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How well we live depends on our inner state, on whether or not we are actually here, living and participating in our life. We all have the same amount of time in each day, but do we live each of those moments or let them slip away, hardly noticed? The practice of presence trains us to be and stay present, to be here in our life, to live more.

Evan Blade lives under an assumed name to hide a previous existence when he loved the wrong woman, trusted a partner, and killed an innocent man. He learned to work from shadows on the carnival circuits of his childhood. His stealth and skills serve him well as a private detective. Petra Isolta McIntyre, by the time she was six years old: had been kidnapped, sold on an underground baby market, had four different names, and witnessed three murders. Sheltered in obscure places by a valiant guardian, she returns to Capital City, Kentucky, after fifteen years, to find him near death in her kitchen. Evan inherits the guardianship of Petra, who, when he first learns the kid is a girl, describes her as "so sexless, she wouldn't attract a blind drunk in a dark bar." He juggles confetti-like fragments of information against time, to identify the deranged killer bent on eliminating every probable witness. Each direction Evan takes, point to an elected official, who is also his long-time employer with much to lose if Evan's digging unearths enough evidence to prove him guilty of murder. Can he find long buried answers to keep his promise to an old friend to protect Petra, especially when she ignores his efforts? Nash Black introduces a new private detective to the annals of crime fiction with the character, Evan Blade. Black steps back in time to 1979, to set the story against the background of a state capital, where politics and crime have long been bedfellows.

"The Sacred Art of Soul Making" offers an authentic and substantive spirituality for our time, one that leads the reader toward understanding the structure of the soul and its development through meditation, prayer, presence, and other practices. This book addresses the important questions of soul and spirit with the depth and subtlety they require and with the clarity they call for. Joseph Naft presents an integrated spiritual path that begins where we are and ultimately takes us beyond consciousness, toward the abode of the sacred. That sacredness can touch and transform each of us, if we make the necessary, devoted effort. And "The Sacred Art of Soul Making" shows the way toward that potential. This Second Edition incorporates numerous significant revisions to the original, plus two entirely new chapters: "Worlds of the Spirit" and "Modes of Will."