HE WAS AN OFFICER...BUT NO GENTLEMAN

SNOWBOUND AT CHRISTMAS

twins on the doorstep Rose Murdock had married the most handsome rancher in town, but love hadn't gotten Harlan Hamilton to the altar. They'd struck a dry-eyed deal to live together in holy matrimony, and Rose knew the tall, dark and irresistible man was her husband in name only....

One night's love is all I want. I don't want anything more than that... Two years ago, Edie lost her husband , and since then she had been distracting herself by keeping busy with her actress mother and her sister's manager business. One day, she mes Nick, a famous architect, at a party and has a strange feeling for him. However, when she rebuked an approaching Nick and left him, she realized her mother's intentions. I have vowed to never fall in love again, but she's trying to introduce a man to me... Edie approached Nick again. And now he makes me an offer, acting like he understands my feelings?

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.

A billionaire wants another chance with his estranged wife after learning about their child in this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today bestseller. Daisy Thornton’s memories of her brief marriage to Alessio Leopardi thirteen years ago have never waned. Their whirlwind affair was passionate and deep, but soon after the wedding he turned his back on her and she was left alone . . . or so she thought—for it was soon revealed she was carrying his child! Now Alessio is back, and Daisy must tell him about the daughter he never knew he had. But when the formidable Italian learns of his legacy, he makes an uncompromising demand. Now Daisy will have to choose: walk away from the man she never forgot . . . or return to his bed—as his wife! Originally published in 1996.

The crash of a wooden club and the howl of a Norse cur forever shattered Edin's dreams of marrying her childhood love. When the young beauty found herself in the hands of her betrothed's killer, Edin vowed one day she would get even. But in time she longed for this ruthless raider from the North to show her his uncivilized kind of love.