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Ghoul, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. Who would have guessed something he'd penned in jest would turn out to be real and swarm his island retreat? Yet for Ambrose Bierce, renowned nineteenth-century wit and author of The Devil's Dictionary, the joke was on him. If he didn't want to be digested--and he didn't, much--he had to stay alive. [Jackson] "has a wonderful way with descriptive language. There are some great connections with previous books and a surprise at the end." ---RT Book Reviews His reputed disappearance and death in Mexico in 1914 had ...

The third book in Melanie Jackson's Wildside Series. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch." --WritersWrite.com Lyris knew all about goblins. She had spent much of her adult life trying to prove one was behind the assassination of JFK. But was Quede the biggest threat in New Orleans, this strange monarch who owned the plantation Toujours Perdrix? Or was the biggest threat Romeo Hart, the fey who laughed at death and quickened Lyris' blood? This courier mission was trouble. No question; Lyris was in danger of losing her life, her soul, or her heart-- and by the time she discovered which, it ...

She’s back! After an absence of almost a decade, Miss Henry returns in a double mystery more than worthy of a comeback. In this two-in-one mystery, Miss Henry is finding her way in the world of Bay Area haute couture where high tech meets high finance. But before she can say ‘NSA’, she finds herself summoned back to work by her old employer and stranded in an abandoned mansion in the middle of the Nevada desert with a defector, bitter rivals from the agency, and a crazed killer. Forced into finding the most desperate and final of solutions to her interrupted retirement, Juliet has ...

Who is Damien Ruthven? In 1816, Lord Byron stayed at the castle of Dr. Johann Dippel, the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Baron von Frankenstein. Trapped there by a lightning storm, he was approached by the doctor and promised a cure for his epilepsy. The "cure" changed him forever. And is he "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know?" In the 21st century, Brice Ashton wrote a book. Like all biographies of famous persons, her's on Lord Byron was sent to critics in advance. One Damien Ruthven responded. He contacted Brice from New York suggesting her work contained two errors—and that only he could ...

SOMETHING WICKED... Long ago the hobgoblin Oasim was turned to darkness, was made a master of evil. His newest plot is a sacrifice of unspeakable horror that will mean full-fledged war between all species. "Melanie Jackson writes Romance for those with a yen for something different!" ---Romantic Times THIS WAY COMES There exists hope to fight back. Nicholas Anthony, an ER doctor, doesn't know of his own fey blood, or that others of his kind are massing in the Nevada desert. Alienated from himself, he is a man about to discover his destiny. Magic fills the winter air, powerful and ...

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