It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything." -Rainer Maria Rilke Alexandra Drakis lives in a vicious and uncertain world. After all, being the personal food supply to the sadistic vampire king is bound to present a few challenges. But no matter how much she tries not even the reigning queen of calamity can control and predict everything. Every once in awhile the universe decides it's time to test the mettle of sanguinem and vampires alike. To remind everyone of the eternal truth: creation is a leap into the unknown with the potential for untold joy or unspeakable destruction. Too bad the outcome remains unforeseen until it's far too late.
What you donât know can come back to bite youâ¦What happens when things which exist only in legend become your entire universe? Alexandra Drakis never thought sheâd have anything but a normal life until the night she is found by a vampire and realizes she is anything but normal. She is plunged headlong into a dangerous world where nothing is entirely what it seems and learns the line between good and evil is blurry at best. Close your eyes and hide under the covers, but the monsters never go away and no one can hide forever.
For a sanguinem vitae, survival is an all-consuming quest and fate makes no exception to this rule even for the sanguinem queen of the vampires. Survival of her family. Survival of the vampires closest to her. Survival of the world as ancient and terrible forces awaken from their hibernation. In the struggle for existence, the most difficult wars are not waged on the battlefield. And sometimes even those creatures who survived generations find the one thing they cannot survive is the darkness which lies within.
I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. -Genghis Khan Meet Alexandra Drakis: loving wife, devoted mother, dedicated trauma surgeon...favorite snack of local vampires. Her mundane includes ensuring dinner gets on the table and fending off things which go bump in the night, until one terrible day the unthinkable happens. To what lengths would you go to protect those you love? If the only way to mete out vengeance against evil is to become evil, is there any escape? Welcome to the world of the sanguinem vitae. Welcome to the abyss.
As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the divergent religion-state power configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such difference have contributed to failures of liberal democratic consolidation.
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