When Nickolas von Klaus, the long thought dead Prince of the Vampire Court, awakens from an unplanned hibernation, he finds his nation on the brink of civil war. Armed with a mission from his god, Nickolas starts his search for the newest Lightwalker, a vampire with the power to withstand the light of the sun. Instead, he comes across the young wielder of Orion's Blade, Seth, who's on a search of his own. All Seth wanted for his birthday was a chance to get out of the city, but when strangers attack him and kidnap his brother, Seth will stop at nothing to get Jon back. Even if it means accepting fantasy as reality and siding with the enemy. Can Nickolas help Seth find his brother while gathering his forces in preparation for war? Or will they be too late to save Seth's brother? Book 1 of the Lightwalkers Novelette Series is 22,000 words. This story follows multiple points of view to create a compelling, fast paced narrative. In this book, you're introduced to the cast of characters and follow Nick, Jon, Seth, and Sin as they deal with the different obstacles that have appeared in their lives.

Powerless in a family of Necromancers, Ezra has struggled to fit in. Going off to a normal college seemed like the perfect escape from the harsh realities of home. But when the girl he has a crush on is forced into an arranged marriage with another, darker, Necromancer family, Ezra does the only thing he can to save her - he takes the test that will name him a full Necromancer and her betrothed. But only if he survives. During the test, Ezra learns he isn't as powerless as he thought. Hidden truths reveal he is connected to the Reinhardt family, all of whom were thought killed by the Necromancer's worse enemy, the Witches. Witches that are hell-bent on ridding the world of the 'black arts'. With the help of an unlikely ally and a raven familiar, Ezra has the power to save the girl he loves and his kind, too, if he can master it in time.

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In a world where memory shapes reality, control is no longer about truth, its about what people remember. Reality is fracturing. A brutal regime has weaponized memory itself, turning ancient symbols and forgotten histories into tools of domination. Their influence spreads like a virus across dimensions, rewriting the very rules of existence. Dreams collapse into the waking life, ruins speak in riddles, and the past bleeds through the seams of the present. Amidst the chaos, a scattered resistance uncovers forbidden knowledge, of a language older than time, etched in geometry and sorrow. These truths threaten not only the conquerors' hold but the fabric of the polyverse itself. As war spreads across memory, identity and perception, survival demands more than strength. It demands remembrance. But in a world built on forgetting, remembrance may just be the deadliest act of all.

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The woman in the alley scratches a symbol into the pavement, then vanishes from the video. Now her desperate father is begging Bas Milius to accept one last case.In 1991, strange things are afoot in Boston. Bas is on the verge of hanging up his hat, until his final client--the missing woman's father--suddenly claims to be someone else entirely. Someone without a daughter.Across town, Dee Khalaji finds herself seeing visions of someone in the shadows watching a recorded video--one that changes each time it's played back.In a downtown compound, a secretive couple promises healing to lost souls through compulsory sessions of meditation and dance. But how have they been monitoring each member without the use of cameras? And why does the very first tape in their extensive surveillance collection focus on someone Bas lost a decade ago?A man on a mission to put the pieces together. A nonverbal autistic girl with the ability to see through others' eyes. A story of identity, connection, and magic, set in a Boston that never was.

The war of memory deepens. As the boundaries between past and present blur, echoes awaken in the bones of the world. What was forgotten begins to stir. What was hidden begins to bleed through. In the shadows of crumbling empires and fractured minds, an ancient language reemerges-one not spoken, but remembered. The True Geometries twist beneath the surface, reshaping fate in silence. All across Auldrith, those who dare to remember face a choice: be rewritten... or become the ones who rewrite. The Echo Divide has opened. And through it, nothing remains unchanged.

The cost associated with machinery maintenance is a major portion of operating expenses. Vibration analysis, used as a method of monitoring the condition of machinery, provides a means to identify machinery faults before significant levels of damage occur. The results of research using statistical parameters of the vibration signal produced by machinery is presented. The statistical parameters investigated included the mean, mean square, variance, and coefficients of skewness and kurtosis. These values are compared with results of spectrum analysis techniques similar to methods used by the United States Navy in machinery programs. The investigation focuses on the use of band limited statistical parameters used as a fault detection technique that permits machinery operation to be categorized as 'satisfactory' or 'unsatisfactory.' Keywords: Theses, Statistical analysis, Gears, Machinery vibration monitoring, Fault detection, Machinery condition monitoring. (cp).