A week before Fiona's confirmation, her grandmother tells her a story of adventure on the high seas, and reveals a family secret she has been protected from her whole life.

Fiona must go to great lengths to hear the continuation of Heth's story; meanwhile, Sebastian loses a valuable asset that could put his meeting with the king in jeopardy.

The Bernese Oberland lies at the heart of the Swiss Alps, home to some of the most iconic mountain scenery in Europe. Towering above deep glacial valleys and turquoise lakes are legendary peaks such as the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, backed by higher summits including the Finsteraarhorn and Schreckhorn. Well-engineered mountain paths cross high passes, circle glacier-clad massifs and link welcoming huts and traditional alpine villages, making this region one of the finest trekking d...

Trekking Chamonix to Zermatt is the definitive guide to the Walker's Haute Route – a 14-stage, 215km traverse of the Pennine Alps connecting the world's two greatest mountaineering centres, with 14,500m of ascent and the summits of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn watching over every step.The route crosses 11 high passes, almost one per day, through some of the finest alpine scenery in Europe. From Chamonix you climb over the Col de Balme into Switzerland and begin a ...

As Fiona struggles to understand the dark side of the Regency, Shim and Jackie combat a new kind of monster while Thora reacts to Captain Sebastian's gruesome surprise.

Behind the Blue Beret is my memoir of my military enlistment in the United States Air Force as a Security Forces Member. Not only have I been involved in a number of law enforcement situations, air base defense attacks in a location that only a select few service members have ever traveled in, and humorous personal situations to boot. But I received numerous injuries to my back, and psychological trauma that relates to several million newer and hundreds of millions of older veterans throug...

Jackie and Shim’s search for fresh water tests their friendship and introduces them to some deadly local fauna. Thora tries to escape from her captor, the cruel Captain Sebastian.

Baxter believed that family worship is God’s will, a conviction that profoundly shaped and motivated his pastoral ministry in Kidderminster. It is said that, at the beginning of his ministry, hardly one family to a street honored God in family worship; by the end of his ministry, there were streets on which every family upheld the practice.In A Practical Theology of Family Worship, Jonathan Williams examines Baxter’s context, the encouragements he gave for family worship, ...

As Heth's story nears its conclusion on the eve of Fiona's confirmation, Heth tells of Jackie once again putting the lives of others in danger, although this time he might have gone too far. Meanwhile, an unlikely bond forms between two women.

Jackie and Shim face off against a powerful supernatural foe with the help of a mysterious local huntress--only to find themselves betrayed by their own men.

Jonathan Williams’s poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic. This new, much enlarged edition of Blues and Roots displays all of the above. Williams has tramped the Appalachian Trail for decades, botanizing, jotting down specimens of authentic American speech, graffiti, superstitions, and nostrums—always curious, alert, and affectionately attentive. Blues and Roots focuses ...

As the day of Fiona’s confirmation draws near, Jackie and Shim—and Thora—try to find a way to escape their imprisonments.