Professional mourner Inez Pike has grieved beside more coffins than she can remember. But she has never been asked to mourn a dead man alone—or spend the night inside the house where his body waits.For one hundred dollars, Inez agrees to sit vigil over Judge Thaddeus Wren until morning. The instructions are simple: keep the lamps burning, cover every mirror, and never leave the dead man unattended.But the Mourning House has rules of its own.Behind its locked doors, ...

Professional mourner Inez Pike has spent six years grieving for strangers. When the wealthy Wren family offers her one hundred dollars to lament the death of Judge Thaddeus Wren, the money could finally purchase a proper grave marker for the husband and daughter she lost.But the assignment comes with unsettling rules.Inez must remain alone with the judge's body from sundown until sunrise. She must keep her veil lowered, leave every mirror covered, and never open the parlor ...

A blank canvas of skin. A burning tattoo that won't stop growing. And a ballerina who vanished into thin air.Valentina has no past. Waking up with total amnesia, her world is confined to a drafty, eccentric apartment above a historic theater and her grueling job as a low-level production assistant. She wants nothing more than to blend into the shadows, but the universe has a much more macabre script in mind. When the theater’s star ballerina vanishes without a trac...

The beginnings of a haunting that would last for hundreds of years...Rayland March came to Mobile to film a documentary about the mysterious Beaumont family. She could not have predicted the heartache and terror she would experience when she learns the truth about the long-dead socialites--and her connection to them. Can dreamcatcher and ghost hunter Carrie Jo and Ashland Stuart help her? Or will she face the dead alone?In 1793, the Beaumonts, a wealthy yet...

Devastated and exhausted, Eden Lucas is the sole survivor of an unfathomable global catastrophe As she grapples with the question of whether to go on alone, a train arrives.It's not a normal train, that's the first thing she notices. For one thing, it's floating three feet off the ground in a supermarket parking lot. For another, there doesn't seem to be any place for the driver to go. Yet it seems to hint at possibilities. Maybe she's not the only one who was spar...

From Sia to Elton John, from Billie Holiday to David Bowie, LGBT musicians have changed the course of modern music. But before their music—and the messages behind it—gained understanding and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who would follow them? David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community.Darryl W. Bullock reveals the stories of both famous...

Glam rock. Southern Gothic shadows. One unforgettable voice.Step into the 1970s world of Roxie Rose, a rising rock star whose voice carries more than music—it carries a curse.From haunted stages to backstage secrets, Roxie's journey is a wild blend of neon lights, dangerous love, and supernatural forces determined to claim her.This collection brings all of Roxie's electrifying, eerie adventures together in one volume.If you lo...

Politics can be distasteful to many people, for good reason. Yet the right to vote and choose who will lead us is a great privilege, as well as a responsibility. The list of important issues is long, and it can be a daunting task to get educated enough to form a well thought out opinion on each. If you are like most Americans, you lead a very busy life and simply don't have the time to research. As Christians, we want our views to be in sync with the Lord's. In this short work, I examine t...

"As I sat cradling the man's head, with his blood and brains sticking to my hands, I heard a voice - my own voice. It was asking me something. Asking how I had ended up like this, desperate and lost among people who thought nothing of caving in a man's head and then standing back to watch him die." Nick Bullock was a prison officer working in a maximum-security jail with some of Britain's most notorious criminals. Trapped in a world of aggression and fear, he felt frustrated and alone. The...

Shepherd's Notes- Christian Classics Series is designed to give readers a quick, step by step overview of some of the enduring treasures of the Christian faith. They are designed to be used along side the classic itself- either in individual study or in a study group. The faithful of all generations have found spiritual nourishment in the Scriptures and in the works of Christians of earlier generations. Martin Luther and John Calvin would not have become who they were apart from their read...

Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven), continue to top the bestseller lists. And yet, no one has set out to do a cookbook with recipes on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)--until now. In Sugar Baby, Gesine Bullock-Prado offers totally unintimidating step-by-step advice; the simplest instructions; recipes for candy, confections, and treats that integrate stovetop work into finished desserts; and a hilarious voice. Organized by temperature and chemical stages, here ar...

"Pivot" is a proven process for trainers to convert participants into followers.