Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study rediscovers the lives and notable accomplishments of five prominent, yet historically neglected women dramatists of the Progressive Era: Martha Morton, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, Beulah Marie Dix, and Rida Johnson Young.
Lorelei Rose has made it though the impossible. With everyone having suffered a loss in one form or another, the mission to find the Unknown Man has new life breathed into it. A painful memory from her past has come back to haunt her in the most unique of ways. Putting a new spin on the task at hand perspectives are changing faster than anyone can keep track of. More pieces of the riddle are coming together, but the more confusing it is becoming. Estranged family members are calling to question whether blood truly can be thick than water. At a turning point push comes to shove and reveals the true desires of those involved. Though not everyone is happy with what they have learned. When the unthinkable strikes again it's obvious that good and evil are only in the eyes of the beholder. Lines have been drawn, and lines have been crossed. Will Lorelei get any closer to solving the mystery set forth in the myth? Or will the Unknown Man keep hold of the upper hand as time begins to run out?
Gretchen Diemer volunteers for the German Red Cross as the Great War breaks out in her home country of Germany. After her and her younger brother lie about their age to join in the fight she quickly finds herself deep in the chaos that is trench warfare. She puts her neck on the line for a group of French sisters she rescues at the onslaught of fighting and they travel between the Western and Eastern Fronts as their duties change with the intensity of threats to the fatherland. Gretchen soon discovers how unforgiving a war can be when she seems to be losing one loved one after the next. As hearts are severed among the fronts, new friendships are formed playing on loyalties far out of anyone's control. With the war lasting longer and longer it becomes too trying for anyone to withstand. When she leasts expects it an almost otherworldly visit shakes her life up one more time. Will she be strong enough to see this war through to the end or will it prove too much?
Krysna and half of the team have survived the attack by the Battalion of Rumbek. Now the race is on to finish assembling the Company of Ashyvea, and more importantly the blue diamond. Krysna and her friends find themselves in a constant struggle to maintain the safety of both the teenagers and their home. Ukhtur now is under full attack from the ghost dimension and soul snatchers are devastating their own kind. Meanwhile back on Earth the team is also being pursued by the military because they were manipulated by Rumbek into thinking the Company are kidnapping the teenagers. The Three Kingdoms are also feuding and jeopardizing the safety of the three dimensions causing events that could lead to another war entirely. When the team is near completion they are thrown another curveball as they discover Rumbek has been tracking them. Will the Company be able to outsmart the Battalion this time?
Syri Andersdatter has been accepted into the highly sought after program of Lynagea. Along with eleven other lucky and skilled graduates they earn the right to travel the world on behalf of the government to promote peace and understanding among each of the four unions and the twenty four countries they are composed of. While on their journey they realize everything is much different than what they were taught in school and the problems they face are trying their confidence in themselves and the government as a whole. When love blossoms amongst more and more of the team, friendships are strained. As they see more of the countries they realize that things tend to be getting worse rather than getting better, even with their help. Will Syri be able to swallow her pride as a member of a capital country or will she end up furthering union squabbles?
Tawnee Rhys had a painting of her done in 1893 by a very peculiar man with an even more peculiar promise. The object of the painting would not age as long as their eyes did not gaze upon the painting itself. She enjoyed over a hundred years of excess until she met a man she was sure was the one. A humble and poor remodeling company is how she and her husband make a living now. One day they booked the job of a lifetime in the ritzy neighborhood of Spring Valley. Here she meets the Nichols, a wealthy couple with a few peculiar secrets of their own, and their mysteriously lavish neighbor Mr. Woods. It is clear not all is as it seems in the houses stuffed with money and temptation. Marriages prove not to be the strongest of bonds two people can have as Tawnee learns more about her well to do clients and the circle of friends they travel in. When a secret is revealed it seems as though death is lurking around every corner to take another unexpected victim. Only trouble is, who is behind it all? Will Tawnee be lucky enough to survive and find out?
Shannon Greene has stumbled upon a legend in the making. The stories surrounding the mysterious and untimely death of young Billy Kahill during the summer of 1963 has captured her attention. While attending the fifty year celebration she gets the chance to meet Billy's now elderly sister and her wild grandson. After visiting Billy's room and workshop Shannon gets the experience of a lifetime when she makes contact with him. Trying to convince everyone she is in fact not crazy she enlists the help of the most unlikely of candidates to discover the truth behind the legend. Old friendships are stained as new ones form while Shannon not only learns more about Billy's story, but about herself as well. Just as she starts putting all of the pieces of the puzzle together her luck takes a turn for the worse. Will she suffer Billy's fate or will she finally set the record straight? Who will be the one by her side when it's all said and done?
Lorelei Rose has lived for over seven hundred years as an Outlier to her immortal world before she's sucked back in. Being one of only three people in existence to be able to decipher a long lost and scattered message, she's forced to join a world she's tried to forget. With the help of the Knights of the Order of the Rune to protect her from the Runeslayers who want to kill her, she must travel throughout the Norse lands to hunt down the riddle left to her before time runs out. A myth has come to surface with a deadline. Now everyone is out searching for the Unknown Man who killed peace. Some want to stop him forever, while others want to him to survive. The lines between good and evil are blurred when family relations get twisted with logic, honor, and love. As the pieces are slowly coming together tragedy strikes. Followed by a seemingly endless and erratic downward spiral of chaos. Will Lorelei be able to finally figure out who is behind all of this? Or will the myth prove to get the better of her?
Syri and the team have successfully survived the brutalities of war, not without a few losses along the way. When everything seems to be on the up and up one thing is fighting to keep the turmoil alive. The central government has cancelled the Lynagea program in its third and final year and there is a deep mistrust sweeping the inner workings of Democratia. Once the team stumbles upon what's really been going on for the past few years they are on the run from a select group of the government. While evading capture they meet with world leaders and powerful figures from their past to not only strengthen their own skills, but the abilities of the masses. By now the entire team has paired up with relationships and loyalties being put to the ultimate test. With quite a few unprecedented deaths the team and the world is shaken. Will the team succeed in ending the corruption that has overtaken the central government? Can love really conquer all?
Krysna along with eleven other individuals must save the existence of their home Ukhtur after Earth is destroyed by World War V in the year 2101. The only problem is the team that will become the coveted Company of Ashyvea is scattered throughout time. Krysna must reassemble the team and join their secret diamonds together in order to prevent Earth from ever being destroyed. Twelve teenagers hold the key to preventing the war, and each of them is being hunted down by a secret government team, the Battalion of Rumbek, from Ukhtur itself. With Earth destroyed it had thrown the dimensions off balance, and now the ghost dimension of Varathasi is wreaking havoc on Ukhtur, forcing Krysna to act as quickly as possible. A twist is revealed when the teenagers find out about the secret that links Krysna and her kind to human history. Will Krysna be able to travel through time and assemble the team before it's too late?
Syri and the team are now in their second year of the Lynagea program amidst a full out world war. A new premier has caused inner strife within the central government and ultimately thrown the world into chaos. Now the team's mission is to minimize the effects of war on the innocent citizens in every country. They are all now forced to look deep within themselves to objectively approach every situation and atrocity they are unfortunate enough to witness or become apart of. As to be expected with war, death wreaks havoc on the team and as they are restructured new friendships are formed and torn apart. When inner team relationships are at an all time high it's just a matter of time before everyone is paired off in one way or the other. Will Syri allow herself to be swept off in a love connection when there is so much suffering around her?
Aerys Dawson is now the only one left from her group of friends that has not moved on or ran off. For the first time on entering the building she travels alone through history to truly find out who she is and what she is looking for so that she too may move on. After having lost countless friends she realizes that all the people in the building are dead. They are physical souls that are in limbo until they find their soul mate and what makes them who they are. Again she reunites with some new and familiar faces from earlier travels which brings new relationships into question. Now that she knows who she is and what she must do will she find what she has been looking for for so long? Who will be there with her in the end? Does she finally get her happy ending and the chance to finally move on?
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