Greco-Roman religions and superstitions, and early Christianity's engagement with them, are explored in 12 unique studies. The beliefs and fears with regard to demons (or daimons), their origins, and threatening behavior are examined, both in their pagan and Judaeo-Christian contexts. These new studies look at the Greco-Roman heroic gods, how they faced death, and how James and John, the “sons of Thunder,” may well have been viewed in some circles as the equivalent of the “sons of Zeus”, C...

How do you mend a broken heart? . . . Put it back into the sorceress it came out of.There's only one way to lift Mallory's death curse and Alec will do anything to save his friend.

If you love someone, set them free . . . If they come back, they could be a zombieSomeone is trying to kill Charles Hawthorne, one of the richest men in Maine. And they're using magic to do it.He suspects the members of his own family and hires me to check them out. I soon discover that Charles Hawthorne has a dark secret lurking in his past; a secret that may have come back to haunt him.With an ancient wizard bugging me to chase down the Midnight C...

Be careful what you wish for . . . it might be inhabited by a demonWhen a case takes me to the wilderness of Northern Maine, I'm not even sure there's a paranormal angle. Two girls walked into the woods one night and only one of them came back. She's so traumatized by what she saw that she hasn't spoken a word since.The police come up empty-handed so the girl's father hires me to find out what happened. Getting out of Dearmont for a while seems like a good ...

The night is dark . . . and full of preternatural killersIf Jason, Michael, and Freddy were merged into one being and given supernatural powers, the result would be something like Mister Scary. He's been carrying out his murders from the Shadow Land for way too long now. It's time to put him down.

There is a question sometimes put to scholars, a doubt often latent in scholars’ minds—How was it that Greek civilisation, with all its high ideals and achievements, fell so easily before what seems at first sight an altogether inferior culture? The difficulty is not solved by a reference to military resources or administrative skill, for moral strength is the only thing that matters in history, and a nation has never yet succeeded merely by pure intellect or by brute force. The fact is—an...

A bloodied and bruised girl runs out of the woods and into the path of oncoming traffic. The police are shocked to discover that she's a missing schoolgirl they've been trying to find for the past three weeks. Traumatized by her ordeal, she's unable to tell them what happened to her.A woman's body is found crucified in a barn on the Yorkshire Moors. Evidence found at the crime scene links her to the schoolgirl.Hot on the heels of a commendation for her work on a serial kill...

A city on its knees. A killer choosing random victims. A detective pushed to breaking point.When a killer contacts the media claiming responsibility for a series of seemingly unconnected murders with a promise to kill another victim every three days until he is caught, the Murder Force is tasked with catching him before more lives are lost.

There's a killer in her house but no one believes her.Kate moves into the top floor of a rambling house on the coast hoping to start a new life. After a rough year, this move to the seaside town of Whitby is a fresh start, a chance to forget the past.But Kate begins to feel that she's being watched all the time, even within the walls of her new home. She hears footsteps in the attic and sees a car driving over the moors in the dead of night.DI Danic...

An unsolved case from DCI Battle's past returns to haunt him when it seems that a killer from over a decade ago has struck again.Daisy Riddle went missing fifteen years ago and Battle failed to keep his promise to bring her home. Now, her dead body has been discovered.What happened to her, and where has she been all this time?Battle must overcome his guilt in order to catch Daisy's killer, a task that becomes desperate when another girl is taken.

Perversion of Love aims to explore the reasons why we as Christians may struggle to love ourselves and others through the lens of what Dr. Gary Chapman defined, and what has been accepted by popular culture, as the five love languages. Christians have been given a Great Commission which is to spread the Gospel and make disciples. The method by which we fulfill this commission is the greatest commandments-to love God and love our neighbors as ourselves. God created us to love, but we have a...

This inescapably controversial study envisions, defines, and theorizes an area that Laura Wright calls vegan studies. We have an abundance of texts on vegans and veganism including works of advocacy, literary and popular fiction, film and television, and cookbooks, yet until now, there has been no study that examines the social and cultural discourses shaping our perceptions of veganism as an identity category and social practice.Ranging widely across contemporary American society ...