In the summer of 1990, writer Charles Gaines and his artist wife, Patricia, bought 160 acres of wild land on the northeast coast of Nova Scotia. They believed they were simply buying a remote getaway spot, but within a few months a more complex dream for the property developed. By midwinter, they had begun to see the land as a place where family intimacy might be reclaimed, as a home that might heal their recently battered marriage, and as an opportunity to take on a big, risky, long-term ...

Book 1,"Forbidden SeriesWhen is love wrong?Jesse Ryan has always been the love of my life--from as far back as I can remember.But time, distance and circumstances beyond my control separated the two of us for many years.Now things have changed.Because you see now I'm a grown woman, and it's time that Jesse sees that for himself.But will he see me as anything other than the child I was when we last saw one another?It's up to me to make...

I hate myself for craving the panty-melting demigods.But my awakening power is volatile and destructive. Only they can prevent me from turning into a ticking bomb.When Lucifer's heir breaches the wards of the Academy to kidnap me, the sea demigod, my sworn enemy, uncovers my hidden origin. Instead of exposing me, or, worse, leading the Dominion army to hunt me down, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind to protect my dangerous secret.Contains mature themes.

When is love wrong?Jesse Ryan has always been the love of my life--from as far back as I can remember. But time, distance and circumstances beyond my control separated the two of us for many years.Now things have changed. Because you see now I'm a grown woman, and it's time that Jesse sees that for himself. But will he see me as anything other than the child I was when we last saw one another? It's up to me to make sure that he does.

The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world’s vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over sixty world and regional maps.Mapping such diverse aspects as materials and resources, technologies, structural systems, symbolism, forms and service systems on a cross-cultural and comparative basis, the Atlas of Vernacular Archit...