On the eve of a brutal battle, a queen-in-waiting alters the course of history and awakens the embers of a fabled war - and a love - older than time.Growing up during the centuries-long conflict between the empires of Egypt and Hatti, the young princess Istara is taken hostage by the King of Hatti to secure the loyalty of her father, the King of Kadesh to the empire. Soon her new life in Hatti's glittering capital becomes all she knows. Bound in blood before the go...

The complete award-winning Transcendence series from E A CarterResearched for 5 years, part historical fiction, part fantasy with a hint of time travel, this sweeping epic is soaked with betrayal, empire crushing stakes, and a forbidden love affair destined to disrupt the sacred silence of the gods, and change the course of history. Forever.Includes:The Lost Valor of LoveThe Call of EternityThe Rise of the Goddess"Sumptuous description, chara...

In a near-future world of brutal inequality, she’s a weaponized asset captured by the enemy. He’s a dead soldier resurrected as a machine to retrieve her. He loves her. She believes he is dead.In a dying world divided into a luxurious enclave for the elite in the far north of Canada and Greenland, and the billions left to survive outside its impenetrable walls, Cassandra’s ability to alter reality marks her as a valuable asset to Global Command.Lost in a te...

This edited volume explores the various and unique motivations driving the rapidly-growing esports industry, which attracts attention and financial investment from major sponsors, athletic organizations, and entertainment values. Contributors draw on a variety of perspectives and theoretical vantage points to examine the multitude of traditions, cultures, expectations, and rituals that different stakeholders factor into their motivation to play and watch esports. Scholars of media studies,...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Narrated using a digital clone of the author's own voice, produced and reviewed by E A Carter.Based on the author's lived experience, The Lost Letters offers practical insight, understanding, and hope to those experiencing or recovering from narcissistic abuse.If you have been in a relationship with a narcissist, experienced their discard, or...

Growing up during the centuries-long conflict between the empires of Egypt and Hatti, the young princess Istara is taken hostage by the King of Hatti to secure the loyalty of her father, the King of Kadesh to the empire. Soon her new life in Hatti's glittering capital becomes all she knows. Bound in blood before the gods to Hatti's unwilling crown prince, Istara, now Hatti's queen-in-waiting, learns she will never be loved.But the drums of war beat again, and when the scheming plan...

In a world older than time, a portal stirs from its long slumber. From out of its cerulean mists, the warship of the scion of darkness and destroyer of worlds emerges. With its gods long gone, Elati is a world ripe for the taking. Marduk intends to take it all.Corrupted by Marduk's devices, Sethi succumbs to the grip of evil. A brutal, merciless commander, he oppresses the kingdoms of Elati, his violence awakening a weapon of the deepest darkness. Poisoned by lies and tainted by ha...

In the epic sequel to The Lost Valor of Love, worlds collide, and gods and mortals cross paths, kingdoms fall, and ancient, long-buried hatreds stir.In the heavens, the storm god Teshub discovers two of the most powerful gods of the pantheon have fallen to a world torn apart by rivalry, war, famine, and plagues. Soon, he learns, he too must fall.In the north, a crown prince ascends the throne, his queen taken by his enemy as compensation for the crimes of his fathe...

The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fringe of letters during the last third of the nineteenth century. However, the nineteenth century's preoccupation with decadence provides us with a key to the secret places of its thought, to all the obscure passages and backstairs behind the triumphant façade. Between 1814 and 1914, there was no sense of disaster, no tragic sense. Civilization h...

Learn why narcissists target certain people, spot their red flags, and get strategies to escape, heal, and live again.If you have experienced being in a relationship with a narcissist, gone through their discard, or are currently in one and just trying to cope, you will find support in these pages written by a survivor of extreme coercive control and narcissistic abuse who fled her marital home with her three cats to another country and rebuilt her life from nothin...

The contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic, sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary lyric powers; he was a master of eerie harmonies such as few other poets have achieved, and, in Sagesse, he produced religious verse which challenges comparison with the very best of its kind. Yet here and there can be found a curious weakening in the texture of thought and inspiration: he turns and twists, takes flight, seeks reassu...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the way organizations communicate, collaborate, and coordinate everyday business and industrial processes. Adoption of IoT technologies has proven beneficial to organizations that manage large numbers of assets and coordinate complex and distributed processes. Decades ago, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) pioneered the sensor, computer networking, and communications technology that serve as the foundation of IoT, but today the U.S. military ...