Kirjahaku

The blood-tingling first novel in Mandy Jackson-Beverly's The Creatives Series UCLA art professor Coco Rhodes knows little about her family's association with the ancient clandestine organization The Allegiance and wants to keep it that way. She dislikes secrets--they're a painful reminder of her childhood experiences that were erased as a result of her parents' tragic deaths when she was four years old. After a brutal attempt on her life and the arrival of a birthday letter from her dead mother, Coco demands explanations from her brother, Christopher, a high-powered D.C. lawyer and member of the Allegiance. Christopher guides Coco to her birthplace, Italy, insisting she'll find her answers there. Enter the enigmatic Gabriel, a powerful warlock with a vampire father, and the ethereal Prudence, keeper of the Allegiance. When a close friend is murdered, Coco's life takes a dark turn. With only a faded portrait torn from a lost sketchbook and one of her mother's unfinished paintings, Coco unravels clues from her past, in the hope of saving those she loves.

The blood-tingling first novel in Mandy Jackson-Beverly's The Creatives Series UCLA art professor Coco Rhodes knows little about her family's association with the ancient clandestine organization The Allegiance and wants to keep it that way. She dislikes secrets--they're a painful reminder of her childhood experiences that were erased as a result of her parents' tragic deaths when she was four years old. After a brutal attempt on her life, and the arrival of a birthday letter from her dead mother, Coco demands explanations from her brother, Christopher, a high-powered D.C. lawyer and member of the Allegiance. Christopher guides Coco to her birthplace, Italy, insisting she'll find her answers there. Enter the enigmatic Gabriel, a powerful warlock with a vampire father, and the ethereal Prudence, keeper of the Allegiance. When a close friend is murdered, Coco's life takes a dark turn. With only a faded portrait torn from a lost sketchbook, and one of her mother's unfinished paintings, Coco unravels clues from her past, in the hope of saving those she loves.

The Legend of Astridr: BirthBefore the Allegiance came Astridr, whose legend began long before her birth.When the imprisoned seer Sonja is liberated by thirteen Viking warriors, a storm takes the lives of her rescuers and she's left dying and alone. The fae prince Hakon hears her cries--as does Freyja, goddess of the underworld, who arrives to negotiate for Sonja's soul. In love and sacrifice, Sonja survives to bear a daughter, Astridr--while the bargain between the fae prince and the goddess lays the foundation for an immortal's legend.

The Legend of Astridr: BirthBefore the Allegiance came Astridr, whose legend began long before her birth.When the imprisoned seer Sonja is liberated by thirteen Viking warriors, a storm takes the lives of her rescuers and she's left dying and alone. The fae prince Hakon hears her cries--as does Freyja, goddess of the underworld, who arrives to negotiate for Sonja's soul. In love and sacrifice, Sonja survives to bear a daughter, Astridr--while the bargain between the fae prince and the goddess lays the foundation for an immortal's legend.

Complex Betrayal. Secret Murder. Monumental Revenge.It's time to take the next step with the Allegiance, but Coco's trust in Gabriel is threatened as, just when she needs him most, images of his past indiscretions emerge from her paintings and she finds love letters to him from an admirer. While the third incarnation of evil gathers strength, ancient tunnels beneath a Roman villa reveal the morbid history of Kenan and his predecessors and the secret of a fatal affair. Gabriel and Alessandro devise a plan to destroy Kenan, but someone will have to cross into a realm of women who died at Kenan's brutal hand--and a woman Gabriel once admired will lead the resurrection.As Coco and Gabriel's love faces its harshest test ever, can she sacrifice her humanity to finally become one with the Allegiance?

Complex Betrayal. Secret Murder. Monumental Revenge.It's time to take the next step with the Allegiance, but Coco's trust in Gabriel is threatened as, just when she needs him most, images of his past indiscretions emerge from her paintings and she finds love letters to him from an admirer. While the third incarnation of evil gathers strength, ancient tunnels beneath a Roman villa reveal the morbid history of Kenan and his predecessors and the secret of a fatal affair. Gabriel and Alessandro devise a plan to destroy Kenan, but someone will have to cross into a realm of women who died at Kenan's brutal hand--and a woman Gabriel once admired will lead the resurrection.As Coco and Gabriel's love faces its harshest test ever, can she sacrifice her humanity to finally become one with the Allegiance?