Claimed (22 page)

When her only Ancient ally is imprisoned by the high elder, when the council’s enforcer discovers she has the child, when the psychic link between child and father brings evil to their door, Ahnya is forced to choose between the man she’s come to love and the child she’s promised to protect. The choices she makes can save the Ancients’ civilization and her own, or serve as the catalyst for the destruction of both worlds.

Hell’s Belle
by Cammie Eicher

Belle DuPont has one hard and fast rule—take the money and run. It’s worked perfectly for the first century of her life, and she sees no reason to change anything.

Until she meets the vampire Misha Tsarentza, a clan elder of the Ancients. When he hires her for a simple protection job and winds up both under the spell of silver and of Belle herself.

His duty by blood and her obligation by salary put them on the road, protecting the Ancients’ highest authority from a band of rogue Ancients intent on destruction of the old ways and the old leaders.

Belle soon discovers that swearing off love is hard to do when faced with the intensity of Misha’s company and her increasing attraction to him. Uniting to fight a bunch of big, bad Ancients is one thing…uniting her heart with his is quite another.

Especially when falling in love may lead to both her execution, and his.

Devil’s Ball
by Cammie Eicher

When the Ancients’ high elder is murdered in his bed, Giorgio Montrosa is assigned to find the killer—fast. So he’s not opposed to being given a partner, especially when that partner is hand-picked by the Prophetess, the Ancient’s highest authority.

He didn’t expect that help to come in the form of Leykin Reneau. After all, they weren’t formally introduced until after she’d shoved him to the floor and covered him with ice. And once they are, he wonders if her youth and inexperience will make her more hindrance than help.

The last thing Leykin expected when she left Minnesota was to work with the famed Giorgio Montrosa, whose reputation as a big, bad enforcer is all she knows about him. But as they work together to find the killer, solve a kidnapping and unravel a plot to dethrone the entire ruling council, she discovers the sexy man beneath the tough exterior. The attraction, she soon learns, is mutual.

But can they live long enough to find their happy ending?

Blood Oath
by Cammie Eicher

The Ancient world is in chaos. The body of famed model/talk show host/vampire Nekia is discovered by short-lifers after her execution.

The Prophetess, seer of the Ancients, is dying.

A cabal of Ancients determined to maintain the status quo is willing to kidnap and kill to do so.

The high elder orders vampires to gather together in their homelands and hide. And for the first time in his four hundred years, Giorgio Montrosa is in love. Yet there’s nothing he can do to protect his beloved Leykin, an enforcer-in-training, when an assignment puts her in the hands of madmen.

Because sometimes even being the biggest, baddest enforcer of them all isn’t enough.

Dead Man Stalking
by Cammie Eicher

Life is good for Tessa McDonald, news reporter for WFRT in the tiny southern Ohio town of Fortuna, until she inherits an aged, three-legged, flatulent dog named Precious—which brings the ghost of her first lover along—and a dismembered body is discovered in an old warehouse.

When his assignment sends Agent Carson Hayes of the Ohio Bureau of Investigation to Fortuna, he expects to solve the crime and go home. When he joins forces with Tessa to find the murderer, his orderly life rapidly becomes one of semi-organized chaos.

As their instant attraction flames into something more, they find themselves confronted by an angry ex-boyfriend, shot at in the dark, and facing a pistol-wielding serial killer in a sleazy motel, which leads them to one big question—will they survive long enough to decide whether what they feel is love or simply a wonderful case of lust?

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Three Ways to Wicked
by Melinda Barron

Bestselling Author Krisily Carmichael needs a break from her life. Her horrid ex-boyfriend sold naked photos of her, and now she’s plastered all over the nation’s largest skin magazine. So when an advertisement for a rental cottage near Bath appears in her mailbox, she snatches up the offer.

When she arrives at the remote English cottage, she finds a charming country home with a huge botanical garden…complete with four magical beings trapped inside.

Victim of a wayward spell, the Sorcerer Uriel and his alchemist cousins, Bythos and Acolius, have spent centuries trapped inside their garden with an evil witch who wants their secrets. Krisily’s arrival sets off a string of events foretold to bring about the witch’s end. Unfortunately, they have to contend with the witch’s curse, which took one sense from each of the men.

But the four of them find a way to communicate, and they come together in a blaze of passion that helps them to destroy the witch and meet their destiny.

Secrets and Spells
by Jessica Jarman

Northern Circle
Series, Book One

Anxious for a change and wanting to learn more about her late mother and where she came from, Thalia Wells accepts a job in the small town of Parrish. As she settles into her new life, she begins to notice unsettling oddities about her new home.

Gray is used to secrets. Being a witch and living in a town of people with magical abilities means living with secrets. But keeping Thalia in the dark kills him especially when it brings her pain.

Thalia doesn't believe in magic and had given up on happily ever after, but can she find both with Gray?

Deep in the Heart of Hexes
by BA Tortuga

Cowbell, Book and Candle Series, Book One

Lily really isn’t the shop-owner type, but she knows she has to go back home after college and take over her granny’s weird, wonderful store, just like she promised. The problem is that Granny wants her to get serious about things she’s not even sure she believes in. When Granny falls mysteriously ill after an antique shatters in the shop, Lily starts to think that the whole world is off-kilter.

Marc deals daily with the kinds of phenomena Lily is struggling against. He knows it’s magick, but he’s not sure how to convince such a beautiful, stubborn woman how to start looking for solutions of the supernatural variety. Lily thinks Marc is arrogant and amazingly handsome, but she doesn’t want to trust him. Can the two of them learn to work together in time to save all that Lily holds dear?

We Kill Dead Things
by Sommer Marsden

Zombie Exterminators
Series, Book One
Poppy thinks her life is weird working the food court at Parktowne mall, until in one brief moment of creeper killing, things change forever. Now she's a freelance zombie exterminator along with her long lusted after co-worker Garrity (her not-so-secret crush), a somewhat lusted after bad boy Cahill and pretty gay boy Noah. When the four are hired to do a ballsy zombie clean up at St. Peter's Hospital, Poppy finds out just what's more scary than creepers. The Evoluminaries, a zealot cult who think zombies are part of God's chosen, who happen to end up thinking Poppy might make a mighty good zombie incubator. She finds herself finally sleeping with Garrity, being hunted by a crazy preacher man and stumbling over the fact that Cahill and Noah have become lovers somewhere in the chaos. And that's all on the job. Just another day in the life when you kill dead things...

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