Lexi Ostrow

Deidre Adams wasn't looking for love. In fact, since the death of her boyfriend, she'd been blissfully happy with a string of one-night stands and tawdry affairs. Being a witch meant she had a long life left to live, but being alone after having the love of a lifetime didn't bother her.Jonathon Trevors is the youngest warlock on the NOPD. He often found himself stuck with cases older warlocks couldn't keep up on or didn't want. It also meant he wasn't looking for a wife to share his life with. Work kept him busy and he liked the life he lived.Deidre and Johnathon happen to be at the same place when a murder takes place and they find themselves hexed together. They'll have to find the killer in order to get it removed or face a lifetime forced together.

The world is awake - vampires, witches, werewolves, and more are real and outed in the human community. Fear runs deep, and a set of rules instituted by a small council are all that keep people together with a fragile balance.Ivy Lancaster knows the rules. Be prepared, be efficient, and get out. That didn't make going to council meetings more enjoyable. As the Witch Elect, she knew far better ways to help her community stay at peace with humans than sitting through monthly board meetings. Too bad the Council of Supernaturals didn't care. One thing makes the meetings bearable.Elijah Vikander has no love for the Council of Supernaturals. He was Alpha. Wolves answered to him, he didn't answer to others. He could stop going, force the wolves to elect a beta member of the Crescent Pack, but then he couldn't see the enchanting off-limits witch.When a group of warlocks threaten to tear the proclamation down and take over the city with forbidden magic, pairings are made to track and take the men down. Ivy and Elijah are forced into a coupling that will either destroy their world, or save everyone.

Layel has been the stoic leader of the Pure Angels since before he can remember. His life has been a series of temptations, all of which he'd barely maintained his wings over. Joining forces with the Alliance of Silver and Steam had only continued to push and test him. Nathaniel's wings are turning black.He'd murdered an innocent human that had happened upon him during a rainstorm. In his horror at what he'd done, he'd turned himself into the Alliance, with a death wish. When Layel is brought in to help a falling Angel remain Pure, he isn't ready for Nathaniel. Helping an Angel rise is nearly impossible, but they're attraction to each other might make the journey even harder.

In the London Underground the Alliance of Silver and Steam is all that protects humans from demons. Felicia Gannon is no stranger to the demons that lurk in the night. After her parents were murdered in front of her the Alliance took her in and trained her. Vengeance became her only drive. Greyston Westham is more than just the devilishly handsome Captain of the Guard. He's an Incubus Demon who hunts his own kind because they have no use for lesser demons like himself. When a murderer is running lose that only the Alliance can deal with Felicia and Greyston are thrown together in a deadly game. Can she overcome her hatred of demons and give into the relationship that will save her life? Or will Felicia's hatred be her doom.

For the holidays, all Harper Slindel wants is to skip work, forget about her final semester of medical school and lose herself in the university gala - a ball started by her late father. Unfortunately, a fight with her step mother lands her houses to clean alone. It's work or lose her college money. Goodbye Christmas cheer. Until her fairy godmother - aka her father's closest friend - comes to the rescue.Dim lighting, fancy gowns, and Christmas lights made for an almost perfect secret evening for Harper. Duke Norrington, jock and all around prince, made her night a Christmas miracle. She's drawn to him, even knowing she could never be "good enough." An evening spent together is brought to an end when the clock strikes midnight, and Harper must return the gown and make certain her stepmother never knows she attended, or any college savings she has will get divided between her stepsisters.Duke is entranced with the blonde beauty he's never seen before. He's supposed to be focused on finishing his degree so he can and get started on his career with the Islanders, but all he can focus on is the beautiful woman behind an elegant mask. She's down to earth, breathtaking, and understood him in a way no one else ever had. So when she vanished damn near in a puff of smoke, he knows he has to track her down. A little Christmas magic, a lost house key and a romance to remember shape up to a very modern fairy tale.

Cassandra Marks had dedicated her life to helping orphaned children around the world find families - something she never had. Life was everything she'd expected it to be for a woman who lived to work. She was only thirty when her world was turned upside down with one sentence - "I'm sorry, we've confirmed you have Breast Cancer." Giving up was not an option, but fighting cancer was harder than she'd imagined. Her work with worldwide orphanages was put on hold as she had to focus on herself, not her dream job.Not all humans received Guardian Angels; only those living a life that would leave a lasting impression on the world were so lucky. Gabriel, a direct descendant of the Archangel of the same name, lost his battle wings after he trusted a Fallen Angel and others died. He was saved from losing his wings thanks to his father - but it meant becoming a Guardian Angel. His first charge was less than he hoped for, but he was committed to Cassandra Marks to prove he was worthy of returning to battle.Gabriel and Cassandra should never have met, but with her life in danger, he's sent to Earth in human form to judge her and see if she is worthy. While there, he finds himself falling in love with a woman who is destined to die. It's up to him to convince his fellow Angels she is to live, and up to her to decide if she can handle being the woman to make a Guardian Angel fall.

Clara Burrowes owes the Alliance of Silver and Steam her life. When the battle between Earth and Hell broke out, she was saved from death by her worst nightmare, a hunter. In repayment, she works as both a hunter and an inventor's assistant. It didn't take long before she grew to love her work and even humans.Hugo Clark was assistant to Nikola Tesla when they traveled to British court, and the King made him an offer to see technology beyond his wildest imagination. Without hesitation, Hugo abandoned his work with Tesla and joined the Alliance. Demons didn't frighten him if he could work with such amazing tools.When Hugo and Clara met attraction stemmed from more than just her Succubus talents. The pair worked as well together in the labs as they did between the sheets. Wishing to find a way to illuminate the Christmas holiday, their tinkering led to danger. An electrical current wakes a sleeping demon that even the Alliance isn't prepared to stop. They'll have to rely on Hugo's brains and Clara's demon talents if they want to keep the city safe.

Seraphina has been the Queen of Hell for over a hundred years after purposefully tearing her wings from her back and becoming a Fallen to save her love. When he scorned her, she turned to vengeance against humans for their part in her world unraveling. For years she had sent attacks after the Alliance of Silver and Steam hoping to stop them so she could finally invade the world above Hell. When she spends too much time with her prisoner, Kellan, her mind becomes jumbled and when fate intervenes she quickly loses control of her priorities. Kellan Doughlas had been a prisoner in Hell for over a year. He'd been kept alive on Fallen blood and the addiction to it would kill him and his friends. The real issue was who had been feeding him - Seraphina. Along with an addiction for her blood she left him with longing and desire for her, one that infuriated him because he should only hate her. Unable to stop himself he flees the guild and goes to Hell to try and kill her. When Seraphina and Kellan collide a second time, both are prey to a fated event that they cannot undo. But laying down her weapons and leaving the fight isn't easy for Seraphina, and Kellan has no desire to join her side. Humans had taken so much from her, and demons had taken so much from him. One person wasn't enough to change their futures. When their passion ignites Seraphina's army of Fallen take matters into their own hands to end the long war. They must make a choice, their forbidden connection or their people.

Eliza Kempe Dorley is always left in the background. As a female, being top inventor for the Alliance of Silver and Steam has as many draw backs as perks. She's in charge of the creation of the many tools the Alliance uses in pursuit of the demons that run lose in the London Underground, which means without her, the demons would be harder to put down. It also means she misses all of the action and has never had the chance to really use any of her inventions. Lucius Cooley Willan is a Nightmare Demon with a penchant for gambling and sleeping with women he shouldn't and it's landed him in hot water. Now he spends his nights slinking in humans dreams and unleashing terrors so strong it kills them so he can capture their soul for his boss. But when he's ordered to attack the group that hunts his kind he's enthralled by the feisty inventor he comes upon. Eliza's victim to Lucius in a way no others have been, a sensual dream that she can't shake when she wakes up. When he bumps into her at the trains she's an addiction he can't shake. When he outright disobeys the demon who controls him for some out of dreams interactions with the Eliza, it will be up to him to save her from the nightmare he's put her in.

McKenna Caffry learned about demons when they attacked her carriage a little over one year prior. Now she's finished her training and is ready to prove her worth to the people that changed her world. She's not thrilled with her first mission - watch over the Royal on a mission to rescue captured Alliance member, Kellan. Being a nanny was not what she joined the Alliance for and none of the others on the mission had been given such a lowly task. It doesn't help that his smile sends waves of lust through her every single time. Jacob Tresay III is one of many bastard sons of the King. As a distant Royal living in court he is exposed to the knowledge that demons run amuck in the London Underground, and all over the world. When his father demands that a Royal be present on a rescue mission he volunteers for the job to get out of court. The open seas awaited him, if he could only shake his personal Alliance assigned guard, even if McKenna set his body on fire. Finding one of few open entrances to hell will take them to the middle of the sea. But what awaits them when they find the entrance is the most dangerous thing a sailor can encounter, Sirens. McKenna and Jacob must see what passion lies between them if they are going to make it past the sea demons and rescue Kellan. And themselves.

Sela has been left out her whole life despite being the youngest sibling the infamous trio of fairy godmother's that raised Aurora and helped Philip rescue the kingdom. Her sisters never had time for her and it had left her to grow up cold and unfeeling. Until she meets Alric and suddenly she feels. Alric de Genise is second in command to Prince Philip and has no problem fighting off the evil that lurks. But when he find a beautiful woman laying injured in the forest he's taken by her and cannot figure out why. Against Philip's judgement he takes her back to the castle.A dangerous bargain to raise the spirit of an evil enchantress gets out of control and who will be the one to stop it?

Odette Cosgrove's father is Master Thomas Agardawes, head of the Alliance of Silver and Steam. She has grown up in the center of the Alliance of Silver and Steam; her childhood spent learning how to fight and take down the creatures. When her father asked her to head up a chapter of the Alliance in America she accepted. Love was waiting for her, but so were demons who knew she would be unready to handle them and they tore her new life apart sending her running back to London.Philippe Clemis is The Alliance of Silver and Steam's best hunter. He's killed hundreds of the vile demons and kills without remorse. When Odette shows up back in London after her family was slaughtered he's assigned to get her reacquainted with guild ways - he'd rather be cleaning up the toilets. The obstinate female drives him crazy and makes him mad with desire because she challenges him in a way no one ever has.When a Kappa Demon attack on Philippe claims Odette instead the pair will have to work together to stop her transformation into the vampiric little demon. A journey across Europe and into hell itself to find a cure will force the pair to determine if what they feel is love or hate if they are going to make it back alive.