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#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face... Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters, vampires, shapeshifters, anything and everything. There are people like Anita who do it legal, but Edward doesn't sweat the legalities, or, hell, the ethics. He's an equal opportunity killer. Anita may be one of the few friends that Edward has, but it’s like being friends with a tame leopard. It may curl up on the foot of your bed and let you pet its head, but it can still eat your throat out... EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION ONLY: A PREVIEW OF THE LATEST ANITA BLAKE, VAMPIRE HUNTER NOVEL, CRIMSON DEATH
The Seventh Sun faces destruction as Mayana and Ahkin race to save their world in the finale to this “compulsively readable” series (Rachel A. Marks, author of Fire and Bone). To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime—the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed. As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this deadly game of worlds ending. Metzi, Ahkin’s treacherous sister, has seized control of the empire with the aid of the malevolent goddess known as the Obsidian Butterfly. But Metzi has no idea what the goddess has in store ... Yemania and Ochix face the wrath of both their peoples. Their forbidden liaison may draw ancient enemies together ... or rip the young lovers apart forever. And the princesses who battled fiercely for Ahkin’s heart in The Seventh Sun meet again—but this time, they must join forces in order to survive. As for Ahkin and Mayana, the entire empire seems to want to keep them apart. Can their love endure the end of the world?
Four young people risk their lives to save the world from a looming apocalypse in this captivating sequel to The Seventh Sun. Cast into the underworld after an act of shattering betrayal, Mayana and Ahkin must overcome unimaginable odds if they are to return home and reclaim the throne of the Chicome. A river of blood and demons disguised as children are only two of the challenges standing in their way. Fortunately, they are not unequipped. Mayana’s royal blood controls the power of water, and Prince Ahkin wields the power of the sun itself. Ometeotl, the Mother goddess, provides them with other gifts—and an ominous warning that one of them may not survive. But can the goddess be trusted? Back in the lands above, Mayana’s best friend, Yemania, has survived the empress selection ritual—but her next challenge may be more than she can bear. The new empress of the Chicome Empire demands she become High Healer. Yemania has no interest in serving in the palace; she wants to use her healing ability to help the common people. More than that, her heart is no longer her own. She has met an enchanting stranger—Ochix, one of the feared Miquitz people who are ancient enemies of the Chicome. As Mayana and Ahkin move ever closer to confronting the lords of the dead, Yemania and Ochix must hide their forbidden romance or face the wrath of both their empires. Meanwhile, the new empress has made a dangerous alliance that might destroy everything they hold dear. Based on ancient Mesoamerican legends and mythology, The Jade Bones is a compelling and romantic adventure that builds to a heart-stopping climax.
Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he’s now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all Ahkin’s efforts, the sun is fading—and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose blood controls the power of water, the old emperor’s death may mean that she is next. Prince Ahkin must be married before he can ascend the throne, and Mayana is one of six noble daughters presented to him as a possible wife. Those who are not chosen will be sacrificed to the gods. Only one girl can become Ahkin’s bride. Mayana and Ahkin feel an immediate connection, but the gods themselves may be against them. Both recognize that the ancient rites of blood that keep the gods appeased may be harming the Chicome more than they help. As a bloodred comet and the fading sun bring a growing sense of dread, only two young people may hope to change their world. Rich in imagination and romance, and based on the legends and history of the Aztec and Maya people, The Seventh Sun brings to vivid life a world on the edge of apocalyptic disaster.
The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey,James Mallory Pdf
The Outstretched Shadow, the first book in The Obsidian Trilogy from Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training--all men, for women were unfit to practice magic--memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council. Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic--or did they find him? The three slim volumes woke Kellen to the wide world outside the City's isolating walls. Their Magic was not dead, strangled by rules and regulations. It felt like a living thing, guided by the hearts and minds of those who practiced it and benefited from it. Questioning everything he has known, Kellen discovers too many of the City's dark secrets. Banished, with the Outlaw Hunt on his heels, Kellen invokes Wild Magic--and finds himself running for his life with a unicorn at his side. Kellen's life changes almost faster than he can understand or accept. Rescued by a unicorn, healed by a female Wild Mage who knows more about Kellen than anyone outside the City should, meeting Elven royalty and Elven warriors, and plunged into a world where the magical beings he has learned about as abstract concepts are flesh and blood creatures-Kellen both revels in and fears his new freedom. Especially once he learns about Demons. He'd always thought they were another abstract concept-a stand-in for ultimate evil. But if centaurs and dryads are real, then Demons surely are as well. And the one thing all the Mages of the City agreed on was that practicing Wild Magic corrupted a Mage. Turned him into a Demon. Would that be Kellen's fate? Deep in Obsidian Mountain, the Demons are waiting. Since their defeat in the last great War, they've been biding their time, sowing the seeds of distrust and discontent between their human and Elven enemies. Very soon now, when the Demons rise to make war, there will be no alliance between High and Wild Magic to stand against them. And all the world will belong to the Endarkened. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Karl, a young structural engineer, is suffering from visions, a vestige from the drugs he had experimented with when he was involved in the rave scene as a student. When he moves to the capital with some of his wilder friends, he meets a young and aspiring actress, Anna; and as their love blooms, his old way of life soon takes the back burner. But the visions continue, becoming more coherent, more tangible, and more real until one of them takes the form of the old revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky haunts him, appearing uninvited at inopportune moments: awkward and professorial, he speaks of Stalin, his exile in Mexico, and his relationship with the artist Frida Kahlo.This continues in the context of his decaying relationship with Anna until Karl finally accepts treatment with a psychiatrist. But during his analysis he is plagued by another apparition not dissimilar to that of one of the psychiatrist’s own patients: a young woman who, perhaps coincidentally, looks not unlike Frida Kahlo herself. As with Trotsky, the visions of the woman become more lifelike until one day she claims to be the living Itzpapalotl, an Aztec goddess. She speaks of her people and their subjugation. Then she makes the ultimate request of him…Loosely inspired by the life and thought of the Swiss psychoanalyst C.G. Jung, The Obsidian Butterfly presents a chilling and allegorical statement about the state of humanity at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and may be taken on many levels. The second part of a dyad of novels, it is the sequel to The Hummingbird on the Left.Praise for The Obsidian Butterfly and its prequel, The Hummingbird on the Left:'A talented author' [whose] 'books are very original' – Darin Jewell (literary agent)'Intriguing and well written' – Max Eilenberg (publisher)
Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today
Airesford by Carole Urban,Gevera Bert Piedmont Pdf
Airesford, a place of good magick and good eatin'. Humor, fantasy, romance, and zombies, with a side of pterodactyl butter. How had she ended up living in some alternate-reality corner of England, half in love with a gay vampire? Twenty-seven year old Laura Corben is a typical American Neo-Pagan, working in a new age shop, when an old man comes in and says he's her long-lost grandfather. He wants her to come home, to what she thought was a childhood fantasy. This place, of myth and legend and fine cooking, concealed in the mists west of Glastonbury, south of Pwllheli, left at the roundabout, past Minnie's Tasty Tarts, is Airesford, where long ago dragons, unicorns, and talking lizards found refuge beside spell-casters, rune-readers, and fry cooks. At Candlewick Castle, she is introduced to a bewildering array of sorcerers, sorceresses, masters, apprentices, pastry chefs, cafeteria cooks, witches, viceroys, the jousting team, novices, sauciers, spell-slingers, and discordians. Not only does she have to buy a new felt wardrobe, she also has deal with her own growing magickal abilities and confront the myriad magickal creatures of Airesford, not the least of which is snarling (but handsome in a creepy vampire way) alchemy Master Cedrus Narke, who is apparently trying to kill her. How had he so offended the gods that he should be smote with her and her lack of life signs? Enigmatic Cedrus Narke is Airesford's youngest ever alchemy Master. No one who knew him would ever make the mistake of thinking he was romantically available, or even desirable, and that's just how he likes it. No puzzle is too small to for him to solve, no annoyance too small to overlook, and the new crystal teacher Laura is both puzzling and annoying. She has a disappearing aura, she chews gum constantly, she is American, she is hiding something. He just knows she is a fraud and a spy, sent to destroy his homeland from within, and he will stop at nothing to prove it. All of Airesford depends on his finding out what type of mayhem this clumsy, soft American is planning. But when he drags her into the forbidden tunnels beneath Candlewick Castle, his worse fears are realized. On the Eve of Beltane, evil acquired the strength to get up and have a look around Kalimot, an ancient lich, is ready for another run at Airesford after a hundred year nap. A sorcerer of the fifth element, he was forced out of the four-element alliance that created Airesford long ago, and he vowed eternal revenge. With his loyal but incompetent guards, a zombie army of unwilling volunteers, a giant cauldron, and a large pot of rubber cement, Kalimot is ready to march across the mountains, if only he can overcome an ever-worsening series of seizures threatens his bodily integrity as well as his ability to rule. Live together, die alone The four elemental clans of Airesford must unite to fight this ancient evil, or succumb to the Kiss of Kalimot and become part of his zombie army. Now it is up to a ragtag group of instructors, chefs, gardeners, cleaning staff, gnomes, dwarfs, potion dealers, line cooks, instructors, students and even viceroys, not to mention hyperactive children wearing antique armor, to defend Airesford against Kalimot, his guards, and his zombies.
Obsidian Butterfly. (Anita Blake by Laurell K. Hamilton Pdf
Edward, a hit man who specializes in monsters, calls vampire hunter Anita Blake to help him hunt down the greatest evil she has ever encountered. Something that kills and maims and vanishes into the night--something Anita will have to face alone.
In Hollywood's underworld of demigods, druids, and ancient bonds, one girl has a dangerous future. Sage is eighteen, down on her luck, and struggling to survive on the streets of Los Angeles. Everything changes the night she's invited to a party--one that turns out to be a trap. Thrust into a magical world hidden within the City of Angels, Sage discovers that she's the daughter of a Celtic goddess, with powers that are only in their infancy. Now that she is of age, she's asked to pledge her service to one of the five deities, all keen on winning her favor by any means possible. She has to admit that she's tempted--especially when this new life comes with spells, Hollywood glam, and a bodyguard with secrets of his own. Not to mention a prince whose proposal could boost her rank in the Otherworld. As loyalties shift, and as the two men vie for her attention, Sage tries to figure out whom to trust in a realm she doesn't understand. One thing is for sure: the trap she's in has bigger claws than she thought. And it's going to take a lot more than magic for this Celtic demigoddess to make it out alive.
