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In the Blood by award-winning author Nancy A. Collins tells the story of a punk female vampire/vampire hunter who teams up with a psychic detective to track down the man responsible for turning her into one of the undead.

When handsome town Sheriff Derrick Shelton meets Angelique Guillory and her young daughter at the Garrett ranch, he is immediately drawn to the woman who seems to desperately need a true family Christmas. Determined to erase the shadows from her eyes, he decides to give her the best holiday she's ever had. Angelique Guillory is a woman with a past, haunted by violence and searching for the family she never knew. When she and her little daughter find their way to the Garrett family and meet Derrick, she hopes to have finally found a safe haven.

Cade Garrett's ordered life is upended when he gets the news that his sister and her husband have been killed in a plane crash. He's ready to step in and take care of their two young children, but he's thrown for a loop when the children's aunt is named guardian in the will and plans to take the children back to her home in Dallas. Sparks fly when he meets Jennifer LaChance, but Cade and Jenn must band together for the well-being of the children - and to determine who and what is behind the suspicious accident that took the lives of their parents.

Will 50-foot battle mechs be enough against hundreds of thousands of techno-zombies ready to wipe everything living off the scorched map that is the wasteland? Alliances are formed and broken, mech pilots are made and murdered, secrets are revealed and agendas destroyed, and thousands of bodies fall and rise again.

Sisters Chastity and Alison must have privacy. As Bori - creatures of the wild - it has been difficult to "mainstream," but leaving their mountainous nests for a life in a regular human neighborhood has become essential for survival. However, the sisters cannot completely abandon a life outdoors because their siblings (the "littles") are still feral creatures. Chastity and Alison's perfect solution? Build a fence for the children to satisfy their alfresco needs, while protecting the neighbors from their ferocious behaviors.

After decades searching the globe for the undead monster who remade her in his image, Sonja Blue has found something resembling peace with the psychic detective Palmer and the unearthly child called Lethe, even though The Other—the demonic entity that shares her body—remains a constant threat to everyone she cares about. However, once she learns that Sir Morgan is behind a string of murders in New York City involving women who bear an uncanny resemblance to herself, Sonja abandons her self-made family for the Big Apple.

When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer—and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia—which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant—young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protégé, must follow her own path to the truth while, on the other side of the world, a young Harry Houdini must face his greatest feat of escape—death itself.

The exciting sequel to Dead Mech is a hell ride through Europe, Asia, and beyond as American ghost Heather Walton must save her family, her friends, and an all-important cargo. The world has survived the North American zombie apocalypse. But Americans struggle to maintain their place in a world where the powers-that-be no longer want them. They will stop at nothing to put an end to their standing and their very existence!

It's Christmas in Asherville, Texas, and Poor Boy finally comes home. He’s no longer the waif we grew to love; he is very much a man now. As the stage coach approaches his beloved town, he spots Sheriff Shane O’Conner riding off after a pair of bank robbers. Poor Boy, the new deputy, quickly finds a horse and races after them. One of the robbers is killed, and to his surprise, the other outlaw is a beautiful young woman.

Can five murderous women maintain their shell of innocence while vacationing in New Orleans? Will the audacious troublemakers rock The Big Easy or will trouble rock them first? Join Lindsey and her friends for another hilarious romp as they take New Orleans by storm...with only a few fatalities along the way.

Sheriff Tex Wilson has been protecting the town of Brimstone for quite some time now. He's been the town's sheriff even during its formative years, and he's developed quite a reputation as its tough law-enforcing sheriff. Because of his long tenure and dedication to his job, he's also developed a very unflattering nickname, at least for him. It's a nickname that's best not said to Sheriff Tex's face. They call him "Lonesome" Tex Wilson.

Meg O'Brien hoped never to lay eyes on the one man who broke her heart. To her dismay, Luke Kelly arrives at her ranch a much different and broken man. Can Meg ever forgive his callous treatment of her and help Luke become the man he used to be?

Victoria Nolan is on the run. She hightails it out of town on the next stagecoach, changes her name and settles into Lettie's Boarding House temporarily. Once that task has ended she needs to find a new job or leave, but she has come to appreciate Silver City. Samuel Flynn needs a new cook for his ranch and the lovely Tori fits the role. She is not only a good cook and hard worker, but she is so appreciative of life. He is drawn to her naive ways and finds himself seeking her out more often than he should.

Banned from the wagon train, Samantha Foley wanders through the Colorado Mountains. An early winter storms arrives leaving her at its frozen mercy. Ruggedly handsome mountain man Patrick McCrery comes to her rescue. Patrick, half white and half Indian, he fits in neither world. He lives a solitary life as a trapper. He certainly does not want to get involved with the beautiful Samantha Foley.

Fianna Kelly is the tale of a young woman coming of age in a familiar era, but under attack by a very unfamiliar foe. In these five stories, set in Victorian times with a steampunk flair, she relates her encounters with the strange creatures called G.H.B.I.s or jeebees. The stories have a subtle sense of humor mixed with a decent amount of suspense plus contain over 70 diverse characters brought to life by the incomparable Julie Hoverson.

Part H. P. Lovecraft and part Alien, Ironheart is the story of what happens when the mining ship Canary comes across a strange derelict on the edge of the galaxy - a derelict occupied by a strange woman, a woman who cannot possibly exist but does.

Waikiki, Hawaii. Golden sunshine. Waving palm trees. Sparkling blue water. Private eye Ava Rome's calling is to protect the defenseless. She takes on the cases of Jenny Mordan, a working girl who is being harassed by a police detective, and Cassie Sands, a teenager who is mixed up with a marijuana grower. Norman Traxler did 10 years in San Quentin nurturing his hatred of Ava Rome, the young MP who took him down for assaulting a prostitute.

A bizarre and vicious rash of murders has wrapped the city in the cold grip of fear and a curfew is in place to protect young women from the clutches of an unknown madman. Chastity MacLeod, a young investigator for the secretive Order of St. Raphael, is assigned the case. With only a woman's severed head and a handful of macabre clues, Chastity must use all of her experience and training to find a killer that leaves no trace, no weapon, and no blood.

Mel Hannigan is a slick, savvy New York City commercial photographer who knows what she's doing and where she's going...that is, until she heads upstate for a little drive time and ends up with her sports car in a ditch. That's where Helmut Engle finds her. He's a solid, down-to-earth farmer. In spite of their differences, Mel and Helmut give in to an irresistible magnetic attraction and share an exciting, intimate interlude. She returns to the city but can't get him out of her mind.

These two women walk very different paths, paths that crossed explosively. But as they clash one final time, the Pulptress and the Bone Queen have something in common, the one thing that may kill them both - they thirst for vengeance!