A USA TODAY bestselling author, she crafts enchanting historical romances. She believes that the most perfect heroes and heroines possess imperfections, and she enjoys putting them through trials before writing their well-deserved happily ever after. Her work delves into the complexities of relationships with compelling characters.
This advanced undergraduate textbook is the first comparative survey of heresy and its response throughout the medieval world. Spanning England to Persia, it examines heresy, error, and religious dissent - and efforts to end them through correction, persuasion, or punishment - among Latin Christians, Greek Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Lady Penelope Tidemore is no stranger to scandal, but it is only through a terrible mischance that she is caught in a compromising position with the darkly enigmatic viscount Ryker Black. Raised from the streets and proprietor of the most notorious gaming hell in London, Black lives in a world filled with debauchery and danger. Taking a Society wife from the very ton he despises is not part of his plan, even if the innocent Penelope turns his blood hot with desire. As this unlikely husband and wife grow closer, they learn that what started as chance could end up sealing their fates.
A somatic counselor offers tools for developing a deeper, more awakened relationship with your body through sensation, breath, and movement As a foundation for a contemplative life, the body can both literally and metaphorically help us wake up. Breathing, sensing, and moving—the ways we know our body—carry tremendous contemplative potential, and yet, we so often move through our days unaware of or in conflict with our physical selves. In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in. Each chapter offers insights and practices that help us recover our lost physical wisdom—to integrate our bodies with mindfulness, to deal with emotions, and to develop attuned relationships. Bodyfulness inspires us to reclaim a body-centered contemplative life and challenges us to harness our potential to effect social and personal transformation in this body now.
The Marquess of Westfield has long reveled in the freedom afforded to him as the ducal heir, but he knows someday he must do right by the Somerset line and marry. Helena Banbury is a bookkeeper in the gentlemen's gambling club owned by her family. It's a step up from the life on the streets she used to know, but not a place she feels a sense of belonging. When the Marquess mistakenly enters Helena's chambers one night, she is forced out of her predictable life and thrust into the glittery world of society.