From Alexandra Bracken, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lore, comes a stunningly original adult fantasy. Set in a sumptuous world ruled by magical perfume, this achingly romantic, slow-burn love story will shatter your heart and leave you breathless.Members of the ancient Rosebourne family have a strange gift born of a fairy ancestor: the ability to infuse fragrance with magic capable of manipulating mind, body, and emotion.Whe...

From Alexandra Bracken, the New York Times bestselling author of Lore, comes a stunningly original romantasy. Set in a sumptuous world ruled by magical perfume, this achingly romantic, slow-burn love story will shatter your heart and leave you breathless.*****"Sensuous and enthralling, Immortal Rose blooms. This is the magical Bridgerton I've been waiting for with a vibrant heroine, an exceptional world, and my...

The No. 1 ** New York Times bestselling Silver in the Bone.  A deliciously addictive high-stakes fantasy duology from Alexandra Bracken, author of *****Lore. ***Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sarah J. Maas.'Simmering with magic, peril, romance, and heartbreak' - Leigh Bardugo, author of Six of CrowsJoin a deadly hunt fuelled by love...

*** Hunt, or be hunted: the houses of the ancient Greek heroes play a murderous game in this high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption - an instant no.1 New York Times bestseller. *** Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals. They are hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality. Long a...

The first book in the heart-stopping The Darkest Minds trilogy, by New York Times bestselling author of Passenger, for fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games.Now a major motion picture from the producers of Stranger Things and Arrival.Ruby is sixteen. She is dangerous. And she is alive. For now.A mysterious disease has killed most of America's c...

In an era of fractured geopolitics and AI-driven acceleration, Digital Sovereignty: The Power to Decide addresses a critical question facing leaders: will you decide your organization's digital future, or will it be decided for you? Sovereignty in a digital world is something you build to your design or lose by default. However, it is a myth that one can achieve sovereignty through isolation. This book argues that, in an interconnected world, protecting your interests and staying connected...

This is a special issue—our 50th, as you may have noticed from our cover. To celebrate, all past and present editors were to contribute a story. (It helps that they are also amazingly talented writers.) So we have stories from Michael Bracken, Barb Goffman, Paul Di Filippo, Darrell Schweitzer, and Cynthia Ward in addition to our other fare.But wait! There’s more!This issue features four original tales—Elizabeth Zelvin has a fantasy/mystery stories, Phyllis...

The Black Cat web site has been around for almost four years now, serving up a weekly buffet of new and classic mysteries—and more recently science fiction—to thousands of readers each week. Rather than continue to release all these novels and stories as individual ebooks, we have decided to bundle them up into a convenient weekly magazine…which is a lot more fun to work on!So here is Black Cat Weekly #1, the September 5, 2021 issue, for your enjoyment pleasure.To ...

Care for the environment is an ever more pressing concern in today's world in which narrow self-interest has blinded us to the growing pollution of atmosphere and seas and the destruction of animal species caused by our indifference and neglect. Christianity has been blamed in part for this because of a misunderstanding of the Biblical call to "have dominion" over creation. Our spiritual tradition has indeed so focused on human salvation that the Earth has been seen simply as a transient e...

WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART (OR STOMACH).From arterial spray ballets to flesh-rending freakouts, Sick Flicks: Volume 1 slices deep into 50 of the most unforgettable splatter films ever unleashed upon unsuspecting audiences. Whether it's George Romero's genre-defining Dawn of the Dead or the gut-wrenching insanity of Nacho Cerda's Aftermath, no gore gag goes unexamined.Written by Mike Bracken-better known as The Horror Geek...

Joseph A. Bracken argues that the failure of theology and science to generate cohesion is the lack of an integrated system of interpretation of the Christian faith that consciously accords with the insights and discoveries of contemporary science.In The World in the Trinity, Bracken utilizes the language and conceptual structures of systems theory as a philosophical and scientific grammar to show traditional Christian beliefs in a new light that is accessible and r...

When American secret agent Milo Stanich is found dead, agent Jack Wilson is sent to determine who killed him and to finish the job Stanich had been assigned: to keep a Pakistani scientist from selling fissile material to America’s enemies. In a wild, erotic tale of cross and double-cross that has Wilson working undercover to turn the Pakistani before the Russians can, Wilson beds the scientist, identifies Stanich’s killer, and brings his assignment-and the Pakistani scientist-to a satisfyi...