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England, 1813. Damon de Wolfe, the sixth marquess of Morninghall, is dark, diabolical, and very, very dangerous. Tortured by his past and driven by his desire for revenge, the former naval hero has fallen from grace after infuriating his superiors. When beautiful and independent social reformer Lady Gwyneth Evans Simms dares to clash with him over mistreated prisoners, she unwittingly throws herself into the most perilous fight of her life.

Dean and Jess knew the house had a tragic past but it did not stop them from making the move with their young daughters. It was supposed to be a new - and bigger - home with which they could continue to build upon their already established happy memories but as the house's past begins to haunt them they realize it is not the dream they first hoped it to be.

Yeats is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language writers of the 20th century. A hero of the pen rather than the sword. A Nobel Prize winner for Literature and a two-term senator of the Irish Free State, Yeats lived a full, active life that combined poetry and politics.

Seventeen year old Ceres, a beautiful, poor girl in the Empire city of Delos, lives the harsh and unforgiving life of a commoner. By day she delivers her father's forged weapons to the palace training grounds, and by night she secretly trains with them, yearning to be a warrior in a land where girls are forbidden to fight. With her pending sale to slavehood, she is desperate.

Milos saves the faerie king from the witch's curse. The upset witch turns him into a frog. Now he needs a kiss from the king's daughter. The problem is that the princess is on the witch's side....

The present work contemplates the encounters of Jesus with the principal feminine figures of the New Testament in accord with the method of prayer proposed by St. Ignatius of Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises and offers material for silent meditation. In this interior journey, the listener is accompanied in a particular way by the philosopher and Discalced Carmelite, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), and her insights, experiences, and reflections on the mystery of woman.

In this fast-paced, passionate tale of love, high stakes, and adventure set in the summer of 1805, Maeve Merrick, the notorious Pirate Queen of the Caribbean, cruises the seas in her beautiful schooner, Kestrel, with her band of women warriors. Burned by the treachery of men and nursing a painful betrayal from her past, Maeve wants for nothing...but when the sea delivers a handsome castaway to her remote island, the fierce and fiery she-wolf finds that her own heart has become a pirate’s plunder.

Don’t look. Don’t ask. Don’t get involved. This was once Inkwell Featherfield’s way of life. It was simple. Straightforward. Easy to remember. Too bad he botched it so spectacularly. And now, despite his best efforts to escape his troubles, things are even worse. The Wickwire Watch is showing him visions—though not about the missing parents he seeks. The powerful Lady Seherene is now an ally but demands a steep price for it. The Colonists have welcomed him into their family...which might be nice if they weren’t hunted fugitives in constant mortal danger.

As the cadets and squires graduate from the Windom military academy, the call to a Knight's Quest summons two of the students to embark on a journey to the city of oracles, Pythia. The world is changing, struggling to find hope in new leaders while ancient threats begin to stir and thrust the cadets' plans for the future in disarray. Loyalties are tested as cadets and squires traverse the far reaches of the Day, searching for meaning, to find their purpose in life, as they embark on truly an impossible quest....

In 1985, 20 Harvard seniors form a nefarious cabal known only as The Infinity Order. For the next 35 years, they work their way into the highest levels of the federal government, watching and waiting until one of their members rises to the office of the presidency. Once in control of the levers of power they plan to dramatically remake US monetary policy and usher in a free-spending economic utopia. Should they succeed, the consequences for the nation would be catastrophic and irreversible.

Conor McBride has accepted a bargain he may live to regret, if he gets to live at all. Lured by the chance to resume his career as a violinist, he’s agreed to extract a defecting Iranian from Prague. He’s been promised a simple, stitched-up mission, but as he might have expected, it unravels into chaos as soon as he arrives.

Jute can break into any house, climb any wall, and steal anything - and he just got hired for what he thinks is an easy burglary job. The only problem is, if he succeeds, the Thieves Guild is going to murder him. He just doesn't know that. Not yet. Being a thief always came easy for him, but it's a lot harder now, particularly when everyone wants him dead. Hiding out in the city of Hearne, Jute finds some strange allies in an old wizard and a talking hawk. Together, they uncover an ancient secret of terrifying power.

A talented Irish musician reluctantly reinvents himself, disappearing into an undercover identity to search for the man who ruined his career: his own brother. On a journey from the west of Ireland to the tumultuous city of Mumbai, Conor McBride's only goal is to redeem the brother who betrayed him. But he's becoming a virtuoso of a different kind in a dangerous game where the rules keep changing - and where the allies he trusted to help him may be the people he should fear the most.

Unholy gives the complete epic fantasy experience in novella form, following the story of a young boy who realizes his church's corrupt ways. Lord Jericho, the leader of the church of St. Damascus, trains students in the art of killing dragons and harnessing their magic. Isaac, a student of the church, is called to perform his final test of the year.

A pox of time and space is ravaging both ends of the world. It is unpredictable and unstoppable, devouring everything it touches. As the Windom Academy welcomes squires from the Day into its ranks, cultures and beliefs clash over the true nature of the pox and how to stop it. Jono and his team begin to fracture as they struggle to save a world from an enemy they don't understand.

Continue the thrilling adventure across a world of Dark & Day! Jono Wyer is training new powers at the Windom Academy as the world struggles to recover from disaster and build a new path toward peace! A secret terrorist organization known as the Tombs is plotting to unleash a long lost plague! Who knows who can be trusted when anyone could be a traitor in hiding? Jono and his friends will need to fight against the scars of old prejudice and fear if they are going to uncover the Tomb's plot before its too late!

Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with dramas set in motion by loneliness and displacement and revealing stories of passion and desire where less astute observers might fail to detect the humanity that roils beneath the surface. Sometimes these dramas are found in ordinary, mundane situations; sometimes they are triggered by a fateful encounter or a tragic decision. At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each other and cling to love when and where it can be found.

Lucien's best friend Sir Roger Foxcote has long since lost the spirit of Christmas following a tragic loss. Lucien's cousin Angela Seaford Holmes is widowed and destitute. Is Lucien's gift of a portrait that Fox adores a mere Christmas gift to Angela, or is the manipulative, matchmaking duke back to his old tricks? Once again, Lucien sets in motion events that are all but guaranteed to bring together this unlikely pair.

Lady Katharine Farnsley has been jilted yet again. Her cold exterior masking a world of hurt, she despairs of ever finding true love. But when a mysterious stranger comes to her, hurt and desperate on a snowy Christmas Eve, she never dreams that opening the door to him will change her life forever...and show her the true meaning of Christmas. A holiday novella set in the De Montforte world, written by the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The De Montfortes.

Even after nearly a decade since that fateful night, one that forever changed Katy's world, it still haunted her. Sure, her new life was full of new and exciting opportunities, not to mention a whole new family, but still. Knowing the ones who were responsible still roamed freely left her living in fear of their return. That was, until they did.