He is the heir of Roanoak. She is more than just a princess. A black dragon tests their powers. Nyla's Curse forces Dane Roanoak to push back the evil that plagues the land. No longer just the princess of Pharloe, Raven employs her ability to save all who live at Roanoak Castle, will she have engaged too great a foe? Dane's brothers and their Others must work together or fail to survive the attacks.
In this atmospheric, “tightly-woven” (Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author) YA fantasy that is Wicked Saints meets There Will Come a Darkness, four teens are drawn into a high-stakes heist in the perilous tomb of an ancient shapeshifter king. Long ago, shapeshifting monsters ruled the Commonwealth using blasphemous magic that fed on the souls of their subjects. Now, hundreds of years later, a new tomb has been uncovered, and despite the legends that disturbing a shapeshifter’s final resting place will wake them once again, the Warlord is determined to dig it up. But it isn’t just the Warlord who means to brave the traps and pitfalls guarding the crypt. A healer obsessed with tracking down the man who murdered her twin brother. A runaway member of the Warlord’s Devoted order, haunted by his sister’s ghost. An elitist archaeologist bent on finding the cure to his magical wasting disease. A girl desperate to escape the cloistered life she didn’t choose. All four are out to steal the same cursed sword rumored to be at the very bottom of the tomb. But of course, some treasures should never see the light of day, and some secrets are best left buried…
Agartha, Inner Earth, the 12th century. Rowida is a young woman with grand dreams and on a path that would touch two worlds, and span one hundred years. Punished and Banished from her world to ours, Rowida kidnaps a child, bonds to a demonic being, and becomes one with the soul of a Dragon, just to get back at those who tormented her. Once back, she raises an army the Inner Earth had never seen the likes of and starts the first global war. Thousands of lives are lost, nations and races cease to exist, but Rowida has just begun a far longer story. Now, the fate of two worlds rests on the shoulders of a few unsuspecting souls.
On a visit to London in 1802 Princess Tanaquill meets a stranger who brings her a glimpse of the love she'll never have in her arranged marriage. EPIC eBook awards finalist.
An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.
A Broken Heart Princess Salena Nakoa KauPo thought she was over her broken heart. She’d put her first love and childhood sweetheart, Rhyian, firmly in the past where he belonged. His bitter betrayal of her was locked away deep inside, along with her foolishly innocent hopes and dreams. Now Lena has been thrust together with him, the prince of shadows, the one man she could never resist, on a mission to save the world from a terrible cataclysm. Worse, Rhyian refuses to believe her when she says there’s no hope for them. An Irresistible Longing Rhyian is rather accustomed to being a failure. Goddesses know, he’s not magical enough for his sorcerous mother and not alpha enough for his father, the King of Annfwn. It hasn’t helped that he’s spent the last seven years trying to drown his sorrows—and to forget the one woman he ever loved, whose heart he carelessly shattered in a moment of weakness. Rhy knows he has to change to win back Lena’s trust, but how? A Love That Can’t Die As Lena and Rhy struggle to overcome the wounds of the past, they and their friends approach the final confrontation with the strange intelligence intent on rending apart the very fabric of their world. And it looks like it will come down to the pair of them to strike the final blow. But only if they can build a new trust on the bitter past.
After being killed and resurrected in New Orleans, Calliope was enjoying the comfort of living in LA with her boyfriend, Asmodeus when a flock of harpies ruined her peace. They showed up at her friend's nightclub, Tartarus, and began slaughtering both Supernaturals and humans on Halloween. A warning had come for Calliope earlier in the night about a shapeshifter. She had no idea who they were, or why they wanted her dead, but she knew that she needed to leave town. Running back to New Orleans wasn't exactly how the siren wanted to spend her autumn, but it was her only hope of finding answers... With a shapeshifter on Calliope's tail, it was alarmingly clear that the villainous harpies attacked the club looking for Calliope on the shifter's orders… Will she find answers about the shapeshifter's identity, or find out why they want her dead? Or, will it be too late?
Shapeshifting has a history of occurring all over the world. From American Indians to Slavs in Europe, shapeshifters are part of our world history. In this book we explore what shapeshifting is, it’s history, types of shapeshifters, and regions around the world where it has been reported. We also review practices and exercises to allow the individual to shapeshift themselves to some type of animal. What was Carlos Castenada’s involvement with shapeshifting? And how is the Greek God Proteus related to this topic? And what is the difference between a skin walker and a vampire? Lots of these issues are addressed here and I hope you enjoy the journey.
This is book 5 in The Vampire & Werewolf Chronicles. When Sophie's old friend, Beth, shows up at her doorstep and needs a place to stay, she is hesitant to let her stay at the castle; especially with her new immortal roommates and her new dangerous, immortal lifestyle. More chaos breaks out while she's hunting for the necklace that is the key to open the portal to hell. Sophie also deals with the fact that Logan will be marrying her roommate to stop the curse leashed upon the land.
Shapeshifters, conspiracy theories, and an urban myth brought to life. Welcome to the Australian High Country, where secrets and magic lie beneath the melting snow. After Grace Atkinson's city life crumbles, she’s forced to move back to her childhood home—the sleepy alpine town of Targangil. When she arrives, she finds herself in the centre of not only her own family drama, but a flurry of mysterious black panther sightings—elusive predators rumoured to roam the wilderness, but whose existence has never been proven. But when Grace comes face to face with a black panther in the shadow of a looming storm, she becomes determined to uncover the truth behind the sightings once and for all. But her world is shattered when she witnesses the panther transform…into a human being. Lawson's hidden shapeshifting abilities have always been a closely guarded secret, but as his past catches up with him, Grace's discovery of his true identity exposes them both to danger. Because he is hunted…and now so is she. Moonlight and Storm is the first book in the Australian Supernatural: High Country series. Set in the wild and romantic Snowy Mountains, it tells the story of Grace Atkinson, who discovers a secret world of shapeshifting black panthers…and the evil forces who hunt them.
