Angela was delighted with her purchase from the local auction room, a large floor-length antique mirror. She had waited a long time for one so magnificent to grace her house but little did she know that the Mirror had not come into her home by chance: another world awaited her. As she is getting ready for work one morning, a voice from the mirror called her name.This book is a journey that will be different for every one: a personal, insightful adventure that can grow your spirit and feed your soul. It is a fusion of adventure and contemplation, written to be both uplifting and thought provoking. It explores life, relationships, acceptance, intuition and the importance of being you, along with other insightful and inspirational thoughts such as the Tapestry of Life and the Understanding of the Soul. It enables the reader to take from its pages as little or as much as they want to support their own life’s journey.Whilst writing this book, I often wondered about my ability to be the one to convey all that is written within these pages. I didn’t set out to write a book, nor did I know that this was what I was meant to do. However, when the words just kept flowing from my pen to the paper, it felt like they were being given to me to pass on to others. I was being helped to use my life experiences and difficulties to bring wisdom for others to use if they wished to do so. ‘The Mirror’ was down on paper within 6 months and I was ignorant enough at the time to think that it was finished. It has actually taken 3 years to complete and to be what you have before you today. I felt compelled to write these words for you and wanted them not to be prescriptive but more about planting seeds of thought that may enable you to bring out the best in your life and, along the way, grow your soul to become the best you can be. This book is part of my life journey: I hope it can be part of yours.

THE FICTIONAL WORLDS OF A CHAOTIC MIND is a collection a different short stories based on consequences and choices. The three stories contain paranormal, urban fantasy, and sci-fi fiction elements.This book contains a collection of three different short stories based on life changing moments of each main character.The first story entitled "The Sapphire Gene" is told in a futuristic New York. Several generations of children began to die off due to a unexplained gene disease. Scientists created a cure based off the rings of Saturn to heal a generation of kids and they became the sapphire generation. But the children received unique gifts that are monitored by a special force team. Aly Crystal is assigned to Old Brooklyn in search of her partner Nook but also comes to contact with a dangerous foe called the Cat's Eye Gang. She soon discovers a lot more than what she bargained for.The second story, "Krystal Bridges: City of Taboo", is about a comic book creator Dominic that suddenly wakes up in his own comic series. He finds himself at the entrance of Club Infinity and comes face to face with his main character Addison Lee. When Dominic realizes that the underground thug unit is after her, he decides to rescue her. But can he save them both from what he had written before or can he change fate?The final story entitled "Espy Hunters" is about a family of Hunters that protect the world from the supernatural. Kendal is the one in the family that is blessed with 'true sight' but desires a normal teenage life. So he goes against his family's rules and falls in love with a girl that is not part of their world. Because of this, he puts the girl in serious danger. Can Kendal overcome the consequences of his actions or will he be doomed for his mistakes?

On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten. And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to Domarö to confront his despair. He slowly realises that Maja's disappearance is not the first inexplicable tragedy to strike the islanders. Nor is everyone telling him all they know; even his own mother, it seems, is keeping secrets. And what is it about the sea? There's something very bad happening on Domarö. Something that involves the sea itself. As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a masterful cocktail of suspense laced with bizarre humour and a narrative that barely pauses for breath. Harbour is also a heartbreaking study of loss and guilt and a novel whose epic climax pits the infinite force of nature against the implacable love of a father for his child.

Stolen from her home, half-human, half-fairy Tamisin wakes in the dark, in a sack, Shrunk to a minuscule size with warrior fairies staring down at her. Is it going to help things that her mother is the Fairy Queen? Is her boy-friend, the half-goblin Jak, going to rescue her? Or can she find a way to Rescue Herself? Luckily, Tamisin is a very resourceful Fairy Princess... E.D. Baker's terrific storytelling shines in this funny and heartwarming romp through a land of fairies, goblins, and many other Magical creatures.

When Amelia Caldwell learned that she was marked by a vampire’s soul, she did what any smart, self-preserving person would have done: tried to run. But thanks to the soulmate bond that tethered her mentally and emotionally to her vampire soulmate, Mitchell Lang, running was not an option and finding out she was a witch didn’t make her life any easier.Now, Amelia has made peace with her new supernatural life and accepted her destiny with Mitchell, one of the most powerful vampires in the world. They are finally getting along but Amelia is sure he is hiding something—something big.Little does she know that this is just the calm before the storm. When Mitchell’s former flame resurfaces and Eric’s dreams become distorted visions of his soulmate, hostility and tension threatens to tear their world apart. Just when Amelia thinks life couldn’t get any crazier, vampires and humans start turning up dead. The killer—something more sinister and haunting than your run of the mill psychopath—is heading straight for their front door.

My blood beat hard in my veins and hammered in my ears, like the sound of bronze wings clashing. And I understand for the first time what it meant that Kushiel, the One God's punisher, had loved his charges too well. . . Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, while his adoptive parents, Phèdre and Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions. Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood, third in line for the throne in a land that revels in beauty, art, and desire. After a year abroad to study at university, Imriel returns from his adventures a little older and somewhat wiser. But perhaps not wise enough. What was once a mere spark of interest between himself and his cousin Sidonie now ignites into a white-hot blaze. But from commoner to peer, the whole realm would recoil from any alliance between Sidonie, heir to the throne, and Imriel, who bears the stigma of his mother's of his mother's misdeeds and betrayals. Praying that their passion will peak and fade, Imriel and Sidonie embark on an intense, secret affair. Blessed Elua founded Terre d'Ange and bestowed one simple precept to guide his people: Love as thou wilt. When duty calls, Imriel honors his role as a member of the royal family by leaving to marry a lovely, if merely sweet, Alban princess. By choosing duty over love, Imriel and Sidonie may have unwittingly trespassed against Elua's law. But when dark powers in Alba, who fear an invasion by Terre d'Ange, seek to use the lovers' passion to bind Imriel, the gods themselves take notice. Before the end, Kushiel's justice will be felt in heaven and on earth. (

If you were undead, you'd be home by now. . . They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders-but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human. First in a brand new urban fantasy series that's "fresh and funny, with a great new take on zombies" (Karen Chance) and "full of dangerous magic and populated with characters so realistic, they almost jump off the page" (Ilona Andrews). If you were undead, you'd be home by now... They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders-but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human.

The Anubis Gate is the classic time travel novel that took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have created such as adventure.

Captain Chatir of the mersoldier Third Brigade must overcome her years-long unrequited love and defend the merrealm of Zurolind against human attackers.Seeing ghosts is so passe anymore. A whole cottage industry of capturing and publishing them in a blizzard of mediums and outlets has exploded in popular culture. Even speaking to them has had the whole eerie mystery sucked right out of it by reality show mediums What if the dead desperately needed something other than communion with the living though? What if there were consequences for ignoring them? Deadly consequences. How much or who would you sacrifice to avoid their demands?

A young soldier with magical abilities searches for a missing squad and finds a new, unexpected threat."And The Wolves Danced" is a Short Story of Fire and Stone. This short story features Esset, a summoner of fiery creatures and one of the main characters of the novels of the Stories of Fire and Stone. The events take place before the first novel, creating a fun teaser-story for would-be or already dedicated readers!The story follows Esset and his squad as they search for a previous patrol that went missing. In that search, they come across a new threat - a threat they can't afford to ignore.A noblebright fantasy story.

A cohort of venturers embarks upon a journey from the mongrel City-State of Uhl'iir across the shiftland known as the Nephraath Barrens. Out in the inimical wastes beyond the world that birthed them, they seek the lost treasures of a cultic pilgrimage to the depths of Neph's Chasm.A cohort of venturers embarks upon a journey from the mongrel City-State of Uhl'iir across the shiftland known as the Nephraath Barrens. Out in the inimical wastes beyond the world that birthed them, they seek the lost treasures of a cultic pilgrimage to the depths of Neph's Chasm.* * * * *The Tales of the Vast Land are the stories of the bold and the desperate, those for whom the challenge of the unknown is the only option. These heroes struggle not for gold and glory, or between life and death, but against the inimical strangeness of an indifferent world.The Vast Land is a sweeping realm of forgotten empires and lost gods, fitfully bordered by the formless chaos of the shiftlands. The civilizations of its Interior are piled on the ruins of a terrifyingly ancient history. A legacy of brutal warfare and struggles for primacy between the monstrous kith of legend predating the emergence of the Amaan, humans. Haunted by the atrocities of the Cannibal Wars that tore their own nascent empire apart, the Amaan have eschewed the growth of nations, instead raising independent city-states as population centers.Wielding broken virtues and unlikely sorceries, venturers are the drifters and exiles of the Vast Land, expendable strangers to be flung against unthinkable perils. Any who set off toward the flat horizons are given up as lost by the civilized kith of the Interior. Otherworldly wights roam the fringes, full of boundless malice and strange appetites. To walk in their steps, buffeted by the raw forces of creation pouring forth from the shiftlands, is to be transformed beyond the knowledge of all-kith.

‘Franny and June’ is ‘Freaky Friday’ meets ‘We need to talk about Kevin’.Remember all those body-swap movies in the 80s? Like Big and Vice Versa and ask yourself, what might happen if the doting parent misses their youth a little too much.Who wouldn’t like another chance to do all again, to get it right this time? To be young and pain free, careless and bright? Still, what price would you pay?Franny and June‘Franny and June’ is ‘Freaky Friday’ meets ‘We need to talk about Kevin’.Remember all those body-swap movies in the eighties? Like Big and Vice Versa and ask yourself, what might happen if the doting parent misses their youth a little too much.Who wouldn’t like another chance to do all again, to get it right this time? To be young and pain free, careless and bright? Of course, we know from Tom Hanks experience that being young comes with its own challenges, right?

After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes dangerously awry, they realize that they may be in over their head. They've landed in the wrong time period. Andrea doesn't seem that interested in leaving the past. And even worse, it appears that someone has deliberately sabotaged their mission...

The third volume in Gary Jennings' historical epic that began with Aztec and Aztec Autumn. In this colorful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood runs that of both Spanish and Aztec royalty must claim his birthright. From the torrid streets of the City of the Dead along the Veracruz Coast to the ageless glory of Seville in Old Spain, Cristo the Bastardo connives fights, and loves as he seeks the truth—without knowing that he will be the founder of a proud new people. As we follow the loves and adventures of Cristo and experience the colorful splendor and barbarism of the era, a vanished culture is brought back to life in all its magnificence. “This exotic, sensuous novel works on many levels. It is at once history, mystery, and a coming-of-age novel all permeated by the teeming world of seventeenth century Mexico as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy.” -- Library Journal