The Devil's Bull:An invitation to a calm weekend with mages turns foul when all of them are supposed to be sacrifices for the continued existence of their host. The trap has been well-prepared and there is no way the sacrifices can just run away. Will Isadora and Baron Asmodeus find a way past the wards blocking the mages' powers and show their host that it was a bad idea to include them as sacrifices?The Body Cathedral:Isadora is in trouble: she has many wraiths to...

The casebook is composed of three novellas:The Case of the Blind MediumCount Benjamin Farrens does the best to remain an eccentric member of English nobility while also investigating supposedly supernatural occurrences. When a simple séance turns into a murder case, he does his best to protect an innocent, blind boy and to help find the murderer.The Case of the Blood RubyCount Benjamin Farrens is just about to settle down a ...

"By installing a successor … an heir … as a grey eminence."After Jane Doe and Steven Quinn retired, they expected the Underworld to just move on, another organisation to take over, the holes to be filled. Unfortunately, that is not what happened, so when a murder happens among the drug lords and nobody knows how to solve that problem, they are called in again. While Jane works her way through the case, she also picks up the slack in other areas, restoring some balance, greasing som...

The second volume is dedicated to three more cases:The Casino HeistOn the night of the grand opening of the first casino in town, there is a robbery. The following night, the casino is accused of having a tampered-with roulette table. Maddie Dempsey takes an interest in these things and so does The Eye when the Queen of Hearts herself suggests a cease-fire to investigate who might have manipulated the table. Finding herself working alongside the Queen's men for a change, Th...

"We are the thin red line which separates order from chaos."For a thousand years, the Knight Agency has secretly kept watch, protecting mankind and society from innumerable threats. For five of those, Agent Jane Browne has already played her part in this game as well. But now, a threat is aimed at herself and the few she cares about. The mysterious 'M' might find out it's not a good idea to tease a Knight Agent in general - and much less of a good idea to tease Agent Browne in perso...

“I do my very best to keep my lives apart. This is only the second time they have ever crossed … and it never was my choice to have them meet in any way.”Jane Browne works hard to keep her two lives apart - the rich heiress and the ruthless Knight Agent. Now they meet for the second time and this time on a far more personal level than during the Morrigan situation. When she is called in as a scout and assassin to help rescue the victim of a kidnapping, things turn out to be far mor...

“I am indeed very dangerous, but I am a dedicated Knight Agent as well. I have sworn to protect mankind and civilisation. To really rob you would be to stomp on everything I believe in. I’d rather die than do that.”Sometimes you need a thief to catch a thief. Sometimes you need a criminal organisation to catch a criminal organisation. Jane Browne and her team make a great criminal organisation, if they want to. From the cold-blooded criminal mastermind over the risk-seeking right h...

“Just think about what you could do to him … that should keep you entertained.”A little favour for Sir Abraham Mortimer, head of the Board of Associates Jane is sitting on for the Knight Agency, turns into a large-scale adventure introducing the Uncle and the Niece. For a change, Jane needs to rely on her more discreet skills such as seduction and acting to find out what is happening. Also included are: a spectral monk haunting the grounds of an old manor house, kidnappings, daring...

She’d left him! And on their wedding day, no less! Stefan Kozlov couldn’t believe that the woman he’d married had disappeared only hours after exchanging their vows! After months of happy courting, interspersed with cold showers as he forced them to wait for their wedding night, Livia had left without explanation. Stefan was angry and confused, but still determined to reunite and consummate their relationship. Even if Livia wouldn’t have him, her mother’s medical emergency still made it cr...

Gerry Gallen is searching for peace after years serving as a captain in the US Marines special forces.But when Gallen agrees to lead a team or former soldiers looking after the personal security of an eccentric oil billionaire, he finds himself catapulted onto a rollercoaster of violence and double-crossing where private intelligence operators and clandestine hit teams are commonplace.Powerful US and Russian interests are vying for the Arctic's valuable oil fields and it se...

To save innocent lives, they'll have to risk their own.Self-help superstar Rachel de Luca and Detective Mason Brown have finally given in to their overwhelming attraction to each other, but neither of them is ready to let physical passion turn into full-blown romance, so they carefully maintain an emotional distance. Then a judge's daughter disappears, and Mason has a terrible sense that it's connected to the most recent case they solved together: the abduction of ...

In the vein of bestselling paranormal authors like Lara Adrian and Laurel K. Hamilton, New York Times bestselling author L.A. Banks offers an action-packed series about a rapidly approaching battle between Dark and Light threatens to destroy all of mankind.Celeste Jackson never had much hope for the future—and certainly never imagined that she would be living in an abandoned warehouse in Philadelphia with her magnificent protector Azrael, the angel of deat...