Most Popular Books by Nancy Kay

Are you living the life you were meant to live? In The Self-Aware Life: Four Pillars to Long-Lasting Fulfillment and Success as You Go Through Life''s Transitions and companion workbook, Nancy S. Kay explores how self-awareness is the foundation of living a fulfilled and successful life. Humans long for meaning, worth, and belonging. The only way to get what we desire, however, is choosing to live-every day-with intention and purpose. Simply put, we decide to be aware and awake. Sound easy? Well, it is anything but easy-yet the journey is very rewarding in so many ways. In my work with thousands of clients, I have come to realize there are four pillars essential to living the self-aware life: optimism, humility, forgiveness, and gratitude. These four characteristics are embedded in those who live a happy, peace-filled, and fulfilling life. With self-awareness, you create the life you desire by consciously setting in motion the intent to make it happen. The longing for an enlarged life-a life embracing more possibilities, growth, and freedom is often the catalyst for choosing this intentional journey. To be self-aware is to live honestly, genuinely, and purposefully to satisfy every aspect of your life. The intentional lifestyle is deeply personal and ultimately unique to each human being. There isn''t a definitive way to tell you how to do it. It is a journey that belongs only to you, and it begins with self-awareness. It is an organic, inner working you choose to enter or ignore. You either stay asleep or wake up to the yearning that is beckoning you. The road to living with genuine intention -the self-aware life- is bumpy and will have many detours as you go through the seasons of life. This journey is especially true when you are in the midst of any life transition such as divorce, a death of a loved one, empty nest, midlife, loss of friendship, and career change. Keep in mind, being human is a work in progress. Be gentle with yourself. My heartfelt hope is The Self-Aware Life will be a bedrock of encouragement and guidance as you courageously choose to journey toward a more balanced, purposeful and fulfilled life.

Ten years ago their lives took separate paths. Delilah sought a career in New York City; Kevin entered the state police academy, but when Delilah Wyeth inherits Cocoa Treats Chocolate, danger trails the cool city ad exec back to their hometown and draws State Police Corporal Kevin McClain into her unraveling life. Kevin admires the cool, professional woman she''s become, and misses the feisty girl he once knew. Though he vows to uncover why fear lurks in Lilah''s stunning eyes, his less than stellar ancestry haunts Kevin, and he struggles to keep his hands off her tempting body. Lilah faces life-altering choices. Precious memories pull her to stay and convince Kevin he deserves more in his life than a badge and a gun, but if she abandons her smooth-talking, manipulative New York supervisor, will she trigger a deadly reaction? Her decision turns Lilah''s fear to reality, and more than duty drives Kevin as he races to save her life.

Kindhearted Nana gathers all the unkempt and forlorn little stick horses in the barrel outside of the thrift shop and decides to clean them up and give them each a home. Just to make it special, she sews a blinker for each pony! Now they can look like a real race horse and dream of the day they will take the track. This delightful story captures the drama and excitement of the first little pony, named Smarty Pants, who finds a home with a determined little boy named Stew. Together they take the track at the Kentucky Derby in the rain. What will be the outcome for this well-matched pair? It will take the heart of a champion to pull ahead for the win. Can Smarty Pants do it?

The suspected forensic case involving two skeletons whose identities have remained a mystery for 35 years is reexamined using bioarchaeological analysis. Methods for estimating sex, age at death, ancestry, stature, and pathology/trauma methods are applied in an effort to glean more information about the remains. A facial reconstruction is presented with a step-by-step illustration to reveal the potential appearance of one of the individuals Historical research into the recovery site, the circumstances of their disinterment, and temporal evidence is used to contextualize in the tale of two men twice disturbed.

Two generations ago Ahleri, the greatest Sword the world of Eormengrund had ever seen, left the known confines of Kimala to journey far to the north where demonkind was rumored to live. He never returned. But he opened a door that would lead to conflict for those who followed him.Now, deep in the mountain of Kimala, the current Sword and Shield wait. They have carefully and painstakingly set a trap for the greatest demon known to humankind. If they succeed in their plan, they believe peace will finally return. If they fail, they will have opened the way for demonkind to enter the small city of Claxbury, Kentucky.Jason McCarthy simply wanted to join his aunt Jessie and cousin Lucy for their weekly lunch. What he found instead was a note filled with mystery and smeared with something red. Jason''s mind raced to scenarios of kidnapping and disaster, as a young man''s active imagination would. Little did he know that he was being drawn into a fantastic world of mystery and magic.Lucy Perrymore waited at Miss Winnifred James'' house for her mother to return. At the age of thirteen, her imagination was outwardly far more extreme than her cousin''s. The only difference was she knew that her imagination was fact, not fantasy.Join Jessie Perrymore, who became the Shield of Eormengrund, and her Sword, Eron as they weave their magic to save both of their worlds, their daughter Lucy, and Jessie''s nephew, Jason McCarthy as they and a host of others are drawn into this web of adventure that bridges two worlds.