I'm an ancient Valkyrie on a mission to reap my first soul.To all the cheerleaders at Mattsfield High, I'm just the new girl and they're going to chew me up and spit me out.None of my training prepared me for what life as a human teenager would really be like. Not the boys, the pool parties, or the dead bodies lining up in my wake. This was supposed to be a simple job. Befriend the hottest swimmer on the team. Become his girlfriend, and then take his soul s...

Nothing has ever gone right for Cosmo Valencourt. After an automobile accident that left him permanently disabled, he lost most of his magical prowess and almost failed out of university. Left with only his talent for psychometry, which allows him to see the history of any object he touches, Cosmo has been working as an investigator at New Scotland Yard. A job that, in Cosmo's opinion, is beneath him.To make matters worse, Cosmo is tasked to investigate the threatening notes sent t...

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research approach committed to the examination of how people make sense of their major life experiences. This text provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research, presenting the theoretical underpinnings of the approach, a comprehensive overview of the stages of an IPA research project, and examples of high-quality IPA studies.Extended worked examples from the authors′ own studies in health, psychological distres...

Second Law of the Valkyrie… Don’t Question the Gods.Whelp, I broke another one.Questioning the gods is the least of my problems. Freya is about to flip her lid. Odin wants my man in his super army.And then there’s Heimdall, a gangster goddess with a gold grill for teeth who runs this swanky New York Restaurant (which also happens to be the Bifrost).We’ve escaped to New York, but evil seems to have followed us here. People are mysteriously dy...

No Room for Love 2 drags Shelly Williams further into the underworld she never intended to survive, yet somehow keeps conquering. She was once a woman who believed in doing things the "right" way: marriage, kids, a quiet life, the American dream. That version of Shelly died the day her ex-husband was murdered, leaving her and her triplets exposed to a world that didn't care about innocence. Since then, she has been forced to evolve into someone unrecognizable: a woman who can lie,...

Only once a generation will a vessel be born… blessings on his poor, empty soul.Jakob has shown all the signs, but he can’t believe it’s really happening. Could he be a vessel? How is it that his remote water village far south of Tiebern would need such intervention? Only sin draws the gods’ attention. When evil coalesces, they send a vessel to drain the weighty muck of it from lost souls, hoping to save their creations from generations of doomed torment.He’s supposed to die...

She fell from heaven, but now she's back, and angels will pay.In the stunning sequel to Fallen to Grace, Azrael must face a new world with new masters. She’s the Queen of Celestia—or so the Council of angels wish her to believe. The Seraphim, the true ruler of Celestia, holds Gabriel captive and tinkers with dark magic. Azrael must master her powers and her heart like never before in order to save Gabriel and lead a coup against the Seraphim.She’ll find an unlikely ally in ...

The gods are dying. Thane has served his goddess for thousands of lifetimes, but even he knows that time is running out. There's only one way to save her, to save all of Dweller kind, and it's a suicide mission.The host is a boy named Jakob. His ancient soul is one of the rare sources of power still recycling in the world of flesh. Thane has taken so many souls to his goddess, but this one could save them all.It's only when Thane learns the truth of the god...

Third Law of the Valkyrie… Don’t Trigger Ragnarök.Too late.No one could have warned me what the end of the universe would look like. Valkyries have come back from the dead. Their undead army blots out the sky with wings and fire. Leading the charge are the echoes of Ragnarök that have split at the seams, introducing a terrifying wave of glittering black matter that devours anything it touches.The first law of the Valkyrie told me not to lov...

The gods thought they'd won...but this was Thane's plan all along. Ten long years he's waited and conserved his power. He was going to go after her, but she came to him--and she needs his help.Now that he's found his true soulmate, he's going to save her, save his human, and save the world.One small kink in his plans derails his hopes for a better future. A child born of two souls, that of his host and the soulmate he's come to love. She's a hybrid ...

Never trust a jock.That was my first mistake. When Max Green invited me to a night party on the beach, I should have known better. The Resorties are rich kids who can’t see past their own cruelty. When Max and his friends trap me in the water, the only way for me to go is down.It would have been an ironic death, given that my father drowned in the very same waters. But that’s not what happened. Instead my entire world changed when the Lady of the Lake took ...

Never trust a jock.That was my first mistake.When Max Green invited me to a night party on the beach, I should have known better. The Resorties are rich kids who can’t see past their own cruelty. When Max and his friends trap me in the water, the only way for me to go is down. It would have been an ironic death, given that my father drowned in the very same waters. But that’s not what happened.Instead, my entire world changed when the Lady of the Lake took me to a n...