Behind the mask is something that many of face in life if we are honest with our selves. A mask can be social emotional cultural and Traumatic and Relational. In my cultural it is said You better act like you got some sense or whatever happens in this house stays in this house. When things go wrong and life happen, you are told to get yourself together and but pretend it didn't happen or just get over it. When its traumatic we hide and exhibit other...

This is a true story about the extraordinary personal journey as a single mother who, at one time felt ashamed because she was a single mother, humiliated, not worthy and useless at one point in her life. Her struggles as a single parent were boisterous. Nevertheless, against all odds, she was determined to be a role model for her children, single moms and other people who may find themselves in diverse situations and think their life is over. Graham...

For five years, I've stayed away. I've hidden myself away like I was asked, abided by the threats that came my way and kept my mouth shut. I'm done hiding. Returning to my childhood town after so long wasn't an easy decision but I needed to move on from the past, take my life by the horns and make it my own again; scars and all. Yet, moving on isn't so easy when the man who stole your heart as a child turns up at your parents' house and with a shiny,...

All She Could See Were His Eyes. Though Graham Dufour's ebony eyes lit up her dreams for the past ten years, Lindsey Latham hoped she could come back to New Orleans without seeing the man who'd once stolen her heart. A lot had changed between them--but one touch from the bad-boy-made-good could still ignite her desire. Then she rode in a Mardi Gras parade and saw someone else's eyes behind a mask. Those of a faceless killer who'd used the masquerade...

A compelling new novel from a retired FBI agent.... You build relationships to betray relationships. That is the motto for the FBI's undercover program, and special agent Lexie Montgomery is just beginning to understand what that means. Lexie's first assignment is infiltrating a radical cell of the Animal Liberation Front. Underground and operating in splinter groups throughout Los Angeles, the only way in is through Savannah Riley, a new recruit. Savannah...

All royalties in aid of NHS Charities, including Wales Air Ambulance. 'It felt like the videos you see of what happens just before a tsunami hits; when the tide goes out, the sea disappears and everything goes eerily quiet. The public were on lockdown and although we'd had a trickle of patients enter the hospital, with elective operating ceased and most people 'scared' to attend, the hospital entered a rare phase of quiet and calm. We wondered if...

No one knows who the lady pulled from a Venetian canal is. Even she doesn't seem to know and the ball gown and period undergarments she was wearing give no clues. hitting her head and oxygen deprivation have left her with amnesia. Dr. Luca Viale is determined to find out her identity. The bruises on her body appear to come from different times, convincing him that her situation was no accident. Can he restore her memory before another attempt is made...

Seventeen-year-old Jesse has a babysitting gig at the Linderman's house on Halloween. He loves watching Christie and Dylan, and is thrilled to see them dressed up in cute, creative costumes. When he arrives at their house, Jesse he just knows it will be a fun-filled night of pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating. But Jesse quickly realizes Halloween is not only about candy, pumpkins, and scary costumes. It's known for tricks and ghoulish things,...

"A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. His narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but 'open'...