Bøger af Kathleen Scott

Speaking in front of a room full of New York City dignitaries is not Breelyn Grace's idea of a good time-a full scale dental extraction or spinal surgery without anesthesia would be less traumatic. So when she starts to experience spotty vision, increased heart rate, and respirations, she believes it's only a bad case of stage fright......until she disappears. And wakes to a future she never expected. Five years before, Detective Jonah Knight was lauded as the Hero of the Bronx, for saving hostages held by Skuttle drug lord, Barto Temple. His reign of terror over the New York-Jersey corridor has left the city a nightmarish bastion of murder and corruption, and Jonah a widower. Jonah never expected his investigation of a credit union break-in to expose an abduction case. Nor does he quite understand how or why Temple managed to pull Breelyn through time to 2070. However, it is the opportunity Jonah's waited for-a chance to bring an end to Temple's tyrannical rule. Now, Jonah and Breelyn must work together to discover her importance to this alien king pin before his men manage to recapture Breelyn and make her the focus of their quantum experiments.

A prince. A warrior. A love stronger than an Ashlin blade.Bateo Gunner is dead. Stationed on the royal planet of Celedon, Ashlin Warrior Nadja Kelswan is charged with acting as liaison between her country of Vanden and the Celedon tsia. The main objective is to get answers from Bateo Gunner on the conspiracy that turned Jovita Rees into a weapon and now infects a good portion of the Celedon Empire. Nadja's most important duty came from the tsia himself, to act as Prince Rohan's personal bodyguard. It is a task she takes seriously, even as the conspiracy around them thickens, following Gunner's assassination in his prison cell. Prince Rohan of Celedon has had his heart broken twice: once by the faked death of his lover, Jovita, then by her marriage to another man. Loving only one woman since childhood, it surprises him when a raven-haired Ashlin warrior haunts his dreams. She's strong, lithe, and frustratingly formal. Her stagnant, hazel eyes are so different than the twirling depths of a Celedon's. However, her training as an Ashlin has made her wise beyond her years. He finds solace in her counsel. By rights he should hate Ashlin Nadja for her interference in his reunion with Jovita, but he can't seem to help himself from falling under the warrior's spell. As the list of crimes against Celedon continues to grow. Parts are missing from shipments to outposts, security vids are tampered with, and the body of Bateo Gunner is missing from the morgue. Amidst the chaos, a new planet sends an overture of friendship to the tsia. It is an ill-timed and suspicious request as far as Nadja is concerned. Nadja's suspicions are realized when Rohan is taken ill, and his body infested with a newer more sinister nanite-one that replicates faster and has the power to compel the host to do whatever the programmer wishes. Torn between duty to her sword and her love for Rohan, Nadja takes up the mantle of protector to rid the palace of the conspirators once and for all. Even if it means giving her very life to save those she's sworn to protect.

Time is running out for Wilmont Braxton, Lord Blackmore. A curse that turns him from man to beast comes at ever increasing intervals. His only wish before he succumbs to the spell is to secure his lost betrothed on his estates, to provide for her as he will not be able to once he becomes trapped in the body of a monster. Selena Marigold is not the typical Victorian woman. Rich in magical talent that allows her to read auras and throw glamours to disguise her appearance, she has spent her life living as a prisoner in one of London's most notorious brothels. When the madame schemes to sell Selena's virginity to the highest bidder, Selena knows she must leave her wretched surroundings and strike out on her own...even at the risk of angering the might magic Guilds. When she is abducted from the auction by a man who casts no aura, Selena knows her life will never be the same. Secrets from the past rise to the surface and place both she and Lord Blackmore in danger, even as the Guilds close in around them.

The idea for Conversations with the Wise Aunt was inspired by a story Dr. Coates's best friend told him. When his friend was 12, his uncle took him out for breakfast and told him what to expect during his teen years. He described the physical changes. He talked about peer pressure, risk-taking behavior and the consequences of sex, drugs and alcohol. Afterward, his uncle said, "Now I want you to promise me something. When your friends want you to go along with them and something inside you doesn't feel right, I want you to stop and think about what could happen. I want you to remember the things we talked about. Will you do that?"His friend said this talk with this caring adult was the most important conversation of his life, that it helped him steer clear of all kinds of trouble during his teen years. The authors' research confirms that few adults received such a talk when they were young, and today it's still rare for parents to do a good job of coaching their teens about what to expect. Since most parents didn't get this kind of coaching themselves, they don't have a model for how to approach it. There's a lot of ground to cover, and teens these days face different challenges. Most parents just don't feel prepared to give the best advice. The authors wrote this book for teen girls to give them the benefit of an even richer "heads-up" mentoring than his friend received. It's a series of upbeat, engaging stories about Trisha and her aunt Maria, who guides her during adolescence. It features not one, but several conversations.The book can be used as a template for parents to prepare for discussions with their teen daughter, or they can give the book to her to supplement the discussions. All the topics are critical, and some of them are addressed nowhere else. Taken together, the insights can give a teen girl a significant edge as she prepares for a happy, successful life as an adult.