Maurin Kincaide certainly has led an interesting life-from unloved troubled child to Regulator for the Council (the collective heads of the supernatural community in Salem) and daughter of the Lord of the Wild Hunt-she has been dealt a complicated hand. Now, when things seem to be calming down, Maurin finds herself the object of an assassination order. To complicate matters, it seems the Dark Court is also hunting Maurin, and her father, magic dog, and boyfriend have all disappeared. Read More »

Once upon a crime family, there was a princess named Penelope. She is the only daughter of the head of one of the three crime families controlling the black market for organ transplants. However, the best that money can buy is not always enough. Tragically, Penny Landlow has an autoimmune disorder that causes her to bruise with little pressure. Her family has always shielded her from the business and kept her protected on the estate like a bird in a gilded cage. Read More »

Lies Ripped Open is Steve McHugh’s latest installment about his hero Nate Garrett, known for many years as the Hellequin. Nate is forced yet again to face his past, and living demons from that past, including his former father figure, Merlin.

Back in the late 1800s Nate uncovered a conspiracy of wanton murder instigated in part to preserve a beloved figure of ancient Camelot. He thought they had laid it to rest, but when he is called on the scene of a hostage crisis in modern London, he realizes that his former enemies are still very much alive and have put his loved ones, and the future of Read More »

When The Loss opens, forty-four years after the events of book one, The Rise, the Mikaelson siblings run New Orleans, creating new vampires to increase their ranks, rebuilding the city after the devastating hurricane summoned by the witches in 1722. While Elijah and Rebekah have worked to solidify their power and make their home comfortable, Klaus has had a completely different and secret agenda-to somehow bring back to life his beloved Vivianne who died in the siege of their home at the end of the previous book. Read More »

Spell Blind, the excellent first installment in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, opens with former-cop-turned-private-investigator Justis, or Jay as his friends call him, on the trail of a missing young woman. After successfully rescuing the girl, later that evening Jay gets a call from his former partner, Kona, a close friend who also happens to be the only person he has ever told the important truth about his identity as a weremyste, or magic-user-the reason behind his leaving the force. It seems that the murder of a senator’s daughter has all the signs of the Blind Angel Killer, the very case the two had been working together when Jay left the department. Kona feels Jay’s magical skills may prove useful in tracking down the killer, and asks for his assistance. Read More »

Geologist Petra Dee arrives in the small town of Temperance, Wyoming, for a job in Yellowstone National Park, taking soil samples for the U.S. Geological Survey. Mike, the park ranger who picks her up at the airport and drives her to her ramshackle rental trailer in a desolate area, tries to convince Petra she should go to the park lodge rather than stay there, but she tells him she will be fine, especially as the less-than-ideal accommodation represents an improvement over the oil rig she just left. Mike does insist that Petra needs protection, and leaves her one of his personal firearms. Read More »

Kidnappings, weddings, hellhounds, and contractions – Eighth Grave After Dark seriously has everything. Charlotte “Charley” Davidson, A.K.A. the grim reaper, and her son-of-Satan husband, Reyes, are expecting their own little bundle any day now. Cooped up in an abandoned convent for months while the prophesied daughter incubates, everyone is getting a little jumpy. The whole gang is here-the dead, the living, and the in between-solving a few problems while they wait for the big day.
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The residents of Midnight, Texas are an odd bunch. They are a small community and outsiders do not feel very welcome. Being off the beaten path helps keep their secrets safe. When Manfred takes a trip to visit a client in the big city, chaos ensues. He sees one of the other residents of his little town there, and then somehow dead bodies turn up-his client and the people Olivia was meeting with. Manfred will need to prove he is innocent of both murder and robbery so that the little sleepy town can return to normal and its inhabitants continue to hide their secrets.
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The third book in the Twenty Palaces series delivers a gritty knockout of a novel to the reader. Ray Lilly, Wooden Man for the Twenty Palaces Society, does not get much of a respite after the soul-destroying work he had to perform to contain a deadly Predator from the Empty Spaces, (featured in book two, Game of Cages) a few weeks before this book begins. Read More »

Cheryl Erikson stumbled into the life of Hunting after her father’s brutal murder by a vampire. She continues to do it, because she’s good at it, and it gives her a sense of purpose to destroy the creatures who prey on innocent humans in her city of Dallas. Now, she is wondering what is the point of it all. She is thinking of getting out of the life, so she can have the normal existence of a twenty-two-year old. But first, she wants to stop the flow of Plast, a deadly drug that seems to be related to the vampire activities in Dallas. Read More »

River Weston had designed the best video game of her career, called Hollow Man. It allowed users to project an image of themselves into a dangerous situation, making it seem as though they are present. Her technology was amazing, and with the breakdown of social guidelines and the world in chaos, it seemed that maybe River’s game could be useful on many levels. River’s Fae magic was the secret addition, the added touch that helped make her program so successful, but the program revealed a small glitch, producing a buzzing sound that foretold the demise of the user. Read More »

No matter how hard she tries or how much she denies the truth, Wendy will never be just an average teenager. Truth is, she can see the ghosts of those who have not passed on, and it is her job to send them into the Light. But when her mother suddenly falls into a coma, Wendy is not so anxious to continue reaping ghosts. Her only goal is to find her mother’s soul and return it to her body before it is too late. Read More »

She had not expected anything more than a well-deserved night out with her husband, but when a bizarre accident leaves her a widow in a coma, Jenny Sanders is forced to rethink her life and everyone in it. When she wakens from the coma, nothing is right. She is edgy, has no appetite and is weirdly sensitive to the sun she once loved. But the biggest shock of all is still to come. Read More »

When Elijah made his first appearance on The Vampire Diaries in Season Two, viewers immediately became enthralled with the concept of the Original vampires-enough so that the often vicious but always intriguing family got their own show. The Originals: The Rise, first in a trilogy, provides a background for the trio’s early years in New Orleans. Read More »

Tina Clancy is out partying on a Friday night when all hell seems to break loose in the Zone. It’s already considered a freak area where the buildings glow blue, the local gargoyles move around, and the people seem to harbor some strange talents all due to the local Acme company flooding the area in the past with a chemical spill. Read More »

Every Breath You Take, the excellent third installment in the enjoyable Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire series, finds our intrepid heroine and her friends up to their typical ghostly good deeds-haunting a human guilty of murder until she confesses. After accomplishing her task, Jensen receives a visit from Amanda Lee, her human psychic friend/cohort, who reports that a ghost-hunting team has shown up in the forest, and their topic of interest-Jensen. Read More »

When her little sister dies at the hands of Father Wisdom, Self-Abnegation in the Service of the Lord believes it to be her fault and leaves the only home she has ever known. Raised in the compound of New Harmony, there is so much of the world she has not yet experienced. Everything about this new world is either wonderful or shocking. The lights, sounds and even the smells are all overwhelming and foreign. Read More »

Alphas Dare and Silver may have created a couple of miracles, starting with uniting multiple wolf packs, and co-ruling with a female Alpha. However, not every wolf is happy with their leadership, and Silver is about to be tested, not merely as the Alpha, but as a step-mother, and by humanity, when her sanity is tenuous, at best. Silver must hold the packs together until Dare returns from Alaska, and every cockroach that can crawl out of the woodwork does. Read More »

Infinity Bell, the terrific second installment in the absorbing House Immortal series, picks up immediately where its predecessor concluded, with Matilda, her brother, Quinten, the wounded galvanized, Abraham, and her friend, Neds, on the run from the ruling Houses in the wake of two murders being blamed on them. Read More »

Working as a belly-dancer in a burlesque bar in the poisoned-magic city of Pittsburgh suits cursed-jinni Lyla just fine, especially since the clock on her curse (a thousand years) nears its end. Unfortunately for Lyla, one night at work, just a week away from her curse being broken, returning her to human, a magi spots her in the club, chases after her when she flees, and successfully binds her to him. Given that Lyla must be unbound to a magi at the time her curse expires, she finds herself none too pleased with having a new Master. Read More »