FIVE WOMEN ARE DEAD. The killer leaves no fingerprints, no DNA. Police are utterly stumped. In a world where only women can use magic and the men who know about it seek to eradicate them, three damaged young women - one cursed, one hunted, one out for revenge - will team up to track down and take out a brutal supernatural killer.

Jude Wolf is rich as sin and handsome as the devil. But she's also cursed. Her immortal soul is tethered to a rather hateful demon - and she wants the hell out of the deal. What Jude needs is a cursewriter - and she thinks the string of dead women, all of whom she suspects are messing with the occult, might just be able to lead her to one.

Zara Jones has also been tracking the murders since they began. Her older sister was the killer's first victim. Zara doesn't just want revenge, she wants to find a way to bring her sister back. What Zara needs is a witch, a sorcerer, a necromancer - in fact, what Zara needs is a cursewriter. At the apartment of the fifth victim, Jude and Zara meet by chance, and there they find a clue that brings their paths crashing together: a strange business card bearing three words. Emer Byrne. Cursewriter.

Race complicates our relationships, even when we reject racism and seek to walk a better path together. How can we get our thinking-and our conversations-unstuck from entrenched patterns? In this book, four experts in psychology and social work present a model for how to build and deepen the cross-race relationships we want. The starting place, they testify, must be a biblical understanding of the problem of racial disunity, grounded in the grand narrative of Scripture, followed by practical insights about psychology and social behavior. This book is the culmination of professional-but also deeply personal-conversations the authors have had with each other, wrestling together over current events, their own stories, and their roles in the healing process. They combine biblical teachings with psychological science to help Christians develop the skills to discuss race and ethnicity. In each chapter, you will be guided through essential information, biblical examples, case studies, activities, and journaling exercises to prepare you to practice healing conversations. Using research from psychology, attachment theory, and emotionally focused therapy, this process will build your knowledge, self-awareness, other-awareness, and specific relational skills. Jesus embodied love, challenged injustice, welcomed those rejected by society, and engaged in healing conversations with everyone he encountered. The insights and practices in Healing Conversations on Race will help Christians grow in Christlikeness and follow his example.

Two years later, after Lexus is charged with murder, Hennessy partners with ex- drug dealer turned CEO, Dallas Ford to prove Lexus' innocence and clear her of all charges. Although the two are closer to proving Lexus' innocence,Hennessy must deal with her own issues as she must balance her new role as a wife, an unexpected secret admirer, and handle her new role as a political candidate. Dallas has his share of problems balancing his personal life with Passion, juggling a successful record label and all the drama surrounding his artists, and dealing with his own demons when his past life in the streets come to haunt him.

What would you do if your enemy was your guardian angel? You would never get along and later you find out that you are related! My life is like that, but what else could wrong? Then we wind up at a fortress that has all of your fears come to life. When you go to the living room you see a man. He is wearing all black and he gets pissed off really easily. Then you find out that he is Luke: KING OF THE VAMPIRES. You don't listen and run as far as you can. When you get home you realize that your teacher is trying to kill you.So what do you do? Nothing...you let me...The Unknown Hero take care of everything.

Larry Pearson has settled into a well-planned life when devastating news left him to make life-altering decisions. A high powered, successful business man who decides to leave behind his long time friend and partner to face a challenge that has to be the worse mid-life crisis imaginable. Larry retires to a secluded, small lakeside community. In doing so, he stumbles onto a mystery that surrounds his newfound friend. Johnny, a nine-year-old fishing buddy, who captures his heart and tortures his mind as a dark mystery unfolds to reveal the unbelievable. As the story continues Larry finds himself, after many years of not being able to find his soul mate, falling in love with Janice, a longtime employee and friend. Larry, Janice and Johnny make plans to put an end to the horror that lurks within the walls of the run down original estate of the lakeside community where Johnny resides. The danger grows more ominous and has Larry desperately trying to hold on literally for his life and that of the twelve-year-old sister of Johnny.

The Hollow sisters - Vivi, Grey and Iris - are as seductively glamorous as they are mysterious. They have black eyes and hair as white as milk. The Hollow sisters don't have friends - they don't need them. They move through the corridors like sharks, the other little fish parting around them, whispering behind their backs.

And everyone knows who the Hollow sisters are. Because one day the three Hollow sisters simply disappeared. And when they came back, one month later, with no memory of where they had been, it was as if nothing had changed. Almost nothing, Apart from, for example, the little scar that had appeared in the hollow of their throats ... and a whispering sense that something is not quite right about them, despite (or maybe because of) the terrible passion to be with them that they can exert on anybody at will...

A thrilling, twisting, novel that is as seductive and glamorous as the Hollow sisters themselves....

This book will make a first contribution to identify the gaps in current practices and provide alternative mechanisms to conceptualize professionalism that is reflective of changing requirements, culture, and demographics of the contemporary military force.The military profession promotes the development, sustainment, and embodiment of ethos, which guides conduct across operational contexts, from times of national and international crises and security challenges (e.g., war, natural disasters, and peace support operations). It is imperative for military leaders to understand how ethos and doctrine shape professional frameworks, which guide the conduct of military members.