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Just when she thought she'd seen everything... Detective Lieutenant Anita McElone is one of Harbor Haven's finest. She's also a hard-boiled ghost skeptic. So when she shows up on the doorstep of Alison Kerby's Haunted Guesthouse to ask for supernatural help in solving the murder of her former partner, it's hard to tell which woman is more flabbergasted. But McElone is dead serious, so Alison promises to help in any way she can - even asking her resident ghosts, Paul and Maxie, for help with the case.

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord. The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they...

The Saloon Sector is the Federation’s official frontier, but beyond it lurks the Badstars. Bandits hide there. The Saloon Sector is Sheriff Max Smith’s territory. Since the revelation of his secret identity, life has changed for Max and Thelma. Their relationship is under increased pressure. Admiral Astyages, newly appointed in command of the Frontier Fleet, manipulates them into joining a Navy expedition to map a safe route to the wormhole on the far side of the Badstars. Alone in hostile territory and separated from their allies, Max and Thelma couldn’t be less prepared for their ...

When shadow warrior and former Tier One Navy SEAL John Dempsey goes undercover to meet with a Vory arms dealer, he thinks he’s laying the groundwork to penetrate the Russian criminal underground. Instead, he walks into a trap orchestrated by Zeta, the secret Russian task force behind a recent assassination attempt on the US President. For Dempsey and his team, the only way out is to lay waste to the Russians, putting a target on Ember’s back.

The siege began on the third day of the fourth week. Commander Sorev's calculation is simple: the birth is the crisis. Hold position, wait for the founding fire to arrive into the world, and negotiate from the pressure of a newborn and an exhausted omega and a crown prince who has more to lose than he's ever had before. Sorev has underestimated Caelan's patience. He's also underestimated Idris. Fire and Marrow opens with an army on the perimeter and four weeks left. It ends with the passes clear and a peace treaty being ratified in a room three hundred miles away, with language that started...

He walked away from the ceremony bells. Not from Idris. From the formal hall. From sixty people in good clothes and an arrangement that was no longer what he was willing to give. Caelan made that choice in a corridor, in the gold of late afternoon, with his hand around Idris's and his dragon finally, completely certain. The consequences don't wait for morning. Book Two of The Ember Throne Saga picks up in the hours after the announcement that wasn't — and the one that was. The bond is set. The child is confirmed. The war council is angry, the Ashborn are moving, and someone named Varek ...

The crown prince of Draeven has twenty-eight days to formalize a betrothal that will save his eastern border. He has a dragon that won't stop pressing against his ribs. And he has, for reasons he cannot explain, dreamed about the same man's face for months before that man walked into his citadel carrying a leather satchel and a master-class scribe's clearance. Idris Vael has built a careful life out of not wanting things he can't have. He translates flame-dispatches, manages his instincts, and keeps his distance from everything that could make the next three weeks complicated. He fails, ...

He left sixteen years ago. The clan needs him back. The omega who waited doesn't plan to make it easy. Nolan Hale has spent fourteen years becoming the man Callum Voss would come home to. He's the schoolteacher on the ridge, the steady center of a bear shifter clan that's been holding on by its claws. He teaches six children in a converted barn. He makes preserves. He walks the boundary every Saturday. He has not, in fourteen years, told a single person the full shape of what he feels for the alpha who drove away in the dark and never came back. His bear has never once believed the waiting ...

In 1921, Marian Arnold, the heiress to a brewing baron’s empire, seeks solace in the glass butterfly house on her family’s Wisconsin estate as Prohibition and the deaths of her parents cast a long shadow over her shrinking world. When Marian’s sanctuary is invaded by nightmarish visions, she grapples with the line between hallucinations of things to come and malevolent forces at play in the present. With dead butterflies as the killer’s ominous signature, murders unfold at a steady pace. Marian, fearful she might be next, enlists the help of her childhood friend Felix.

Tanner hunts down the fabled assassin, Specter, after the legendary killer claims another victim. Is Specter real? Or is he more myth than man? One thing is certain. Specter is deadly.

What happens when fate calls your name? Especially, if that fate includes a strikingly handsome stranger, who just happens to be a...vampire. Patrick never thought he'd meet his soul mate when he'd agreed to go out to a club with his friend. It was a tired scene, and no one seemed worth his attention. That is, until he tried to leave, but found himself unable to move once he saw the gorgeous stranger approach him. He wasn't even gay. What was happening to him? Justin hated the club scene too. Yet, that night, he felt compelled to go there, and once he saw Patrick, he couldn't leave his side...

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord. The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they...

After an ancient evil is awakened by a naïve pawn, the reign of Lilith is put into motion- a horrid plot planned centuries in advance by fallen angels. With a legion of demons at her command, she plans her revenge upon one of the world's largest religious groups, before thrusting herself center stage and taking her seat upon the throne as Queen of the World. With threats coming at them from every angle, the Monster Squad turns to an ex-member to form a new team - a team made up of the most unlikely warriors, destined to hunt down and destroy the Demon Queen.

In football, the momentum of a game can shift at the slightest moment. One misstep, fumble, or error can change the entire complexity of a game. The difference between winning and losing can be as small as an inch. In reality, life is not that much different than football. One wrong decision can send a person’s life spinning out of control. One bad move be the difference between a happy ending or a life of disappointments and sorrow. Justin thought he had conquered the game of life. He not only had a beautiful girlfriend, but was set to inherit a large trust worth a fortune. He seemed to ...

Free Bonus Novel Included as a Free Gift Victor Heming is in a crisis -- a midlife crisis, that is. At age 29. Yes, seriously. With no one to go home to but a Ragdoll cat to tell all of his troubles, and his one and only best friend soon to be married, there's no denying the emptiness in his life. He has been virtually left at the alter by his fiancée, is consistently forgotten about by a widowed mother who rarely calls, and missing a deceased beloved father. Truthfully, Victor is at his wit's end. Despite being a prodigy in the medical field -- the youngest neurosurgeon in his division --...

They told him a beta couldn’t bond. His bear had other plans. Drew Voss has spent fourteen years holding Iron Creek together with spreadsheets and stubbornness. He’s the clan’s invisible backbone. The beta who files the taxes, schedules the patrols, and built a secret intelligence wall tracking the corporate predators circling their territory. He is, by every measure, indispensable. He is also, by the clan’s traditional wisdom, incapable of the one thing he wants most: a bond that means something. Then a surveyor walks onto the boundary line, and Drew’s bear does something betas ...

Ryan is a petty criminal raised away from the pack territories by a father who purposely kept his omega son away from their pack. It's left Ryan's life fragmented and stiflingly restrictive. Where other omegas know what they are and what's expected of them, Ryan is unsure and over-compensating for an identity that's been imposed on him. City shifters are seen as the “compliant” goody-goody wolves who would just as soon throw their own kind under a bus to please humans and be given the right to assimilate to non-shifter culture. Humans are uneasy with their kind, but Ryan's dad is ...

Free Bonus Novel Included as a Free Gift The stubborn alpha of the Nightbreed wolf pack doesn't believe in prophecy or appreciate the willowy witch crashing his pack's racing party. But his beliefs are quickly changed when he finds his pack under threat. And when he discovers his general, Alex, is carrying his heir, he'll stop at nothing to protect him. But bravado isn't called for in this instance. What Jared will have to learn is how to respect witches, one's like Nora. He must learn how to trust in power other than his own, and finally to drop his walls to let the one person in that he's...

Before he crossed paths with Sarah Roberts, Aaron Stevens was already fighting to survive. His sister has vanished—a dancer last seen in Toronto's underworld. The police won't take it seriously. So Aaron takes matters into his own hands. As he digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling pattern: a string of brutal murders the police can't—or won't—connect. The truth points to someone powerful. Untouchable. Deadly. Enter The Specter. A billionaire with a body count and an empire built on secrets. Anyone who gets too close disappears—permanently. Now Aaron is on his radar. Armed with nothing ...

At 16, Sadie Young had a brush with death, and as a result she became more sensitive to the supernatural. Rather than embrace this gift, she spent years running from it, and from the darkness that once preyed upon her. Now 25 and working as a librarian, Sadie is called upon by a desperate family friend to look into a strange series of events. A teenaged girl has entered a reputedly haunted house in town and has gone mad. Committed, the girl attempts suicide and claims to be terrorized at all hours by a horrific specter known as "Mother Maggot".