Catching this Tyger will take a lot more than a net. Mirabelle Hearton's time is running out. As punishment for crimes in Leogard, she has two months to return to Port Valor to capture a dangerous mercenary called The Tyger. Failure means an excruciating death from an irreversible curse. But the hard part is facing Lysander Devlin again, the man she almost married ten years ago. Mirabelle must make a choice-catch The Tyger and redeem her sins, or give into feelings long buried and risk losing everything.
The title, Midnight's Edge, comes from the time of night where the veil between the living and the dead disappears and, for a brief moment in time, the dead can return to the mortal world and live again. It is a story of a vile, evil man named Jeremy Wickcliff, whose wife, Lucy, arranged his death years ago to save the town from his wrath of destruction. In present time, he has been plotting from the spirit realm, a place of purgatory, to return to the mortal realm to seek revenge on those who wronged him and reclaim the life ripped away from him.
Neither human stripper Sundown nor virgin were-halfbreed Serena knew how their futures would change when catalyst vampire Devlin Dalcon walked into their lives. Sundown was just looking to party and forget her tragic past; Serena was hoping for excitement and love, to be swept away from the dull routine of her short-order cook job and solitary life. Will these very different women finally face their fears in time to seize their own dreams of happiness?
In the midst of chaos and darkness, Elliyar and his companions fight a losing battle to defend their homeland, the fallen elven kingdom of Andalaya. They fight against a dangerous alliance of dark elves and human invaders. Arrows loosed from the shadows and violent ambushes characterize his people's existence. Yet the young elf, Elliyar, can't help but wonder if this meager resistance is really all that is left for them or if there is something more in store for his people. It is in this war-torn land that an ancient power, a power that was thought lost for centuries, is rediscovered, and a primal evil begins to arise once more. Will Elliyar have the strength and ability within him to protect the ones he loves, especially the beautiful Miri, and shift the course of the war?
The Tucson Kid rides into Mexico to battle an evil magician victimizing the Indians and the peasants. Weakened from wounds and his strength drained from him by a beautiful vampire, Tucson must fight the magician's army of gunmen before he faces the sorcerer himself in a battle to the death.
In Black Rose, the Tucson Kid is persuaded by a lawman to help him transport a killer and a shipment of gold through bandit territory. Unknown to the lawman, Tucson is carrying a map to a silver mine worth millions of dollars. On the journey, Tucson encounters Black Rose, a legendary outlaw queen who wants that map. Their battle over the silver mine extends across the southwest - a battle only one of them will survive.
Elizabeth Ann Rose calls the Indian reservation in southern California home, and is upset and angry when she and her family must leave and travel the road again while her daddy plays in his band and tries to become famous. She and her family live out of an old beat up station wagon traveling from one city to another. Sometimes, living in dirty old hotel rooms where mice and cockroaches are their only pets. When Beth Ann turns eleven she finds more than chocolate cake being served. Her mom serves her daddy divorce papers, takes her three children and heads out to begin a new life. In one short summer, Beth Ann's life completely changes, and she ends up in Novata, a small Northern California town. The very town that will change her life forever.
Primalocracy Flipsace 10 Testing a new Flipspace protocol, the Mockingbird travels to its most distant mission yet. Derivation Flipspace 11 The Mockingbird is again drawn to the Kuiper Belt, when a mysterious object is triggered by human discovery. may threaten the future of exo-solar exploration. Confluence Flipspace 12 The fate of the Astraeus crew is at last known. Serious questions remain as to why they disappeared. During the study of multiple life-sustaining worlds in peculiar orbits, ground support forces brought by the Mockingbird are attacked. Amid working out the nature and intent of the alien, a diplomatic dispute erupts over access to the discoveries. Colonel Ramachandra and her crew fall back on everything they've learned over the past year to understand what has brought together life from across the galaxy.
NO STRINGS ATTACHED and other romantic stories.Wedding invitations are supposed to bring a smile to your face, with thoughts of a happy occasion that two people would be joining in Holy matrimony, publicly declaring their love for each other. However, for Laura Lee, it was just confirmation that at thirty-three, she had spent all her time and efforts on her career and is still single.After finding out that her ex will be attending the same wedding, Laura Lee has three days to find herself a date. In desperation, she calls on the help of her best friend Lisa, the who's who of Nottingham's eligible bachelors. Discovering that Nottingham's most rich and handsome men find her icy, Laura has to take her only option, the man she most despises, her work colleague, Adam Ford.
To get a college education Jeff receives a scholarship with the stipulation he must spend five years teaching on an Indian reservation. Although he would like to stay at home on the Lac du Flambeau reservation in Northern Wisconsin, he is sent to a Blackfoot Reservation in Montana. As soon as he crosses into South Dakota during his travel to Montana, Jeff experiences visions of the people who once exclusively called the region home. In addition to the visions, he receives a gift from the Great Spirit of a Blue Eagle Feather. Little does he know the significance of either the visions or the gift until he arrives on the reservation and meets the old man who can explain the meaning of both. Once all is revealed Jeff's life changes forever
Dirk Hammond, private detective, is called to the mansion of Baron Cardula. Grisly murders are sweeping San Francisco, and the Baron fears he will be next. Lured by $50,000 and the Baron's fiery daughter, Hammond agrees to take the case. The dark trail leads him to a pack of blood-thirsty vampires, a diabolical cult of devil worshipers, and in a terrifying finale he is forced to confront Evil itself.
"Find Arizopal!" With those words from his desperately ill father, fifteen year-old Griffin begins his journey to the Great Forest of Shee, a mystical place, and difficult to navigate. The Great Forest is Faerie itself and during his quest, Griffin will meet many magical and sometimes fearsome dwellers there. Befriended by some, challenged by others, Griffin finds he is not the person he thought he was. But who is he? He has to use his wits and call on new friends to figure out first, how to save his father, next, how to rescue his mother and a beautiful half-elf named Indigo. And finally, how will he keep the Great Forest itself from being destroyed?
Welcome to Elftown, populated by humans, witches and magical creatures, a town that metes out justice to offenders in an unusual manner-corporal punishment in the town square viewed by paid admission. Beautiful Mijestic lives with her two sisters under her mother's roof, who takes a stern view of misbehaviour. Lucinda often uses the infamous hairbrush to correct problems, one that Mijestic receives on a regular basis. She and her best friend, a werewolf, often come under the scrutiny of the town police. On the occasions when she's broken the law, she is placed in the town square, naked, bound and punished. The Witches Guild forbids witches to be seen in the company of warlocks and when Warlock Lorhan warlock tries seducing Mijestic, she plays a dangerous game to be with the handsome, intriguing man, who has no qualms about placing her over his knee for infractions-like being late for a date. And quite by accident, Mijestic discovers the secret of the town's existence. Welcome to Elftown.
Skylar Connelly wants to know what happened to her sister, Maia, who vanished without a trace in the Florida Keys. Unwilling to accept the authorities' dismissal of the case, she conceals her relationship to the missing girl and takes a position at Casa del Mar, a magnificent, seaside estate owned by Martin Escalle, a slick entrepreneur whose business interests, she suspects, include illegal activities. Luke White, the captain of the yacht named Calypso and Escalle's right hand man, challenges and fascinates her with his combination of surfer good looks, bad boy charm, and stiletto sharp mind, but is he also a killer? Dare she trust him? Her heart and soul will accept no less.
What would you do if you were given the skin-walker gift, the ability to change into any animal you can think of? Would you use it for great good or great evil?A friend's sister and a complete village is being terrorized by a castle full of vampires, zombies, hell hounds and a thing too feared to name. What can one Lone Werewolf possibly do to end this reign of terror?
A chain of tragic events culminating in the shattering of the magical "dream bond" between Theo and Sar turns the lovers against one another, as Ulysses attacks from all fronts, hoping to destroy Devlin for good. The return of Lash reignites the fire between he and Sar, even as he saves her daughter Elle from certain death. Finally joined under Oath, Lash, Devlin, and Sar face the storm of Ulysses's wrath, knowing it will take their combined strength and courage to save all they love from his tempest of vengeance.
Five Sam Jenkins mysteries spanning more than four decades. From his earliest foray into law enforcement, where a young Sam and his friends foil a plot to murder a Long Island union official to the police chief's most recent investigation into the brutal massacre of six hunters in the Great Smoky Mountains. Wayne Zurl takes twenty years of police experience and transforms it into five gritty stories of murder and other serious crimes against the people of New York and Tennessee.
Auctioneer Honor Horton is able to channel the past lives of her clients. Now working with Dr. Carson Ankerson, she catches glimpses of his past relationship with his best friend's wife, Rachel. However, getting entangled in Dr. Ankerson story may pose a threat to Honor's own future when she finds herself in bed with her client. Is it because of the rift with her boyfriend, Dustin, or is she channeling Rachel? Will Honor and Dustin be able to survive the havoc their indiscretions wreaked on their relationship?
With Theo facing deadly odds in a fight to the death, Sar makes a pact with Lash, agreeing to give Devlin another chance in return for Theo's life. Reforging her relationship with her handsome vampiric lover mends old wounds, even as Theo moves to regain Sar just for himself. But Devlin's old enemy Ulysses appears, taking Sar prisoner and burning Devlin badly in a surprise attack. Rescued at the eleventh hour by Lash, Sar nurses Dev back to health, Theo bristling at a distance. Yet Lash's own day of reckoning is here as his long life ebbs to a finale, leaving Sar to face the decision of offering him salvation, knowing that the price is her own humanity.
**Special Offer: Contact the author at nancy@melange-books.com if you purchase BAIT SHOP BLUES. Nancy will send you (upon providing mailing address) a personally made beach/tote bag. Finding love shouldn't be so hard... What does a successful businesswoman born and bred in Chicago want with half-ownership of a quaint bait shop in northern Minnesota, willed to her by her grandfather? And how will the reclusive half-owner of the shop convince the woman to sell out her half to him? For Cassandra Thompson, a Marilyn Monroe look-alike who's recently been dumped by her second fiancé in two years, it could mean a well-needed change in life. For Leif Halverson, a handsome man of Ojibwa extraction, and co-owner of the shop, it could mean disaster-like falling in love. Leif is far from happy about this city woman invading his territory so he challenges her to a wilderness survival contest where the winner takes all.
In Lone Horseman, a young woman, Nora Eddington, narrates the exciting saga of her meeting with the Tucson Kid on a cattle drive she was taking with her father from Nevada to Arizona. A band of outlaws want the herd, and they are willing to kill her father and his crew of drovers to get it. Nora's world is shattered when she passes through a rite of passage from girlhood to womanhood as the Tucson Kid battles to protect her, her father and their herd.
Sar and Theo move on from Sar's affair with Lash, struggling to build a new life with their werecougar son, Devon. Rebuffed, Lash resumes his solitary existence, biding his time. Ulysses lurks in the shadows launching repeated attacks on his enemy Devlin, whose darker side emerges rampant in an effort to protect those he loves. The vampire Danial prepares his dhamphir son, Theoron, for manhood, even as Ulysses delivers a last crippling blow to Devlin in his relentless quest for revenge.
While the vampire Devlin rejoices at news of his impending progeny with Sar, werecougar Theo braces for more challenges to his Ranked title, content that after Sarelle has the dhamphir child Devlin will be out of their lives forever. Yet when The Lust reappears, Sar's world again turns upside down as old hatreds make themselves known, resulting in a steamy affair with the weresnake Lash, a new friendship with the werecoyote Serena, and the severing of Sar from the last remains of her old human life in favor of a new Paradise with Devlin.
Passionate embryologist, Savarna, is in a complicated relationship, with two different women, when she is told that she MUST have a baby. Her conservative East Indian American parents are desperate for her to conceive, in spite of her "not being married". They insist that she is the last in line of a great spiritual lineage. In the process of choosing her lover and having doubts about her ability, or desire to conceive, Savarna begins to question the necessity of biology and lineage within her parents' beliefs and becomes forever fascinated with the process of conception and the definition of family. Threads of Dan Brown (DaVinci Code), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Sister of My Heart) and The L Word (TV series) flavor this colorful tale of awakening, romance and mystery.
No one understands the fury of the ocean like Zoey. Ten years ago, she lost her leg in a shark attack and she has yet to accept her prosthetic limb. She ventures to a bonfire at the beach, mesmerized by the ooean's power, until a wave sweeps her into the salty water. Zoey believed mermaids were creatures of legend, but it's hard to ignore the tail that's suddenly appeared, or the sense of finally being whole. She abandons her life on land for the sea, searching for who she really is. What she discovers is a kingdom as well as a royal father she never knew existed. Settling into her role as a mermaid princess, she learns her family is under attack. Raging storms threatening coastal cities, and sea levels rise, endangering the lives of everyone she loves. Determined to stop the strange phenomena, Zoey becomes caught up in the race to track down what, or who, is responsible for the catastrophic events. But, Zoey possesses another secret, one born of legend and more powerful than any mer or human can imagine.
They say the holidays are murder and for John Seraph it's the truth. In this eight story anthology John deals with mysteries & murders before & after the events in Family Ties, Family Plots, & the upcoming Family Education. Killer Holidays is an eight-story anthology where John deals with a headless motorcyclist in All Hallow's Evil; a murdered co-worker in The Fight Before Christmas. In Fashion Statement John must clear his sister of a murder charge, then a mysterious secret admirer pursues John in Hearts Afire. John fights hard to stop a Northern Irish terrorist in Caught Red Handed, then he deals with someone snatching Easter baskets in It's Rabbit Season. In No Child Left Behind John's forced to rescue the girl, who could have been his daughter from a pedophile, and finally John looks at his life, the direction it has taken, and where it is headed in Reflection. Plus a Christmas poem, The Fight Before Christmas written by the hero of the anthology, John Seraph himself!
Brett Taylor has kept a dark secret his entire life-the fact that he is a shape-shifter. Now, his strange ability has reached a climax. The shifting from man to animal has become unstoppable, and a near tragedy unfolds as the shape of a wolf consumes Brett beneath the moonlight. The team must intervene to help him. Tahoe Manoa, the Native American seer who aided Leah Leeds at Cedar Manor, has special knowledge of what is happening to Brett. He'd heard the "skinwalker" legends since childhood. But can he find Brett before his vision of a bloodstained wolf comes to pass?
If you've ever been attacked by a large man-shaped wolf, or perhaps you're just interested in the lifestyle of the Werewolf, then this book's for you. As a changeling myself, I wanted to learn more about my new change of life. This took a lot of time and research, and now I pass what I have learned on to you.WARNING: This book has bite to it. Read it if you dare!
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