Ever since the Harvey Weinstein story broke, the headlines have been filled with cases of sexual assault by men in power who take advantage of ambitious and innocent women. But it is not only women who suffer. To emphasize the point that anyone can be hurt by sexual abuse in the workplace, THE DEVIANT turns this story around. Instead of the abuser being a man, it is a woman, and she victimizes young men who work for her. The male victims in the book are no less traumatized than the real-life female victims of powerful men. But how can these men get anyone to believe they’ve been abused? They can’t. Instead, they band together and form a plan that will bring about the justice they crave—but only if it works. Views: 151
Scandal and slaughter among Regency London's elite The bloody murder of Sir Henry Claybourne leaves Regency London shaken and horror-struck. But for genteel spinster Miss Emmeline St. Germaine, the crime slices far too close to home. Just hours before the knight's death she held a dagger to him, threatening him to stay silent as she rescued a scullery maid he had procured for his pleasure. Did the man—or woman—who murdered the knight know of her visit? Her secret identity at risk, her reputation and life in jeopardy, Emmeline must solve the crime or face scandalous exposure and ruination, or worse—the hangman's noose—for a crime she did not commit. Views: 151
In 2194, the excesses of the Petroleum Age has warmed the Earth, raising sea levels, causing massive social upheaval, and hideous mutations within the animal kingdom.
Ethan lives on an island owned by Viperob, a powerful corporation that constructs military drones for the Australasian Army. As the sixteen-year-old child of a Viperob employee, Ethan’s education includes combat training to ensure the corporation has a private army to protect its own assets in time of war.
When his father, Nikolai, discovers a plan to hand control of the military’s AI drones to a foreign power, he is murdered to suppress the information. Ethan, however, has been left a copy of the files in question. To bring this evidence to the Australasian Army and prevent a possible invasion, he will need to outwit a private security force led by the psychopathic Lieutenant Harris, survive mutated predators and escape Viperob’s island complex. Views: 151
"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the untold history of the shocking experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness—how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people—sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society—went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive... Views: 151
A wounded beast in hiding, a brazen beauty, and a killer secret from his past…Tess: The dark rumors that swirl around Gideon Wolfe both frighten and intrigue me. I'm desperate for the job he's offering—and intensely curious to see the beastly billionaire recluse for myself. But soon I'm trapped in his castle and entangled in his secrets… and his bed. I'm in deep, and I don't want to find my way out.Gideon: People would kill to know the deadly secrets of my past. And when someone tries to steal one, I realize I can't trust anyone… not even the men who share that past. But Tess is different. I have to trust her if she's going to finish this job—still, I'm keeping her by my side twenty-four/seven. But when I start to fall for her, she'll be the biggest danger of all.Band of Billionaires: A tragic secret binds them together… Revealing the truth could tear them... Views: 151
Shortly after the death of her father, the Earl of Weir, the stunningly beautiful Lady Arletta is penniless, having been ousted from the family estate by her cousin, who has now inherited everything from her father. Desperate to escape the misery of her situation, she is heartened to hear that her close friend, Jane Turner, is to be married very soon to the new Bishop of Jamaica. The trouble is that at the same time she had agreed to travel to France to be the Governess to the children of the Duc de Sauterre's late brother and to teach them English.Jane is in a serious quandary as she cannot possibly let her fiancée down nor can she disappoint her new employer, the Duc.But Arletta has dreamed up a solution for them both. So that Jane is free to get married, Arletta will travel to the Duc's Dordogne Château posing as Jane!On arrival at the enchanting Château, she finds the Duc as surly and rude as he is handsome. Worse still he hates the English and she struggles to win him over... Views: 151
