If you could heal your own body, what risks would you take?When a childhood accident reveals Betha has a talent for magic, her terrified family insist she must never use it, for in Tyr-en, sorcery attracts the death penalty.Brokered in marriage to an elderly lord, Betha must give up her dreams of serving in the kingdom's guard, but as court life and intrigue become her adult world, she starts to discover there are advantages to her new position.Sett...

What if the magic that could save your loved ones condemns you to death?Rakish royal spy, Rustam Chalice, loves his life the way it is, so when the kingdom he serves is threatened from within, he leaps into action. To his dismay the spymaster prince teams him up with an untouchable aristocratic assassin. To make matters worse, she's the most beautiful woman in the Five Kingdoms.Plunged into a desperate journey over the mountains, the mismatched pair struggl...

Think 'Lord of the Rings' with a 'Game of Thrones' edge.Nessa Haddo has been raised to pursue what every young noblewoman needs: a suitable husband. Unfortunately for her, as a younger twin, her prospects are limited.Things start to look up when she lays eyes on the handsome foreign envoy sent to escort her sister to an arranged marriage, but her romantic fantasies quickly entangle her in events beyond her darkest nightmares.Compared to his last mi...

Dive into an epic tale of magic, intrigue, and deadly politics, spiced with a pinch of romance and overshadowed by the mortal threat of a deity at war with itself."I'm not sure what I was expecting when I started reading 'The Prince's Man', but the reality blew me away." ★★★★★ ReviewRustam Chalice serves the spy-master prince with loyalty and enthusiasm – especially when that means smooching high-born ladies for pillow talk. But when a threat to th...

Read the gripping conclusion to The Five Kingdoms...King Marten's reign teeters on a blade's edge. Chel's Casket, symbol of his right to rule, is missing. Can master spies Rustam and Risada recover it before someone notices its absence and challenges Marten's sovereignty? Or is there a more sinister motive behind the disappearance of the casket—a relic that could be used to raise Charin, the demonic half of the dual-natured divinity?As a series of na...

Following on from The Prince's Son, continue reading the gripping Five Kingdoms fantasy adventure...In the aftermath of the devastating coup, King Marten strives to rebuild his subjects' confidence in the throne, but not all his councillors believe the young monarch is ready to rule alone. An assassin's stalking him, his closest advisor has been murdered, and rumours have surfaced that the malicious god's cult is reborn.As Marten grapples with a da...

She's a force of Nature, and someone is trying to use her...On the surface she's a cute and feisty blonde, a slender pocket rocket fitness coach. But Cassiopeia Lake has a secret: she's really a force of Nature - an elemental.Water sprite, Cassie, has lived undisturbed in her native Scottish loch for eons. Now, one encounter too many with modern plumbing had driven her to live in human guise along with her selkie boyfriend, Euan. It's all going fin...

Twenty-four of the most exciting voices in genre fiction bring you the world and the stars, each in their own individual way.Stories that explore the vast grandeur of the universe, worlds close to us, worlds far in the distance. Alternate Earths, colonies in the sky, engineered worlds, mystical battlegrounds, pirate seas, underground caverns, journeys in time and across the stars.

Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom introduces faculty, administrators, and staff to creative techniques that can be incorporated into the classroom at undergraduate and graduate levels. These techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences can enhance learning and support professional development experiences for students and faculty alike.While faculty are experts in their disciplines, many are not formally trained in effective or evidence-based...

The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality—which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world’s population currently live.Across more than twenty chapters, the three parts of the book cover historical and scientific perspectives on the city as an ecosystem; human rights to the city in relation to urban sustainabili...

Fiddle-de-fizz, 'tis magic, it is!When leprechauns find each other.Count from one to ten as one little leprechaun looking for treasure magically becomes ten silly leprechaun friends at the end of the rainbow! A humorous, rhyming celebration of St. Patrick's Day!

When Scottish water sprite, Cassie, volunteers for an anti-fracking protest, the last thing she expects is to find herself at odds with a druid. But with time running out for the local environment, she can't afford to be distracted by the handsome hunk of a Highlander.Intent on a minor act of sabotage, Cassie is totally unprepared to be caught in the cross-fire of a magical battle. Can she avert catastrophe? Or will she become the very agency of an ecological disaster?A Cal...