Romance : Gothic

Joanne Walker is a Seattle cop with no use for the mystical. When she sees a woman running for her life, she has to get involved--even when the woman, Marie, claims to be hunted by Cernunnos, an ancient Celtic god who leads the Wild Hunt. Jo's solid, real world explodes when Cernunnos tramples through a local diner and calls her out. The fight ends with Jo's near-death, and in a hazy experience between life and death, she's greeted by the Native American trickster Coyote. He gives her a choice: death, or life as a shaman. Jo chooses the healer's path, forced to acknowledged an aspect of the universe she's never seen before. Marie is murdered a few hours later. Jo, stunned, throws caution to the wind and seeks out guidance on a psychic plane. Half a dozen shamans, all of them dead in an apparently unconnected series of recent murders, respond. They charge her with finding the man who murdered them, unable to give her a greater clue than "he seeks the child." The next morning Jo wakes up to news that four children have been murdered at a local high school. She arrives at the school to discover a ritualized death scene. She speaks with the class teacher and, through a healing trance, learns the killer's identity – Herne the Hunter, Cernunnos' son. Jo begins tracking Herne; Cernunnos, in turn, hunts Jo. Her newborn shamanic powers are the key to his ability to stay on Earth rather than be pulled back into shadow with the turn of the seasons. Their final confrontation takes place on an astral level, a very physical battle that leaves them both worn and battered, and binds Cernunnos to the cycle of time once more. Another fight still remains, though: Jo tracks down Herne and with him, his daughter, whom Herne intends to sacrifice in a blood ritual that will permit him to take Cernunnos' place as leader of the Hunt. As she battles Herne, Jo comes to better understand the path she's chosen, finally accepting her fate as a warrior and a healer in a world ful more...

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At the Castle of Dark Dreams, a popular attraction in an adult amusement park in which women make their fantasies come true in erotic role-playing games, a female talk-show host gets more than she had bargained for in the arms of Eric McNair, the castle's resident vampire, in the first volume in a sensuous new romantic trilogy. Original. more...

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Soul Kiss: The Confessions of a Homoerotic Vampire is the tale of Cuthbert, an immortal, gay, and sexually ravenous member of the undead. Historically accurate, Soul Kiss tells an enthralling story set against backdrops of differing cultures from ancient Egypt to the Greco-Roman era, from medieval Cornwall to Civil War Philadelphia, as Cuthbert searches for identity through erotic pleasure. more...

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Gillian, a vampirehuman hybrid in the throes of adolescence, overwhelmed by the urges and powers surging through her, runs in panic to the halfhuman father she has never known. But her father's enemy offers to teach her how a "real" vampire lives, and kills. more...

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Faced with a detestable arranged marriage, Serena takes advantage of an invitation to Morning Star from her twin sister, unseen since childhood, and flees to Kansas. Unprepared for Belle's coolness, she is further unsettled by the intrigue and ancient mysteries surrounding the prairie mansion and its repellent garden. Alarmed by the mounting danger, she is forced to rely on Quinn, despite her distrust of him. Gothic by Joyce C. Ware; originally published by Zebra Gothic more...

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