Claire Miller fell in love with Jake in the third grade. One hot night of reckless passion changed things between them forever. Jake rocked her world, but Claire had plans for her life. Knowing she could never be what he needed, she let him go and has missed him every day since. Jake Walker knew the first time he saw Claire, when he was nine years old, that he wanted to marry her. At seventeen, he let her go. But seven years later, the sight of her hit him like a punch to the gut. Every cell in his body demanded that she was ‘The One'. But can he convince Claire?

One chance encounter is all it takes for hard as nails undercover agent Jace Montgomery to fall in love. When the woman who stole his heart is taken hostage, he'll destroy anything and everything in his way to save her.

Josh Lanyon knew he'd made the biggest mistake of his life. He'd slept with his best friend's sister and walked away. Problem was, while his head insisted he was doing the right thing, his body had other ideas. Since he'd returned to his SEAL unit, every touch haunted him. He could not forget her eyes, her smile, the way she'd surrendered in his arms. And now that he's come home, he is determined to make her his forever. Trouble is, she's not interested. Sara Martin has had enough. Her teenage crush turned into a hardcore obsession when it came to the hot, muscled, and oh-so-sexy Josh Lanyon. They'd both fallen victim to the chemistry that sparked between them, and then he'd left her alone. He didn't call. He didn't answer her letters. He just...vanished. Now he wants a second change. Now he wants to explain. Now he wants her to allow him back into her bed, and worse, into her heart. He's dangerous. He's lied to her before. But the heat? The need? The attraction? Irresistible.

Daniel Martin is home after ten years serving his country, but war—and the secrets that follow him—hold him in an unrelenting grip. There is no one he wants to see more than Chloe, but he missed his chance with her ten years ago. Pushed her away and told her to find someone else. He had wanted her—badly. But his life had been a mess, and they’d both been too young. He’d made her hate him, but he’d had nothing to offer her. Now, protecting his unit comes at a high price. Falling in love is dangerous. Believing the past will stay buried, where it can’t hurt her, is a risk. If he takes Chloe to bed, there will be no escape for either of them. If he kisses her, he’ll never want to stop. If he touches her, he won’t be able to walk away. He needs to walk away. Then he sees her…and it’s too late. He will risk everything to make her his. But how will he convince her that’s he not the boy who broke her heart, but a man determined to cherish her forever?

A family conquers grief and lost expectations raising their son born with half a heart, while navigating complex medical challenges.

From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe the seductive sirens and their honeyed songs, the powerful Arctic sea goddess Sedna, and the long-haired rusalki or Russian lore, among other legendary mermaids. As she tells their stories, she also expresses a love of the mermaid that surely no sea-bound sailor could ever match. Grounded in cultural anthropology, folklore studies, and intellectual rigor, A Mermaid's Tale also draws on literature, poetry, and mythology for its insights. It is a book filled with depth and detail as it describes Adam's swim through the ocean of her own life in search of the unusual, the beautiful, and the perfectly extraordinary.

My job is stressing me out. My engagement is a joke. And I can't stop thinking about a man I can't have. Zach Stahl. Tall, dark and handsome? Check. But he's dating my boss - a vicious witch I do not want to cross. Besides, I'm nobody. Why would he want me? I would need a certified fairy-godmother to pull this one off. A smoking hot, red dress. And the courage to go after what I want. Maybe, just maybe, I can find a way to melt Zach's Stahl's heart.

The first women archaeologists were Victorian era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it. Canvas tents were their domains, hot Middle Eastern deserts their gardens of inquiry and labor. Thanks to them, prevailing ideas about feminine nature — soft, nurturing, submissive — were upended. Ladies of the Field tells the story of seven remarkable women, each a pioneering archaeologist, each headstrong, smart, and courageous, who burst into what was then a very young science. Amanda Adams takes us with them as they hack away at underbrush under a blazing sun, battle swarms of biting bugs, travel on camelback for weeks on end, and feel the excitement of unearthing history at an archaeological site. Adams also reveals the dreams of these extraordinary women, their love of the field, their passion for holding the past in their hands, their fascination with human origins, and their utter disregard for convention.

Editor: Gordon Grigsby Associate Editors: Jan Schmittauer, Matthew M Cariello, & Donna Spector Managing Editor: Barbara Bergmann Evening Street Review is published in the spring and fall of every year by Evening Street Press. United States subscription rates are $24 for one year and $44 for two years (individuals), and $32 for one year and $52 for two years (institutions). ISBN: 978-1-937347-04-8 Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With this center, and an emphasis on writing that has both clarity and depth, it practices the widest eclecticism. Evening Street Review reads submissions of poetry (free verse, formal verse, and prose poetry) and prose (short stories and creative nonfiction) year round. Submit 3-6 poems or 1-2 prose pieces at a time. Payment is one contributor’s copy. Copyright reverts to author upon publication. Response time is 3-6 months. Please address submissions to Editors, 2881 Wright St, Sacramento, CA 95821-5232. Email submissions are also acceptable; send to the following address as Microsoft Word or rich text files (.rtf): editor@eveningstreetpress.com. For submission guidelines, subscription information, selected works, and news, please visit our website at www.eveningstreetpress.com. Cover photos: North Cascade Mountains, WA; small city, OH. Words from Robinson Jeffers, “How Beautiful It Is,” The Beginning and the End, 1963 © Copyright 2011 by Evening Street Press. All rights revert to author upon publication.

As increasing numbers of young women are discerning a call to ministry, entering seminary, graduating, and searching for the call to a parish or other ministry setting, they need to be aware of the realities that face them. The Girlfriends' Clergy Companion is about the nitty gritty of ministry for young female clergy—how to maintain a sense of personal style, what it's really like to be a solo pastor, how to date, what to do when they're ready to quit. The authors met in 2008 at a gathering of young women who serve as pastors. Since then, they have been meeting monthly to develop a 'young girlfriends network' and to support one another in their ministries. In their conversations, they heard one another talking about what they wished they had known before beginning ministry. Those yearnings gave rise to this book. The authors discuss the call process and the ministry situations in which young women most commonly find themselves serving as a solo pastor and as an associate. Additional chapters explore personal style, the single life, relationships, children, and self-care, as well as challenges pastors, particularly new pastors, often face. Each chapter ends with 'The Girlfriends' Checklist,' a summary of strategies to help young women be happier and more effective ministers.