"You're not going into this alone." P.I. Frances Jefferies is the perfect person to slip into Las Vegas's underworld to recover a priceless necklace. With her elite investigative skills, not to mention her jewel-thief past, she knows she can get the job done. That is, until a sexy stranger gets in her way. Braxton Morgan's past is as secretive as her own. There's so much about this man she wants to discover—but not at the cost of her case. For that, she must stay focused. Then Braxton suggests adding his security expertise to catch the criminal. And suddenly they're mixing smarts with danger and a whole lot of passion!
Ari Daniels didn't count on her whole world tumbling down around her in a mess of shredded promises, broken love, and unbelievable heartbreak. Alone and stricken with grief, she shouldered the blame and eventually closed her heart off, refusing to open it for another. After all, anytime she tried, guilt and regret were waiting in the wings to remind her how painful it was. A bet and one steamy night with a stranger force Ari to confront all she's been hiding behind. She tries to move on, but he refuses to stand down, wanting what she is terrified to give-herself. This man may very well destroy her in the end, especially when it's clear he has his own demons. What happens when two broken souls come together, finally allowing themselves to believe in the beauty of love ... only to have to fight harder than ever to keep it?
"You're not going into this alone." P.I. Frances Jefferies is the perfect person to slip into Las Vegas's underworld to recover a priceless necklace. With her elite investigative skills, not to mention her jewel-thief past, she knows she can get the job done. That is, until a sexy stranger gets in her way. Braxton Morgan's past is as secretive as her own. There's so much about this man she wants to discover--but not at the cost of her case. For that, she must stay focused. Then Braxton suggests adding his security expertise to catch the criminal. And suddenly they're mixing smarts with danger and a whole lot of passion!
This is a reissue of the novel inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.
Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine “What to Read” selection “A really great book.” —IRA FLATOW, Science Friday “One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” —Los Angeles Times “Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” —New York Times Book Review “[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.” —NPR “Colin Ellard is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our cities—and ourselves.” —CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether we’re awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature—places we escape to and can’t escape from—have influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating. Colin Ellard is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, he lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
Las Vegas.... We call it “Sin City” No angels there, except you But in Sin City, a devil can fall in love with an angel Devil doesn’t always live in hell And we can always live together in the heaven of Sin City Aldhan Prasetya Aridipta mengharapkan perjalanan bisnis ke Las Vegas bisa menjadi lembaran baru untuk mengembangkan kariernya. Sayang, tujuan Tahta Aridipta, ayah Aldhan, mengirim anak sulungnya itu ke “Sin City” semata-mata untuk melunasi utang judi yang menumpuk sejak 1997. Meski kesal, Aldhan tak dapat menolak. Dia berharap dapat bertemu kembali dengan ayah yang menghilang sejak kasus likuidasi Bank Agraria Dipta milik keluarga mereka bertahun lalu itu, setelah belitan utang terurai. Sampai di Las Vegas, Tahta meminta putranya berkawan dengan Ryker Preston, pebisnis kaya raya pemilik kasino, kepada siapa Aldhan harus melunasi utang. Ryker memperkenalkan Aldhan kepada Reika Mathilda, lulusan Nevada University yang pernah menulis tesis tentang cara memenangi berbagai permainan judi berdasarkan perhitungan matematika. Berharap dengan bantuan gadis cerdas itu Aldhan bisa menang judi dan segera melunasi utang ayahnya. Bertualang dari satu kasino ke kasino lain, hati Aldhan tak tenang. Pertama, karena rasa berdosa yang dia tanggung karena berjudi. Kedua, karena di tengah keriuhan itu, hatinya malah dipenuhi pesona Reika. Sementara itu, pikiran Reika hanya berpusat pada satu hal: rencana yang ingin dia lancarkan setelah tugasnya menemani Aldhan usai. Walau itu berarti harus melukai Aldhan....
A savage journey into the heart of Hunter S. Thompson's Las Vegas with the Good Doctor as tour guide. A Lord-of-the-Rings-like adventure in the city's underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont Street. The stories in My Week at the Blue Angel aren't about Steve Wynn, Cirque du Soleil, or how to play poker, and they aren't set in Caesars Palace, XS Nightclub, or a 2,000-seat showroom. They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless, and they're set under Caesars Palace and in trailer parks and weekly motels. In this creative nonfiction collection, Matthew O'Brien--author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas--and veteran photographer Bill Hughes show a side of the city rarely seen. A side beyond the neon lights, themed facades, and motel-room doors. A side beyond the barbwire fences, No Trespassing signs, and midnight shadows.
