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A dark and heartfelt sci-fi thriller by Lyn Alden, international bestselling author of Broken Money.In the late 21st century, society is more fractured than ever. Billions satisfy their every whim in virtual worlds, leaving those in power free to tighten their grip on the real one.Then five bodies turn up at a rest stop in the New Jersey Pine Barrens—the blood torn from their veins, a van hurled the length of a football field, and three of the dead with no identities at all. For military investigator Asim Rahal, it’s the strangest case of his career.When the killer seizes a newsroom on live television, claiming she’s a new species of human and warning of worse to come, the case erupts into a national crisis. But the trail points to a military program that officially doesn’t exist. And Asim’s own chain of command is protecting it.Every hero asks what’s worth dying for. The harder question is what’s worth killing for.“A compelling and exciting new voice in cyberpunk, Lyn Alden has created a world and story that suck you in and leave you on the edge of your seat. Unputdownable!”-Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Hugo-nominated editor“You are definitely going to want to get your hands on this.”-Bradley Rettler, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wyoming
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The Wizard left without her, then Glinda says she could have gone home at any time (thanks to those powerful shoes); Dorothy finally realizes she’s been lied to, manipulated, and used as a political assassin.

The result: Dorothy’s anger triggers her magical awakening—in short, she “goes all Carrie” with a never-before-seen magical act: the use of all four elements (fire, water, earth, and air). Suddenly, the Emerald City—and soon all of Oz—is cast under a magical darkness blotting out the sun, moon, and stars. Can Dorothy fix this?

Willfully Dorothy explores her becoming the maiden of classic witch identity. Her journey is revealed in contrast to the rise of the Wizard thirty years prior, and new characters show the hidden history of Oz through hexes, love stories, and political change.
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She infiltrated his empire to expose him. He’s been watching her the entire time.Anya is a journalist with a mission: expose the Russian Bratva leader who rules Moscow’s underworld. Her cover? A waitress at his exclusive club. Her advantage? He doesn’t know her real name or that she’s looking for answers about her father’s unsolved murder.What she doesn’t know is that Dmitri Volkov has been watching her since the moment she walked through his doors. He’s a man who sees everything, controls everything, and wants her with an intensity that borders on obsession. When he finally reveals that he knew all along, the game changes completely.She becomes his captive. He becomes hers.But the deeper she falls for the man who killed her father, the more Anya realizes that obsession built on lies might be the only truth that matters. Forgiveness isn’t simple. Love isn’t clean. And in a world where betrayal is currency, trusting the wrong person could cost everything.
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This book demolishes the mythology on which toxic chemical agriculture has been built. Dr. Dan Skow’s teacher was the late Dr. Carey Reams, and the lessons he learned — and improved upon — are important ones. This book teaches how to measure fertility down to the atomic level and project forward bins and bushels with brix high enough to confer immunity to fungal, bacterial and insect attack — and to ward off weeds. The biological theory of ionization as applied to agriculture for all to understand. Practical, hands-on advice that is hard to come by.
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I bought a Scottish castle online at auction. I’m a courageous property flipper.
Apparently, I forgot to check whether it came with a gorgeous man who refuses to leave.

In my defense, the vacant Glenhaven Castle looked like the property of a lifetime.

Yes, I bought it at a crazy low price without seeing it first. Yes, it probably needs lots of renovations. And yes, my Labrador and I arrive in the Scottish Highlands only to discover one rather significant problem.

Lord Tristan Sinclair … the laird of Glenhaven. He lives in my castle. He insists there’s been a terrible mistake. He never sold it and he has absolutely no intention of moving out.I have the deed. He has an army of solicitors, a housekeeper whose family seems to have served him forever, an enormous collection of very old books, and the unnerving habit of talking about Scottish history as though he was personally there.

Until the lawyers figure out if I own the castle,Tristan and I are stuck with each other. Which would be easier if he weren’t infuriating.
Or funny when he doesn’t mean to be.
Or unexpectedly kind.
Or devastatingly attractive.

Then there are the other things. He doesn’t eat much. He drinks an unusual amount of very dark red wine. He doesn’t seem to sleep much. Certain rooms are locked. The villagers become strangely quiet whenever I ask questions about him.

The problem is, the longer I stay at Glenhaven Castle, the more certain I become that Tristan isn’t the only one keeping secrets. He has enemies. Something is definitely hidden beneath this castle. Someone wanted me here. And whatever I’ve stumbled into has been waiting a very long time.

I came to Scotland to renovate a castle, sell it for a ridiculous profit, and move on to my next adventure. That’s what I do.But for the first time in my life, I’m beginning to wonder if there are some things you don’t sell.And some men you don’t leave.

Whatever Lord Tristan Sinclair is hiding, I’m dangerously close to falling in love with him before I find out.

–A spicy, slow-burn vampire romantasy filled with forced proximity, an ancient Scottish castle, hidden passages, dangerous immortal politics, banter, secrets, and a centuries-old vampire who never expected the greatest threat to his carefully ordered existence would be the American woman who accidentally bought his castle. Book 1 with a cliffhanger in a complete four book series.
–Tropes & Themes include: Forced Proximity • Vampire Romance • Scottish Castle • Opposites Attract • Hidden Supernatural World • Ancient Secrets • Protective Immortal Hero • Independent Modern Heroine • Slow-Burn Seduction • Found Family • Immortal Politics • He Falls Hard • Fish Out of Water • A Heroine Who Never Stays / A Hero Who Never Leaves
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A luxury yacht. A violent storm. A forbidden island that should not exist.

Mia Kennedy, former ER nurse, never expected her one-month contract on a luxury yacht to strand her in a hidden vampire sanctuary built on danger and blood.

Jude, the island’s Watcher and protector, senses danger the moment Mia arrives — and the dangerous pull between them threatens to shatter every rule he enforces.

But he wants her.

As forbidden desire ignites and buried secrets surface, Mia discovers that the island itself may be alive — and far more dangerous than the vampires who live on Nightfall.

Welcome to Vampire Island. No one leaves. Ever.

If you love hidden worlds, vampires, fierce protectors, morally gray immortals, found family, forced proximity and romance forged in danger, this series will keep you turning pages deep into the night. This Romantasy is spicy and there is a cliffhanger.
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All joy wants eternity … wants deep, deep eternity. With this declaration of primordial lust, the patron saint of post-modernity exalts his mania for joy, alongside the unquenchable thirst of the will to power, and, with it, the futile quest for the super-human. The cultural force of this dictum, which has become a commonplace among the literati, still drives the onslaught of thought and behavior, even, and perhaps foremost, among those who remain ignorant of its explicit pronouncement. A prophet is always heard most widely and wrongly, not through his own voice, but through the discordant voices of his wayward disciples. Amid the endless cacophony of copycats, who vainly mimic the grand style of their master, you’re tempted to forget the desperate loneliness of the solitary individual, a hermit in his many hideaways and masks, who, above all else, sought to transmute his solitude into a macho justification for human tenderness.

Late at night, when she is fast asleep, you crawl into bed; and in the midst of the dark, quiet night, you hear rhythmic spasms in her breathing as she dreams. Thoughtlessly, carelessly, inevitably, your mind empties itself so that there is only the sound of her breathing – paradoxically steady and spasmodic. In your own late-night, overwrought, careworn mania, you manage to convince yourself that what you really hear at this moment is the sound of eternity singing. Physiologically, you might interpret this as a mental phantom concocted out of the stresses and strains of a tiring day. But this illusion produces a reality that the mind cannot deny without destroying a part of itself. Loving your mind too much to bear losing even its most illusory fragments, you cannot help but think that these moments are gateways to eternity, that they are not merely the pleasant afterimages you dream up to forget a day of painstaking and tedious work but that they are indeed what you have lived through the day to reach, to grasp and caress, if only for a fleeting instant. Such moments (and not the jobs you do) are the serious work of your life.

This book, the third and final one in the eternity trilogy, continues to recount the conspiracy of nowhere and now here that unfolded in The History of Eternity and Passages to Eternity. Read this book, if you will, and follow the adventures of this paradox as it reveals itself in the lives of 36 historical individuals, including Musil, Bloy, Peguy, George Eliot, Kripke, Blake, Nishida Kitaro, Cather, Nagarjuna, Fitzgerald, Bruno, Paz, John Duns Scotus, Mallarmé, Burke, Achebe, Murdoch, Epictetus, St. John of the Cross, Turing, Lispector, Goya, Pirandello, Blanchot, Tennyson, Messiaen, Cantor, O’Connor, Nin, Lowell, Racine, Vidal, Niebuhr, Twain, Derrida, C.S. Lewis and many others.
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When Television Brought Us Together celebrates the era in television that came of age with the Baby Boomer generation, and the shows that continue to attract new generations of fans. From Bewitched and The Brady Bunch to The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Waltons, plus soaps and superheroes, westerns and Saturday morning cartoons, this book brings back happy, shared memories that are a common thread weaved through our culture.

But beyond the 50+ shows profiled, with selections of Best Episodes and memorable moments, When Television Brought Us Together also reflects on how the America we view through this window on our past has changed, and not for the better; another reason why so many of us prefer the shows from the past over those now streaming in a medium that no longer unites us.

Join TV historian David Hofstede as he celebrates, with insight and humor, the greatest shows of the first TV generations, and how they can still inspire us to emulate the ideals and ethics they portray.
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