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Thirty-eight-year-old Rachel Goodrich, a survivor of domestic violence, has spent the last 12 years changing her life, keeping secrets, and trying to put her failed marriage behind her. One dark night she finds herself face-to-face with her abusive ex-husband and suffers a severe beating. Near death, her deceased grandparents reach out to help her transition to the other side.

In this book, you will find several pieces of my original work that span at least three decades of my life. They include poems and writings of different lengths covering a wide range of subjects. With these works it is my desire to inspire you, move you, and make you pause for a few moments and consider in greater detail the world we live in and the people with whom we share it.

Neely McIntire's dreams warn her about the future but will not protect her from the danger hiding in plain sight. On graduation night, she plans to tell her best friend, Hayden Nelson, that she's in love with him. Instead, they argue. Neely's hurt feelings leave her vulnerable, giving her secret admirer, Andrew Huckley, the opportunity to put his mother's monstrous plan into motion.

After Tony's fiancé goes missing, he becomes the police's prime suspect. His closest friend, Pam, is the only one who believes Tony's not involved with Yolanda's disappearance. With little other choice, the pair conduct their own investigation, and soon find themselves in the direct path of a killer madman called The Bald Man.

Finding his new roommate dead in their apartment has search dog handler Seth Beauregard on the run. Certain he was the intended victim, he isn't sure who he can trust or where he can turn for help. But self-reliance may be more of a trap than a solution as Seth attempts to elude the killer hot on his trail.

Everything seemed to fall apart for Ty when his parents got a divorce. At his wits end after being bullied endlessly, he started to ditch school. It wasn't until he met up with a skater named Peacock that things somehow turned around and he put the pieces of his life back together.

Trey doesn't mind that his sister is marrying a woman; he just isn't comfortable that Dianne is marrying Lara, who Trey himself had an affair with before he and his own wife got married. But as the wedding gives way to the after-party, the subject of fantasies comes up. Soon this brings up all sorts of interesting possibilities that no one in the wedding party expected.

For a boy coming of age during the 1930s and '40s, Greenville, Alabama, a small cotton-farming town in the Deep South, was a wonderfully rich environment. Greenville may have been small, but for author Clifton K. Meador, MD, life growing up there was anything but dull. In his memoir Sketches of a Small Town: Circa 1940, Meador lovingly retells the stories that formed his values and shaped his life.

The 1950s find mafia boss Don Amato Rizoso determined to enter the lucrative human trafficking business. The only thing standing in his way? Loretta, Mary, Doris, Georgiana, and Meredith - the wives of Don Amato's most loyal and effective underlings. In the egregious absence of any federal laws or Immigration Customs Enforcement task force, these five wives are forced to go head-to-head with San Leandro's most corrupt group of players.

"At a critical juncture during brain surgery, Alex Dixon, age 12, had a stroke...." Alex was a normal, bright, and healthy little girl, when the sudden onset of a mysterious illness began to take over her life. Months of physical therapy and medication failed to provide relief from acute pain and muscle spasms. Doctors across the country were at a loss for answers. A last ditch attempt at treatment, brain surgery, ended up stopping the spasms but with unexpected, dire consequences.

A double wedding means a double bachelor party, and Danny and Gil are pleasantly buzzed and pleasantly surprised to have survived the stag night. They're getting ready to stumble off to bed when one last unexpected guest shows up. It's their quiet, brainy friend Ruth, who's not so quiet, not very sober, and not completely dressed. She left Diana and Phoebe's party because they wouldn't let her play... And so she's decided she's going to entertain the grooms-to-be in a manner that neither of them will ever forget!

Allison's journey of discovery is truly taking off. This Juliet is struggling as she tries to reconcile herself to her new understanding of her life and her sexuality. One lover halfway across the country is complicated; when that lover is more than twice Allison's age and used to be her teacher, it's more than complicated. And taking another lover is even more so - especially when that second lover is Allison's best friend Jordan.

Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Lea always takes pride in a job well done. Sean and Andy take pride in Lea doing well, and pleasure in doing Lea well. As she begins her life in Atlanta in earnest, Lea asks herself if her arrangement with Sean and Andy might not be too much of a good thing. And when they ask for more, are they crossing the line from a friendly threesome... to a friendly menage? Never one to take things lying down, Lea gets down to business.

Lea is flying East again to a snow-bound Atlanta, and she's worried: she's moving in with two attractive firemen who plan to share their apartment, her bed, and her...Is there such a thing as too perfect? Is it time for Lea to be careful what she wishes for? It doesn't help that Sean and Andy are working, and she's going to have to make her way back to her new home on her own. A ménage à Lea. But a surprise shows Lea that too perfect is just about right!

After having her sweet sixteenth birthday party ruined thanks to the birth of her newborn baby sister, Princess sees an old friend who's baby brother happened to also be born on the anniversary of his moms death. Frustrated, these two old friends decide to run away together, only to unexpectedly find themselves lost in a world that's not their own. After meeting some strange new friends, and making some even worse enemies, the two eventually find themselves forced into having to decide on whether to continue on the path that could lead home, or abandon that road for another path.

Lea's flying home to San Francisco to pack up, separating her temporarily from Sean and Andy, her two gorgeous firemen; she'll have to do without them for weeks... Or will she? And just what has Kirsten - Lea's roommate and Sean's sister - been up to while Lea's been gone? Find out in The Visitor Comes Home!

Sensual and steamy, erotic and amusing, here are seventeen stories of erotic romance by K.D. West. Drawn together from three different collections, this boxed set runs the gamut from emotionally complex to hilarious and everything in between - but always exploring the ways in which sex and sexuality make us human.

When you fall in love with your teacher, that's taking a chance. When your teacher falls in love with you, that's taking it to a whole new level. Allison finds her Romeo, but Ken is much older - and he's her teacher.

After dreaming of going to college for years, Allison finds once she gets there that she misses the people she left behind: her best friend Jordan, and especially Ken, her lover, her one-time teacher. Fortunately for her, they miss her just as much.

Felicity, Ben, and Aaron have been friends for years. During a rainy-day get-together over margaritas, Felicity challenges her men to a game that will bring things to a whole new level.