Never piss off a daughter of the Morrigan, especially in a town like Nightshade.Nightshade's a weird town. It has a large Pagan population and a lot of fundamentalist Christians. Usually, they get along well. Then the attacks started.It began with assaults. A Christian had satanic imagery burned into her. A Pagan had a cross pounded into him. Assaults became rapes, then murders. Each side blames the other.Detective Tiernan Dempsey turns to two of his friends for hel...

Khosa Nahk―a term from the Southern Badlands that means "extinction-level event."Twelve years ago, Aleena Kurrin, gifted by the gods as a warrior, escaped the gladiator arena in the Southern Badlands, leaving a trail of death in her wake and handing the slavers their biggest humiliation. They were unable to take vengeance because they never knew where she lived―until now.The fact that the bounty on her head is the largest in Badland history guarantees every bounty hunter in...

They killed the witch's parents. They killed the witch's teachers. But they failed to kill the witch herself.Religious zealots want to exterminate magic and hunt down talented magic users like Baezha. A group of sorcerers dedicated to destructive magic consider her a dangerous rival and want her dead. Both factions got magic and sorcerers outlawed in her hometown. And in their efforts to get Baezha, they killed everyone she loved and drove her away.Now Baezha has returned. ...

None who have gone to the Shingora ever returned … until now.Despite the danger, the trade guilds sent an expedition to the Shingora, believing the island was a wellspring of natural resources. Only one man returned, as a gibbering madman. Now the guilds are sending a new expedition, three hundred strong and armed for war, to search for any survivors … but on the Shingora, everything kills. Among the expedition are Aleena, gifted by the gods in war, and her sister Baezha, gifted by...

Everyone thought the enemy was exterminated decades ago. Everyone was wrong.Aleena, a talented warrior, and Baezha, a powerful sorceress, weren't looking for any trouble, but it found them anyway. A royal family becomes a target—the Shrouded Masks, able to take the form of any they choose, look to assassinate the royal family and sow distrust. And the women have only a few days to stop them.But the king holds secrets, and the Shrouded Masks have a darker purpose than blood ...

The problem with trying to trap the Death Queens is you run the risk of succeeding.Over a year ago, Aleena Kurrin, divinely gifted warrior, and her adoptive sister, Baezha Ambrose, divinely gifted sorceress, faced the unnatural monsters of the Shingora – the Eighth Hell. The sisters triumphed, but their victory felt hollow, their souls scarred by guilt – though they saved many people, they failed others, something for which they cannot forgive themselves. Making things worse is the...

A dragon shapeshifter and a healer with power over the earth fight a corrupt empire in this thrilling and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance.Magic is outlawed in the Krael Empire and punishable by death. Born with the gift of earth magic, the free trader Halani keeps her dangerous secret closely guarded. When her uncle buys a mysterious artifact, a piece of bone belonging to a long-dead draga, Halan...

"When the foreigners confronted Sterren in Ethshar of the Spices he was uneasy; when they all but abducted him, taking him to an obscure kingdom in the south, he knew he was in a terrible predicament.A predicament some might actually find appealing ù he was by heredity the Ninth Warlord of Semma, least of the small kingdoms; he was a noble, and his rank afforded him material privileges, even in a place as insignificant and obscure as Semma. But the office also carried certain terri...

Barlo guards a secret. Only his best friend Iarion shares it, along with the rest of the Light Elves.No one else can ever know.Barlo's secret keeps him apart from other dwarves. Even his own family. Memories of another time haunt him. He longs for a way to claim his identity. To be himself.…A hero of Lasniniar, capable of leaving Dwarvenhome to go on adventures. (With Iarion, of course.)But his secret ...

A woman with the gift to speak to the dead—and the assassin pursuing her—may be the only chance a crumbling empire has of holding back true evil, in this electrifying fantasy romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance.Siora has been on the run for longer than she cares to remember, from her past and her gift. Born with the ability to see and speak to ghosts, she has heard their desperate pleas as an otherworldly predator stalks the ...

Ever wonder what could bring a demon to the gates of heaven?Aliisza and Kaanyr Vhok have returned from their attempted invasion of Menzoberranzan and turned their sights on Sundabar. But before she can complete a mission in that beseiged city, Aliisza finds herself in the one place a demon would never want to go, no matter how sure she is of her wits and cunning: the very heart of Celestia!Join everyone's favorite succubus and her half-fiend boyfriend, introduced in the War...

"A promising start to an epic, mythical adventure, with great characters and solid world building." –Rosemary's Books BrisbaneAlaezdar thought he had found a perfect home in a small farming community of Valewood. Here he hoped he could bury his past and hide from his mercenary guild that has a death price on his head. His hopes are shattered when an evil sorceress, a wizard, and his goblin-like bloodthirsty followers raid the village and kidnap a teenage g...