Odette won the battle against La Magie, but as any soldier knows, one battle doesn't win the war.Odette's dreams of a happily ever after soon turn into a nightmare when more deaths end up on her doorstep and the people of her city are threatened.An unknown threat is stalking the supernatural community while hunting Odette and her friends, and as the threat grows and dormant magic awakens, loyalties are tested.Odette must be stronger and wield more p...

With the darkest coven of New Orleans growing their powers, no one is safe.Odette and her allies barely managed to stay alive by embracing the gifts given to them by the Goddess, but La Magie is bolder and more vicious. More supernaturals are dying, and everyone is looking to Odette for help, but if Crescent Coven calls on the aid of the ancestors, they might be surprised by the help that comes.When Jasper Doyle leaves the safety of his home, pulled to a ci...

In the magical community of New Orleans, there may be a fate worse than death after all...To stay alive, the Crescent Coven has always kept their magic small and their circle smaller. Especially since the leader of La Magie took special care to remind them daily who was the biggest witch in town.But when supernatural creatures start turning up dead, mere husks of themselves and their magic stolen, Odette must use more power than she ever has, no matter the ...

Delve into these three stories of sinfully seductive encounters…A Secret Until Now by Kim LawrenceSeeing Angel brings all sorts of memories flooding back to Alex – memories that stir up a forgotten hunger. Alex sees no reason why they can’t indulge in one more blazing night together, but Angel has a secret that will turn their lives upside down…A Sinful Seduction by Elizabeth LaneEast Africa is the last place philan...

She's hidden a beast within herself all her life. It's finally broken free.Daughter of a Celtic goddess, Ylva is beautiful and deadly. Her beast is even deadlier.Asger has Viking blood coursing through his veins. Chosen to be a guardian for the gods, he is ferocious, loyal and has a true heart. She has claimed it all.Is he strong enough to tame her beast?

Frederick G. Lawrence is the authoritative interpreter of the work of Bernard Lonergan and an incisive reader of twentieth-century continental philosophy and hermeneutics.The Fragility of Consciousness is the first published collection of his essays and contains several of his best known writings as well as unpublished work. The essays in this volume exhibit a long interdisciplinary engagement with the relationship between faith and reason in the context of the crisis of c...

Pae, an orphan, is adopted by Zhu Ding, a wealthy businessman with a dark past. He welcomes the young girl into his home, and his heart, freeing her from the oppressive grip of Benny, master sifu of the deadly arts. A child groomed to become one of the deadliest assassins in the land, Pae is shown a world filled with possibilities far brighter than the bleak future she found herself reluctantly coming to accept. Adapting into a life unfamiliar to her, Pae seeks purpose. She finds Vikki. Sh...

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge),' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and Joe R. Lansdale's 'The Skull Collector,' a gangster yarn featuring gun-toting female grave robbers. Overshadowing everything, though, is Lee Goldberg's 'Lost Shows,' a delightful shocker about a fanatical collector of short-lived and unaired TV shows who has t...

“Easily the best baseball book ever produced by anyone.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer“This was the best baseball book published in 1966, it is the best baseball book of its kind now, and, if it is reissued in 10 years, it will be the best baseball book.” — PeopleFrom Lawrence Ritter, co-author of The Image of Their Greatness and The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time, comes one of the bestsellin...

Originally published in 1945, V as in Victim was the first crime novel to feature ordinary cops as the main characters, launching the subgenre known as "police procedurals" and earning Lawrence Treat an important place in the history of mysteries."So Mitch knew in general why he was a cop. ...But Jub Freeman was different, and the difference bothered Mitch."New York City Police Detective Mitch Taylor doesn't love being a cop, but it's a decent, respectable ...

In addition to discussing the numerous ways, with many examples, lawyers can improve their service to their clients, the book presents other relevant topics about producing and using innovative legal service applications. That starts with why lawyers should evolve like almost all businesses that strive for better client service. It is just not a matter of obtaining more business. The “why” is also for reduced negligence claims and fewer client complaints (and less fear of them both happeni...

The complex, colorful history of South Carolina's southeastern cornerIn the first volume of The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, three distinguished historians of the Palmetto State recount more than three centuries of Spanish and French exploration, English and Huguenot agriculture, and African slave labor as they trace the history of one of North America's oldest European settlements. From the sixteenth-century forays of the Spaniards to the i...