When Pastor Zack catches Mara making out with her boyfriend in the church, he feels it is his Christian duty to teach this young innocent virgin a lesson before she strays too far from the righteous path.

Olivia was just eighteen when she married the preacher at her church. Now it's two years later and the only time they've had sex was on their wedding night ... and it wasn't very good. When she catches a glimpse of the landscaper's penis as he's relieving himself, she finds she can't think of anything else.One night, she finds herself alone at the church with the rugged laborer and he forcefully shows her what she's been missing ...

Cindy is an 18-year-old virgin. She's saving herself for marriage because her father is a preacher and she wants a career in the church.However, when she is one of only three people who can make it to her father's Christian summer camp before a freak storm knocks out a bridge, she begins to realize how much temptation is out there.The other two people who were able to make it were two guys, other camp counselors. Cindy's heard stories but didn't really believe. She gets the...

Cypress Monroe: shapeshifter, spymaster, dearly departed.Cypress went to her grave having discovered a plot to overthrow her queen— and her paramour. Now, her soul scours the realm between life and death for a way to get word to her beloved before it' s too late.Dimereial, an angel of redemption, has an offer for Cypress. If she can relieve a few fellow souls of their worst memories before they shuffle on, Cypress will have an audience with the right people...

In Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographe...

Alchemy is dangerous, especially when your afterlife is on the line.Echo discovers that Professor Dradon has gone missing in a land beyond the living. With rumors of a strange creature consuming the souls of the deceased, the cleric will risk everything to bring her former teacher back. With the help of her best friend, the roguish halfling Finn, Echo forms a party of adventurers to find her former teacher. Complications arise when the party mistakenly traps Hale, ...

Synopsis: Zanathar's War has left behind devastation that cannot be undone. Despite this, Zhan and Mikiel, two of the world's most renowned heroes, have worked tirelessly alongside their friends and allies in an effort to heal their damaged world. Enemies have become allies as Anastia turns toward a resolution that can bring an end to conflict and introduce peace to even those who thought it to be impossible.However, those with malice in their hearts can never be truly def...

Markus, a champion of the Guardian Knights and hero of Kadema, is a legend among the inhabitants of Anastia. He is a man of conviction, who above all things, believes in freedom and justice. He earned his renown during the Guardian War, a terrible conflict that brought about ruin and devastation to the world. Divided and at war, the two continents of Kadema and Nodis fought one bloody battle after another until a promising warrior emerged from the land of Khandra. His name was Tanor, and t...

Synopsis: "When all Shards of the Abyss unite, the Lord of Shadow will reveal his might." - Sagorn ProverbLong ago, the once mighty Civilization of Azod suffered unrepairable destruction because of the Cataclysm, an event brought upon the inhabitants of Anastia by Zanathar, a cruel, merciless being. Using his strength and cunning, the dark warrior was not only able to bring about an end to the proud civilization, but eventually its winged champions known as the Knights of ...

The leading text and go-to practitioner resource on psychiatric rehabilitation is now in a thoroughly revised third edition, bringing readers up to date on current ideas, findings, and evidence-based best practices. The expert authors present the knowledge needed to help adults with psychiatric disabilities develop their strengths and achieve their life goals. The book describes effective ways to assess personal needs and aspirations; integrate medical and psychosocial int...

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in thei...

Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and unsettling continuities. The uncanny stands for what often eludes us, for what remains unfamil...