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A pyrokinetic former thief who fears the destructive power of flame at his fingertips.... A beautiful shape-shifter with fiery talents of her own hiding in the tunnels below Manhattan from those who destroyed her family and her race.... Put them together and you have Within the Flames, a powerfully sensual and totally gripping new Dirk & Steele romantic adventure from New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu.

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu has captivated audiences with her remarkable Dirk and Steele novels, proving herself to be one of today’s most brilliantly imaginative creators of paranormal romance. Lui reaches new heights with In the Dark of Dreams, the breathtakingly sensual story of a young woman’s passionate reunion with a magnificent man from the sea - and the dark mission that binds them both.

A tormented shape-shifting hero - once almost a god, now much more than a man - freed against his will from an eternal darkness - must overcome his rage and the pain of his tragic past by accepting the love of a remarkable woman with an extraordinary gift.

In The Wild Road, a breathtaking, solitary creature, the last of his race, is irresistibly drawn to a mysterious woman with no memory of who she is but is in obvious peril. Discover why Booklist says, “If you have yet to add Liu to your must-read list, you’re doing yourself a disservice.”

Extraordinary is the word for the paranormal romance of New York Times best seller Marjorie M. Liu - who broke exciting new ground when she created the Dirk and Steele Detective Agency. The unique security organization comprised of psychics, telekinetics, and extraordinary supernatural beings faces its biggest challenge in The Last Twilight, when a powerful shape-shifter must return to his African homeland to free a beautiful virus hunter held captive by maniacs plotting the murders of millions of innocents.

With Soul Song, the sensational New York Times best-selling superstar brings listeners another marvelous tale of passion and otherworldly occurrences centered around the mysterious Dirk and Steele Detective Agency - as a tormented young woman with the precognitive power to foresee terrible futures must place her own fate in the hands of a mesmerizing prince of the sea.

Eye of Heaven is yet another dark and sensuous romantic winner from the extraordinary Marjorie M. Lui, arguably one of the boldest, most inventively original authors currently working in the paranormal romance field. Centered once again around the remarkable Dirk and Steele Detective Agency - with its shape-shifters, psychics, telekinetics, and others with astounding supernatural gifts - Eye of Heaven brings a tormented investigator to “Sin City”, Las Vegas, where a beautiful, feral headliner needs protection from a terrible darkness that is threatening her world.

Marjorie M. Lui has created a most unusual investigative organization in the Dirk and Steele Detective Agency - a collection of shape-shifters, psychics, and other uniquely gifted individuals - and in doing so has revitalized the paranormal romance genre. In The Red Heart of Jade, an ex-cop with extraordinarily heightened senses follow a trail of death to Taipei - and finds the woman of his heart there, the childhood love he once believed dead, whom he must now protect from an unspeakable evil.

Shadow Touch is the second title in New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu’s remarkable Dirk & Steele series - inventive and breathtakingly passionate tales of shape-shifters, psychics, and extraordinary beings from one of the finest writers of paranormal romance. A story of a man with amazing abilities and a woman who can perform miracles with a touch drawn together into a terrifying conspiracy, Shadow Touch combines suspense, peril, and passion with a truly remarkable love story that will live in the heart forever.

Hace treinta y dos años, Roberto Díaz, que forma parte de un equipo élite y secreto del Pentágono, viajó al desierto australiano para investigar un posible ataque bioquímico. Lo que encontró fue mucho peor: un organismo altamente mutante, similar a una planta, capaz de causar epidemias destructivas. Se las arregló para contenerlo, enterrándolo en una cámara de almacenamiento en el fondo de una instalación gubernamental fuertemente armada. Sin embargo, esa instalación del gobierno se cerró y se vendida a una compañía que renta espacios para almacenamiento.

Gabe is being held prisoner by the sheriff and heir to the ranch, Owen Rutherford. Owen is determined to harness the power of the Tree of Life - and he needs Gabe to reveal its magic. Secretly, the sheriff has also made a pact to free a creature of the underground, a flesh-devouring mermaid. Muirenn has vowed to exact vengeance on Gabe, who helped imprison her, but first...she's hungry. Once freed, she will swim into Yellowstone - to feed. With her coyote sidekick, Sig, Petra must descend into the underworld to rescue Gabe before it's too late...for both of them.

As the daughter of an alchemist, Petra Dee has faced all manner of occult horrors - especially since her arrival in the small town of Temperance, Wyoming. But she can’t explain the creature now stalking the backcountry of Yellowstone, butchering wolves and leaving only their skins behind in the snow. Rumors surface of the return of Skinflint Jack, a 19th-century wraith that kills in fulfillment of an ancient bargain. The new sheriff in town, Owen Rutherford, isn’t helping matters.

It's been two months since Petra Dee and her coyote sidekick, Sig, faced off against Temperance's resident alchemist, but things are far from quiet. When an internet video of a massive snake in the backcountry of Yellowstone goes viral, a chase for the mythical basilisk is on. Monster hunters swarm into the area, and never one to pass up the promise of discovery, Petra joins in the search.

Geologist Petra Dee arrives in Wyoming seeking clues to her father's disappearance years ago. What she finds instead is Temperance, a dying Western town with a gold rush past and a meth-infested present. But under the dust and quiet, an old power is shifting. When bodies start turning up - desiccated and twisted skeletons that Petra can't scientifically explain - her investigations land her in the middle of a covert war between the town's most powerful interests.

Shiloh Harrison was hoping for a few days off to recover from a particularly nasty assignment, preferably with the help of the talented hands (and, well, the rest of his body, too) of her sexy boyfriend Vincent. But when a group of vampires takes an entire trailer park hostage, there’s nothing to do but make her apologies and get to the scene. Such is the life of a Federal Marshal in the Paranormal Investigators Unit.

In a near-future society in which morality is manifested through beauty and ugliness, a young woman will imperil her future and her world to expose the global shadow network that uses its power to play God and control humanity.

The Battle of North Fields is over - or so Aliza Bentaine, now a Daired, fervently wants to believe. But rumors are spreading of an unseen monster ravaging the isolated Castle Selwyn on the northern border of the kingdom. When she and Alastair are summoned from their honeymoon by the mysterious Lord Selwyn, they must travel with their dragon Akarra through the Tekari-infested Old Wilds of Arle to answer his call. And they are not alone on this treacherous journey. Shadowing the dragonriders is an ancient evil, a harbinger of a dark danger of which the Worm was only a foretaste.

Newly minted Historian of the soon-to-be-ascended Riverwood Coven Georgie Pendell has always played her part-so why does she feel like an outsider in her own life? Duped and dumped by her boyfriend, Georgie finds herself dismissing love as a fairytale. But when the words she reads aloud from an enchanted storybook free a dragon shifter, everything changes. Georgie finds herself drawn to the dragon in ways she didn't think were even possible for her, and her dragon, with his fiery golden gaze, all but claims Georgie as his own. But beneath his scorching intensity lies a secret.

Within the shores of Isla Bestia, guests from around the world discover a utopia of ever-changing performances, sumptuous feasts and beautiful monsters. Many enter, but few ever leave—the wine is simply too sweet, the music too fine and the revelry endless. Sofía, a freedwoman from a nearby colonized island, cares little for this revelry. Born an enslaved mestiza on a tobacco plantation, she has neither wealth nor title, only a scholarly pragmatism and a hunger for answers. She travels to el Carnaval de Bestias in search of her twin brother, who disappeared five years ago.

Cambridge, 2018. La relación de Ana y Luis está en crisis, a pesar de sus muchas similitudes, entre ellas, sus madres que huyeron de El Salvador durante la guerra. En su búsqueda de respuestas, y en contra de su mejor juicio, Ana utiliza El Defractor, un dispositivo experimental que permite a los usuarios echar un vistazo a versiones alternativas de sus vidas. Lo que ve, los lleva a ella y a Luis por La Habana y San Salvador en búsqueda de las historias familiares que están desesperados por conocer y ansiosos por saber si lo que podría haber sido arreglaría lo que es.