Elected as the Songstress, Aria takes her place on the sacred platform to sing before every dawn. As long as she does so, peace and abundant life belong to her people. One morning, everything goes wrong and she loses her ability to make music when Aria is distracted by a strange wind, an eerie howl and a shape, almost like that of a man, appears. The dreaded Il-Bora, a magnificent winged creature, prophesied by Aria's people as the one who brings...

Brazil 1990s A problematic social issue, a unit called to respond. A man struggles to right his wrong. "If I had said 'no' instead of 'yes' when they asked me to do this thing, then maybe I would have turned out a hero instead of what I've become. We were trained, hired with the promise of a good wage, to take care of a problem, to get things under control. As a man, I needed to succeed for myself, for my family living in a cycle of poverty in the...

Elyse Magellan auditions at a dance conservatory for the elite. Privileged she is not, and so presses on by sheer determination, talent-and hopefully a great deal of luck-to get into the prestigious school and resident company. But nothing overwhelms her more than the aristocratic Gabriel Krist – the school's accompanist and concert pianist. Not only does he possess a compelling demeanor, he looks like a god, an angel pale and beautiful. He'd like...

By all outward appearances, among a religious community, Eliana's marriage to Jabez is good and righteous. But behind closed doors, it is harsh and stripped of joy--and few know the truth. Her husband, a leader of their worship temple, upstanding to his followers, treats her like an insignificant bug; at the same time, demands her attention while isolating her from others. A trapped, desperate, and lonely woman, Eliana cries out to El Roi, the God...

Blind since childhood, Syrena longs for the seeing world. When she finds it, the experience is most unexpected, for her eyes and heart take her deep into the blue when a merman, the last of his kind, saves her from drowning. Although she can't remember, it isn't the first time. Dagon rescued Syrena once before. She was a child then, and he has watched her at the shore ever since. He loves her, yet his evil imposter parents have forbidden contact...

The misadventure happened while on a spelunking trip in southern Turkey. An invisible portal sent me to the center of the earth, a place known as the abyss. There, I discovered an unsustainable culture existing for centuries; a race starving underground. What unfolded next came out of the Book of Enoch. I encountered a savage giant and learned the truth on the origin of evil. He kept me alive, and I gave him hope. I'm not sure, I may have loved him....