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The Glimmering Vale of White Haven is about to discover that some shadows never truly fade.Eighteen year old Estavios Soulsaver, heir to a proud barony, has always known his duty: protect his people, uphold justice, and cherish his family. In the training yard of Castle White Haven he masters...

The Shadow Blight isn't just twisting creatures, it’s twisting souls, and now Estavios Soulsaver's own burgeoning, terrifying powers might be White Haven's only hope. With the valley's spirit decaying and ancient warnings ringing true, the protective Hearthstone itself seems compromised. A...

A young man is sentenced to death for an elbow. He is not frightened, and that is the thing nobody can forgive him. His mother comes to the visiting room and makes him take off his cap. His lawyer, who has spent twenty-one years being a professional and has lately begun to think he would rather not die at his desk, finds that he cannot stop thinking about him. And somewhere above the ocean a woman who once decided everything for him is reading his trial transcript aloud to a man with a very great deal of money.

What if Mary Magdalene was not a fallen woman… but a High Priestess? Close your eyes and step into a world where empires rise, prophets walk unrecognized, and two souls are drawn together by something older than time itself. When the young High Priestess Miryam of Magdala first encounters a wandering initiate named Yeshua in the shadow of Roman-ruled Egypt, something ancient awakens between them. Their bond — forbidden, undeniable, and real — pulls them into a sacred mystery hidden beneath the politics of the Temple and the fear of a world unprepared for their truth.

He swam in the Danube with a flotilla of geese who were convinced he was their mother, and he was right about something enormous: that behavior is inherited the way a bone is inherited, that it can be compared across species, and that the categories we think with were shaped long before anyone...

Twenty kings. Twenty centuries. Twenty murders that bent the arc of civilization. From Julius Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March to King Faisal's shooting in a Riyadh palace, the killing of a sovereign has never been merely the end of a life — it has always been the beginning of a transformation. Regicide traces one pivotal royal murder from each century between the 1st and the 20th, revealing the systemic failures, factional conspiracies, and human blind spots that brought down the most powerful leaders on earth.

The Book of Forgotten Pacts by Dariusz W. Garbal is a collection of dark fairy tales and legends set in a mysterious world where the boundary between humans and ancient, hidden beings is thin. The stories draw inspiration from Slavic and Norse mythology, blending folklore with original storytelling. They explore a world filled with spirits, trolls, forest beings, and forgotten powers that still influence human lives from the shadows.

Seren Vale was the kind of star people swore would live forever. They were wrong. When the twentysevenyearold icon is found dead in her penthouse, the world mourns another tragedy — another brilliant life gone too soon. But her brother, Evan, can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong. The official story doesn’t add up. The details don’t fit. And the symbol he finds hidden behind her ear — the same one embossed on a notebook she kept locked away — feels like a thread he was never meant to pull.

Discover one of the world’s most extraordinary cities through this richly detailed and deeply human exploration of Cape Town. Far more than a simple travel guide, What’s So Special About Cape Town? takes readers beneath the surface of South Africa’s most visually dramatic city to uncover the powerful history, culture, beauty, and contradictions that make it unlike anywhere else on Earth. From the towering presence of Table Mountain to the crashing Atlantic coastline, Cape Town is often described as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.