Marcus Sedgwicks tale of Venice & vampires is a captivating companion volume to the bestselling My Swordhand is Singing. Marko & Sorrel meet in Venice for the first time. They must uncover the mystery of what has happened both to Sorrels father plagued by a strange madness that prevents him from sleeping & to Markos father a doctor who has mysteriously gone missing after travelling to Venice to help his old friend. Years on from My Swordhand is Singing & Peter is still on the trail of the Shadow Queen. His search leads him to Venice a city whose beauty disguises many ugly secrets. The Shadow Queen is there gathering strength recruiting a new army of the Undead for a final confrontation. This fabled city with its lapping waterways its crumbling magnificence dark twisting alleyways & surprising piazzas is the perfect setting for Marcuss captivating gothic novel of love & loss in C18th Venice. ...

This is a chilling mystery reaching from the present into the plague-ridden past. A school trip turns into a nightmare when Kim & Wes leave the plague-village of Eyam with more than they bargained for & a stolen artifact wreaks revenge. Historical facts blend with ghosts & ancient curses in the latest offering from acclaimed thriller-writer Malcolm Rose. ...

In the wake of a failed attempt to defeat the vampire Richelieu Susan & her friends are weakened & divided. Raphael must set aside his animosity & join with his enigmatic sire Gabriel to discover a powerful weapon before Richelieu claims it. Meanwhile Susan & her cousin Wendy translate a 12th century diary belonging to their ancestor Carissa to learn the origin of their familys connection with the vampires. As Carissas story of love & betrayal unfolds they discover the secrets of the present will only be revealed by solving the mysteries of the past. ...

Christmas is just around the corner; the season of peace & goodwill. But this year for Detective Jack Paris the Christmas spirit is eclipsed by the hunt for a sadistic & twisted serial killer... When an accused murderer is acquitted on a technicality then found dead of an apparent suicide a spree of brutal murders terrorizes the citizens of Clevel&. This vicious & vengeful killer tortures his seemingly unrelated victims in unimaginably violent ways leaving them all with a strange symbol carved into their flesh. When Detective Paris discovers that these murders are the grim handiwork of one maniac obsessed with the dark side of the ancient religion Santeria hes pulled into a web of danger & sexual deviance. Jack must catch the killer before he kills again. But on Christmas Eve Jack finds himself right where the homicidal maniac wants him: questioning his loyalties facing an impossible choice with the barrel of a gun pointing at his temple & the whole world watching... ...

When Phoebes best friend Adam takes a bullet for her it proves everyone right
- Adam is in love with her. & now that hes come back
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Since the moment of her defection from the Psy Net & into the Snow Dancer wolf pack Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha & dangerous he compels her to madness. Hawke is used to walking alone having lost the woman who would?ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf. Then Sienna changes the rules & suddenly there is no more distance only the most intimate of battles between two people who were never meant to meet. Yet as they strip away each others secrets in a storm of raw emotion they must also ready themselves for a far more vicious fight.. .A deadly enemy is out to destroy Snow Dancer striking at everything they hold dear but it is Siennas darkest secret that may yet savage the pack that is her home.. .and the alpha who is its heartbeat.. . ...

Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul to Artemis for one moment of vengeance on his enemies. In return they swear to spend eternity protecting mankind from the daimons & vampires that prey on them. Dark-Hunter Wulf is an ancient Viking warrior with a useful but extremely aggravating power
- amnesia. No one who meets him in person can remember him five minutes later. It makes it easy to have one-night stands but hard to have a meaningful relationship & without true love he can never regain his soul. Then he meets Cassandra the one woman who can remember him. However as the princess of the cursed race Wulf is sworn to hunt she is forbidden to him...
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Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell Molina re-weaves the glittering & fragile stories of the films he loves & the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone & always
- especially now
- in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.

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The king was in a hurry & blew his son a bedtime kiss...but it missed! The kiss flies out of the window the prince is distraught & a hapless knight is sent into the deep dark forest to fetch the kiss back. What will he encounter there? Thus begins this captivating fairy tale quest from the exceptionally talented author & illustrator David Melling. Unexpected twists & surprises delight the reader on every spread as the story gallops along with humour & charm. A bedtime story that's bound to become a favourite! ...

Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton returns with another exciting thrilling & addictive adventure for her vampire hunting heroine Anita Blake. I knew without doubt that if any more of the vampires tried to attack us Id kill them too regardless of apparent age race sex or religious affiliations. I was an equal-opportunity executioner; I killed everybody. My name is Anita Blake & I am a vampire hunter & necromancer as well as a US Marshal. So when a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires its up to me to find her. & when I do Im faced with something Ive never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people
- kids grandparents soccer moms
- all recently turned & willing to die to avoid serving their vampire master. & where theres one martyr I know there will be more... But even vampires have monsters that theyre afraid of. & Im one of them...

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