La comunidad de Prosperous, en Maine, siempre ha medrado mientras otros sufrían. Sus habitantes son ricos, sus hijos tienen el futuro asegurado. Rehúye a los forasteros. Protege a los suyos. Y en el centro de Prosperous se encuentran las ruinas de una antigua iglesia, transportada piedra a piedra desde Inglaterra siglos antes por los fundadores del pueblo… Unas ruinas que esconden un secreto. Pero varios hechos, entre ellos la muerte de un sintecho, atraen a Prosperous al investigador privado Charlie Parker, obsesionado y letal. Parker es un hombre peligroso, al que le mueve no sólo la compasión, sino también la ira y el deseo de venganza. Los habitantes de Prosperous perciben en Parker una amenaza peor que cualquier otra que hayan afrontado en su larga historia. Parker, a su vez, encontrará en ellos a los adversarios más despiadados con los que jamás se ha enfrentado. Y es que se ha decidido que Charlie Parker muera para que el pueblo de Prosperous sobreviva.

Of all the excesses indulged in by the decadent Rhazaullean nobility, only one is absolutely forbidden: necromancy. Yet necromancy offers the sickly Prince Varis a way of curing his bodily ills and a means for seizing control of the Wolf Throne. And although he realizes that he must eventually pay the price of power—for in time dark magic damages mind and body—it is a risk Varis is willing to take. He secretly launches a serpentine choreography of murder, intending to forge an empire all his own. None can withstand the Prince’s schemes as they unfold...except, perhaps, his niece, Shalindra. A beautiful girl who has grown to womanhood in the shadow of exile, she is dedicated to the cause of bringing her brother, Cerrov—the rightful heir—to the throne. When they finally meet, Shalindra finds herself both repelled and fascinated by her ambitious kinsman, dark master of the dead...ruler of lost souls. But as winter looms ahead, their relationship threatens to shape, for both of them, a destiny far different—and far more dangerous—than either could ever have imagined. For Shalindra herself turns to the magic arts to champion her brother’s cause, and the outcome of the ensuing clash of powers is impossible to predict... The Wolf of Winter.  

Some wishes come true in the strangest ways...Meeting her mate while treating him for a concussion was not how Eira Sidak expected her holidays to go down, but sometimes accidents happen.When the she-Wolf took up her residency at Macconwood Memorial Hospital, she expected long nights and plenty of cases. She just wasn't expecting him.Cannon Bartolf was aptly named, or so everyone in his Pack said. Always charging in headfirst, it's no surprise a spontaneous game of football ends with him in the ER. At the mercy of his doctor, Cannon wants nothing more than to go home—with her.Will the surprisingly sexy little she-Wolf grant him his holiday wish?

Four Courts. Four Fae princesses in need of a shifter mate. And a war for the ages.Wren is heir to the Winter Court. That doesn't mean she's cold at heart, especially not when it comes to her best friend and wolf shifter, Frost.Frost is sworn to protect Winter Court, but he wishes he could do way more than protect Wren.As war brews, and the pair find themselves in a literal different world, will Frost be able to defend his Court and also become the Winter heir's Wolf?*New Adult Paranormal/Fantasy Romance*

The Council of Worlds is in disarray.An unknown creature is destroying planets across the galaxy. The fragile peace after the savage Apex Wars between Lion and Tiger is in danger of being broken.Star Wolf cuts a frustrated figure as his father, ruler of the Wolf planet Lupus, sits by and allows the Council to be taken in by the elaborate schemes of the Tiger's general.The Winter Tiger, a legendary warrior, regarded by many to be the most skilled fighter since the Universal Beacon bestowed its gifts upon the galaxy tens of millennia ago. How can Star Wolf be the only creature across the galaxy to see the Winter Tiger for what he truly is?The Tigers have behaved and adhered to the Council of Worlds rules for twenty years without reproach and yet Star Wolf does not trust the Winter Tiger. His vague childhood memories of the Apex Wars were of a ferocious race, driven to crush and rule the galaxy.Star Wolf will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind the mystery planet killer, no matter the cost...

Long before Nicolina Desmond manifested her powers as a wizard, she was a Normal girl with extraordinary circumstances. In order to prove herself and escape her father's chokehold on her life, she's determined to get on the fast track towards an independent life.However, she never anticipated how meeting Richard Murphy would change her life…Tales of the Winter Wolf follows the adventures of Nicole and Richard. These short stories and novellas contain spoilers for Witch & Wolf #2, Winter Wolf.This collection contains Tales of the Winter Wolf volumes 1-6.

The next part of Akira's quest has begun to find someone who can help translate Ashleigh's expensive diary. Travelling with more people isn't as easy as it seems and if they can't solve the friction between them, it might drive a wedge in the group. To solve the issues, they search for a fruit that can create eternal bonds but personal motives and old grudges make it harder than it has to be. Will Akira be cast aside once more or can she become part of the pack? **** Pack Of The Winter Wolf is the third book in the Guardian Of The Winter Stone series and is an epic fantasy with romance, wolf shifters, and fated mates. It has themes of found family, redemption, and a romantic plot where Akira must choose between her enchanting true mate and a growly alpha wolf.

A chilling psychological tale of mistaken identity inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood.After the worst ice storm in living memory, Elizabeth Hill begins a perilous trek across a frozen city to her Grandmother's house in search of company and comfort. A chance encounter leaves Elizabeth terrified and in a greater rush to safety that she could have ever imagined. From the nationally bestselling author of The Witch of Babylon, and the new sequel, The Book of Stolen Tales, about a rare 17th century book of fairy tales and their Mesopotamian origins.

When Nicole dabbled in the occult, she lost it all: Her voice, her family, and her name. Now on the run from the Inquisition, she must prove to herself—and the world—that not all wizards are too dangerous to let live.The savage murder of a bookstore employee throws Nicole into the middle of Inquisition business, like it or not. Driven by her inability to save the young man’s life, she decides to hunt the killer on her own. Using forbidden magic to investigate the past, she learns that the murderer is in fact a disease that could kill the entire werewolf race.Forced to choose between saving lives and preserving her own, Nicole embraces the magic that sent her into exile. Without werewolves, the power of the Inquisition would dwindle, and she could live without being hunted. Nicole’s only hope for success lies in the hands of the werewolves she hates and the Inquisition she fears, but finding someone to trust is only the beginning of her problems. There are those who want to ensure that the werewolves go extinct and that the Inquisition falls. But, if she fails to find a cure, her family—including her twin sister—will perish…

Preternatural Private Investigator and Paranormal Huntress Kassandra Lyall is used to working alone. Whenever there's a murder or a mystery to solve that involves the preternatural—she's the witch they call. When she's called in to help the local cops work on a mysterious murder case, she finds herself needing all the help she can get.A bloodthirsty werewolf is loose in the city and on a killing spree.As if her plate weren't full enough, a strange she-wolf seeks Kassandra's aid, asking her to help find her missing brother. Kassandra soon learns that the strange she-wolf serves two masters, and one of those masters has taken quite an interest in her.In a world where vampires have charmed their way into modern society, where werewolves walk the streets with their beasts disguised by human skin, Kassandra Lyall has a secret of her own to protect.She's one of them.The First Book in the Kassandra Lyall Preternatural Investigator Series.

The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series.The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of the Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town...But the death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion, by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter his most vicious opponents yet. Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous may survive.Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins...

Long before Nicolina Desmond manifested her powers as a wizard, she was a Normal girl with extraordinary circumstances. In order to prove herself and escape her father’s chokehold on her life, she’s determined to get on the fast track towards an independent life. However, she never anticipated how meeting Richard Murphy would change her life… Tales of the Winter Wolf follows the adventures of Nicole and Richard, predominant characters from Witch & Wolf #2, Winter Wolf. Spoilers for the novel are contained within! Volume One contains the following stories: Hunted Nicolina Desmond should have known that her twin’s overly friendly behavior with the eligible Fenerec males would land her in trouble, but she never expected how far young, single werewolves would go to secure a mate. The Scent of Guilt When Richard is invited to hunt Nicolina’s kidnappers with her father, he jumps at the chance. With Desmond lusting for blood and violence, Richard is forced to toe the line between mercy, justice, and revenge. Firecracker Charles Desmond’s influence isn’t enough to stop those who are determined to take Richard’s rank through force. With Nicolina Desmond out on the hunt to kill him once and for all, he’ll need a lot more than luck to survive his stay with the Desmonds. Glitter Richard Murphy has many sides, and Nicolina Desmond is dismayed to discover that he truly has the patience of a hunting wolf and his pranks are just as nefarious as hers. When the bodies of Fenerec turn up in her back yard, however, she might have to kill again, and her target is none other than Yellowknife’s injured Alpha.

Amazon.com ReviewSnow doesn't just fall on cedars on Michigan's Upper Peninsula: it coats everything, mobile and inanimate, in a treacherously quick, dangerously thick blanket of white. As Alex McKnight observes, gazing out the window of his cabin in Paradise, "It looked like about six inches of new snow. Around here, that qualifies as scattered flurries." Given this climate, the urge to hibernate is perfectly understandable--batten down the hatches, throw another log on the fire, and wait until the spring thaw. For Alex, the denning impulse is as much psychological as it is physical. Haunted by memories of his deadly failures as a cop, a private investigator, and a lover, Alex wants nothing more than to plow his driveway, be cordial to the snowmobilers who rent his cabins, and lower his core emotional temperature to the forgetting point. Unfortunately, he's got friends who get in the way of his seasonal plans. When Vinnie LeBlanc, an Ojibwa Indian, convinces Alex to fill in as goalie for his hockey team, slap shots and hard checks are soon the least of his worries. Instead, he becomes embroiled in a tangle of conflicting allegiances; one of his opponents, Lonnie Bruckman, a bigot and a psychotic, is terrorizing the Ojibwa reservation in ways both personal and professional: he abuses his girlfriend, Dorothy Parrish, and sells "wild cat," a methamphetamine derivative, to members of the reservation. Dorothy--desperate to escape her Ojibwa heritage but reluctantly acknowledging its force--turns up on Alex's front door with a mysterious canvas bag and a plea for shelter: "'The wolf moon means it's time to protect the people around you because there are wolves outside your door.'" But the next day, she's gone.As Alex, devastated by his inability to protect Dorothy, tries to find her, he must confront Bruckman--for whom a snowmobile is less a recreational vehicle than an instrument of torture; a mysterious Russian named Molinov; the combined forces of the local police and the DEA; and, it seems, even those he has always considered friends. Luckily for Alex, Leon Prudell, "a two-hundred-forty-pound whirlwind of flannel and snowboots," who really, really wants to be a private investigator, is right there to lend a hand. Leon adds a welcome note of comic relief to the novel (as does, to be sure, Alex's own dryly sardonic wit), but the book's tone is largely elegiac: "It was the middle of the day, but with the sun hidden behind the clouds and the weight of snow in the air, there was an oddly muted light, dim yet persistent, as each snowflake seemed to glow with its own energy. I stopped for a moment ... hypnotized by the sight of it and by the sound of my own breathing." Surviving winter takes many kinds of courage, and the reader will be enthralled by Alex's efforts to disprove Molinov's ominous warning, "'Once you freeze all the way through to your soul, you will never feel warm again. You'll see.'"Steve Hamilton won the 1999 Edgar Award for his first Alex McKnight mystery, A Cold Day in Paradise, and Winter of the Wolf Moon will reassure readers that neither beginner's luck nor sophomore jinx troubles this author. --Kelly FlynnFrom Publishers WeeklyIt's just another lovely day in Paradise... for those who love zero-degree weather and frozen pipes. This Paradise is a town on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where Hamilton catches up with reluctant gumshoe Alex McKnight after his debut in A Cold Day in Paradise. The frigid season finds Alex focused on snowplowing, maintaining the cabins he rents to snowmobilers and whiling away evenings at the Glasgow Inn with a few cold Canadians. After years as a cop and PI, Alex is ready to settle down to undisturbed country life. But as any good mystery writer knows (and Hamilton, who won the 1999 Edgar for Best First Novel, is no exception), that's not in the cards. One night, a young Native American, Dorothy Parrish, whose troubles are unclear but obviously serious, approaches Alex, then disappears. Her sudden disappearance has Alex presuming she's dead, and there's evidence that she was involved with ill-tempered, drug-crazed hockey player Lonnie Bruckman. Ignoring his initial trepidation to reenter the crime world, Alex vows to find Dorothy and her kidnapper--or killer. Bruckman is definitely involved, and Alex, with the help of his "partner," Leon Prudell, identifies multiple suspects. Bruckman's hockey buddies are threatening, but it soon becomes apparent that there's a more powerful force behind them. This is a most entertaining tale, peppered with wry humor and real, amusing characters. Hamilton presents a fast mystery brimming with insight into both the politics of U.S./Canadian border crimes and the relations between Native Americans and their white neighbors. (Feb.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From best-selling author Holly Webb comes a gorgeous wintery story of a very special friendship, just in time for Christmas. Amelia is exploring the huge, old house where her family are spending Christmas when she finds a diary hidden in the attic. It was written by a boy struggling to look after an abandoned wolf pup. Before she knows it, Amelia is transported into the wintry world of the diary. Fans of Holly Webb's The Reindeer Girl will delight in this beautiful winter's tale.

After Akira's first howl, her existence as a wolf-human hybrid isn't as easy or natural as she always hoped it to be. Torn between mind and body, she fights against herself, her enemies, and her lovers. Will she get to the Winter Stone in time? And if so, at what cost?—Wolf's Echo is the second book in the My Winter Wolf Trilogy.