Azalie and Azazel are young pureblood vampyres and the twin children of a powerful vampyre lord. They've been brought up their whole life in the ways of magick and combat, making them a force to be reckoned with. But when poisoned blood starts ending up in their blood supply, their father, Lord Molch puts the entire commune on lock-down. Forced to sit with their hands tied, trapped in their own home, creates unease, and creates problems for Azalie and the boy whom she promised to protect. How will the twins deal with the broken family bond they have with their father when lies and secrets hidden deep within graves threaten to reveal themselves as family tensions rise? Can they withstand the storm of truth that has been hidden from them or will the events of their father's life before his children become their undoing?

Set in the world of Larry Niven's popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports readers to an enchanted ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society. Here Yagen-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fire, alternately protects and destroys the city's denizens. In Tep's Town, nothing can burn indoors and no fire can start -- except when the Burning comes upon the city. Then the people, possessed by Yagen-Atep, set their own town ablaze in a riotous orgy of destruction that often comes without warning. Whandall Placehold has lived with the Burning all his life. Fighting his way to adulthood in the mean-but-magical streets of the city's most blighted neighborhoods, Whandall dreams of escaping the god's wrath to find a new and better life. But his best hope for freedom may lie with Morth of Atlantis, the enigmatic sorcerer who killed his father!

Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.

The Danish medieval laws: the laws of Scania, Zealand and Jutland contains translations of the four most important medieval Danish laws written in the vernacular. The main texts are those of the Law of Scania, the two laws of Zealand – Valdemar’s and Erik’s – and the Law of Jutland, all of which date from the early thirteenth century. The Church Law of Scania and three short royal ordinances are also included. These provincial laws were first written down in the first half of the thirteenth century and were in force until 1683, when they were replaced by a national law. The laws, preserved in over 100 separate manuscripts, are the first extended texts in Danish and represent a first attempt to create a Danish legal language. The book starts with a brief but thorough introduction to the history of Denmark in the thirteenth century, covering the country, the political setting and the legal context in which the laws were written. There follows the translated text from each province, preceded by a general introduction to each area and an introduction to the translation offering key contextual information and background on the process of translating the laws. An Old Danish-English glossary is also included, along with an annotated glossary to support the reading of the translations. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of medieval Scandinavian legal history.

Personal interest is one of the greatest forces in the world, yet we so often fail to express it or we discount it. This book is about the people who wrote their lives into my life. It is a tribute to more than 100 individuals and groups of individuals both known personally and through public contacts with public figures. It stresses their spiritual sowing as well as general cultural and life sowing into my life. I could not be what I am today without what these people put inside me. I am filled with gratitude for every one of them, and for Jesus the great overarching contributor to my life. These all know what it is to work with him for others.