Adventure

Fear yourself, for your deepest fears are his most deadly weapons.   Amid the turbulent times of the Achaemenid Dynasty, the Sorcerer Gaumata has set his sights on the highest jewel—the throne of the King of Kings. He plans to murder King Cambyses with his sorcery. Then Gaumata plans to take advantage of a complex scheme to seize the throne. Chaos and brutality grip the land as Gaumata abuses his power, but in the back of his mind a terror of his own lurks. He has crossed powerful witches and sorcerers who are now determined to bring him to his knees. The sorceress Spenta and her powerful mage brother Mihr are caught in Gaumata’s trap, but they have allies in the two witches, Indrayani and Apuyani. They have finally discovered the key to his sorcery, and they plan to use it against him to save the kingdom. Prince Darius, the real heir to the throne, is in danger when Gaumata understands that he has seen through his disguise. Will he be the next to face his worst nightmares in the world of horror only Gaumata, the fiendish sorcerer, can construct?

Paris, a daring athlete and massive stud, finds his equal in a slender sunflower of a woman named Clytie. They’re bull leapers, practicing the deadly sport of the ancient Minoans for the amusement of a super-wealthy modern audience on a private island. Clytie and Paris are also consorts, trained to give their masters all varieties of pleasure. Their love for one another is as inevitable as it is forbidden.

You can’t ignore your inner demon.     Korin is a slave—beaten and abused, but never broken. Every day she watches the soldiers of the Imperial Army practice and wishes she were one of them. One day, her slave supervisor attempts to blame her for the catastrophic loss of the army’s herd. In the resulting dispute, she accidentally kills him and flees to the army camp, where she is mistaken for a minor officer. Thus begins Korin’s journey in the land of free men. She doesn’t ever want to return to her old life. When crazy Antiochus, a superior officer, takes her in and covers for her, she takes up her duties with a passion. All is threatened when a fellow slave recognizes and reports her. Will they call her bluff and engage in a sword duel meant to uncover her real identity? Worse yet, the last of the pureblooded demons, Vorak, has taken an intense interest in her. He suspects, like the others, that there is more to Korin than meets the eyes. Could Korin’s uncanny strength and affinity for the night have a more sinister meaning than she realized? Could she be a demon? Korin must discover the meaning of her strange powers before she gets caught up in something she can’t control.

The virgin huntress stalks her prey.   Men who enter Camilla’s forest pay a price. Touch her, and she’ll turn you into a living statue. Anger her, and she’ll make you believe you’re a hunted stag. Threaten her, and you’ll feel the bite of her arrow. Try to love her, and see what you get.

You can’t ignore your inner demon.   Korin feared a real fight. She’d had so little training, but her inner demon took over before she could be killed. Now she is terribly scarred, inside and outside. But now she is also a feared general and the head of the rebels. Zohak has fallen prey to madness, having accepted the forbidden fruit of power. He is a slave to the same devil who entrapped Vorak, only he is also possessed by the demon snake-dragon Kaliya. He now feeds on terror—literally. Only Korin can stop Zohak’s reign of terror, but he calls upon Vorak to lead his armies. When confronted with such a challenge, Korin fights with Vorak, who spirits her away. He simply cannot resist her. The unexpected awaits them both as they manage to form a plan to vanquish the Devil Eblise and win freedom for themselves and for the kingdom.

He can make gold, but can he understand women?   Evan Wall is called Midas because every investment he touches turns to gold. His power came to him after a supernatural presence swept through his mind. The gift was accompanied by a curse. He can understand finances perfectly, but he’s clueless about women. Then his old love, Chen, shows up with weird powers of her own.  

  A vampire guilty of murder on the run from justice to prove his innocence. A werewolf sent to retrieve him with one thought – that only the guilty run.   Vampire Micah Jamieson is found guilty of killing his human husband. He runs from the execution he is facing to get home. He just has to pray he’ll reach home before supernatural law enforcement, in the shape of a Glitnir Court Retriever close in on him. Wolf shifter and Retriever, Connor Strand easily captures Micah and he’s fully prepared to take the runaway in. But his wolf has other ideas. Something about Micah challenges Connor and his long held beliefs. What if Micah is actually innocent? Will Connor put to one side his own prejudices, and then risk both his life and career to keep Micah safe?

After a thousand years on the run, is a little peace and quiet too much to ask?   Brijit McRaith has been on the run for centuries. Pursued by her mad creator for most of her years as a vampire, she has finally found peace and sanctuary in her native Ireland. But a modern world on the brink of war has caught up with her and after decades of quiet, Brijit finds herself on the run again. To add to her personal chaos, she becomes smitten with mortal Kelly O'Donnell, and Brijit and her initial plans to lay low fall by the wayside. With an uncertain future ahead of her, can Brijit protect her newfound love from a world on the edge of destroying itself?  

Determined to break the death-grip the warring angels and aliens hold over her race, Terra accepts the help of a sentient griffin and an angel hybrid as she sets out on a mission to gain access to the Gates of Heaven and the creatures that have betrayed mankind.  Everyday survival for Terra and her family means a constant battle to stay out of the jaws of the great saurians roaming her world. Avoiding the alien Travelers in their flitters and the bands of rogue angels constantly at battle over the remnants of the earth is easier - until the family compound is raided. With her cousin dead and five year old Megan taken, Terra vows to rescue her and take revenge on those intent on adding the child to a sacrifice meant to return the band of self-appointed avengers to the grace of their god. With the aid of the man who holds Terra's heart and future in his hands, a griffin from the realm of Heaven, and a band of survivors already on a mission to wreak revenge on the warring angels and aliens that have brought their world to destruction, Terra sets out across a land ravaged by war and giant reptiles. Can they find the child in time to save her?

A new home and a new love – what a perfect time for the past to intrude.   Brijit and Kelly are comfortable in their new lives as a couple even as the world becomes more unsettled. When a spectre from the past comes back to haunt the vampire, her life is turned upside down with the realization that the future will be anything but peaceful. Faced with the imminent destruction of the world, Brijit lays out a plan for what she needs to do in order to safeguard herself and the love of her life.

If you thought falling in love in the woods is romantic, think again.   Rayenne thought this would be an easy police job—take the suspect to Belson Park for interrogation and make it fast. However, there is a strange wood to cross with stranger creatures to encounter before she gets rid of him. Can she withstand the challenges of both her male companion and dangerous animals to reach her destination and not lose herself on the way?

Loneliness is a thing of the past. Mechanical trekking can be hard, but it brings lots of pleasure. Field Guide Stacy McAllister leads a party of three men and a woman into the African bush on a search for an aircraft that crashed eighteen months previously and contained a fortune in uncut diamonds—diamonds stolen from the diamond mines at Kimberly in South Africa. Stacy examines the bones of the dead pilot and discovers clues suggesting he was murdered. Other clues at the crash site lead Stacy to believe that the pilot may have been her brother—a brother she had thought to be in England. Greed overtakes some members of the party and one of Stacy’s staff is murdered. When one of her vehicles break down, Stacy struggles against the odds to safely get the party the two hundred kilometres back to their home base without becoming a murder victim herself. Can she discover the identity of the dead pilot? Can she return the party safely to their base without another murder, possibly her own, taking place?