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It was a marriage of convenience for everyone except the bride and groom. He never wanted to be a laird. She never wanted to marry one.

Stress and How to Manage It will explain the “what, why, and how” of positive stress management. It is packed full of insight and provides you with practical exercises to help you enhance your problem-solving skills and diminish your day-to-day stresses.

Scotland, 1849. The O'Donnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father, the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.

Jory Mackintosh is more excited by healing herbs than husbands or holy prayers. She craves freedom—and a chance to sneak into medical school. Instead, on the eve of her escape, she becomes an unwilling pawn in her family’s schemes with a rival clan.

Lady Margaret Grant wants for nothing. Her life of rank and privilege shields her from anything that might displease her—until her father arranges to wed her to an allied laird, thus ruining her hopes of marrying the man she loves. Heartbroken and crushed, her only solace is making others as miserable as she is.

Author and productivity expert Michal Stawicki has coached hundreds of people in transforming their attitude and fulfilling their dreams. Now he’s here to help you end the uphill battle so you can progress toward your goals with ease. Trickle Down Mindset is a step-by-step system for re-envisioning success from an original and direct new perspective. With Stawicki’s guidance, you’ll analyze the content you consume, your self-talk, and the interactions that shape your capacity for change.

Starting her journey behind the Iron Curtain in Romania, tracking spider monkeys in Tikal, following the Green March in Morocco, working on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, riding horses in Umbria, training teachers in Borneo, to living under strict Sharia law in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan, Jo takes us with her on inner and outward explorations in exotic locations. She writes of ways to navigate physical, emotional, and even spiritual risks and pain while traveling to parts of the world few have seen or described.

It is the end of the 19th century. Victoria has but a short time before her long reign will be over, but for the people of Knight's Acre, who sits on the throne is of little consequence. Jessica Milligan is weary and needs a way out of the drudgery of helping her mother, of cooking and cleaning for her father. The solution she discovers quite by accident will carry her through her life, but for now, she is looking for love. She finds it in the new estate manager, appointed by the Earl of Harrisford to run his estate.

Once upon a time, Maggie Mackintosh Budge yearned for handsome rogues and breathtaking adventure. Now she dreams only of trading her cold island prison for warmer climes. Desperate to escape a matchmaking father, she stows away on the nearest vessel because sometimes the only solution is running away to sea. Bastian MacLeod never chose a life of piracy, but after coming of age under the brutal regime of Auld Farrand’s Revenge, his world has been limited to placating the volatile captain and staying one step ahead of the Navy, that is until the crew discover Maggie in their cargo hold.

In 1565 a young maid of honour named Helena von Snakenborg arrives at the English court from Sweden. Her meeting with Queen Elizabeth I changes her life forever when she is invited to remain in her service. Helena becomes the established favourite and closest companion of the mercurial queen. After her marriage to Lord Northampton she rises to become the third highest lady in the land. But queens and fortunes can be fickle friends and Helena must overcome tragedy and exile in order to achieve happiness.