Kat Ross

Never make a blood pact with the most notorious necromancer in Aveline.Especially if he wants you to steal a magic box that once belonged to his insane, demon-binding ancestor. It just won't end well. But Lo will risk everything to find her parents... even it means a fool's bargain with Nathan Ouvrard. The quest leads to the scorching city of Prydwen, where a revolt is brewing against the tyrannical new Duc. Cas and Lucius are hot on her trail - along with a host of unsavory enemies. And Nathan's promise that his heirloom will be simple to retrieve turns out to be as empty as his social calendar. What's inside the box? Will it save the world, as he claims? Or destroy it? And if Lo returns to Castle Cazal a single minute late, just how painful will her death be? Bien s r... A hope in hell is still better than none at all.

Gli spettri invadono il selvaggio West in questa trilogia avventurosa che mescola i generi letterari. I lettori l'hanno definita "frenetica", "ad alto rischio" e piena di "colpi di scena da far girare la testa" IL LAVORO: Doveva essere semplice. Aiutare il marshal Sebastian Hardin a scortare il suo prigioniero lungo la ferrovia, fino alla fermata successiva di Charter Oak. Solo una fermata. Ma se quel prigioniero un savant che parla con gli spettri, anche i piani pi semplici possono andare in fumo. LA LEGGE: L'agente Ruth Cortez fa sempre la cosa giusta. Lucky Boy una citt aziendale, dipendente dalla ricca e potente famiglia Carnarvon. Per di pi , il carismatico Sebastian Hardin non un uomo a cui facile dire di no. Quando il treno in cui viaggiano deraglia nel mezzo della prateria, Ruth inizia un'implacabile caccia all'uomo che la porter dritta al cuore oscuro dell'impero dei Carnarvon. IL FUGGITIVO: Lee Merriweather predilige abiti eleganti e treni veloci, soprattutto quando li ruba. Alla veneranda et di 18 anni, riuscito a diventare il criminale pi ricercato in tre territori. Lee non resiste alla tentazione e gioca al gatto e al topo con un'agente di un piccolo paese, ma quello che inizia come un gioco diventer mortalmente serio. IL RISOLUTORE: Sebastian Hardin il braccio destro dei Carnarvon, fedele fino alla morte e disposto a mantenere qualsiasi segreto pur di proteggere la famiglia. Vogliono Lee vivo, ma con le inquietanti capacit del giovane savant non sar un'impresa facile. Chiunque catturi Lee avr le chiavi del regno e i Carnarvon non sono gli unici a dargli la caccia. Sebastian ha gi abbastanza problemi e non pu pensare di innamorarsi dell'agente Cortez, ma non si pu sempre scegliere chi amare. GLI SPETTRI: Hanno terrorizzato gli abitanti dei territori finch Calindra Carnarvon non ha imparato a parlare la loro lingua. Il suo impero si basa sul controllo dei loro poteri telecinetici, ma Lee Merriweather potrebbe distruggere tutto. E nemmeno Lee sospetta la sconvolgente verit sulla vera natura degli spettri.

Lust is a siren . . . Greed is a dragon . . . But revenge is the most seductive mistress of all.Held captive in Dur-Athaara, Malach would give anything to return to the land he once despised. But the witch-queen has declared him too dangerous to run loose, a prophecy that proves right when he escapes to wreak havoc on a continent already poised at the brink of civil war. Across the sea in the icy fortress of Sinjali's Lance, Alexei's brother grows more dangerous by the day. Desperate to find a cure for Mikhail's Nightmark, they return to Nantwich, where Kasia is hunting the Order of the Black Sun. Forbidden to use her power, she walks a razor's edge. The Red King stalks her dreams. Is she strong enough to resist his seductive whispers? As armies gather, and the Black Sun rises over the Morho Sarpanitum, sworn enemies must join forces to stop an unspeakable evil from devouring the world. You'll love Book #3 in the Nightmarked series because of the complex antiheroes, kick-ass women and immersive world-building. Get it now.

Who is the Jack of Wolves? Kasia's cards never lie . . . And all her readings warn of mortal danger.Hunted by the Order of the Black Sun, she flees to a remote manor house in Kvengard. But evil has come to the city. Children are going missing. Ghostly figures haunt the grounds at night. Can she use her newfound powers to discover the truth before it's too late? At the Arx, Alexei is investigating the abductions. The case leads him down ever darker paths-and towards both his brother and the woman he yearns for. An ancient text on alchemy holds the keys to solving the mystery, if the Order doesn't find them both first. Meanwhile, the Nightmage Malach promised to help Nikola reach the witches of Dur-Athaara, but letting her go demands that he renounce his selfish nature. A man with one foot in light and the other in deepest shadow, Malach's choice will have consequences for them all. You'll love Book #2 in the Nightmarked series for its twisty plot, captivating characters and intricate magic. Get it now.

BLIZZARDS, BEARS, AND BARROOM BRAWLS Disgraced sheriff's deputy Ruth Cortez never thought she'd be a wanted fugitive. She certainly never expected to be facing the End Times with nothing but an old flintlock and a dead man's boots. But someone has to stop the snake-handling Reverend Jolly before he recruits the most infamous outlaws in the Northern Territory to terrorize her hometown. With luck, she can stay one step ahead of her lover-turned-enemy Marshal Sebastian Hardin-and keep the irrepressible Lee Merriweather from landing them all in even deeper trouble. When Ruth, Lee and the train cook Ned Carver roll into Hatchet, the Wickedest Little Town in the N.T., all their plans go sideways. Something is terribly wrong with Ruth's cantankerous phantom, Doc. And an unexpected betrayal leaves them in their tightest spot yet. Things are looking decidedly grim when evil forces descend on the isolated town of Lucky Boy. But as they say on the prairie, a pair of six-shooters beats a pair of sixes-and Hell hath no fury like a woman defending her home.

For the Shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down the deep well. After decades of civil war, the Via Sancta has declared victory over humanity's basest instincts. Anger, hatred and greed are suppressed by intricate Marks on the skin. Wards have tamed the wild psychic magic of the ley. Four of the six cities still stand, and if a few rebel Nightmages haunt the ruins of the other two, the Church has dismissed them as toothless. Alexei Bryce is a priest in the storm-wracked southern capital of Novostopol. He hunts deviants whose Marks have inverted, driving them mad. When a prominent doctor violently turns, Alexei stumbles across a conspiracy at the highest levels of the Via Sancta. The trail leads to Kasia Novak, a tarot reader with dangerous secrets of her own. The cards say their fates are intertwined - but only if the threads aren't snapped short. Now the ley is rising again. A Nightmage has infiltrated the city, bent on finding Kasia. And Alexei discovers that his faith's victory over the darkest recesses of the human soul is more fragile than he imagined. What is your deepest desire? Money? Power? Revenge? Lust? I'll give to you. Malach is many things. Corrupter of the pious. Survivor of the Via Sancta's bloody campaigns. Implacable enemy of all it stands for. He's primal desire made flesh, and the thing he wants most is a child. Half-bloods are fragile creatures, but if this one survives, it will be monster, a savior - or both.

HARD TO CATCH. HARDER TO KEEP. Lee Merriweather has fled across the line into Pedro Braga's jurisdiction, an untamed desert too vast for even the ruthless Guardia Territorial to keep any semblance of order. The Carnarvons want him dead or alive - and with Lee's attitude, the first seems most likely. The trail south runs straight through two thousand miles of badlands. To find him, Ruth and Sebastian must survive sabotage, bloodthirsty bandits, and fresh horrors at the Reverend Jolly's church in New Jerusalem. The hardships draw them into a passionate affair, but loyalties are put to the test when they finally reach the capital of Aguadulce and all hell breaks loose. Ruth has privately vowed to stop Sebastian from killing Lee, even as the young savant seems bent on his own destruction. And he's just a pawn in a game with higher stakes than anyone realizes. One that goes beyond empires. One that encompasses worlds.The phantoms are the key. But can Ruth uncover the truth in time to save them all?

Lingua Magika is a fast-paced Western steampunk fantasy series with a dash of romance and adventure A Feast of Phantoms is Book #1, with two more to follow. THE JOB It was supposed to be simple. Help Marshal Sebastian Hardin escort his prisoner one stop on the railway to Charter Oak. Just one stop. But when that prisoner is a savant who talks to ghosts, even the simplest plans have a way of falling apart. THE LAW Sheriff's Deputy Ruth Cortez always does the right thing. Lucky Boy is a company town, dependent on the rich and powerful Carnarvon family. Besides which, the charismatic Sebastian Hardin isn't an easy man to say no to. When his transport derails in the middle of the prairie, Ruth begins a relentless manhunt that leads straight into the dark heart of the Carnarvon empire. THE FUGITIVE Lee Merriweather favors sharp suits and fast trains - especially when he's stealing them. At the ripe old age of 18, he's managed to become the most wanted criminal in three territories. Lee can't resist playing cat and mouse with a small-town deputy, but what starts as a game becomes deadly serious. THE FIXER Sebastian Hardin is the Carnarvons' right hand, loyal to the death and willing to keep any secret to protect the family. They want Lee alive, but with the young savant's disturbing abilities it won't be an easy proposition. Whoever catches Lee gets the keys to the kingdom and the Carnarvons aren't the only ones hunting him down. Sebastian has enough problems without falling for Deputy Cortez - but you can't always choose who you love. THE PHANTOMS They terrorized the settlers until Calindra Carnarvon learned to speak their language. Her empire relies on controlling their telekinetic powers, but Lee Merriweather could destroy it all. And not even Lee suspects the shocking truth of the phantoms' real nature.

A poisonous secret.A terrifying curse.And a client she'd just as soon see dead in a ditch.... Summer 1889. Harrison Fearing Pell hoped for adventure when she signed on with the Society for Psychical Research as an occult investigator. Slogging through New York's sewers in pursuit of a "mud man" wasn't exactly what she had in mind. But the reeking monster terrorizing the dance halls of the Tenderloin leads her to an even more peculiar mystery - and the last man on earth Harry wishes to become entangled with. James Moran is a prodigy in music, mathematics . . . and crime. Harry's older sister, the famed detective Myrtle Fearing Pell, has vowed to put him behind bars. But Harry owes Moran a personal debt, so when he demands her aid she can hardly refuse. It turns out that the brilliant black sheep of New York Society is part of a secret club at Columbia College whose members have started dying in bizarre ways that may not be accidents. Thus begins one of the strangest cases of Harry's career, a tale of murder, cold-blooded revenge and fairytale bogeymen to make the Brothers Grimm shudder. As the bodies pile up, each preceded by sightings of the victim's doppelg nger, Harry and her stalwart friend John Weston must race against time to save a man who arguably deserves his macabre fate.

Forgiveness is not Gabriel D'Ange's strong suit. A self-appointed soldier of God with a penchant for ruthlessly punishing his enemies, he vanished after Anne Lawrence stabbed him with his own dagger. The smart thing would be to let him go. Unfortunately, Anne's life isn't just lonely without Gabriel. It's insufferably boring. Determined to heal the rift between them, she goes in search of her tempestuous former lover, black parasol in hand and daeva magic crackling at her fingertips. But Gabriel has his own plans afoot and Anne finds herself drawn into one of his tangled webs, much against her better judgment. Gabriel's nemesis has reappeared in Brussels, a vile slaver who's plundering the Congo Free State with the blessing of King Leopold. Gabriel might be willing to give Anne a second chance, but not until Jorin Bekker's head is lying at his feet. Back in London, the quasi-reformed necromancer Balthazar sets his sights on the same quarry. He holds a very personal grudge against Bekker - and killing him might be the only way to keep Gabriel D'Ange from Balthazar's own throat. When the hunters collide at a lavish gala thrown by the king, Anne learns just how far she'll go to save the man she loves. Note: The Necromancer's Bride is the sequel to A Bad Breed, which should be read first.

In the last volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the worlds of the living and the dead collide in a final confrontation that will leave Nocturne and Solis forever changed.... Three talismans adrift. Two mad kings. One poisonous crown. As dark forces gather at the Rock of Ariamazes in Samarqand, Nazafareen discovers that there are worse places than the afterlife. The twisted creature pulling the Vatras' strings is holed up in the deepest level of the Dominion-and only she has the power to follow him there, though at the potential cost of her own soul. Prophecy claims the three daeva clans must unite to face their greatest enemy again, but two of the talismans have vanished and the third is a child more used to skulking in the shadows than leading an army. Meb the Mouse might be their last hope-if anyone bothers to take her seriously. And within the confines of the Rock, a dying king makes a pact with the devil, setting in motion a chain of events that could spell doom for friends and foes alike. WARNING: This book contains twists and turns, richly deserved comeuppances, shocking revelations, knock-down, drag-out fights, obsessive stalkers, some very nasty monsters...and, of course, true love.