Zhao Yunlan heads up a covert division of the Ministry of Public Security that deals with the strange and unusual, blurring the line between the mortal realm and the Netherworld. His cocky, casual attitude conceals both a sharp mind and an arsenal of mystical tools and arcane knowledge. While investigating a gruesome death at a local university, Zhao Yunlan crosses paths with the reserved Professor Shen Wei. Zhao Yunlan is immediately intrigued by Shen Wei’s good looks and intense gaze, an...

A young man's body is found outside a glitzy high-rise on the West Side of Yancheng--dressed for celebration, strangled, and left with a sheet of paper covering his face. One word is scrawled across it: money.To Sergeant Luo Wenzhou, head of the Criminal Investigation Team at the Yancheng Municipal Public Safety Bureau, it's just another case in a city rife with power plays and buried secrets. But as he digs deeper with his team, what begins as a straightforward homicide unravels into some...

When several students from a prestigious private school flee campus overnight, the Yancheng Municipal Public Security Bureau launches a search--only to find one of the runaways murdered. As Sergeant Luo Wenzhou and his team investigate, they uncover a cruel ritual carried out by the students' own peers, and powerful parents who would rather the case be forgotten.But the ritual is only the beginning. The boy's death is soon linked to a series of highway murders from more than a decade earli...

Nothing in Particular is about nothing(ness), a highly vexed notion, quickly leading to contradiction: that it is both something and nothing. Graham Priest argues that nothingness is a dialetheic object, both something and nothing-- "the paradox of nothing". Priest defines nothingness as the fusion of no things and this definition is equivalent to being the mereological complement (that is, the absence) of everything. He argues that, in virtue of not being an object, nothing is in...

The discovery of violet gold, a vital fuel for steam-powered machines, propelled the empire of Great Liang into an age of prosperity. But for Chang Geng, a young man raised on the impoverished northern border, the concerns of the empire are as distant as the stars above. When raiders from the north attack Chang Geng's small village, he discovers that the life he knows is a lie. His mother, his teacher, and even his godfather whom he trusted more than any other, Shen Shiliu, are not what th...

"[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier's experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg." — Civil War News"Stand to It and Give Them Hell" chronicles the Gettysburg fighting from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, through the letters, memoirs, diaries, and postwar recollections of the men from both armies who struggled to control that "hallowed ground."John Michael Pri...

Inconsolable grief hardens into unstoppable fury in Vampirella/Dracula: Rage, as Vampirella tracks the cultists who threaten her son across Europe and America, unsettling political and economic alliances and unraveling the global network of the baby's father - Dracula! In a macabre exchange of norms, it is Dracula, the Lord of Vampires, who now hunts the elusive Vampiri in an effort to save Vampirella from herself - or, more precisely, to save her from becoming just like him. Bookending Va...

When Martin Riley is handed a terminal diagnosis and told he has ninety days to live, he makes a decision that will cost him everything — he will make his family hate him. Convinced that cruelty now will soften their grief later, he begins dismantling the warmth of a fifteen-year marriage and the trust of three young children, brick by careful brick. But love, it turns out, is harder to kill than a man. - 90 Days of Silence is a profoundly moving story about the t...

What We Almost Lost is a deeply intimate portrait of a marriage tested by the slow erosion of presence rather than any single dramatic betrayal. Tom and Sandra Gordon — a driven financial consultant and a quietly brilliant former English major turned devoted mother — have built a full, functional life together in the suburbs, complete with two spirited children, a loyal neighbor in Maggie, and all the outward markers of success. But beneath the school runs and business trips and l...

Delve into true but nearly unbelievable stories of hope, mercy, and redemption. Though very unprepared, a simple parish priest is dramatically thrust into the world of exorcism. Overnight, he assembles a team to follow him on his otherworldly adventures that are beyond their imagination. God blesses them with spiritual gifting and supernatural acumen to combat the forces of darkness, serving as instruments of deliverance and healing. Word spreads like wildfire, and before long, hundreds of...

After certain harrowing exorcisms, providential encounters, and a gradual uncovering of systemic demonic infiltration, the E-Team could not help but wonder whether God was unveiling the reality of the apocalypse, the epoch prophesied in the Book of Revelation, and preparing them to fight in the great battle between the woman clothed with the sun and the ghastly red dragon lurking to devour her children. Saint John the Apostle foresaw the events of that age—having been instructed by the Lor...

“One of the most imaginatively inventive poets in the country.” — Pacific Rim Review of BooksThe accidents of Priest’s collection are definitely not all “happy.” They move through a full range of human emotions: dread, grief, anger, ecstasy, lust and empathy. Plus some magic levity. This is poetry you will want to recite aloud: lyrical love poems, sonnets, satires, ghazals, curses, and bitter invective. These are not snobby poems — they want and welcome re...