Arcana, Called follows Hadley Quinn, a thirty-year-old skeptic who pulls the Death card duringa tourist tarot reading in Salem—and watches her world fracture when the prophecy comestrue. In a universe where each Major Arcana card claims a living vessel, Hadley becomes onehalf of The Lovers, bound to a stranger she resents, haunted by a friend she lost, and huntedby those who've fallen from fate. The trilogy blends urban fantasy, romance, and mythic horror...

He's a dominant, feared Alpha.She's a pampered princess raised to hide her wolf.The bond between them? Explosive. Unwanted. Unbreakable.When Rosewater's perfect daughter Carlotta is denied the Alpha role she secretly prepared her whole life for, she's forced to travel with her family to Ironclaw-a wild pack ruled by instinct, strength, and the dangerously magnetic Alpha Kastin.The moment they meet, the mate bond snaps.He wants her.She fear...

Against all odds, Adirah Messa has been accepted to Billet University, a prestigious institution founded in the 1800s for people of color. Determined to excel, she arrives at the university intent on minimizing distraction and focusing on her studies. That goal is soon interrupted when she is noticed by members of the “in” crowd, who invite her to the most popular frat party on campus.Adirah finds herself smitten with someone of another race and is taken on a ride she can never ret...

Maren Juliette Holt has spent years convincing herself she's okay on her own.Between teaching preschool, late-night romance novels, and quiet routines shared with her cat, she's built a life that's safe. Predictable. Manageable.But safe isn't the same as happy.After too many relationships that left her feeling unwanted, forgettable, or simply too much, Maren has stopped believing in the kind of love she reads about in books.Then she meets Beckham Wilder Tate.Charmin...

Remembering My Galactic Mission – A Lightworker’s Journal is a powerful and intimate account of one lightworker’s awakening and remembrance of her true galactic origins. What began as a private journal of spiritual experiences soon became a cosmic testimony—guided by higher, multidimensional beings who urged her to share their messages with humanity. Spanning over a decade of profound encounters, this book takes you behind the veil of ordinary perception into the vast realms of sp...

The Middle East and North Africa region has been plagued with civil wars, international interventions, and increasing militarization, making it one of the most war-affected areas in the world today. Despite numerous mediation processes and initiatives for conflict resolution, most have failed to transform conflicts from war to peace. Seeking to learn from these past efforts and apply new research, Fraihat and Svensson present the first comprehensive approach to mediation in the Arab world,...

"A solid series starter that never flags in its sprint to a sinister climax." - Kirkus Reviews"OUR VERDICT: GET IT"_____________________Alex reviewed the coroner's report from Max's police hack while sipping a drink from the jet's well-stocked bar. The report stated the cause of death was internal bleeding and head trauma caused by the collision. The coroner had ruled the death accidental. But Alex Greene, an attorney turned insurance investigator, suspected differen...

Relationships often suck... until we find that special someone that fits our lives just right.We clawed, we scratched, and we chomped at the bit for our own slice of the good life. Fights, misspoken words, hardships, battles, and other things made us feel like we weren't going to survive, much less thrive or love. We searched for wealth, longevity and even a home; not necessarily in the brick and mortar sense.Those bad things brought us to the moment we found ourselves trul...

Arguing for a retrieval of the landmark work, Gods Fierce Whimsy, Stina Busman Jost establishes the critical importance of this volume for the construction of a dialogic theological method. This is accomplished through a close reading of Gods Fierce Whimsy in which the author identifies key methodological characteristics informing the volumes formation. Critical importance also is established through interviews with the volumes authors, the Mud Flower Coll...

Debuting her second novel with the Urban family, author Stina continues her sexy African American fantasy series. Follow Adirah as she navigates the dark underworld of vampires...When she entered school at a recently integrated college in North Carolina, Adirah Messa was looking forward to a bright future. Then she met a man of another kind who turned her world upside down.After being turned into a blood-sucking being and then giving birth to a child father...

Can the Christian life be lived alone?When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single"—struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts.In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found community in an unexpected place: an order of Catholic nuns in her neig...

Hailed an immediate classic of Finnish literature on its publication in 1978 and an international bestseller that has been translated into 19 languages, Märta Tikkanen’s verse novel is a haunting, profoundly evocative portrait of one woman’s fraught relationship with her alcoholic husband, inspired by the author's own experience. In language that is as delicate as it is fierce, Tikkanen explores the depths of fear and violence that often accompany addiction and the struggle to reconcile th...