Bitten by Books

“On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die face down in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, will all the accompanying mystery and elevated language appropriate for a prominent diviner, turned her cards, screamed delicately, and proclaimed that my doom was written in water and blood and ice. As for me, from about that time and for the twenty years since, I had spat on my middle finger and slapped the rump of every aingerou I noticed, murmuring the sincerest, devoutest prayer that I might prove my parents’ predictions wrong. Not so much that I feared the doom itself-doom is just the hind end of living, after all-but to see the two who birthed me confounded.”
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Breath and Bone starts where Flesh and Spirit finished: Valen contracted in service to the most feared of the three princes who are waging war for the throne. In this book, he also finds out why he is so different from the rest of his family. There is more found out about Osriel, the man who holds Valen’s contract and who is oft accused of working dark magic, and Sila Diaglou, an apocalyptic priestess whose followers have a tendency to lay waste to the countryside in order to “cleanse” it. The Danae also make a greater appearance in this book than they did in Flesh and Spirit. Read More »

What happens when Santa dies? Well, in this case, the Committee to Oversee the Christening of Kringle goes into action finding a replacement. The Kid is chosen – he the is fitter, less prone to clumsiness, and more dapper looking in the uniform model. Before he could start delivering Christmas presents the world over, the Kid is “Chris”-napped by Snow Globes and must find his way out. On this quest, he is helped by Johnny Longjohns and, singularly and together, they escape traps, find love, and all sorts of goings on at a disco.
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Will Ambrose is the host of a radio program in which he dispenses advice on GLBT relationships. He knows a lot about relationships, except when it comes to his own as his partners tend to be controlling and abusive. Will is finally able to end things with his current partner after two things happen: he meets Cobalt, a local tattoo celebrity, and his coming home late sends his partner into a rage which leaves Will badly beaten.
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Will Northland comes to the U.S. from England to help his twin brother, Tristan, break a curse. While there, Will meets Tristan’s mate, Benjamin, and their friend Raul. During this time, Raul receives a request for help from his old pack. This request entails finding his twin brother, Richard, who has gone missing and might be ensnared by a witch.
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Clay Stevens and Javier Alvaro were in a relationship for a decade before Javier ended things between them. Several months later, Taran Lorenz enters Clay’s life and gives Clay the push he needs to start enjoying things once more. Javier, once he sees Clay and Taran together, becomes jealous and tries to break the two of them up. Taran is not the kind of person to give up, even when Vincent Torres, his and Javier’s boss, decides that Taran needs to disappear.
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Silver Bells is the story of Jud Hess, Derek Gentry, their love, a vow that Jud made, and Derek’s death. The two men had known each other since they were kids and became lovers when in college. Four years later, on Christmas Day and after a vow Jud made to never love another, Derek was killed.
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John Kern is a Marine reservist serving a tour in Iraq when he is struck by a car bomb. It is then that things start changing for him, and it starts with hallucinations. These hallucinations involve spirits, gods long since forgotten, and the ghost of a man he had beaten to death when he was still a professional boxer. Things get progressively worse while he is recovering in Germany, as “Battlin’ John” becomes unwittingly entangled in a cult’s plot to resurrect a medieval torturer. Read More »

Jin Rayne is young, gay, and a werepanther. He would like to have a normal life more than anything but does not know if he can have it based on what happened to him while living at home. He escaped his past and has been living in the shadows since then, trying to keep under the local weretribe radar. He cannot escape the ties that bind him to his heritage as he is a rarity amongst the werepanthers as a reah, or the semel’s (weretribe’s leader) mate. Read More »

Haru is a merchant and Sachoné House’s representative, more or less, in Verdant. When he is able to sail into Verdant when their magic usually does not allow outsiders in, Haru is selected as Oradhe: a holy man who must act as a god’s conscience. The price for this honor? Losing his eyesight. Read More »

A friend of Carlin’s takes him out to Baseline - a club he has wanted to go to but one that is very hard to get into - to celebrate his fifth year as a firefighter. After Carlin is left to his own devices shortly after entering the club, he winds up with a tour guide of sorts to show him around….and meets a man who will turn his reserved, focused world upside down.
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What happens when the fulfillment of a lifelong wish comes with a ghost attached to it? Edwin Masters has long wished to purchase a 1962 Alfa Romeo Spider and he is now able to. The Spider he purchases, however, comes with the ghost of Cooper James, a young man who died in it and who never left it. At around the same time, Edwin also meets Carson Heston, a man half his age and who works with one of his neighbors.
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Zelia, a half-air elemental, and Ares, a half-elf, are about to be married. In order to let different types of beings be able to mix, the doors between the nine planes were opened - supposedly only for one day. As time is not as linear in other planes, the party runs later than thought, and the fire elementals escape onto the mortal plane. While there, they run rampant on the southern continent with no one to stop them; it is not until their elemental cousins of water and air join them that a great disturbance is caused.
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The Grey Lady’s crew have rather long lives or, more to the point, “un-lives,” as they are ghosts. There are things out there that can end even their existence and one of them, the Kraken, is stalking them now…..just as Nicolas, one of the ship’s deckhands, is visited by Kieru. It is only in Nicolas’s dreams that Kieru is able to come to him in human form, as Kieru is a shark in everyday existence.
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What happens when a former arson investigator working for the Forest Service, a fire elemental working as a professional photographer, and a deputy sheriff who is more than she seems meet on an archaeological site? Sparks fly, naturally, in more ways than one.
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When Todd Rook is hired by Manuel Ortega, the Radiation Angels’ Electronic Warfare Officer, to travel to Persephone, Ortega’s home planet, in order to help stop the violence, Rook can’t very well say no… especially when the first people to be helped are members of Ortega’s family.
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Rook’s first mission with the Angels is to go to Planet Walden - a planet that was, by all accounts, a peaceful place of pastoral-type living. That has all changed; the planet is burning, and the Golla, the planet’s servants - genetically engineered and gorilla-like in appearance - are on the loose and causing chaos.
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When Gwyneth, a servant, decides to help an Elf escape Belmor Castle after his capture, her entire world changes with that act. Caelin does not want to take her with him when he escapes but has no choice - and he is none too happy about it, either. On their way away from Belmor’s environs, the pair meet up with Drake, a dragon, and Faine, a unicorn, and an uneasy alliance is formed.
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Life can change in an instant; in another, it can change yet again. Bathory’s Kiss is the story of those kinds of changes, their choices, and the paths taken. Detective Morgan Carbone was a good cop who tried to find answers from a serial killer. He gave her those answers, just not in the way that she expected. He bit her and turned her into a werewolf - one with the same kind of bloodlust-filled tendencies as he had. It leads her on a journey that has her crossing paths with a werewolf pack and the second life-altering instant that leads her to a life or death choice.
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The people that Gaven has always thought of as “his” are attacked and defeated by Masarians…and they are led by a warlord who says he is Gaven’s father. As his world is turned upside down, the man who claims to be his father turns Gaven over to one of his generals to teach and train him in the Masarian ways.
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