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Arden Bleu has always known that her stepsister, Jade, was destined for great things. In a world where beauty follows magic, she has no doubt that their upcoming Awakening ceremony will reveal that gorgeous, kind, compelling Jade is far more than a mere mortal. But when Jade is kidnapped by a mysterious sect of mer on the eve of the newly-returned king's ball, Arden will do anything to save her sister. Even face down the man she's always dreaded meeting because of the power he holds over her family, the man to whom her father swore loyalty long before she was born.

The Supernatural Story of Hanukkah. A supernatural epic novel about the Abomination of Desolation predicted by the Bible prophet Daniel that was fulfilled in the books of the Maccabees in the Apocrypha. This is Part 2 of 2 novels. After the story in Part 1, Judah Maccabee now leads a growing force of Jewish guerrilla freedom fighters in Israel against the ruthless Greek forces of Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes. Judah takes a beautiful Greek princess hostage. Her name is Laodice V, and she hates her uncle the king.

Prince Ivan has never been very good with directions. After wandering off the path and losing his way in the mountains of Autumn, he stumbles into a beautiful garden full of incredibly life-like statues. Even more surprising, the garden is home to a long-forgotten creature remembered only in bedtime stories and nursery tales: a Phoenix. Intrigued, Ivan decides to stick around, only to discover that the garden is home to more inhabitants than a lone firebird.

It has been fifteen years since Billy and Bonnie Bannister helped repel the demonic assault on Heaven. Now they and Ashley Foley sit in a maximum security prison where the authorities conduct experiments on them to learn the secrets of long life. Earlier, the world’s acceptance of dragonkind crumbled, and the Enforcers took the infant twins born to Billy and Bonnie and stole Excalibur, hoping to develop a weapon to battle the dragons that are sure to try to rescue their allies. All the while, a great secret from the past is being revealed to Bonnie through a dream.

When the Volumes of Wisdom begin to whisper clues of something hidden in Winter that might turn the tides of the oncoming war, Helen finds herself trekking into the prickly pines and thundering songs of war drums in the Green Kingdom. She claims she's there as an emissary of the Three Kings of the East. But the true reason she's risked stepping into a kingdom of the verge of losing a deadly war...is to steal the Queen of the Pines' garland crown right from atop her head.

Dr. Owen Whelan and his wife Sarah have seven bright and expressive children. However, one of them is very unique; he’s been followed since birth by lost souls. However peculiar Ennis Whelan has been for the first six years of his life, not until the day he found the bird did the degree of his strangeness become so tangible. Ennis claimed it flew away.

Jennifer Martin escaped Atlanta by the skin of her teeth. Nevertheless, terror and chaos are not confined by city limits. The unthinkable deeds she committed to get out of Atlanta have followed her back to the small town of Clayton, Georgia. Coming from a relatively comfortable lifestyle, the apocalypse has been a harsh adjustment for Jennifer. She has her faith in Jesus. She has a safe place to lay low in the Appalachian Mountains. She’s surrounded by family and friends. But, she’s up against the most powerful, abusive federal agency in the history of America.

The difference in their uncanny eyes could not be easily discerned. In the rays of the setting sun, both Aravel's and Morlan's eyes appeared gold. In the pale moonlight...yellow. Seemingly the same. Such inscrutable likeness is the way of things with identical twins. But all who knew the two brothers well noted unmistakable differences, peculiarities more experienced than seen.

A small section of vine with bloodstained thorns has been encased in candle wax for centuries - and some believe the blood came from Christ. Convicted killer and death-row inmate Michael Coleman agrees to have the genes from the mysterious blood planted into his body. The results are so astonishing that the research must continue outside prison walls. But nobody can predict what will happen when Coleman assumes a new identity and reenters society. Blood of Heaven delves deep into the human heart and examines the very nature of good versus evil.

Graham, a functioning alcoholic and Harvard medical student, stumbles across a puzzling communication from his deceased Navy SEAL brother. Graham must work to unravel a litany of secrets sobering in their implications not only for himself, but for the past 12,000 years of human history and the secrets of the universe.

It’s A.D. 67. Nero’s Roman armies plunder the land of Israel, led by General Vespasian and his son Titus, whose ruthless strategy threatens his affair with Jewish princess Berenice. Christians Alexander and Cassandra return to Jerusalem to help the sick, wounded and orphans of war. But they are opposed by the apostate Jacob, who hates Christians and wants to make them suffer.

The isle of Patmos, 66 A.D. Roman warrior Severus is ordered by evil Nero Caesar to kill his target, the Apostle John. But he is torn between his loyalty to Caesar and to the Christians who saved his life, Alexander and Cassandra. When they learn the true meaning of the scroll of Revelation, they journey to Jerusalem to warn the Christians, only to find themselves caught up in a Jewish revolt led by fiery Zealots.

On the Camino de Santiago, Etienne and his companions must save Sister Fransie’s friends and reunite all seven of the keys that unlock the Templars’ greatest treasure. As they attempt to do this, they are stalked by the most powerful of the Seven Deadly Sins, who wants the keys for itself. Now, Etienne and his companions must use all the wisdom they have learned on the Camino to defeat this foe and unlock the Templars' greatest treasure. But, the question is, should they? Does a fate worse than the seven deadly sins lie in wait?

9/11 tragedies and Auschwitz can’t be overruled without the “butterfly effect” causing even greater havoc. When high school senior Jordan Wickam gets a mysterious bootleg iPod that flips back his calendar exactly seven days, he piles up a greedy fortune betting on horse-racing exactas. Then on the night of the senior prom, he’s abruptly forced to decide: Do I play God?

Lady Selene Ravenwood has come into her full power as a dreamwalker just as the war with the Dominia Empire begins. Working with the other Great Houses, Selene and Damien use their gifts to secure the borders and save those devastated by the war. But conflict, betrayal, and hatred begin to spread between the Great Houses, destroying their unity as the empire burns a path across their lands. At the same time, Damien Maris starts to lose his ability to raise the waters, leaving the lands vulnerable to the empire's attacks.

For Jonah Angelese, a paralegal at the Ministry of Law and Justice, the most difficult thing is making it to work on time when he wakes up on a Saturday. And somebody decided to saddle him with a robot called a Lifebot that he doesn’t want in his life. Yet, an ordinary day quickly turns exceptional when a dark force that everyone forgot existed long ago decides it’s time to get their revenge. Jonah suddenly finds himself thrust into an adventure that will not only test him and the companions he meets along the way, but also reveal his true destiny.

Sarcasm. Jealousy. Pride. Envy. Deception. These emotions are all too familiar as we look at the world around us—and the feelings within us. However, there was a time when innocence ruled over emotions, and the universe lived in harmony with the High King and the Commander. But that was before the Rebellion—before Lightbearer, Son of the Morning, went dark.

The Yada Yada Prayer Group is in trouble—and they’re having a hard time getting out. Jodi Baxter is feeling overwhelmed, to say the least. Every day it seems that more blessings, problems, and everything in between crop up among her Yada Yada sisters, and their prayer list is getting out of...

Despite pressures to cease and desist, Archer dares to ask the question that would bring the new regime to its knees: does universal truth exist? Using his wits and some good fortune along the way, he begins to understand that there may be more to life than meets the eye. Unfortunately for Archer, adults start to take notice.

The stars are ripe with prophecy in the clan of Adam and Eve about an ominous angelic incursion coming to the Earth. But Baraqua, a beautiful young woman of their clan, is unconcerned about anything but her schemes to marry a man forbidden to her. When her face appears in the dreams of Jared, the youngest elder, Baraqua is required by tradition to marry him. In the struggle of wills that follows, Adam and the elders can only pray that this headstrong scribe’s daughter will give birth to the world’s Savior, who will lead them safely back to the Garden of Eden.