Path Of The Golden Heart: Conscious Dating In An Unconscious World: the first book in Cindy Jarrett's Conscious Relationships Series is based on Cindy's pioneering work into the necessity for emotional maturity as the key for healthy and sustaining love relationships to succeed. It is an in-depth training that brings truth back into the dating process where single men and women can fully be their authentic selves while getting to know each other. It brings an end to the suffering that has long been associated with dating. It is a modern approach to dating that dispels the myths about the games in dating many authorities try to promote. This training brings single people the necessary education as to why love has become so difficult to attain and what stands in the way of effortlessly entering into love relationships. Readers are provided easy and accessible actions to take that makes Conscious Dating a welcomed relief. Love...what we all desire. It matters most to us and drives us to do the most courageous to craziest of things. Love is what gives us our supreme experiences and challenges. It is our most powerful expression. Love heals all things. And, love is our greatest teacher. Yet, love eludes us. It is everywhere and missing in so many hearts. We fear it. We run from it. We long for it. We deserve it. It is our birthright. And it is this desire for love that brings us to the dating ritual again and again. And, love is not enough. We need more than just love to build and sustain a healthy relationship. We also need commitment, clarity, honesty, character, an inner life, consistency, maturity, an open heart, forgiveness, training, guidance, consciousness, more maturity, healthy communications, sensitivity, have I said maturity yet, and much, much more. We don't usually relate to love or love relationships with maturity in mind. We don't necessarily declare that these elements are also what loving another requires.

The world is in trouble: the curtain of meaninglessness has engulfed it, and people live a life of dullness and suffering. Isabella is a young princess who doesn’t fit in with her royal family. Her cruel mother throws her in the dungeon and declares that the princess has been sent to finishing school – indefinitely. Isabella starts digging her way out and finds a well. She dives in, and deep in the water she finds a half of a golden heart that fills her with energy and life: the antidote to the illness consuming the world. She sets on a quest to find the other half of the golden heart, and with the help of friends in the forest she gets close to her goal – when trouble hits. A wizard entraps her and aims to steal the golden heart for himself. He makes her forget who she is and keeps her in his castle engaged to marry him. Will the owner of the other half of the golden heart succeed in waking up the princess from her stupor on time? Will the united golden heart liberate the world from the curtain of meaninglessness, or will the wizard succeed at keeping the populace entrapped? The Well of the Golden Heart is a tale of self-discovery, finding true love and the perils that are found along the way.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Dragons suddenly appear out of the night sky, burning everything in sight. The evil wizard that created them is about to complete a spell that will exchange his heart with the magical Golden Heart and make him the ruler of the world. All he needs is a cup of blood: Human blood! He has created creatures to conquer the inhabitants in preparation for his rule. A teenage witch and several young companions are selected to face the wizard is his lair and save the world

A new wind is blowing. Selena makes the decision to take Rue to Wilde Grove, to get to the heart of her dreaming, for it is certain that Rue has lived before as a priestess of Wilde Grove. What is the lesson Rue needs to learn? With Morghan giving Rue a crash course in walking between the worlds, the story behind Rue's dreaming cannot remain a mystery for long. She will walk the same paths she did long ago, in another skin, and find out exactly what Bryn, one of the first priestesses of the Forest Grove wants from her. Back in New Zealand, a loss is suffered, and a shock, one that brings Selena straight back home, for someone is screaming out to Clover from the spirit world for help that the child is too young and frightened to give. Golden Heart is the third book in the second Wilde Grove series and follows on from The Otherworld.

"Raw, dark, and surprisingly funny...there's so much precision and verve in these stories; I was captivated the entire way through." - Carmen Maria Machado The misfits and mavericks in this award-winning story collection shuffle their feet to a soundtrack of rumble strips and twangy AM radio. Here, the underdog is king and the outsiders are storming the gates. A plucky daughter defends her father by swinging a paint can like a mace, teenage renegades sow terror on the highway by throwing cups of root beer, and an out-of-work lawyer steamrolls his way through a recreational sports league. For these loners and screwballs, the path to redemption is often twisted, heartfelt, and humorous. These stories will take you from the karaoke bar to the natural foods co-op, from a city-league broomball game to a broken-down camper in the woods. In lush and lucid prose, Holt explores emotional landscapes that reflect the vast terrain of America's heartland. Woven throughout is a series of flash-fiction parables, which narrate a journey both exotic and existential. So pull up a seat among this motley crew of barflies, road workers, and art school dropouts, and you might later find yourself retelling their stories as your own.