A half-orc, half-human belongs nowhere…Orek has spent his life trying to prove himself to a clan that despises him. The son of a deposed orc chief and human captive, he must try twice as hard to prove himself a worthy male, a strong hunter, a potential mate…Resigned to a thankless place in the shadows, Orek ekes out a living on the fringes of the clan, just waiting for an opportunity. But what he finds instead one cold autumn night could ruin everything he'...

A lady heir in a world of lords…Aislinn Darrow was never meant to be her father's heir, but that was before her selfish brother condemned himself. Now, she must give up her old life to take his place. She should be presiding in her father's council chamber and serving the people of the Darrowlands—yet time and again, she finds herself straying to the castle smithy to visit the handsome new blacksmith manning the forge.A lady can never claim a monster…

Nowhere is safe for a fae alone…For all his many days, Allarion has been faithful to queen and country. In their sparkling city on the sea, the fae live long lives of pleasure and luxury. But pretty things can be rotten at their core, and not all is as it seems. A betrayal at the heart of the fae court shatters Allarion's belief in all that he once held sacred.Now in hiding, he must make his own sanctuary in the human kingdom of Eirea. The dilapidated estat...

For fans of Ruby Dixon comes a steamy monster romance from S. E. Wendel, following a museum worker who gets the shock of a lifetime when one of the (very attractive) gargoyle statues in an exhibit comes to life and claims her as his mate...Narrated by Emma Wilder!A gargoyle warrior unprepared for the modern world…Fifteen hundred years ago, Frey and all his kind were cursed by the vicious fae queen, their magick stol...

The human colony on Terra Nova celebrates its first year. Still at odds with the native population, the colony finds itself susceptible to Charneki sabotage despite superior technology. Growing tired of the stalemate, a new strategy is pursued: A delegation will march to the native capital and try to broker peace. A grief-stricken Zeneba has hardened into a warrior queen. The aliens took her brother from her, but they won’t take her home. The Time of Trying Souls is Book #3 from Earth Alie...

The human domination of Terra Nova is nearly complete, the natives routed, their queen taken prisoner, and the peace movement suppressed. But there are those who still resist. In a brazen move, the opposition helps free the native queen. As Elena and Rhys flee with her, Hugh must struggle to complete the military’s final weapon. Zeneba returns in time to defend her city and her people against extinction. She leads the charge in the battle that will decide who will be master of Terra Nova. ...

After seven brutal years aboard starships, the humans have landed on their new home planet, Terra Nova. However, it isn’t the paradise they had hoped: The colony is in turmoil as the military seizes power and the humans soon realize they aren’t alone. The aliens have come, and Zeneba is hard pressed to act. Hesitant to meet these newcomers in all-out war, she sends scouting parties to see what it is they have come for. This indecision may cost Zeneba dearly. Demons in the North is Book #2 ...

Return to the world of Heartsong! A reclusive researcher gets the shock of a lifetime when the (very attractive) gargoyle statue in her rose garden awakens and claims her as his mate.She’s known him all her life…June Parkhurst is a prodigy, a conservator, and…an empath. Yet, her empathic abilities don’t feel like a gift; they’re a curse, one that’s driven her into isolation.Overwhelmed by the feelings of others and her own ...

Everything’s changed now that more humans have come, and they bring the devastating news that Earth’s atmosphere was destroyed by a solar flare. Knowing the colonies on Terra Nova make up the last humans in existence, the military ups its efforts to defeat the Charneki, beginning construction on a weapon that will decimate them. If all goes according to plan, the humans will finally take their place as dominant species. World at War is Book #5 from Earth Aliens, an EPIC Press series.

"The letters are valuable for ecologists, students, and teachers of contemporary American literature and for those of us eager to know how these two distant neighbors networked, negotiated, and remained friends." —San Francisco ChronicleIn 1969, Gary Snyder returned from a long residence in Japan to northern California, to a homestead in the Sierra foothills where he intended to build a house and settle on the land with his wife and young sons. He had just...

"A Kentucky farmer and writer, and perhaps the great moral essayist of our day, Berry has produced one of his shortest but also most powerful volumes." —The New York Review of BooksFrom modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local focus to national resolve, Wendell Berry argues, there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities—the two are intricately connected, and the health and survival of one depends upon the...

The five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight–knit community within"Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world." —The New York Times Book Review...