Sweet Deceit

After Brigit’s mysterious death at the NoBash, Ariana will stop at nothing to make sure Kaitlynn gets what she deserves. With all the spots now open, getting into the Stone and Grave should be a breeze—but Ariana is not willing to share her new life with her worst enemy. Will Ariana be able to rid herself of her past without exposing where she came from?

In Dreams and Sweet Deceit, Milana L. Walter weaves the pursuit of dreams, the law of attraction and life's interruptions through a zigzag path of tests and triumphs. This is Garbo Madrid's Wyatt's story, a smart determined, navie - African-American woman.

Diana Rainville would do anything for her beloved, aging husband, the Duke of Wimberly. To protect the family legacy from his disreputable nephew, the Duke begs his wife to produce an heir by another man. She agrees to bear the child of Gavin Winslow, but how could she accept the feelings Gavin evoked? Bound by honor they part ways, but when a disaster threatens all they hold dear, Diana and Gavin prove their ties were sanctioned by the heart.

After Ali deGroot's fiancé lies and steals from her, she moves for a fresh beginning and starts up her own promotions business. While she nurses her wounds, her new neighbor charms her into going out for a date. Soon the two are together, but there is more to her neighbor than meets the eye. Jase VanDam relocated into a new house in an attempt to maintain anonymity. As the owner of chain bakery store A Real Sweetie, he's tired of being chased after by people who only have his money in mind. When he meets Ali, he pretends to be a baker at A Real Sweetie rather than reveal his true identity. A little white lie can't hurt, especially when it is for the good of their relationship. But Ali's had it with lies. When she finds out the truth, she wants nothing to do with Jase. She breaks it off with him and vows never to see him again, even though this means giving up the lucrative promotions account of her dreams with his company. When disaster strikes one of Jase's bakeries, they must find a way to establish trust in their relationship before their love can lead them to the hope of a future together.

False relations remain one of the great enigmas of English Renaissance musical culture. Contemporary theoretical treatises explicitly discouraged their use, and yet these deliberate dissonances are hallmarks of English Renaissance music. Over the centuries they have accumulated a surfeit of subsequent connotations that have obscured how they once functioned, yet they have never been fully critically explored or elucidated in an English context. In Syrene Soundes, author Eleanor Chan excavates beneath strata of accumulated meanings to uncover the way that false relations delighted and confounded their original listeners and performers. The book offers a holistic investigation of the false relations phenomenon, examining the cultural, literary, visual, and material understanding of such dissonances in relation to the broader culture of incongruity, surprise and error, and metaphors of harmony that captured the imagination of the English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Chan argues that interdisciplinary angles can galvanise understanding of technical musical theoretical tropes like the false relation. She demonstrates that the false relation and its graphic ephemerality can productively be explored through the lens of English Renaissance visual culture and its idiosyncratic representational strategies. By anchoring it within the milieu of the English Reformation, burgeoning aspirations towards empire, and the increasing need for a self-fashioned collective English identity, Chan reveals that the false relation was key to the mythology of an inherited English tradition of music-making. Syrene Soundes concerns itself not just with the notes on the page, but with the way that they influenced the broader culture of the time, both as the performable music they represented, as the idea of music, and as the visual, inky marks they are made of. It provides an accessible introduction to false relations which will be of use to musicologists and non-music specialists alike. Ultimately, Chan argues for the value of integrated interdisciplinary analysis in exploring the musical culture of the English Renaissance and embraces the blurring of musical, visual, material, and literary forms of expression that fed contemporary understanding of music, harmony, and falseness.