Bøger af Kate Thomas

With the truth of Ellie's place among the Balance Keepers finally coming to light, training now begins. She must learn to harness the powers that are growing within her, some spiraling out of control. Confusion and frustration become her constant companions, as her search for answers does nothing but push her further from the man she's come to love. David is The Light, the speaker of truth, the whisperer of good in the world. His desire for more than he can have with his new apprentice tears at the fabric of his own stability, bit by bit. He knows what the future holds - and just how damning it will be for Ellie if she's not prepared to handle it - but he's forbidden to help. As tragedy becomes reality, will she reach for The Light, or run into the soothing arms of The Darkness?

Ellie's time of learning the light and understanding the foundation of Equilibrium is over. The darkness has demanded her full attention, and won't accept anything less. No one can help her in the next battle but the remaining member of her group - Victor. As they race against the clock and the end grows near, she will have to learn some hard lessons, including how to love without losing herself. With David watching from the sidelines, it's time for the Core to make her decision and stand at the forefront of the battle between the light and the darkness.

After spending quality time with David, learning the gifts of the light, Ellie is assured of one thing, her heart might just break before it's all over. She can't seem to help herself from being drawn deeply in a web between him and the darkness. Her journey with Sandra to learn the gifts of the future is healing and gives her a sense of solidity, but the search for how Jacob might be involved in Equilibrium is her next great feat, one that won't be easy to accept. Having far exceeding anything they thought her capable of, Ellie works now to discern a foreign entity that seems to have slipped into her world alone. Who is he and why is he wearing David's face?

Darkness seems to crowd in tight as Ellie tries to keep her head above the storm. Jacob's struggle to fight back whatever had him locked in a coma leaves her feeling more alone than ever before. To reach for Victor or David seems trite and leaves her more confused than she's willing to admit. As her time with Veronica unfolds, she learns new truths about how Equilibrium came to be, where it draws it strength and why this new entity is hell-bound on destroying them. With no one in the present to trust, Ellie runs to the past and finds refuge in the arms of the one who was called to ignite Equilibrium.

There's something strange about David, something that goes beyond the way he makes Ellie feel. He's wealthy, poised, and a complete enigma. With nothing to lose but her heart, Ellie goes in search of the truth-a search that leads her down an eye-opening path that reveals secrets about the world she thought she knew. The world's order is held in careful balance, the essence of good and evil tilting the scale. When the fabric of reality is stripped away, Ellie is forced to make a decision to follow the path David's constructed before her or simply walk away. The Core is missing and someone must step up and stand between the light and darkness, holding each back and maintaining equilibrium.

Blending illustrative narratives from veterans with cutting-edge research, this book provides a model for a needed shift from treatment post-trauma to psychological training pre-trauma to prevent deep depression and resulting suicides.As suicides among members of the U.S. military and veterans continue at a rate higher than in the general population-nearly 20 each day-and their calls for help become louder, with three veterans waiting for treatment outside Veterans Administration hospitals in 2019 committing suicide, authors and former U.S. Marines Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor present a call for a new approach to help halt the needless deaths. Thomas, now a researcher and assistant professor of public health, and Plummer Taylor, now a social worker and adjunct professor, detail a plan to establish preventative training for mental fitness that will help psychologically "vaccinate" service members against depression and PTSD, the most common precursors to suicidal thoughts. Thomas and Plummer Taylor detail their mental fitness training program to shift from post-trauma treatment to pre-trauma prevention. Each topic addressed is illustrated with stories from veterans. Part of the solution, Thomas and Plummer Taylor explain, is to present prevention as something for all service members and as a positive, strength-building, challenging activity for champions, as opposed to a post-trauma treatment only for "weak and broken" warriors.

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