Urban Power

Alex and Deion were born in the projects of Atlanta. Their mutual determination to escape their poverty stricken existence fueled a friendship that was unbreakable. But as they grew from to boys to men, the trappings of the streets introduced them to a life of crime and endless money. Those same streets may end up being their ultimate downfall. Can two men share all that power or can there only be one?

Ricky Walters or Rick Rock as he is known in the streets of New York is the notorious leader of the Rock Family Mafia. A pack of blood thirsty individuals who he created through clever manipulation. He took in young men and provided them with love and a sense of family, but in all reality he was creating foot soldiers to do his dirty work. Raymond King is a loyal street soldier who has an undeying devotion to his mentor and the man who has been like a father to him. After his mentor is arrested, tried, and sentenced to thirty years for a murder that he did not commit. Ray is expected to ...

Fi has always known there's something not quite right about herself. Not quite human. For as long as she can remember, Fi has been sensitive to other people's emotions. So sensitive, she works a night job as a cleaner to avoid being overwhelmed by all of their feelings. After a night on the town goes wrong, Fi comes to the attention of the Academy of Avalon. The obscenely beautiful jerk of a man who comes to collect her confirms her suspicions - Fi isn't human at all.

One mystery, one romance, and a possessed raven. In the corridors of Singsong's Magical College, Gabriela the janitor's flesh began turning to stone. Why didn't anybody say that kissing gargoyles is a bad idea? Things are rocky enough, but then someone summons a malevolent demon on her shift in the school's library, and now he's stalking her. Gabby embarks on a desperate quest to locate her elusive father to save her from turning to stone while avoiding the demon, but she can't do it alone. She'll need the help of Percival Marigold, her arch nemesis, to navigate the balls and tea parties ...

Through over ten years of research, interviewing activists along with unprecedented access to their personal archives, Tracy and Sonnie tell a crucial, untold story of the New Left. Their deeply sourced narrative history shows how poor and working-class individuals from diverse ethnic, rural and urban backgrounds cooperated and drew strength from one another. The groups they founded redefined community organizing, and transformed the lives and communities they touched.

Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan absorbs their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Fifteen Realms, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos.

As a small-town librarian, missing books are nothing new for Jemma Maynard. But when a special delivery sends her on the hunt for the Book of Power, overdue fees are the least of her worries. An amateur treasure hunter, Jemma lives for the thrill of discovery, but this time there’s much more at stake. An ancient ceasefire verges on collapse, and it could lead to a modern day Armageddon. No pressure, right? With a Jinn and a shifter backing her up, Jemma’s got what it takes for the job. Unfortunately, she’s not the only one looking for the book. An army of vampires, vicious and ready ...

Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways - phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked off-ramps that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway - and Sebastian Vickery, disgraced ex-Secret Service agent, is a driver for a covert supernatural-evasion car service. But another government agency is using and perhaps causing the freeway anomalies, and their chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of something he learned years ago at a halted Presidential motorcade. Reluctantly aided by Ingrid Castine, a member of that agency, and a homeless Mexican boy....

The enemy is strong. There are a lot of them, and they are pressing the attack forward. Me, I don't have enough supplies and weapons for my army. Heck, I don't even have an army to speak of. Corruption is rampant, the government is in free fall, and rioting mobs run free. Thievery is rampant to the point that even my old friend Beko is left speechless. Because it is not his own doing. But the worst of it is they want me to pull out of that unfortunate place altogether—and save face too. Because the Empire never abandons its friends, does it?

The Witch Sphere is in turmoil. In the years since a stunning betrayal sent shockwaves through society, the Sphere was hit with another crisis: witches are giving birth to more typics (non-witches) and their numbers are diminishing. Nadia is determined to help but finds hers efforts at the Witch Health Organization entangled with the political machinations of her powerful mother.

Demons and angels aren't real. They just can't be. They're supposed to be dumb stories in really old books. So why was Alex seeing them walking around on the streets of London? Alex began to wonder if he was losing his mind. Maybe he was hallucinating? Except, hallucinations couldn’t throw you into cars like you were nothing more than an annoying little bug, could they? Because that was exactly what that angel did to him. It all began to make sense when Andrew, Alex's estranged father, called him one day to tell him that he’d done something terrible. Something that was going to change ...

One minute I was living my life. The next? Kidnapped by fae and told my blood might end the world. No pressure. Now I’m stuck in a magical flower kingdom with talking trees, suspicious royals, and once they let him in, a dangerously handsome vampire who’d burn the world for me. (Julian, obviously.) The good news? I’m not alone.The bad? My newly activated power is terrifying, an evil queen wants to snatch me like a shiny prize, and my blood is basically a cursed VIP ticket to the apocalypse. But hey, at least I have Azriel, a moody fae warrior who acts like my bodyguard but teases me ...

One night with a superpowered babe. Alan Star thinks he's the luckiest guy in the world, but fantasy turns into nightmare when a late-night meetup with a heroine turns deadly. To the dismay of the powers-in-charge, Alan has stumbled upon the dirty truth behind the squeaky-clean image of the hero business. Soon, everyone from government black ops to angry superpowered flames want to shut him up. Permanently. With nowhere else to run, Alan escapes to the one place that the heroes won't go: the underground world of a fabled hero-killer. There, he discovers the key to becoming the greatest hero...

An inner city stripper befriends a high level executive in one of the world's largest companies and begins using a combination of intelligence, , hustles she learned on the street and pornographic sex, to rise through the ranks, only to realize she is unhappy and there is still something missing. Along the way we meet perverted white men, backstabbers, haters, judgmental media, the unmotivated brother who isn't about anything, and a woman inspired for change. The author is quoted as saying, "I wanted to write about sex and it's impact in the marketplace. The subject matter is over the top ...

I don’t remember committing the massacre, but that doesn’t stop them from sentencing me to life in prison. The Bellweir is a supernatural slaughterhouse where monsters are stripped of their magic and forced into obedience. I arrive unclaimed, unprotected, and already marked for death. Then four of the most dangerous inmates in the facility start watching me. A fallen fae executioner who hears the dead. Twin vampires who rule the blood trade. And a dragon shifter who doesn’t mate, but reacts to me anyway. Trapped in a prison that wants to own me. Bound to monsters who might destroy me....

On Stranger Tides follows the exploits of John Chandagnac, who travels to the new world after the death of his puppeteer father to confront his uncle, who has apparently made off with the family fortune. During the voyage, he befriends Beth Hurwood and her father, Benjamin Hurwood, an Oxford professor. Before they arrive at their destination, their ship is waylaid by Blackbeard and his band of pirates.

Symbiotic System: Bloodline Corrupted (Book 1) The supernatural world has one rule about Nephilim: they don't get to exist. Elias Ward was a grad student. Then a vampire's bite activated a bloodline that was supposed to be extinct. Now he's got divine powers he can't control, a System screaming warnings in his head, and a death sentence from the Council that governs all supernatural beings. His only shot at survival? A found family of misfits who shouldn't accept him—but do. An assassin who should have killed him. A broken werewolf teen. A precognitive nine-year-old. An ancient vampire ...

Titan was one of the nation's most loved and respected Heroes, until an infidelity scandal tore his image and family apart. After decades spent out of the limelight, Owen Daniels has decided to take up the mantle of Titan once again to try and make amends for his years away. Unfortunately, the Titan Scandal is still common knowledge, and no Hero team wants such a polarizing figure.

The focus of my life as an urban druid is to stand as a guardian of nature. The focus of my life as Fiona Cumhaill to stand as a guardian of my family. Seriously. Don't screw with my family. It's a no-brainer, drop everything, and take up the fight topic for me—If you need me, I will come. So, when darkness conspires to overtake the light and people I love are sucked into the wake of evil, the Toronto crew grabs the go-bags and answers the call.

When radical terrorists take hostages in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a super soldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better, run faster, disappear when necessary, and hunt the enemy along any terrain. There are those in the world willing to do anything for power like that. A formidable spy genetically engineered to hide in plain sight, Bellisia rarely meets a man who doesn't want to control her or kill her. But Zeke's different.