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For vampire Aidan Murphy, life has never been so desperate. The vaccine used to treat a global pandemic has rendered human blood deadly to his kind, leaving them on the brink of starvation and civil war. In tiny Penton, Alabama, Aidan establishes a peaceful community of vampires and unvaccinated human donors. He dares to hope they can survive - until his estranged brother descends upon Penton and begins killing the humans. Determined to save his town, Aidan kidnaps an unsuspecting human.

He came to Penton seeking peace. Nik Dimitrou joined the Army to escape his family legacy, only to have his psychic abilities exploited as a weapon. Now, as a civilian, he turns to the bottle to veil the images that haunt his mind whenever he touches anyone - except vampires. With them, he has finally found a place. But as Penton moves into open warfare with the Vampire Tribunal, Nik finds himself a linchpin in the deepening conflict, not to mention a transformation in his own body more frightening than anything he's faced. She wanted to change the world. Shay Underwood watched her Peace Corps parents move from one third world country to another until both died following an outbreak of fever. Driven to her own career in tropical medicine, Shay works to cure the disease that killed her parents - until a careless weekend outing draws her into a world far more dangerous than the diseases she studies: a vampire society engaged in human trafficking.

Mirren Kincaid remembers the vampire he used to be - and he’s not going back. As the Slayer, Mirren served the Vampire Tribunal as its most creative and ruthless executioner. Then he refused a kill order and eventually found himself the protector and second-in-command of the peaceful enclave of Penton, Alabama. As civil war threatens to break out in the vampire world over the scarcity of untainted human blood, the Tribunal wants its slayer back - and has sent a beautiful witch to retrieve him.

When Faith Garrity's twin sister died, she lost a part of herself. Unable to move past the pain, the once-driven ornithologist is at risk of losing her career as well. To save her job, she heads to the oil-ravaged wetlands of Louisiana. There, in the bayou community of Chenoire, she encounters the handsome but guarded Zackary Préjean, still suffering from a great loss of his own.

It’s 1964, and Eliza Kratke is mostly content. Married thirty years, she is long settled in Bayard, Texas with two grown children, a nice house, a little dog, and a routine. But her husband has a secret, and Eliza has not been brave enough to demand to know what it is.

Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster - the super cell tornado - that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.

Acclaimed journalist and author Lee Sandlin delivers a riveting glimpse of a dangerous and colorful place in America’s historical landscape - the Mississippi River of the 19th century. Long before it was dredged into a shipping channel or romanticized into myth, the untamed Mississippi - the lifeblood of communities that rose and fell along its banks - spawned a motley array of pirates and dignitaries, visionaries, and thieves.

1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one, too, but he got away. Now, after 14 years in prison, she's out. It's 1973, and nobody's rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together, these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil.

I'm sometimes asked the best place in the Bible to start for proving postmillennialism. I reply, “Genesis 1:1.” An optimistic eschatology rests in an optimistic protology. The sovereign Creator fashioned a very good creation that will fulfill his kingdom-expanding dominion purposes in time and history. This primer shows what an optimistic eschatology looks like.

Will Ludlam is tired of hiding. He doesn’t regret turning his back on his father’s cruel Tribunal legacy, but he never intended to live like this, secreted away with the vampires of Penton in their underground fortress, Omega. Charged with caring for bonded humans fleeing the vampire war, Will longs to join the fight. But first he must earn the trust of the beautiful soldier tasked with keeping Omega safe....

British vampire psychiatrist and former mercenary Cage Reynolds returns to Penton, Alabama, looking for a permanent home. The town has been ravaged by the ongoing vampire war and the shortage of untainted human blood, and now the vampires and humans that make up the Omega Force are trying to rebuild. Cage hopes to help the cause, put down roots in Penton, and resolve his relationship with Melissa Calvert. The last thing he expects is to find himself drawn to Robin Ashton, a trash-talking eagle shape-shifter and new Omega recruit.

Magic is real. Someone’s hunting her. Can a teenager embrace her new powers and protect those she loves? Sally Abeneb thinks her doctor is nuts. Weirded out that a minor injury seemed to trigger a park fountain to malfunction, she’s still not willing to buy the claim that she wields extraordinary abilities. But when the sixteen-year-old discovers she can manipulate water and mysterious creeps attack her father, she vows to do whatever it takes to keep her family safe. Enrolling in a special school while her parents go into hiding, the gifted teen strives to get a handle on her ...

For some people, the untamed beauty of the bayou is a place to hide. For Louisiana wildlife agent Jena Sinclair, it's a place of refuge - one where she can almost forget the tragedy that scarred both her skin and her soul. But when the remains of yet another fisherman turn up, Jena realizes that Bayou Pointe-aux-Chenes is not safe for her...or anyone else.

Who says using magic is better? Me. I say that. Except my magic sucks. I might be the worst sorcerer ever, and trust me, everyone reminds me. Constantly. Mageright Academy and Fallsview Finishing School are hosting a summer camp, and I need to go. It’s my last resort. The best teachers will be there for both mages and sorcerers. If they can’t help me with my magic, it’s a lost cause. I can’t even do the most basic spell. Every time I try, the kids at the orphanage make fun of me. It’s not worth trying anymore. When I get a letter accepting me to the camp, I can’t believe it, but...

While on an early morning patrol in the swamps of Whiskey Bayou, Louisiana wildlife agent Gentry Broussard spots a man leaving the home of voodoo priestess Eva Savoie - a man who bears a startling resemblance to his brother, whom Gentry thought he had killed during a drug raid three years earlier. Shaken, the agent enters Eva's cabin and makes a bloody discovery: the old woman has been brutally murdered.

In this unflinching and uplifting memoir, Michelle takes listeners beyond the diagnosis and into the heart of the fight and survival. With a voice that is both poetic and profoundly authentic, she tells it like it is: the chemo, the hair loss, the fear, the anxiety, the double mastectomy and reconstruction surgeries, the sleepless nights...all of it. Yet there is an undercurrent of courage, compassion, and positivity that runs through every moment.

I still can’t believe it. I’m a mage, and not just any mage. A Kensington. I’m from a long line of mages with a lot of magic. There’s only one catch. We’re cursed, or so everyone says. It does seem that way, though. Everyone in my family dies young—the curse of the Kensingtons. But I think something else is going on. Something to do with the dark magic that keeps hanging around. I thought I got rid of it at camp, but it’s back, and I think some of the students at Mageright Academy are being controlled by it. I’m so excited to be here, where I can finally learn about my magic...

When biologist Gillian Campbell makes an offhand comment about a family curse during a TV interview, she has no idea what her words will set in motion. Within days, Gillian finds herself at the mercy of a member of the C7, a secretive international group of power brokers with a dangerous game: competing to find the world’s most elusive treasures, no matter the cost, in money or in lives.

Welcome to Bloodwood Academy, the one school I have no desire to attend. I purposefully didn’t put in an application. I prefer human schools. Magic isn’t something I want to use, at least not often. Imagine my surprise when a letter arrives at my aunt’s house telling me to report to Bloodwood Academy for the first day of my senior year. The academy for rich kids and kids with a ton of magic—neither of which category I fall into. There has to be a mistake, but no, some witch finder spell decided I have magic and a lot of it. Now, I’m stuck at this stupid school practicing magic, ...

Ferocious storms, winged beasts, and falling angels are just some of the dark tales locked within these pages. Discover a world where carnage falls from the sky, and delve into the frenzy of a world gone mad as Heaven opens and all Hell breaks loose.