title: The Man Code: A Woman's Guide to Cracking the Tough Guy
author: David Good
description: Stubborn. Emotionally reserved. Frustratingly loyal to his friends. Does this sound like the tough guy in your life? Do you feel like he's the sort of man you could love forever, if only you could understand him? David Good, winner of "Bachelor Pad" and fan favorite on "The Bachelorette," lifts the hood on the standard to which men hold themselves, empowering women by helping them decipher the unspoken rules that govern masculinity. Ultimately, Good offers that a Man Code man is just what a woman should want, despite his arriving in a complicated package. After all, what women ultimately desire is loyalty, a trait that is the foundation of the Man Code. Not a psychologist or sociologist, Good professes to only be an expert at one thing: tough guys. Men's men. Growing up in America's heartland, Good writes that he was surrounded by "hardened men who'd taken the dirt road in life. Men the ones Hank Williams would cast at the center of his songs." This, along with the experience of competing with 30 other men for the affection of a single lady makes him uniquely able to explain the alpha male to the fairer sex. In other words, Good has a doctorate in Man Code. Though he acknowledges that as a definitive alpha male he may seem an unlikely messenger, his goal with "The Man Code" is to lift women up, and to help them understand they are at their most attractive when they are strong, intelligent and self-possessed. He was raised, he writes, by strong women, and hopes to see that strength manifest in readers of his book. Readers will discover that Good has a unique point of view, and might be surprised at his nimbleness as writer. "The Man Code" is definitely not frat-house fodder, nor is it 10-steps-to-pleasing your man. Instead, Good's simple goal is to help women who find themselves attractive to men with strong core values, but who are reluctant to let their guards down.
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  A man too dangerous to live. A woman whose survival depends on forgiving him. 
   
   
  The Phoenix Institute, Book 2 
   
  Philip Drake is immortal by virtue of a psychic power that heals all but the worst injuries. He’s
  needed every bit of it as a black ops agent, a life so violent that the line between pain and pleasure is
  tangled up in his head. 
  When he walks away from the CIA, the last thing he expects is to discover someone stole his DNA to
  create a race of super-healers. And that the expectant mother is a woman from his past who’d
  consider it her pleasure to spit on his grave. 
  One moment, Delilah Sefton is listening to a seriously hot, seriously deranged man giving her some
  half-baked explanation as to why she’s pregnant with no memory of how she got that way. The next,
  armed men swarm into her bar, and she and Mr. Sexy-Crazy are on the run. 
  Safety at the Phoenix Institute is only temporary, but it’s long enough to put the pieces together. A
  madman plans to steal her son in a p