Vigil Storm

Book #9 of the Demon in Exile Saga: The Series Finale! Let's Binge! "Like a devil, you’ve drawn a blessing from a curse." A clash of realities unleashes a demonic horde never seen before. A wayward demon-slayer gathers his House and searches for his missing wife, waging a war against kings and gang bosses along the way. The series finale of the Demon in Exile saga delivers on all counts. The Demon in Exile Series offers a fast-paced mix of paranormal fantasy and military fantasy. It’s a clever blend of pain-filled action and twisted drama in a series where the characters are as strong as they are flawed and striving to keep their own fragile humanity intact.

Sometimes, everything goes according to plan. I dread those moments. Deep in the jungles on the realm’s eastern border, a demon-slayer's campaign becomes more deadly than anyone imagined as he confronts a clan of heretics and their demonic overlords. The Demon in Exile Series offers a well-paced mix of paranormal fantasy and military fantasy. It’s a dark, witty blend of pain-filled action and twisted drama in a series where the characters are as strong as they are flawed. Appropriate for Adult, New Adult, and Young Adult readers.

A demon in Exile. It wasn’t a gift. It was a message. In a remote city on the edge of the Kingdom of Colivar, a teenager named Ara encounters a demonic assassin and somehow survives. Not realizing the extent of the threat, he enlists with a company of demon slayers and comes to grips with a mysterious dark soul that shares his fight from within. The Demon in Exile Saga offers a witty blend of pain-filled action and twisted drama in a fantasy series where the characters are as strong as they are flawed and mystery abounds. Appropriate for Young Adult and Adult readers. Please visit SURTAIN.NET for more info.

My district. My city. Murderhall. A demon-slayer arrives in Maidenhall on a mission to solve the vilest of murders. He soon discovers dangerous dark forces hidden beneath the surface of the capital city and within himself. The Demon in Exile Saga offers a witty blend of pain-filled action and twisted drama in a series where the characters are as strong as they are flawed and mystery abounds. Appropriate for Young Adult and Adult readers. Please visit SURTAIN.NET for more info.

"I was tired of the violence it takes to become a man." In Remembrance Day, Jonathan Savage recounts his memories of growing up under the shadow of wars fought and carried home by his father and grandfather. He struggles against a history long past that punish generations of a family. While his brother finds refuge in the bottle, Jonathan fights a solitary battle against guilt, blame, and betrayal. He shares his memories with his infant son while sitting quietly by a lake. "We tell stories because the soul depends on them," he says. The story is a journey through scattered memories, of misplaced trust and blossoming love. It is about a childhood home. A ravine and a cemetery. And a war whose echoes reverberate still.

This book analyses the success and violent repression of a milennarian religious peasant movement in the Dominican Republic. It considers the role of changes in the international economic system and the arrival of capitalism in the area.

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them, though scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront of that movement, arguing strenuously that we can—and should—attend to animal emotions. In the stories she tells here, King relays how some farm animals—horses, goats, chickens, and ducks—bond with others and engage in mourning when their friends die. Here, too, dolphins and whales exhibit striking signs of suffering over the loss of babies and companions: a mother dolphin will not give up her dead baby, and whales risk stranding themselves in small groups rather than abandon kin. As part of a larger web of life, death, love, and loss, King calls our attention to emotions—both our own and those of our companion species.

Finally in control of the Ascendancy, Titus Quinn has styled himself Regent of the Entire. But his command is fragile. He rules an empire with a technology beyond human understanding; spies lurk in the ancient Magisterium; the Tarig overlords are hamstrung but still malevolent. Worse, his daughter Sen Ni opposes him for control, believing the Earth and its Rose universe must die to sustain the failing Entire. She is aided by one of the mystical pilots of the River Nigh, the space-time transport system. This navitar, alone among all others, can alter future events. He retires into a crystal chamber in the Nigh to weave reality and pit his enemies against each other. Taking advantage of these chaotic times, the great foe of the Long War, the Jinda ceb Horat, create a settlement in the Entire. Masters of supreme technology, they maintain a lofty distance from the Entire’s struggle. They agree, however, that the Tarig must return to the fiery Heart of their origins. With the banishment immanent, some Tarig lords rebel, fleeing to hound the edges of Quinn’s reign. Meanwhile, Quinn’s wife Anzi becomes a hostage and penitent among the Jinda ceb, undergoing alterations that expose their secrets, but may estrange her from her husband. As Quinn moves toward a confrontation with the dark navitar, he learns that the stakes of the conflict go far beyond the Rose versus the Entire--extending to a breathtaking dominance. The navitar commands forces that lie at the heart of the Entire’s geo-cosmology, and will use them to alter the calculus of power. As the navitar’s plan approaches consummation, Quinn, Sen Ni, and Anzi are swept up in forces that will leave them forever changed. In this rousing finale to Kenyon’s celebrated quartet, Titus Quinn meets an inevitable destiny, forced at last to make the unthinkable choice for or against the dictates of his heart, for or against the beloved land. From the Trade Paperback edition.