Combining her 20+ year career in the executive recruiting industry, ongoing field training as a mom of four, lifelong passion for discipleship, and recent experience building a vocational discipleship program from the ground-up at a classical Christian school in Atlanta, GA, Erin Forrest Johnson has written a timeless guide for anyone in need of practical assistance cultivating a Biblical understanding of career and how to discover their own work within God's great story.Specifical...

The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship between ‘superhero comics’ and ‘superhero films’, the comics roots of superhero media, matters of ...

This issue of Fiction Vortex introduces some new subgenres that we haven't published before, including fractured fairytale, high fantasy, steampunk, and space western. Fiction Vortex publishes two new science fiction and fantasy stories each week. All stories in this issue appeared on the site during the month of July 2013. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and pu...

An exclusive Nora Roberts short story.Roguish and overworked, world-famous photographer Calin Farrell is struggling to shut out the strangely vivid dreams that beset his childhood. Then, on a visit to Ireland, a glimpse of the bewitchingly beautiful Bryna changes everything.When Bryna reveals that their destinies are bound by an ancient spell, Calin laughs it aside. But if Calin does not fight for her, Bryna will face a terrifying fate.

The Heralds of Valdemar are the kingdom’s ancient order of protectors. They are drawn from all across the land, from all walks of life, and at all ages—and all are Gifted with abilities beyond those of normal men and women. They are Mindspeakers, FarSeers, Empaths, ForeSeers, Firestarters, FarSpeakers, and more. These inborn talents—combined with training as emissaries, spies, judges, diplomats, scouts, counselors, warriors, and more—make them indispensable to their monarch and realm. Soug...

Ancient magic, modern-day mishap and passionate love affairs are combined in these two mesmerising short stories.SpellboundRoguish and overworked, world-famous photographer Calin Farrell is struggling to shut out the strangely vivid dreams that have beset him since his childhood. Then, on a visit to Ireland, a glimpse of the bewitchingly beautiful Bryna changes everything. When Bryna reveals that their destinies are bound by an ancient spell, Calin laughs it aside. ...

"...we are all Death’s pupils, we practitioners—students of the great healer."When magic broke free in my blood, I chose to follow our ancient family path and become a practitioner. I'm learning to heal, and to protect innocents. I dip into minds, stalk vampires, and set wards by the light of the moon. I can hear the children of the night calling.But there are other families...and other paths. Families with twisted ambitions and fright...

A village has fallen on hard times and does not have coin to pay their taxes. They plead for mercy but when General Alcion orders Jonmarc and his men to do the unthinkable, they must make some hard choices. The options weigh heavy on Jonmarc and an old curse seems likely to come true.Soldier. Fight slave. Smuggler. Warrior. Brigand lord. If you’ve met Jonmarc Vahanian in the Chronicles of the Necromancer and Fallen Kings Cycle books, you don’t really know him until you take his jou...

"Deeply felt and magical . . ." a novel about the bond between a Native American and his captive is "an eloquent evocation of the old earth-life religion" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Katsuk, a militant Native American student, kidnaps thirteen-year-old David Marshall—the son of the US Undersecretary of State. The two flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must survive together as teams of hunters try to track them...

In the wilds of an idyllic Yukon summer, Buck pans for gold while waiting for his partner to return with more provisions. Buck dreams of returning home to his girl, Sadie, if, no, when he strikes it big.Then one night he awakes to howls and Buck soon learns that Sadie's disapproving father is the least of his worries..."Wild Call" is a short story.

As a member of the bloodthirsty Hellsworth Tribe, the shapeshifter Nyr longs for the day when she’ll challenge her clan master for the right to lead. But before then, she must prove herself worthy.This short story takes about 30 minutes to read and is set before the events of The Last of the Ageless, a post-apocalyptic adventure novel. You can read them in any order, but the chronological order is: The Last Tail-Horse, When All Is Lost, The Beginning of the End, The Voice ...

A young boy, his loyalties torn between the old world and the new, fights to save his family as he faces the monsters without, and those within.