While global financial capital is abundant, it flows into corporate investments and real estate rather than climate change actions in cities. Political will and public pressure are crucial to redirecting funds. Studies of economic impacts underestimate the costs of climate disasters, especially in cities, so they undermine political commitments while understating potential climate-related returns. The shift of corporate approaches towards incorporating environmental, social, and governance...

The blood of Gods has changed the vampire race into an entirely new species, free to roam the vastness of The Everything.After searching for centuries, Grace and Ivan find what they have been looking for in The Everything—the ethereal child—only to discover something they hadn't expected: a hole in the membrane that separates the known world from the unknown. Grace wants to go through the mysterious opening, but is held back by the others. No one aside fro...

Welcome! All you will need to enjoy this book is a comfortable chair, a pillow, and a delicious cup of coffee. Get ready to experience laughter, tenderness, and see the sparkle in childrens eyes and relive more tantalizing memories from your yesteryear. I will take you down memory lane where you will recall first time joys and heartfelt loves in so many ways. We are all pretty much alike except for names, places, and times. Join me now and find your memories that you have forgotten, and re...

Centuries have passed since his mother disappeared after a conflict with outsiders.While the rest of the community carries on as if nothing has happened, Ivan's reassurances do little to convince Alex that she'll return. He finds himself overwhelmed by a sense of isolation and misery on Rasa. Upon discovering the grim news of Earth's devastating disaster and the evacuation of humanity, Alex sets off on a quest to a post-apocalyptic world, where his kind and other en...

Lilly isn't like other girls, but don't all girls think that?Then again, a nine-hundred-year-old vampire has the right to think she's something special. Living as a rogue on the edges of society, Lilly has gotten herself in deep this time. As the target of more than one powerful group, Lilly finds herself in a situation she may not be able to get out of. She can't elude them, but can she leverage herself into a better situation than she started with? All she needs ...

It was the type of cold that sunk into your bones.Deep darkness shielded ancient footings squirming with night creatures. Climbing the slope brought into view the bridge, emanating its own eerie glow and hanging by a single thread, as if physics held no influence there.The turned had discovered a whole new perspective on life away from earth. Along with it, a whole new dilemma as well.The expansion of the new race had its challenges. Not every speci...

Galin Eliassen came into existence as a vampire.Living in obscurity for centuries caused him to feel shame about his true nature. Hope for his species to emerge from the shadows was ignited by a new century and a business venture with his brother. It was only after he had forged a friendship with Vivienne and her brother that tragedy unfolded. What would make Galin turn the fiery Vivienne into a vampire when he could have so easily left her for dead in the alley wh...

Grace remembers nothing of her life before waking at the foot of an ancient statue in Scandinavia—nothing except the amulet she wears and the inexplicable abilities she cannot ignore. For seventeen hundred years, she has wandered the world with no past, no name, and no answers… until strangers begin shadowing her across continents.Determined to uncover who is hunting her—and why—Grace walks straight into the hands of a covert, global organization tracking beings wi...