Highgate Cemetery, 1969.The vampire Lyrica awakens from her slumber in the Thornhill tomb and returns to her family's long-abandoned mansion on top of the hill. But the world she re-enters is soon whispering of a vampire stalking the old Victorian cemetery, drawing journalists, occultists and hunters to its gates.To divert suspicion from the real vampire hiding in plain sight, Lyrica sets a plan in motion. Summoning the spirit of her murdered uncle, Lord Al...

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.Stoic Six Pack brings together the six essential texts of Stoic Philosophy:Meditations by Marcus AureliusThe Golden Sayings of EpictetusFragments of EpictetusSelected Discourses of Ep...

How should we live a good life in a world we cannot fully control? In Moral Letters to Lucilius, Seneca presents a collection of philosophical letters exploring the principles of Stoicism and practical wisdom. Written to his friend Lucilius, these reflections examine the challenges of everyday life and offer guidance on developing a calmer, wiser, and more disciplined mind. Seneca considers timeless questions about happiness, wealth, friendship, anger, adversity, death, time, ambition, sel...

Your 20's are construction years. What you build in this decade can free you for the rest of your life, or make the next decade harder than it has to be. From 18-30: Don't Waste the Decade is a direct, practical blueprint for the young Black man who refuses to drift into adulthood without a plan. Across 48 chapters, Lucius Alston walks through the decision that shape a man's future: work, skill, money, credit, housing, health, relationship, fatherhood, leadership, entrepreneurship, communi...

What will still be standing because you lived? Legacy is often discussed too late, after the funeral, when families are searching for documents, passwords, property records, business instruction, family stories, and answers that were never written down. Legacy in Progress: Lead Today Inspire Tomorrow, move that conversation into the present. In this capstone volume of Lucius Alston'f Black Resilience, Healing, Purpose & Legacy Series, readers learn how to build a legacy that is organized, ...

You are not only somebody's descendant. You are becoming somebody's ancestor. Every family transfers something. Some families pass down property. Others pass down debt. Some transfer silence, fear, broken relationship patterns, financial confusion, family secrets, and wounds nobody every learned how to name. Become the Ancestor is the third and final book in Lucius Alston's Relationship, marriage, legacy trilogy. After would you marry you? Challended the individual and love needs a system ...

Everybody has a list of what they want in a partner. But what happens when we turn the list around? Would you marry you? Challenges black men and black women to move beyond the gender war and ask a harder, more productive question: Am I becoming the kind of person who can recognize, receive, and sustain the relationship I say I want? Lucius Alston takes readers from attraction to preparation, from preparation to compatibility, and from compatibility to the daily work of building a healthy ...

She said one thing. You heard something completely different. Now both of you are frustrated, and neither person feels understood. For many black men, communication was never something we were formally taught. We were taught to work. Provide. Protect. Endure. Stay strong. Handle business. But who taught uis how to listen without immediately trying to fix the problem?Who taught us how to disagree without becoming defensive, shutting down, or turning a conversation into a battle? What she sa...

What happens when a black man decides that neither his circumstances, his past, nor the obstacles in front of him will have the final work? He rises. It' a unapologetically practical blueprint for black bous and men who want more than survival. This book addresses the entire black male journey, from boyhood to young adulthood, manhood, rebuilding years, and senior life, and asks one critical question: How does a black man successfully navigate a world that has not always been designed with...

Ava Carter was the girl everyone expected to succeed. Raised in a loveing home by two devoted parents, challenged by three protective older brothers, gifted in the classroom, and exceptional on the track, she entered college carrying scholarships, ambition, and the weight of everyones expectations. Then one pill offered her something achievement never had: silence. What begins as relief becomes dependence, and dependence becomes a decade long descent through lies, homelessness, exploitatio...

He entered the justice system at twelve years old. He kept getting out. He kept going back. More than four decades later, Lucius Alston finally understood that release and freedom were not the same thing. THE REVOLVING DOOR is part memoir, part history, part social investigation, and part intervention manual. Alston traces the long road surrounding the Black boy and Black man from slavery era family disruption and post emancipation criminalization to segregation, the war on drugs, the 100 ...

How do I grieve a father you never truly had? When Loubaby dies suddenly of a massive heart attack, his estranged son expects to feel almost nothing. Instead, the death tears open a lifetime of broken promises, missed visits, and unanswered questions. At the funeral, the son discovers that the man who abandoned him became a devoted father and grandfather to another family. Everyone remembers Loubaby as loyal, generous, funny, and present. His biological son remembers waiting at a window fo...