Juzeva, a princess of the magical land of Savaru, sacrifices everything to try to stop a war and instead finds herself caught in a web of evil and deceit. Sevry, the last king of the war-ravaged land of Savaru, is tasked by the magical Source Azara with finding the secret that disappeared with Juzeva, the secret that can bring Savaru back to life. Lucie, a sheltered young noblewoman, is unaware of her true heritage and the power she has to restore a lost land, until the legendary king of a long-lost land steps into her life and sweeps her away to adventure, danger, and a love that will change her life and the lost land of Savaru forever.

Nine Companion Stories to Chosen of Azara The Brilliant Career of Sajur Golu The rise of Sajur vo Udrun from petty official's son to High Priest of the Madrinan Empire. Coming Home In a last, desperate effort to save her life, young Juzeva arrives at Source Azara. Turn the Heart Torn between love and duty, Prince Idan must make a choice. Comfort Enough Several years after his deal with Azara, Sevry comes to terms with one of the sacrifices demanded by his new life. Baby Steps A widowed baron must find the courage to love again. Mothers, Daughters, and Dreamers All Lillia wants is for her mother to pay attention to her instead of to her dreams of a long-lost land. The Man in the Woods Lucie's visions over the years of a mysterious man in the woods. What A Man Has to Do Estefan's future father-in-law assigns him an almost impossible task. Homecoming Lillia struggles to come to terms with the truth of her mother's life.

Anyone can make art. Finding one's spiritual center can come of making art. Making art can come of finding one's spiritual center. Nancy Azara has been teaching the making of art, art-making as a spiritual practice, and other spiritual practices for thirty-five years. She has developed a system that combines her lifelong spiritual practice with techniques designed to help anyone get and stay in touch with their own inner artistic souls. Spirit Taking Form is a practical book. It offers lists of materials to work with and exercises and meditation techniques to help everyone bring out their inner voice. It includes specific meditations for healing the inner critic, cultivating imagination, and finding one's artistic heart. Its meditations and exercises can be done many times, and each time they can bring the reader new and richer experiences and deeper insights. Throughout the book Azara shares her own story and the inspirations that have made her a successful artist. Using an old Sicilian folk tale taught to her by her grandfather, she has always sought to look at life with one eye open out to the world and the other closed, or turned inward. It is this skill more than any other that she seeks to engender in the reader through exercises such as "The Visual Diary." Learning and teaching about art from a place of spirit calls us to a challenge, a challenge to look at something very familiar, yet distant and remote. Spirit Taking Form offers insight into artistic expression and how it can be applied to life as a catalyst for growth, change, and expression.

"Cornerstone" is a new collection of essays offering a dazzling, contemporary spin on the origins of civilization. Pedro Azara s unique architectural and archaeological insights, enhanced by his knowledge of cuneiform script, decode the dreams, myths and ideas that gave birth to the city some 7000 years ago. Through painstaking fieldwork and the reexamination of ancient Mesopotamian texts, Azara casts fresh light on these first architects and in the process, uncovers the mysterious origins of urban culture and the aesthetic principles underpinning it. With nimble wit and a voracious intellect, Azara follows these echoes from the past through to our present day cityscapes, proof that, perhaps, our old neighbours have never really moved out. "