Dark Sacred

In this thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.​ Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat—known in LAPD...

Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Renée Ballard to solve the murder of a young girl in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the late show" -- and returns to Hollywood...

Sacred Sex Ed is the sex education you never had, but that we all desperately need; a sex education that is empowering, honest, and pleasure-based. It is the pathway to a future in which we feel empowered by our desires, rather than a slave to them; in which we feel celebratory of our nakedness and vulnerability. Sacred Sex Ed is creating a world where we can openly and emphatically talk about the energy and acts that brought us into it. This book is an ally in reclaiming the most powerful energy in your body by inviting you to: Illuminate your shadows. Acknowledge the patterns, authorities...

Forced into an institution after experiencing unsettling visions, a young woman meets a mafia hitman whose dark obsession with her threatens both their hearts—and their lives—in this sizzling forbidden romance from the author of Unholy Vows. Don't miss the final installment in the Original...

Are you exhausted by the relentless pursuit of more—more positivity, more achievement, more spiritual experiences—only to feel emptier than before? What if the path to true peace, purpose, and connection is not about adding, but about courageously subtracting everything that is not real? In Via Negativa: The Path of Holy Subtraction, you are invited on a transformative journey into the heart of an ancient spiritual secret: that God—or the ultimate ground of reality—is found not in concepts, but in the luminous darkness beyond all thought. This is the way of the great Christian ...

Across ancient battlefields, shadowed forests, burning deserts, and realms beneath the earth, powerful goddesses rise against forces determined to consume, imprison, poison, or dominate the living world. Durga confronts the buffalo demon, Kali enters a terror that multiplies with every wound, Isis battles death in the marshes, Athena stands against chaos, Hecate carries fire into endless night, and Chandika faces the final demon king beneath an open sky. Demon-Slayer Goddesses: Guardians Against the Dark gathers twelve mythic encounters of divine courage, sacred protection, transformation, ...

From USA Today & WSJ Bestselling Author Bink Cummings comes Dark & Deceitful—a dark, found-family biker romance with mature characters, fierce loyalty, and secrets that could tear them apart. Eight years ago, my husband came home with a surprise that shattered our lives. I hate him for what he's done to me and the damage he’s caused our family. Moving on seems impossible—Dark still won't let me go, and my ties to the club run deep. Some days, I feel like I’m barely holding on. Without my father-in-law, the only constant in my life, I would have lost my sanity years ago.

LUSH FLAME, SACRED BONE A novel by Dark Goddess When a woman stops begging to be chosen and starts listening to her ancestors, the entire universe shifts. Isalía—a 37-year-old woman with Caribbean and Latina roots—is done performing softness for men who confuse restraint with devotion. She’s no longer waiting to be worshipped. Guided by ancestral whispers, Goetic spirits, and the sacred rage of her bloodline, she learns how to rise—not with vengeance, but with vision. This isn’t a romance. It’s a reclamation. This poetic, spell-laced novel weaves feminine power, ancestral ...

Connect with your intuition, access higher wisdom, and embrace your inner Goddess so you can live a life filled with healing and purpose Do you long to reconnect with your true self and embrace your inner power? In that case, The Divine Feminine Awakening is your guide to reclaiming your inner goddess. Imagine stepping into a life filled with confidence, self-love, and spiritual connection. See yourself navigating life's challenges with grace and ease, empowered by your feminine energy. Bestselling author Layla Moon will help you transform your own life through self-discovery and ...

In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first two novels, immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from suburban New Jersey to rural Vermont and ultimately to the tip of Cape Cod. Kit...

At the end of a long, dark night Detectives Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch cross paths for the very first time. Detective Renée Ballard is working the graveyard shift again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help, and she relents.

Sometimes the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and in the case of Caesar Di Rozé and his son, Zephyr, it couldn't be more true. I didn't intend for my one-night stand with Zeph to lead me back to his father's place, but the moment it did, it was over for me. Caesar Di Rozé is a silver fox...

Marcada desde su nacimiento con unos extraños ojos violetas y un enigmático legado familiar, Ares Parisi ha vivido siempre como una chica normal, hasta que descubre que su historia está envuelta por más secretos y misterios de los que nunca pudo imaginar. Será entonces cuando decida pedir ayuda al atractivo Adonis, que la llevará de la mano en una investigación hacia un mundo oscuro y sensual donde las leyendas conviven con la realidad.

I went to confession to cleanse my soul. I left with his eyes burning into my back. Father Lucas Goodman has heard every sin this town has to offer. None of them made him look twice. Then I stepped into his confessional and whispered the one thing I should have kept buried - that I want a man I can never have. A man of God. I didn't say his name. I didn't have to. Now he's everywhere. At the grocery store. Outside my apartment. Watching me through the window when he thinks I'm asleep. He knows about the engagement I don't want. The life being planned for me without my consent. I should run....

Some sacred images comfort us. Others unsettle us first. For centuries, pilgrims have climbed mountains, entered candlelit chapels, crossed borders, and knelt before one of Christianity’s most mysterious figures: the Black Madonna. Her dark face has been called beautiful, troubling, ancient, maternal, wounded, and holy. She appears in famous shrines, whispered legends, works of sacred art, and stories of healing, survival, and return. But who is she? Why is Mary shown with a dark face? And why does this image continue to fascinate Christians, seekers, artists, historians, and the ...

The world is choking on its last breath. The Oracle never lies. Xanthe was raised on stories of the Lord-beast at the heart of the Labyrinth. She was taught that her life was a small price to pay for world order. When the fields shrivel to ash and the sacred river dies, she has no choice but to descend into the cold, shifting stone of the world's oldest promise. She expected to be a sacrifice. She expected the end. Instead, she finds a king forged from violence and geology. Theron is twice the height of any man, a mountain of obsidian hide and scorched bone horns. He does not want her blood...

What If Everything You Thought You Knew About the Maya Was Wrong? They did not vanish. They did not mysteriously disappear. And the jungle did not swallow them because the gods were angry. The real story is far more gripping and far more urgent. You have heard the legend: a brilliant civilization of astronomers and pyramid-builders, lost to the rainforest under mysterious circumstances. But what if that legend is a comfortable simplification of a much darker and more fascinating truth? What if the Maya collapse was not a sudden apocalypse, but a slow unraveling driven by forces that sound ...

A 2023 Romantasy Goodreads Choice Award Nominee! The breakout TikTok fantasy romance, now with special bonus material! Captured by the king of darkness, she was forced to find the light within. Arwen Valondale never expected to be the brave one, offering her life to save her brother’s. Now...

Yoga and the Dark Night of the Soul is about the soul’s journey from fear, lamentation, and confusion to sacred love. Based on the timeless teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, this contemporary guide to yoga’s ancient wisdom shows us how to overcome life’s greatest challenges, how to follow our life purpose, how to engage our heart in our yoga practice, and how to write our life story with love and compassion.

THE NEW BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER FROM MILLION COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER MICHAEL CONNELLY 'The second book in the new series from America's greatest living crime writer is another absolutely unputdownable police procedural' DAILY MIRROR 'If you're not yet a Connelly reader, this is as good an...