Kirjahaku

July, 1945. Soldiers are coming home from the war...and monsters come with them.THE REDEEMER Rosie Ransom wants to defy convention and keep her job, even when her boyfriend comes home from war. But there's defying convention, and then there's executing a demon on the factory floor. Rosie is ready to roll with the demon-slaying power that's awakened inside her--if she can figure out how to make it work on command...THE HUNTER Crippled by monsters in Europe, Hank Vaughn is home and searching for evidence of a demonic insurgence in Detroit--or better yet, a Redeemer, one of the rare women capable of freeing demons from their torment. Rosie could be his ticket to proving himself within the ranks of a secret demon-hunting society, if she would just play along...THE CATCH Rosie can't fight. Hank won't talk. They might be able to take down the infestation in Detroit together...if they don't walk out on each other first. But the demons are coming for them, so Rosie and Hank had better work together--and avoid getting arrested as the bodies pile up. Unfortunately, Rosie's already on the police radar, and Hank has a few hometown secrets that could end up killing their investigation before it begins.And killing Hank and Rose as well....

REVEL IN THE CHAOS OF THE AFTERMATHThe laws that governed the Old Races for time immemorial have been broken. Ancient rivals are scattered. Friendships are ended. What was hidden begins to step out of shadow and into the light.And after millennia of imagining this moment, the Old Races discover they are unprepared for what it brings. Human magic subtly infiltrates the world as dreamwalkers face down dragonlords and Orpheus's mythical songs resonate through ancient bloodlines. Through it all, pirate, queen, and vigilante Grace O'Malley is drawn back into the world she was banished from centuries ago: the world of the living. Cursed by a witch, the deepest of all human magics, she searches for the impossible, the one thing that even the Old Races agree doesn't exist: The kiss of angels....

When CIA Agent Alisha MacAleer's cover is blown by ex-lover Frank Reichart, she's forced into a spy game that draws a curtain back on a world she never even suspected existed... The clandestine Sicarii have hired Brandon Parker, the brilliant, estranged son of Alisha's handler, to develop an artificial intelligence capable of enforcing their divine right to rule. No one, not even Brandon's father, imagines he can do it--not until Alisha herself faces one of the AI's battle drones in combat. It's suddenly a race between the CIA, the Sicarii, and Alisha's mercenary ex, to see who can keep--or steal--the AI for themselves. No matter which way Alisha turns, she faces new dangers and heartbreaking betrayals. In the end, she has no choice but to adhere to the cardinal rule... Trust no one but yourself.

Agent Alisha MacAleer has put the past behind her as best she can, but her trust in the CIA is no longer what it was...and the Agency's faith in Alisha is fractured, too.When a mission goes sideways-again-thanks to her ex-lover Frank Reichart, Alisha's loyalties are called into question. Furious to learn that brilliant but treacherous Brandon Parker is back developing the next generation of his sophisticated artificial intelligences, assigned to desk duty, and sure that there are answers that only she can get to, Alisha is left with an impossible choice.She can follow orders, or she can strike out on her own to uncover Brandon's intentions, Reichart's secrets, and the hidden mastermind behind the game she's been drawn into-a mastermind whose identity she suspects, but could never guess.With no support, no resources, and no safety net, Alisha must believe that honor can survive a trial by fire....

Ancient rivals, worst of friends, best of enemies: dragonlord Janx and master vampire Eliseo Daisani are the threads upon which a tapestry of lives and loves are woven across the centuries. From the coldest Russian nights to the heat of Chicago's greatest fire, nothing brings the immortal adversaries together--or tears them apart--like a woman.And there is always a woman.Vanessa Grey has been at Daisani's side for decades, but the secrets borne by a witch may be her undoing. Baba Yaga's daughter hatches plots that are centuries in the making, but they may only succeed if the very human Margrit Knight, nicknamed 'the Negotiator', will work with her. And there are others: the deadliest vampire hunter mankind has ever known, and a woman who glimpses the wonder of the Old Races...and chooses to walk away.Revisit C.E. Murphy's world of the Old Races with ten stories that delve into the past and future of the two most beloved characters from her urban fantasy trilogy The Negotiator

Lara Jansen knows if she's being lied to.Her strange truth-sensing ability has brought her from Boston to the Barrow-lands, a Faerie world embroiled in a bloody civil war between Seelie and Unseelie...and into the arms of a Faerie prince, Dafydd ap Caerwyn, whose love is the one thing Lara is certain of.But love and power don't easily go hand-in-hand, and Lara's magic is enhanced-and threatened-by a weapon only she can wield: a deadly enchanted staff which seeks to bend her to its will. With Dafydd missing, perhaps dead, and the Barrow-lands on the cusp of destruction, Lara has no other choice. She must harness the magic of the staff and her own truthseeking talents, blazing a path to a long-forgotten truth-a truth with the power to save the Barrow-lands...or destroy them.

Lara Jansen is the world's worst liar. Literally.Born with an uncanny gift to know when the truth is being spoken, Lara lives a quiet, risk-adverse life as a tailor. But when handsome, mysterious Dafydd ap Caerwyn enters her life and claims-truthfully-to be a prince of Faerie, Lara's world is turned upside-down.Dafydd has traveled from his world-the Barrow-lands-in search of a 'truthseeker' to help untangle the truth around his brother's murder, a crime which the warring factions in the Seelie court can't solve. Lara, determined to take a few chances with her life, agrees to journey to the Barrow-lands with him, but there, discovers that even her gifts don't necessarily prevent people from lying to her...and that charming, irresistible Dafydd has secrets of his own.Caught between ancient, bitter rivalries and a burgeoning evil wielding dark power, Lara's own abilities grow uncontrollably, and the Barrow-lands may yet discover that truth is the deadliest magic of all....