In the Kingdom of Yorh, magic is fading.Fantastic creatures vanish and once-caring people turn to fear and mistrust as a mundane alternate reality replaces their enchanted one.Even the king has fallen into a state of funk so deep that no bard, jester, or wizard can restore his spirits. Desperate to save her father, the most excellent Princess Jessica decrees to marry any man who can entertain him and lift his curse.Galendor dreams of becoming a legendary bard, but h...

‘the CULL - Bloodline’ is a new, fast-paced and highly original take on vampire lore.No fangs; no morphing into bats; just adrenaline-pumping fury as two female Federal agents encounter the unimaginable.Amy Bree’s reckless actions result in death and her dismissal from the FBI.A visit from a mysterious priest propels her back into the fray, as she is partnered with an ex-spy, with fearsome computer skills, and tasked to hunt down the serial killer k...

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new pachycephalosaurs and ankylosaurs, several kinds of theropods (including a new genus of oviraptor and a new ...

Katie and Amy are back!In ‘the CULL - Bloodstone’ the trouble is intense.Two new enemies emerge as the relationship between Amy and the ‘new’ Katie evolves in unexpected ways.Katie is searching for answers; a new ally may help in her quest.Amy finds herself taking on a powerful adversary without the help of her partner.An old nemesis returns in an unforeseen twist in...

Gates's characters, young or old or neither, are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living - or assisted-dying - facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into ...

The next action-packed thriller from the author of Night Hush and Bait*…*On a secret assignment for MI-5, British SAS soldier Trevor Carswell is deep undercover with The Philosophy of Bedlam, a home-grown anarchist group responsible for several museum bombings. He's on the brink of unearthing their motives when Scotland Yard foils their latest attack. Desperate to escape, the Bedlamites take civilian hostages—among them, a woman Trevor never expected to see again....

Trained to protect against all danger, a professional bodyguard can provide all the muscle a woman needs. But when their hearts are on the line, love is the riskiest business . . .Someone to Watch Over MeFormer child star Sierra Blake is making a stunning Hollywood comeback-and attracting a scary amount of attention. When her home is vandalized and her safety threatened, she knows it's time to bring in the professionals. But from the moment she sets eyes on...

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned … especially a dead one holding a grudge.Back on Deadwood’s list of usual suspects, Violet Parker is hip deep in wild frights and fired-up females. After juggling bitter threats, haunted buildings, and vengeful ghosts, the last thing she needs is a pair of bullheaded detectives trying to pin another murder on her tail.Can Violet find the real killer before she ends up behind bars? Or worse, on a slab at the morgue.

"Nothing good ever happens at the butt-crack of dawn. No doubt, the headless corpse on the autopsy table in front of me would agree."—Violet ParkerReal estate agent Violet "Spooky" Parker stumbles upon a body-part theft ring at the local funeral parlor and suspects her caustic coworker has a hand in it—or maybe a foot. Can Violet discover what's in the crates that the crooks are sneaking out of the mortuary in the dark of night? Or will she end up in one of them herself—in pieces?

Six months after her lover died in an arsonist's blaze, firefighter Lora Spade calls in the FBI's elite Serial Service Division to track the elusive killer. When Special Agent Kenton Lake is lured into a violent inferno, Lora pulls him to safety and is stunned—not by the fire, but by her own searing attraction to Kent. For the first time in months, she longs for something other than vengeance.Kenton's interest in Lora should be purely professional. But one fleeting kiss and he can'...

Molly Appleby has promised her new husband that their honeymoon will be trouble-free—specifically, no sleuthing. Unfortunately, trouble seems to follow Molly wherever she goes, even to England.After a glorious week in London, the newlyweds have escaped the city to visit Molly's great-aunt in the quaint English village of Marlow Crossing. The setting is idyllic, as beautiful and serene as Molly could hope for, but as the senior staff writer for Collector's Weekly knows, app...

Get ready for more laughs, sizzle, and sleuthing in this fourth Deadwood mystery from author Ann Charles!One dead body, one century-old haunted opera house, one zombie musical … one pissed-off detective—will Violet "Spooky" Parker keep her tail out of trouble, or will she end up as one of Deadwood's walking dead?