The Vampire Fairy Tale Trilogy concludes with TONE Afterlife for vampire Hope Havergale becomes an awfully big adventure. She discovers that her immortal teenage, beloved Christian has taken a cure and turned human again. Peculiar visions and unpredictable abilities have set a new tone for Hope and force her to reassess her place in their perfect paradise on Perish Key in Southern Florida. Realizing that her family legacy includes witchcraft, Hopes becomes endowed with more power than she knows what to do with. Deeper down the rabbit hole she flees, only to find herself apprenticing for a familiar, old witch. Her skills are tested as an onslaught for new-world-order vampires plan to destroy the life she's come to love. Hope and her motley brood have until the clock strikes twelve to prevent the irrevocable shattering of their chance at a real happily ever after.
Hope Havergale first meets the mysterious teenager Christian Livingston on her seventh birthday when he saves her from plummeting into a cradle of water inside a forbidden forest. As he licks fresh blood droplets from her injured wrist, Hope is spellbound. Seemingly powerless to his charms, Hope has no idea that it will be her destiny to embark on a breathtaking, perilous adventure with this two-hundred year-old vampire. As Hope grows up and inherits an old house in the Florida Keys from her estranged grandmother, she secretly pines for Christianthe man who haunts her dreams. While yearning for his good looks and succulent tin-cinnamon scent, Hope is clueless that it is Christian who fell in love with her when she was just seven. Worse yet, Hope doesnt realize the truth about her own veiled pastthat even she isnt fully human. When Christian reappears one day, she falls hard, rousing the monster within her. Somewhere between skin and ink and blood and love, a sinful self-discovery awaits Hope as she becomes entangled in a conflict between civilized and savage vampires. In this seductive tale, bloodlust quickly turns to bloodshed when the arrival of a new danger threatens to destroy both their secret love and surreptitious existence.
After becoming a vampire, happily forever after simply wasn't enough for Hope Havergale. Seduced by bloodlust and power, Hope's overindulgence drives a stake between her and her immortal teenage beloved Christian. Emotions reach a new high as Hope hungers for an even deeper and more passionate relationship with him, but darkness quickly befalls their perfect paradise. News of a friend in grave danger sparks an impromptu trip. Hope and Christian decide to leave their Garden of Eden in the sultry Florida Keys for southern Mexico. And when a deadly disaster thwarts their plans, they find themselves in the midst of a vampire uprising. Old acquaintances and new adversaries threaten to destroy the life they've come to cherish. Only time will tell whether the strength of their love can hold them together or the touch of this new evil will tear them apart. A wicked awakening stirs as Hope and Christian fight to unravel a dark secret that may change their lives forever.
This book highlights the important role of the complex nature of interactions between rural and urban areas in Africa and how this relates to sustainable development on the continent – one with a fast urbanization rate. The volume critiques the widely held assumption of a societal divide where rural areas are mostly agricultural, whilst urban areas engage in industry and services. Contributors provide conceptual arguments and present case studies in Africa which illustrate the complex and multifaceted interdependencies between cities and rural areas, through the flow of natural resources, people, capital, information, goods and services which directly impacts the socio-ecological as well as economic sustainability of these spaces. This volume forms part of an Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) book series involving the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and 8 partner African universities running Master’s Programs in sustainable development. The book series is intended to serve primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa, as well as policy input to key developmental issues in Africa.
Seventeen-year-old Alina is the only imperfect person in a perfect world. On the surface, Pria is paradise: no hunger, no pain, not even death. Every smile dazzles, every party delivers, and every young adult stops aging. Except one. Alina longs to fit in with her beautiful peers and dreams of connecting with the one boy who has been kind to her. Fed up with her blunders and blemishes, her absence of friends, and her distant guardian, she seeks answers. And the secrets she uncovers about Pria's past are darker than she ever imagined, throwing Alina into the center of a deadly conspiracy. Now, the only imperfect person must discover the courage to free herself and those she loves before she is silenced forever.
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