In, Reaching Back to Touch My Soul: Thoughts on Love, Laughter and Living, everyone has a chance to read about the parts of life that matter most: love, laughter, and living a meaningful life. In today's world, which is filled with so much nonessential data that clings to our mind like tissue paper to a shoe. Reaching Back to Touch My Soul gives us a chance to reconnect not only to each other but also to the often forgotten parts of ourselves. The stories and essays in the book came into the world as op-ed pieces for The Virgin Islands Daily News. From different times, places and themes they have emerged as a family of ideas and grown as one. There are three major themes in the book. The first is Love, the second, Laughter, and the last Living Choosing Love as the starting point was easy, according to author Linda DePass-Creque, "Love breathes life into everything else. It is from love that everything else flows" The theme Laughter is a potpourri of topics and commentary written to make you smile as you take in its message. The last theme in this delightful book, Living, explores many of life's "basic skills", including coping, understanding, tolerance, friendship and sometimes making sense out of nonsense! With the wonderful illustrations of each theme , its humor, and its wise, down- to- earth philosophy, this book is well worth reading.

Elisa: All I’ve ever wanted was to measure up to my father’s expectations. But it’s not that simple when he’s the head of a brutal crime family. The only girl in a world of monsters and the landscape keeps getting darker and darker. One shift in power and my father is marrying into a worse family—one that wants our name for their own. In return for the safety of his sons, I’m offered to the eldest in our new extended family. But he’s not looking for love or happy ever afters. He needs a pawn. A bargaining chip. A hostage with a pretty face. I hate myself for wanting him to see me. To need me. To love me. Everything about my desire is wrong. Yet it blinds me to bend, then break every rule I’ve ever known. Anything for him. Daemon: The only way to survive in the dark is to become it. I can’t even remember what it’s like to feel anything but vengeance. But everything changes when my mother marries the leader of our bitter enemies. Play nice was the request. Not a chance. And in exchange, I get the honor of breaking his only daughter. They think we’re in this fight together. They’re wrong. We’re here to tear them apart. One by one. And we’re starting with her. Little does she know, she won’t survive the love she seeks. I’m not her savior. I’m death at her door. Naughty little thing has no clue just how deep I’m going to take her before I destroy everything she holds dear. And there’s one person that’s going to help me do it—her. **WARNING: Dancing with the Devil series is filled with drama, lots of angst, and very dark material withcertain subjects that may upset the reader with triggers. This series is recommended for mature readers due to its graphic language and sexual content..**

This book deals with the principles, the purposes, and the means--indeed, the physics--of inner change. Embodied and enhanced by the author's own free-flowing poetry, this study promises to broaden the reader's horizons, and lead him or her to a greater understanding of both the world around us and the universe within us. Only by achieving harmony between these two planes--the outer and the inner self--can we better understand ourselves and our fellowmen.

I was born with noble blood in my veins. Heir to a powerful dynasty. Wealth. Power. Aristocracy. Temptations too dangerous to resist. Until someone tried to steal it all. Scarred and broken, I emerged from the flames. Now I’ve returned to take what’s mine. Revenge. The first item on my agenda? Make Ivy Moreno my wife. Second? Bend her until she breaks. Includes: mafia romance, dark mafia romance with a happy ending, alpha hero, billionaire romance, possessive hero, Natasha Knight books, Arranged marriage mafia romance, happily ever after dark romance, secret society

What happens when a hunky Scotsman discovers the woman he's been dreaming of is no dream, she's a witch who lives in a pink and white castle with hundreds of others just like her, and a demon is loose trying to kill all of them? My Soul To Keep is the story of Clan MacLean told by three brothers, Calen, Caleb, and adopted brother, Arion. In Calen the story begins with The Fortress and its all-female inhabitants. Fantasy, mystery, and adventure are mixed with sensuous details that take our hero, Calen through time to modern day San Francisco to save the love of his life, hopefully saving the entire future of Clan MacLeod. Each additional book, Caleb & Arion, will take the reader farther into the family's rich history with plenty of adventure, love, and romance.

Readers can experience healing from sexual abuse through the unique Biblical insights learned by this minister and author during her own process of healing from childhood sexual abuse. (Practical Life)

This book is an exploration of the connection of our Time-Space Reality into the Universal Awareness that is All That Is. We are able to move beyond the ego and experience something of the essence of our divine beings and connection while becoming more fully and effectively present right here and now. We can each awaken from the deep sleep of being caught in limitation here in time and space having forgotten what and who we truly are. We walk down the spiritual pathways within ourselves, opening the door to the mysteries of life that we already know at the core of our beings. We can re-member ourselves. These topics are rarely found in print in a way that opens your heart as well as your mind. Through a flowing combination of poetry and prose you can experience in this book a passionate sense of your connection with God that is very exciting -- opening you on a deep, spiritual, feeling level to an awareness and a connection that transcends words.

Aurelion Emrys is a boy who has felt a deep sense of responsibility and purpose from the time he can remember. Although he grows up beside his best friend, Rose, he lives mostly apart from other children as an observer. Aurelion, who spends his days listening to the earth speak her mysteries, can also see straight into the souls of others. Simply put, the boy is special. After nine winters, Aurelion reluctantly accepts his destiny as the next Merlin and prepares to leave his childhood, mother, and beloved Rose behind. Led by his own visions and his fathers wisdom, Aurelion embarks on a heros journey to Eriu the Magical Isle where he is initiated, becomes immersed in relationships with Arthur and his family, and greets his destiny from another life. But when Aurelion, now considered the wisest man in the world, suffers a betrayal at the hands of his pupil, he suddenly leaves the court. Has he truly disappeared or is he fulfilling another destiny that legend simply failed to record? The Last True Merlin of Britain reveals the fascinating story of a heros voyage through real and spiritual landscapes as he attempts to satisfy his role in the Arthurian legends.

Dougs third book of poetry Broken Silence is his trilogy of poetry, in which he returns to his roots of what inspired him to write. This collection of poems focuses on romance, heartbreak, family, motivation and dealing with the struggles that a person may encounter in life. The poems convey his feelings about how important loved ones are with the dedication poem to his mother, First Lady. The poem In Memory of You, was written for his Grandmother he lost to cancer. Doug discusses the joys of love and finding that connection with a person in his heartfelt poems Notice You and Falling For You. He also addresses the pain of losing a relationship in his poems I Remember When and Off The Market, where sometimes putting your heart on the line does not guarantee,a person will end up with the result that was being sought out. In addition, his poem U.G.L.Y. inspires people that no matter what the opinion others may have of a person, there is strength to overcome any insecurity to find the path of secure inner happiness. The poem In My World addresses the struggles and pains that he views others dealing with in terms of unemployment and how it is affecting the world. Dougs purpose in writing this book is to share his thoughts in a poetic form so others can see that no one is ever alone in feeling like the only outcast in the world. We are all unique in our own special way, and live every day as you are painting the world with your vision for everyone to see. Broken Silence will stimulate a persons mind and show that most valuable things in life primarily come from within and understanding others.

A remakable story of God's constancy and provision for all lovers of history, romance and faith... Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon's Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a pace of belonging...only to be cast away from her home. In the years that follow, she faces a new life in the world of the white man--a life filled with both attachment and loss--yet finds that God faithfully unites her with a love that fills all longing in this heartwarming sequel to Jane Kirkpatrick's award-winner, A Sweetness to the Soul.