Jacky Leon isn't someone who goes looking for trouble. She owns a bar, pays her taxes, and serves her drinks cold outside a small town in Texas. The fact that she's a werecat is just something she's had to live with. Alone in her territory, she's lived a secretive life for six years: under the radar, avoiding her past and the baggage that comes with it.Trouble finds Jacky, though, in the form of an eleven year old girl and a werewolf turf war just outside her borders. Forced to honor an ancient treaty and the Laws of the supernatural world, Jacky swears an oath to protect Carey Everson, the human daughter of a local werewolf Alpha from Dallas.When his enemies come after Jacky and her charge, she's going to have to embrace the more dangerous side of who and what she is. She's going to have to challenge the very Laws that govern her kind.And nothing is going to stop her from honoring her word.

The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.

Richard Clarke has been one of America's foremost experts on counterterrorism measures for more than two decades. He has served under four presidents from both parties, beginning in Ronald Reagan's State Department becoming America's first Counter-terrorism Czar under Bill Clinton and remaining for the first two years of George W. Bush's administration. He has seen every piece of intelligence on Al-Qaeda from the beginning; he was in the Situation Room on September 11th and he knows exactly what has taken place under the United State's new Department of Homeland Security. Through gripping, thriller-like scenes, he tells the full story for the first time and explains what the Bush Administration are doing.

My duty to my family is simple. Help maintain order and uphold the Law for my werecat father, Hasan, a member of the Tribunal.But I've always had a defiant streak.To do what's right, I'm willing to throw the Law out the window and turn my back on everything I've been told. Everyone around me knows I'm willing to risk everything for what I believe in. All I can hope is that my beliefs and the Law don't clash again.Because I have another duty. A duty to blood. A duty to the bond between those who once shared a face and a life.My name is Jacky Leon and my twin has found her way back into my life. My echo, strangely similar and yet different, Gwen is a piece of me that I tried to leave behind.And it seems defiance runs in the family.

The long awaited return to Robert Low’s Oathsworn series