Meredith Richardson had struggled her whole life. First with the fact that she had no father, then with her teenage pregnancy and marriage, later she struggled with her husband's illness and death. Her life seemed to be one trial after another and all she could do was survive and attempt to give her young daughter a stable life. Then as if out of the blue she was confronted by a determined force that would wrench her out of her self-imposed solitude and back into the world of the living. Jackson St. John was a man of ambition. He had built his fortune with a will of iron, but he was driven by...

Euan MacTern has fought an all encompassing darkness for fifteen years. He had no understanding of why it tormented his soul with its evil, but he fought it hoping to find a way to escape it. The laughter of a silver haired beauty gave him the first glimpse of freedom, but when he wanted to claim her the darkness fought him. Now he must fight a war inside his own mind to claim his mate before the darkness forces him to kill her. Can he find a way to free his soul from, the overwhelming darkness and realize the future that has been promised to him or will the darkness win and take the one...

A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.

Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and...