Rose knows she's running on borrowed time. Tendrils of dark magic are twisting their way into Ljubljana's underbelly, her father's brethren out for her blood. The Dark Ones are not only powerless to prevent Rose's title of Death incarnate from spreading through the community, but their struggle to maintain peace among the supes is spiraling down at a neck-breaking pace. Since anybody who stands with the pack is guilty by association, the only choice the werewolves have left is to let their lethal nature surface. Turning into what they had sworn not to become is, after all, a small price to pay to keep those they love from being executed.

The pack knows Ljubljana's sun-kissed streets will taste the touch of death. Whether they will walk upon them victorious or mar them with their own blood is a guess nobody dares to make. Caged in the promise of war and with enemy forces pressing in from all sides, they struggle to keep ahead of the Upirs' twisted game. But when the opposition changes the rules, the pack must face a harsh truth. The only way they can hope to fight chaos is with chaos of their own. But will their actions be any kinder to the world from what the Upirs hope to unleash? Or will they bury humanity in the rubble of battle all the same?.

The ascension to The Dark Ones had brought Rose and her pack power. But it had also brought peril. With the higher immoral circles assessing their every move, they have to keep their heads low and their presence within the wider community beneficial. So when someone starts targeting the twentyfourhourlies, the werewolves come to their aid. But what had first been an assignment to remain in their leaders' good graces, becomes a mission the pack know they will follow through to the end. Even if it means doing the one thing they had sworn to avoid. Showing their true strength.

The world of Slavic immortals has never been darker As they try to uncover the creature behind a brutal mass murder of White werewolves, Rose and her pack are drawn into the beginning of a war that is not designed for mortals. Not even those of the supernatural variety. Because the nature of the killings obstructs the normal passage of souls, the lord of the underworld reaches out. With his aid, Rose learns of the pack's true lineage, but accepting the truth seems just as hard as resisting the sultry, arrogant god. If they want to prevent more deaths, the pack must ascend to The Dark Ones. Only their rise to power would not be without consequences. Will the pack risk incurring the immortal community's wrath - or let a murderer walk free?

For more than 1,300 years Slovenes had lived in Eastern Europe without having a separate Slovene state, but in December of 1990, they voted for independence, or, put more appropriately, for "disassociation" from Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, Slovenia had to fight for its independence, which it did not fully achieve until 1995 after its bloody disintegration with Yugoslavia was over. Since independence, however, Slovenia has prospered; its economy is far ahead of other former communist states and in 2004 Slovenia acceded to both NATO and the European Union, the only republic of former Yugoslavia to do so. The A to Z of Slovenia covers the history of Slovenia and its struggle to gain independence from communism. This is done through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.

The world of Slavic immortals has never been darker Enter the world where myth becomes reality, where long-forgotten gods walk the earth, and where love forms bonds that cannot be broken even in the raging winds of battle. Box set contains all four full-length novels in the Black Werewolves series.

The term “Yugoslavia” first appeared in an article in the newspaper Slovenija in Ljubljana on Friday, October 19, 1849. The author of the article declared that he was not interested in politics, but only in the literary unification of Yugoslavs within the Austro-Hungary Empire. With ongoing conflicts and disparate forms of nationalism in and around historical Yugoslavia as its backdrop, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs for the first time addresses the history and idea of a united Yugoslavia in and during which a true “Yugoslav” identity never really came into being . Following a series of wars and uprisings from 1875 onwards, the first nation-state of Southern Slavs, established after World War I, became the “Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” — a competing nationalistic blender that would go through failure, revival and transformation of the concept of “Yugoslavia”.

ORDINARY PEOPLE. EXTRAORDINARY HEROES... This all-new fantasy anthology features thirteen original stories about ordinary or inexperienced people learning to become extraordinary heroes. From the shape shifter Esen-alit-Quar who is forced unexpectedly into her first solo mission to the young man sworn to defeat a pack of lycanthropes, these heroes in training are thrown into exciting adventures that demand nothing short of all that is in them.