by Felicity Brandon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition Book 1 of 2: Dark Highlanders See all formats and editions It was supposed to be a haven. A place to find myself. But it turned into my prison. Trapped on a secluded island, The goliath who rescued me is nothing more than a savage. A beast intent on my detention. I have to escape, Flee his dark clutches. He’s captured my body. Now he wants my heart. From USA Today bestselling author, Felicity Brandon, Ensnared Desire is the first in a new, dark Highlanders series. Meet the brooding men of the north, determined to get their women—and their way!

He's spent years as a hunter, but now he's the one ensnared in a creature's trap. Ketahn did not want a mate. Fate has a different plan for him. When the queen he despises declares her intention to claim him, he retreats into the jungle. What he finds there changes his world. Small, delicate, and pale skinned, Ivy Foster is nothing like the females Ketahn has known. She's not of his kind at all. Yet the moment he sees her, he knows the truth in his soul-she is his heartsthread. And now that he has her, he won't let anything take her away. Not the jungle, not the gods, not the queen and her warriors. Whether Ivy agrees or not, their webs are entangled. No one will ever sever those threads. ----- Book 1 of 3 in The Spider's Mate Trilogy. Warning: Contains darker themes and there is also a cliffhanger. Check the author's website for more detailed content warnings.

Indulge in this sexy first installment of the Alpha Billionaires: Yearning Hearts Serial, an arranged marriage instalove omegaverse romance with obsessive, possessive (yandere) alpha male leads, reverse harem dynamics, and a second chance romance by Alexia Praks. Thrust into a world of wealth, power, and insatiable desire, I, an omega, become the wife of three powerful alpha billionaire titans—Dominic, Xavier, and Lucian Davenport—through an arranged marriage. Dominic’s commanding presence overwhelms me, igniting an aching need within, stripping me bare with its ferocity. Xavier’s brilliance is matched only by his obsession with protecting my delicate nature. Lucian’s silken words seduce me, his charisma wrapping around my heart like velvet chains. Their insatiable desire both thrills and terrifies. The intensity of their love is all-consuming, their affection scorching. I crave their touch, the way their eyes devour me with an unquenchable hunger. Yet, I fear becoming lost in the tempest of their obsessive need to possess, own, and control every breath I take. Adrift in a sea of opulence and privilege, my tender soul yearns for simple joys—to sing freely, to dance without restraint, to experience love without the weight of ownership. Can I surrender to the searing ardor of these alpha titans while holding tight to the fragile embers of my independence? Or will the scorching blaze of their ravenous need reduce my identity to ashes on the altar of their obsession? I have no choice but to try, for they have claimed and own me, body and soul, three kings staking their territory with a ferocity that allows no retreat. The question is, can I learn to claim and own them in return? Alpha Billionaires: Yearning Hearts, a contemporary billionaire reverse harem romance set in an omegaverse universe is a tale of passion, obsession, and the delicate balance between love and control. Step into Asa’s world and experience the thrilling journey of an omega caught in the throes of an all-consuming love with three powerful alphas. Will their love rise from the ashes of their tumultuous beginning, or will it be consumed by the very flames that ignited it? “Flames of Desire” is a captivating first installment of the “Alpha Billionaires: Yearning Hearts” serial and is part of the Alpha Billionaires Series. These novels are designed to be read in serialized fashion, concluding with cliff-hangers that lead into the next exhilarating chapter. To fully enjoy the depth and twists of the unfolding storyline, the books should be read in the sequence they were published. Note: While the beloved characters (Asa, Dominic, Xavier, and Lucian) face their fair share of hurdles, the ride is worth it. Rest assured, no matter the twists and turns, this tale is crafted with a guaranteed HEA (happily ever after) at the end of the serial. Serial Mood: Steamy, Sexy, Spicy, Sensual, Smut, Intense, Passionate, Provocative, Yearning, Angsty, All-Consuming. BOOKS IN THE ALPHA BILLIONAIRES SERIES Alpha Billionaires: Yearning Hearts (Featuring Asa Davenport and Dominic, Xavier, and Lucian Davenport) 1: Flames of Desire 2: Chains of Devotion (coming soon) Alpha Billionaires: Dual Pursuit (Featuring Delcy Charlton and Colton and Jaxon Sterling) 1: Ensnared Desire 2: Untamed Passion (coming soon)

On the one hand, Creation and Discovery, Lacan and Klein: An Essay of Reintroduction seeks to disclose the often suppressed or unacknowledged proximity, even intimacy, between Lacan and Klein, and thereby to facilitate a re-introduction between Lacan and Klein such that their works can read anew, both independently and together. On the other hand, by reconstructing the highly divergent metapsychological theories and clinical orientations of Jacques Lacan and Melanie Klein from their discussions of the same case material, the text seeks to demonstrate the irreducible plurality of psychoanalysis and the ethico-political significance of this plurality. Siding with neither Lacan nor Klein's perspective, Adam Rosen-Carole argues that within and between these exaggerated positions, a dialectic of creation and discovery emerges that affords the reader unique insights into the nature and status of psychoanalytic knowing and its particular objects. Special attention is paid to the indelible exaggerations and distortions, the guiding sensitivities and urgencies, and the concomitant structures of blindness and insight organizing various psychoanalytic perspectives. Written for clinicians as well as for students and scholars interested in psychoanalysis and philosophy, this book serves not only as a comprehensive introduction to Lacan, but also a reassessment of psychoanalytic method.

A teenage girl faces her evil nemesis in the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-inspired trilogy that “should sweep readers down the rabbit hole” (Publishers Weekly). After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She’s determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves. Even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles . . . and even if the only way to Wonderland, now that the rabbit hole is closed, is through the looking-glass world—a parallel dimension filled with mutated and violent netherling outcasts. In the final installment of the wildly popular Splintered trilogy, Alyssa and her dad journey into the heart of magic and mayhem in search of her mom and to set right all that’s gone wrong. Together with Jeb and Morpheus, they must salvage Wonderland from the decay and destruction that has ensnared it. But if they succeed and come out alive, can everyone truly have their happily ever after? Praise for the Splintered trilogy “Alyssa is one of the most unique protagonists I’ve come across in a while. Splintered is dark, twisted, entirely riveting, and a truly romantic tale.” —USA Today “Brilliant, because it is ambitious, inventive, and often surprising.” —The Boston Globe “A dark beauty fills the novel’s pages, which will mesmerize teens with a taste for magic, romance or suspense. Unhinged lays the groundwork for a third book where anything could happen—it is Wonderland, after all.” —Shelf Awareness

This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's suttas or discourses. The chapters are organized into five major parts. The first, The Book with Verses, is a compilation of suttas composed largely in verse. This book ranks as one of the most inspiring compilations in the Buddhist canon, showing the Buddha in his full grandeur as the peerless "teacher of gods and humans." The other four books deal in depth with the philosophical principles and meditative structures of early Buddhism. They combine into orderly chapters all the important short discourses of the Buddha on such major topics as dependent origination, the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the seven factors of enlightenment, the Noble Eightfold Path, and the Four Noble Truths. Among the four large Nikayas belonging to the Pali Canon, the Samyutta Nikaya serves as the repository for the many shorter suttas of the Buddha where he discloses his radical insights into the nature of reality and his unique path to spiritual emancipation. This collection, it seems, was directed mainly at those disciples who were capable of grasping the deepest dimensions of wisdom and of clarifying them for others, and also provided guidance to meditators intent on consummating their efforts with the direct realization of the ultimate truth. The present work begins with an insightful general introduction to the Samyutta Nikaya as a whole. Each of the five parts is also provided with its own introduction, intended to guide the reader through this vast, ocean-like collection of suttas. To further assist the reader, the translator has provided an extensive body of notes clarifying various problems concerning both the language and the mean

This Festschrift for Leslie C. Allen reflects the ferment in studies of Jeremiah. A group of international scholars examine the location of the prophecies in Jeremiah's life and consider the book's social, ethical, theological, political, and devotional implications.