Plagued by a recurring dream, Maggie Blair was shocked the night when she came face to face with the mysterious guardian she had seen only in her sleep. Intuitive visions and spirits haunting her, life had never been normal for the young psychic. Unaware of a sinister cult's plot to kill her, she survived an attack by a demon, which revealed a powerful ability she never knew she possessed. Despite the feelings for her irresistible boyfriend, Maggie struggles with the growing desire for the incredibly handsome guardian, Max. After stringent training, Maggie finally accepts her superhuman power and the responsibility as the Celestial. Sworn to fight the malevolent forces that threaten to end humanity, she becomes a force to be reckoned with. Will the Celestial defeat her enemy or fall victim to the ancient demon?

Plagued by a recurring dream, Maggie Blair was shocked the night when she came face to face with the mysterious guardian she had seen only in her sleep. Intuitive visions and spirits haunting her, life had never been normal for the young psychic. Unaware of a sinister cult's plot to kill her, she survived an attack by a demon, which revealed a powerful ability she never knew she possessed. Despite the feelings for her irresistible boyfriend, Maggie struggles with the growing desire for the incredibly handsome guardian, Max. After stringent training, Maggie finally accepts her superhuman power and the responsibility as the Celestial. Sworn to fight the malevolent forces that threaten to end humanity, she becomes a force to be reckoned with. Will the Celestial defeat her enemy or fall victim to the ancient demon?

In seventeenth-century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged as a witch but escapes to the home of her uncle, placing him and his family in great danger as she risks her life to save them all from the King's men.

Book one of the Standing on the Promises trilogy. After this groundbreaking, deeply moving trilogy about black LDS pioneers was first published, modern-day descendants came forward with further information, photographs, and more detailed history. In this new edition, the authors have corrected some errors and dramatized the experience of additional black pioneers.

"Dear Brother," Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, "I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and also finish the work I have begun for my dead.... Your sister in the Gospel, Jane E. James." A faithful Latter-day Saint since her conversion sixty years earlier, James had made this request several times before, to no avail, and this time she would be just as unsuccessful, even though most Latter-day Saints were allowed to participate in the endowment ritual in the temple as a matter of course. James, unlike most Mormons, was black. For that reason, she was barred from performing the temple rituals that Latter-day Saints believe are necessary to reach the highest degrees of glory after death. A free black woman from Connecticut, James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision. After her conversion, she traveled with her family and other converts from the region to Nauvoo, Illinois, where the LDS church was then based. There, she took a job as a servant in the home of Joseph Smith, the founder and first prophet of the LDS church. When Smith was killed in 1844, Jane found employment as a servant in Brigham Young's home. These positions placed Jane in proximity to Mormonism's most powerful figures, but did not protect her from the church's racially discriminatory policies. Nevertheless, she remained a faithful member until her death in 1908. Your Sister in the Gospel is the first scholarly biography of Jane Manning James or, for that matter, any black Mormon. Quincy D. Newell chronicles the life of this remarkable yet largely unknown figure and reveals why James's story changes our understanding of American history.