Literature

FIFTEENMASON DELIVERED. He found me the next day before school. He was carrying a box of books. “I got them,” he said. “Hurry and take them before you get in…

FOURTEENI CONTINUED SPYING ON LISSA over the next couple of days, feeling mildly guilty each time. She’d always hated it when I did by accident, and now I did it…

THIRTEENTHE AFTERMATH OF JESSE AND Ralf’s lies was about as horrible as I’d expected. The only way I survived was by putting blinders on, by ignoring everyone and everything. It…

TWELVESLEEP CAME RELUCTANTLY THAT NIGHT and I tossed and turned for a long time before finally going under. An hour or so later, I sat up in bed, trying to…

ELEVEN”YOU NEED SOMETHING TO WEAR?” Lissa asked. “Hmm?” I glanced over at her. We were waiting for Mr. Nagy’s Slavic art class to start, and I was preoccupied with listening…

TEN”EXCUSE ME, MR. NAGY? I CANT really concentrate with Lissa and Rose passing notes over there.” Mia was attempting to distract attention from herself – as well as from her…

NINEI SNAPPED INTO HER MIND, once again seeing and directly experiencing what went on around her. She was sneaking into the chapel’s attic again, confirming my worst fears. Like last…

EIGHTBURNING WITH ANGER, I FOUGHT harder and better that day than I ever had in any of my classes with the novices. So much so that I finally won my…

SEVENA COUPLE WEEKS PASSED AFTER that, and I soon forgot about the Anna thing as life at the Academy wrapped around me. The shock of our return had worn off…

SIXAS MUCH AS LISSA AND Christian’s meeting bothered me, it gave me an idea the next day. “Hey, Kirova – er, Ms. Kirova.” I stood in the doorway of her…

FIVEOR RATHER, THEY HAD BEEN Strigoi. A regiment of guardians had hunted them down and killed them. If rumors were true, Christian had witnessed it all when he was very…

FOURWE DIDN’T HAVE THE ENTIRE commons’ attention this time, thank God, but a few passing people had stopped to stare. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” asked Doll…

THREESENDING US STRAIGHT TO CLASS after our meeting seemed beyond cruel, but that’s exactly what Kirova did. Lissa was led away, and I watched her go, glad the bond would…

Introduction The importance of the management of expatriate’s has grown as the number of multinational companies has increased significantly over the last few decades, therefore increasing the need to be…

TWOMY HATRED NOTWITHSTANDING, I HAD to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart. After they’d carted us off to the airport to and onto the Academy’s private jet, he’d taken one…

ONEI FELT HER FEAR BEFORE I heard her screams. Her nightmare pulsed into me, shaking me out of my own dream, which had had something to do with a beach…

We were married at sunset.Some might not consider that an auspicious time, but for me, it was a perfect compromise. I had wanted to be married in the daytime, outdoors,…

Flying from Seattle to San Francisco is easy, easier even than going to Las Vegas. It takes less than two hours, and tons of flights run each day. The whole…

Introduction The European Union involves the union of 28 members that have come together to form a political-economic union which was formed initially in the immediate aftermath of the Second…

You would think the first moments of my new life, with a soul, would be magical and wonderful. Mostly, they just hurt.”Ow.” “Not quite the same without immortal healing, eh,…