Werewolves. Vampires. Demons. For centuries, the Order has trained agents to fight what most of the world refuses to believe exists — magic, martial arts, and technology weaponized against things that shouldn't be possible.Jessica is twelve years old, and she wants in.It should be impossible. She's outmatching soldiers twice her age in combat and outthinking instructors three times her experience, driven by a hatred for the paranormal that runs deeper than anyone around her...

Sverre Walker was having a pretty good semester — right up until the girl from karate class tried to kill him.Jessica Luvkrafft isn't just a girl. She's a supernatural assassin sent to his college to hunt down a killer, and Sverre pinged her radar as something not entirely human. She was wrong about him being the killer. She wasn't wrong about the other part.Getting beaten half to death has a way of waking things up. Suddenly Sverre...

The crew barely escaped the Resurrection Crypt with their lives. Now they're paying for it.The supernatural half of the team licks its wounds in Xibalba — guests nobody invited, in a realm that doesn't do hospitality. Sverre's not faring much better. His werewolf side has stopped taking orders, and every shift is a threat to everyone around him. The only fix comes from Clan Cen'Ful. Their price does not come cheap.Still fugitives from the Order, Jessica and Malcolm race to ...

The Order fell first. That was the warning shot.Grigori Rasputin — ancient vampire lord, self-appointed god-in-progress — has stopped playing coy. His armies now occupy what's left of the United States, and the professionals who were supposed to stop this are gone. What's left is a ragtag militia and Sverre, trying to build an alliance out of people too smart, or too scared, to say yes.Because Grigori isn't just powerful anymore. He's become something the world has never ha...

The world is on fire, and Grigori Rasputin is just getting started.With the United States under his boot, the vampire lord turns his armies outward — hunting the Order's remaining bases and the artifacts of ancient power hidden inside them. Time is no longer on anyone's side.The Liberators and the Underworlders, enemies for centuries, forge an alliance neither side ever thought they'd need. Trust doesn't come easy when the hatred runs that deep, but survival has a way of re...

Vampire lords don't do subtle. When two of the oldest bloodlines alive decide it's time to settle old scores, they don't argue — they arm up. Tech that shouldn't exist. Resources deeper than most nations. Soldiers pulled from humanity's worst nightmares: shapeshifters, the undead, things that used to be spirits, and a few passengers from planes of existence that were never supposed to have a return ticket.The Order was built to handle exactly this. Emphasis on was....

The last 15 years has seen an explosion of studies that use cognitive science to understand theatre, whilst at the same time theatre-makers are using their artistic practice to address research question. This book looks at the current discourse around these emerging fields.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of the Dynamics of Coupled Structures, including papers on: Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics Joints, Friction & Damping, Nonlinear Substructuring, ...

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 36th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2018, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of the Dynamics of Coupled Structures, including papers on:Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics;Joints, Friction & Damping;Non...

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the fourth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of the Dynamics of Coupled Structures, including papers on:Methods for Dynamic SubstructuresApplications for Dynamic Substructure...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR PARTNER, YOUR PRIMARY PERSON, IN AN INSTANT BECOMES A SOURCE OF DANGER AND PAIN?The Betrayal Bind introduces new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing.Discovering a partner's sexual betrayal spins your world out of control. In a split second, your sense of safety is shattered, your trust is...

Johannine Literature offers some of the most beautiful, majestic, and profound theology contained within the entire biblical text. Within its works can be found the highest Christology, the capstone of eschatology, and the heartbreaking struggles of a community committed to Christ. However, it does not always get the attention it deserves in New Testament studies. This book seeks to remedy that by drawing together some of the most respected biblical scholars to bring their expertise to bea...