There's no good. No evil. No angels and demons. There's love and there's hate… and somewhere between the two, lust finds a way to thrive. It tips the scale. It burns everything to ash.Wren—CupidWe're created from birth to unite soulmates and stop the monsters that would tear them apart. We're trained to fight, to kill… and born without the ability to feel the thing we give. A cupid can't feel love. A cupid can't have a soulmate. And a cupid...

Humans were always monsters; the rain just gave them an excuse.AubreyThe infected didn't break me. They didn't capture me for experiments and use me like an object. Humanity made me into the monster I am.I'm reckless because it makes me feel alive, careless because I'm addicted to pain. And I'm dangerous because I've got nothing left to live for.Nothing, until I meet a raider who seems to see right through me… who demands I ...

What happens when a serial killer decides a camboy is his?RanenMy life has become a nightmare. A stalker intent on having me permeates my waking moments. Gifts and threatening messages greet me at every turn. Every cam session is filled with the fear of them watching me in my most intimate moments. One day, my stalker takes it a step further than words and attacks me in my home. Just when I think I won't make it, a stranger with a blue-gree...

You're the only one who can get under my skin.LeviTrapped in nightmares from my past, the only comfort I find is in gifts from the man who killed my mother's killer—presents wrapped in a body bag and delivered to the morgue for me to examine.From the first time I saw his mark, I knew I had to keep my killer safe, had to keep his work a secret for me and me alone. Every body is a love letter, and I'm the only one who can read them.

There are rules that keep the universe in line, that keep Death and Fate balanced in a delicate dance.A Reaper can't feel.A Reaper can't love.A Reaper can't die.SephtisReapers can't feel. We aren't born. We're created from the essence of the dead, from Death himself breathing us into existence. We have one purpose.Ferry mortals to the afterlife so they can be judged, weighed, and born anew.I've taken ...

There's a sacred balance that must be kept. Death is final—the mortal world is for the living.And when that balance is upset, the hounds will hunt.Soul: Death's HoundI am Death's Hound, and I was made for one purpose: to hunt down wayward souls. It should be easy, hunting down a man who escaped to the mortal realm and leaves behind a trail of blue flowers wherever he walks… so why is it when I see him, the only thing I want to do is...

• Shares shamanic practices, rituals, ceremonies, and wisdom to help you reintroduce magic into everyday life and awaken the Aquarian Shaman within• Explains major components of shamanic practice, including totem animals, spirit teachers, personal altars, medicine wheels, the power of song and dance, and the use of sacred objects and sacred circles• Explores the shamanic realm of imagination and techniques to access it, including Shamanic Breathwork and spirit journeying

• Shares shamanic practices, rituals, ceremonies, and wisdom to help you reintroduce magic into everyday life and awaken the Aquarian Shaman within• Explains major components of shamanic practice, including totem animals, spirit teachers, personal altars, medicine wheels, the power of song and dance, and the use of sacred objects and sacred circles• Explores the shamanic realm of imagination and techniques to access it, including Shamanic Breathwork and spirit journeying

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling author Stacey Lee's modern reimagining of a classic Chinese folktale—replete with magic, boba, and lots of trash talking. Twelve-year-old Winston Chu is supposed to learn impulse control at the cooking academy his mom enrolled him in. But learning to think before he acts won't happen overnight. While skateboarding home with a pie in hand, Winston inadvertently stops a robbery at Mr. Pang's Whimsies, an oddities shop in Chinatown. As a ...

The book has been developed in conjunction with NERS 462, a course offered every year to seniors and graduate students in the University of Michigan NERS program.The first half of the book covers the principles of risk analysis, the techniques used to develop and update a reliability data base, the reliability of multi-component systems, Markov methods used to analyze the unavailability of systems with repairs, fault trees and event trees used in probabilistic risk...

Based on the research that race, gender, justice, and other important topics should be discussed with toddlers on up, the First Conversations series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism, this collection of eight topic-driven audiobooks offers clear, concrete language that young children can grasp and adults can lev...

Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces. Health issues affect both individual family members and the family unit as a whole, as well as impacting family relationships and structures. Illnesses, injuries, and health problems can strike at any time, and can have long-lasting consequences for individuals and their families. This multidisciplinary volume addresses the impact health issues...