Maya thought marrying a shadow demon warlord was the craziest thing she'd ever do. She was wrong.As she faces escalating attacks from hate groups, Maya discovers that having a hybrid baby doesn't make her vulnerable—it makes her dangerous.And Maya is about to face her biggest challenges yet.This is the explosive conclusion to Maya's journey from anxious barista to fierce mother, where she proves that sometimes the best response to people trying to silence you is to ...

One human barista. One supernatural fortress.When Maya Rivers takes a job at Pulse, a coffee shop in the heart of the Umbrafore Complex, she expects busy shifts and maybe the occasional grumpy vampire.What she doesn't expect is accidentally stumbling into supernatural fame or being targeted by a serial killer with a flair for theatrics.It's hard to keep a low profile when you work alongside supernatural warriors who protect humanity from magical threats.Join...

How can obedience and carrying out orders lead to horrific acts such as the Holocaust or the genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, or Bosnia? For the most part, it is a mystery why obeying instructions from an authority can convince people to kill other human beings, sometimes without hesitation and with incredible cruelty. Combining social and cognitive neuroscience with real-life accounts from genocide perpetrators, this book sheds light on the process through which obedience influences cogniti...

Fulvia was born into wealth, privilege, and prestige around the year 80 BCE, yet there was nothing inherently special about her—she was not a saint, an empress, or a queen. But during the years leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic, Fulvia was moving in the most powerful social circles, and by her death in 40 BCE she had amassed a degree of political and military power unprecedented for a woman.Fulvia's success came at considerable cost, however. None of her three marriages ...

Something is amiss with the world's magic. Spells don't work the way they used to—when they work at all. Only the powers of the Crystal Mages remain as they were, powers founded on the use of the mystical element adamis, the harvesting of which has enslaved the peoples of the Twilight Lands. Ravenous beasts have begun to appear, legendary creatures that seem to be proof against any magic. And Clea Stylachos, granddaughter of a great sage of the Twilight people, has reason to fear that the ...

Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the Vandals and the Goths, and as if this were not enough, wealthy beyond imagination. She made a name for herself by traveling with Belisarius on his military campaigns, deposing a pope, and scheming to disgrace important Roman officials. This unadulterated power and wealth did not mean that Belisarius and Antonina were ...

When Jen goes to her grandmother’s house for the last time, she’s determined not to dwell on the past. As a child, Jen adored Lily and suspected she might be a witch; but the spell was broken long ago and now her death means there won’t be any reconciliation. In Lily’s house, Jen and her daughter, Marianne, reluctantly confront the secrets of the past and present - and discover how dangerous we become when we’re trying to protect the ones we love.

Featuring a cross-cultural introduction to psychopomps, this book brings light to times of uncertainty and fear that often accompany the process of dying or its living corollary—the dark that comes from shame and the shadow parts of the self.Psychopomps & the Soul offers ancient wisdom to bring ease to modern distress around grief and inner darkness. Whether you experience loss through physical death or psychological soul death caused by living inauthentically, psychopomps...

This is an interactive self-help workbook and psychological road map to enable survivors of coercive, cultic, and spiritual abuse to find healing, recovery, and growth.This book provides a comprehensive guide to recovery, based on a tested model of post-cult counseling, and years of research and clinical experience. It is designed to help survivors of diverse abusive settings, including religious and spiritual, political, gangs, business, therapy and wellness, and one-on-one relati...

Step into the world of scandalous Tudor-era marriages in this delicious book from Sylvia Barbara Soberton . . .The newly-wed Anne Hastings faced her husband's wrath when her affair with William Compton was made public. Mary Tudor married to satisfy her brother's political need to ally with France, but when her decrepit royal husband died, she married the dashing Charles Brandon for love. William Parr, humiliated by his wife's extramarital affair, sought a divorce t...

British Architecture presents an original and engaging overview of the architecture of the British Isles, from medieval times to the present day. Avoiding the traditional approach of a chronological survey of architects and architectural style, each chapter presents a thematic exploration of key aspects of British architecture that endure across time and still have relevance today. Arnold also highlights the ways in which architecture can project national and regional identities.

Maya Rivers's post-resurrection body has developed magical broadcasting capabilities. Unfortunately, the signal feeds directly into her fiancé's nervous system. As if that weren't mortifying enough, she's also inherited a demonic estate with a flair for psychological warfare and a disturbing passion for cataloguing other people's trauma for fun and menace.Maya's juggling supernatural politics, a shadow-wielding warlord who moisturizes with military precision, and her body evolving ...