By Rachel Caine

A exciting retelling of the star-crossed story of Romeo and Juliet, from the New York Times bestselling writer of the Morganville Vampires series.

In the homes of Montague and Capulet, there's just one objective: energy. the lads are born to struggle and die for honor and—if they survive—marry for impression and funds, no longer love. the women are resources, to be spent properly. Their needs are of no import. Their fates are written at the day they're born.

Benvolio Montague, cousin to Romeo, is aware all this. He expects to die for his cousin, for his residence, yet a spark of uprising nonetheless lives inside of him. At evening, he's the Prince of Shadows, the best thief in Verona—and he hazards all as he steals from apartment Capulet. In doing so, he units eyes on convent-bound Rosaline, and a bad curse starts off that would declare the lives of many in Verona…

… and should rewrite all their fates, endlessly.

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About fifty people showed up for the performance, including Mr. Bharati, and together they chanted the kirtan. Incense was burned under the full moon as the fakir went through certain yogic exercises. By six the following morning the crowd was well satisfied with what they had seen, but Mr. Bharati had seen nothing. When he spoke with some of the other spectators he learned to his astonishment that they had seen the fakir rise at least nine feet into the air. 25 Anyone who can mesmerize an entire crowd at pleasure possesses some occult powers, although levitation is not necessarily among them.

They also represent the three realities of Time: Past, Present, and Future, and the three states of awareness: waking, dreaming, and sleeping. AUM is the Inexpressible Absolute, the last word to be spoken in mysticism, after which there is only silence. It is also the lost word, or, to borrow a phrase from the Sepher Yetzirah, ‘the articulate word of creative power’—the Logos, the Word that built the worlds. Advanced yogis are said to hear the sound of AUM psychically, which signifies to them that it underlies all Creation.

Two additional lists were published by Mr. Frank Kaleda of Kent, Ohio, in a privately printed manuscript called The Shining Ones. And still another list was published by Nicholas Regush in his column in the May 21, 1978 Sunday Express (Montreal). indd 51 7/26/15 11:45 AM instructor Susan Scott in 1973 and was obtained from her husband, R. D. Scott, also a former TM instructor and the author of Transcendental Misconceptions. All of these lists contain the same mantras, with some differences in spelling since the mantras were originally given out orally.

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