Healing was my obsession... until she walked into my classroom. Fyre Charlotte Ash is bright, young, traumatized, and my newest Art Therapy student. I've taught many people how to conquer their demons through art. But Charlotte's demons threaten to consume us both. From the moment we lock eyes, I can't stop watching her, can't get her out of my head. She haunts my dreams and awakens my most depraved desires. I'm addicted to her darkness. I crave her pain. And I want her in the worst way. I know I'm a monster, but I can't bear to stay in the shadows anymore. I need her by my side. Forever. But what if my sweet Charlotte can't give me all I demand? What if, instead of healing her, I leave her broken... just like me? Playing with Fyre is the first book in the Fyre & Ashes series, a dark stalker romance. This book contains material some may find triggering, such as sexual violence, swearing, blood, and mature themes.

When you play with Fyre, you just might get burned. Raelyn Borne has a fiery passion to save her home. Unfortunately, lawyer Logan Fyre, is as ruthless an opponent as they come. With him, she can’t bribe or threaten her way out of this one. When backed into a corner, Raelyn has a tendency to get sassy. And now she’s desperate enough to enter into a dangerous game with Logan. Does she have the strength to play with Fyre—without getting burned? Content Warning: Hot, ruthless lawyer, scorching sex and a woman with a secret. Publisher’s Note: This title has been previously released with another publisher. Keywords: contemporary romance, contemporary romance , contemporary romance books , contemporary romance fiction, contemporary romance novels, romance novels contemporary, contemporary romance book, sports romance, sports romance books

When the winners of today can be dethroned by a surprise new entrant tomorrow, how do you ensure you stay on top? The world has changed, and the leaders of the future are those who embrace disruption and make their own rules. Rule Breaker is a manifesto for a new wave of leadership. One that operates in flatter workplaces where command and control doesn't work, and where people are entrusted with powerful purpose that grows businesses and communities. Award-winning entrepreneur, Jackie Fast, details how we have got here and why a whole new generation of workers is moving away from traditional models of work. Rule Breaker shows you how businesses like Kylie Cosmetics, M.92 and Beats can tap into a purposeful and engaged community of talent, harnessing true diversity and collaboration. To remain a highly successful leader in a future of radical change, you need to do more than fly the flag at the top of the podium supported by those beneath you. You must join the frontline and pave the way. Throw away the rule book, encourage rebelliousness, ask questions and lead by example.

Molly Fyre is becoming an Immortal today, her twentieth birthday. Her benefactor Arnos has decided to send her on a mission to return to him an object, the Krystal of Carolan, that was stolen from the Keeper by Dax, his enemy. A team of Immortal warriors, including her companion of one year, Eric, has been assembled by Arnos to accompany her on her journey. It's a responsibility she shoulders with trepidation and reluctance as she finds out some things about Arnos she didn't know growing up. Molly has acquired some pretty fantastic abilities as a result of her immortality, like being able to conjure fireballs and the ability to read emotions. And she can transform into a dragon! As they set out on their adventure they encounter various strange creatures and people who challenge their progress. Molly finds out quickly that being the leader is a challenge she both hates and relishes once she realizes that Arnos has ulterior motives, Dax is not the enemy and her true feelings about Eric and family are all that matter.

What if a happier life was only a few simple choices away? A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens had built a “dream life”: a happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath the surface, Scott was creatively stifled, depressed, and overworked trying to help pay for his family’s beach-town lifestyle. Then one day, Scott listened to a podcast interview that changed everything. Five months later, he had quit his job, convinced his family to leave their home, and cut their expenses in half. Follow Scott and his family as they devote everything to FIRE (financial independence retire early), a subculture obsessed with maximizing wealth and happiness. Filled with inspiring case studies and powerful advice, Playing with FIRE is one family’s journey to acquire the one thing that money can’t buy: a simpler — and happier — life. Based on the documentary

A forbidden love forged by fyre… Former Secret Service agent Henry Winslow comes to planet Draco to help a friend. He intends to return to Earth, but something about the mysterious woman in bridal white grabs him and won’t let him go. It’s a crazy, futile infatuation. She’s an alien dragoness, a priestess, and possibly literally divine. To pursue her would be playing with fyre… After a devastating loss, dragon-shifter O’ne seeks vengeance at the temple of the Eternal Fyre. Unexpectedly, she is exalted to priestess and bonded to the sacred flame, transforming her life to one of duty and devotion. Then Henry arrives, and the mostly human man awakens her secret yearnings. To have anything to do with him would be playing with fyre… Surrendering to temptation and passion, Henry and O’ne are about to discover when they play with fyre they might get burned. * * * * Don’t miss the fiery conclusion to the Alien Dragon Shifter series. Playing with Fyre can be read as a standalone, but the series is best read in order: Under Fyre, Line of Fyre, and Playing with Fyre.

In this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both 'pageant vehicle' and 'theatre-in-the-round' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters. All these operators also functioned to promote the closely aligned disciplines of pyrotechnics and magic (legerdemain or sleight of hand) which also influence the nature of the presented theatre. The sixteen chapters form four clearly identified parts—staging, playing, pyrotechnics and magic—and drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Butterworth encourages the reader to rediscover and reappreciate the actors, magicians, wainwrights and wheelwrights, pyrotechnists, and (in modern terms) the special effects people and event managers who brought these early texts to theatrical life on busy city streets and across open arenas. The chapters variously explore and analyse the important backwaters of material culture that enabled, facilitated and shaped performance yet have received scant scholarly attention. It is here, among the itemised payments to carpenters and chemists, the noted requirements of mechanics and wheelwrights, or tucked away among the marginalia of suppliers of staging and ingenious devices that Butterworth has made his stamping ground. This is a fascinating introduction to the very ‘nuts and bolts’ of early theatre. Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre is a closely argued celebration of stagecraft that will appeal to academics and students of performance, theatre history and medieval studies as well as history and literature more broadly. It constitutes the eighth volume in the Routledge series Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies and continues the valuable work of that series (of which Butterworth is a general editor) in bringing significant and expert research articles to a wider audience. (CS 1105).