He killed gods for five years. Now he's coming for the Devil himself.Jack Graves made a deal five years ago: become Death incarnate in exchange for the chance to protect his daughter Emma. But protection became imprisonment, love became torture, and Emma has been trapped in Limbo ever since. Slowly transforming into a cosmic anchor that's destroying the entire afterlife infrastructure.When hell gives him an ultimatum: kill his daughter or watch thou...

Owen Harrison was teaching fifth-grade engineering when the world ended.The nuclear sirens gave him minutes to save his parents. He failed. The radiation exposure that followed should have killed him. Instead, it made him something else, something that heals impossibly fast, glows in the dark, and refuses to die.Survival isn't the problem. It's what comes next.The AI his species created didn't die in the war. They built their own so...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of Dover's white cliffs during World War II, Crossing the Channel tells the remarkable story of Tommy Fletcher's transformation from terrified teenager to D-Day hero.In September 1940, as the Battle of Britain rages overhead and German bombs devastate his hometown, seventeen-year-old Tommy Fletcher makes a life-changing decision. Tired of cowering in air raid shelters while others fight for Britain's survival, he lies abou...

December 1914. The Western Front. A war that was supposed to be over by Christmas.Edward Shepherd never wanted to be a soldier. Conscripted out of economic necessity, the young coal delivery man from Kent finds himself trapped in the frozen hell of the Belgian trenches, where survival means mastering the art of killing men he's never met.But on Christmas Eve, something extraordinary happens. German soldiers begin to sing across no man's land. Christmas tree...

When justice fails, the Devil makes house calls.Jack Graves is Seattle's most successful defense attorney—corrupt, amoral, but undeniably effective at keeping guilty clients out of prison. When a high-profile acquittal leads to a car crash that kills his wife and daughter, Jack finds himself making the ultimate legal argument: bargaining for his soul in purgatory's courtroom.The Devil's offer is seductive: return to life with supernatural abilities and hunt...

The world's elite are learning a terrifying truth: Justice is coming from beyond the grave.Jack Graves is the Devil's attorney, a supernatural executioner known only as the Red Smoke Killer. By day, he maintains a mundane legal practice, but by night, he teleports through dimensions to deliver absolute judgment to the corrupt souls who have escaped mortal law.His targets are the untouchables:The Supreme Court Justice who signed death warrants for di...

Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain. As both a military and political figure he played a central role in first defeating Charles I and then later supporting the restoration of his son in 1660. England’s Fortress shines new light on this significant yet surprisingly understudied...

God can meet us wherever we are, and for golfers, that is often on the golf course.Experience daily devotions with the peace you feel on an early morning course, the excitement of doing well, the enjoyment of time spent with the closest of all friends.This daily round of golf-themed devotions offers thoughts for throughout the year: the Off-Season, the Majors Season, the Golf Season, and the Silly Season. Conceived by the founder of a faith-and-golf ministr...

Now in the strange realm of Allyra, the Seven young lords confront a traitor in their midst, a creature-infested forest, teenage fears and doubts, inexplicable mysteries . . . and the Spider King himself.In a rigorous training program that makes boot camp look like Disneyland, the Seven must quickly learn to harness their own powers, work as one, and elude the Spider KingÆs spies. But as the ancient Berinfell Prophecies are revealed, the Seven soon discover their training might not be enou...

A fascinating study of Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for understanding American culture.Staying up Much Too Late discusses the painting Nighthawks and the painter Edward Hopper and their central importance to twentieth-century American culture. Topics include individualism, New York City, Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, diners, pornography, capitalism, advertising, cigarettes, American philosophy, World War ...

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refutes standard binary thinking—First World/Third World, self/other...

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry.A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic periodContributors are both established and emergi...