On a routine grocery store run a beloved neighborhood father is paralyzed from a broken neck he receives in a car wreck. Attorney Brad Burns is told that he will never use his arms or his legs again. But he refuses to accept that prognosis. Given the super hero nickname of "Fatherman" by the neighborhood kids because of the way he does magic tricks and breaks boards with his bare hands, Brad uses sheer will power to slowly regain the use of his arms. But during his recovery his life falls apart. He loses his law practice, his home, his marriage, and his kids. It is the new found love of a familiar neighborhood mom that finally turns his life around. Lori had known Brad only as the coach for her son's sports teams but this tragedy brings them closer together as they fall in love and begin to heal each other's lives. Taking the advice of his hospital roommate, Warren "Crazy" Salo, Brad begins to write. This new career gives Brad purpose and ultimately produces a best selling novel, Critical Mass. This compelling story of love and triumph over tragedy will warm your heart and touch your soul.

Aurelia of Rasil'yon, a young elfin sorceress, is poised to discover herself and her world. She embarks upon an epic journey that will take her to many countries, through many bodies and forms, and to dealings with many gods and goddesses, of foreign peoples for whom she once had naught but enmity. This odyssey shall not end until she herself ends--coming to the precipice of goddesshood, and to the end of her mortality. She must confront her elfin racism, the haughty curse of her people, and make common cause with orcs and dwarves and gnomes and humans of various nations. Only then is she able to catch a glimpse of the Codex--that tome of truth, inscrutable, that her Uncle Aurel died attempting to recover. Along the way, she meets and touches many beautiful souls, fights many more evil ones, and begins to learn the measure of her destiny. Will she learn the beauty of revolt and liberation, and win her fight against tyranny? Or will she succumb to the force of Madness in the cosmos, and become a God?

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents four illuminating stories of romance, passion, and magic... In Nora Roberts's "Ever After," an ancient star pendant sends an enchanting woman to an otherwordly land—where she introduces a skeptical stranger to the magical powers of love. In Jill Gregory's "Catch a Falling Star," a young woman forced to marry a barbarian invokes an ancient spell—as an unexpected passion consumes her heart. In Ruth Ryan Langan's "The Curse of Castle Clough," a beautiful professor uncovers a shocking series of secrets while appraising the contents of a haunted castle—and falls in love with a desperate lord who's fighting to save everything he holds dear. In Marianne Willman's "Starry, Starry Night," a lovely lady is drawn into the tragedies of the past—and finds that true love always stands the test of time.

In recent times Ford Madox Ford has become one of the neglected figures of modernist literature, although he was a leading writer of his time, producing innovative novels, whilst promoting the works of struggling fellow writers. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Ford Madox Ford, allowing readers to enjoy masterpieces that have suffered obscurity for years. Containing all 31 novels, beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material, this collection is a must for all readers interested in modernist literature. (Version 4) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ford’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other works * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * ALL 31 novels, with many rare works appearing for the first time in digital print * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes Ford’s children’s books, appearing for the first time in digital print * Ford’s collected poetry, with individual contents table * Even includes Ford’s first literary success – the non-fiction study of his beloved city THE SOUL OF LONDON * Features Ford’s memoir ANCIENT LIGHTS, charting his literary beginnings in his grandfather’s Pre-Raphaelite circle * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * The complete memoirs – all five memoirs appearing together for the first time in publishing history * UPDATED with ‘Ladies Whose Bright Eyes’ (1935 revised version) and ‘Zeppelin Nights’ * UPDATED with revised texts and images CONTENTS: Parade’s End Series The Fifth Queen Trilogy The Children’s Fiction The Brown Owl (1891) The Feather (1892) The Queen Who Flew (1894) The Novels The Shifting of the Fire (1892) The Inheritors (1901) Romance (1904) The Benefactor (1905) The Fifth Queen (1906) The Privy Seal (1907) An English Girl (1907) The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908) Mr. Apollo (1908) The ‘Half Moon’ (1909) A Call (1910) The Portrait (1910) The Simple Life Limited (1911) Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911) The Panel (1912) The New Humpty-Dumpty (1912) Mr. Fleight (1913) The Young Lovell (1913) The Good Soldier (1915) The Marsden Case (1923) Some Do Not… (1924) The Nature of a Crime (1924) No More Parades (1925) A Man Could Stand Up — (1926) Last Post (1928) A Little Less than Gods (1928) No Enemy (1929) When the Wicked Man (1931) The Rash Act (1933) Henry for Hugh (1934) Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1935, revised) Vive Le Roy (1935) The Poetry The Collected Poems (1916) Non-Fiction Rossetti: A Critical Essay on His Art (1902) The Soul of London (1905) The Heart of the Country (1906) The Spirit of the People (1907) Zeppelin Nights (1915) Henry James: A Critical Study (1915) Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (1924) New York is Not America (1927) The English Novel from the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad (1929) The Memoirs Ancient Lights and Certain New Reflections (1911) Return to Yesterday (1932) It Was the Nightingale (1933) Provence (1935) Great Trade Route (1937)

Ford Madox Ford’s novel about the doomed Katharine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII, is a neglected masterpiece. Kat Howard—intelligent, beautiful, naively outspoken, and passionately idealistic—catches the eye of Henry VIII and improbably becomes his fifth wife. A teenager who has grown up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and intrigue that now surround her. It is a time of great upheaval, as unscrupulous courtiers maneuver for power while religious fanatics—both Protestant and Catholic—fight bitterly for their competing beliefs. Soon Katharine is drawn into a perilous showdown with Thomas Cromwell, the much-feared Lord Privy Seal, as her growing influence over the King begins to threaten too many powerful interests. Originally published in three parts (The Fifth Queen, Privy Seal, and The Fifth Queen Crowned), Ford’s novel serves up both a breathtakingly visual evocation of the Tudor world and a timeless portrayal of the insidious operations of power and fear in any era.

The Fifth Queen (1906-1908) is a trilogy of novels by Ford Madox Ford. Set during the reign of Henry VIII, Ford’s trilogy recreates Tudor England in a masterful story of court intrigue, romance, and betrayal. Focusing on the tragic figure of Katharine Howard, the fifth wife of the King, Ford investigates the interconnection of sex and power in a political atmosphere clouded by violence and espionage. Depicting some of the era’s most notorious figures, including Thomas Cromwell, Bloody Mary, and the King himself, Ford makes history both entertaining and undeniably human. Brought to the court of King Henry VIII by her cousin Thomas Culpeper, Katharine Howard, a noblewoman whose family’s fortunes had been in decline for some time, inadvertently catches the eye of his majesty. Given a position as a lady in waiting for Lady Mary, Howard—though opposed by the brutally efficient schemer Thomas Cromwell—soon distinguishes herself in the eyes of the King, who makes her his fifth Queen. Thrust into the spotlight at the age of seventeen, she finds herself forced into an impossible role as a public figure whose every move could enrage her notoriously violent husband. Married to the Henry for a brief time before she was unceremoniously divorced and beheaded, Howard has traditionally been seen as a minor figure in the history of Tudor England. For Ford, however, a master storyteller with an eye for tragedy and a skill for developing flawed, convincingly human characters, Howard is a woman whose life and death are not only worthy of literature, but instructive for the men and women of Edwardian England. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Ford Madox Ford’s The Fifth Queen Trilogy is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.