Olivia Osborne left the FBI to escape the monsters, but when her friend Sergeant Mark Austin calls, she can’t say no. She and Mark are bound by the loss of someone they both cared about. The monsters stole him. Now she is standing in a blood-soaked field sifting through the echoes of death all while the thin veil between this world and the other beckons her. “Come closer.” Olivia is torn between darkness and light. Life and death. Good and evil. There is nowhere she can run where the monst...

Six years after the Great Awakening, Olivia Osborne is done hiding. It is time to emerge from the shadows and lead the gifted to their rightful place. But as she struggles to restore order and plant the roots of a new society, old loyalties tighten their grip, ancient enemies stir, and forces hungry for power refuse to wait their turn. The demands of retribution for past mistakes and past losses mount, leading Olivia to a place where she no longer recognizes herself. With the fate of the g...

The Only Textbook on Safeguarding for Faith-Based Ministries and SeminariesChristians are called to care for the vulnerable, but churches have not always led the way in becoming places safe from abuse. Increasingly, organizations and churches are recognizing the importance of the field of safeguarding: training and equipping people to prevent abuse, act when abuse happens, and promote healing for survivors.Lisa Compton and Taylor P...

Olivia Osborne is back. She has a demon to find, a past to uncover, and a future to plan. Dive back into the murky recesses of Olivia’s shadowy world as she searches for the truth about life and death, good and evil and the twilight in between. Gran warned against mixing the light with the dark--that magical place where the dark and the light swam together turned everything to grey. The Fruit of the Poison Tree bears it all. Olivia Osborne is many things: a sensitive, an empath, a reader o...

After unleashing the magic of her ancestors, Olivia Osborne finds herself plagued by visions. She will need those new skills and more as she and Silas Branch are thrust back to the case they knew was never finished. Under the moss-covered trees of a small town in Florida exists an ancient evil that hungers for more. Following the death screams of a young girl, Olivia uncovers the secrets of a killer. Larry Wayne Pittman confessed his crimes, but he has one final request before he meets his...

This workbook is a foundational and unique resource for clinicians preparing to work with clients affected by trauma. Chapters integrate a holistic understanding of the unique client within trauma-specific case conceptualization, promote trainees’ identification of personal values and past experiences that could impact their ability to provide safe and ethical services, and offer ways to reduce the risk of occupational hazards such as vicarious traumatization. The trauma treatment process ...

Free from the shackles of the FBI, Olivia Osborne is on a new quest. Empowered by the words of a dead man, Olivia is determined to find the collective of Gifted she knows are out there. She has a due date looming and being on her own is no longer an option. Olivia desperately needs the teacher she never had. At the same time, there’s a new monster in town, one who seeks to pull the Gifted from the shadows, and she’s willing to use the dead to do it.

You don’t journey through Hell and return untouched. For Olivia Osborne, magic is both a gift and a curse—a power born from ancient prayers and dangerous demonic bargains. Every spell is a brush with temptation, every victory shadowed by a price. As Olivia walks the razor edge between deception and redemption, she discovers that the greatest threat lies not in the darkness or the light, but in the uncertain gray in between. Lost in that twilight, Olivia must confront her deepest fears and ...

You're invited to a wedding in Whiskey Creek, Heart of the Gold CountryUnfortunately, it's the wrong wedding. Olivia Arnold is arranging the festivities-and it's the hardest thing she's ever done. Because she should be marrying Kyle Houseman. They were together for more than a year…. But her jealous sister, Noelle, stole him away-and now she's pregnant.All their friends in Whiskey Creek know as well as Olivia does that Kyle's making a mistake. His...

Colby agent Russell St. James knew the exact moment Olivia Westfield discovered she was the daughter of the infamous "Princess Killer."Ever since, being her bodyguard had become twice as hard. Each day, he shadowed her; each night, he held her through her tormenting nightmares. But was her father guilty? Her mother his accomplice? The answers lay deep in Olivia's memories, and the closer she got to the scene of the crime, the more she remembered. Russ had a job to do: safeguard Oli...

In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, bestselling authors Ian Rankin and Peter James—along with their most famous characters, John Rebus and Roy Grace—team up for the first time ever.Detectives John Rebus and Roy Grace could not be more different. Different generations, different backgrounds, and not to mention, they work 500 miles apart.The case that eventually brings them together centers on a crime that happened when Rebus wa...

Flirting with disaster…City slicker Rafe Locke dreads making a fool of himself at the Last Chance Ranch, but wild horses couldn’t keep him from serving as his brother’s best man. If nobody expects him to rope and ride, he’ll be fine. But when maid of honor Meg Seymour invites him to join her in both activities, he’s tempted. She’s a knockout, but a fling with the bride’s best gal pal is asking for trouble.Rafe’s locked-down attitude presents an irre...