The gripping conclusion to the best-selling DARK GUARDIANS trilogy...Vampires and their plague-poxed brethren threaten to overrun the world like a blood-borne wave. At their helm, is Beltran, a Vampire whose malicious nature is as black as his many secrets.Standing between Beltran and the destruction of all Cruximkind is Amedeo Aeternus—the half-Cruxim hybrid of the prophecy, the Cruor driven on by an unremitting desire for revenge.Along with the Sphinx Sabine and C...

If the poet's job is to provide a reflection of an entire world in a single teardrop, Karin Cox's haunting anthology, "Growth", does so admirably.This collection of her finest poems—some previously published in anthologies around the world, others new; some rhyming, some free form—delivers beautiful sentiments, melancholy moments and some delightfully lyrical figurative language, all the while charting the poet's personal growth over several years.While introspective, Karin...

If the poet's job is to provide a reflection of an entire world in a single teardrop, Karin Cox's haunting anthology, "Growth," does so admirably.This collection of her finest poems—some previously published in anthologies around the world, others new; some rhyming, some free form—delivers beautiful sentiments, melancholy moments and some delightfully lyrical figurative language, all the while charting the poet's personal growth over several years.While introspective, Karin...

The DARK GUARDIANS Saga Continues in Book II: CrecheStill grieving the loss of Joslyn and the Sphinx Sabine, and craving revenge upon Beltran, his Vampire nemesis, Amedeo the dark angel Cruxim is destined to learn more about his past in the sequel to Karin Cox's critically acclaimed, gothic paranormal romance Cruxim.When the vampire hunter meets a female of his own kind, Skylar, who takes him to the hidden stronghold of Silvenhall Creche to learn C...

First published in 2000. Women's Anger brings together, in an integrated presentation of anger over the lifespan, theoretical understandings, clinical experiences, empirical research, and the lived experience of anger for women and girls. Women's Anger offers a combined focus of feminist and developmental perspectives on anger, the psychology of emotion, and applied theory. It also focuses on the adaptive and functional aspects of women's anger rather than on the traditio...

Love letter - what phrase conjures up more intense feelings than that simple phrase? Most of us have received a love letter. Many of us have written a love letter. Some of those letters were tucked away in the bottom of a drawer. Others were ripped to shreds or destroyed in symbolic flames. Whatever their fate, the one characteristic all love letters share is their raw and intense honesty. When we are declaring our love to another, we are speaking straight from the heart. Such words are pr...

Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on retailing during the early modern period, less is known about how people at the time perceived retailing, both as onlookers, artists and commentators, and as participants. Centred on the general theme of perceptions, the authors address this gap in our knowledge by looking at a different aspect of consumption. They focus on two ancillary themes: the first is location and how contemporaries perceived the settlements in which there were sho...

A Number One Bestseller in Dark Fantasy, Gothic Romance and Vampire RomanceAll three books in the DARK GUARDIANS FANTASY SERIES are now available.Book I: Cruxim (You are Never Alone)Book II: Creche (Know Thyself)Creed III: Creed (All Things Know Where they Belong)A MYSTERIOUS, MYTHOLOGICAL PASTAmedeo is Cruxim, an enigmatic, immortal fallen angel who knows little about his dark past apart from a curious prophecy and an unremitting lust...

Spirits & Spells is a podcast by USA Today bestselling authors Heather Marie Adkins & Alex Owens, both of whom are obsessed with things they can't explain - especially the weird, the witchy, and the woefully spectral.Step beyond the veil with twenty-one spooky tales of TRUE supernatural encounters by some of today's hottest paranormal authors. Between these pages, you'll witness a pair of disembodied legs cross the street and wake up beside ghostly felines; you'll experience visits...

Elyse Gilbert, genannt Lucky, ist auf der Flucht vor ihrer Vergangenheit. Völlig mittellos gelangt sie nach New York, wo sie auf eine Anzeige stößt, die ihre Rettung sein könnte. Eine Million Dollar für zehn Nächte mit dem mysteriösen Q, der sein Gesicht hinter einer Maske verbirgt. Q entführt Lucky in seine luxuriöse Villa und in eine dunkle Welt der Lust, nach der sie sich mit jeder weiteren Nacht mehr sehnt. Denn auch wenn die kalte Stimme hinter der Maske sie abstößt, berühren die geme...

EPISODE 1: "Smart & sexy!" Set in a near future America, the world is a bit different. Powerful houses run the politics, and hence, the country, from behind the scenes. Sworn fealty to a powerful house can bring the average person a decent paying job in a world where society is scrambling to hold it together. Sheila, a smart lass from Tennessee, sees through this BS and is trying to open the public’s eyes to this power shift. Meanwhile, the Lebanese congressional correspondent Jasira agree...

The authoritative guide to understanding and living with borderline personality disorder, now fully revised and updatedMillions of Americans suffer from borderline personality disorder (BPD), a psychiatric condition marked by extreme emotional instability, erratic and self-destructive behavior, and tumultuous relationships. Though it was once thought to be untreatable, today researchers and clinicians know that there is every reason for hope. Dr. Robert Friedel, a ...