Willow Taranta huddled within the branches of the taranta bush as she listened to the sounds of her mother, a Guardian, fight for her life against the Bad Man, a fight that left the 10-year-old alone. When her birthmark sizzled, she had to control herself and keep quiet; she knew that she was now the Guardian of the Book of Wood and her mother had been taken from her from the Bad Man, a man that she still hunted today.
Pearl has always wanted to find a way to connect with her mother — a mother that was taken from her at an early age and left her growing up with a loving but distant father. Moving to Monterey Bay, California from Liverpool, England to go to school at CSUMB, she never expects to find such a deep connection to her mother. Pearl also finds that she has a much deeper connection than she imagines, one that comes at a steep price when it comes to the ones she loves.Caitlyn Moore O’Neal can tell a wicked story and has the proof to back it up despite her husband’s belief that her vampyre tales are pure fiction. Her memories, once taken away from her for her protection, are now back, and she must not only use her knowledge to protect the vampyre she secretly loves but also relay the tale to his current love, the Queen of the Vampyres.
As Cait goes through reciting her recollections, she tells a tale of a powerful prophet from the past. Larado, the vampyric prophet, of both pagan and vampyre blood, had left his powerful prophecies in the hands of Julian centuries ago, and now they all were beginning to come true. Read More »
Even in Heaven, when you get three strikes against you, you get thrown out of the game.
It had been almost 500 years since Connor Buchanan had been born, and after centuries of being pretty much alone following his turning, the recent spurt of his friends and co-workers taking mates was beginning to bore him out of his mind. There will be no cowing to a woman’s whims for him; let the others take the plunge—Connor knew what kind of heartache could come from finding love. Plus, with the priority of finding and eradicating Casmir due to his vagrant disregard of human life, he had no time to go off making lovey eyes at some female.
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The second installment in the distinctive Delphic Oracle series, the excellent Rogue Oracle begins with Tara interrogating a suspected terrorist. After this session, while consulting her tarot cards, Tara’s friend/colleague/lover, Harry Li, appears to ask for her help on a case. Former agents and operatives involved in the Rogue Angel project, the purpose of which was to track down and retrieve nuclear materials from the USSR, are disappearing without much in the way of clues. Tara agrees to help, even though it means leaving Cassie, her ward, in the care of the Pythia, the leader of Oracles, whom she does not trust to have Cassie’s best interests as a priority.
Amy Shane would be excited to wake up with a sexy man in her bedroom — if she knew who the hell he was. He tells her she is an Offspring and in danger, and he is not far off. Minutes after he arrives, two men in black drug him and haul him away — no explanations, no questions, nothing. All she is left with is a heavy heart and a piece of paper the man slipped into her hand.
Lucas Vanderwyck vowed to only visit Amy in her dreams. So much for keeping his word. A premonition forces him to act, but he is not quick enough. He is captured by a government agency with a knack for experimenting on people with psychic abilities. Read More »
Turned, the thrilling third and final installment in The Blood Lily Chronicles, picks up the action right where its predecessor left off with Lily, her sister Rose (now in the body of another woman), and Deacon trying to escape the master demon, Penemue. In possession of the Oris Clef, the key that will keep open the gate to Hell, Lily’s main objective remains to ensure that no demon manages to take it from her, as the one holding the key will control any demons crossing over. In the ensuing chaos, Deacon gets pulled into the portal and seems to be gone. Shortly thereafter, Lily and Rose are grabbed by a winged creature and taken outside, and when she looks into its eyes, Lily realizes that Deacon survived but has reverted to his demonic form.
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When this action-packed, pedal-to-the-metal second installment of the Blood Lily Chronicles begins, the story picks up right where book one ends. Believing she was working on the side of good by ensuring the Ninth Gate of Hell stays closed, Lily learns that she was, in fact, aiding demons all along. In addition to facing that truth and figuring out her next step, Lily has an even more immediate problem: the demon inhabiting her fourteen-year-old sister, Rose. Read More »
The compulsively-readable and highly-addictive Vampire Babylon series comes to a tremendously satisfying close with its sixth installment, Deep in the Woods. Picking up immediately where its predecessor ended, this final chapter finds the vampire-hunting team of Dawn, psychics Kiko and Natalia, the spirit Friends, Jonah/Costin, and Dawn’s father, Frank, regrouping at their headquarters, interrogating the captured Claudius/Claudia, one of the co-masters of the London Underground. While the team’s primary interest concerns the location of the Underground, Dawn also seeks to discover what she can about the “shadows,” ninja-like protectors that the reader knows as “custodes.”
Having an enchanted iPod and a randy unicorn who likes to hump her underwear is the least of Abby Sinclair’s worries. It seems Moira, the Fae Protectorate Abby is Contracted to, is missing. Brystion, the sexy Asshole in Black himself, claims his sister and several other succubi are missing, as well, and he needs Abby’s help to find them. The disappearances seem to be related, but between thwarting the attentions of an incubus on a mission, battling her dream demons, and convincing a sword-wielding angel to back off, Abby’s a bit too preoccupied to put together all the pieces of the puzzle — that is, until she becomes one of those wonderfully mismatched pieces herself.
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The exciting Dark Oracle draws the reader in from its first page description of the remnants of a scientific site explosion, setting the scene for the events to follow. Former criminal profiler Tara Sheridan lives in a secluded cabin in Tennessee, having willingly withdrawn from both everyday life and the esoteric society she was born into after a traumatic and nearly fatal captivity at the hands of a serial killer she had been tracking. Read More »
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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When the exciting first installment of the Blood Lily Chronicles opens, Lily Carlyle wakes up in a strange room that she does not remember. As a matter of fact, what she does remember is dying at the hands of the man she went to kill – the man who brutally beat and raped her fourteen-year-old sister. Released from custody due to lack of evidence, Lucas Johnson continues to stalk Lily’s sister, Rose. Read More »
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