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James Radley cannot put his finger on why he does not want Leah Shepherd to marry his best friend. She is kind, sweet and a true beauty. Any man should want to marry her. And therein lies the problem. Like a bolt out of the blue, James finds himself headlong in love with his best friend's fiancée. He promises himself that if he can just get through the wedding service, everything will fine. As his carriage draws up outside St Georges, London o...

J.R.R. Tolkien was the British author who fired the imagination of a generation with his beloved works: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In this collection of essays, short stories, and poems, we explore the magic of Tolkien's works that defined high fantasy and illustrate the underlying Christian themes that are so essential to the joy his work brings. Contributors:C.M. Alvarez: "Melchizedek, Bombadil, and the Numinous in The Lord of th...

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Where would a culture be without its heroes and their acts of courage? How can a society survive without strength and hope? It is in the dark times and in moments of weakness that stories of courage and strength, those which promise hope, have the most value. This issue explores the redemptive power of stories and their ability to impact and transform. Contributors:C.M. Alvarez: "Hope, Life, and the Fountain of Trevi, " a reflection on the e...

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Anthony Haden-Guest's cunning cartoons seethe in a mashup of audacious hilarity, and sublime social commentary amidst the dangers of masked manners, the undoing of civilization and its self-absorption. They infiltrate, disrupt, subvert the chatty miscalculations, the prescribed power in words, the casual conversation unleashed to hell-bent mercy and LOL. These series of comics joyfully corrupt the display of bitchy, dismissive formalities, the...

Recently arrived in London, Millie Ashton thinks English high society is full of empty headed, arrogant fools. But when she meets Lord Alex Radley, she falls desperately in love with him. Fearing humiliation and rejection, she decides the only sensible thing to do is take her pride and go home to India. Men like Alex do not fall for girls like her, whereas every girl loses her heart to Alexander the Great. Alex Radley, Marquis of Brooke rules ...

Out of the Jungle Marlot is forced to return home to investigate a death and is confronted with all the reasons he left. The council wants him to close the case quickly, his family wants him to stay, and the male who killed his first love now holds power. Trembor at his side is a danger, instead of a comfort, since being exposed as lovers comes with deadly consequences. When Marlot is handed an opportunity to make the council pay for how t...

Frannie Thorpe is on the verge of getting everything she ever wanted, crowned by securing an exhibition of the work of late queer photographer Rian Sampson--until her funding is put in jeopardy by a would-be senator with an eye on slashing public funding for "pornography." Ashley Patterson, Sampson's muse and erstwhile indie music darling, steps in to help close the funding gap. Working together to save the show creates sparks, but neither wom...

Old habits and loves die hard… When Kate left Boston a year ago for a coveted spot on a research team across the country, she thought she had severed her ties to Boston-and to Ian-for good. But when she returns to finish her dissertation and make a fresh start, she finds the cool, in control silver fox she thought she knew has been replaced by a different man-one she might want to get to know. Ian's carefully ordered life has been in turmoil s...

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Book One of The Evolution Series When the enigmatic Ruslan lands on her doorstep after the death of her Uncle Charlie, Ash Kyndal wants no part of the mysterious Russian. No part of his inexplicable appearance, no part of his cryptic insistence that Charlie was a man to whom he owed a great debt, and definitely no part of the intense chemistry that seethes between them. But walking away from the PI business Charlie spent his life building i...

This book is both an awakening and a reviving manual, with a series of suggested spiritual retreat programmes to guide the beginners. The author, Z.T. Fomum provides an answer to the many questions that Christians often ask themselves, concerning either their own spiritual progress or the spiritual progress of other believers. These questions can be summed up as follows:How do you overcome the tendency to activism which makes agitated believer...

It is, finally, all about the work of transforming a sinner into a repentant sinner, a repentant sinner into a convert, a convert into a young disciple, leading the young disciple to maturity and, finally, making him a disciple-maker. This critically important book is presented by the author as ''An attempt to provide the needful for the Lord's call to make disciples who will make disciples, who will themselves make disciples and...'' It is a ...

One demon remains. Its targets are clear. It wants Larissa's magic and Janie's soul. After breaking through the demon's darkness that imprisoned her best friend, Larissa has had enough of magic. She just wants to return to her normal life back on the police force. But, the demons keep preventing that. Roman, Commander of the Stone Sentries, plans to get Larissa and Janie to safety at the gargoyle compound. When a demon attacks his de...

Book One of The Guardians Series Finalist, 2016 Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense Cheyenne Elias has inherited a child. A boy she doesn't know and doesn't particularly want, a boy whose mother was once Cheyenne's most hated person in the world. There are a million reasons to walk away: her anger, her past, her certainty that there is nothing benevolent in this act by a woman who almost killed her. But abandoning the bo...

After entering a fake romance with a winery owner to expose a criminal plot, an undercover agent struggles to resist his desire for her or they could face deadly consequences. Undercover agent Colton Sutler burns for revenge. Determined to get the mobsters responsible for his brother-in-law's death, he's ready when the cartel attempts to establish a foothold in his small town. But before he can get a real lead, a beautiful woman gets in the ...

A Getaway Novella Honor Genovese, AKA Aequitas, is number eight on the FBI's Most Wanted List. A hacker extraordinaire, Honor lives to destroy those who destroy others. Ever since the murder of her family and the kidnapping of her sister Hannah, Honor has worked tirelessly to unmask and obliterate the predators of the world, and to find the sister stolen from her. But when she suddenly discovers Hannah on the other side of the world, Honor m...

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Yet another battalion departs for Mozambique, to fight in a seemingly endless war. It includes a reservist 2nd lieutenant and a private who barely know each other. Having left behind his fiancée, a medical student, the officer indulges in transient passions and reckless behavior. The private, married and with a daughter, struggles to survive in a strange environment, among hostile animals and plants, mined paths, ambushes, scorching sun and bl...