A CITY . . . Amberlight, the ruler of the Riverworld. A MYSTERY . . . Qherrique, the foundation of Amberlight's wealth. Amberlight's unique possession, whose mother-lodes keep Riverworld rulers on their thrones. AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE AFFAIR . . . She leads the most powerful House in Amberlight. He's an amnesiac mugging victim, found bleeding to death on the street. So why should it matter, if he dies? What he's forgotten could be the city's deadliest danger. What he shows her changes her life. What she means to him changes his own life. But intrigue and insurrection and brutal warfare threaten any future for their love. “Amberlight is peopled with vivid characters that stormed up off the page into permanent residence in my mind and memory, in a unique world, and driving an original plot. If some writers' prose sings, Kelso's is an opera.” Lois ​McMaster ​Bujold, Author of Paladin of Souls​ ​“Sumptuous, sensuous, and passionate, ​​Amberlight is completely delightful. Sylvia Kelso is a master of world-building, beautiful prose, and sheer romance.​” Delia Sherman,​ co-author of​ The Fall of the Kings

Hunting Darkness... Chaeris is the hope of her family and her community, a potential Seer, child and yet companion of Amberlight's reborn mystery, the qherrique. Therkon is crown prince and defender of a damaged empire, seeking answers to storms that wreck trade and fling ashore refugees from the distant Archipelago. And with them, word of a menace that still has no name. Over land, over sea, through unexpected perils and amid unlooked-for friendship, they find themselves driven to a deadly meeting in the ruined Isles, under a darkness that threatens to destroy them -- and who can See a dawn beyond?

A city falls. And Tellurith, once Head of Amberlight's most powerful House, finds herself and her surviving folk on a journey they never thought to make. A new beginning. Telluir House will resettle in its ancient mountain village, Iskarda. But Tellurith wants more than their location to change. A different world. Tellurith dreams of a House where she and her folk and her two anomalous husbands have reforged customs, righted old wrongs, and reached equality for all. But the way is beset by perils and surprises, both in Iskarda and in the Riverworld beyond: from the nations of Verrain and belligerent Cataract, and the far more menacing empire of Dhasdein. A transformed vision. Because the deadliest and most joyful revelations will come on a journey to Dhasdein’s imperial capital, Riversend.

On the River, after the fall of Amberlight, Tellurith and her folk meet the greatest crisis of all... Demolition A great lord's power and position, lost... A seven-hundred year old regime, collapsed... Love and loyalty tried past breaking point.... Destruction Bloody revolution... A threat become loss too tragic to forget.... Discovery Goals suffered and sacrificed for, to evaporate in the hands... Love undreamt of, unheralded, unforeseen... Secrets to shatter an empire.... Disaster Loss of love, loss of home, loss and more loss in battle... Grief, torment, immanent ruin of all dreams, all hopes.... Revelation Calamity, shock, enemies' dissolution... Undreamt of victory... Secrets that transform the heart.... Resolution Love renewed, recovered, forever changed... Love, after long suffering, fulfilled.... Renewal A new dawn for the River... A new, utterly different life... "Amberlight is peopled with vivid characters that stormed up off the page into permanent residence in my mind and memory, in a unique world, and driving an original plot. If some writers' prose sings, Kelso's is an opera." --Lois ​McMaster ​Bujold, Author of Paladin of Souls​ . "Sumptuous, sensuous, and passionate, ​​Amberlight is completely delightful. Sylvia Kelso is a master of world-building, beautiful prose, and sheer romance.​" --Delia Sherman,​ co-author of​ The Fall of the Kings

Kelso (Everrans Bane ) paints a hypnotic but prose-drowned portrait of a complex matriarchal society powered by qherrique, a semisentient stone that can control minds and power machinery. When a male Outlander is found on the streets of Amberlight, robbed, raped and left for dead by a girl gang, the qherrique informs Tellurith, the powerful head of Telluir House, that he must be kept alive.

Transnational Italian Studies is specifically targeted at a student audience and is designed to be used as a key text when approaching the disciplinary field of Italian studies. It allows the study of Italian culture to be construed and practised not simply as the inquiry into a national tradition but as the study of the interaction of cultural practices both within Italy itself and in those parts of the world that have witnessed the extent of Italian mobility. The text argues that Italian culture needs to be considered in a transnational/transcultural perspective and that an understanding of linguistic and cultural translation underlies all approaches to the study of Italian culture in a global context. Contributions deploy a range of methodological approaches to understand and illustrate how language operates, how culture inhabits and constitutes public and private space, how notions of time operate within people’s lives, and the multiple ways in which people experience a sense of personhood. Chapters stretch from the medieval period to the present and demonstrate how transnational Italian culture can be critically addressed through the examination of carefully chosen examples. Contributors: Alessandra Diazzi, Andrea Rizzi, Barbara Spadaro, Charles Burdett, Clorinda Donato, David Bowe, Derek Duncan, Donna Gabaccia, Eugenia Paulicelli, Fabio Camilletti, Giuliana Muscio, Jennifer Burns, Loredana Polezzi, Marco Santello, Monica Jansen, Naomi Wells, Nathalie Hester, Serena Bassi, Stefania Tufi, Teresa Fiore and Tristan Kay.