Melissa Sinclair Livres

Quinn Sanders, dedicated to her work at A Place to Hope, is forced to confront her past when a predator threatens the children at the center. Determined to protect a vulnerable girl, she risks her own safety. Meanwhile, Ethan Vanderbilt, seeking a meaningful connection after his sister's happiness, has set his sights on Quinn. As their worlds intertwine amidst a human trafficking investigation, Ethan is determined to keep her safe. Together, they must navigate the dangers of Quinn's past and the challenges of their growing relationship.

Kara Vanderbilt returns home to confront her traumatic past after surviving a harrowing abduction a decade prior. Seeking closure, she becomes embroiled in a murder case that echoes her own ordeal, despite believing her captor is dead. As she navigates the chaos of her life, Kara finds a potential new love, but time is against her. With Detective Caleb Montgomery's assistance, she must unravel the mystery and stop a killer who may be linked to her past before it's too late.

The Near Eastern Late Bronze Age is known for heightened political and economic interconnectivity as kings of wealthy states like Egypt and Hatti competed in the pursuit of valuable commodities, raw materials and technologies. An outcome of this interaction is argued to be the creation of a shared elite visual culture, an idiom of kingship, that has been called the ?International Style? in scholarship. This dissertation critiques the model and investigates evidence for this so-called style from Egypt, in particular addressing artefacts from the tomb of Tutankhamen that have been associated with this style in the past. It challenges the model for a shared idiom of kingship from Egypt and instead proposes an internal value within 18th royal rhetoric