Enter the Teutonic Fantasy Realm in this fade-to-black star-crossed lovers paranormal romance featuring a witch of dark energy and her fiery billionaire lover. Can a Keyholder’s daughter claim the heart of her one true love before a rival witch seizes him for herself? When Sylvia attends a masquerade ball at her lover’s woodland castle, she confronts the worst possible predicament—a wealthy witch vying to bind him in a political marriage. Her father, the Keyholder of Wels, weaves his own mischief to lock his daughter beneath his sway forever. He forbids her from indulging in romance without his permission. How can she imagine herself worthy of the Heydt heir’s affection? Can Sylvia defeat the barriers stacked against her and take her rightful place at her lover’s side? Magical Gift is a standalone novella in the Elemental Gifts series. It features a witch of dark energy in a clean, star-crossed lovers romance with a billionaire heir in a captivating adventure with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. It includes strong language, social prejudices, and mature themes. Elemental Gifts series Magical Gift Forbidden Gift Whimsical Gift Destiny's Gift Dazzling Gift Unholy Gift

Every spread features a present from Santa's sack that children can open by pulling down the foil-covered flap for a pop-up surprise. Full color.

When three brothers inherit their father's fortune, greedy Ying and Yong keep it all for themselves, leaving poor Chin to live a simple life. But Chin's act of kindness to a mysterious monk leads to a magical reward.

[In this book, the author] explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a life, in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later - the night before New Year's Eve - the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This ... book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."--Jacket.

Ethan is off to Africa on another wild adventure, thanks to the magical gift that Aunt Jo Jo sent him while there on her safari. Ethan is faced with saving the kingdom from Africa's most feared snake, the Black Mamba, who has stolen the king's crown. Ethan must think of a plan to recover the crown and return it to the rightful owner, King Rory, before it is too late, and the once beautiful kingdom is destroyed.