Raven’s Rescue Valkyrie Riders Volume 1 A Draoithe Saga Tale Rescued by a Black Dragon Knight Emrick Driscoll, the resurrected dragon known as Ash, found the Dire Wolf King and applied to serve as the new kingdom’s Lord of Dragons. He and his brothers finally had their chances to find their Valkyries if the prophecy they followed proved true. Only working for Luke Mendez is a serious challenge, and Raven isn’t what Ash expected when he rescued her from an evil warehouse. Leonora D’Souza, a young bartender known as Raven, finds herself in a no-win situation after her abduction. Forced to take part in a horrific medical experiment involving immortal shifters and broken magic, Raven believed death was her only option until a dragon steals her from her dire situation and whisks her away to a safe haven. But the world she finds herself in is dark and confusing. The things of legends, or myths, and the shadowy figures from murky fairytales freely roam a realm hidden in plain sight. Not everyone acts as kindly as her dragon knight, and Raven wonders if Ash is truly her rescuer or part of a worsening nightmare. Read the first volume of Valkyrie Riders and discover an all new miniseries filled with dragon knights and the beautiful women destined to become their Valkyries set in the dream as part of the Draoithe Saga by Ophelia Kee. It’s more than a story; it’s an experience. Welcome to the dream… Dark Urban Fantasy with Steamy Paranormal Romance and Fated Mates 18+ HEA! NC! ***Warning: Adult Themes, Fantasy Violence, and/or Explicit Sexual Situations. Intended for a Mature Audience.

Shade is a very smart raven, who is being trained to help search-and-rescue teams in the Arizona desert.

A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609—the largest fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.

A fascinating memoir about growing up in Vancouver BC with the Occult in one of the biggest cults in North America and it's unique life path leading me to the spiritual purpose of leading others through their own darkness to enlightenment. This book lightly touches my personal experiences with life, death and the Occult forming me as a life long Occultist, Occult teacher and mentor. In this book I touch on the supernatural and paranormal elements of being a licensed Mortician, Funeral Director, Psychic Medium, Paranormal Investigator and ritualistic abuse survivor. My own journey with Psychic mediumship started at birth. My first memories are of robes, chanting and the smell of incense, I remember drawing pentagrams with purpose in crayon. This lead me to start reading traditional Tarot at 11 years old when my father gave me my first deck of Tarot cards, making this now over 40 years of reading Tarot to clients across the globe!

Nature author Marianne Taylor’s The Animal Mind is a fascinating exploration of animal intelligence and emotion, with thought-provoking essays, surprising insights, and breathtaking images by leading photographers Joel Sartore, Melissa Groo, Peter Delaney, and others. We are only beginning to understand the ways in which the animal mind is as complex as our own. A prairie dog’s vocal language is now the most sophisticated ever decoded, but their unique jump-yip poses as many questions as answers. Gorillas use sign language to describe past events to researchers, so does this mean they ruminate and relive their lives? When an ant looks in a mirror to see a dab of blue paint on its head, they try to clean it off, proving the ant is self-aware like us. The Animal Mind profiles 60 animals as it explores instances of remarkable cognition, communication, consciousness, and culture in the animal kingdom. Full of beautiful portraits and in-depth studies showing these behaviors in action, The Animal Mind offers an illuminating roadmap to animal intelligence.

More than a century after John Wesley Powelllaunched his boat on the Green River, Ellen Meloy spent eight years of seasonal floats through Utah's Desolation Canyon with her husband, a federal river ranger. She came to know the history and natural history of this place well enough to call it home, and has recorded her observations in a book that is as wide-ranging as the river and as wild as the wilderness through which it runs.

On the cusp of adulthood, Meeka is about to confront a clash of lifestyles and cultures as she leaves her community in Canada's Far North and begins her education in the South. Being a teenager in Nunavut comes with its own challenges, but as a daughter of an Inuk hunter, Meeka has enjoyed a certain status in her community. Now Meeka goes from being a community leader to a meek student as she is lured into the harsh complexities of navigating a university town. Born in Polar's Den is a coming-of-age novel that unapologetically explores the social, political and demographic issues surrounding Canada's Arctic region and its aboriginal peoples. The author's interest in Inuit culture shines through as he examines the experiences of Nunavut's young people in their transition to adulthood in a modern age....

"By my sword, I will bring peace. With my power, I will defend. As long as my heart beats, I will fight to the very end."

Part one of an unusual and astonishing new fantasy trilogy that blends fine literary fare with a terrific romp through the reimagined outskirts of Victorian-era London In the imaginary borough of Filching, the extensive Iremonger family (“kings of mildew, moguls of mould”) have made a fortune from junk, building a dark and sprawling mansion from salvage scrap. Heap House is surrounded by the dangerous, noxious, shifting Heaps that stretch beyond its bounds. And within its walls, certain objects begin to display strange signs of life. Young Clod Iremonger is about to be "trousered" and betrothed (unwillingly) to his cousin Pinalippy when he meets the plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant, with whose help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family’s empire. Mystery, romance and the perils of the Heaps await! Gorgeously (and ghoulishly) illustrated by the author, Heap House is peopled with unforgettable characters with delightfully skewed names--anxious, animal-loving Tummis with his pet seagull; menacing cousin Moorcus; dreadful Aunt Rosamud and more. As Carey writes, “Every life is thick with rubbish, but the Iremongers did it with a difference.”