Reapers The First Familiar

Return to the thrilling and terrifying world of Reapers, and find Aramis fighting for her life and love as she tries to rescue her master, the Reaper Vincent, as his first familiar. But when she does, she finds him severely injured and confused. Unable to protect him from his father, Death, Aramis is forced to take Vincent to a place where Death can’t find them: Safe Heaven, inhabited by ancient immortals led by Satan. With a wraith slowly consuming her body from the inside and Death’s perpetual hunt for her soul, it’s not just about surviving anymore. This time, the first familiar must surrender herself to one of the two evils to win against the other.

After barely escaping from captivity to find a cure for her illness, she, Vincent, and rest of the other Reapers team up to defeat the ancient dark creature Legion, whose sole mission is to destroy the earth. But in the midst of the ongoing chaos, the brothers unearth a dark prophecy that may lead to the apocalypse. What's worse for Aramis is that it involves the man whom she realizes she still has feelings for: Vincent. While suffering from an illness that may cost her her life, Aramis must do everything to end the madness once and for all. Now she must choose: Save the world, or save the man she loves.

You are Ceyla Ward, trapped in a twisted version of Helios, and the only way out is to finish the Helios Trials made by an ancient force hell-bent on fulfilling a long overdue and mysterious prophecy. Test your cunning and your wits as you try to outsmart Demon Lords who distrust half-Faes, convince murderous Mermaids to help you get to the shrine in the depths of Helios Lake, choose who you will sacrifice in a Faery ritual between the two most important people in your life, and evade a new and powerful enemy determined to keep you trapped in this world forever. Only YOU can get Ceyla through the trials by choosing the paths that she will take. In this adventure, Ceyla's destiny is in your hands.

Magical wishes may be the stuff of romantic fairy tales, but Ceyla Ward knows better than to use the wishes given to her by a Fae monarch. Magic will always come with a hefty price tag. So she’s giving three of them away. A campus princess in a death-like coma, a doctor beholden to a beastly Italian heir, and a marine archeologist in search of Atlantis—these are the stories of three regular women whose greatest wishes have been granted and the price they have to pay for the magic they have unknowingly wielded. Reader, be warned: These aren’t your usual Faery tales. But you’ll find love stories in here nonetheless.

Sarah “Nerdy” Littman is your typical high school nerd—geeky glasses, straight A’s, the works. Her only social life consists solely of hanging out at the cafeteria with her best friend Becky Tyrone, as she tries to avoid being bullied by her arch nemesis Matt Adams. When superstar Leon Walden transfers to their school pretending to be just another regular student, Sarah’s life completely turned upsidedown, much to her chagrin. Things get even more complicated when Leon moves in next door and deliberately befriends her. And when Sarah finds herself falling for the teen star, she learns that there is no mathematical equation or scientific formula that can help her sort out her feelings.

Death gets a love life. When metalhead Janet Buenviaje dies in a diving accident, she falls into an underworld prison where the only way out is through an eccentric reaper named Septimus Rex. As monarch of Soul City, Septimus Rex leads an army of supernatural Ravens tasked with the deportation of overstaying souls from the mortal realm. But the fates smile on Janet because the head reaper has problems of his own. He has fallen in love with a mortal girl; an abhorrent sign of weakness that, if discovered by the Ravens, will start a power struggle in Hell. With Janet's help, Septimus must now attempt to confess his feelings to the girl of his dreams so he can go back to being devoid of human sentiment. Janet is reincarnated as a Wampus Cat reaper and hatches an escape plan to the surface world. But she finds that things in the underworld are not what they seem and Septimus's problems run deeper, somehow even linked to her own mysterious past.

Miles Lechler is nothing special. Like a million other highschoolers, he spends his days blissfully unaware of the comings and goings of life, absorbed in his own world of school, football and crushes. That is, until one rainy afternoon, when a fatal car accident changes what he thought he knew about death. Lance is a predator. A prodigy of the reapers, a sect of human souls overseen by the angels themselves, Lance mercilessly hunts the recently departed, dutifully carrying them onwards to paradise. That is, until one rainy night, when a rogue burst of spiritual power changes what he thought he knew about life after death. Now Lance, or as he was once called, Miles, must move quickly, fighting in both the physical and spiritual realms against nightmarish creatures born of sin, ancient demons hungering for pain, and perhaps most frighteningly, a growing hatred for humanity bred within the angels themselves. The fate of both worlds hangs in the balance.

The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters, topics like language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others. In this revised and expanded second edition, Macaulay brings the book up to date with the last decade of progress in linguistics, adding more American examples, and updating bibliographies. Two new chapters have been added, on theories of language development and on the evolution of language. The Social Art is perfect for general readers and students who want to learn about what it is that linguists do.