Amy Simone

A young pastry chef with a dark past enters a Louisiana lawyer's life. Except he has a problem, or rather several of them. Peter Doucet has five children he shares with his exotic Argentinan ex-wife. Can humble Sissy win over his kids and overcome her past? Does she even want to? Can he earn her trust? A May-October love story with many twists and turns.

If you've ever wanted to be that "fly on the wall" then this is for you. Cassie Owens took her online selling too far. She drove her and her veterinarian husband's family towards ruin. Accidentally she visits other dimensions through the portals of her computer. Come along as young mother Cassie tries to right her rocky world. Her new gift allows her to eavesdrop and witness scenes she shouldn't. This shape-shifting parallel universe, largely set in Louisiana's Acadiana region, contains elves, witches, and soothsayers. Once you've stepped into Cassie's shoes, you'll never look at the world the same again.

Launch and cultivate a successful program for the innovative procedure poised to become the standard for patients with aortic stenosis (AS) with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Program Development: A Guide for the Heart Team .Written by leaders in the field, this clinical instruction manual is the first to consolidate evidence, guidelines, and best practices for the TAVR care pathway from referral to follow-up. This is a must-have for clinicians—nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals—as well as administrative leadership and staff involved in TAVR programs. The text offers a comprehensive view of the TAVR program organized to support staff and quality, and positioned to grow on pace with evolving indications, regulations, technology, and patient needs: Foundational Knowledge – AS clinical presentation, disease progression, historical perspective and current practice Multidisciplinary Care – Heart Team, Valve Program Clinician, procedural staff, valve clinic, hospital-based care, partnership with primary care and referring providers Patient Evaluation – symptoms, medical history, social determinants of health, diagnostic imaging, echocardiography and computerized tomography, risk stratification Heart Team Shared Decision Making – case selection, real-world patient scenarios for shared decision-making, risk-predictive tools, considerations for specific conditions – anatomical challenges, low-gradient AS, mitral valve disease, frailty, pulmonary disease, kidney disease, dementia Procedural Care and Clinical Pathways – specific, detailed examples of procedure plans, order sets, emergency planning, peri-procedural communication and handoffs, post-procedure care pathways, discharge planning Program Optimization and Evaluation – strategies and tactics for education and communication, staffing considerations, wait list management, scheduling challenges, measurement of clinical outcomes, patient experience, adherence to indications, regulatory compliance, quality registry reporting About the Clinical Editors Marian C. Hawkey, RN, is Director of TAVR Clinical Research at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.Sandra Lauck, PhD, RN, is a scientist at the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation and Clinical Assistant Professor (St Paul’s Hospital and Heart & Stroke Foundation Professorship) in Cardiovascular Nursing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.Elizabeth M. Perpetua, DNP, is Principal Consultant at EMPath Health Services – Perpetua Associates, in Seattle, Washington.