Can she save his immortal soul. . . and help him find heaven on earth? Touching Sephora may cost Kieran his soul. . . Kieran has always been a good Catholic, even studying for the priesthood. But there are complications. A few weeks before his ordination into the priesthood, he was made a vampire. And then there's Sephora, the beautiful, independent American student who draws him to her. His "blackbird", she seems to hold all the secrets to life and happiness, like the mythological creature of the ancient Celts. Despite his best intentions and though he knows he can only hurt her, her hold on him increases by the minute. Although Ireland promised Sephora an escape from the horrors of a brutal attack she suffered two years previously, she has discovered that the true scars lie within. But being with Kieran melts away the pain and his touch provides her the refuge to reclaim her body. 17,336 Words

“Mortal Soul” Copy: NOTE FOR ALL COPY POINT SIZE (back reviews, back body copy, back title, spine title and author): Make point size the same as on author’s other iUniverse published books: Lords of Paradise, Black Lies, Vanishing Breed, Bone Chiller “Mortal Soul” Back Cover copy: Note: Background is dark blue, Pantone #_______ (Review copy to be placed on top of page--white type reversed out of dark blue background that compliments front cover color): “Mortal Soul grabs your heart and never lets go.” ----Mystery Morgue Magazine “A richly textured and timeless novel.” ----Charlotte Austin Review “A superb story.” ----Patti Nunn, Writers Showcase Review (white type reversed out of the dark blue background for body copy, below): Goblin shadows loom over a six-year-old boy restlessly waiting for parents who have vanished. Whispers of suicide or murder whirl around the abandoned child as he is passed from one relative to another. Obsessed to unravel the mystery behind his parents’ disappearance, Gordon LeBeque escapes into an even darker world of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen and a series of adventures that sculpt him from a frightened boy to a haunted man. Even his worst nightmares can’t prepare him for the truth behind the deadly secret relentlessly digging at his mortal soul. (using front cover title color and typeface placed directly beneath the body copy): Mortal Soul “Mortal Soul” Spine Copy: Note: Background is dark blue complementing dark blue on cover. (book title using same color and typeface as front cover): Mortal Soul (author name in white, using same typeface as author name on cover: Lon LaFlamme

Mortal Soul Copy: NOTE FOR ALL COPY POINT SIZE (back reviews, back body copy, back title, spine title and author): Make point size the same as on authors other iUniverse published books: Lords of Paradise, Black Lies, Vanishing Breed, Bone Chiller Mortal Soul Back Cover copy: Note: Background is dark blue, Pantone #_______ (Review copy to be placed on top of page--white type reversed out of dark blue background that compliments front cover color): Mortal Soul grabs your heart and never lets go. ----Mystery Morgue Magazine A richly textured and timeless novel. ----Charlotte Austin Review A superb story. ----Patti Nunn, Writers Showcase Review (white type reversed out of the dark blue background for body copy, below): Goblin shadows loom over a six-year-old boy restlessly waiting for parents who have vanished. Whispers of suicide or murder whirl around the abandoned child as he is passed from one relative to another. Obsessed to unravel the mystery behind his parents disappearance, Gordon LeBeque escapes into an even darker world of New Yorks Hells Kitchen and a series of adventures that sculpt him from a frightened boy to a haunted man. Even his worst nightmares cant prepare him for the truth behind the deadly secret relentlessly digging at his mortal soul. (using front cover title color and typeface placed directly beneath the body copy): Mortal Soul Mortal Soul Spine Copy: Note: Background is dark blue complementing dark blue on cover. (book title using same color and typeface as front cover): Mortal Soul (author name in white, using same typeface as author name on cover: Lon LaFlamme

What makes for a good death? In Mortally Wounded, a best-seller in Ireland where it was first published, Dr. Michael Kearney reflects upon his experiences working with the dying and shows us that it is possible to learn to die well, overcoming our fears and soul pain and accepting death as an integral part of life.Believing that the root of the pain we face when dying is often a persona and cultural disconnection from soul, Dr. Kearney advocates a personal quest inward-and downward-the re-engage with this deepest part of our being. He shows how psychological techniques, such as dream analysis and visualization exercises, combined with mythological insights, can help us on this journey. He finds in the Greek myth of the wounded centaur, Chiron, a metaphor for this process-it is only after descending to the underworld for nine days and nights that Chiron finds relief from his pain and suffering and discovers a path that reaches to the heavens.Careful attention to our spiritual health, Kearney urges, is an essential complement to physical or outer care. Inner or "depth" work can, he believes, enables us to find our "own way through the prison of soul pain to a place of greater wholeness, a new depth of living, and a falling away from fear.

Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' - which can refer both to physical desire or desire for happiness. They reveal thematic continuities between the prologue and the various speeches as well as between the speeches themselves, and present a rich collection of contrasting yet complementary readings of Diotima's speech. The volume will be invaluable for classicists and philosophers alike, and for all who are interested in one of Plato's most fascinating and challenging dialogues.

The notion that we spring into existence ex nihilo at birth strikes many people as counter-intuitive. By contrast, the idea that we have an eternal identity appeals to some deep intuition about the self. And indeed, belief in the soul's pre-mortal existence has a long history in Western thought. Terryl Givens offers the first systematic exploration of this fascinating if generally unfamiliar feature of Western cultural history.

An enlightening view of the relationship with our soul from Jane Roberts, Author of the best-selling Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality

Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet. In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that "death . . . give / not only take from us." This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is "not inside / not outside: dusk's / doorway," where memory might be kept alive.

FEATURING NEW EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT! Like Buffy or The Vampire Diaries but with tons more spice, a titillating fork-tongued demon, and a ritualistic monster cult, the edgy dark romance that set Tiktok on fire is now here as a special edition with bonus content for fans of Scarlett St. Claire, Penelope Douglas, and Katee Robert. The demon didn't just want my body. He wanted my soul. Leon: My reputation among magicians is unblemished. Killer, they call me; killing is what I’m best at. One wrong move and you’re dead. Except her. The one I was supposed to take, the one I should have killed. The cult that once controlled me wants her, but I’m not about to lose my new toy to them. Rae: I’ve always believed in the supernatural. Hunting for ghosts is my passion, but summoning a demon was never part of the plan. Monsters are roaming the woods, and something ancient—something evil—is waking up . . . and calling my name. I don’t know who I can trust, or how deep this darkness goes. All I know is my one shot at survival is the demon stalking me, and he doesn’t just want my body—he wants my soul.

The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails. “A funny, hard-rocking first-person tale of teenage angst and discovery.” —Booklist “Captures the loose, fun, recklessness of midwestern punk.” —MTV.com Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest, true-life depiction of growing up punk on Chicago’s south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism, and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend, Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. Based on the actual events surrounding a Chicago high school’s segregated prom, this work of fiction unflinchingly pursues the truth in discovering what it means to be your own person.