Who is more foolish -- the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stranglehold on the citys drug traffic & take it over himself. He has no guns no army of hoods no friends in high places. But he has the Power -- magical ancient & terrifyingly brutal. The power that thrives in darkness! ...

When Silvano Niccolo the driven charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement collapses at a rally his young party immediately comes under threat. & when it emerges that his long time partner Flavia has disappeared leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son the political becomes dangerously personal
- & Sandro Cellini is drafted in to investigate. The trail leads to a tired sea-side town & a modest hotel where Flavia chose to end her life. But Cellini isn't satisfied
- why would one so young & with so much to live for walk away from all she loves? As he digs into Flavia's secret world however Sandro uncovers the hidden life of a woman consumed with private passions & a deadly dark obsession. & as the private & public realms intersect he cannot forget that life in modern Italy has a perilous edge
- fuelled as much by rage as desire.


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The sexy thrilling adventures continue in bestselling author Keri Arthurs new Dark Angels series set in the realm of danger & desire known as the Guardian World.. . Half-werewolf half-Aedh Risa Jones can enter the realm between life & death & she can see the Reapers who collect the souls of the dead. Now she is using her gifts
- & the investigative know-how of a man who broke her heart
- to find a cabal searching for the power to control time reality & fate. & this is besides her work for the Vampire Council half of whom want her dead. But for now the Council needs her alive. Someone is killing blood-whore addicted vampires & Risa must find the guilty party. If she succeeds she may finally convince the council to lift the execution order on her life. But before she succeeds she must first survive.. .

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April Dunne is having a rough time. There are vampires in her school. Not Goths or Emos in fancy dress. Dangerous blood-sucking semi-immortals. They run the school. They pretend to be students at it. & theyre using their influence to recruit smart rich students
- aka bleeders
- to their own cause. What is that cause? April isnt sure. But she knows they killed a rock star for it & innocents who got too close to the truth. One of them almost killed her. But thats nothing to whats coming next. Gabriel her kinda-boyfriend is dying & unless April can find a cure then not only is she going to be boyfriendless shes also going to lose one of her major allies in the school. & she really needs allies. Because it turns out April has an ability of her own one that could prove lethal to the Suckers whove taken over the school. If any of them figure out what she is then losing her boyfriend will be the least of her problems.. .

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He is the thorn in my side nightmare of my past destroyer of my family.. . And the one whose fevered kisses I had relived over & over as I lay exhausted & unable to sleep. & yet night after night he
- who had kicked down hundreds of doors
- had not brought himself to knock on mine. Nastasya has lived for more than 400 years but things never get any easier. As she learns more about herself she questions whether it will ever be possible to break free from the darkness of her former life. Can she turn away from the one person she wants to be with above all others? Should her past determine who she should
- or should not
- love? Desire death & painful secrets are revealed in this compulsively addictive sequel to Immortal Beloved.



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The sexy thrilling adventures continue in bestselling author Keri Arthur's new Dark Angels series starring half-werewolf/half-Aedh Risa Jones. Risa will go to any lengths to avenge her mother's murder
- even if it means making a pact with the most evil vampire she's ever met. Lethal & powerful Madeline Hunter is leader of the vampire council & will put her resources behind finding the killer
- for a price. The venerable vampire requires the assistance of Risa's psychic powers. Quid pro quo. Someone
- or something
- is targeting the elders of the local council cursing the immortal vampires to rapidly age sink into madness & die. Risa must track down the vengeful being responsible. But Risa's father a rogue Aedh priest also enlists her in a dangerous mission. & not even the great Madeline Hunter may be able to protect her from the shadowy forces that desire nothing less than Risa's destruction.



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Born from a lab-enhanced clone mother & an Aedh father Risa Jones can not only talk to the souls of the dying & the dead but she can see reapers & walk the grey fields that divide this world from the next. They are skills she rarely uses however. But when her mother asks her to help the parents of a little girl locked in a coma she reluctantly agrees. What she discovers terrifies her: someone has ripped the girls soul from her flesh. As it turns out a creature consuming the souls of the innocent
- & not so innocent
- is the least of her problems. Because someone wants to rip open the gates that divide hell from earth & Risa is a key component in their plans. & the only person standing between her & disaster is a reaper who isnt exactly on her side.

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After being ambushed by the Others Paladin warrior Jarvis Donahue is left for dead in the woods of southern Missouri where he is discovered by the beautiful & strong Gwen Mosely. Gwen notices one of Jarviss cuts is healing right before her eyes a phenomenon her half-brother Chase also possesses. Gwen resolves to take Jarvis back to her home to nurse him back to health. But when Jarvis awakens & is introduced to Chase he knows immediately what dangerous fate links the two of them: Chase is a young Paladin too. Eventually the time comes for Chase to battle the local Paladins badly wounding himself & putting Gwen in danger. Can Jarvis save her in time? ...

The sexy exciting suspenseful adventures continue in New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur's Dark Angels series starring Risa Jones a half-Aedh/half-werewolf. She can speak to the souls of the dying & the dead & can see Reapers the collectors of souls. Shortly after her fight on the astral plane Risa receives a phone call from Madeline Hunter the leader of the vampire council ordering her to investigate the death of Hunter's close friend & lover
- Wolfgang Schmidt. His body has been discovered wrapped in a web-like substance & has been completely drained. As the body count continues to grow Risa must summon her gifts to find the dark spirit before it strikes again. Meanwhile as the search for the keys that keep the gate to Hell closed grows more intense Risa begins to unravel mysteries that will have startling consequences for her.
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In the summer of 1985 William Styron was overtaken by persistent insomnia & a troubling sense of malaise
- the first signs of a
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