Kirjahaku

This exciting and versatile treasury of copyright-free design offers graphic artists many different types of Celtic motifs in a wide variety of sizes and shapes, all expertly adapted from authentic Celtic design sources by artist Courtney Davis.Inspired by early examples of jewelry and ornament, illuminated books, manuscripts and other historic artifacts, the designs are both abstract and pictorial, and range from full- and half-page rectangles, triangles, and circles to frames, borders, corners, and medallions.Many of the designs are extremely rich and complex in character and content. Each is rendered by Courtney Davis with exceptional finesse. Graphic artists will find that wherever the bold and beautiful interlacements of Celtic design are called for, these splendidly conceived and executed motifs will add just the right touch.

Sixteen full-page plates of Celtic motifs on translucent paper. Mythical beasts, Celtic crosses, saints, and more. Color and hang near a light source for exciting stained glass effects.

For artists, designers and craftworkers — 125 royalty-free designs depicting birds, human figures, mythological creatures, interwoven patterns and more, all meticulously adapted from centuries-old rune stones, religious symbols, furniture, manuscripts, sword hilts, cooking utensils, and other artifacts. A wealth of dramatic ornamentation in a practical and inexpensive sourcebook.

Aranha is the last of her kind, a spider shifter who preys upon the dregs of society in an attempt to validate her existence and feed her hunger. She's lived alone for two hundred years, no family and no friends; always watchful for those who would kill her.Dag is one of a dying species, vampires who can walk in the day. They have lost their companions and live in dread of the day that they too will become extinct; leaving the earth to the vile creatures who prey upon humans without mercy.Aranha sees danger in Dag's face, Dag sees the future in hers. Neither can believe the other exists and their lives are about to get very complicated. Together they embark on a mission to save a young human from the vampires and learn the reality of what their two species were doing in The Garden of Eden.

When the princess becomes a warrior, nothing stands in her way.When Elle is presented with every orphan's dream, finding out she's actually a princess, she isn't sure if she should join the hulking sexy man, Locan, on a spaceship ride, or run screaming from the room because he's obviously nuts. If it weren't for the strange things she'd recently encountered, like suddenly gaining star shaped birthmarks and a bracelet that once belonged to her mother lighting up with an eerie green light, she would be out of there already. She has enough questions she wants answered to stay and find out, taking his hand and embarking on a journey across the darkness of space. He says she needs to save their people from her evil uncle. She wants to know where she comes from, who her mother was, and why she never fit in on earth. The path to their home planet isn't without its bumps. Saving aliens, and earthlings while evading her uncle's men and dodging the pushy goddesses who want to tell them all what to do. Elle has to learn who she really wants to be and to help Locan become the warrior he was meant to be.Can she be what the rebels need? Can Locan trust the beast that lives inside of him? Will the people of Prias once again have a princess on the throne to rule their utopian society?

Sometimes you have to take control of the prophecy.The prophecy says she'll destroy him, but if he doesn't reveal too much, will she help him rule Hell?Jade is in witness protection and finds herself in possession of a store full of magical items. Her presence there alerts her existence to Baal, a serpent shifter and the first king of Hell. He arrives to kill her before she can become what has been prophesied and kill him, but he is enchanted by what he finds. She is everything he feared she would be, but she is also enticingly beautiful and pulls at something deep within him. She has no idea what she is, and he decides to try and use her for his own plans. Jade tentatively trusts Baal as she embraces her new powers and his reasons for seeking the keys to a gate in Hell. She agrees to help him, but along their journey she discovers that four planes of existence have crashed together; the fae realm, the angel realm, the demon realm and the earth realm. They are all fighting for control of earth and its inhabitants. She is the one prophesied to choose the winner. She is the one prophesied to kill the first king of Hell.

When Atlantis sank, it took with it a prison holding the worst monsters the earth had ever seen, and it needed something more powerful to guard them. Vampires. A race of humans, Descendants of Atlantis, once held captive by a stone that took their will and made them happy blood slaves, had gained their freedom from the Vampires of Atlantis, but the Descendants never stopped fearing the blood-suckers who had once enslaved them. When an unspeakable monster escapes its Atlantean prison, it's Ian's job to track it above the waterline and bring it back. Ian's quest is derailed by the woman he finds seconds from death. Can he convince her to help him save the Descendants of Atlantis from a vampire and his monster minion? Will she turn against him when she finds out what he is, what she is, and what he's willing to sacrifice for the greater good?

Sorcha is a descendant of the Atlantean people, a race of humans who were once the blood slaves of the vampires of Atlantis. She grew up knowing that the vampires were enemies, the werewolves were beasts, and the witches were their friends. When she starts to question the situation her clan has been put into with the witches, a vampire who haunts her erotic dreams comes to the rescue. Samson didn't grow up in Atlantis and didn't choose to become a vampire. He hates what he has to do to survive, and can't imagine ever deserving love. When he finds a Descendant of Atlantis near death and nurses her back to health, he expects her to run at the first opportunity. When she offers him her willing body, he knows he would do anything to keep her, and that means hiding his monstrous side. But you can't love someone if you're hiding part of yourself. One look at Samson and Sorcha knows she erased him from her memory on purpose, but why? What could he have done to make her risk such a dangerous spell? With battle on the horizon and Descendants in trouble, will Sorcha's memories be the end of any chance at Samson's happiness, or will it lead to a new understanding of what these monsters really are?

Ebony is a halfsoul trying to survive on the half rations provided by the government and what she can earn at her job. But she has a way out, if she's willing to murder for it... something she won't do. No matter that if she kills the woman who has the other half of her soul she'll be able to claim full rations from the government, get a better job, education, and if she can find her soulmate, sex.When she finds out she's dying of cancer, she decides to sacrifice herself so her soulsister can have that full life. Now she just needs to find the woman. Lark is a searcher, hired by halfsouls to find their other half so they can engage in a soulbattle to become full.When Ebony hires Lark to find her soulsister, a spark flares between them, but how can they be soulmates if she doesn't have a full soul and how can she possibly die for someone else if she falls in love with a man who shows her how good life can be?Deception, control, and a race against time. There's more to this curse than the gods or the government want people to know.

Hailey and her sister Kathy find themselves with a lot of decisions to make when their grandmother passes away. Hailey has never settled into adulthood, working dead end jobs and full of anxiety about everything. Her sister Kathy has always known what she's wanted, her life is on track and she's determined to not let anything get in the way. Hailey spends one last night alone in her grandmother's home, hoping to find closure. What she finds is a sexy half-demon knocking on her front door, ghosts appearing out of nowhere, and some kind of monster eating her grandmother's garden. Vint, a half-demon, half-witch claims he's there to protect the magic that the death of her grandmother has left behind. A wild family magic that is coveted by many, including the local coven who Hailey knows her grandmother wasn't fond of. But the half-demon is there for more than Hailey's benefit and when the will reveals he could have the magic if Hailey and Kathy don't take it, the decisions that need to be made become everybody's business.

Prit is a thief by trade, dealing in retrieving or stealing items to sell in space. It helps that she has a bionic leg hiding weapons and a bionic eye that assesses the people around her. A miscalculation on her latest job finds her thrown in a cell with Saluk, a hulking and scarred gladiator.Saluk was taken from his home planet twenty years ago and forced to kill in the arena for the entertainment of others. He'd nearly given up hope of ever escaping until the tiny thief was thrown in his cell. She doesn't react the way he's come to expect from females. She cocks her hip and propositions him confusingly.Crammed into her small spaceship to escape, she is intrigued by the quiet and respectful warrior who's been through so much. Teasing him quickly becomes her favorite activity as they run from enemies, crash land on an ice planet, and start to develop feelings for each other. But the life of a space thief and a stolen gladiator isn't that simple. A double cross, bounties, and an arranged marriage has them fighting to save each other.In the end, can Prit hold up her end of the deal and just leave him on his home planet? Can Saluk watch her fly away from his life forever?