With Danforth in ruins, Parliament gathers to discuss their next course of action, leaving King Peter's right to rule in the balance. If deposed, the crown passes to his youngest daughter, Victoria, and Blackwood fears she would become a pawn for Parliament's schemes.Meanwhile, the streets of the Holy City, Illios, are tainted with blood. However, the Lucius Ambulate enforces silence among those within its walls. Anden never trusted men of the cloth, but this seems strange even for...

After the decades-long war between the kingdom and the rebellion ended, Blackwood thought his burden as chancellor would lessen. Now, he stresses day and night investigating an attempt on the king's life to prove his suspicions, which mean nothing without evidence. Desperate, he resorts to summoning the greatest mind in the continent. Unfortunately for him, the one to possess it is his greatest adversary in the court of Parliament.Many celebrated the end of the war, but Anden wasn'...

This is the story of the adventures of Stobcross Gentlemen's Climbing Club. Against all the odds thrown up by the Scottish weather, faulty map reading and the symptoms of physical decline, they strove to maintain the fine traditions of Scottish mountaineering. They battled through their Munros and Corbetts whilst valiantly trying to celebrate Burns' Night, Guy Fawkes Night and Hogmanay in a ritual calendar of the Scottish Hills. Alongside these adventures are explorations of a different ki...

This book is a collection of 108 Haiku and Senryu poems written over a period of twenty years. It details those precious moments of life in whose ordinariness might otherwise go by unacknowledged save for the gift of Haiku.The Haiku is more than a poem, it is an art form that suspends eternity in simple things. As an avid practitioner of this craft Scott aspires to this notion and to capture the ever illusive 'Haiku moment'.

Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and Royalty.

When my cousin Jax bails me out after a bar fight, I head to his middle-of-nowhere cabin.I don't mindI was made to be a mountain man.I’m not the only person staying at Jax’s place.His wife’s cousin, Honor, is here too.Suddenly this mountain is looking a hell of a lot better.When Honor tells me her life is complicated it’s the understatement of the century.Besides having a tender heart and the face of an angel, she’s a sister-wife, on the run from her ex, desperate to give her children a be...

Explaining the process and energetics of Daoist internal alchemy, the author describes in detail the practice of Nei Dan, the alchemical firing practice of Daoism that has until very recently been a closely guarded secret.Drawing together a huge amount of esoteric material on the hidden aspects of Daoist practice, he presents theory and practice coherently for Western practitioners. He offers his own experiences of each stage of attainment, describing the tangible results that shou...

Climbing The Mountain is a user’s guide to the cancer experience. In it, the authors present a narrative of a cancer patient who used preparation (research), practice (exercise and activity), and a variety of social supports to live well within the parameters that cancer imposes. They consider how the scope and texture of preparation, practice, and social support changes along cancer s trail. Accordingly, they consider how to cope with the stresses and strains of diagnosis, first trea...

The majestic Santa Ana Mountains cover one thousand square miles and much of the Cleveland National Forest in Orange, Riverside and San Diego Counties. Unlike other designated wild lands close to huge population centers, the rugged Santa Anas remain largely primordial. Dominated by Old Saddleback and its twin peaks of Modjeska and Santiago, this beautiful range, visible from much of the Los Angeles Basin, remains the last intact coastal ecosystem in Southern California. Home to Native Amer...

Idaho is the last place a man like me would ever expect to find the woman of his dreams.But there she is, running a Bed & Breakfast, with her heart-shaped face and magnetic smile.And she has no idea who I am.Just like me, there is more to Laila than meets the eye--this girl has been broken more times than she can count. She's lost all faith in a man ever helping her piece together her shattered dreams.But she's never met a mountain man like me.The distanc...

A mysterious mountain, a blood-red moon and a ring with strange engravings on it; these are the images that have haunted Boston socialite Abigail Rose Claremont’s dreams since she became a Christian. Though she prays for divine revelation and guidance, she receives no answer until she makes a fateful decision to escape an arranged marriage. Together with her friend, Lucinda, she sets out on a journey that takes her to a hidden world of unspeakable horror and injustice and where she learns ...

Baby Mitchell was an August squirrel. That is, he was born in the month of August. His pretty gray mother found a nice hole, high up in the crotch of a tall chestnut tree, for her babies' nest; and I know she lined it with soft fur plucked from her own loving little breast,—for that is the way the squirrel mothers do. This chestnut tree grew on the side of a steep mountain,—none other than Mount Mitchell, the highest mountain peak in all the eastern half of the United States. It is in Nort...