"I think I'm in love. Loathe. I'm in loathe with her."PANDORA'S SERPENT is the debut novel of Augustine Kent's dark romantasy series, The Kurosh Cycle.Janessa's nearly picture-perfect life turned upside down the day she crossed a chaos demon's path. When Janessa stepped unfraid into Varku's mayhem, he couldn't look away. It infuriated him, the way she put things back in order. But he also found himself intrigued, much to his di...

I was the Lycan King's rejected mate. His secretary. His biggest mistake. For two years, I watched King Ronan Vale parade beautiful women through his office while pretending I didn't love him.Then one forbidden night changed everything. Weeks later, I discovered I was pregnant. When I told him, he didn't smile. He looked at me coldly. "Get rid of it."His mother had already convinced him I trapped him for the throne. Then she tried to poison me. I survived. My baby survived....

NO ONE HIDES WHAT BELONGS TO ME.The beautiful attorney thought she could disappear after one reckless Valentine's night.She was wrong.Because she left that night carrying my child.For months, she kept my baby—and the truth—from me. No call. No message. No chance for me to find her.Until I found her.Now she's about to learn exactly what happens when you betray the most feared Bratva boss in the city.I should punish her...

I live in an abandoned cabin. My closest companion is a broken radio. And I've just been taken in by four possessive alphas.For three years, I've survived alone in the wilderness.No pack. No friends. No rules.Just me, my knife, and an old radio I named Romeo—because apparently talking to myself wasn't pathetic enough.Then four imposing alphas find me. They identify me as an omega.I call them idiots. Before I can disappear into the woods, they take me...

Her plan was simple:Help the Alpha King choose his Queen.Earn her freedom.Escape the pack that has treated her like a slave.Then the King chooses her.SeraphinaFor ten years, Seraphina has survived by staying invisible.An unwanted omega with no rank, she's ordered to help the Alpha's daughter win the King's heart. If she succeeds, she'll finally be free. If she fails, she'll be forced to marry the crue...

SOFIAI came to the altar to marry the heir.I left it wearing his father's ring.One moment, I was promised to the prince of the Italian underworld. The next, I belonged to Luciano Valenti—Il Re. The king no one dares betray. Older. Ruthless. Untouchable. And the last man I should ever trust. They say he married me to protect my family. He says it was the only way to keep me alive. I say he stole my future. But the deeper I fall into his empire, the m...

King Alfred's Old English rendering of St. Augustine's Soliloquies appears here in modern English, framed by Hargrove's scholarly preface and Alfred's own reflective introduction. From the opening, the work joins practical labor to spiritual aspiration: timber, cottages, and eternal homes become emblems of earthly effort directed toward divine rest and glory. At its heart is a searching dialogue in which Augustine, through Reason, wrestles with the soul, the existence of God, and the diffe...

THEY BURIED MY BLOODLINE. THEY SEALED MY POWER. THEY SHOULD HAVE FINISHED THE JOB.They failed. My magic is fully awake. The supernatural kingdoms know who I am.And the four men bound to my soul have chosen me—even if choosing me means turning against the world they were born to protect.My shadow mage. My vampire prince. My wolf shifter. My fae heir.They are my mates. My family. My greatest weakness. And my greatest strength.But the p...

MY MAGIC IS AWAKE. MY FOUR MATES ARE BONDED TO ME. AND NOW EVERYONE KNOWS I EXIST.I thought discovering my four mates was the most dangerous thing that could happen to me.I was wrong.The seal hiding my magic is breaking.Every day, I'm becoming stronger—and more afraid of what I'll find when the last piece of my power returns.My shadow mage is fighting a war against his own feelings.My vampire prince is becoming dangerously po...

FOUR MATES. ONE HIDDEN IDENTITY. AND A POWER I WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO HAVE.I was nobody.A powerless witch with no family, no magical pedigree, and no place among the supernatural elite.Then I arrived at Nightfall Academy.And four of its most powerful students—and one very forbidden man—claimed I was their mate.The arrogant shadow mage who can't stand me.The seductive vampire prince who seems to know exactly what I am.T...

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is one of the most influential works of Christian literature, philosophy, and spiritual autobiography. Written as a direct address to God, the book follows Augustine's journey from childhood and youthful ambition through intellectual searching, moral struggle, conversion, and the discovery of faith. More than a personal memoir, the work explores memory, desire, sin, grace, truth, time, free will, and the restless search for meaning. Augustine examines his...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...