Humans are "primitive, unintelligent, and highly emotional." Luckily that's only half of Isobel's problem... Dark beasts and terror are coming. Fourteen year old Isobel is warned that only her special instincts and abilities can save her villagers from extinction caused by evil creatures called the Carachi, possibly sent by her mother's killer. To save her people and preserve her safe world, Isobel must cross the bridge from her childish mind to reality and accept that she cannot escape her destiny. Legends are steeped in truth and there is much to learn about the secrets of the world in which Isobel lives. After learning of her family's secret past and her own magic abilities and with the help of her friends and a wise mentor, she will leave her childhood home in Greenhill to forge new bonds with an ancient race that has been hidden for centuries, and try to persuade them to emerge once again and fight for her people. Their existence and the elements that provide her world with harmony depend on it. If successful, Isobel will have the chance to confront her mother's killer... ...But, if she fails, the world could fall into darkness forever. Full of adventure, The Burden of Destiny follows a young heroine's quest to find her place and save her people. This young adult fantasy novel will inspire the younger generation by addressing the meaning of trust, duty, loss, love, and the importance of preserving the world in which we all belong.

The Divine Key bearers had hoped that traveling to the past would let them undo the devastation of the Destroyer before it could happen. When the true identity of the Destroyer was revealed, they learned not only that they failed, but that their efforts had helped him acquire his power. Now they urgently rush to see if history can be changed and whether the future to which humanity was relegated can be prevented. The battle with Abaddon is the ultimate opportunity to see if mankind can be saved... but they are not the only ones with ambitions to take advantage of the rampage of the Destroyer.Even though there is great power that exists in the Divine Keys, is there enough to overcome the strength of Abaddon? And what is the price to unlock that power, if it even exists? Did they acquire the Divine Keys because they were meant to succeed, or was there another burden they were destined to carry?

Life is full of questions: Why am I here? What do I want to be, or do? What am I supposed to be, or do? When God created us, He did so, knowing the answers to these questions. Far too often, though, we let fear, procrastination, doubt, and the chaos of life stop us from falling in line with His purpose for our lives. With meditations as well as personal anecdotes, this book will inspire you towards shouldering the purpose of your life. Be who you are meant to be. The time is now.

"What you must know is that you and your entire village are in grave danger. I know you have sensed this, but I also know that you do not know why or what to do about it. You can save them Isobel."Fourteen year old Isobel, unlike everyone else, has a certain gift for sensing things before they happen. Isobel receives a warning that only her instincts and abilities can save her village from total destruction caused by the evil creatures called the Carachi. In order to save her family and friends she must learn to trust and act on her instincts. But saving her village is only the beginning! Soon she and her best friend Mauve must leave their safe childhood home of Greenhill and travel to distant lands in order to save human and elven kind alike. Isobel must find her inner strength and use her abilities to face her mother's killer, the evil sorcerous Madeara. If Isobel is unable to convince Madeara to change her ways the world could fall into darkness forever. Heartwarming and full of adventure The Burden of Destiny; follows a hero's quest to find her place and save her people. It will inspire the younger generation by addressing the meaning of trust, duty, love and the importance of preserving the world in which we all belong.

In this penetrating book, renowned intuitive, speaker, and teacher Robert Ohotto guides us on an investigation of the Heroic Journey of the Soul. Exploring three modern-day manifestations of Fate, he shows how psychic energy from family patterns, cultural influences, generational legacy, and global evolution inform our self-concept every day, and how they often block our highest potential and "Fate" us to challenging circumstances and relationships. But, he reveals, these Fated encounters are actually the keys to our unlived life. Each chapter maps our psyche and unravels the mysterious connections of Fate, Free Will, and Destiny, transforming our Fate into Destiny and our limitations into gifts. Through this seminal work, based on years of experience, discover how we’ve made two fundamental agreements with the Universe as part of our Heroic Journey—one with Fate and the other with Destiny. As we learn to dance with these two forces, they become two voices challenging and beckoning us to discover our ultimate purpose—the primary task of the modern-day Hero and Heroine; and in the process, serve to unleash the power of our Soul in delivering grace to the world.

Writing The Blue Hippopotamus was great fun-sort of reliving my early life and making some incidents even better than they were the first time. What I wanted most of all was to write a page-turner, to give the reader a chance to actually live and feel what I had lived and felt. In a sense, my own life was a page-turner, from day to day, and a wonderful one that I enjoyed and loved-even the difficult and painful happenings. I think that I've been tremendously lucky to have had such a-almost a charmed life-and that's what I wanted to share with the reader. Yes, there were moments and incidents that were difficult and sometimes very painful, like when I said my final goodbye to Maidi, the love of my life, and what a remarkable love that was-several professional authors have called that good-bye "heartbreaking," and so it was. It was my heart that was breaking, and Maidi's, but we both knew that it had to be that way, and we accepted it. And then of course, many, many years later, we finally met again by chance, or by accident, in Paris, and the closure we had needed for so many years finally arrived. I wrote the book when I was ninety, and I was the last survivor of our group of five. We had all been made to swear that we would never tell. But after seventy years, I felt the story could, and should, be told.