Bodyguard Celia Graves has survived a vampire attack which made her a half-vampire and awakened her latent Siren abilities. Celia's hellish recent experiences have given her the unique combination of abilities needed to overcome a childhood curse and to close an ancient rift between the demonic dimension and our own.
USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Megan Linski composes a historical medieval romance of dragon shifters, magical fae, and fantasy worlds in this paranormal trilogy. Fliss is a slave to the king. She has no freedom— until her dragons come looking for her. The first dragon makes a pact. Release him from his curse, and he will set her free. But he's not alone. He has two brothers, and all of them want Fliss. Yet Fliss has ignited the wrath of the gods, and they seek revenge. Her quest guides her across medieval Poland, to lands of fae kings and siren queens. Fliss and her dragons battle monsters and giants, make deals with mermaids, and harness powerful magic in an attempt to stop a war that has left the world in shambles. The goddess of song will rise to battle the goddess of chaos. The victor will rule the realm, or bring about the end.
"A variety of Chinese writings-medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes-from the Song period (960-1279) depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from social constructs of female sexuality defined in relation to men. As elite male authors attempted to make sense of these incomprehensible women whose sexual bodies were unavailable to them, they were forced to contemplate the purpose of women's bodies and lives apart from wifehood and motherhood. This raised troubling new questions about normalcy, desire, sexuality, and identity. In Divine, Demonic, and Disordered Hsiao-wen Cheng considers accounts of "manless women," many of which depict women who suffered from "enchantment disorder" or who engaged in "intercourse with ghosts"-conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns. Through her questioning of conventional binary gender analyses and heteronormative assumptions, she shifts attention away from women's reproductive bodies and familial roles and offers historians of China and readers interested in women, gender, sexuality, medicine, and religion a fresh look at the unstable meanings attached to women's behaviors and lives even in a time of codified patriarchy"--
The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.
This is a unique story of a Christian woman involved within the dreamworld for 22years. She learns that she had been involved with the devil without her knowledge; entering into the spirit world. The devil decides to attacks her mentally and a spiritual battle erupts.
Neither Runner Yang wrongly became the Yao Jun's master's concubine, opening the door to a new world from then on ...Song Sanyue was fearless, and relied on his hemi-demon's body to mix in well at Spiritual Realm."Lord Yao Jun, your Concubinage stole another family's treasure!""Buy it and give it to her.""Lord Yao Jun, your Concubinage is beating him up in the street!""You guys go over and help her.""Lord Yao Jun, your Concubinage is snatching the groom in broad daylight!""She dares?!"Just as Yao Jun was about to raise his sword up, he saw a slip of paper pressed down by the sword.Lu Jiuxiao, if you don't turn around, I will bring the man and go far away from Gao Fei! Bye bye, you ~
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED The fourth volume in The Demon Cycle, the powerful saga of humans winnowed to the brink of extinction by night-stalking demons, and the survivors who fight back, from New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett The Skull Throne of Krasia stands empty. Built from the skulls of fallen generals and demon princes, it is a seat of honor and ancient, powerful magic, keeping the demon corelings at bay. From atop the throne, Ahmann Jardir was meant to conquer the known world, forging its isolated peoples into a unified army to rise up and end the demon war once and for all. But Arlen Bales, the Warded Man, stood against this course, challenging Jardir to a duel he could not in honor refuse. Rather than risk defeat, Arlen cast them both from a precipice, leaving the world without a savior and opening a struggle for succession that threatens to tear the Free Cities of Thesa apart. In the south, Inevera, Jardir’s First Wife, must find a way to keep their sons from killing one another and plunging their people into civil war as they strive for glory enough to make a claim to the throne. In the north, Leesha Paper and Rojer Inn struggle to forge an alliance between the duchies of Angiers and Miln against the Krasians before it is too late. Caught in the crossfire is the duchy of Lakton—rich and unprotected, ripe for conquest. All the while, the corelings have been growing stronger, and without Arlen and Jardir, there may be none strong enough to stop them. Only Renna Bales may know more about the fate of the missing men, but she, too, has disappeared. . . . Look for Peter V. Brett’s complete Demon Cycle: THE WARDED MAN • THE DESERT SPEAR • THE DAYLIGHT WAR • THE SKULL THRONE • THE CORE
As a scholar, Zhang Nan had always wanted to become one of the nine great demon catcher s, whose name resounded throughout the world. However, he had never thought that the difficulty of the great tribulation, which involved ten thousand people in the human world, would have quietly arrived...
Mark and Debby Constantino. Their names were magical. Once upon a time everyone in the ghost hunting field knew and adored the EVP specialist husband and wife team. They were paranormal royalty...rock stars. But nothing is ever as it seems, behind closed doors their lives were slowly falling apart. It would end in the worst imaginable tragedy. In desperation, Mark would do the unthinkable. He would kill his beloved Debby, her roommate and himself. In Demon Song author Janice Oberding has written an honest, at times heartbreaking, account of her friendship with the Constantinos in the early days long before the paranormal field even knew their names. As friend and mentor, Janice traveled the country with Mark and Debby, investigating and appearing at events. Offering a glimpse into that time, Demon Song shows a far different side of Mark and Debby than fans ever saw