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Everyone saw the video.No one believed Cora Franklin when she said the woman in it wasn’t her.Her nursing career is gone. Her money is running out. Then a handsome stranger offers her a lifeline: triple pay to live at his secluded estate and care for his wife.The wife wants Cora gone.The husband is the first person who makes her feel believed.Cora knows she shouldn’t trust him this quickly. She knows she shouldn’t want the life another woman already ...

The money you have today is the result of your actions.Your business is the result of your actions. Your relationships are the result of your actions. Your health is the result of your actions.But where do actions come from?They are driven by your emotions.And your emotions… are determined by how your mind interprets external events.Here's what most people never realize:You can change your money, your business, your relationships, your health...

Denial helped Diego survive childhood trauma, but if he wants a future with Beck, he must embrace the heritage he left behind.Eager to escape the shadows of a tragic loss, Diego walks away from the heritage his abuela offers. Right or wrong, he gambles and fights for a new and uncomplicated life. With his best friend at his side, Diego doesn't want to push the boundaries of their friendship. He's lost enough and doesn't want to lose Beck, too. When he fina...

Atmosphere Alert: Seek Pressurized Shelter ImmediatelyThe worst alert to get on the back side of the Moon. When a mine accident in the crater jeopardizes Heaviside City’s oxygen, Earth’s Home Alliance blames it on Resistance sabotage. Joe Drive, ex-Space Force pilot, wants to ignore it all. He’s done with the fight. But a determined widow demands Joe’s help proving her husband was murdered to hide the truth. Joe reluctantly agrees ...

The Lunar colony’s fate will be decided by one man’s actions – and he wants nothing to do with it.Joe Drive is done being a spacejet pilot, done fighting the Resistance. Living a quiet life on the far side of the Moon. Then an impossible request from the most beautiful woman in the Solar System brings a world of trouble to his door.Now assassins want him dead, the most powerful Elite off-Ea...

Two brothers, one storm.After he's kicked out for being gay, and still reeling from being abandoned by the man he loves, Jude goes to live with his brother, Beck, who thankfully is more than happy to take him in. But Jude has other secrets he's yet to share, for fear that even Beck will reject him, leaving him well and truly alone.When he draws the attention of werewolves, Jude discovers that everything he thought he knew about Levi, the man who ab...

Contract killers don't retire. They don't start over and they don't live normal lives.Zane Cortese doesn't care what the unspoken rules are and he breaks away from a life of murder to become a regular, law-abiding citizen. He settles down to do what he's always loved—writing songs.So what if he lives on a remote mountain side, has no friends, and there are discreet cameras situated all over his property. Being normal isn't as easy as it sounds. Zane's strug...

Outside the temple of Apollo at Delphi, Hermes recalls the time when Creusa, the daughter of Erectheus, was raped by Apollo in a cave at Long Rocks under the Acropolis. Creusa secretly gave birth to a child, whom she left in a basket, along with some trinkets, expecting that he would be devoured by beasts. Apollo sent Hermes to bring the boy to Delphi where he has grown up as an attendant at the temple. Creusa, meanwhile, was married to the foreign-born Xuthus, son of Aeolus, the son of Ze...

What if true creativity didn't come from within-but from something far beyond your control?In Ion, Plato explores the enigma of artistic inspiration through a dynamic exchange between Socrates and the famed rhapsode Ion. As Ion claims to possess expert knowledge of Homer's poetry, Socrates probes deeper, asking whether this mastery stems from skill-or from something irrational and divine.This modern translation makes Plato's dialogue vivid and accessible...

In Plato's Ion ocrates discusses with Ion, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession. It is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues.

In a meeting with a prize-winning rhapsode, Socrates investigates the link between artistic performance and genuine knowledge. The philosopher uses the metaphor of a magnetic chain to explain how divine inspiration flows from the muse to the poet and finally to the audience, bypassing the intellect entirely. The text questions whether performers truly understand the subjects they enact or if they are merely possessed intermediaries. It is a fascinating early inquiry into the psychology of ...

Euripides was one of the greatest Greek tragedians and is considered one of the most important figures in ancient literature. Euripides is thought to have written close to 100 plays and almost 20 of them have survived. This edition of Ion includes a table of contents.