A warlord orders raiding parties to find and destroy the faithful followers of a goddess. A priest and followers flee and hide in a cave for safety, but the attackers approach their location. A young woman who has just discovered her true identity joins forces with others determined to rescue the trapped group and escort them to another world and safety. A peaceful king joins them after one of his subjects is kidnapped and tortured at the direction of the warlord. Together they plan to com...

A Poetical Cook-Book, authored by Maria J. Moss and first published in 1864, is a unique and charming blend of culinary instruction and poetic expression. This delightful volume stands out among 19th-century cookbooks for its creative approach, presenting recipes and household advice in the form of witty, rhyming verse. Moss’s work captures the spirit of Victorian domesticity, offering readers not only practical guidance for preparing a wide array of dishes—from soups, meats, and vegetable...

A dark priestess, intent on escaping through an enchanted door into another world, invokes a dragon from his prison, The Void, into the human body of a pirate so he can locate and capture a young but powerful light goddess to assist her in gaining her freedom.However, the longer the dragon stays in the pirate's body, the more human he becomes, and as he frantically searches for the young goddess, she is also searching for him to break the priestess's enchantment and send him back t...

Scott is a blue-collar worker who is in charge of street illumination. One day he is up in the cherry picker and a semi-truck driver has a fatal heart attack and hits the back of his truck while he's 30 feet up in the air. He is thrown from the basket and is critically injured from the fall. Scott dies and is revived several times in the ambulance and the emergency room. He has an out-of-body experience that makes him believe that he is dead. When his grandfather appears and tells him it's...

Clementine Brodeur must untangle her dead mother’s legacy before the clock runs out.My name is Clementine and my magic is making me lose sleep.My two sisters and I have forty-eight hours to find someone our talented mother could not. If we don’t succeed, someone will die.My magic allows me to see memories the dead leave behind--which forces me to relive the moment my mother was attacked by fae.I must tell my si...

Everybody says I look good on paper.I was adopted into the Winslow dragon clan, with their boatloads of status and wealth. I’m built like a superhero. I have loyal friends and a thriving surveillance business. Only, there’s so much more to my story.My parents are hellbent on mating me to a high society dragon. But the truth is I’m damaged goods. I’m twenty-nine, and my dragon form is stuck in adolescence. I have no wings, I’m afraid to use my magic, and not...

“If you had any doubt as to the food industry’s complicity in our obesity epidemic, it will evaporate when you read this book.”—The Washington Post#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • In this “propulsively written [and] persuasively argued” (The Boston Globe) exposé, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter uncovers an insidious truth: food companies are deliberately sacrificing our health to raise thei...

On an island in the Salish Sea, caretakers of the ancient orchards are vanishing. The earth witch in charge of protecting the land is on the cusp of losing her magic. And the druid sent to investigate magical crimes carries his own deadly secrets.All Calliope needs to do to strengthen her connection to the land is survive her Blood Ceremony - while simultaneously keeping her teenage sons’ magic from blowing up, and saving one enigmatic druid from from the hellion c...

In the heart of the Pyrenees mountains lies a hidden secret, waiting to be uncovered.In July 2005, in the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth.Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a...

On an island in the Salish Sea, caretakers of the ancient orchards are vanishing. The earth witch in charge of protecting the land is on the cusp of losing her magic. And the druid sent to investigate magical crimes carries his own deadly secrets.All Calliope needs to do to strengthen her connection to the land is survive her Blood Ceremony - while simultaneously keeping her teenage sons’ magic from blowing up, and saving one enigmatic druid from from the hellion capable of breakin...

Voyeurism comes with the territory, whether you're a gargoyle assigned to roof duty or a half-fae/half-human constrained by a magical contract.Rhain Beauchêne's perch is the roof of the Winslow's Park Avenue mansion. He's a Watcher, a position custom-made for gargoyles and one that suits his physical appearance and grouchy demeanor. He knows he can manage this second and final year of his contract without losing his mind to the monotony of his days--until the build...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labyrinth-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."—Kirkus ReviewsIn 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Léonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate is a subject of local superstition. Villagers claim that Léonie's late uncle died after summoning ...