Wild fire magic rips through Northshield University, and only Ryan Blackwell can stop it!Still reeling from his near-death at the hands of a monstrous apparition, Ryan finds himself plunged into danger again far sooner than he's ready for. He's come to accept that his magic is a part of him he cannot escape - not if he wants to survive. But even his powers will be put to the most terrible tests.Something sleeps at Northshield, ancient and incredibly powerfu...

The Northshield Nexus hides a rift, a breach between our reality and one populated by horrible monsters.But they want out.Ryan's fought one of them and the battle almost killed him. Now a legion of the creatures is trying to break free from their extra-dimensional prison. They've found humans willing to help them smash down the magical barriers keeping them locked away.Ryan has to stop them. If the demons invade Ear...

They call him the Soulstealer. He's lived - and killed - for hundreds of years. Now he's after Ryan.Surviving attacks by magical monsters forced Ryan Blackwell to rely on his magic more than he ever had before. His power has grown through each conflict. But the use of all that magic has attracted a lot of attention of the unpleasant variety.He finds himself stalked by the most deadly of foes, someone capable of sucking the magic and life out of a target. No...

Summer break is supposed to be relaxing for college students, but not for Ryan Blackwell.Leaving campus means heading back home and potentially having to deal with his Dad, which is enough all by itself to make him wish he could be anyplace else. But then he runs into a hellcat: a magical creature capable of stripping the magic away from a victim. The hellcat might not even be the most dangerous enemy prowling out there, either!He’s alone. Witho...

What can you do when the thing you hate most in the world is also the only thing which might keep you alive?Ryan Blackwell never wanted to have magical abilities. He'd rather leave them as far behind him as possible - and never look back! Arriving at the military college of Northshield University was supposed to be a chance to start over and build a new life for himself. One without magic, thank you very much!But Northshield holds a secret: a powerful nexus...

The Soulstealer is back in Ryan's life. But this time...she's begging him for help?Melicent arrives on his doorstep wounded, without magic, and hunted by ASTRAL. Unwilling to turn her over to an organization he no longer trusts, Ryan helps her flee.There's no way ASTRAL will take that laying down.The stage is set for a final showdown against the shadowy forces behind ASTRAL. All Ryan has fought for hangs in the balance as he tries t...

The future was ashes.Desperate to avoid the same death as his father, Scott launched aboard an experimental relativistic starship. Only two years would pass for him, but two hundred would go by on Earth. He hoped to return to an advanced civilization capable of curing his fatal disease.Things went wrong.Instead of arriving on schedule, Scott's ship returned to Earth four hundred years after he'd departed, and the world he found was nothing like what he'd expected.

The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin’s work as a whole.According to Benjamin, German literary history in the period roughly following the first World War was part of a wider “crisis of historical experience”—a life crisis to which Lebensphilosophie (phil...

This book argues that the theory of force elaborated in Immanuel Kant's aesthetics (and in particular, his theorization of the dynamic sublime) is of decisive importance to poetry in the nineteenth century and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries. Inspired by his deep engagement with the critical theory of Walter Benjamin, who especially developed this Kantian strain of thinking, Kevin McLaughlin uses this theory of force to illuminate the work of thr...

Dragons rule the world. Their claws are into every aspect of human life, from government to industry. But Kristen Hall is about to throw a wrench into all of that.Because she's a dragon, too. She just doesn't know it . . . yet!A dragon raised by humans, in the human world.After graduating from the police academy, she's dropped right into the ranks of Detroit's elite SWAT team. A rookie, in SWAT? Unheard of. But what the dragons want, they g...

Kristen has come fully into her dragon power. And just in time, because enemies are gathering.A war for control of the planet is brewing—one which would devastate dragon and human alike!The Mage assassins are no longer content to hide in the shadows. Their day has arrived, and they will rise to remake the world into a place without dragons.First they will need to contend with the Steel Dragon, either by drawing her into their web—or killing her. Kri...

Kristen Hall grew up a human—but she's not. She's a dragon.And dragonkind will never be the same.She's achieved some mastery over her powers and even defeated an enemy dragon.But nothing she has done has prepared her for what's coming next. Kristen has been invited to join Dragon SWAT—a force of dragons which serves to keep order among their species. But not every dragon is happy with the status quo; some see humanity as a threat which should be eli...