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Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support provides a clinical guide to relational sex therapy with individuals, partnerships, polyships, and alternative family structures where one or more of the clients are erotically marginalized. The book bridges gaps between the past, present, and future in the field of sex therapy and greatly expands the diversity of experiences and identities within the field, particularly the experience of multiple oppressions.

Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges - from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader. This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You'll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events.

Athair… After hiding from humanity for over a century, the Eagle Clan of Valàfrn werewolves must search for mates or face certain extinction. Athair has put aside his own needs to raise the clan’s orphaned children, but now he faces the hardest part of parenting—letting go. When it seems as if their destruction is inevitable, he’s forced to consider putting his trust in humanity once more. Hope… After a traumatic injury as a teenager, Hope struggles every day against her fears, fighting to maintain her own small safe world. But one night she’s suddenly attacked by what she can ...

Twelve-year-old cousins Sophie and Jessica don't have much in common. Sophie loves hiking and her small town. Jessica would rather be shopping in a city. The only mystery is how they'll be able to spend the summer together. Then . . . they find a briefcase in the forest with a surprise inside. When they hear footsteps behind them and bad guys run after them, they have no choice but to work together to solve the mystery of The Feather Chase.

Vampires and werewolves don’t mix. But maybe this time they should! Quinn LaFontaine When a rampaging first-generation vampire threatens Quinn's territory and his adopted family, he'll do whatever it takes to keep them safe, even if it means fighting a man he once thought of as his brother. But confronting the danger alone becomes impossible when a powerful vampire hunter sets her sights on Quinn. Madeline Jacks After endless years hunting down vampires, Madeline is convinced that she can identify and stop the villain. But even if it turns out to be the vampire that has fascinated her for...

To run or fight? Let love decide. Zeven Ochoa It’s always been me alone, fighting for my right to even exist. Until the day I found Harley lost in the desert and she became my light in the darkness. She taught me how to hope for something better. And then the assholes of my werewolf clan slaughtered her family and drove her into hiding. Ten years later, I’m free of my degenerate clan and still searching for Harley. She’s my first and only love, my mate, and my everything. To survive on the fringe of the human world and have enough cash to continue my search, I do the one thing I’m ...

After Sadaen tires of seeking vengeance, all that remains is his longing for justice and the slim possibility of redemption. He finds both in the arms of an angel determined to execute him. Lyna is convinced he deserves to die, and she’ll do anything to bring him to that final justice, even if it means betraying everything she holds dear. Despite their long history of combat, he’s sure that only Lyna can offer him a future worthy of his past. He’ll either burn as the rogue demon he’s become or redeem himself through the flames of her passion. His only hope is to bind them together ...

My name is Toni, and I am a thief. Nowadays, I’m a bit more complicated than I used to be. When a heist went wrong, I ended up bound to the spirit of a dragon named Amethyst. Far from a tragedy, meeting Amethyst is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Or maybe I should say it’s a tie with meeting Dr. Benjamin Davis, a super yummy archaeologist obsessed with proving dragons exist. We were recruited to work with a bunch of shady people who claim to be saving the world. I’m not sure I believe them, but we weren’t given a choice. For the moment, we’ll focus on growing stronger...

Should they dream of love when it might tear apart their family? Deven Ochoa To Deven, Division Eight is more than a job. It’s his family, his life and his sense of justice. He’d willingly follow his boss into the pits of hell. That’s just the kind of tight they are. But when did there need to be more than the two of them? Despite his objections, Quinn hires a sexy young tech wiz who seems more magical than the Wi-Fi. And maybe more dangerous than their latest vampire hunt. Tessa DeAngelo She wasn’t looking for a job when she landed within the enigmatic agency. But Quinn offered her...

Cinderella with a demonic twist! Grant I’ve always taken the easy path, followed whoever seemed to be having the most fun. For nearly four thousand years, I traveled the world and enjoyed every indulgence with my friend and master. But now I’m alone, a demon living among and pretending to be human. It isn’t a bad life. But it seems I’ll never be accepted as one of them. That point is driven home when one of my party-going human friends decides to kill me. Then I met her, Amelia, a human woman who drives my hungers wild. As much as I try, I can’t resist my desire for her blood and ...

Where past sins meet unwavering grace. Kelly uses her psychic gifts to find lost children and save broken families. She’s strong and willing to fight in order to protect the weak and defenseless. She’s had to fight to save her own child and is happy to put her life on the line to help others in the same danger. finding a too-sexy, brainwashed, werewolf assassin bleeding in her backseat might prove more than this curvy, psychic, single supermom can handle. How much will she risk saving a lost broken man? Saxxon knew nothing of kindness or freedom. Captured with his entire werewolf clan ...

She'd do anything to protect her son, even walk right back into Hell. When her son turns to her in desperation, Sadrina knows there is only one place to find the answers he needs. Niflheim, also known as Hell, a place she'd once called home, and also where she'd spent nearly an eternity imprisoned. Regardless of the risk, she chooses to sacrifice her freedom and barter her body to the lord of hell, returning to the arms of the one demon she’s always loved and the place she fears the most. Pahele has no intention of sacrificing his lover again. Instead of being a prisoner or a slave, he ...

Vengeance was his mission—until she became his reason to live. Caspian was bred for war. Raised by the Aryan Political Movement and forged into a lethal weapon, he has only one goal now—destroy the Institute that turned him and his brothers into killers. Now that his brothers are both free and safe, he’ll do anything to keep them that way. The only option is to destroy the whole group and remove the threat completely. Nothing will stand in his way. Until her. Yasmine is a flower fairy on a rescue mission—and she’s not leaving without saving her brother. Determined, persistent, and...

Father Shannon Kearns is familiar with liminal spaces. He’s lived in them his whole life. And while his experience as a transgender man has often made it difficult for him to fit in—especially in the context of Christianity—it has also shaped his perspective in important ways on complicated, gender-transgressing aspects of theology and Scripture.

An unexpected encounter leads to an unforgettable love. Boryn is an ancient Cyvampis blood demon, and among the strongest among the Tascryn. It’s a sacred Tascryn duty to guide souls ready for transition. And a crime to kill any not assigned for transition. The duty is precious, and the rules of his people are unforgiving. A single mistake cost Boyrn a thousand years of imprisonment. And finally, he has been released. And he’s hungry for blood. Kitty is traveling in search of what it means to be a Valàfrn werewolf. She’s been raised without ever knowing what she truly was. The wolf ...

When I walked out of his office after the hottest sex of my life, I thought I'd left Max Douglas behind me forever - along with my favorite argyle socks and my self-respect. The last thing I need is the too-serious, too-sexy former Marine living across the hall from me while he acts as a bodyguard for one of my students. Especially since he fired me from my job tutoring his brother... after we hooked up. I shouldn't want him. I should despise him after the way he treated me. But he's exactly my type: older, experienced, in control...and it's obvious the lust is still mutual.

All the wrong choices, for all the right reasons. Lindsey Hamilton – A male author writing spicy romance to provide for his little brother. All he wanted was a way to pay the bills between his late royalties. All he needed was a miracle. Wysh AKA Scott Wysh – a demon living in hiding among humans. Even if he found safety pretending to be a human, it wasn’t enough. He still had needs that demanded satisfaction. The deal... If you are willing to meet with me, please come alone to the lookout between Lake Sweetness and the north bend of Forever Lane. I’ll be waiting tonight at midnight...

In the shadow of death, they found a reason to live. After years of torment at the hands of the Institute, Dain escapes captivity by surrendering to his primal side, taking refuge in his wolf form and vanishing into the wilds of western Virginia. Stripped of everything human, he expects nothing but solitude—until he crosses paths with Isabel Russell. She awakens his desire to fight back. Izzy is no stranger to pain. Facing the final stages of cancer, she’s left behind sterile hospital rooms in search of peace, hoping to spend her remaining days surrounded by nature. What she doesn’t ...

A Collection of the Amethyst Series.

Rath planned on following Dàn for his whole life and the path was likely to be a little strange. A trip to Niagara Falls to find a demon might be odd but not all that unexpected. Before Dàn can get the demon’s secrets, a whirlwind of dangers come at them. But this tourist destination has more to offer than they expect. Including an exotic dancer named Destiny who might be able to make all Rath’s dreams come true. But she has her own secrets and when a terrorizing pedophile targets her daughter, she’ll have to overcome her fears and work with Rath to protect what’s most important. ...