The main character, Fred, is ‘Everyman,’ and a part of him is within us all. This novel has dramatic external conflicts to hold interest, but those are not key elements. Like most of those who would read this book, Fred had deeply moving spiritual experiences some would call miracles, and is learning human life as opportunity even as he appears to live a mundane incarnation. As he purifies his life, he sees and experiences divine synchronicities and beneficence in the growth of humanity an...

Lady Astrid Ravenscroft has always defied the expectations of English nobility. But when Viking raiders storm her family's manor, she finds herself claimed by their mysterious chieftain, Bjorn Ironwolf. A man who harbors secrets as dangerous as the hunger in his ice-blue eyes.Taken to his northern stronghold, Astrid discovers her captor is more than he seems. Bjorn rules his clan with absolute authority yet treats her with a gentleness that defies his savage reputation. As she navi...

Blood AwakeningBlood on a Rose LegacyRose Blackwood never imagined her inheritance would come with secrets older than time itself. When she returns to her late grandmother's estate, she discovers a world where plants respond to her emotions, shadow creatures whisper from the dark, and an ancient magic pulses in her veins. As she grapples with her newfound identity as a Guardian… protector of life itself… she's thrust into a deadly game of power and...

“Crystal as old and true, Look at the memories from our point of view, And allow us to pass through.”After a long seven hundred years of Delhi’s reign, a fragile peace has returned. The lands have begun to thrive and people who were in hiding for so long out of fear, were beginning to lend a hand to help keep this new sense of peace. With so many changes after Delhi’s downfall, everyone was still unsure what the 1 future holds.Esmeralda and Onyx thought they could relax and...

Penniless and downtrodden at the loss of his wife and one of his daughters, Samuel Clemens turned to writing. The short stories and essays in Letters from the Earth find Clemens—under the pseudonym of Mark Twain—at perhaps his most quizzical and questioning state ever. Written as diary entries, Twain penned a series of letters from the point of view of a dejected angel on Earth who observes the many curious natures of man. These pieces, gathered by Twain's literary executor, featu...

Locked in his desk for 25 years, What Is Man? was Twain's most serious, philosophical, and private work. The narrative appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic. The pair debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is meaningless given how the environment shapes us, and if man truly has impulses other than to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. An unflinching critic...