Before Scaramouche and Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini was already spinning tales of sword and irony. In the Somerset of 1685, a gentleman wins a reluctant bride in a quarrel over a toast just as the Duke of Monmouth lands at Lyme to raise his doomed rebellion — and a single incriminating letter, fallen into the wrong hands, can send them all to the gallows. Swift, witty, and bright with steel, this edition presents Sabatini's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated wit...

Angels Before Man: Revised and ExtendedA Queer Retelling of Satan's FallIn an eternal paradise, the most beautiful angel, Lucifer, struggles with shame, identity, and timidity, with little more than the desire to worship his creator.It isn't until the strongest angel, Michael, comes into his life that Lucifer learns to love himself. Along the way, their friendship begins to bloom into something else. Maybe the first romance in the history o...

A man of many talents—naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, and political commentator—Alfred Russel Wallace made seminal contributions to science in the nineteenth century. With Wallace in the Field, Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva unpacks the early life of one of the most beloved and famous Victorian scientific figures. Focusing on Wallace’s significant contribution to the emergence of anthropology, Limeira-DaSilva traces the peripatetic trajectory of Wallace’s field work, from h...

What if the biggest lie you believe is the one you tell yourself?You were not born hiding who you are. You did not start life pretending you weren't hurt, hiding your tears, or letting people cross your lines just to keep them happy. But as you grew up, you learned that being yourself did not feel safe. You learned to smile when you were sad. You learned to be cold, strong, and perfect-just to feel loved.In The Lie at Red Heat, R...

All Francis Fische has ever wanted is love and acceptance.His mother died the day he was born, leaving his father emotionally absent. Raised by a grandmother whose love comes with quiet control, Francis searches for something that always feels just out of reach.But life begins to change when he meets Mitch, a loud and reckless friend who pulls him from the lonely world he lives in. And when Mitch's cousin, Eve, enters his life, Francis experiences feelings he doesn't yet und...

'A profound and elegaic tale' SUNYI DEAN'If, like me, you're interested in what comes after the war, what sins and saints it begets, this is the book you want this year' C. L. CLARK'A dark fairytale of epic proportions' J.T. GREATHOUSE'A gothic love letter to high seas, deep love, and the epic stakes of a world at risk. The spirit of Poe infused with Samantha Shannon, and perfect for fans of both' R.R. VIRDI...

This Brief addresses the intersection between diplomacy and cyberspace, with the chief aim of bringing conceptual clarity to an area that has become exponentially complex. Specifically, it proposes a novel categorization to organize this conceptual space into three interrelated domains: cyberdiplomacy, digital diplomacy, and tech diplomacy. The authors argue that these concepts - rather than used interchangeably - should be differentiated based on their orientation towards rationales of na...

"Psychotherapist Santandreu takes a practical look at finding happiness ... His tough love approach will help readers looking to stop negative self-talk and transform their inner dialogue." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYBestselling author Rafael Santandreu knows how to ensure our happiness in life. One of the most prestigious psychologists in Spain, he has established his own renowned center of psychotherapy and has laid the foundations of a new era in the treatment of emotio...

What lies hidden beneath the sky we think we know? Rafael Montoya Vidal's extraordinary debut, *Beneath the Dome: Confessions of the Keepers*, pulls back the curtain on a world hidden in plain sight — a vast, crystalline dome enclosing an entire city, maintained in secrecy by a small fraternity of technicians who have dedicated their lives to keeping the greatest architectural secret in human history. Structured as seven interlocking testimonies, the book introduces readers to the men and ...

Rafael Sabatini rose from utter obscurity to become the premier adventure novelist of the early 20th century, producing some of the most popular and thrilling novels of the era.Collected here are four of Sabatini's most beloved classics: "The Sea-Hawk" (1915), "Scaramouche" (1921), "Captain Blood" (1922) and "Bellarion the Fortunate" (1926).Filled with epic sea battles, romance, betrayal, revenge and derring-do, each of these books has been adapted multiple times to the sta...

Thirty seconds. One voice. A life undone.Michael Osei is a man of no particular consequence. Thirty years old, single, living in a small apartment with a squeaking ceiling fan and a habit of burning his toast. He works at a print shop. He walks the same streets every day. He is, by his own admission, quietly invisible.Then, on an ordinary Thursday in October, he hears a woman’s voice in a crowded market. Low. Unhurried. Warm in a way that bypasses the ears and goes...

Four books of the occult and other more everyday forms of female superiority over the male from the pen of Rafael Menton.CONTAINS:"A SHOCK TO HIS SYSTEM"; "A LONG AND PERMANENT FALL"; "ADHIRA KHATRI"; and "HIS CHINESE VENUS".Rafael Menton is a UK-based Professor of English Literature with a retro passion for the early to mid-twentieth-century fiction of mystery, crime, suspense, and horror & romance with erotic female-led undertones. Mr Menton’s literary tastes rang...