Few buildings in the world are as recognizable as Barcelona's Sagrada Família. Yet despite its global fame, the basilica is often admired more than it is understood.In The Architecture of the Sagrada Família, architect and researcher Riley Carter moves beyond the tourist experience to examine Antoni Gaudí's masterpiece as an extraordinary achievement of design, engineering, symbolism, and construction. Rather than focusing on travel tips or architectural trivia, this book ...

Lady Elspeth of Glencairn was promised to a Highland chieftain to secure peace - until a conquering king rode into her world and claimed her for himself.Dragged from the mud of her ancestral lands into the velvet grip of royal command, Elspeth finds her fate rewritten by King Alistair Tudor, a privateer-sovereign who rules by conquest and appetite. His decree shatters her wedding, her future, and every illusion of control she has ever known.Defiant, proud, and bound by duty...

Princess Ava was sold to the Golden Empire for peace, but peace is the last thing she finds in the bed of Pharaoh Amenhotep. A living god with a heart of stone and a will of iron, he demands more than just her presence at court - he demands the absolute surrender of her body to his royal purpose.Cinched into breathtakingly tight corsets that display her for his pleasure, Ava is stripped of her defenses night after night. Amenhotep doesn't just want an heir; he wants to plant his se...

For nearly six centuries, the great dome of Santa Maria del Fiore has dominated the skyline of Florence, standing as one of the most remarkable achievements in architectural history. Built without precedent and against seemingly insurmountable technical obstacles, Filippo Brunelleschi's dome transformed the art of building and helped usher in the Renaissance.In Brunelleschi's Dome and the Birth of Modern Architecture, architect and researcher Riley Carter explores the hist...

A forbidden love, buried secrets, and a past that won’t stay forgotten…She thought she knew him—until he vanished without a word. Two years later, fate reunites them, only to reveal a web of lies. He’s not who she thought, and neither is she. As dark truths unravel, they’re drawn into danger, deception, and a love that defies the odds.Can they escape the past, or will their secrets consume them forever?