Paths and symbols, mazes and riddles bring you to a bridge at the center, reconciling the heavens and the earth, the spirit and the elements.Gemini World is a contemplative collection of poetry and a novella, laid out for the lovers, the dreamers, the philosophers, and the mystics.A. C. Wilde writes a profound yet whimsical exploration ofparadox, duality, and truth;nature and humanity;love and loss;life and death;beauty and b...

Teaching your students to think like scientists starts here!If you’ve ever struggled to help students make scientific arguments from evidence, this practical, easy-to-use activity book is for you! Give your students the critical scientific practice today′s science standards require. You’ll discover strategies and activities to effectively engage students in arguments about competing data sets, opposing scientific ideas, applying evidence to support specifi...

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on individual settings such as hospitals and cemeteries, or being confined to specific disciplines.This interdisciplinary collection combines chapters on process, place and the past to examine the relationships both within and between institutions,...

Dive into Oscar Wilde's haunting masterpiece, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a philosophical novel that explores the corruption of a soul consumed by vanity and hedonistic pleasure. This gripping narrative of a young, enchantingly handsome Dorian Gray, who wishes for his portrait to age while he remains youthful, reveals the dark consequences of such desire.As Dorian embarks on a life influenced by the cynical Lord Henry Wotton, he plunges into a world of immorality, retainin...

Shattered solitude and shocking small-town secrets...When Gothenburg detective Dennis Wilhelmson decides to seek solace on his childhood island, Smögen, peace is short-lived when a young man is found dead in the harbour basin.With the help of trainee officer Sandra Haraldsson, Dennis now has to dive into the biggest murder investigation the area has ever seen - all the while, a missing person case shakes up the town...Can the duo solve the case in time? And can Sand...

Frigid waters, frozen clues and one fatal crime.When the research vessel "Idun" arrives in Smögen's harbour one early winter morning, the head of research, Kaj Malmberg, is found dead in his cabin.Drawn into this murder investigation that puts their cooperation and important relationships across national borders at risk, Dennis Wilhelmson and Sandra Haraldsson race to solve a crime that threatens to shake the research elite.But is the killer in Smögen, or is he stil...

"Seductive" is a prequel to my “Secrets of a High Class Call Girl” series, starting before “Surrender”.It is a 7000 word stand-alone story and follows Kayla Valentine’s transformation from a normal, ambitious young woman to a £1000 a night, super-hot escort.Kayla starts on the streets but after trusting the wrong person and finding herself in a terrifying situation she realises things desperately need to change. A sudden twist of f...

Juliet Templeton didn't embark on a risky London season in search of a fairy-tale. Fluttering hearts, yearning glances and stolen kisses are for starry-eyed debutantes, not disgraced, penniless females approaching spinsterhood. But when her quest to find a dull, respectable husband leads her to grumpy, maddening, brilliant Lord Cross, her foolish heart overrules her head, and insists on beating for him alone.Flirtatious, witty Juliet Templeton is the last lady Miles Winthrop should...

The Somerset sisters, three beautiful, headstrong debutantes in Regency London, are discovering that a bit of scandal is a delightful thing . . .For the sake of propriety, and her younger sisters' reputations, Iris Somerset has kept her rebellious streak locked away. But though she receives a proposal from Phineas Knight, Lord of Huntington, Iris can't marry a man she knows isn't truly enamored with her. In fact, Iris no longer wants to be chosen—she wants to choose. Under the clan...

A lady hidden in the shadows . . .It's never been easy to be one of the five Templeton sisters, but for quiet Emmeline, the silver lining surrounding the dark cloud of her family's disgrace is a quiet life of comfortable obscurity. But when her sister accepts an outrageous wager that takes her to London for a season, an unexpected kiss with a handsome earl thrusts shy Emmeline into the middle of a shocking public scandal.A dazzling earl with the

Finding a worthy husband should be simple for three beautiful debutantes in Regency London. But the Somerset sisters have a way of making it delightfully complicated . . .Violet Somerset has always preferred a library to a ballroom, but to please her grandmother she agreed to one London season. With nothing to show for it but heartbreak, she’s reconciled to spinsterhood. Until a notorious rogue known as the Devil of Dare requests an introduction to her timid, gentl...

A beautiful debutante in Regency London seems destined to make a good match. But the Somerset sisters have made courtship and matrimony a deliciously scandalous affair . . .Hyacinth Somerset's debut is the most anticipated event of the season, as it will be the reclusive young lady's first public appearance. But within moments of being asked to dance by a dashing stranger, Hyacinth calls him a murderer, then faints dead away! Now all the ton is a aflutter ...