Why did she do it? What on earth got into her and, the biggest question was, will she go through with it? All these questions, and more were racing through Elizabeth Ann Holden's mind. Just because she found an advertisement in a magazine, didn't mean "she" had to answer it, but she did! It appeared there were more men in America than woman and the advertisement was for women. Dear Lord, now who in their right mind would inquire about such a thing? Well, Elizabeth did and now she is about to take a journey that she never expected. Living in London, England, Elizabeth thought she had a pretty full life. She is in her late twenties, works in a textile mill, has her own small apartment and she has a great friend, Colleen, so why did she send in her responses to this advertisement? She thought long and hard about the prospect of her becoming a "bride" to a man she only knew through letters. Even though her life looks like a great one, it is an empty one. There is no excitement, no expectations about anything and mostly, there is no man. Yes, London is a huge city, full of men, but Elizabeth is, well, too picky. She is pretty, smart, caring and all that but she just doesn't care about fancy living, and that is all the men around her care about. Elizabeth would read the letters from a man in Louisiana over and over. His name was Clayton Michael Richardson, a cotton farmer. Good grief, she laughed to herself when she thought about the difference between the men around her in this big city and a cotton farmer, but that cotton farmer was what she soon fell in love with. After many months of letters, a proposal was offered. Elizabeth could hardly believe the words when she read them. Marriage! Would she go to Louisiana? Travel on a ship that would sail for weeks before docking in New Orleans. Yes, yes, she would. With a long journey in front of her, and she never having been on a ship, she asked if she could bring her best friend, Colleen. Soon there was a return letter with two tickets. Colleen graciously stating that she would love to go, made that "going" a little easier. Ok, so now all they had to do was go on that ship the "Merchant Knight", find their sleeping arrangements and enjoy the sail. How hard would that be? These two young ladies will soon find out that "enjoy the sail" would not be what they would be doing. They would see, for their very first time, a pirate. Yes, in the year 1845, pirates still roamed around the seas looking for ships to board and steal any cargo that ship carried. They would know firsthand how terrifying a thing called a "hurricane" could be out in the ocean. They would see up close, too close, what a Brothel was and what it meant to them. Elizabeth and Colleen would sail on two different ships and dock in places like Ocracoke Island, and Christian Bay. Their lives will come face to face with a Voodoo Queen, some called her a witch doctor. Oh, yes and there is so much more these two will face. Do you think that in all this journey they might have wondered if they should have gotten off the "Merchant Knight" before it sailed? This journey turned from something that the ladies thought would bring great joy to their lives, but shortly, once out at sea, it became a cursed journey of darkness. Will Elizabeth ever see her farmer, Clayton? Come on the journey and see for yourself.
Ava Marie Sinclair never dreamed she would fall so deeply in love in one minute and become a widow the next. She had a life that felt like a fairy tale. The good job, nice apartment, and a handsome husband, all stolen from her with just one phone call. That phone call came late one night two years ago, she only remembers one word said to her, "Dead." Her husband, Drake had died two years ago but it felt like yesterday to Ave. Now Ava finds herself about to embark on a strange journey. Journeys are great, if you know where you are going. Ava's journey started with questions she had about the two items she found in Drake's coat pocket. Holding the items in her hand, Ava could feel her emotions going in all directions. She had loved a man so deeply that she could hardly breathe at times and now with so many questions surrounding her, she almost hated him, and didn't know exactly why. She looked again at the items in her hand, she would have thrown them away, but then she got that letter. A letter that had been in the 'dead mail' for so long addressed to a Drakard Black Hawk, and sent to their apartment. Who was he and did he have anything to do with her husband? To find her answers, she would have to move to another city, change her name and stay hidden from a man that was so nasty that the devil would hide and run away. She will race against time to get her answers, but when she gets them, will she be able to live with what she finds out? Come join her and experience all the drama and feel the "sting" of a "Betrayal of Trust." Happy Reading.
This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civic and canon law violations. Although a number of articles have addressed particular aspects of violence in discrete parts of Dante’s oeuvre, a systematic treatment of violence in the Commedia is lacking. This ambitious overview of violence in Dante’s literary works and his world examines cases of violence in the domestic, communal, and cosmic spheres while taking into account medieval legal approaches to rights and human freedom that resonate with the economy of justice developed in the Commedia. Exploring medieval concerns with violence both in the home and in just war theory, as well as the Christian theology of the Incarnation and Redemption, Brenda Deen Schildgen examines violence in connection to the natural rights theory expounded by canon lawyers beginning in the twelfth century. Partially due to the increased attention to its Greco-Roman cultural legacy, the twelfth-century Renaissance produced a number of startling intellectual developments, including the emergence of codified canon law and a renewed interest in civil law based on Justinian’s sixth-century Corpus juris civilis. Schildgen argues that, in addition to “divine justice,” Dante explores how the human system of justice, as exemplified in both canon and civil law and based on natural law and legal concepts of human freedom, was consistently violated in the society of his era. At the same time, the redemptive violence of the Crucifixion, understood by Dante as the free act of God in choosing the Incarnation and death on the cross, provides the model for self-sacrifice for the communal good. This study, primarily focused on Dante’s representation of his contemporary reality, demonstrates that the punishments and rewards in Dante’s heaven and hell, while ostensibly a staging of his vision of eternal justice, may in fact be a direct appeal to his readers to recognize the crimes that pervade their own world. Dante and Violence will have a wide readership, including students and scholars of Dante, medieval culture, violence, and peace studies.
The proliferation of Virginia Woolfs in both high and popular culture, she argues, has transformed the writer into a "star" whose image and authority are persistently claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, gender, the canon, class, feminism, and fashion."--BOOK JACKET.
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