The magic of winter is captured perfectly in this collection of prose, lyrical poetry & dramatic pictures. The wild weather of the winter season & the festive spirit of Christmas glows through the narrative which

Includes:: a wordless Midwinter Night's Dream & the story of a Christmas tree ritual which brings a boy & his grandpa closer.

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Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson & Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith & J. G. Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a Titanic victim who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray Bradbury ...

Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...

Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits & fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy
- one that uncovers dark secrets about her past & claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.

Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon & Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, & the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a w&, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, & Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. but with enemies growing bolder & time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, & it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her....




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Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...

Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits & fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy
- one that uncovers dark secrets about her past & claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.

Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon & Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, & the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a w&, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, & Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. but with enemies growing bolder & time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, & it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her....




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Two girls find themselves alone on a remote Scottish island
- with a laboratory of evil scientists who are prepared to play havoc
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At the close of the third century B. C., the ancient world was in awe of Rome's clear political, military, & cultural hegemony. But however secure Rome's power may have seemed from the outside, from within it faced a challenge which was seriously to threaten its supremacy. Social turmoil prevailed at the heart of the Roman territories, & in Storming the Heavens, Santosuosso argues that the behaviour of the Roman armies played a central role in this unrest. The troops became the enemies within, pillaging & slaughtering fellow citizens indiscriminately, while remaining loyal to their leaders
- for the livelihood & booty they provided
- but not the Republic. The new army abandoned its role as depository for upper class values & became an institution of the poor. Santosuosso also investigates the monopoly of military power in the hands of a few, the connection between the armies & the state's cherished values, & the manipulation, subjugation, & dehumanisation of the subject peoples. In all, he provides a fascinating & dramatic portrait of the Roman army from the time of its greatest supremacy through to the melancholy collapse of Empire in the fifth century A. D.

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Centuries after Connavar's triumphant battles against the invading army of Stone gained the Rigante their freedom, the clan finds itself oppressed once again. Magic that once flourished has been all but snuffed out. The Varlish king & his barons have stolen Rigante lands & robbed the people of their culture & liberty. From the Rigante's former seat of power the black-hearted Moidart rules; only in the north are the clansmen free. There, in the Druagh mountains, the magic still reigns, strengthened by bold, brilliant victories of the outlaw leader known as Ravenheart. In the south, civil war has drenched the land in blood, & the armies of destruction are slowly creeping north where Ravenheart waits, believing the armies of hated Moidart will come, led by the brutal ruler's only son, Stormrider.

Ravenheart & Stormrider: enemies of uncommon courage, are unaware that the fate of their world lies in their hands. Both are destined to be heroes, but one of them is doomed. For a secret lost in the uncharted past has returned to haunt these two warriors as they face, not only the malice of powerful men, but the vengeance of an ancient evil, rising from the bloodshed to slake its thirst. As immense armies of darkness advance, it seems as if nothing will stop them. They crush their enemies with ease, until only a few thousand highlanders stand before them, with no help in sight.

But these are not ordinary men. They are clansmen, & more than that, they are Rigante.



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