If the Knights Magica want a war, I'm willing to give them one.I damned my soul long ago. What I do from this point forward is about redemption. If I burn in Hell because of fighting for others, for shouldering their sins, so be it.The Knights are powerful, and they have taken control of the Universal Church. All across the world, the Knights find themselves in conflict with other paranormals and supernaturals. Human governments scramble to cope with the ne...

I never expected to see a mage battle on national TV.When the ley lines—the orderly rivers of magical energy that circle the globe—went wild, chaos ensued.Magic hid in the shadows for hundreds of years, but then a secret order took control of one of the world's largest religions. Their goal is to rule the world, and the first step is to control the ley lines and magic users.I didn't escape the Illuminati just to become a slave to the Knights Magica....

Alice Henderson was a legend at Wicklow College long before she took a header three and a half stories from her apartment window to the sidewalk below.Savanna Robinson has only been teaching at Wicklow College of the Arcane Arts for two months, and the body count is already alarming. Her friend, Kelly Grace, is ghost writing Alice's memoir—filled with illicit affairs and covert espionage while working for the CIA. And upon her death, the CIA appears, demanding all ...

All I want is to pay the rent and find a boyfriend. But an insane vampire thinks I hold the key to his takeover of the city, and I have a new stalker.At least for now, I've dodged the Illuminati's Hunters, but life is still a little too challenging. Rival vampire lords want to use me against each other, and the mysterious members of the Columbia Club are offering bounties for vampires and werewolves.I'm lucky that the gang at Rosie's has my back, because I'm going to need t...

One Master survived the inferno that destroyed the Order of the Illuminati. He may know that I survived, but does he suspect that I betrayed the Order?Rudolf Heine has sent Hunters flooding into Westport, wreaking carnage on vampires, shifters, and mages. Normal humans are taking notice, and the shadow world teeters on the verge of being revealed.The Hunters also may be hunting me. Do I stay and fight for my new life and my friends, or run again?Contains mature them...

When my magic manifested at puberty, my parents sold me to the Illuminati. The Order of the Illuminati trained me as an assassin, spy, and thief. But when they sent me to steal a magical artifact that reveals Truth in all things, I discovered that I was working for the Dark and not the Light. The Illuminati trained me well, and paid the ultimate price for their deception.Thousands of miles away, I landed a job in a quirky little bar. But the scattered remnants of the Order still st...

Sometimes family is there to love you, and sometimes family is there to kill you . . .When a man came into my shop in the Great Marketplace at the Crossroads of the Worlds and tried to kill me, it completely ruined my day. Not only did I have to clean up the blood, but disposing of his body made me late to meet my friends for drinks.A nagging little detail kept bugging me, though. As he died, he said he was hired by my mother's family—people I hadn't seen f...

"In my world, keeping my head on my shoulders has always required paying attention to what goes on around me. I've seen chaos, and I've seen evil . . . "In Zurich—the wealthy, peaceful city where I plan to attend university—I walk into a war zone. Vampires, werewolves, Knights Magica, and the Mage Guild battle for supremacy. Apprenticed to a man considered the greatest living mage, I have a lot to learn—if I survive."Balance is messy. Freedom is mes...

My name is Danica James. I'm a cop with the Arcane Division.My job is to protect humanity from monsters—whether they be human or creatures from the Rift. It beats sitting in a factory cubical all day, which is where magiteks usually work.Most of humanity hates the magic users who rule the world, but the Magi stand between humans and the creatures who came across the Rift. For a hundred years, the Magi have kept the demons, vampires, and other monsters in check. But now one ...

When did I become everyone's paranormal Miss Fixit?When the Lords of the Icelandic Elves summon me to use my talents to find a lost Dragon's egg, I find it hard to say no. I've seen what a Dragon can do, and a young, just-hatched Dragon is a being of pure destruction.But word of the egg gets out, and the race to find it begins. Mages from many realms are in the hunt—including a Dragon—and they don't always play well together. Unless I want to join the casualties, I need to ...

When Savanna Robinson showed up at Wicklow College to assume her new teaching position, she was somewhat curious about the abrupt departure of her predecessor. Then she discovered he had been murdered. No one knew who killed him, or why, but everyone had their theories and suspects. Even the police—arcane and mundane—didn't seem very eager to investigate too deeply.But Savanna discovered a possible connection with the murder of a broker of rare arcane books. Were there really spell...

My name is Danica James. I'm a cop with the Arcane Division.Most mages have the ability to manipulate the elements—fire, water, air, earth, electricity. My magic only works on machines and electrical devices. They call me a magitek. That doesn't help much with demons and vampires, let alone criminals with lethal magikal powers.Contains mature themes.