When a foreign nation conquers her land, Zena, an apprentice snake charmer and mind master, becomes a slave in the Emperor's harem. A sadist runs the harem and the Emperor is a temperamental drug addict.Determined to escape, she resists those who urge her to start a slave revolt. Heroes have short lives and violent deaths. Soon, though, she learns the power of friendship and love and can no longer turn her back on the suffering of others. As life in the harem becomes increasingly p...

Renew Your Life the Natural Way has won as a finalist in The Indie Spiritual Book Awards of 2015 in the category of Alternative Healing."I spend most of my time worrying about survival.""It's hard for me to say what I feel.""I've tried many ways to improve my life, but none have worked.""I worry a lot about the people I love.""I don't know how to ask for what I need.""I don't remember my dreams.""I see no order in the chaotic lives we ...

Stimulated by the signal contributions that New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays has made to Christology and Christian ethics, the essays collected here carry forward conversations involving close studies of particular passages in the Gospels and Epistles and wider-ranging forays into big questions in those fields. Some essays build on Hays’s work, pushing forward in new directions on questions of scriptural intertextuality, Christology, and participation in Christ. Others challenge his w...

Phileas, Guardian of Oasis, has lost his heart to young and psychically gifted Serazina. He's sure she'll never fall in love with an ultra-logical, humorless bore who's almost as old as her father.A sudden international crisis distracts him from his misery. The desert land of Etrenzia, facing rebellion from tribal minorities, claims that Oasis is encouraging the insurgents.Elissia, Serazina's sister, who's been working in Etrenzia, brings home her lover, a rebel leader, for...

Originally published as Big Dragons Don't CryIf He Doesn't Fly, His World Will DieAfter naming Druid the Dragon of Destiny, his parents abandoned him in a swamp, and he bitterly vowed to never fly again.Now his destiny is looking a lot like death. Malvern Frost, a cunning and malicious opportunist, wants to destroy the swamp and turn it into real estate. Only the dragon's presence prevents him from realizing his dream of wealth and power.Exploiting a centuri...

Are you looking for a drugless solution for your pet's behavioral issues? The Bach Flower Remedies, developed in the early 1900s by Edward Bach, M.D., have helped countless humans and animals. This book helps you to understand what your cat or dog's behavior means and recommends Bach Flower Remedies for many conditions.The book gives special attention to abandonment and abuse.Topics include:How the Bach Flower Remedies Can Help Animals and Humans: An explanation of h...

An introduction to the Bach Flower Remedies and vibrational healingComplete descriptions of all Bach Flower Remedies. Each chapter on a Remedy includes an opening fictional illustration of a Bach personality in action, a full description of the Remedy, and supplemental measures for working with the issues related to the Remedy.The Remedies are organized into sections such as Fear, Depression, Domination. Each section concludes with a two- or three-part assignment that conta...

After strained negotiations that include an earthquake or two, the heroes and heroines of Oasis prepare to welcome fairies, dwarves, and other elementals to their land. Though the elementals promise to improve crops, irrigation, and general wellbeing, the Oasans worry about the problems of introducing alien beings to humans who are unfamiliar with their existence.A rebel faction of fairies and dwarves want more than integration. They call for the annihilation of the human race. The...

Legends say that the emergence of the Rainbow Dragon will initiate a new age-but they fail to mention what this means.The birth of Jade, a dragon with all the right bloodlines, has caused rising anxiety about this imminent and mystifying era. In an effort to stem hysteria, an ancient dragon names the coming era the Great Transformation, but this title does little to console those who already feel the tides of chaos disrupting their lives.Conditions reach an explosive level ...

Malvern Frost, the crafty villain who tried to overthrow the land of Oasis in Big Dragons Don't Cry, has escaped from prison and fled to Dolocairn, a mountainous land where drug lords control the economy and threaten the rule of the priestess cult. They've allied with Frost to use amnesiac and possibly fatal drugs to engineer Frost's escape and incite a race riot.Phileas, Guardian of Oasis, aware that these thugs will continue to try to undermine the fabric of his country, consider...

When a series of earthquakes in Tamaras rocks both the ground and an increasingly divided and troubled society, the people blame the earth dragons. Both the government and its opposition, the Austeres, ask Serazina, Heroine of Oasis to intervene. Although she learns that other dragons consider the earth variety to be rude, secretive, and possibly treacherous, her desire to keep the Tamaran chaos from affecting Oasis takes her into danger.In Tamaras, she, Druid, the Dragon of Destin...

Sometimes when you slow down, the past catches up with you.Finn thought she'd rebuilt her life after being raped when she was twenty, getting pregnant, and giving the baby up for adoption. Thirty-five years later, when her lover decides to have a baby, Finn tells both herself and Dolores that she won't agree to a decision she had no part in making. Dolores accuses her of being afraid to face the past and leaves her.When Finn sinks into an unshakable depress...