Margerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit Baron Saveze’s fortunes—even less his bodyguard, a ruthlessly efficient swordswoman known only as Barbara. Wealth suddenly makes Margerit a highly eligible heiress and buys her the enmity of the new Baron. He had expected to inherit all, and now eyes her fortune with open envy.Barbara proudly served as the old Baron’s duelist but she had expected his death to make her a free woman. Bitterness turns to determination when she finds herself t...

The streets are a perilous place for a young laundry maid dismissed without a character for indecent acts. Roz knew the end of the path for a country girl alone in the city of Rotenek. A desperate escape in the night brings her to the doorstep of Dominique the dressmaker and the hope of a second chance beyond what she could have imagined. Roz’s apprenticeship with the needle, under the patronage of the royal thaumaturgist, wasn’t supposed to include learning magic, but Celeste, the dressma...

At last! Return to the enchanted realm of Alpennia for the eagerly awaited sequel to Daughter of Mystery and The Mystic Marriage.All her life, Serafina Talarico has searched in vain for a place where she and her mystical talents belong. She never found it in Rome—the city of her birth—where her family’s Ethiopian origins marked them as immigrants. After traveling halfway across Europe to study with Alpennia’s Royal Thaumaturgist, her hopes of finding a home among Margerit Sovitre’s...

Antuniet Chazillen lost everything the night her brother was executed. In exile, she swore that treason would not be the final chapter of the Chazillen legacy in Alpennia’s history. A long- hidden book of alchemical secrets provides the first hope of success, but her return to the capital is haunted by an enemy who wants those secrets for himself.Jeanne, Vicomtesse de Cherdillac is bored. The Rotenek season is flat, her latest lover has grown tediously jealous and her usual crowd o...

The Best Related Work Hugo Award category has seen significant variation in interpretation. It has gone through three major administrative definitions: Best Non-Fiction Book, Best Related Book, and Best Related Work. Within each of these eras, the nominating body has explored and expanded the parameters of those definitions. As a result, the category has both reflected and shaped changing understandings of what it means to be "related" to the field of speculative fiction and to be a "work....

Coping with anxiety via anxiety management can be effectively achieved if you understand what severe anxiety means and how it progresses. Anxiety disorders are labeled in various categories such as General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), social phobias and panic attacks. Regardless of how anxiety is defined, short-term relief of anxiety symptoms, with the aid of proper anxiety management strategies, is entirely possible. More often than not, people tend to conf...

Depression Self Help: 7 Quick Techniques to Stop Depression Today is a book that provides information to any person suffering from depression. Written by Heather Rose, the book contains support and help needed by a person to take control over their lives. From time to time, people will feel down due to one thing or the other. While these moments may go away after sometime, there are instances where it will take longer than usual. In such a case, the person may be suffering from depression....

A Beauty. A Beast. A Curse. This is not the story you know.Join author Heather Rose Jones on a new and magical journey into the heart of a familiar fairytale. Meet Alys, eldest daughter of a merchant, a merchant who foolishly plucks a rose from a briar as he flees from the home of a terrifying fay Beast and his seemingly icy sister. Now Alys must pay the price to save his life and allow the Beast, the once handsome Philippe, to pay court to her.But Alys has never fallen in ...

Do you need depression help? Are you or someone you know depressed but do not want the hassle of visiting a doctor or you do not want other people to know that you are depressed? Are you wondering of where to find help for depression? Do not get distressed. Now there is help for you. This ebook will be all you will ever need to deal with depression, its symptoms and causes. Not only will it help you cure the condition but it will also help you live a happier, more confident life. This eboo...

Laaki and Ashóli are skin-singers—byal-dónen—who can craft cloaks of fur and feathers to let their people wear the shapes of beasts. These are the stories of how they traveled through an often-hostile world and came at last to find a home where their people could gather, then thrive in safety. The tales of these people—the Kaltaoven—first appeared in the Sword and Sorceress anthology series. Now for the first time they are collected together, finished off with a brand new...

If you are suffering from depression and would like to avoid the undesirable side effects of antidepressants, it would be wise if you considered natural methods for depression cure. Even though these natural treatments have been proven to be very effective, it is important for you to seek medical advice before you try them. The cause of your depression must be determined first, in order for the best treatment to be recommended. Unless you are diagnosed with chronic depression or in dire ne...

You may not know this but Bipolar Type 2 is one of the most common mental disorders, which people suffer from these days. Due to symptoms being less severe, many refer to it as “soft bipolar”. Yet, even though the symptoms associated with type 2 are less intense, it can still have a detrimental effect on the quality of life for the sufferer. In fact, they often find it extremely troubling as they have the classic symptoms of bipolar type 1. They can be subject to serious and recurring bout...