Jennifer Collins

During times of war, no one goes unscathed. By Ultner, even in times of peace, few can escape suffering. Ardia is on the brink of civil war, though most citizens are woefully unaware of this fact. Fenrir de Trenton, a disgraced guardsman-turned-ineffective-criminal, is accustomed to taking orders. So much so that, despite the danger, he finds himself neck-deep in the politicking of his current superiors as well as the rulers of the country. The fact that Fenrir's father would rather see him dead doesn't help matters. Emma Dram, a handmaiden of the great Lady Escamilla, hates Fenrir with a fiery passion and with good reason: he lopped off most of her hand. Nonetheless, she finds herself in close proximity to her former lover as she seeks to serve her lady liege in fomenting her own rebellion. Hafgan Iwan is a Wasmer, a race reviled by humans, who serves the same masters as Fenrir. His efforts to assimilate with human culture only earn him the derision of his own race, and he seeks to find belonging amidst the escalating conflict. Meanwhile, Merigold Hinter, a serving girl with an unusual power, lives a simple existence, hoping for love, adventure, and to see the world. Her life should be untouched by political maneuvering and war. However, her world becomes a crucible; how much can one woman bear before breaking? A story of love lost and family destroyed, of bigotry and belonging, of suffering and strength, and of religion and magic, SOLACE LOST grows from a character-driven tale to something grand in scale, perhaps even involving the gods, themselves.

Book 1 of Pandemonium Rising

Solace Lost

Bridges Between Our Hearts, the third book in the "Love That Does Not Die" trilogy, continues Larissa's winding journey through the anguish of grief as she resolves to live life to its fullest. Challenges in the world around her and changing family configurations create emotional chasms she never imagined. Faced with choices between connection or further loss, opportunities to build bridges emerge-allowing Larissa to see clearly that love does not die. Quite the opposite.

Book Three in the "Love That Does Not Die" Trilogy

Bridges Between Our Hearts

A Novel Inspired by Love That Does Not Die

Wonders in the Waves

Kevon Brown

They were abandoned. Tossed out and left without love before the man they would later call father scooped them up and changed thier lives forever. While still in thier adolescence, father molded them into killing machines, mercenaries for hire sent all over the world to do the dirty work of those in power. Over a decade after the great fire destoryed thier training grounds in Anconcagua, the scramble is on to find the hundreds of well-trained assassins, scattered all over the globe now trying to fit into a society that had abandoned them as orphans. The only problem is father isn't the only one looking for them, and those who are caught in the chase are slowly starting to realize that it goes a lot deeper then just mercenary missions. The world's political structure lies in the balance.

Genesis

Shadow Vanadium Assassins

Mary Neighbour

A Novel

Comfort in the Wings

Faye Gardner

Takes the reader back through time to celebrate Christmas in the 1940's and 50's. This book describes games, songs, books and food and encourages the reader to recreate some of the fun through a variety of activities from making cards and decorations to baking cakes.

Family Christmas in the 1940s and 50s

Larissa flounders after unimaginable losses. Her former life evaporates. Aware of the dangers of her bleak existence, she reluctantly agrees to travel for business. It becomes a journey of grieving. Challenged by new encounters, confronted by secrets, and startled at joy in unexpected places. Can her heart open to new possibilities?

Comfort in the Wings: A Novel Inspired by Love That Will Not Die

Jonathan Herring

Alan Bogg

Mark Freedland

From the Master and Servant legislation to the Factories Acts of the 19th century, the criminal law has always had a vital yet normatively complex role in the regulation of work relations. Even in its earliest forms, it operated both as a tool to repress collective organizations and enforce labour discipline, while policing the worst excesses of industrial capitalism. Recently, governments have begun to rediscover criminal law as a regulatory tool in a diverse set of areas related to labour law: 'modern slavery', penalizing irregular migrants, licensing regimes for labour market intermediaries, wage theft, supporting the enforcement of general labour standards, new forms of hybrid preventive orders, harassment at work, and industrial protest. This volume explores the political and regulatory dimensions of the new 'criminality at work' from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including labour law, immigration law, and health and safety regulations. The volume provides an overview of the regulatory terrain of 'criminality at work', exploring whether these different regulatory interventions represent politically legitimate uses of the criminal law. The book also examines whether these recent interventions constitute a new pattern of criminalization that operates in preventive mode and is based upon character and risk-based forms of culpability. The volume concludes by reflecting upon the general themes of 'criminality at work' comparatively, from Australian, Canadian, and US perspectives. Criminality at Work is a timely, rich and ambitious piece of scholarship that examines the many intersections between criminal law and work relations from a historical and contemporary vantage-point.

Jennifer Collins

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