(Reah, I know you're not happy with us right now, but we didn't order the firebombing. RAA moved without consulting us.)(And I'm supposed to believe that?)(Reah, you're being disrespectful with a superior.) I didn't answer him. If he knew how disrespectful I wanted to be-I was staring at Xiri's bones, after all. I sobbed. (Reah? Reah, are you still there?)(You be respectful, Vice-Director, the next time a friend's bones lie beneath your hand.) I cut off the communic...

Eleven days. Eleven days it took, for me to become vampire. The beating had revived old nightmares and I only wished to die. I'd shaken my head and muttered no through lips so bloodied and swollen it was difficult to say the word. He'd asked me if I wanted to live. I said no. He asked me if I wanted to be strong and live forever. I said no again, with difficulty. "Wrong answer," he whispered and cut into my wrists.In the beginning, the One created the Three. Only the One was more p...

Cormac Flynn, a raven shapeshifter, is ancient, Celtic, and cursed.Arianne Leone, a mountain lion shapeshifter, owns an art gallery in Deep Ellum, a popular tourist attraction and haven for musicians for decades.Together, they are charged with guarding the one who bears the Hermit's Stone, an ancient artifact that has held worlds together-and kept them separate-for eons.Possession of the stone falls to Ari's friend and art student, nineteen-year-old Nico Garcia. Whe...

"I agree to pay Sergio Velenci one million pounds if the female takes less than nine days to fully turn."Lissa's life as a vampire begins on the day her husband is removed from life support. Turned by rogues who wager her life, Lissa is running from her maker who is determined to kill her, hunted by the Council who has branded her a rogue and blackmailed by werewolves, who utilize her newly-developed talents for their own gain.

"Belen?" I blinked up at him. As usual, he was shining brightly, although he'd dampened it so I might look at him."Lissa, this is certainly the beginning." He gazed around us. At leveled homes and devastated bodies.I understood what he said. All too clearly. It had been my suspicion, but I was too afraid to voice it aloud, as if saying it might make it real. It didn't need my words to make it real. It had already become real. The God Wars were upon us. "It'll only get worse...

"Ashe, no matter how hard he tried, couldn't produce a single scale, feather, talon or patch of fur."In the paranormal community of Cloud Chief, Oklahoma, Ashe Evans is a failure. Born to a shapeshifting mother and a vampire father, he should be passing his Transformational Arts classes easily. Sadly, Ashe can't seem to become anything other than himself. Principal Billings, a werewolf, is threatening to send Ashe to a human school if he doesn't transform soon. Ashe's troubles are ...

I got out five years ago.Untalented, they said.In other words, they didn't know what to do with me, and murder usually leaves a mess.I understood messes. Saw too many of them in my dreams. That's why I live where I do, still in their shadow but outside their walls. The conditions, of course, are that I have to move every five years, check in now and then and never, ever, talk about them to anyone.It was time to move.Cloud Dust is a secret, government...

A full moon hung over the Mississippi's dark waters, meaning this was the time for hunters to arrive and take whatever they could capture. A device would be clamped to the backs of our necks and we'd never be able to shift back to human again. It was how they justified their enslavement of us; that we were only animals instead of sentient humans.The Krelk had killed more than two-thirds of the human population, too, but they made the excuse that they'd thought them animal as well, ...

It was on every news station in the country-and on many foreign news outlets as well. Attack at Wedding Leaves at Least Fourteen Dead, Many More Injured, the headlines proclaimed.The wedding was an outdoor affair, on a beach with the Gulf of Mexico in the background. In all, seventy-two were injured, and the body count rose to seventeen. Local hospitals were filled with bleeding attendees, and, at one point, the bride, her bloodied white wedding dress cut away and spilling onto the...

"Reah, this is Commander Aris." Bel moved aside once we were inside the spacious office, and I received my first look at the outpost Commander. He stared at me for moments as I stood before him. I was so frightened, I was afraid I'd burst into tears. Aris was a lion of a man with thick, shoulder-length dark-gold hair, swept back from his forehead. He didn't stand as his rank dictated, otherwise I think he would have dwarfed Bel, whom I thought was quite tall. The Commander's shoulders were...

SherraWe belong to the King--those of us with the black roses tattooed on our left wrist, directly over our pulse. As if every beat of our hearts reminds us that we are not our own.All the women with the fire burning within them are culled, tattooed and taken to the warriors, to provide more energy. Energy that the warriors will then use to defeat the barbarians from the ocean of sand. Women with black roses on their wrists are emptied of their power by those warriors, who ...

My name is Adam Chessman.I am Chief Enforcer for the Vampire Council.In nearly two hundred fifty years, I've seen just about everything.Until I was proven very, very wrong.The peace treaty between vampires and werewolves is relatively new and extremely fragile. After a werewolf's body turns up in a Texas coastal swamp, drained of blood and with fang marks on its neck, Adam Chessman, the Vampire Council's Chief Enforcer, is dispatched to investigate.T...