Best Selling Books by Johnny Ray

Do first loves ever really die? While reunions can take many forms, there is always one question that has to be answered sooner or later-what happened? Vance had always been extremely proud of Noella, and just because his life had been ruined, he saw no reason why she had to have the same faith. When his dad died, leaving him and his mother penniless, he dropped out of law school and ended his relationship with Noella, but in doing so, he stopped a scandal that could have ruined her family. These secrets he would never let her know. Ironically, years later, he would have never guessed she would be instrumental in ruining his career with the Tampa police force. After Noella finished law school and started pursuing her goal of working up the ranks in judgeships, she never considered inviting another guy into her life. As such, when someone attempts to threaten her into vacating her seat on the bench, and by force if necessary, she knows of no one else she really trust as much as Vance, who now has a successful bodyguard and private detective business. She knows that Vance might hate her for her part in having him dismissed from the police force, but what he will never know is that she actually saved him from going to prison. Additionally, she now thinks he was framed, and perhaps by the same people who are threatening her. She had to talk him into taking her on as a client . . . but would he agree to her request? As the number of attacks on her life increases, Vance soon has no choice but to offer her his protection, and in spite of everything, when they see each other again their old attraction for each other returns. She wants the truth. He wants the truth. However, making the ultimate sacrifice is not always easy to understand, whether given or received. Ultimately . . . could they now trust each other with these secrets? While their lives depend on discovering the truth to their past, these truths are locked in deep secrets that could also destroy them.

Our Shabby House Sits Inside a barbed wire fence. We have very little. No swing, no fancy bikes, Not even wood for a treehouse. The most we have (for now) are dreams of a better life. Our landlord has it all. A brick house, new cars, a motorcycle, a truck. All outside the barbed wire fence. But still, we dream our dreams and keep telling one another that we can be proud of who we are and still have something.

Rilo, a fugitive monster who believes he is the last of his kind, is helped b Morgan Taylor and his friends, and gives them superpowers in return, but whe they are challenged to a mysterious contest for supernatural hunters, Rilo discovers that his people are alive but enslaved.

An International romantic thriller that you will never forget. FOR LOVE AND VENGEANCE When everyone lies to you-trust your gut instinct If that fails-start over For your love deserves the best And murderous terrorist your vengeance May God have mercy on their soul Both the Americans and the Russians think Victoria works for them exclusively. In truth; the Pack, an International Crime Syndicate, brutally controls her while they launder money in America by buying distressed houses for terrorist sleepers. While she executes the perfect escape, staging her death during a shark attack, she makes one mistake-she meets Royce, who worked as a special operative several years earlier, the night before disappearing. Royce, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with any American led special operations after he had been lied to in order to keep him focus on his prior mission. His girlfriend had been abducted and brutally murdered earlier while they had kept him in the dark. The last thing he had ever expected was another woman in his life, especially a Russian spy. Furthermore, he never would have believed that she would be the one thing that would encourage him to finish a mission that he should have taken care of the first time. Royce is well trained on how to discover the truth, so although Victoria''s apparent shark attack was well conceived he knows better. He had used the life of a surfer bum for years as his cover. The more lies he uncovers, the more suspicious he becomes until finally he feels like he has little choice. His prior operation was so top secret even the CIA were told nothing He didn''t need them then, and he sure the hell didn''t need them this time either. The last time it was for country-this time it was going to be personal.

THE JOURNEY TO WHITESTONE is a paranormal romance, and the first in this Dream Master series, is set in Atlanta, Georgia and the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. As Jacquelyn Parker struggles with her life spinning out of control, resulting in a bitter divorce, and her career ruined, she is sucked into a sinister world of late-night sleazy bars. It is her last minute prayer that fortunately finds its way to the Dream Master who controls the gates to Whitestone, a side door to heaven, and the next step in enlightenment. From her dreams she learns that she only has one chance to reunite with her one true love and advance to the next level of enlightenment. In order for Jacquelyn to master the four steps of enlightenment and find her true love, the Dream Master summons the assistance of other enlightened ones who teach Jacquelyn various philosophies from the Tai chi to the Karma Sutra to guide her path. After centuries of missing her true love in time and space, Jacquelyn has only one last chance to get it right, and live the ultimate happy ever after life. If she is unsuccessful, however, she will have to live with the tragic failure forever.

THE SALSA CONNECTION--AN INTERNATIONAL ROMANTIC THRILLER is a 93,000 word romantic thriller that has already won the Royal Palm Literary Award for best thriller. The story moves from the salsa clubs of St. Petersburg, Russia to New York to Louisiana and, finally, to Italy. The red-hot thread of the dance runs through a novel that explores the Russian mob, slavery and prostitution rings, and the art world, as well as love, loss, revenge and the strength of family ties. When Nickolay Panov left St Petersburg, Russia to go to New York City for an international ballet competition 25 years ago, he was considered one of the best ballet dancers in Russia. The Americans say he was murdered. The Russians say he defected. In any case, he never returned. Just before Nickolay disappeared, several priceless paintings and icons from a major museum were stolen. While he was accused of the theft, no solid proof has ever been offered to tie him to it. However, evidence shows that the stolen goods were shipped to America. The CIA and the Russian Government are still pursuing all leads connected to the heist, and so is the Russian mafia. Sveta was three years old when her father disappeared, so it''s a shock when, in the mail, she receives an invitation to a salsa dance competition in New York. At the bottom of the invitation is a note: "Please come to the competition and enter, my little lady." No one but her father has ever called her that. Why has her father surfaced after all these years? Sveta wants answers, even if it means entering the late-night, sultry world of salsa dancing in St Petersburg and New York City and coming into uncomfortably close contact with the Russian mob.

Teenage Soccer star turned fugitive Zarco, a young Brazilian football star, becomes an overnight sensation in Manchester with his dazzling performances for Imperial City United. Just as he begins to bask in his newfound glory, his world is turned upside down. Dark secrets about his transfer emerge, suggesting involvement in a sinister money laundering scheme. As the pressure mounts, Zarco''s personal life takes a shocking twist when a mysterious death casts suspicion on him. Accused and alone, he must uncover the truth and prove his innocence while evading unseen enemies in a high-stakes game of deception and danger. The lines between trust and betrayal blur, and every step he takes could be his last. Will Zarco be able to find the truth or lose everything he loves?

The fourth installment in the annual publishing venture, profiling Dirty Looks queer experimental film screenings and performance programs throughout the calendar year.

When Elizabeth and Jacob discovered the old railway train sitting at the station they sneaked on-board. They knew it had a reputation of being haunted but did not expect it would start moving down the tracks with the ghost of the mad engine-driver pulling the levers. A title in the ''Strange Matter'' horror series for readers of 10-12 years.

Medicine is just what Farmer Lou needs to settle his pig''s stomachache. But a bedtime story is the real answer.

Seventeen parental clones were selected, from 9,000 plants, on the basis of self-sterility, seed and forage yield potential using phenotypic ratings, crude protein and chromogen content. The parental clones were divided into two populations based on date of maturity. Group I was intermediate in maturity and had nine parental clones, while group E was early maturing and had eight parental clones. Six progeny testing methods (vegetative cuttings of parental clones, first generation selfed-seed (S1 progeny), open-pollinated progeny, polycross progeny, seed from all possible single crosses, and selfed seed from the single-crosses or F2 progeny) were compared using simple correlation coefficients between the progeny test and by comparing the rankings of the clones on the basis of each progeny test. The actual polycross performance was compared with the theoretical polycross performance or average of all possible single crosses, to see if equal and random fertilization occurred in the actual polycross. The results from the comparison of the six progeny testing methods indicated the vegetative cuttings of the parental clones and the single-cross progeny tests are the two most effective progeny testing methods when considering all four traits and both populations of plants. The open pollinated and polycross progeny tests were generally undesirable, because frequently there was no significant difference among their progeny. The S1 progeny test was generally not desirable in group I; however, it appeared to be the most satisfactory test for seed yield when both populations of plants were considered. The results illustrate why there are inconsistencies in the literature concerning the effectiveness of the progeny testing methods. The effectiveness of the six progeny tests varied, to some extent, from trait to trait and for the two populations. For all four traits there was much less agreement among the six progeny tests in group E than in group I. In all four traits the F2 generation showed a great inbreeding depression. The average of the single crosses was lower than the parents for tiller number, plant height, and 100 seed weight, but equalled the parents in yield per plant. The S1 progeny were usually approximately equal to the average of the single cross progeny. The open-pollinated and polycross progeny were generally the highest for all four traits. The results from the comparison of the actual polycross with the theoretical polycross indicated that equal and random fertilization did not occur in the actual polycross. The more desirable clones appeared to contribute the majority of the pollen, since the actual polycross performance was usually greater than the theoretical polycross performance.

Sarah and Simon are alone at home when a freak storm blows up and with it a strange delivery man; his parcel holding a promise of disaster. The ninth title in the ''Strange Matter'' series for readers of 10-14 years.

Esmeralda is an international recording artist who loves to play with her young studs she often refers to as her puppies. Understandably, sometimes when you play with fire you can get burned, as revengeful ex-puppies can re-emerge as stalkers. When four college guys out partying jokingly plan their futures after college they jokingly turn their fun on how many young women have worked their way into fortunes by becoming trophy wives to wealthy husbands. This gigolo type fun eventually turns serious as each guy puts his own plan into action, which will be covered in a separate novel in this series. Michael is the first of the four college students who had jokingly plan their futures. While he has now recently graduated college, he spends his time dominating the salsa dance floors of the late night bars in Miami as he contemplates his future.Esmeralda, on the other hand, is struggling to maintain her career. Interestingly, they both need each other, and openly admit when they first met that their affair might come down to who uses the other the most. To make it, however, this unlikely couple must first solve a mystery involving a girl who appeared to have committed suicide next to Michael''s Jeep and the involvement of an unknown stalker from her past. Johnny Ray is an award winning novelist who won the Royal Palm literary award for best thriller and is well known as the master of the international romantic thriller.

This study was an attempt to add to the existing research base, as well as fill in a gap in the literature with regard to speech language pathologists in public educational organizations in Texas. Variables explored in this study were recruitment, retention, career commitment, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, job overload, and turnover intent. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between recruitment, retention, career commitment, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, job overload, and the turnover intent of speech language pathologists in Texas. Additionally, this study sought to identify those factors that most influence the recruitment and retention of speech pathologists. A random sample of 500 speech pathologists was identified for participation in this study. Responses were elicited via Questionnaires, and consisted of eight sections: (a) demographic information and (b) seven previously validated and reliable instruments related to the variables identified in this study. All instruments were deemed appropriate for use in this study and were set to a six-point Likert scale. The data revealed that job responsibility, pay level, size of caseload, needing a job, and administrative support played a major role in the recruitment of speech language pathologists. On the other hand, job satisfaction, caseload, and job security were found to be the most influential in the retention of speech language pathologists. Furthermore, recruitment, retention, and job overload were found to have a significant positive relationship to turnover intent in speech pathologists, whereas career commitment, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction were found to have a significant negative relationship to turnover intent.