Gina Lazarescu has grown up sheltered by her mother, hidden from the undead who would kill her if they found her, though she had no knowledge of them or why they want her dead.
As time passes, Gina learns who she is and her significance in the battle between the Collectors, a group released from the Akeldama, who feed on souls and human blood, and the Nistarim, those who rose from their graves after the Nazarene’s crucifixion. Her life, and the fate of the Nistarim, depends Read More »
Rosa Alban has always done what was expected of her, but when her husband, a Guardian, dies, she takes the opportunity to make some serious changes in her life and in the lives of the people she lives with. Read More »
Sophie Thibodeau has been keeping her son safe from the moment he was conceived. Running and hiding is the only way to keep ahead of the her son’s father. When Josh begins to show changes, she realizes that his father is the only one who can help him to go through them. Read More »
When Bryn returned home from the Army, little did she know that working in a funeral home was going to cause more damage to her than fighting in combat. Bryn becomes a test subject in a project involving a death-defying drug. In the third book in the Revivalist series, Bryn is trying to forget the horrors of being tortured by her boyfriend’s ex-wife while trying to take down the parties responsible for Returne. Read More »
Just as its predecessor did, Grave Matters, the excellent second installment in the engrossing Night Owls series, grabs attention from its opening scene. Elly, still getting used to living with her not-exactly-legally-adoptive brother, Cavale, gets a visit from a young girl who lives down the street. Cinda explains that a ghost has been haunting she and her father, and she wants to hire Elly and Cavale to get rid of it. Intrigued by the girl’s story, Elly agrees to help her, and upon arriving at the house, has to deal with an unusual ghost in the basement, one with a sigil she does not recognize drawn on his skin. After dispatching the ghost, Elly picks up some of the ectoplasm for Cavale to analyze. Read More »
Peace and order in Mollisan Town is watched over by Superintendent Larry Bloodhound and his law enforcement officers. The crimes run the ordinary gamut of petty thefts, gambling and nefarious nighttime activities of its good daytime citizenry. Murder is exceedingly rare, because frankly, it is almost impossible to murder anyone. All the citizens are stuffed animals and the most heinous of injuries can be repaired with needle and thread. Read More »
Cassandra Farbanks has issues. Of course, she has had issues since she reached adulthood and every night was unwillingly transported to an alternate world where magic is commonplace and which is populated by vampires and other creatures of myth. It was clear that a normal life was not going to be in the cards for her, so she accommodated her new reality by learning all she could. Read More »
After the tragic death of a friend, investigative reporter Sidonie Reid is determined to deal a large blow to the human trafficking ring centered in Chicago. Despite her reporting and even calling in family favors, the police show no interest in helping Sidonie. Her research has led her to those responsible and they are some seriously nasty vampires. Sidonie decides the only way to get justice for her friend and put an end to the syndicate is to get in touch with the vampire in charge. Read More »
Mara was born in Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs. Sold into slavery by her mother, abused, beaten and chained in a cell at age twenty, she welcomed death when it appeared in the form of a stranger in her cell. Instead of dying, however, she was reborn as vampire. The long centuries have passed and now she is the oldest vampire and has grown weary of her solitude. Life seems to no longer hold any mysteries or joy for her. If not for meeting and falling in love with a human male, Kyle, she might have given up her existence, but Kyle rejects her when he learns she is vampire and she is even more alone. Read More »
Derek Blackwood is at a family gathering hosted by his mother, Mara, the oldest of all vampires, and his step-father, Logan Blackwood, a powerful vampire in his own right. Such a gathering is rare in the vampire world, but common for his “family.” This night he is feeling a strange restlessness as he looks at all the happy couples. He recognizes part of the restlessness as being lonely. True, he is only twenty-six, but he has not met any woman, vampire or human, who has really touched his heart. Finally driven out to the night, he goes to a vampire-friendly club and sparks fly when he meets Sheree, a human fascinated by the possibility of vampires. Read More »
A more unlikely mated pairing one would never expect to find: one is a winged Prince of his very staid people, and the other a mischievous, free-spirited Sorceri girl with an unpredictable gift of Persuasion. Their species are bitter enemies and their stations in life are night and day. Yet when young Thronos, prince of Skye Hall, first laid eyes on Lanthe, she smelled like home and sky and he knew her for his one and only fated mate. Lanthe, at eleven, viewed Thronos as a new and intriguing playmate and yet instinctively recognized the danger he presented. For a brief time, there was only joy and discovery in their meetings. Then came the day of the violent encounter between their parents which changed everything. Read More »
Lullaby picks up just after Wake ends with Harper and Alex desperate to find Gemma and bring her home safely, as Gemma struggles to retain her humanity while adjusting to her new life and all of her strange powers, as well as the terrifying desires and needs that come with being a siren. Read More »
Her name is Oddly Normal. Really. That is her name. Kids are cruel but the kids at her school have a special knack for bullying. Her green hair and pointed ears only add fuel to their abuse. Having a witch for a Mom didn’t help either. Literally. When she makes a wish and blows out the candles on her 10th birthday, the unthinkable happens. Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. When her wish goes awry, Oddly’s Aunt takes her back to her home in Fignation. When Oddly Read More »
When Harley Grimes, the man responsible for Sophia Deveraux’s ruined voice, comes back into town to reclaim the dwarf who escaped him so many years ago, he does not realize that hurting those who belong to the Spider is not good for your health. Desperate to save Sophia, Gin will go to extreme lengths to stop Grimes and all those who are helping him. The problem is Grimes is not a foe to be underestimated, and Gin may have bitten off more than even she can handle. Read More »
A boys’ night on the town quickly turns into something a bit more dangerous when your ex happens to be the most infamous assassin in Ashland. Owen Grayson, still nursing a broken heart over the state of his relationship with Gin Blanco, cannot figure out how to apologize and make things right between he and Gin. Read More »
*This review may contain spoilers from previous novels in the series.
In a valiant effort to perk up assassin extraordinaire The Spider, aka Gin Blanco, her foster brother Finn Lane has convinced Gin to attend an exclusive gala at the Briartop museum, where all of the late and unlamented Mab Monroe’s estate treasure will be displayed. Gin is still hurting from the fallout of Widow’s Web and Owen’s rejection, and this gala is all part of Finn’s plan to push the two together to talk things out. Sadly, this is Ashland and nothing is ever simple. Gin even has to step in when a robbery takes place while she and Finn are shopping for a dress, but at least she realizes that red is her color. Read More »
Gigi is surrounded by supernaturals, including her sister, who is a vampire. So she thinks nothing of wanting to be an intern for the Council. It’s great experience and has a great benefits package once she gets past her probationary period. But, her boss is a little upset with her due to a boyfriend misunderstanding. And that makes for a very tense workplace. Then, she gets attacked in the parking lot by a vampire who once kissed her and she almost thought she had made up. Read More »
When her grandmother dies, Nola is sent to Half Moon Hollow by her family to retrieve the elements which will keep her family full of magic and healing. She has to keep her mission a secret from her fiance, who thinks she is in Boston. She has to avoid being attracted to her hunky neighbor, Jed, who seems to have secrets of his own. And she has to work with the local vampires to find the artifacts before anyone else does. Because if she does not find them, the consequences for her family and her village in Ireland will be dire. Read More »
Jane Yellowrock may finally be up against a foe she cannot beat. Son of Darkness, the monster that Leo Pellissier had chained up in his basement, has escaped and is wreaking havoc in New Orleans. The humans of the city are ready to gather their pitchforks and torches, the witches are making their own moves, and the European contingent of vampires have gone Read More »
Nat is one of the marked-people whose eyes are a different color, who bear some kind of mark on their body and possess some kind of power. Not accepted in society, the marked are either executed or shipped off to government facilities where they are studied and used.
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