Fans of A Discovery of Witches are going to go nuts for this book - I know I did! - USA Today Bestselling Author, Graceley KnoxAmari has a perfect life. She's a successful food critic, and is marrying a high flying human rights lawyer. But the day before her wedding, a stranger, Caspar, tries to solicit her help. She sends him away, but can't shake the feeling that she knows him.When Amari's new husband has to leave the country before thei...

Secrets, sexy demons, and standing stones, oh my ... USA Today Bestselling Author, Graceley KnoxAmari has a perfect life. She's a successful food critic and is marrying a high-flying human rights lawyer. But the day before her wedding, a stranger, Caspar, tries to solicit her help. She sends him away, but can't shake the feeling that she knows him.When Amari's new husband has to leave the country before their honeymoon, Amari tells Caspar she'll he...

'This book tore my heart out and put it back together again and it was an honour' - THEA GUANZON'A slow burn love that does indeed burn - like a forest fire' - ELI SNOWHe is the Wolf God, and he must protect her above anything, or anyone, else.They must trust each other, or watch the world burn.War hero Basuin doesn't know what to believe in anymore. All he knows is life as an army captain and the pai...

 It's natural for people to dream about sexy strangers. But what if that stranger appears in numerous dreams? And what if that same stranger turns out to be real? Dreaming of You is a short romantic tale about what happens when the sexy stranger of Mel's dreams turns out to be very real indeed.

The Pagans may have retrieved Raina and Callie, but the Templars won't let them go without a fight. To achieve their aims, both the Pagans and Templars need magic, so they race to secure the first demon Adept sighted in a generation.As the Pagans focus on reforming the Registerium and transferring Callie to their nation, demons from other nations disappear without a trace, and the Registerium is too preoccupied to help. The politics is fractious, and the Pagans must tread a careful...

Before there were fae courts, fated mates and morally grey heroes, there were the myths and legends that inspired them...From ancient gods to forgotten kingdoms, The Romantasy Bible uncovers the origins, meanings and stories behind the fantastical worlds we love.Why do we crave the dangerous, protective hero? What lies behind the Wild Hunt? Why do ravens, roses, moons and stars recur in fantasy? And who was Tam Lin before he became Tamlin?P...

NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance’s mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much as a mutual-defense organization. However, Russia’s re-entry into great power politics has changed NATO’s strategic calculus.Russia’s aggressive annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its ongoing...

Some of the most portentous events in medieval history—the Cathar crusade, the persecution and mass burnings of heretics, the papal inquisition—fall between 1000 and 1250, when the Catholic Church confronted the threat of heresy with force. Moore’s narrative focuses on the motives and anxieties of elites who waged war on heresy for political gain.

Using James Truslow Adams’ definition of the American dream, this book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream. Almost all of the study participants Moore interviewed considered America a land of opportunity. Additionally, most of the black African immigrants’ definitions of the American dream focused on material aspects. Although participants mostly reported that the United States had been good to them, they nonetheless felt that they had no...

Not long after the Pilgrims came ashore, Bridgewater became the first inland settlement to branch out from the Plymouth Colony, incorporating in 1656. Its fertile soil and bountiful rivers provided for a rich agricultural community. As the Industrial Revolution forced farmers into factories, Bridgewater experienced rapid social and economic growth and change. Iron, shoe, and paper manufacturing flourished, and the railroad brought European immigrants in search of the American Dream. In Bri...

This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of Anglo–American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women’s legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, ...

From an early age, I wrote an occasional poem about many varied subjects. I love nature and animals, thus in my youth, I wrote about the world around me. As I got into high school and beyond, I began writing a little more regularly and began to narrow my themes to the religious. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the mainstay of my life, thus the majority of my poems are religious in nature. Jesus Christ is the Bread of life and this concept is reflected in my title, the butter in life, is ever...