Flower Science

As women of color, we are scarce in the travel community, and there are several confusions attached to our experience. We feel a sense of pride after every trip. Anytime we step outside of our homes and set out on a new journey, it’s not just to see something beautiful, or to take great pictures for a blog; it’s about changing the reputation of black women everywhere.

In this gripping tale of sex, jealousy, con artists, and murder, the author gets to the root of the violent crimes perpetrated by 1940s serial killers Fernandez and Beck, who preyed on lonely women through personal ads, stealing from them, and murdering them before the ultimate justice was served on the killer lovers.

Street Kids: The Lives of Runaway and Thrownaway Teens, Second Edition, by award-winning and best-selling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, is an audiobook that examines the pathway from home to homeless for runaways and thrownaways, including precursors to life on the street. Street Kids will be a useful source for child welfare advocates, academics, professionals, sociologists, criminologists, researchers, laypersons, and others with an interest in the plight and mistreatment of children living on the streets or away from a safe home environment.

The new sci-fi epsionage action drama is back with the final 15 episodes! Witness the end of the Gambit. The Lord Ascendent appears to be unstoppable. Chased back into the Fringe, the crew of the Matilda cannot stop Gallow’s march forward. Samantha is battered and beaten after her confrontation with Renic. The Kestrel threat was a lie. She knows her real enemy now, but Samantha must face the fact that she may have no way to fight back. On the Terminus, Qin did everything she could to slow the oncoming storm. Helping Julian expose Renic was supposed to take him out of the equation.

Wild dragons followed me home. And they’ve learned a new trick. This breed can shift into human form, and they’ve taken my mother hostage. Their price for her safe return? Max Green. I’m more than happy to hand the jerkwad over, but Killian says we need more information, which leads us to working undercover at Max's favorite hangouts. Blending in at my old high school seemed like a good plan at first to get dirt on Max Green and his friends, but after Killian tried to skewer a student, I’m not so sure this plan is going to work out.

It’s been two years after I’d cleared my father’s name and made Dragonrider Academy my permanent residence. I’m ready to celebrate and finally ride together with Killian. Except, the second we take to the skies, we fly right into a trap. The Wild Dragons have been waiting for this moment to strike. My bond with Killian and my dragon will be tested like they never have before.

Your new favorite sci-fi espionage action drama is here! She’s sabotaged, tortured, and killed in the name of her empire. Never questioning, never yielding. Being asked to turn her skills against the empire was not a consideration…until now.

Starview Station orbits Kestris in ruin, a tangle of wreckage and jettisoned bodies. Yet, alleged perpetrators, the Red Kestrels, remain silent…. Samantha, Decker, and the crew of the Matilda have narrowly escaped into jumpspace after the attack, their destination the Fringe as they return to the only lead Samatha has: the Red Kestrel leader, Kat Basara. Disavowed by the Imperium and without support, Samantha must win over a crew who has no reason to trust her.

Rogue agents working from the outside. Duplicitous officers working from the inside. In the shadow of the Terminus, it’s unclear who is predator and who is prey. Samantha, Decker, and the crew of the freshly repaired Matilda are on their way to Senali with Red Kestrel leader Kat Basara in their sights. She has the answer to Samantha’s question: Who is the leak within the Imperium that sacrificed The Dauntless and its crew?

The Lord Ascendant appears to be unstoppable. The crew of the Matilda—chased back into the Fringe—cannot stop Gallow’s march forward. Samantha is battered and beaten. The Kestrel threat was a lie. She knows her real enemy now, but must face the fact that she may have no way to fight back.

Ella was genetically engineered to be the perfect pet - graceful, demure - and kept. In a daring move, she escaped her captivity and took refuge in Canada. But while she can think and act as she pleases, the life of a liberated pet is just as confining as the Congressman’s gilded cage. Her escape triggered a backlash, and now no one’s safe, least of all the other pets. But she’s trapped, unable to get back to Penn - the boy she loves - or help the girls who need her.

After the fall of Troy, an Amazonian demigod descends into the underworld to save the soul of her lover from eternal damnation and discovers what it means to love and to hate something. A short story with a modern twist on Greek mythology.

The crew of the system defense boat Viper does everything it can to harass the enemy and help win back their homeworld when the enemy Vazirans invade their solar system. They face long odds as they are called into action again and again in a variety of environments. They must work together and rely on stealth, speed, cunning, and courage to get through.

Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex From the Suite to the Street explores the sex trade in modern times. For those without direct experience with the seamy, real-life world of prostitution, it can be easy to accept the glamorized depictions of the sex-for-sale industry as it is often portrayed in fiction and Hollywood or sensationalized in the media. In reality, the business of sexual exploitation such as prostitution, sex trafficking, pornography, and sex tourism is far from attractive and, in many instances, can be dangerous, if not deadly.

The first law of the Valkyrie is "Don't fall in love." I messed that one up...big time. I failed my sisters and fell in love with William Johnson. I've watched him for three lifetimes and a little piece of me broke every time I had to let him die. I paid the price for breaking the first law of the Valkyrie. I lost all the memories I had of Will. That's why Sam is keeping tabs on me. She's an ever-present shadow during my time at Mattsfield High. Sam is the perfect Valkyrie. Tall. Beautiful. Heartless.

In the stunning sequel to Fallen to Grace, Azrael must face a new world with new masters. She's the Queen of Celestia--or so the Council of angels wish her to believe. The Seraphim, the true ruler of Celestia, holds Gabriel captive and tinkers with dark magic. Azrael must master her powers and her heart like never before in order to save Gabriel and lead a coup against the Seraphim.

Good news: Solstice is alive! Bad news: Dragonrider Academy is under siege by wild dragons. Solstice has been on a journey of his own trying to find me in this realm. I’ll have to get the story out of him one day of how he managed to survive long enough to find me. For now, we need to figure out how to get these wild dragons out of our realm. My plan? We lure them to the Human Realm where reinforcements are waiting. Oh, and maybe we’ll burn Max Green’s house on the way. Win-win.

The traditional Battle of Cyclo is upon the Planet Darr, and Prince Montserrat must defend his birthright - only he doesn’t know it. Strong but tormented Prince Montserrat has never appreciated the freedom of peace until his time spent on the terra planet, Earth. When his retreat on Earth is interrupted by the one bounty hunter he fears the most, Montserrat leaves the planet to protect the human race. Upon his return to Darr, Prince Montserrat has no wish to rule over the warring planet, and plans to escape once more.

The Empty Nation series is sci-fi, romance, political satire, and comedy. The story begins 200 years in the future. In this first volume the framework for the entire series is defined with a wildly concocted futuristic plan by the new United States government to control the economic fate of the world (nothing new).

In this second volume the girls (Mary and Jane) are simply man-handled, trained, and abused by any real-world standard. But gratefully for the sake of these promiscuous but adorable young creatures (they are registered as livestock animals) this is a fictional novel. The pair survives unharmed and satisfied emotionally, physically, and in many intimate ways as they grow up in the new USA Inc.