Enchanted Love

Three of Marianne Williamson's previous bestsellers -- A Return to Love, A Woman's Worth, and Illuminata -- explored the issue of relationships. Now, in this deeply personal collection of essays, prayers, and self-reflection, she turns to romantic love. In Illuminata, Williamson wrote that "we experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves." Now, in Enchanted Love, she writes that "enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious." High romance, she says, "is not about past or future. It is not about practicality. It is not about society or worldly routines. It is an audacious ride to the center of what is, at the heart of every person. It is a bold and masterful inquiry into what two people really are and how we might become, while still on earth, the angels who reside within us."

Williamson, "envisions a way of being in love with another person and at peace and at one with God and with ourselves."

Without knowing it Ty and Jye have saved magical beings including fairies. The fairies spread news of Ty and Jye. At first they do not know their names. Once the fairies learn more about Ty and Jye, they do everything they can to protect them. They only reveal themselves to four non-magical beings. Only two of those non-magical beings know what they are. The fairies are always nearby and listening for Ty and Jye's call for help.

The Enchanting Streets of New Orleans, A Witch with Faltering Magic, A Man Plagued by Demons of the Past...Darkness and Desire Meet in "Spellbound," an Enchanting Romance from Trana Mae Simmons New Orleans, 1875 Nick Bardou returns to New Orleans following a decade-long exile, burdened by the weight of his past. Yet, as he sets foot on the harbor dock, he is confronted by a bewitching sight—a strawberry blonde beauty who bears an uncanny resemblance to the woman he tragically took from this world ten years ago. Wendi Chastain, a witch yearning to restore her magic, is on a quest to recover her mother's coveted Book of Shadows. Little does she expect to encounter Nick Bardou, a man shrouded in a swirling aura of darkness. Against all odds, he agrees to join her in searching his family's ancestral plantation, setting the stage for an extraordinary journey. United by their shared determination, Wendi and Nick battle burgeoning love and smoldering passion, struggling to stay focused on their original objectives. However, Aunt Sybila's cryptic words echo in their hearts—fate has grand plans for them, entwining their destinies with long-overdue justice and long-concealed truths. Publisher's Note: In "Spellbound," Trana Mae Simmons masterfully intertwines the threads of magic, mystery, and romance, unraveling a tale that will leave you breathless. Will Wendi rediscover her true powers? Can Nick find solace amidst the haunting memories of his past? Prepare to be enchanted as their extraordinary love story unfolds against the backdrop of New Orleans' rich tapestry, where nothing is as it seems. About the Author:Trana Mae Simmons lives in a haunted house on the edge of the East Texas Piney Woods, which she and her husband share with various pets and paranormal residents. In between writing cozy mysteries and other stories, she delights in scaring herself silly during otherworldly encounters and visits haunted buildings and graveyards during dark and full moons. Her husband goes along sometimes to protect her from the bumps in the night, although he's been known to spy a ghost and retreat rather than confront it. She also pursues paranormal entities with her real-life Twila, Aunt Belle Brown, who are Lead Investigators of the Supernatural Researchers of Texas paranormal investigative team. SRT's motto is "Leave Peace Behind," and the team seeks to leave peace for the people who are dealing with troubled hauntings, as well as for the ghosts. Simmons is extremely willing to discuss her experiences with anyone she can corner.

A Woman Rancher's Life Takes a Decided Turn When Her Fairy Godmother Visits—Love Soon Follows—in Southern Charms, an Enchanting Romance with a Touch of Paranormal From Trana Mae Simmons Northern Central Texas, Late 1800's At his mother's insistence, city-slicker Shane Morgan reluctantly leaves New York City for the wilds of Texas, searching for the daughter of his mother's best friend. A woman who, unbeknownst to her, is an heiress to a huge fortune. Ellie Parker is the unwanted stepchild doing all the ranch work, while her mother dotes on her real daughter. She drowns her sorrows by running the ranch she loves, enjoying the company of ranch hands, horses, and cattle. When a polished city slicker shows up and imposes himself upon her life, he refuses to be ignored. But when a lady of the evening, claiming to be Ellie's fairy godmother, along with her spoiled white cat, also intrudes at the same time the circus comes to town, it's all too much for Ellie. Amid an atmosphere of deception and disbelief, Ellie finds herself falling in love with the totally inappropriate Shane Morgan. But can love find its way through the morass of truths Shane is forced to shroud? About the Author: T. M. Simmons lives in a haunted house on the edge of the East Texas Piney Woods, which she and her husband share with various pets and paranormal residents. In between writing cozy mysteries and other stories, she delights in scaring herself silly during otherworldly encounters and visits haunted buildings and graveyards during dark and full moons. Her husband goes along sometimes to protect her from the bumps in the night, although he's been known to spy a ghost and retreat rather than confront it. She also pursues paranormal entities with her real-life Twila, Aunt Belle Brown, who are Lead Investigators of the Supernatural Researchers of Texas paranormal investigative team. SRT's motto is "Leave Peace Behind," and the team seeks to leave peace for the people who are dealing with troubled hauntings, as well as for the ghosts. Simmons is extremely willing to discuss her experiences with anyone she can corner.

After meeting Ella and Raven, you’d think I’m the responsible one. The one who can do no wrong. The one who gets every job right. But you don’t know the real me, the one who fell in love and paid for it with someone else’s life. Morgan has mentored her fellow faerie godmothers in Winslow, Arizona for the past forty-five years, and lived among the humans for a century. She should be proud of her work, despite her current apprentices breaking the unspoken rule that all faeries learn at the Academy: Don’t fall in love, not just with the humans assigned to you, but any non-fae creature. But what if the non-fae was produced because of an egregious mistake on Morgan’s part when she first arrived in Winslow? In December of 1975, Jane Byrne was Morgan’s charge and the one person she’d ever fallen head over heels for. Unfortunately, she also became a banshee, something Morgan was supposed to stop from happening. Four decades later, Jane is back in town, and she still takes Morgan’s breath away. Jane is looking for someone to help her untangle the web that led to her becoming a banshee, and Morgan is the only person she trusts to help. Eager to find out what could possibly be more powerful than faerie godmother magic – and alleviate four decades of guilt over failing Jane – Morgan agrees to investigate… even if it means opening her heart again to the only person capable of breaking it. The magic of love heals two broken pasts in this short novella.

A book of natural wonders, practical guidance and life-changing empowerment, by the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller If Women Rose Rooted. 'To live an enchanted life is to pick up the pieces of our bruised and battered psyches, and to offer them the nourishment they long for. It is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at the heart of the ordinary. Above all, to live an enchanted life is to fall in love with the world all over again.' The enchanted life has nothing to do with escapism or magical thinking: it is founded on a vivid sense of belonging to a rich and many-layered world. It is creative, intuitive, imaginative. It thrives on work that has heart and meaning. It loves wild things, but returns to an enchanted home and garden. It respects the instinctive knowledge, ethical living and playfulness, and relishes story and art. Taking the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales and folk culture, this book offers a set of practical and grounded tools for reclaiming enchantment in our lives, giving us a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world.

This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old. At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift—the “gift” of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop off her own head! But strong-willed Ella does not accept her fate... Against a bold backdrop of princes, ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers, Ella goes on a quest to break the curse forever. A tween favorite for 25 years—now shared with today's young readers by moms, teachers, and other adults who remember the pleasure of discovering this fun fairy-tale retelling themselves!

Contains myths and tales of love including "Recipes for Romance," "The tale of a Demon-Bride," and "Rescue from the Underworld."

“The Enchanted wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places. . . . So dark yet so exquisite.” — Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus An astonishing and redemptive novel for readers of Alice Sebold and Toni Morrison, told from the point of view of a convict whose magical interpretations of prison life allow him to find absolute joy while isolated from the rest of humanity and a female investigator who experiences her own personal salvation in her work as a death penalty investigator. This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it but I do. The enchanted place is a high security prison and is relayed through the eyes of an inmate on death row who escapes his surroundings by immersing himself in books, and by re-imagining the world that surrounds him. Instead of focusing on the cloudy medical vines that snake across the floor, empty and waiting for the warden’s finger to press the red buttons, our narrator sees golden horses as they run deep under the earth, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs. A woman and fallen priest haunt the prison halls--an unnamed female investigator only known as the Lady who is known for discovering information relating to soon-to-be executed inmates’ backgrounds that can be used to overturn their sentences. She is put on the case of a man named York and as she digs into his past, the experience brings up ghosts of her own and threatens to destroy everything that she has come to know about the enchanted place. The Enchanted is a magical novel about redemption, the humanity that can lie within what is monstrous, and the human capacity to transcend and survive.