Charley Davidson sees dead people, which makes sense since
she's the Grim Reaper. She serves as a bright, shimmering
portal through which they pass, except if their death comes
from unnatural causesβ like murder. Then, the dead people
often want justice. And Charley, part-time private
investigator and part Read more...
The Order of Deacons protects the living from geist
possession. The Order works in pairs, a sensitive who
perceives the threat and an active who does the fighting.
After an injury to her husband and partner, Sorcha Faris,
one of the Order's most powerful actives, is partneredβ at
least Read more...
Laney Alexander has a surprise waiting for her as she
begins her sophomore year at college. Tall and gorgeous,
the new guy, Oliver Knight, captivates her as soon as she
lays eyes on him. They have all the same classes, and he
even lives in the same apartment complex. She Read more...
Readers first met Celia Graves in Blood Song, the
first book in a terrific urban fantasy series from Cat
Adams. A vampire bite during a bodyguard job turned her into
an abomination, and she's having a hard time coming to terms
with her new lifestyle. Now in Read more...
The Derai came to Haarth through a portal from beyond the
stars. In so doing, they created the Wall of Night, a
rugged mountain range that alone stands between the rest
of Haarth and the Darkswarm, longtime enemies who followed
the Derai. And the Derai alone keep the Darkswarm from Read more...
"If there was a God, he would have stopped me." This is
the note left in a shoebox by serial killer Galileo after
killing more than 10 police, a little dog, and a man who
noticed the body of a dead bum (set as a trap to lure his
victims Read more...
Chloe Pinter works at the Chosen Child Adoption Agency as
director of its domestic program, matching families with
children of birth mothers who don't plan to keep their
babies for whatever reason. She has an album of happy
pictures of herself with beaming new parents and the babes
they Read more...
The bulk of historical fiction features heroines in the
upper-class describing the ton, their balls, and the loves
and losses of dukes and ladies; or the trials and
tribulations of life at court. Erica Eisdorfer has penned
a unique tale from the perspective of a wet nurse named
Susan Read more...
In EMILY HUDSON, Melissa Jones explores how a spirited
girl fits and/or doesn't fit into mid 19th-century
society. Orphaned and sent to boarding school where she
was asked to leave because of dubious behavior, Emily
Hudson becomes an unwanted guest at her uncle's home in
Newport Read more...
Readers familiar with Jane Eyre will enjoy finding
out what remains the same and what differences Libby
Sternberg has infused into her new novel, SLOANE HALL, a
retelling of the old favorite with a modern twist.
The story primarily takes place in 1929, when silent movies
were giving Read more...
The friendship between shy Mariella Lingwood and her
wild-child cousin, Rosa, lies at the heart of this novel
which takes place during the Crimean war. The war, fought
between the Russian empire and Western Allies during the
mid-nineteenth century, touches each girl
differently. Rosa, who has a need Read more...
The appearance of dragons in a fantasy novel usually
brings visions of the Dragonriders of Pern by Anne
McCaffrey or other similar series in which dragons play
heroic roles. In THE ADAMANTINE PALACE, Stephen Deas'
debut novel and the first in the Memory of Flames trilogy,
dragons are mean, vengeful Read more...
With so many authors writing paranormal romances these
days, sometimes I feel like I've read one, so I've read
them all. Then I start a series that takes my breath away,
and I know that sometimes you have to read a lot of them
to find the gems Read more...
Fans already know Cat Adams as the writing team of C.T.
Adams and Cathy Clamp who have written the well-loved
Tales of the Sazi and Thrall series. BLOOD SONG, the first
in the new Blood Singer series, is a terrific story with a
unique and well-drawn bodyguard Read more...
An accountant, Kristin Montgomery understands the logic of
numbers, so it's easy to understand why her first response
to the news that she's a fairy godmother is sheer
disbelief. Lily, Rose and Hyacinth, her three aunts in
feeling albeit not officially, give her a wand, tell her
she Read more...
Juliet Capelletti dreams of marrying someone she loves,
but the reality of the arranged marriage planned for her
falls far short of the mark. Her father will partner with
Jacopo Strozzi, the youngest son of the second most
powerful family in Florence, to stabilize his business,
and as part of Read more...
Lindsey Davis's historical novel, REBELS AND TRAITORS,
explores the British Civil War from both Royalist and
Parliament points of view, showing readers its impact on
both sides and on the rich, poor and those that fall
somewhere in between. The prologue details the execution
of Charles I in flowing Read more...
Little Bee fled Nigeria at age 14 after men came and shot
her people and burned her village. She
spent two years in a United Kingdom detention Center
before being released albeit without papers. She learned
to speak English from reading newspapers. Unlike the girls
with whom she leaves the Read more...
Fifteen-year-old Eve Lockhart studied and planned for a
long time before she performed the Winter Rose spell that
would give her a glimpse of her one true love. But
everything went wrong. She never saw her true love and
that night a fire in the house for which Read more...
The Arameri rule the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms as the
world in which this tale takes place is known. But the
patriarch is dying and an heir must be chosen. He has two
options in his brother's two children but calls forth a
third from the north, Yeine, the daughter Read more...
At the risk of sounding like everyone else, I do treat myself to quite a few books, much easier now that I've found a job, and sometimes it's just a nice long run with my yellow lab.
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