Kirjahaku

A war is igniting... An otherworldly lover of plants must make a choice between her destiny and her deadly fire mage brother. Kel builds her own safety after being abandoned in the woods at the age of six. Out of catastrophe and her own empathetic nature comes a gentle but unstoppable power, a deep connection to the natural world. Now all she wants is to stay in her cozy home with her plants and the animals she's befriended. An ancient conflict threatens to divide them... But the brother who shattered their family with a power he couldn't control needs her help. A war is igniting between the last of the mages and the people their forebears cruelly suppressed. Kel must choose between the brother she loves despite what he's done and the destiny calling to her in the forest. A new family. The other half of her lineage, long dormant, drawing her to them for a purpose she can't yet fathom. An enigmatic shapeshifter warns her from this other family, though, and will fight to keep her from them. Kel's love and innocence, which saved her once, and her deep yearning for the family she lost, now threaten to destroy her. Venture into the forest, hole up in a cottage while the rain thunders down outside, and curl up by the fire with Shadows of Magic, a dark, richly imagined adventure that explores the complexities of power and the strength and limits of love in a world where everyone has their own agenda. This epic fantasy adventure contains depictions of violence, infrequent profanity, and romantic relationships without graphic depictions (zero spice).

In the world's collective memory, Jeffrey Epstein is a disgraced financier, a serial sex trafficker, and a man whose crimes shocked the world. Blue Butterfly dismantles the illusion that Epstein was a lone predator. Instead, it exposes a far darker reality-- one deliberately hidden from public view. At the heart of this expos is K----, a survivor whose story is captured in a pink diary with a blue butterfly on the cover. In 2002, when she was twenty years old, she was recruited by Epstein while touring Africa with a high-profile entourage that included Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker. After attending a staged casting, she was lured into the predator's web with the false promise of a Victoria's Secret modeling contract. Once extracted from her home country and severed from her family, she was immediately abducted and abused: she was given short notice to pack for the Caribbean, her name was conspicuously absent from the flight logs, and no one knew she was traveling to Epstein's private island. To this day, she remains convinced that, had she failed to comply, she would never have lived to tell her story.