After a fleeting encounter when they're in Juniors, Ryan "RJ" Russell and Lars Nilsson find themselves thrown back together years later when they end up on the same NHL team. Being friendly to a new teammate just got way more complicated. It's one thing to have a one night stand with someone from another country; it's a whole other mess to sleep with your teammate. Neither of them can afford to make waves, not when Ryan needs a new contract and Lars is already escaping a scandal. If sparks...

Dylan Everett is a superstar. First round pick. Two-time Stanley Cup champion. Gold-medal Olympian. Elite goal scorer. Captain of the Albuquerque Turkeys. He's had a great career...up until his best friend / linemate / kind of boyfriend decided to change teams.Luc-Henri Baptiste is not a superstar. He thought he had that in him, but after being bounced around a couple of teams, he's given up that dream. He just wants to play hockey. When he's traded to the Turkeys, he worries this ...

High in the hills of Scotland, an ancient evil has returned. One young woman struggling to master her magic is the only hope to stop it.Georjie longs to unlock the full force of her fae-given powers. So when she’s invited to Scotland, she’s eager to explore the Highlands’ famed fairy realm hoping to find a mentor. But instead of unearthing a teacher, she discovers a mummified body within the walls of a seventeenth-century ruin.Teaming up with a handsome ama...

**The Instant New York Times Bestseller • One of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of the Year"The rare celebrity memoir that's also a literary read. As funny as it is reflective, it shares stories behind Pacino's hardscrabble upbringing, classic films and journey to icon status." —People Magazine**From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in fullTo the w...

A mermaid's quest for love makes waves.It's time to leave the ocean. Mira has been at sea for... well, she doesn't know how many years. It's hard to keep track of time when you live in the vast depths of the ocean. But after countless years, the relentless call of the salt water triggers the desire to procreate, and her time is up.For weeks, Mira has been tirelessly swimming north, her heart set on finding a mate. Finding a partner is the most important thi...

A powerful artifact, a secret society, an ancient evil. Can Ibby embrace her destiny as Inconquo guardian before an ages-old demon is unleashed on London?Ibby’s parents gave up everything for a chance at a better life. So, after a terrible accident leaves her alone in London, Ibby works her internship at the British Museum and goes to her classes to make them proud.But when Ibby finds a strange artifact and encounters a mysterious professor in the bowels of...

Worship is often approached as obligation, habit, or duty fulfilled. When this happens, its meaning thins, and the heart grows tired of what was meant to steady it.In The Purpose of Worship, this quiet reflection returns to an older understanding: worship as alignment rather than transaction, as return rather than reward. Drawing on the spiritual insights of Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, the book explores why worship can feel heavy or empty, and what that experience reveals a...

Beltane Fire is a Short Story taking place a year prior to Broomstick.It was my freshman year when my best friend introduced me to the spring festival in Hawthorne University. I was studying for finals, but she said everyone, absolutely everyone, goes to Beltane. Because Hawthorne is weird.Men in red paint jumped flames. Ladies in white dresses with lovely flower garlands awaited the May Queen. But none of that interested me—until I decorated a tree with a super cu...

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in fullTo the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just successes but landmarks i...

'What is it that makes the history of the Second World War so compelling? Why are the Afflicted afflicted? With these chapters we hope to offer some idea of our approach to, and understanding of, the war, while never forgetting the tumult and terror that came with defeating tyranny. Maybe you will become Afflicted too'AL MURRAY'At the time of writing, we have recorded nearly one thousand episodes of the podcast. That's a lot and has ...

You followed the instructions.You felt it. Journaled it. Analyzed it. Tried to heal it.So why do you feel more exhausted, more vigilant, and less at home in yourself?The Resolutionary™'s Guide to Coming Home explores what can happen when healing quietly becomes another form of pressure-when self-awareness becomes self-surveillance, reflection becomes rumination, and "doing the work" leaves the nervous system feeling even less safe.Across eleven inti...

This book offers practical advice for our everyday lives taken from the Qur'an and Sunnah. It shows us how to purify our hearts, since a heart that is not pure cannot find tranquillity.