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They may fall, but she will rise. Cyra of Fernweh is perfectly content to spend her days as a winemaker on her family's vineyard after being left there as a baby twenty-two years earlier. The outer lands are not especially welcoming to anyone with magic, so Cyra hides her powers from her neighbors and only uses her meager elemental gifts to light stove fires and water crops around the vineyard. When her life is threatened one day, however, Cyra draws on a much greater magic she didn't know she possessed to save herself. In doing so, she accidentally lands herself in trouble with the Triumvirate Lords of Thasia, especially the dangerous and frightening Lord Bressen. Torn from her home and summoned before the lords, Cyra learns that they believe she will cause the downfall of the Triumvirate, and she must discover how she's involved before the lords decide to remove her as a threat to their power and their lives. With the help of Samhail, a huge warrior who gives new meaning to the idea of rock-hard muscles, Cyra is forced to navigate a world of power, passion, and political intrigue beyond anything she expected. As old enemies emerge to settle grudges and new ones prove willing to do anything for their ambition, what Cyra discovers about herself and her growing powers could put her in more danger than she ever dreamed possible. Fighting for her life, though, may prove easier than fighting her desires. The Last Triumvirate is Book 1 of a six-book New Adult fantasy romance series. It can be read as a stand-alone without the Epilogue, but it only scratches the surface of Cyra's story.This is Book 1 of the Last Triumvirate Series.

She's the light to his darkness¿But her shadows are whispering.Two months after the attempted coup, Thasia is still reeling. Only Bressen remains of the Triumvirate as the other two territories drag their feet in replacing their rulers. Meanwhile, Cyra struggles to find her footing in a world where she's no longer just a winemaker, but one of the most powerful perimortals on the continent. She may have a dizzying array of magic at her fingertips, but she's unpracticed and reluctant to use her abilities after two decades of having to hide her powers.Cyra and Bressen's upcoming marriage should be cause for celebration, but obstacles seem determined to make their path to wedded bliss as rocky as possible, and their enemies are closer than they think.Cyra's newfound knowledge about herself and her powers is only the beginning as the layers peel back to reveal a truth much bigger than she or anyone else could imagine. A storm is gathering, but is Cyra part of the solution or part of the threat?

This book is a collection of short stories by members of the creative writing group Creative Quills of El Reno, Oklahoma.

This book is a Christmas holiday collection of stories by members of the Creative Quills Writing Group of El Reno, Oklahoma.

The new and updated 15th Edition continues the book's interactive approach to teaching students how to assess a disorder and recommend self-care options based on clinical studies of safety and effectiveness, and on patient factors and preferences. The new

This study explored the effects of verbally aggressive insults on an opponent's performance in a competitive setting, i.e. 'trash talk.' Bringing together literature from a number of fields, a model was tested which hypothesized that the perception of verbal insults would increase cognitive distraction, elevate levels of emotional arousal, and affect motivation to perform, such that competitive performance would decrease. Anger and shame were posited as the primary manifestations of emotional arousal. The study was operationalized through a video game racing competition as a true experiment with control and verbal insult conditions. Both groups received an auditory treatment delivered by confederates working with the study, but it was hypothesized that perceptions of verbally aggressive insults in the experimental group would drive the effects predicted above. The results indicated that dimensions of distraction did not directly affect game performance but instead mediated the relationship between perceived insults and participants' motivation to perform. By contrast, shame and anger both had direct effects on game performance but had either non-significant or un-hypothesized relationships to motivation to perform. Moreover, it was assumed that anger would be the dominant emotion felt as a result of perceived verbal insults, but shame produced stronger effects and partially mediated the experience of anger. Post hoc analyses were conducted to help explain some unexpected results and provide direction for future study. These analyses of supplemental variables suggested that a general lack of arousal related to the nature of the experiment might explain the non-significant results of some hypothesized paths.