Max Watson

There’s a thin line between devotion and obsession… Can two shattered souls break the chains that have bound them their entire lives? As a little boy, life was miserable. I survived by hiding from my abusive drunk father and when the hunger became too much, I’d eat dirt. Each day was about surviving to the next. Until I met Rayna. Over the next several years, Rayna becomes my reason to endure, to survive, to fight. When we finally break free of the hell called home, I thought our pain and struggle was over and I might have the chance to tell her how I really feel about her. But something is off with Rayna. Damian will be mine. Without me, he would be nothing. Without him, I have no reason to live. That sweet little boy who protected me from his father and then ran off with me on his 18th birthday became more than my stepbrother. I’ll make him see that we’re meant to be together. I don’t care who I have to hurt. I’ve had to kill to protect him. And I’ll kill again if it means I can become his forever. Chains of Nurture explores the darkest depths of the human mind, whether one’s story is written from birth or rewritten by demons along the way, and the actions justified in the twisted name of love.

A Dark Romance Novel

Chains of Nurture

Caroline Lucas

Andrew Hoy

Jo Wells

This practical guide briefly covers the historical and epidemiological background of palliative care and the growth of palliative medicine as a specialty, before dealing with major physical, psychological, spiritual, and symptom management issues from diagnosis to bereavement care.

Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care

István P. Székely

Are There Speed Limits to Real Convergence?

Growth and Economic Policy

Willem Noe

The issue of Cyprus reunification did not lapse with the No vote on the Annan plan in the Greek Cypriot community in April 2004. Reunification remains a central challenge not only for political reasons but because economic convergence offersimportant gains for both the Greek Cypriot South and the Turkish Cypriot North. Productivity and income levels in the North are much lower than in the South.However, changing external circumstances, with the right policies, could trigger strong and sustained convergence, bridging the wide economic gap between the two communities. Given synergies and complementarities between North and South, the scope for a virtuous circle is clear: both would benefit from sustained convergence and reunification.

Scope for Virtuous Circle

Convergence and Reunification in Cyprus

Phoenix, Arizona was supposed to offer me freedom. From my mother, from my life that she loves to remind me has amounted to nothing. I decided to spend an extended vacation in town during my friend Ken’s wedding, see him get his happily ever after, then head back home to Ohio to fix my failure of a life. But after one grave mistake on Camelback Mountain, I find myself lost in my savior Aimee’s captivating eyes. She’s a vanlifer who can’t stay in once place for long. Does this wanderer run through lovers like she does towns? The Arizona sunshine has warmed my bones after a stint exploring the bitter cold of Minnesota. Soon, I find myself itching to travel again on my never-ending life on the road. But a life like that has left me lonely and at the first touch from another person in as long as I can remember, suddenly I’ve got everything on hold for Cris, a woman I barely know. Valentine’s Day is well under way putting thoughts in my head that we have a chance together. Can I get this tragic beauty to start a new life on the road with me? Cris and Aimee’s Valentine Promise is part of Max Watson’s Bubble Bath Romance collection. Each standalone short story is intended to be read in one sitting—in a hot and steamy bubble bath! Each book features steamy romance with an HEA.

Cris and Aimee's Valentine Promise

The Drunken Promise is a steamy romance novella that explores coming-of-age love, heartbreak, overcoming tragedy, and rebuilding what was once lost. Blue and I, we’ve been through everything together. She’s been my best friend ever since I can remember, all the way through now, our senior year of high school. And she still has no idea that I’m in love with her. When she asks to have her first time with me, only because she trusts me so much, I’m not sure I can go through with it. That must be why she got me drunk before making me promise I would. But it turns out to be the best decision—drunk or not—that I’ve ever made. Now that we’ve had our first time, Blue wants to be friends with benefits. One step closer to a real relationship. But then my worst nightmare comes true. She stops speaking to me. Just like that, she wants nothing to do with me. Does she know the truth of my love for her but she doesn’t feel the same? If only things could go back to how they used to be…if only I had never made that promise. Years pass and everything is a blur after the accident. Will I ever be able to tell fantasy from reality? Nothing makes sense anymore. All I have ever wanted, all I continue to yearn for, is Blue. Now, she’s out of reach more than ever before. Fall in love with Black and Blue in The Drunken Promise, a steamy romance with a lot of twists and a happy ending. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS BLACK & BLUE

The Drunken Promise

It’s Christmas, which means screaming kids, carols on repeat, and angry impatient parents giving me the evil eye. Every year I think this part-time gig as Santa’s helper will fill me with Christmas cheer and every year I’m left at Santa’s altar while he’s off drinking himself into a stupor. It’s time I gave up and quit this nonsense already. But then the latest Santa rent-a-drunk—Luke—turns out not to be a drunk at all. In fact, he’s a hunky hottie that has me drooling and falling all over myself. I may not get filled with Christmas cheer this year, but maybe I can get this sexy Santa to stuff my stocking… Scarlet’s a force to be reckoned with. This little firecracker has given me the cold shoulder before I could so much as introduce myself. But the moment I slip out of that heat trap of a Santa costume, suddenly she can’t look away. Before I know it, she’s throwing me into the back of her car and the next thing I know, we’re knockin’ stockings. Not that I’m complaining. But I want to tame this firecracker and stick around longer than the holiday season. Is this a Christmas fling or the real thing? Scarlet’s Naughty Christmas is part of Max Watson’s Bubble Bath Romance collection. Each standalone short story is intended to be read in one sitting—in a hot and steamy bubble bath! Each book features steamy romance with an HEA.

Scarlet's Naughty Christmas

A nickel and a trinket…small price for a second chance at life. Stefan works street corners around town, giving strangers the gift of their Time of Death in exchange for a nickel. Soon, his talent becomes famous, and Stefan is known around the world as Tod, The Death Psychic. But surrounded by innumerable fans, Stefan's anthropophobia becomes crippling. When Stefan is named the prime suspect in a missing persons investigation, he flees from the spotlight and riots erupt across the world. Now, Stefan must choose between returning to his rabid fans or watching as the world burns. Mona has worked the streets from a young age. Now years later, she fights to free as many lives as she can from the fate she suffered as a child. But a guilt that’s quietly eating away at her is brought to light when Stefan, the alluring boy from her past, comes back. When a dangerous hooded figure has his sights set out to destroy all her efforts, Desdamona must rely on the one person she’s afraid to get close to or watch as everything she’s built is set aflame. A Nickel and A Trinket explores humanity's strange magnetism with death, the struggle to outgrow the shadows of the past, and the magic that brings together a patchwork of people to form a family.

A Nickel and A Trinket

By any measure, Juan Terry Trippe was a remarkable business leader - a visionary, devious, shrewd, deeply flawed, and ultimately inscrutable genius. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Harvard man, once called him "the most fascinating Yale gangster I ever met." Trippe built Pan American Airways from a single scrap of paper - a license to fly airmail from Key West to Havana - into the world's largest airline. In the process, he all but single-handedly shaped the world of air travel. If Juan Trippe had never existed, it's safe to say that the world would look very different from the way it does today. Here's his extraordinary story.

Max Watson

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