She was looking for gold. She found a cursed prince instead.Arantha Teely is the best tomb-robber alive, with one rule: find the treasure, take the money, never look back. So when she's paid to loot a lost city, she doesn't ask questions — she breaks the seal and reaches for her payday.What she gets is Balam: a six-hundred-year-old warrior-prince, cursed by a witch he wronged to serve whoever woke him. Now he's bound to a thief with a smart mouth, deathless...

She didn't find her way into another world by accident. Someone put her there on purpose. And she has no idea yet who — or what — she is.One ordinary morning, Breanna's life ended. The next moment, it began.She stepped into another world and found everything she never knew she was missing — a home she recognized the moment she saw it, people who became her family before they knew her name, and a dark-eyed warrior whose grief she understood before he spoke a...

They found her. But the woman they brought back isn't the one who left. And she's not sure she'll ever be again.Rylo Dax has faced down enemies that would make lesser warriors quit. He has carried grief that would have broken most men. He has survived things he was never supposed to survive.Nothing prepared him for this.She's back. She's alive. But the woman he loves is buried deep inside the wreckage of what was done to her, fighting her way to the...

They erased her past. But they can't control her future.When a young woman is found battered and silent in a city alley, seasoned detective Drake senses something far more sinister than a simple abduction. She doesn't speak. She doesn't react. Her body is covered in scars, and her prints don’t exist. But she does have a name – Amelia – and the man arrested with her claims to be her Keeper.What begins as a bizarre case quickly spirals into a horrifying revel...

Lord Fallondon Breck must make a choice: watch his inheritance fall away into ruin, or rejoin the crusade for the Holy Land and win back his former fame and prosperity. However, unseen events and the spiritual forces of darkness are unfolding around him and his band of knights. As demonic foes prepare to unleash their evil designs upon old England, will Fallon have what is takes to come through for his friends, his family, and himself? Will he lean into his faith, of run away from it? Will...

After surviving an attack by the demon Baal and his mortal acolytes, Lord Fallondon Breck and his company of knights make for the town of Wolford. They seek safety and a chance to regroup, to process the demonic intrusion into their dreams and unexpected adversaries, and find a way back to Breckshire and their families. Little do they know, things are about to get much worse. An army of demons marches for a breach in the Veil and a chance to break through to the mortal world. Their plans a...

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the center of late seventeenth-century legal history.Alison A. Chapman argues that Milton's Paradise Lost sits at the apex of the early modern period's long fascination ...

Dr. Elena Vance has spent her whole life being the only person in the room who always knows when something’s wrong.She just never knew why.Six months before her thirty-fifth birthday, the Jeffersonian’s sharpest researcher of archaic Eastern European cultures starts coming apart at the seams — finding clumps of her own hair in odd places, craving her steaks barely dead, and snarling at her own vacuum cleaner like it owes her money.When her ...

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing Roman, common, and ecclesiastical law to best suit his purpose in any given text. This book provides literary scholars with a working knowledge of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century Engl...

Prequel to Ascent of the Fallen, Book I of the Chronicles. Set almost a decade before, Lord Fallondon Breck is a young knight searching for glory and purpose in the Kingdom of Heaven. After campaigns near Jerusalem he is stationed along a pilgrim road in Syria and tasked with an important mission: find and stop an unknown killer crucifying those traveling to Antioch.Fallondon's company of knights are dispatched to Ghmam, a remote village in the Syrian hills near Tishreen. ...

She didn't ask for this child. She didn't choose this. But the moment she knew this baby existed, the choice was already made. Nobody touches her child. Nobody.She is still healing from what was done to her.Her body is mending faster than anyone thought possible — a gift from the modifications made to her in the darkest chapter of her life, now turned into armor. She is stronger every day. More capable. More dangerous. And falling more deeply, irrevocably i...

She came to this universe to hide. To heal. To give birth in a safe place. What she didn't plan on was rewriting the fate of an entire galaxy while she was at it. That's just what she does.The baby is coming whether the universe is ready or not.And the moment she gives birth — something shifts inside her that no enemy, no ancient power hunting her has ever been able to touch.She is a mother.In a universe she wasn't supposed to be in. With a ...