Once, she believed love was enough to bind her to the human world. She chose legs over a tail, the warmth of his arms over the embrace of the sea. For a time, it seemed she had won happiness.But salt is never far from memory. One taste, and the ocean's call returns—relentless, seductive, impossible to ignore. Torn between the man who steadied her heart and the tide that has always claimed her soul, she struggles to hold to the life she built on land.When a storm brings back t...

Moonlight medicine. A broken vial. A vampire who won't take no for an answer.Denise Haddad is a metaphysical pharmacist: part chemist, part healer, and the last defense between ordinary people and supernatural catastrophe.When she loses her final supply of yarrow, her only option is to beg help from Norton—the arrogant ex-mentor who turned himself into a vampire and still thinks he owns her. He wants control. She needs the cure.This time, Denise won't back down....

The ice is melting. The humans are coming. And one troll still stands guard.High in the Arctic wilderness, where the aurora ripples across endless night, Irba endures. She is a troll of legend, older than the glaciers themselves, bound to the earth and to Ranok, the great polar bear who shares her hunts and her silence. Together they roam the snowfields and guard the hidden places of the north, sustained by magic as ancient as the mountains. But with each passing season, the ice re...

Madeleine Dubois has four kids to wrangle, a divorce to finalize, and two surgeries on the calendar before lunch. The last thing she needs is a kitchen full of unwashed medieval emissaries demanding that she save their kingdom.But the "chosen one" they came for isn't a dreamy fifteen-year-old girl—it's Madeleine, a very tired, very under-caffeinated, thirty-nine-year-old orthopedic surgeon.Dragons, destiny, and magic don't scare her nearly as much as missed school buses and...

A paranormal women’s fiction cozy mystery – because midlife can be a real witch!It’s been less than a month since Juniper “JJ” Jones discovered (at the tender age of 46) that she was a witch and moved to the magical beach town of Miracle Bay. Now she’s running her grandmother’s bookstore with the aid of a tarot-reading fire witch and a snarky familiar who looks like a black cat but claims he isn’t (long story).Everything is running smoothly (more or less) u...

A collection of tips made for the novice dom and some tips for reminders for the more experienced doms and masters.

Are you looking to pass the coveted Cisco CCNA - Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions exam? There are so many study guides to choose from, but most of them only serve to confuse students with unnecessary technical jargon and useless information rather than teach them what they need to know to pass the exam and actually apply what they have learned to the real world of IT.All syllabus topics are covered including:Configure and troubleshoot VLANs and Trunking

Munshi Premchand (1880-1936)Premchand was the pen name adopted by the Hindi writer Dhanpatrai who was born on 31 July 1880 at Lamati near Varanasi. His early education was in a madarasa under a Maulavi, where he learnt Urdu. When he was studying in the ninth class he was married, much against his wishes. He was then fifteen. In 1919, while he was a teacher at Gorakhpur, he passed his B.A., with English, Persian and History. He had a second marriage with Shivarani Devi, a child-wido...

A book of poetry with 15 poems. Themes include: love, romance, searching for love, joy, and heartbreak. Each poem is written from the heart.

أَبُو عَبْدِ اللّٰهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱللّٰهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ٱللَّوَاتِيّ ٱلطَّنْجِيّ المعروف بابْنِ بَطُّوطَةَ، ولد في (24 فبراير 1304 - 1377م بطنجة) (703 - 779هـ) هو رحالة ومؤرخ وقاض من قبيلة لواتة بالمغرب الأقصى،[5] لقب بـأمير الرحالين المسلمين. خرج من طنجة سنة 725 هـ فطاف بلاد المغرب العربي ومصر والحبشة والشام والحجاز وتهامة ونجد والعراق وبلاد فارس واليمن وعمان والبحرين وتركستان وما وراء النهر وبعض الهند والصين وجاوة وبلاد التتار وأواسط أفريقيا والأندلس. واتصل بكثير من الملوك والأ...

Never answer her question, she just might not like your answer.

Получив назначение на должность детектива-констебля сыскной полиции Нового Вавилона, Леопольд Орсо и помыслить не мог, что отныне ему придётся выслеживать суккубов, изгонять полтергейсты и охотиться на оборотней. Но даже когда новая работа стала рутиной, его продолжает бросать в дрожь от воспоминаний о первом расследовании, деле Кровавого дерева.Вторая Империя раскинулась от океана и до океана, в небесах реют армейские дирижабли, воды бороздят броненосцы, но в основе могущества гос...