts & Happy Endings - Volume 2: The Single Parent Collection - Five heartbreakingly romantic second chance stories you’ll root for from start to finish. Includes: Dear Gage A Girl Worth Fighting For Anton Wanted Delicate Dame

Enjoy this spicy contemporary bedtime story from New York Times bestselling author Shayla Black How far will they go to prove she’s theirs forever? I’m Kate. I’m recently divorced and so done with men. Or I was until my boss pairs me with two gorgeous executives who make my blood race. Rumor is, they prefer to do their women one way: together. When a critical project takes us to paradise, I can’t resist fantasy anymore. Marcus and Josh prove themselves considerate, attentive, and protective. Did I mention possessive, too? But when the fantasy becomes all too real, will our passion be enough to last? ❤️ Age-gap ❤️ Billionaire ❤️ Office Romance ❤️ Insta-love ❤️ Forced Proximity ❤️ Ménage (aka #whychoose?) ❤️ Temporary Fling **Tempted by the Executives is a sexy bedtime story, designed for you to start in the evening and complete before you turn out the lights. All Forbidden Confessions: Filthy Rich Bosses are connected, but can be read as a standalone. Each is a HOT, romantic story with strong language, sexy times, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after!**

He's older. Wiser. Hotter. More mature. And he's my best friend's dad. Remington West is the kind of guy who can get me into a lot of trouble. He's twenty years older than me, for one thing. He's Anna's dad, for another. Still, there's an electric energy between us that I just can't push away. My body doesn't seem to care that he's all wrong for me. It only seems to care that he's of beekeeping age, and I... Well, I'm ready to be kept. Beekeeping Age is a standalone age-gap contemporary romance.

This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population subjects in ways that provoke thinking and lead to the creation of new perspectives, not just facts and equations to be memorized. The articles follow a theory-methods-applications approach and so offer a kind of "one-stop shop" that is well suited for students and professors who need non-technical summaries, such as political scientists, public affairs specialists, and others. Unlike shorter handbooks, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis offers a long overdue, thorough treatment of the field. Choosing the analytical method that fits the data and the situation requires insights that the authors and editors of Demography: Analysis and Synthesis have explored and developed. This extended examination of demographic tools not only seeks to explain the analytical tools themselves, but also the relationships between general population dynamics and their natural, economic, social, political, and cultural environments. Limiting themselves to human populations only, the authors and editors cover subjects that range from the core building blocks of population change--fertility, mortality, and migration--to the consequences of demographic changes in the biological and health fields, population theories and doctrines, observation systems, and the teaching of demography. The international perspectives brought to these subjects is vital for those who want an unbiased, rounded overview of these complex, multifaceted subjects. Topics to be covered: * Population Dynamics and the Relationship Between Population Growth and Structure * The Determinants of Fertility * The Determinants of Mortality * The Determinants of Migration * Historical and Geographical Determinants of Population * The Effects of Population on Health, Economics, Culture, and the Environment * Population Policies * Data Collection Methods and Teaching about Population Studies * All chapters share a common format * Each chapter features several cross-references to other chapters * Tables, charts, and other non-text features are widespread * Each chapter contains at least 30 bibliographic citations

When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec during the autumn of 1660, people began to worry about evil forces in their midst. They feared that witches and magicians had arrived in the colony, and a teenaged servant named Barbe Hallay started to act as if she were possessed. The community tried to make sense of what was happening, and why. Priests and nuns performed rituals to drive the demons away, while the bishop and the governor argued about how to investigate their suspicions of witchcraft. A local miller named Daniel Vuil, accused of using his knowledge of the dark arts to torment Hallay, was imprisoned and then executed. Stories of the demonic infestation circulated through the small settlement on the St Lawrence River for several years. In The Possession of Barbe Hallay Mairi Cowan revisits these stories to understand the everyday experiences and deep anxieties of people in New France. Her findings offer insight into beliefs about demonology and witchcraft, the limits of acceptable adolescent behaviour, the dissonance between a Catholic colony in theory and the church’s wavering influence in practice, the contested authority accorded to women as healers, and the insecurities of the colonial project. As the people living through the events knew at the time, and as this study reveals, New France was in a precarious position. The Possession of Barbe Hallay is both a fascinating account of a case of demonic possession and an accessible introduction to social and religious history in early modern North America.

George Frison and Dennis Stanford's Agate Basin monograph is not only a classic of Plains paleoindian archaeology, but also of multidisciplinary research, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, and experimental archaeology. Lucid presentation of meticulously excavated and analyzed sediments, bones, and artifacts convey an unmatched sense of the sights, sounds, and smells of Paleoindian life on the High Plains-from brutal winters and blistering summers, to killing and butchering bison, and to making lethal weaponry. As Matthew Hill writes in his new prologue, "Not merely an important volume of the Frison canon, Agate Basin stands as a foundational document in modern Americanist archaeology and a major accomplishment in American science." Originally published by Academic Press in 1982.

Proposes a new paradigm to investigate an individual’s cognitive deliberation in dynamic human-machine interactions Today, intelligent machines enable people to interact remotely with friends, family, romantic partners, colleagues, competitors, organizations, and others. Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), mobile social media, and other technologies have been driving these interactions to an unprecedented level. As the complexity in system control and management with human participants increases, engineers are facing challenges that arise from the uncertainty of operators or users. Parallel Population and Parallel Human: A Cyber-Physical Social Approach presents systemic solutions for modeling, analysis, computation, and management of individuals’ cognition and decision-making in human-participated systems, such as the MetaVerse. With a virtual-real behavioral approach that seeks to actively prescribe user behavior through cognitive and dynamic learning, the authors present a parallel population/human model for optimal prescriptive control and management of complex systems that leverages recent advances in artificial intelligence. Throughout the book, the authors address basic theory and methodology for modeling, describe various implementation techniques, highlight potential acceleration technologies, discuss application cases from different fields, and more. In addition, the text: Considers how an individual’s behavior is formed and how to prescribe their behavioral modes Describes agent-based computation for complex social systems based on a synthetic population from realistic individual groups Proposes a universal algorithm applicable to a wide range of social organization types Extends traditional cognitive modeling by utilizing a dynamic approach to investigate cognitive deliberation in highly time-variant tasks Presents a new method that can be used for both large-scale social systems and real-time human-machine interactions without extensive experiments for modeling Parallel Population and Parallel Human: A Cyber-Physical Social Approach is a must-read for researchers, engineers, scientists, professionals, and graduate students who work on systems engineering, human-machine interaction, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence.

New York's bedazzled night hides a brutal underbelly—one my brother fell straight into. Now charming Stevie belongs to Sergei Larov, the city’s diamond-eyed mafia monster who collects souls like lesser men do fine art. But defiance is my personal brand; enough to sway Larov’s granite fixer when mercy failed. The promised sit-down rings hollow victory, though, as I withstand the Czar’s arctic glare promising naught but contempt from his gilded throne a hundred miles above my lowly life. Something in that glittering serpent gaze refuses to release me, however. Bored fascination? Or does some slithering menace shifts unseen beneath the brazen opulence wrapping this notorious crime lord like a second skin? They say all saints who dare Larov’s lair divine their secret sins in his eyes. Now delicious shivers threaten my resolve with whispers of dangerous allure. But survival sparks hotter than temptation’s threats in my blood. And I know serpents better than most. Topics: bwwm romance, bwwm, interracial romance, interracial, suspense, multicultural romance, dark romance, africanamericanwomen'sfiction, Mob Romance, Mafia Romance, dark romance, possessive, alpha male romance, Mob Romance, thriller, suspense, bwwm bad boy romance, organized crime thrillers, crime thrillers, romantic suspense, anti-hero, contemporary romance, women's psychological fiction, villain, happily ever after, standalone, kidnapping thriller, suspense thriller, organized crime romance, Gothic romance, kidnapping thrillers romance, women's crime fiction, organized crime romance mafia, dark suspense thriller romance Readers of Natasha Knight: Charmaine Pauls, Annika Martin, Heather West, Bella Jacobs, ViVi page, Nora Ash, Abbi Cook, Kaye Blue, Coco Miller,W. Winters, Shandi Boyes, Zoey Parker,Tressie Lockwood, Lola Lace, NanaMalone, Lana Sky, Viola Black, Gwyn McNamee, Nicole Fox,Mia Aleatha Romig, Kwana Jackson, DelaneyDiamond,Susan Stocker,LenaSkye.Renee Rose, Abbi Cook, Faith Summers, Zoe Black, J.L. Beck, Natasha Knight, Jane Henry, Rina Kent, Vanessa Vale, Lee Savino, Anna Zaires, A. Zavarelli, Clarissa Wild, Stasia Black, Alta Hensley, CD Reiss, Julia Sykes, Skye Warren, Pepper Winters, Penelope Sky, Amelia Wilde, Willow Winters.