Taylor James

Kat Townsend never imagined she'd end up in Seattle WA for college. A Southern California girl willingly trading her swimsuit for a rain coat 90% of the year? She had to be crazy. Fresh off a brutal heartbreak while feeling like life is out to get her, Kat needs a change. Determined to forget the past, she finds herself at an off campus party where everything changes.

Jenner Blackwell is the Devils Hockey team Capitan. To the rest of the world he's an over confident playboy and a hard hitting center on the ice. Keeping score is his favorite past time in life, and he never looses. Seeing Kat again catches his perfect world off guard, and he'll stop at nothing to win her over. Especially if it means going up against his biggest rival - on and off the ice.

Fake dating until the championship game, gives the pair more than they bargained for. With all eyes on Kat and Jenner, it's a fight to see who gets the final score and who wins the other's heart.

Final Score

TEE with Carly

Kenzie Dark: Trained as a symphony pianist—makes her living as a professional poker player. It's not about the poker. It's what she does because it allows her to be her own boss, make her own rules, and do as she pleases. No one is in charge of her but her. Who wouldn't want a job like that? Right? No one can take away what she wants ever again. Shaun Tyler: Marketing at the Aria hotel and casino. Her latest project is the branding of the Aria's poker room. It involves a TV program filmed within the casino and finding a professional player to front for them. When Kenzie meets Shaun she is instantly attracted to her. Compelled might be a better descriptor. And why not? Shaun is beautiful and sweet, and she pulls at Kenzie's heart. But Shaun wants her to front for the Aria casino and that goes against every instinct Kenzie has. She can't do it. Self-preservation is paramount. She can't do it, not even for love. Can she?

Poker Face

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Whilst it is a constant throughout history that conflict has inspired and engendered great art, it is much rarer event for art to impact directly upon the vicissitudes of war. Yet, in the course of the First World War, a collision of naval strategy and the nascent modern art movement, led to some 2000 British ships going to sea as the largest painted modernist 'canvases' in the world covered in abstract, clashing, decorative and geometric designs in a myriad of colors. Dazzle had arrived. Heavily inspired by the Cubism and British Vorticism art movements, dazzle was conceived and developed by celebrated artist and then naval commander Norman Wilkinson. Dazzle camouflage rejects concealment in favor of disruption. It seeks to break up a ship's silhouette with brightly contrasting geometric designs to make a vessel's speed and direction incredible difficult to discern - both critical factors in the early years of the torpedo. False painted bow-waves and sterns were used to confuse and throw off the deadly U-boat captains by up to 55%. The high contrast shapes and colors further made it very difficult to match up a ship in the two halves of an optical naval rangefinder.Some questioned dazzle's effectiveness but, combined with the adoption of the convoy system led to a considerable reduction in the number of merchant ships losses. Dazzle camouflage was adopted internationally first by the US Navy and its use was continued by the major navies right through to the Second World War and beyond, although the development of radar and aircraft range lessened its effectiveness.This new book traces the development of the Dazzle aesthetic from theory into practice and beyond. It looks at the impact that dazzle was to have on art, especially in the work of Edward Wadsworth, Charles Pears and Wilkinson himself. It takes the story further and looks at how dazzle impacted upon many aspects of art and design from record covers to fashion and also showcases the wonderful tributes that contemporary artists, such as Peter Blake and Tobias Rehberger, have made by painting ships and ferries as a timely means to mark the ongoing centenary of the First World War."The primary object of this scheme was not so much to cause the enemy to miss his shot when actually in firing position, but to mislead him, when the ship was first sighted, as to the correct position to take up. Dazzle is method to produce an effect by paint in such a way that all accepted forms of a ship are broken up by masses of strongly contrasted colour, consequently making it a matter of difficulty for a submarine to decide on the exact course of the vessel to be attacked. When making a design for a vessel, vertical lines were largely avoided. Sloping lines, curves and stripes are by far the best and give greater distortion." - Norman Wilkinson, 1919* Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland* Superbly and copiously illustrated by sketches, designs, artworks, photographs and artifacts of dazzle in action* DAZZLE includes a major 'sourcebook' section to provide reference and inpsiration for artists, designers and modellers * The ultimate gift book for all who take their inspiration from the sea

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