There are rules to being Abigail Crowne’s bodyguard, rules to watching the infamous billion-dollar heiress, otherwise known as the Reject Princess. Never forget your place, always put the Crowne name above all else, and never, ever hurt the Reject. Especially don’t torment the Reject. Even if she is a spoiled brat. So when an opportunity presents itself to punish her, you definitely shouldn’t take it. Then again, Abigail loves to be tortured, and I’ve waited patiently for revenge.I’ll keep her safe... with cruel protection. Love is off limits with Abigail Crowne, but no one said anything about hate. Heartless Hero is the first book in the Crowne Point universe. You do not need to read any of the others to enjoy it, though it is recommended. It will enhance your reading experience as you will catch easter eggs and the timelines overlap.

The birth of Triana and Brey's child was just the beginning, but now the end is near. The humans search for the truth, believing the child was born dead, but only the wizard, Halloc, knows all. Only the wizard knows why evil roams the land, and only a child pronounced dead at birth can save both the humans and the wizard. Everyone must face the truth, the absolute truth is always astounding.

Lexi's younger brother Ben, who has Down's syndrome, becomes the victim of bullies, and while at school Lexi sees her friends tormented by two new students who are bullies, one male and one female.

“This book is a MUST READ of 2020. A perfect ending to this beautifully broken and timeless couple that will live with me long after I’m done.” @aundi_living_that_book_life Our love broke the rules.⁠ From the first stolen kiss to the last, destiny put us at odds.⁠ Now four hearts are crossed, our happily ever afters tangled in heartache.⁠ The bed I’m in doesn’t belong to my thorny prince, but the one holding his crown hostage.⁠ If my destiny with Grayson Crowne is divided, then we’ll spend a lifetime finding our happily ever after.⁠ But if a house divided never stands, then my destiny with Grayson never stood a chance….maybe we don’t need to find our destiny.⁠ We need to destroy it.⁠ As we fight to write happily ever after, the ugliest truth holds it captive.⁠ The princess has a destiny with the villain too.⁠ Even if she hates it.⁠ Even when it’s wrong.⁠ Destroyed Destiny is the fourth book in the Crowne Point universe. You need to have read Stolen Soulmate and Forbidden Fate to read Destroyed Destiny.

Presenting extensive analysis of literary and biographical accounts, this illuminating book provides a window to the affective side and emotional tenor of day-to-day life in modern day labour camps in China.

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.

Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The contributors investigate portrayals in different stylistic traditions--manga, bande desinees--from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The picture that emerges documents the elaborate storylines and complex universes comics creators have been crafting for decades.