Shadow Countess

Amarrah came from nothing, had nothing... was nothing. The discovery of her secret talent changed that in an instant. But rather than a gift, what Mara uncovered was a curse--a deadly one. Searching for a way out leads Mara to even more hidden truths; legacies beyond her wildest dreams. The real nature of her birthright is finally revealed, only to be cruelly snatched away in the rising tide of war. Cast adrift and deprived of everything she'd earned, Mara is once again left with nothing. Toiling away in near obscurity, Amarrah works to regain what she's lost, but her plans for redemption are met with a series of failures. She'd all but given up any hope of taking back what was stolen from her when an opportunity comes knocking at her door. All Mara has to do is swallow her last bit of pride and agree to serve the enemy who took everything from her. Success turns out to mean far more than Mara imagined, while failure would result in certain death. Surrounded by enemies on all sides and trapped in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, Amarrah is forced to unravel yet another mystery and solve the final riddle of her legacy.

Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history. The meaning and significance Yeats gave to the entity by which he was constantly pursued and with which he held frequent colloquy have been held under the critical microscope, and the shadow has emerged alternately as the course of human history, the poet’s alter-ego, his inner self, the natural man, or as anything that Yeats wanted but believed himself not to be. This title, first published in 1988, examines the influence that Shelley had on Yeats and this ‘shadow’. The study concentrates primarily on the complex influence of Shelley’s Alastor on Yeats, tracing the problems it suggests and the questions it raises from Yeats’s early, highly imitative poems through the austere, unromantic middle poems to the late poems where Yeats sees himself as the "last of the romantics". This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Collection of scripts, comics, and previews from Mark Green and Andre Duggan, ideal for fans of Vampire Wars games.

Upon arriving in the port city of Tradocco, Falco becomes apprentice to master shadow thief Maestro Astolfo, and as his education progresses, he is plunged into the company of con men, monsters, pirates, and the King of the Cats.

An authoritative, modernized edition of the complete works of the great Elizabethan dramatist offers the complete texts of every comedy, tragedy, and history play, along with key facts about each work, a plot summary, major roles, sources, textual history, glossaries, and other helpful textual notes.