Angel Martinez

Finn's been asleep for centuries. He'll need to catch up fast to survive.Diego's impulse to rescue a naked bridge jumper starts as just that--talk the man down and get him to social services. But there's something odd about this homeless person, more than just his delusions of being a pooka, and something so vulnerable that Diego's determined to help him stabilize rather than see him institutionalized or deported.Finn went into the Dreaming centuries ago to escape a heartbreak he couldn't bear. Now that he's back, he finds the Veil to the Otherworld closed. The fae courts have abandoned him in a poisoned human world where a displaced pooka has little chance of survival. His human rescuer is kind and compassionate--and shockingly familiar. One thing at a time, though. He needs Diego to believe he's not human first.

An unregistered human con wizard and a duty-bound, straight-laced elf cop. As New York explodes with dangerous creatures, their passion goes nuclear. After a terrible magical accident at Berkeley created unpredictable holes between realities, all manner of non-human creatures started popping into our world. These displacements, called Random Anomalous Reality Events or RARE, have taken magic out of fiction and relocated it firmly in reality, resulting in a great deal of chaos and confusion. Displaced elf Valerian works with AURA, the Agency of Unnatural Resettlement and Assimilation, to intercept these beings as they appear in the human world, helping the peaceful ones and subduing the violent, malevolent ones. It's good, satisfying work, and Val would be happy if he wasn't so lonely. Quinten is a young mage just trying to get by, but New York isn't the easiest city to make a living in. If his methods are sometimes morally dubious, his heart is still in the right place. Of course, for Quinn, the right place means firmly locked away, protected at all costs. Living by his wits and sometimes magically induced luck, he works as a 'freelance magic user', or unregistered mage and small-time con, according to the authorities. The last thing Quinn wants is to draw the cops' attention, but when an Event happens right on top of him, he's forced to turn to AURA for help. Valerian isn't at all what he'd expected in an AURA cop, and he certainly wasn't expecting to join forces with the sexy elf, a snarky drow and a bitter incubus, when certain individuals in power try to stop the RARE by any means necessary. Things are not all what they seem at AURA headquarters, and a greater evil lurks at the top than anyone could have imagined.

Ryld must learn to control his dangerous shadows before they kill someone he cares about or someone unscrupulous learns how to control him.AURA's offices have been quiet since the mage tower incident-as quiet as they can be for an agency dedicated to policing holes in reality-and the department heads have been free to turn their attention back to mundane matters. The return to quiet bureaucracy gives AURA's Director of Research, Kai Hiltas, the time to turn his energy to a new issue-a young drow with unusual and dangerous powers named Ryld.Though his shadows always lurk at the edges of his vision, Ryld does his best to live peacefully and not let them hurt anyone. He has his work, his apartment and a succession of minders assigned by AURA who are, ostensibly, there to keep him safe in his new world and to prevent him from causing any scenes with his shadows. Most of the time, the arrangement works. But one disastrous incident causes Ryld's minder to leave him unattended and lost-the precise thing he was hired to prevent.To replace the faithless minder, Kai suggests Hank, a half-goblin accountant recently in the middle of a string of terrible luck, while Kai works out how best to get Ryld the magical training he so desperately needs. For his part, Hank truly likes Ryld and insists he would be happier working as Ryld's companion rather than as a controlling minder.As Hank and Ryld slowly come to terms with sharing space-and eventually more-Kai's search for a teacher for Ryld takes them out west on the invitation of the Elvenhome's aelfe queen and right into the lap of inter-elven feuds, ancient prejudice, conspiracies and trafficking rings. What should have been a pleasant visit soon turns into more than even forever-scheming Kai can handle.

Chief Engineer Shandi Leavenworth has been crushing on Major Tyra Sur ever since she joined station staff, though the laconic customs officer doesn't give up personal information easily. A few scraps of information leads Shandi to the perfect Solstice present, until of course everything goes horribly wrong.Major Sur took the job on Onwa Station for the stability, the quiet, and out of a need to be useful. It's been all of those things up until the woman she's been quietly flirting with at the bar puts in a desperate call for help. There's no question they need to save the station, but Tyra's not so sure about saving their budding relationship.

The boys desperately need a vacation. With the not-quite-ill-gotten gains from the Frog incident, Shax takes the Brimstone's crew to the exclusive resort planet, Opal, for some much needed rest and relaxation. The resort has everything a demon prince and his crew could want, but an incident on the Trauma Ball court has Ness stalking off in anger and sends events swiftly spiraling out of control.Loving a demon isn't easy, as Ness has discovered, and harder still for a newly fallen who's still sorting out what that means. A new friend lending a sympathetic ear helps until Ness learns too late that friendship was the last thing on BJ's mind.Shax will need every bit of his cunning and his legendary luck to save his Ness as he's drawn into a web of criminal experiments and...pink hedgehogs?

When Shax stumbles across rumors of an experimental house that responds to the occupant's brain functions, creating scenarios to please and delight, naturally he wants to steal it. While stealing an entire house sounds impossible, the demon prince has a cunning plan.But a night at the ballet heralds the return of a troubled and hunted Julian Parallax. He brings ominous news to whisper in Shax's ear and forces Ness to battle a new emotion - raging jealousy. With nefarious plots in the background and an overabundance of Poe references, even Shax's scheming may not be enough to get the Brimstone crew out alive this time.

Someone abandons a pedigree hellcat right where Shax can conveniently claim her and sets off a cataclysmic domino line of events. It's time for the other shoe to drop since the Brimstone has a shadow cabal after them-partly due to Shax's own, er, interesting decisions and partly due to the presence of Agent Julian Parallax onboard.As ship security officer, Ness has a lot on his mind-a dangerous new pet, even more dangerous criminals tracking the Brimstone, and yet another unexpected rescued guest. The last thing he needs is a distraction and Julian, who confuses and confounds him more every moment, is exactly the distraction he doesn't need. Between Shax's reckless gambits and Julian's disregard for his own safety, how is Ness supposed to keep anyone safe?The Brimstone and her intrepid crew do all they can to stay one step ahead, but this time the hunters are closing in.

While Shax recovers from a near fatality, his shipmates have been busy. He's rather proud of them for taking the initiative and finding them a lucrative cargo run. His pride turns to outright horror, though, when he finds out what sort of cargo. Frogs. The one thing in the universe that incites mindless panic in Shax. Unfortunately, he also soon discovers that a healthy fear of frogs doesn't prevent frog-driven disasters.An unlikely series of overlapping mishaps hurls the Brimstone back to an even more unlikely point in history for a couple of demons and a fallen angel in a spaceship. Somehow they need to repair and refuel, and puzzle out how to get home. Time travel has never been so messy.

Shax, the Demon Prince of Thieves, has reconciled himself to exile. He has a grand time careening around the galaxy as a high-end, intergalactic purloiner of pretties. Everything's going just fine, thank you very much. All right, fine, the anti-gravity cows are a bit problematic and some of his buyers are bad for his health, but he manages until he comes across an injured angel in a psychedelic alien jungle.He only rescues the wing boy for his golden feathers, but what Shax doesn't know about angels could fill an intergalactic encyclopedia. Ness, since his full, angelic name is too much to deal with, is shockingly na ve and seems convinced that Shax and Verin have brought him aboard to torture him or perhaps eat him. Little by little, Shax begins to earn his trust in the quest to wheedle a golden feather or two from him until to Shax's dismay, the yearning after pretties becomes a different sort of yearning entirely.

EL MANUAL DEL DETECTIVE contiene apenas una parte de lo que un detective internacional debe saber en la materia de PSICOLOG A CRIMINAL, sin embargo, todos los criterios tratados, ofrecen un amplio conocimiento que har de la investigaci n de un crimen una obra maestra. Llevamos al Detective Privado Internacional a otro nivel de conocimiento, al abordar en el primer cap tulo una introducci n a la psicolog a criminal. La Psicolog a en torno a los actos criminales: En qu consiste? En la actualidad, la psicolog a se ha convertido en una disciplina fundamental en la administraci n de justicia y de la investigaci n y es fundamental conocer sus alcances y herramientas en el mundo de la investigaci n privada.En el segundo cap tulo ofrecemos una visi n de otro aspecto muy valioso dentro de la investigaci n, LA PSICOPATOL A CRIMINAL, nos ayuda saber diferenciar a un delincuente o criminal de una persona enferma. El cap tulo tres T CNICAS DE OBTENCI N DE INFORMACI N, incluye el INTERROGATORIO POLICIAL, posiblemente la herramienta de investigaci n m s utilizada. El investigador privado encontrar que un conocimiento profundo de la psicolog a criminal le proporcionar una inestimable ayuda para llevar a cabo con xito cualquier interrogatorio, conocimientos que aporta este manual.El cuarto cap tulo no menos importante T CNICAS PSICOL GICAS DE INVESTIGACI N CRIMINAL aborda finalmente el manejo de herramientas que todo investigador privado debe conocer: la hipnosis, las t cnicas poligr ficas, la autopsia psicol gica, La Predicci n de la Conducta Violenta, y los Instrumentos evaluaci n riego del comportamiento violento.El quinto cap tulo EL ASESINO EN SERIE ofrecer al lector una breve gu a de referencia sobre c mo se aplica el conocimiento cient fico del crimen en serie a su investigaci n policial, as como aclarar algunos conceptos te ricos b sicos para la comprensi n de tan complejo fen meno delictivo. En definitiva, MANUAL DEL DETECTIVE PRIVADO, T cnicas Psicol gicas de Investigaci n Criminal desarrollado por el detective internacional NGEL MAT NEZ no debe faltar en la biblioteca de un buen profesional de la investigaci n privada

When a steel trap of celestial and infernal politics threatens to close around them, Shax and Verin flee Earth's system in a stolen ship, leaving everything behind. It's an elegantly simple plan, with a new ship and a new life as carefree brigands among the stars.But the ship seems to hate them, and in order to have any sort of life they need funds. A frightened man offering them a contract to deliver three mysterious crates comes just in time, and Shax is sure their troubles are over. Out of his environment and in over his head, Shax scrambles to understand the players and the consequences of his new life. With cargo that's not what it seems, shadowy motives around every turn, and a gorgeous rogue named Julian for a dash of added confusion, Shax's grand schemes of a new start may be his demise before he can even begin.

Diego's world refused to stand still in his absence. Now he's no longer sure of his place in it.Three years ago, Danu banished Diego from the human world for a time. Three years and three days doesn't seem that long to be away from home but time among the wild fae can change a man and the human world returns the favor by changing while he's gone. There's a vampire on Tearmann Island's security force. A curious selkie's followed him home. So much to do to keep the world safe...but Diego's no longer sure he has the right to interfere.Theo Aguilar started his vampire life on the wrong side of the law. He's killed and knows he's dangerous if he doesn't stay in control every moment. But the fae took him in and Prince Lugh has given him a position of trust. So when Diego and Finn are arrested on a diplomatic mission far from home, he knows his duty. He's striking out on his own to rescue them, a lone vigilante once again, this time for the good guys. The only glitch? The selkie, Limpet, can't seem to understand the alone part.

Sofia Cancino is tired of her mundane life, her artificial environment and her large, boisterous family descending every holiday season. She's promised herself this year will be different and books a stay on the exclusive-and expensive--holiday-themed resort, Yule Planet. She looks forward to being pampered while reconnecting with Old Earth traditions steeped in the magic and mysticism of nature. Everything will be perfect and she'll leave as a more authentic human, better connected to her roots.Naturally, things go horribly wrong. Sofia's landing pod goes off course and instead of stepping out on the landing pad at the resort, she finds herself in the snow-swept perpetual winter of the planet's hinterlands. If that wasn't bad enough, she's "rescued" by a band of criminals on work release who run deliveries to the resort from far-flung shuttle delivery sites. They refuse to take her, a paying customer, to the resort and insist on dragging her along on their parcel run. Riding giant monsters. In frigid weather. Not to mention, Marta, who handles the monsters, obviously hates her.If Sofia survives her vacation, she's definitely yelling at someone's supervisor until she gets a refund.Part of the 2018 "Escape from the Holidays" SeriesStay Awhile by Kassandra LeaBurning Down the House by Gregory NorrisThe Holiday Spirit by Carole CummingsSlow Thaw by J. Scott CoatsworthCelebrations in the Season of Long Nights by Mere RainThe Holiday Home Hotel by Lou SylvreSomething to Celebrate by Evelyn BenvieHoliday Hijinks by Toni GriffinYule Planet by Angel MartinezWaiting on the Rain by Freddy Mackay