Queen Peydra ascends to the throne, but has a mere 12 years until Ruling Council will murder her.Can she escape the "Curse of Royalty"?Peydra must decide what she will do as she nears her coronation in a kingdom whose ruling body has used something they call the Protection Dictum to justify murdering the royal family for more than two centuries. Instead of being the warning against tyranny it was intended to be, the practice has become commonplace and threatens not only her...

"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy" by Sir J. A. Fleming is a pioneering work that explores the principles and applications of wireless telegraphy, a revolutionary technology that transformed communication in the early 20th century. Fleming, a prominent physicist and electrical engineer, delves into the theoretical foundations of electromagnetic waves and their practical uses in transmitting information without wires. His insights laid the groundwork for future advancements in radio techno...

Queen Peydra has refused to submit to the curse's inevitability for nine years, but...Still struggling against the darkness of the ever-nearing curse and growing affections for her mysterious attendant, Peydra has occupied the throne of Drayden for nine years. During that time, she has spent untold hours crafting a proposal to remove the Protection Dictum from the Law Books, but her hope flounders after a meeting during which Ruling Council ignores the main tenants of it, even in c...

Time is growing short. Merely two years remain before the curse will claim Queen Peydra's life and desperation steals some of her common sense.Despite advice to the contrary, Peydra returns to the palace after a disastrous visit to Old Towne and a six-week absence. She finds Speaker Erik cozy on her throne as regent. Determined to clarify whether he is friend or foe, the queen stubbornly puts herself at risk while Anthony and her allies fight to keep her safe.More of Anthon...

Desperation has consequences.Queen Peydra is in the hole, an unpleasant dark space in a Saiurian dungeon, thinking she may escape the Curse of Royalty only to end her days on foreign execution grounds.Reeling after Anthony reveals his true identity, Queen Peydra's recklessness initiates a string of events she quickly loses control of. And following a candid conversation with Anthony after their surprising liberation, she finds herself decidedly uncomfortable as she further ...

One of the most important questions of our previous common volumes about affective, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic disorders was the question of what connects and what separates psychotic disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizo affective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986; Marneros and Tsuang Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders, Springer-Verlag, 1990; Marneros, Andreasen, and Tsuang, Negative and Positive Schizophrenia, Springer-Verlag 1993). The boundaries between various psychotic d...