When a young woman is subjected to a violent attack, the impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who we choose to love are thrown into sharp relief. Daria is an immigrant woman living in Toronto, and as she begins to tell her story, the reader is pulled into different worlds, travelling to various timeframes and locations in an unending awe-inspiring Matryoshka play, where one story leads to another and another and another. The novel explores the stories of multiple characters—the Indo-Portuguese-Canadian sexual predator; the idealist and resilient Mozambican freedom fighter; the wondrous Iberian Roma circus; the Christianized Muslims and Jews; the mystical Nubian master who knows how to capture black matter; the fascist dictator whose ruthless cousin delivers unthinkable punishments inside the closed walls of Tarrafal, the infamous Cape Verdean prison of the Portuguese colonial regime—and countless other personalities, some wretched, some redeemable, some...

In a race against time, Natasha and Lucas must uncover the identity of Nemesis and prevent a devastating war.When a series of assassinations rock the royal family of the alpine country of Bebiria, tensions between them and the neighbouring nation of Keguia escalate. As the clock ticks and the body count rises, archaeologist Natasha Travers, Lucas Redmond and the king's second son, Tomaz, are determined to uncover the true identity of the killer known as Nemesis. But what they find is a twisted web of secrets and lies that threatens to plunge the two countries into war. As they race to unravel the mystery of the Marques of Death, they must also confront their own pasts and the darker side of human nature.Can Natasha and Lucas stop the killings and prevent a catastrophe before it's too late? The Marques of Death, the third book in The Acquirers archaeological thriller series, will keep you guessing until the very end.

When 26-year-old vampire Ian Marcellus and 38-year-old single mother Jo Montgomery are unexplainably drawn to each other, Jo is forced to realize her own magickal powers and must come to terms with them in order to save everyone she loves from Mia, the seductive, scheming vampire from Ian’s past.Ian and Jo cannot explain the magnetic pull that they feel to each other, but they also cannot ignore it. This attraction brings to life a series of events, beginning with the discovery of Jo herself being a powerful witch and the worry that her daughter may also inherit this burden. A prophecy is brought to light indirectly indicating that Jo is the one who will rid the earth of Mia’s evil; a fact that Jo has great difficulty accepting. Jo is introduced to Lena Mayfair who is also a witch and owns the local natural remedies shop; Lena helps Jo to overcome her apprehensions and assumes the role of her mentor, teaching her that her abilities are not a curse but in fact a gift. Ian’s brother Marcus and his long time girlfriend Isabella also become intertwined in the story as they have both been affected by Mia’s maliciousness as well, and will do whatever it takes to help Jo defeat her. As the bond between Ian and Jo continues to grow so does Ian’s desire to protect Jo from all of the chaos that has befallen her, he does not even stop to consider that it may be he who is in need of her protection.

A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira Marques travelled to Trás-os-Montes, a forgotten corner of northern Portugal, a rural area abandoned by the young. Crossing great distances where eagles circle over the roads, she visits villages where rural ways of life are disappearing. She listens to families facing death and gives us their stories in their words as well as through her own meditations. Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques' book speaks about death in a fresh way.