A city girl allergic to animals (and aliens) June only registered with a dating agency because she lost a bet. She never expected to be invited to an all-expenses-paid trip to meet some hunky Highlanders. What nobody told her: the Highlanders are aliens and live on a different planet. And they’re desperate for mates – so desperate that there’s no guarantee she’ll ever return to Earth. As if that wasn't bad enough, the huge kilt-wearing alien she's matched to lives on a farm. In the middle of nowhere. With smelly animals all around. This is June's personal hell, but the moment she lays eyes on him, her body betrays her. An alien farmer with a dark secret Eron spends his days tending to his taigeis farm. The fluffy animals are all the company he needs. He’s broken off all contact with society, so when an old friend tells him that he’s been matched to a mate from a distant planet, his first instinct is to refuse the match. But the instant he meets her, his mating antennae burn and he can only think of one thing: making her his. He desires her with every fibre of her being, but he can’t risk anyone discovering the terrible secret that made him an outcast. Can he find the strength to push her away before she steals his heart? If you want hot alien Highlanders in kilts, strong women who don't like being told what to do, fated mates and happily-ever-afters, dive into the world of the Starlight Highlanders. Thorrn Cyle Eron Other series in the Starlight Universe: The Intergalactic Guide to Humans Starlight Monsters Keywords: alien romance, sci-fi romance, science fiction romance with aliens, alien abduction, Scottish Highlanders, men in kilts, space opera, SFR, steamy romance, aliens who look like aliens, alpha male, rescued by aliens, m/f romance, Starlight Universe, Highlander romance, fated mates, farmer, opposites attract.

Death comes unexpectedly for both Jonathon and Eron. A series of landscapes and tasks unfold, each more challenging than the last. There are guides to assist and new insights into life on Earth, shared with those of us who still walk in this realm. Step into the unknown, be filled with wonder and tantalized by mysteries that can barely be touched by words on a page. Here is a doorway into the greatest mystery of all. The author was a well-known composer. One day, as she sat at her desk composing a score, she began to hear words instead of music. The Book of Jonathon' was the first of seven books Atem received. Each offers first person accounts of souls recently arrived in the afterlife.

The discovery of a powerful gemstone leads to a desperate conflict between Ixti, an overpopulated desert kingdom, and Eron, a snowy land trying to cope with a deadly plague.

In these uncertain times of disruptions, vast technological and collective world changes, and trauma, knowing how to be open to what is and being flexible is a critical skill. When you approach life with an open stance, you can clearly observe what is present without collapsing from stress or blaming others or yourself. An open stance will allow you to choose actions that will expand possibilities and bring you more vitality and joy. Openness is contagious. When we model being open, we inspire openness in others, which supports resilience, wellbeing, and thriving for everyone involved. Ann Van Eron, PhD, shares the case for adopting an open mindset and stance. She explains a process for building mental muscle and shifting from being closed to open. Multiple practices are offered for embodying an open stance. As an executive and team coach, Ann has spent decades supporting many organizations, including the United Nations, World Bank Group, CVS Health, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and Ford Motor Company, adopt these open stance practices. Leaders, managers, coaches, parents, and influencers have all benefited from them. Now it's your turn to learn how to be mindful while interacting at home, work, and in your community to positively influence others.

An unforgettable story about a couple who follow their dream of converting a run-down country house into a working bed and breakfast, and what they learn along the way from an old home, a close-knit community, and a parade of extraordinary guests. One spring, Carol Eron Rizzoli and her husband Hugo bought a dilapidated farmhouse in the tiny village of Royal Oak, Maryland, on the edge of the Chesapeake Bay. They spent two years transforming it into a bed and breakfast, which took them twice as long and cost three times as much as they had originally estimated (on the back of a napkin). As they struggled to restore the house and open the B&B, Carol and Hugo were also slowly acquainting themselves with the rural community of Royal Oak, rich in custom and culinary traditions, and populated by neighbors with particular views on politics, hunting, wildlife, and of course, newcomers from the big city. Written with honesty and humor, The House at Royal Oak is a journey to the heart of what it means to start over and chase a dream. Part inspirational account of reinventing yourself at mid-life, part love story about learning what matters most in a relationship, it is above all a book about home: what it means, and the unexpected places we find it.

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Seeking to redefine what we mean by secularization in the early stages of modernity, Eron argues that secularization’s link to enthusiasm, or inspiration, often associated with Romanticism, begins in the imaginative literature of the early eighteenth century. If Romantic enthusiasm has been described through the rhetoric of transport, or “unworlding,” then Augustan invocation appears more akin to a process of “worlding” in its central aim to appeal to the social other as a function of the eighteenth-century belief in a literary public sphere. By reformulating the passive structure of ancient invocation and subjecting it to the more dialogical methods of modern apostrophe and address, authors such as the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld formally revise inspiration in a way that generates a new and distinctive representation of the author. In this context, inspiration becomes a social gesture—an apostrophe to a friend or judging spectator or an allusion to the mental or aesthetic faculties of the author himself, his genius. Articulating this struggle toward modernity at its inception, this book examines modern authority at the moment of its extraordinariness, when it was still tied to the creative energies of inspiration, to the revelatory powers that marked the awakening of a new age, an era and an ethos of Enlightenment.