Dark Sacred

Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out but then checks into the case herself, and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger. Bosch is investigating the death of 15-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch.

At the end of a long, dark night Detectives Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch cross paths for the very first time. Detective Renée Ballard is working the graveyard shift again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help, and she relents.

Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat - known in LAPD slang as "the late show" - and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift - and she wants in.

Sacred Sex Ed is the sex education you never had, but that we all desperately need; a sex education that is empowering, honest, and pleasure-based. It is the pathway to a future in which we feel empowered by our desires, rather than a slave to them; in which we feel celebratory of our nakedness and vulnerability. Sacred Sex Ed is creating a world where we can openly and emphatically talk about the energy and acts that brought us into it. This book is an ally in reclaiming the most powerful energy in your body by inviting you to: Illuminate your shadows. Acknowledge the patterns, authorities...

Exploring the mystery, wisdom, and power of the dark phase of the moon's cycle, Mysteries of the Dark Moon provides a lunar-based model for moving through the dark times in our lives with understanding, consciousness, and faith in renewal.

Awaken The Divine Feminine Within You and Embrace Your Inner Goddess… These words have been swirling all around us for ages. You’ve seen them all over on social media. But, what does it really mean? The Divine Feminine is you. The real, authentic, and uncut version of yourself, before life happened. Before you learnt to become smaller, pushed yourself to become harder so that you’d fit into the society you found yourself in. But now? You feel like you’re missing a part of yourself. Your life is filled with activity, but you struggle to find meaning in it all. You are not alone. In ...

Connect with your intuition, access higher wisdom, and embrace your inner Goddess so you can live a life filled with healing and purpose Do you long to reconnect with your true self and embrace your inner power? In that case, The Divine Feminine Awakening is your guide to reclaiming your inner goddess. Imagine stepping into a life filled with confidence, self-love, and spiritual connection. See yourself navigating life's challenges with grace and ease, empowered by your feminine energy. Bestselling author Layla Moon will help you transform your own life through self-discovery and ...

Ruadhán has fallen. Her sister is missing. Dark Fae are wreaking havoc across the land. And somehow, everyone is still looking to Arianna for answers. But she has none—only a single, unshakable goal: find Ellie and bring her home. But fate has other plans.

Discover how to utilize the many faces of the dark goddess to navigate the process of deep and rewarding change. This empowering, practical guide looks at the misconceptions surrounding challenging deities and encourages you to draw on their power to work through aspects of yourself or your life that you wish to change. Organized into three sections - descent, challenge, and rebirth - Dark Goddess Craft guides you through your own shadow work and helps you emerge renewed.

Nocturnal energies differ from those of Daylight and Witches have long known how to take advantage of Lunar Powers and the spiritual entities that prefer the darkness for particular magical operations. This innovative book explores special techniques for working with the Night Powers and the subtle effects of dark symbols to: cast a Nocturnal Magick Circle; invoke the Dark Gods and Goddesses; skry the night; open the Gates to the Underworld; cast spells through the Dark Ether; and explore the symbolic realm of shadow, illusion, and the mysteries of the unknown.

It has been a year since the events of "In The Land of My Enemy", and Dr. Philip Asher, along with his little traveling companion, now named "Joey", has been searching the most remote areas of the country searching for other clans of the mysterious, reclusive species originally discovered in the wilderness above the little West Virginia mountain town of Mitchellville. And in the never before explored tracts of Oregon they have stumbled upon a second group, who have never known the approach of the "monsters". But their pristine home is about to be invaded by human civilization and in order ...

From the fortean phantoms that terrorized Victorian England to the haunted crossroads of the Irish hinterlands, the Devil—also known as the Dark Man—has found countless novel ways to influence culture and bring us face to face with our fears. Tracing this enigmatic entity through the centuries via mythology, folklore, occult writings, and modern accounts, Darragh Mason shows how the Dark Man is more than just a myth: he is a real presence in our world.

LUSH FLAME, SACRED BONE A novel by Dark Goddess When a woman stops begging to be chosen and starts listening to her ancestors, the entire universe shifts. Isalía—a 37-year-old woman with Caribbean and Latina roots—is done performing softness for men who confuse restraint with devotion. She’s no longer waiting to be worshipped. Guided by ancestral whispers, Goetic spirits, and the sacred rage of her bloodline, she learns how to rise—not with vengeance, but with vision. This isn’t a romance. It’s a reclamation. This poetic, spell-laced novel weaves feminine power, ancestral ...

They left us for younger women. Laughed at our boundaries. Mocked our intuition. But they forgot one thing: We were never just women. We were watchers. Listeners. Witches. And when silence stopped keeping us safe, we stopped praying for closure— and started summoning consequences. What begins as one ex-wife’s whispered spell becomes a wildfire of vengeance, as a circle of discarded women forms an underground coven called The Grown Ones. Their magic is precise. Personal. Punishing. They don’t just hex these men— They remake them. Or destroy them trying. And the men? They experience ...

Is darkness synonymous with ignorance and evil? Or is it the original matrix from which all life emerges, and the Mother to whom it returns? Higher and higher levels of artificial illumination have suppressed our contact with the numinous since the Industrial Revolution, with dire consequences for society, our planetary ecology, and our souls. This mystical testament weaves together paleobiology, memoir, history, science, and spiritual archaeology to lead listeners back into the lost mysteries of the dark.

At the center of The Dark Night of the Soul (La noche oscura del alma) is a poem written by the 16th century Spanish poet and mystic St John of the Cross. Consisting of eight stanzas, each of five lines, the poem outlines the journey in pursuit of divine union, within which the only source of light comes from the soul. This recording in English includes the poem itself and St John's two accompanying treatises (1584-1585), essentially commentaries, which offer line-by-line explanations of the poem. Many modern listeners have found guidance and consolation in this work.

Some call it fate. Some call it destiny. Soleil called it abandonment—until she realized she was simply returning. Soleil has spent her life caught between devotion and doubt, faith and forgotten truths. Raised with unwavering Christian beliefs, she clung to prayer for answers, waiting for salvation. But when prayer alone could not heal the wounds of her past—trauma, betrayal, the ache of something lost beyond memory—she found herself drawn to something both terrifying and familiar. An ancient vow. A forgotten love. A deity who never truly let her go. Guided by whispers from Guanyin, ...

Moon Water & Mango Thirst She thought she was just glowing. Turns out… she’s pregnant with a prophecy. Soléna lives on an island where flowers bloom at her feet and the ocean answers to her moods. She didn’t ask for love. She definitely didn’t ask for a man with abs, emotional discipline, and ancestors that bow when he walks. But when Elian arrives, she lets herself be taken—softly, slowly, sacrally. And when she wakes with a glow in her womb and a pulse that isn’t hers… she knows: this is no ordinary child. She’s carrying a Key. A weapon. A wild, chosen soul that speaks in...

Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with twins to help support and a mortgage to pay—and a wife frustrated by his inertia. Raised by a strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has never known the identity of his father—a mystery that his wife insists he must solve to move forward with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the mountain retreat of his mother’s former husband, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman.

Her curse didn’t end with a kiss. It awakened something darker. Snow thought surviving the seven beasts who claimed her would break the spell. She was wrong. Now bound to their primal magic, she must navigate a forest full of secrets—and monsters who crave more than just her obedience. Torn between the guardians who would die for her and the curse that demands more sacrifice, Snow must choose: Submit to the beasts who claimed her… or unleash the one inside her. Sins of Snow White: Bound to the Beasts is Book 2 in a dark, spicy, standalone-friendly reverse harem fantasy romance series....