Among olive groves, a wealthy family welcomes their new governess, Ana Trujillo. There she will meet Jacobo and Sara Ledesma, two motherless siblings who live in fear of the secrets that are hidden in the shadows of the house. The governess will witness the strange disease that Jacobo suffers from, a disease caused by the return of a past that cries out for justice to be able to rest in peace. Neither the exorcisms nor the vision of the ghosts that inhabit the house will be a reason for Ana Trujillo to leave the Ledesma family. The vestige of Casa Matrona Olivares is a must read for all lovers of suspense.

Choose to see the unseen... Julie Stryker has spent her life in the scenic streets of Charleston, South Carolina, bicycling to the local college, working at a coffeehouse, watching her family fall apart and back together. She has plans, dreams-all of which seem out of reach. Then she meets a handsome stranger at work, and she believes her life is on the brink of a much needed change. But after a tragic accident, Julie is whisked away from the only home she's ever known and confronted with a life-altering secret: The end of the world has already occurred and a portion of humankind has been kept oblivious. Tossed into a hidden world of deception, Julie must confront the truth within herself and reveal the government's layers before the end of the world becomes a permanent reality. 1st Layer: What you can see. 2nd Layer: What you know is real. 3rd Layer: What you can neither see nor know is real.

The city is changing: no longer is it an aesthetic creation, nor purely an industrial powerhouse. It is becoming a living, breathing super-organism, with a myriad of multiple, competing functions enabling the city to dwell within its particular ecology. As a super-organism, the future city will be defined more by its metabolism, than purely its primary function or spatial form. These biospheric flows of energy and materials will drive the new city and create new synergies for living. This book develops the composition of the evolutionary and the city through architectural and landscape insertions in the Greengate area of Salford, Manchester UK. These designs will engage with the idea of the city as biotic and as a host for biota as well as humans. These new ‘natural’ landscapes will be resilient, through new biodiversity that not only provides a productive landscape, but also links and extends the city’s function and liveability. We have been wrong to force designs on the city: as a superorganism, the new city will be born, not made.

Before he can return to heaven, she must die. I can walk in the midday sun without melting, so people call me a witch. I’m not—just resistant to heat and cold, a gift I inherited from my mother. And if those morons want me to wield my powers to suck the fever from their sick family members, they should really stop calling me names. Sigh. I’m not popular around here, but I’m useful. However, since my sister’s murder, I can’t focus on my healing duties. I can’t shake the need for revenge. And when a cloaked man enters the infirmary, filling the doorway and glowing like a freaking sun God, I can’t look away. He recognizes me. His gaze licks me from head to toe. Some part of me remembers him too, but the memory slips through my fingers like smoke. Perhaps those rumors of magic are true. Perhaps this terrifying male nobody else can see really is a dark angel. Perhaps he murdered my sister. But his black eyes, hard body, and snaking magic look set to torture me with temptation. I just need to manifest some resistance to that. Dive into this completed trilogy and get your fantasy romance fix now!

It is a distant future. A generational spaceship becomes a world unto itself. To Maintenance Tech Tyra Housenn and her generation, it’s all they’ve known. The technician and her search team find an ancient signal on the Ship; an alarm that has existential implications for the Colony! Sometimes Humanity can forget some of the most important things...Earth is not a Mother, but a Spaceship!

Vestige of Eden, Image of Eternity: Common Experience, the Hierarchy of Being, and Modern Science proffers a Catholic worldview of creation and the universe and shows that it is reasonable in the light of the best of 0human experience, both modern and pre-modern. The Catholic worldview maintains that the Liturgy of the Church - the image of eternity - is the?blueprint? for material and immaterial reality. This liturgical structure is manifested in the natural world through the hierarchy of being - the vestige of Eden - evident to human knowledge, and as such provides a framework that easily subsumes and makes sense of the data of modern scholarship and science. It also leaves them open to understanding in the light of realties beyond matter. Proposing a novel framework for understanding reality to modern ears, yet old in the history of human thought, 0Vestigeof Eden will be of interest to general readers and college students, while proving profitable for the academic as well.