When a captured mage is told to buy his life with a story, Carnelian doesn't offer heroics or war. He tells the truth — the kind that cuts.He was raised in a brothel run by witches and demons, a found family more honest and human than the world beyond its doors. But in his early youth, that fragile sense of belonging is shaken when a friend turns insecurity into a weapon, convincing Carnelian that love must be earned through strength.To prove himself, Carne...

High above the clouds, where empires, kingdoms and duchies drift on floating islands and air-galleys hunt the night sky, a thief is hired to steal a box that should never have been touched.Viento lives by freedom alone—until a single job entangles him with an imperial admiral, a relentless bounty hunter, and creatures that devour human souls and shine with the memories of the dead. When he learns that one of those stolen souls may belong to his grandfather, escape is no longer an o...

Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem. In Damaged, Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. Jonathan Hunter call for a radical change, arguing that the medical system needs to be not only more compassionate but more effective at recognizing that trauma impacts everybody's health, from patient to practitioner.Drawing on decades of expe...

Before heroes could rise, they were silenced.Long before the events of The Tournament of the Lost, fate began drawing unlikely souls toward one another—soldiers, witches, kings, and criminals—each standing at the edge of something greater.In the depths beneath kingdoms, wandering castles, cursed circuses, and forgotten gates, these lives unfold in isolation. Though bound by destiny, they are never allowed to meet. Dark forces intervene, bending the...

Beneath the Kingdom of Liralind lies the First Gate — an underground outpost where the unwanted are sent and rarely remembered.When Luka of the Griffin Brotherhood is assigned there, he expects punishment and decay. What he finds instead is something older: a place where guilt festers, witches whisper half-truths, and the tunnels themselves seem alive.Drawing from eldritch horror and Slavic folklore, The First Gate is a grim fantasy short story about duty, curiosit...

In a world shaped like a ring and scarred by forgotten wars, the Tournament of the Lost has returned.Once thought impossible, the tournament draws tens of thousands into a journey across the kingdoms of Aeden—through lands divided by faith, magic, empire, and memory. Few understand its rules. Fewer still understand its purpose.Among the chosen is a small, unlikely company: a disfigured prodigy who sees patterns others miss, a sellsword who longs to be remem...

Can the way in which we relate to others seriously affect our health? Can understanding those attachments help health care providers treat us better? In Love, Fear, and Health, psychiatrists Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter draw on evidence from neuroscience, stress physiology, social psychology, and evolutionary biology to explain how understanding attachment – the ways in which people seek security in their close relationships – can transform patient outcomes.Using att...

This book emphasizes interpersonal relationships as a frequently overlooked, yet crucial element in today’s healthcare system and describes the utility of attachment theory in understanding and managing patients with medical and surgical illness. Sections on the fundamentals of attachment theory, specific patient populations, attachment-based interventions, and future directions comprehensively reflect our current knowledge. The summarized research demonstrates the value of attachment theo...

With the old king gone and the kingdom restless, a traveling circus is sent through Liralind to calm the people.Wherever it stops, someone dies.As the killings spread through the Mountains of the Moon, Lord Paul Vane and his wife Alexandretta begin to see the pattern beneath the spectacle — a performance masking something far darker.Rejoice, Rejoice! is a dark fantasy mystery about distraction, power, and the violence that follows when fear is dressed as en...

Akira and his brother have survived as sellswords, carrying a shared past neither dares to name.When a radiant sorceress hires them to steal a book from the Wandering Castle of Nyx, the task seems impossible — and irresistible.Nyx herself greets them at the door: cruel, playful, and endlessly amused by men who believe they deserve her favor. As the brothers linger in her castle, the truth of their bond surfaces — violence, desire, and a past neither can escape.N...

King Alfred is not sent to Ogormoth to escape — he is sent there to be judged.Thrown into the mirrored depths beneath the kingdom's asylum, Alfred finds himself surrounded by witches, soldiers, monsters, and survivors whose lives were shaped by his rule. Led by a smiling Jester, they are gathered into an arena carved from accusation and memory.One by one, the others are forgiven. Alfred is not.As ancient powers stir below and the true purpose of Ogormoth is revealed...

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