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'God only knows what fate befell Vicky after, cold and alone at that bus stop, she accepted a lift home.' Abducted from a local bus stop, schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton vanished into thin air. Her disappearance left the country in shock and a family torn apart. Sharon - her sister and best friend - never stopped looking for her. Then, seventeen years later, the search came to an abrupt and tragic end.Taken is Sharon Hamilton's heartbreaking true story of what happens to a family when one of its most loved members disappears without a trace. It's about never giving up hope that one day they will come home, and that justice will be done.

Updated with new terms, examples, and exercises, and to reflect the 2016 MLA guidelines, the Second Edition of Essential Literary Terms defines more than 225 must-know literary terms in clear and concise prose, and offers an abundance of examples and exercises to enhance understanding. Master teacher Sharon Hamilton has drawn on decades of teaching experience at the college and AP(R) levels to design this book especially for introductory students.

The father-daughter relationship was one that Shakespeare explored again and again. His typical pattern featured a middle-aged or older man, usually a widower, with an adolescent daughter who had spent most of her life under her father's control, protected in his house. The plays usually begin when the daughter is on the verge of womanhood and eager to assert her own identity and make her own decisions, especially in matters of the heart, even if it means going against her father's wishes. This work considers Capulet in Romeo and Juliet as an inept father to Juliet and Prospero in The Tempest as an able mentor to Miranda; Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and Desdemona in Othello as daughters who rebel against their fathers; Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and Ophelia in Hamlet as daughters who acquiesce; Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew and Goneril and Regan in King Lear as daughters who cunningly play the good girl role; Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Viola in Twelfth Night and Rosalind in As You Like It as daughters who act in their fathers' places; and Marina in Pericles, Perdita in The Winter's Tale and Cordelia in Lear as daughters who forgive and heal.

Adrenaline junkie and Navy SEAL Alex Kowicki is one of four bachelor SEALs trying to navigate his successful military career while achieving his goals as a first class connoisseur of beautiful women. He isn't ready to jump back into anything but his free falls, HALO drops or his missions overseas. He trusts his buddies to fix him up with another blind date that won't be as dangerous as his last ones. But Sydney Robinson has other plans. A beach volleyball player who can spike better than most men, and block with explosive speed to defend her side of the net, she executes a series of events to include stalking the handsome SEAL all the way to Sonoma County wine country, and delivering his carcass to her bed. Having achieved her first goal, she sets about to become a pro AVP player. When duty calls and Alex is pulled back to Iraq to complete a failed mission, neither expects to find that the real danger is lurking very much close to home. But this fight might cost one of them their lives. Book 2 of the Band of Bachelors series.

Navy SEAL Jake Green wakes up in the Honeymoon Suite at the Desert Oasis Motel in Las Vegas and can't remember how he got there. But that's not the only thing he doesn't remember. A bachelor, his left hand now sports a gold wedding ring.

Will they sacrifice their relationship to complete the mission?Navy SEAL Armando Guzman has just returned from a difficult tour in Afghanistan only to find his sister in the company of a San Diego drug gang. He vows to get her out of the mess she's in, but his sister's gorgeous best friend proves to be a distraction.Gina Mancuso is working her first under cover detail, trying to prove herself on a male-dominated police force. She can't afford the chemical attraction she feels for her subject's brother, Armando. Their hot affair not only threatens to ruin her mission, but could end his as well.Armando is unwilling to walk away from his sister, despite rising tension between him and local law enforcement. Gina is in a race for time to keep her secret identity from the man she is falling for. Will she have to sacrifice their relationship in order to accomplish the mission she was sent to do?*Author Note: SEAL Brotherhood is a collection of sexy, standalone novels following a different SEAL team member by New York Times best-selling author Sharon Hamilton. SEAL Under Covers is Book 3.

When a simple promise unexpectedly turns into a hot affair all hell breaks looseSpecial Operator Nick Dunn gets the call he has been dreading since before his last deployment. His sister needs him to come home to help her settle her final affairs. She's losing her long-fought battle with cancer.Devon Brandeburg, is Nick's sister's best friend. Her career is her main focus and she insists that she doesn't need a man to mess it all up. Especially not one with an ego the size of Nick Dunn's. Being forced to work with him isn't something she wants or needs, but honoring her best friend's wish is more important.What starts as a simple promise turns out to be a hot affair neither one expected. When Nick finds out both the women he holds dearest are in jeopardy, he does what he has to. He's too late to save one of them, but will he be able to save the other?*Author Note: SEAL Brotherhood is a collection of sexy, standalone novels following a different SEAL team member by New York Times best-selling author Sharon Hamilton. SEAL The Deal is Book 4.

Anne caught her husband cheating with the maid of honor before their wedding cake was cut. She decided to take her planned, and paid for, honeymoon in Tuscany, alone. On the evening of what was to be her wedding night, she gets bitten by a female vampire.Marcus Monteleone has waited three hundred years to find his fated female, only to discover her dying in his arms. He saves Anne's life by turning her, and then works to gain her trust, to cope with being a newly formed golden vampire. But when Anne finds out Marcus has not been completely truthful about his past, she vows to live as a human, and shuns the vampire world. Alone and unprotected, she falls prey to the very villainess who took her human soul, and who now takes the only man she's ever loved.Which lover will have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the other before they both are lost?

This is novella length. Full version of this book available in eBook and coming to print July of 2014. Navy SEAL Luke Paulsen, on the verge of PTSD stemming from the death of his fianc e and a brutal tour overseas, knows he is damaged goods and unsuitable for relationships. While paying respects to a fallen comrade, he is unprepared for the chemical attraction he feels for the carefree dark-haired beauty playing in the surf one evening. Julie Christensen befriends the troubled SEAL, motivated by her yearning to soothe the young man's troubled soul. Fueled by intense mutual desire, they succumb to one night of mind-numbing passion. Afterwards, he is unable to shed the memory of his lost love and disappears. When they meet again at a wedding that will forever bring their two families together, their passion and longing for one another forces them to confront their pasts in order to find a future together.

When one night just isn't enough ...Mark Beale is suffering from survivor's guilt. The sister of his best friend has just passed, and he's struggling to cope with it. The night before boarding a cruise ship, Mark embarks on a single night of passion to help ease the pain.Sophia Negri is running from her future. For one night, she's embracing anonymity and falling into bed with the most intriguing man she's ever encountered.When Mark and Sophia's worlds collide for a second time they are forced to admit that one night wasn't enough. Unfortunately, their second chance is thwarted by a plot against the ship. Will Mark's training be enough to save everyone? Or will he lose Sophia for a second time?*Author Note: SEAL Brotherhood is a collection of sexy, standalone novels following a different SEAL team member by New York Times best-selling author Sharon Hamilton. Cruisin' for a SEAL is Book 5.

The hard-bodied SEAL she meets on the plane ignites her insidesKate Morgan is unavailable, but she cannot deny the strange attraction no matter how badly she should.Navy SEAL Tyler Gray plans to spend a weekend home before deploying with the rest of his SEAL Team 3, but Kate has him rethinking everything.Family secrets from the past threaten to ruin everything between them. Will their love be strong enough to overcome the obstacles, and can Tyler save Kate from the danger that surrounds her?*Author Note: SEAL Brotherhood is a collection of sexy, standalone novels following a different SEAL team member by New York Times best-selling author Sharon Hamilton. SEAL of My Heart is Book 7.

Bad boy Rory Kennedy was raised in foster care, bouncing in and out of trouble along the way. He finds his true family and real brothers as a Navy SEAL, one of the Navy's elite warriors. When his BUD/S instructor barked the SEAL's Motto: Only Easy Day Was Yesterday, he knew he had found home.Megan Palmer works in a bookstore and finds her passion in life through reading steamy romance novels. Her brief affair with a man she later found out was married has left her damaged, until she meets the handsome SEAL, who stands ready to open her world and give her things she's only dreamed.On a skiing trip, Rory suffers a possible career-ending injury and also comes face to face with a past he never knew of, and a family who had abandoned him. His relationship with Megan is tested to the breaking point as Rory wades through the dark waters of recovery and whether or not he can live without the life he loves. A home-grown terrorist cell forces his hand and he discovers his true purpose.

Navy SEAL Lucas Shipley thought his living arrangement was temporary, since getting booted from the house by his wife. He sleeps on a couch in the apartment with four other divorced Navy SEALs, thinking he'll get the call to come home any day. He ignores the not-so-helpful advice his buddies are giving him about marriage, women and romance. Until he gets served with divorce papers.Realtor Marcy Gelland is hired by Lucas' soon-to-be ex-wife to liquidate all their real estate holdings and help her orchestrate a speedy departure from Lucas' life. Based on what the hot-headed SEAL wife has told her, Marcy understands Lucas deserves every ounce of pain coming his way.But when Marcy and Lucas are left alone together in the remote Northern California woods, they ignite a personal bonfire that threatens to burn down the whole forest. Marcy is forced to see she is wrong about Lucas.Amidst the backdrop of hardened bachelor SEALs with their unsolicited, anti-long-term relationship advice, and a terrorist training camp operating nearby, Lucas must do what he's always done: be the hero and save the day. But will it be in time to save Marcy?

Professional Goalkeeper Patrick Harrington comes home to the U.S. from England to attend the funeral of his best friend, Navy SEAL Ryan Rosen. Ryan's fiance is the girl who got away, the one he's been in love with ever since he set eyes on her in first grade.Stephanie Carter's world turns on its axis when Ryan is removed from her life, but not from her heart. Ryan's best friend, Patrick, becomes her path to healing the Trident-shaped hole left behind.Compassion leads to passion as they find the possibility of a life together neither one planned, or ever dreamed could exist. But Patrick must follow the calling his buddy Ryan had started. He knows his destiny is on Ryan's SEAL Team. As he goes through BUD/S, Stephanie wonders if her heart would survive a second loss?As he goes through BUD/S, Stephanie wonders if her heart be able to survive a second loss.Patrick begins his first deployment to Central Africa, to extract or immobilize a powerful warlord who is terrorizing and spreading his brand of hate. With the outbreak of Ebola, the stakes are suddenly higher. But Patrick will soon learn how interconnected the whole world is. He comes face to face with pure evil and those who want retribution. In the dramatic conclusion, he learns the value of his SEAL Brotherhood, and who he's fighting for.