Seizing PowerThe third book in Janet McGiffin's Empress Irini Series. Constantines father, Co emperor Leon, dies unexpectedly, making Constantine emperor at age nine with Irini as Regent. Abbess Theklas loyalty to Irini shifts to Constantine as she watches Irini block his authority and keep the power herself. Irini makes Constantine wed the disliked Maria, prevents the Senate from naming him emperor in his own right at age 18, and imprisons him when he tries to

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nor a childhood

translated by Stephen Brown

She has edited two anthologies of fiction for Iron Press: Iron Women: New Stories by Women (1990) and Biting Back: New Fiction from the North (2001)

maternal care

poems that look on the world with a cool

lost cats and stuffed dogs

Pak can’t stop laughing

Instead of an editorial

and appeared in several paintings by Diego Rivera

Inigo Jones and the mysterious ambassador Luca Von Modrich

A legend persists that