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In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil.... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.

Now that Inamorato is the new Lord of Hell, its only a matter of time before the situation on Earth takes a turn for the worse. With Wesley Alban being the most powerful Warlock in the world, the task of dealing with Inamorato falls to him. There’s no way to stop Hell’s new ruler. It’ll take magic more powerful than anything even Wes possesses. It’ll take a genie. But there are no true genies left, and no active lamps. There is, however, Deja. Wesley’s lover and former lamp-bound genie.

Marvin works three jobs, toiling to achieve his dream of flipping property. A strange man stalks him at his morning diner job, becoming a regular. When he follows him home from his night shift, Marvin knows something isn't right. The next day, he is offered a magical device. The emblem confirms that the paranormal is real, that people can partially shift into animals, and that Marvin isn't normal. As his life enters a whirlwind adventure, Marvin has to adapt to becoming something more than he ever imagines: an Apex Shifter.

Former nun Sister Monica Barrett is the reluctant keeper of a stone that holds immense dark magick. She’d abandon it if she could, but it’s become attached to her—literally—and there are five more like it in the hands of powerful, corrupt Mages determined to control the very fabric of the world. Even if they destroy that world in the process. Fortunately, Monica’s foes haven’t been able to find the one thing they need to help them tap into the stones’ powers—a mysterious being named Methuselah, who brought the fragments to Earth millennia before. Unfortunately, neither has Monica.

With tensions between the magic and non-magic communities already at a breaking point, Aviva goes undercover on a high-profile murder case that could shatter the city’s fragile peace. As if that weren’t enough pressure, she uncovers a deadly connection to demons—and her own past. But why have one code red crisis when you could have two? Enter the Shepherd: a shadowy figure convinced a vampire breeding ritual is a good idea. Spoiler alert: it’s not. And forget juggling stolen moments with Ezra between supernatural smackdowns.

Murderous ghosts, crazy cultists, and a sexy cop looking to lock him up. Darius Kane got more than he bargained for when he became the Gold Coast's first paranormal investigator. Hired to solve the murder of a local mechanic, Darius soon discovers the victim is just one in a series of suspicious deaths, but is there really a ghost at the heart of the case?

Ne ratez pas le prochain tome de la série Les Sorcières de New York! Après avoir emménagé chez Valen avec Shay, je pensais pouvoir enfin me reposer, passer du temps nue avec mon géant au milieu de cette ville effervescente. Mais quand quelqu'un trouve un corps décharné dans le restaurant de Valen, je comprends que répit n’est pas encore d’actualité. Et la situation ne fait que s’empirer ! D'autres corps sont découverts, et un enquêteur du Conseil Gris commence à fouiller l'Hôtel Twilight ainsi que le restaurant de Valen. Les preuves pointent vers mon géant.

Mari is grieving. As a rogue witch, she lives a vagabond life until she’s pulled to Pharos Hills, inheriting her cousin’s life. Niko has a reputation. A rogue werewolf; he’s sexy, charismatic and well known for hardly ever going to bed alone. Mason is a drifter. Arriving in Pharos Hills, the vampire comes to check on his friend and make amends for old wounds. Drawn to both men for different reasons, Mari wants to hide from the growing feelings she’s developing. Missing her cousin and adjusting to new responsibilities is overwhelming.

Her midlife should be bursting with calm, not the chaos of feuding children and a rampaging dragon. Ginny Smyth's life just got traumatizingly tangled. The beleaguered 40-plus genie had enough on her plate thwarting a deranged dragon shifter from incinerating her enchanted island sanctuary. The absolute last thing she needs is for her warring children to magically appear from thin air and become the center of the perilous danger. With ominously menacing threats plunging her eclectic mix of friends into an ever-increasing torment of despair, Ginny is once again thrust into the volatile debt ...

Part genie, all badass. Can she conquer a cursed bloodline before darkness devours her soul? Hexhampton, England. Rose Thorn thrives on action. Using her unique childhood training to kick butt on the silver screen was the only path she chased until a few drops of blood ignited a derelict ancestral legacy. And when her instincts start pulling her to fae in danger, the no-nonsense beauty plunges into a bewildering battle for survival. Aided by her mysterious mini-witch cohort, Rose delves into gut-wrenching magic and treacherous sorcery. But demanding the truth about her birthright from her ...

Her midlife was meant to be tranquil, not a magical battle for survival. Ginny's forever home is being ravaged. Escalating threats are endangering the forty-plus genie's magical island sanctuary, as well as targeting the young girl she considers her daughter. Even her sentient store, crammed with dangerously enchanted artifacts, is perilously perched on the brink of mutiny. Discovering her allies are keeping ominous secrets hurls Ginny's life into chaos, and risks throwing her to the mercy of the enigmatic vampire, despite warnings from the surly talking cat to avoid him. And while her ...

Her midlife crumbled into a barren wasteland of disappointment and broken dreams. Can a mysterious shop unlock a magical destiny? Ginny Smyth's world collapsed in the wake of her husband's betrayal. The gutted homemaker is left with nothing except a one-way ticket to a strangely secret tropical island to help in her aunt's shop. But the distraught divorcée is blissfully unaware the cantankerous store is alive and besieged by supernatural invaders after its perilous artifacts. Thrown into a discombobulating dilemma where magic is real, and everything she touches could be evil, Ginny finds ...

Mitch Greyson, the werewolf of Werewolf Incorporated, hunts monsters for a living—despite being one himself. Alongside his unlikely partner Littlewing, a pint-sized sprite with an oversized attitude, Mitch is summoned to the South to tackle a vampire infestation. But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that bloodsuckers aren't the only threat. An insidious mystery lurks at the fringes of their investigation, and the locals seem hell-bent on giving Mitch the cold shoulder. With vampires on the loose, a community closing ranks, and an unknown force pulling strings from the shadows, ...

Private investigator Alex Morgan has always seen and heard things others can't—glimpses in the darkness, whispers from empty rooms. When a grieving woman hires her to investigate her sister's mysterious death Alex uncovers a hidden world of occult symbols and shadowy entities. She realizes the victim was silenced for the secrets that she knew.. Aided by an eccentric shopkeeper with ancient knowledge, Alex must navigate a reality far more complex than she imagined. The killer's shadow doesn't behave like shadows should. The victim's ghost has critical information. And Alex's unwanted gift ...

Old people are dying. Left with an old-fashioned syringe in their vein. Jo and Byrd are called out to Aldershot to aid Sgt Major Crane and DI Anderson with a case that is foxing the detectives. Set in a retirement home in the old Cambridge Military Hospital, Jo begins to wonder if the residents are seeing the infamous Grey Lady ghost, said to haunt the wards. But who is really killing the elderly residents? A rogue nurse? Or something even more chilling, lurking in the shadows? The new paranormal series from Amazon bestselling crime and thriller writer, Wendy Cartmell. Perfect for fans of ...

A young man dead. Found slumped in a chair. The new paranormal mystery series from Amazon bestselling crime and thriller writer, Wendy Cartmell. Perfect for fans of horror suspense from John Connolly, Stephen King, Graham Masterton, Dean Koontz, Stephen Leather and C J Tudor. YOU’RE DEAD is blinking on and off on his laptop screen. Was it signifying the end of a video game? Or the end of the player? Soon he’s not the only victim. The gamers had played for far too long, sometimes all night, sometimes for days on end. Prompting DI Jo Wolfe and her team to ask, were the players obsessed? ...

Someone is waging war against corrupt officials... and he won't stop until they're all dead. The new paranormal series from Amazon bestselling crime and thriller writer, Wendy Cartmell. Perfect for fans of horror suspense from John Connolly, Stephen King, Stephen Leather, C J Tudor, Iain Rob Wright and John Bowen. As a bomb detonates inside a popular Italian restaurant, DI Jo Wolfe has to witness the death of the diners. Her traumatic search for the bodies leaves her exhausted, yet resolved to find those behind the barbaric attack. Then she receives a warning from the group responsible. ...

Disappearances happening around the world arrive on Will's doorstep when his brother is added to the list. Trying to hold on to hope and go through his days like nothing has happened is harder than he could have imagined. Haunted in his dreams by a man with pitch-black eyes, Will soon realizes there's more to him than meet the eye. He's thrown into a world of secrets, danger, and temptation that he never expected. Will he be the world's savior or its doom?

It's not easy being a weretiger. A life of hunting and killing werewolves is tough enough, but when you fall in love with a human, things get complicated—fast. Alexander Malkin discovered werewolves were real when they killed his parents. Only the intervention of a weretiger saved Alex from the same fate, but his salvation came with a price. A few months later, Alex was shocked and terrified when he morphed into a weretiger for the first time. When he was told that weretigers were created to hunt and kill lycans (werewolves), he was curious. After his first taste of lycan blood, Alex was ...

I thought going back to school would be fun. After all, we’re adults now–no angst-ridden teen dramas here–and we’re all law-enforcement recruits training to become State Troopers. Surely we’ll work together like professionals, right? Wrong. One of my fellow recruits has it in for me. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I’d peed in his cereal or corrected his grammar in public, but I swear I’ve done nothing to deserve the daggers he’s throwing my way.