Fiction : Fantasy

Jude Deveraux, the dazzling New York Times bestselling author of Wild Orchids and Forever and Always delivers a delightful and passionate yuletide tale sure to become a classic this and every holiday season. Hollander ""Holly"" Latham can't believe her good fortune. After endless calls, letters, emails, and promises, she's finally persuaded .. more...

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Coming home, Jeremy Burns realized his life had all been an act... As if sending the next rogue back to hell was his life's mission. But after seeing Jillian Murphy for the first time in a decade, Jeremy knew he could no longer ignore his desire. By rights of nature, the Spirit Walker belonged to him. Yet fate and fear had worked against these two headstrong lovers in their youth--and cast the Bloodrunner from his home. Now Jeremy and Jillian must join forces to uncover the betrayal that threatens to destroy the pack's stability. And when they're done--well, Jeremy's not about to again deny himself the one thing he wants most in this world.... Jillian belongs to him, and this time his little witch is going to know it!. more...

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''We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician.'' This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work—until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders . . . and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield. What the Magicians' Guild has long dreaded has finally come to pass. There is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw power beyond imagining, an untrained mage who must be found and schooled before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet control. more...

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Tess Corday, Occult Special. Investigator for Vancouver’s Mystical. Crime Lab, is used to seeing dead. vampires. But there’s nothing. ordinary about this case. Not the lab. results on the cause of death. Not the teenage girl living at the. address found in the vamp’s pocket,. who may well be in thrall to a. demon. And certainly not Lucian. Agrado, the necromancer who is. liaison to the vampire community. Agrado is supposed to be part of the. solution, but Tess suspects he might. be part of the problem. Soon she finds herself in the middle. of a paranormal conspiracy that will. change her life forever—and possibly. end it. more...

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Harry Dresden, Chicago's only consulting wizard, takes on phobophages, creatures that feed on fear who attack a horror film convention, in the diverting eighth installment of Butcher's increasingly complicated Dresden Files series (Dead Beat, etc.). Harry finds that fighting monsters is only the prelude to maneuvers amid the warring wizards of the White Council and the vampire Red Court. Less and less V.I. Warshawski with witchcraft, Harry aims his deductive powers at political intrigues rather than crime solving. The body count from the magical melees, however, would do any hard-boiled gumshoe proud. Butcher's believable, likable set of characters go for the jocular much more than the jugular. Deeper fears do run through the book, and Harry, taking on an apprentice, has to face up to the consequences of his all-too-human failings. more...

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