![]() ![]() This UST continues to build at work when Cain finds himself drawn to watch Charlie perform while he usually stays away from the main floor during work hours, confining himself to office work. There is some pretty intense chemistry between Cain and Charlie from the very beginning, and Cain makes an early mark on Charlie’s life, stepping in to be all protective and help her out where he can. She is beautiful, brave, and knows how to work a pole, so Cain gives her the chance she’s been looking for. As a friend of sassy bartender, Ginger, she comes to Cain looking for a way to make fast money. Trapped in an almost hopeless situation, she is living life with an identity that is not her own, and is desperately searching for a way to start a new life. I fell in love him straight away.Īnd then along comes Charlie. ![]() He treats his girls with respect, has a strict ‘no sleeping with employees’ rule, and he’s an absolute sweetheart. We find out early on in this book that he comes from a nasty background, and his reason for running the club is to provide a safe place for women to do what they do, and to help them get their lives on track and out of the industry. He is a bit of a badass, but is gorgeous, kind-hearted, and also happens to run a strip club. We first met Cain in the previous books of this series. I believe you don’t have years, or months, or weeks to impact a person’s life. I believe second chances exist only in dreams, never in reality I believe redemption is something you can strive for but never fully achieve. I believe some people are inherently evil. ![]()
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To complicate matters, he’s not sure what these spooktacular developments mean for his relationship. So are the ghosts, who are becoming increasingly impatient. There’s no instruction manual for meshing his work with his medium duties, and he’s painfully aware that he’s flubbing the job. He’s determined to accept all the changes in his formerly well-ordered life, but that means embracing a whole lot of weird. ![]() Rain Christiansen, former FBI agent and current cold case detective, is starting to think it’s the hardest job he’s ever had-and the most important. Principles of Spookology offers up some good fun amidst the serious nature of murder and supernatural mayhem.īlurb: No one said being a medium would be easy. 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Taylor, a Second grade school teacher who lives life by the rules and never takes risks, goes on a vacation to Cape Cod with her brother Jude, where they discover the dead body of the Owner of the Airbnb they are staying in once they arrive. ![]() ![]() ![]() From The Critics This anthology is useful as a resource for teaching, whether upper-level college courses, seminaries, congregations, or workshops, and an excellent reference tool for those involved in ecumenical efforts. In addition to selections from the WCC and other global Christian bodies, the collection includes texts from various regions of the world. ![]() Designed as a resource for courses in ecumenism in theological seminaries and faculties of religion, the volume can also serve as a useful reference guide. Included in this exhaustive collection of documents from the twentieth-century ecumenical movement are significant passages from the most widely influential texts produced by assemblies, conferences, and studies of the World Council of Churches and similar bodies, covering the three broad areas of historic concern within modern ecumenism: faith and order, life and work, and mission and evangelism. ![]() |