Romance : Gothic

James, the new Duke of Hawkthorn, is finally home and ready to repair the estate and restore it to its former glory, just the way Granddad, the former and now deceased Duke would have liked it. James's father cared little for estate business, and it had all but fallen to ruin. But, no more. All would be safely under the guidance and control of the organized and efficient new Duke. And one other thing--it was time to find a husband for his ward: Julia, who had befriended his much younger brother and had been a silly pest to him in his own younger days. She was just a child when he had left, and now--such a beautiful woman. Yes, it was high time to find that girl a suitable husband. A Christmas party at the house would bring young men and women together, and James was sure he could play Cupid. He didn't count on his own feelings toward Julia changing so much and he didn't count on his grandfather, in ghostly form, stepping in and to play a little Cupid himself... more...

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Enter a midnight world of dark seduction and unquenchable desire, of sinful pleasure and breathtaking intrigue—where amid the flames of war and the immortal thirst of two irresistible lovers, an alliance is born that would burn forever.... NIGHT FIRES Beautiful and damned, Simone de la Fer roamed the French nights as a vampire. more...

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Joanne Walker is a Seattle cop with no use for the mystical. When she sees a woman running for her life, she has to get involved--even when the woman, Marie, claims to be hunted by Cernunnos, an ancient Celtic god who leads the Wild Hunt. Jo's solid, real world explodes when Cernunnos tramples through a local diner and calls her out. The fight ends with Jo's near-death, and in a hazy experience between life and death, she's greeted by the Native American trickster Coyote. He gives her a choice: death, or life as a shaman. Jo chooses the healer's path, forced to acknowledged an aspect of the universe she's never seen before. Marie is murdered a few hours later. Jo, stunned, throws caution to the wind and seeks out guidance on a psychic plane. Half a dozen shamans, all of them dead in an apparently unconnected series of recent murders, respond. They charge her with finding the man who murdered them, unable to give her a greater clue than "he seeks the child." The next morning Jo wakes up to news that four children have been murdered at a local high school. She arrives at the school to discover a ritualized death scene. She speaks with the class teacher and, through a healing trance, learns the killer's identity – Herne the Hunter, Cernunnos' son. Jo begins tracking Herne; Cernunnos, in turn, hunts Jo. Her newborn shamanic powers are the key to his ability to stay on Earth rather than be pulled back into shadow with the turn of the seasons. Their final confrontation takes place on an astral level, a very physical battle that leaves them both worn and battered, and binds Cernunnos to the cycle of time once more. Another fight still remains, though: Jo tracks down Herne and with him, his daughter, whom Herne intends to sacrifice in a blood ritual that will permit him to take Cernunnos' place as leader of the Hunt. As she battles Herne, Jo comes to better understand the path she's chosen, finally accepting her fate as a warrior and a healer in a world ful more...

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Who is killing all the great vampires of tenth century Paris! In a storm-wracked French Tavern, Franc, one of the undead, encounters a former lover on the run. His bite turned Livia into as vampire long-ago, and now she has just barely escaped with her undead life from the unknown assassins who have slaughtered most of the vampires in Paris. more...

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