What would you do with rational thought in a world ruled by instinct?What do you do when you realise you are the first creature to become self-aware?‘My father paid dearly for my education. He will pay yet more…’Some might say that a princess always has an easy life. But what value is an easy life if the price is freedom? Princess Zahrah takes the weapons she has - her intelligence, her education and her beauty - to embrace her own destiny.

The VIP love story is an account of a young man's journey from Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city, to Accra, the capital city. His hopes of an exciting trip were dashed when the exciting factor, a woman he met on the bus, has an abusive and protective boyfriend. The suspense, the humor and the use of Ghanaian expressions makes this story a must read.Seventeen year old Emerin Gareth has always known that there is something unusual about her. Constantly plagued by headaches that compel her to wander away from home and into the surrounding mountains, Emerin is always a source of concern to her parents and her future husband. She knows that she will never be able to live the life that's expected of her in her small farming community.But a chance meeting, with a strange creature in need of help, changes Emerin’s life forever, leading her to question everything she’s ever known. She finally understands just how very different she is and how different the world is from the sheltered life she has always known.On the other side of the Riverlands lies Nebril City, a sprawling metropolis that is taking over the lands that surround it. But this growing city has a dark secret which threatens the security of everyone around it, and only a select few are able to right the wrongs that have been committed. And, at the height of the summer, the weather keeps mysteriously getting colder.Now Emerin and her best friend Jalya, two naïve farm girls, must leave home for the first time and embark on an epic journey over dangerous terrain. The world outside of their village is full of fantastic creatures, diverse communities, unexpected friends and unimaginable horrors--horrors which they have the power to stop, if only they can follow through with the quest that they have been given. They must restore balance to the spirit world of their land in order to save the physical world in which they live. To complete their mission, Jalya must find her missing brother and Emerin must find a part of herself that she never knew existed.

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Meet Gisbo, an outcast with a strange name, Gisbo is treated like a wild dog and despised in his small town. Because of this, he is driven to become a person of respect, an Elekai’ warrior. However, when the tryouts go terribly wrong, Gisbo is whisked away to a life he never believed possible and discovers that sometimes, truth is stranger than legend when you're Renegade born!Life’s tough if you’re a boy named Gisbo. Besides having a name that means "dog" in a barbaric tongue and being forced to live all alone in a manure shack outside the city walls, Gisbo has also never soared on a flying sword, raised a boon animal, or made a single friend.When he isn’t washing the graffiti off his shack, Gisbo’s time is spent dodging insults from his spoiled classmates and fighting for his life against the city’s arrogant clash team.But all of that is going to change. Gisbo is finally sixteen and ready to try out for Elekai’ training in hopes of becoming an Elekai’ warrior, his biggest dream. However, when the tryouts go terribly wrong, Gisbo is whisked away to a life he never dreamed possible and learns that sometimes, truth can be stranger than legend when you’re Renegade born.

A second look behind the curtain at the fascinating 35th century world of Rome’s Revolution. Tales of the Vuduri: Year Two offers you 366 additional entries containing even more scientific tidbits, unrevealed secrets and back stories. Often amusing but always thought-provoking, these detailed articles should provide some entertaining insights into this brave new world.Tales of the Vuduri is a daily blog, now well over 730 entries total, examining the amazing, brave new world of the 35th century and the people that live there. The first volume, Tales of the Vuduri: Year One, explored only a tiny portion of the background and future history leading up to the Rome’s Revolution trilogy. Tales of the Vuduri: Year Two follows on the heels of this successful first compilation with 366 all-new essays about our 21st century hero, Rei Bierak and his beautiful 35th century Vuduri wife, Rome. Everything about this volume is more: more physics, more chemistry, more genetics, more cutting-edge science and more amusing images. Included in this collection are posts regarding solar power, domes, Type 1 diabetes, alternate versions, early micro-processors and many more random thoughts. Also included are previews of the upcoming novel The Milk Run, the secret story of the Deucadons and a detailed description of the narrative structure behind Part 2 of Rome’s Revolution. There is even an in-depth analysis of why sandwiches taste so good! Like Tales of the Vuduri: Year One, these essays should be amusing, hopefully thought-provoking and give you genuine insights into the fascinating world of Rome’s Revolution so come along to the 35th century and be amazed at what you find there.

Aiden and Meg Falconer are now celebrities ... for all the wrong reasons. It's much harder to be on the run when the whole country's looking for you.... Aiden and Meg Falconer are out to find the evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison. But in order to do that, they have to live undercover. Ever since they broke out of a juvenile detention facility, they've been chased by the FBI ... and by a strange killer they've nicknamed Hairless Joe. Now their story has hit the airwaves, and suddenly everyone is looking for the Falconer kids. They think they can hide with an old family friend ... but when she turns them in and Meg is put in jail, the danger and adventure only increase.

The snow was falling in heavy slashing sheets, and a December snowstorm in the New Hampshire hills means something more serious than a storm in city streets or even an equal downfall upon more level meadows and plains. Yet on this winter afternoon, about an hour before twilight and along the base of a hill where a rough road wandered between tall cedar and pine trees and low bushes and shrubs, there sounded continually above the snow’s silencing two voices, sometimes laughing, occasionally singing a brief line or so, but more often talking. Accompanying them always was a steady jingling of bells.

An insane and bitter cat schemes to save her beloved city by destroying it.Consider a world inhabited with only cats and dogs: a society recognizable as our own, but with its eccentricities being the norm, rather than the exception. A world where the charm of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind In the Willows meets the exotic world of Ian Fleming’s Bond. A world where fluffy just got dangerous. These are the Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels, also known as the Dooven Books: welcome to the genre of New Fable.“Attempting to eradicate an entire city’s council before hurling oneself off a cliff is odd behavior for anyone, let alone the daughter of a police chief. Nor is it helped by a determination to graffiti mis-spelt words with appalling grammar in her own manure.Politely, Oscar pointed this out to her.So she punched him and pushed him off his stool.”Oscar Teabag-Dooven is a highly trained secret agent who is convinced he’s no more than a poet. Unable to do much more than rhyme one lot of words with another, his attempts at foiling the world’s villains are, at best, tenuous. When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, he discovers it’s on the brink of tearing itself apart. Things become complicated when it appears those responsible are in charge of running the place. Drawn into a scandalous plot of insanity and greed, Oscar befriends the Dervy, a young revolutionary, by throwing her off a cliff, and Horace, an elderly doctor with a phobia of worming ointments.Together they battle the ruthless genius of Sedervitz Tappen-Noo and the grievous insanity of the Pyjami, in an attempt to save a beautiful city from certain destruction.But things don’t go according to plan. Principally because they don’t have one.

The disappearance of a father and then his daughter, are of interest not only to the police, but to someone else nearby. But little does the man know, how much he, a complete stranger to the area, will be dragged into the events that have unfolded. That is until he finds himself recording the whole thing.... and what a strange story it is indeed.Johanna is the daughter of a rich merchant in Saardam. As only child and without a mother, she has grown up with notions, such as that she wants to take over her father's river trade business in her own name. Courtesy of her eastern mother, she has an unusual ability. She sees things in willow wood: whenever she touches wood, it shows her what has happened around the tree or wooden object. Any kind of magic is not common in Saardam, and the Church of the Triune, which rapidly gains influence in the city, forbids it.While she goes to church, Johanna also maintains a loose network of magic-enabled people. One of those people is Loesie, a farmer's daughter from out of town.One day, Loesie comes to town after having been struck mute by magic. She carries a basket made from willow twigs that tells Johanna that a group of bandits with demons is about to attack the city.But there is no non-magical proof, so she can't tell anyone or she'd be branded a witch. The time of witch-burnings was not that long ago. Never mind that the army is still approaching, and there are increasing signs that Saardam's embattled royal family might have done something that has angered magical forces in the east. Add to this that the royal family seems to have fallen out with the city's nobility, and that the recent death of the crown princess has left the family with only one heir: the mysterious prince whom no one has seen for years and who has suddenly returned home.At the annual ball, Johanna's father has brokered a dance for her with the prince. Johanna just wants to warn people of the impending attack.

This must-read short story by an award-winning author bristles with intrigue and action! From Miami’s dark underbelly to the Gulf Stream to the Bahamian Out Islands, it’s easy to get swept away.After a convenient but loveless marriage, Claude doesn’t think life could get more complicated. Until his wife’s new mission — to give up on saving their relationship — exposes him to mortal danger. One quiet, ordinary afternoon changes everything. Caught in a his worst nightmare, Claude must stay one step ahead of a deadly killer — or all bets are off as to whether he’ll see another dawn. This must-read short story by an award-winning author bristles with intrigue and action! From Miami’s dark underbelly to the Gulf Stream to the Bahamian Out Islands, it’s easy to get swept away.

When Kwon's grandfather dies tragically, a secret from his past is revealed. That secret propels Kwon into a conflict he's not ready for. But ready or not, this boy's life will never be normal again.It’s been twenty years since the Guardian Sages brought a bit of balance to Earth. But ever since their devastating separation, chaos has spread tenfold. When an explosion sends Kwon rushing home from town to check on his grandpa, he gets there only to find a crater where a ranch once lay and his deceased grandfather lying in the center gripping a strange medallion that he’s never seen before or heard about. Hoping to find the meaning behind the item and what it has to do with his grandpa’s death, he goes on a journey to find his grandfather’s best friend, Goopa. But he soon finds out that the medallion was not the only secret his grandfather hid from him. His grandfather was a member of the legendary Guardian Sages. Now, with an enemy from the past carrying a vendetta and the remaining sages being exterminated, who will protect the ones that once protected the planet?

In a land of fabled kingdoms, once respected truces are at risk of descending into all-out war following a gruesome series of murders in Liefland, the last stronghold of mythical creatures.In a land of fabled kingdoms, once respected truces are at risk of descending into all-out war following a gruesome series of murders in Liefland, the last stronghold of mythical creatures. In an effort to keep the peace, the Western Kingdom summons three valiant knights of the Royal Order to investigate and capture the deadly culprits. Knights Law, Love, and Order, accompanied by three lesser protégés, uncover a sinister Necromancer plot to subvert the Fairy King and take a once-in-a-millennia opportunity to question an extra-dimensional being. Unlikely bonds of survival are forged between former foes to keep the entire region from descending into a Necromancer hell of magic and mania. However, such alliances are fragile and easily called into question, as greed for power makes old hatreds bubble to the surface, threatening everything the Western Kingdom and knights hold dear. A battle of good versus evil is at the heart of this twisted, whimsical, fantasy tale. True character and love of humanity will push three veteran knights to the very limits of their creed, cunning, and highly honed skills. For you, choose now where your lot is cast...among the undead or with those of the living, but be warned: night is coming and there can be no rest.