Occult Paranormal Horror

Vexa’s life has always been a bit unconventional, but things have recently taken a sharp right toward the ridiculous. Aethon, her 600-year-old ancestor, has the candle. Vexa's power is bound to it and though she survived, no one knows when he'll show up again to try and break the bond. With the help of rival necromancer Cole, Vexa races to master the powers she's suppressed most of her life. Abrasive and enigmatic, Cole makes her heart race for more than one reason. But Ethan, the gorgeous werewolf who helped her defeat Aethon initially, is in trouble.

When a reincarnated Norse god brings old enmities and dark secrets to the surface, it's not just her new life with Erik that's at risk. The fate of the entire world might hang in the balance. Can Nika unite her present existence with ancient memories in time to save the day?

Dima, the illegitimate granddaughter of Catherine the Great, is doomed to live in poverty until she steals the four Starostavne books of magical spells, potions, and enchantments. Years later in Los Angeles, Dima's wild, teenage daughter resents a 112-year-old mother who can shape-shift into the same age as she. Medea loathes Dima, who loves her 17 cats more than she does her rebellious daughter. Medea despises a mother who claims all witchcraft as her magic and treats her daughter like a slave. In secret, Medea develops her own sorcery.

A vacation turns deadly for Nika and Erik when a betrayal severs their Chosen link and the faery community declares war on the Draugr. The Ulfen, wolf shifters in collusion with the faery, begin to attack, and soon Nika finds more than her life is at stake. She is the Rune Master, but where has her Hunter gone? Answers come with the taint of betrayal. Enemies arise from the ranks of friends. New friends are found in unexpected places. Can Nika and Erik keep their love alive, and will they survive when Faery goes on the march?

I never could have imagined that a knock at the door would turn my crummy summer vacation into a fight against the evil magic in the world. Did I mention that this person disrupting our lives looks like a sex god and wants to arrest my grandmother?

It's time to ask the right team for the solution. The Demons have turned the tables on the Damned, and it takes a little while to catch up. It's quiet - too quiet. Pandora reveals a little bit more about herself, who she is, and what she can do. And Damian has to make some hard choices. There is someone new coming to the team, and he is just this side of...different. The war with the enemy is burning - and it's time the General calls for special backup. Because now even he spells backup K.A.T.I.E.

Katie has the ability and desire to see Brock again and show him and his guys a good time. Will that include any special time for the two of them? (Pandora hopes so). That stranger left a message about a sword and armor...but is Pandora willing to help or does she even know what he was talking about? Someone is stalking Calvin's girlfriend. He has to ask a couple of humans he respects for a little help - even if they won't remember who he is. Even in the middle of a war, humans will always want some hope for the future.

Moloch and Baal have put multiple plans into action, and when they finally find where the humans are manufacturing the special weapons, they have a new plan to use them against the Damned. Will this plan be the one that puts an end to Katie and Pandora? But Katie has other things to worry about when a large creature awakens - and knows how to speak demon. This time, the Navy gets involved. The challenge? Their missiles aren't all that helpful.

T'Chezz is working on an attack, but the team doesn't know about it. After the successful fight in Los Angeles, Katie and Pandora are letting their hair down, arguing over donuts and how much Italian food to eat. Then, their investigator contact calls with alarming intel, and Katie is asked to get up close and personal with the politician to find out what he knows. The answer is something no one expected and will change the course of Korbin's Killers forever.

As the janitor in a haunted house, single mom Abby Jenkins has many contacts with the living and the dead in the small Pacific Northwest town of Sunset Cove, which puts her in a perfect position to solve local mysteries. Or so she thinks. Hired to find diamonds hidden in a haunted manor, she gets help from a Viking ghost with existential issues. Will she survive?

Charlotte Harper has one goal in mind: graduating college and starting her career as a journalist. However, life takes a drastic turn when she falls for a British businessman at a local bar. Hopelessly in love, Charlotte seems to have it all, until one fateful night, when a ravaging car crash changes the lives of her and her fiancé forever. What price will Charlotte have to pay to save them both? Will she risk everything for the love of her life? Or will she succumb to the temptations lurking in the shadows?

New Orleans is torn as vampires battle those with magical abilities. Those who know of the war have chosen their side, creating a predicament for Christoph and Talia as they continue their quest to break the curse plaguing the vampires. In a place where one wrong step could mean the difference of life or death, making true progress may end up being an act of war. Will Christoph and his companions be able to uncover the information that will lead them closer to breaking the blood curse?

I don't know how much time has passed. I don't even know what is real and what isn't. There are times where for a matter of minutes, I'm in a dark place. The room is dirty, warm, and I'm alone. My hands and legs are bruised and I feel weak. For the rest of the time, I'm always with Hunter, and we are at the Academy, but there is never anyone else around us. It's just him and me, and everything should feel perfect, but I don't trust any of it.

Aunt Tillie is on a rampage - what else is new, right? - and she's about to teach her nieces a lesson about messing with her. Bay and her cousins believe Aunt Tillie is a little too involved with her soap operas, so she curses them into a world that's one big soap opera...and it's one created in Aunt Tillie's convoluted mind. Prepare yourself for a world of underground cities, mobsters, over-sexed hospitals, and back-from-the-dead heroes and heroines...along with so much more. That's on top of Aunt Tillie, the diva of the story, who has not only an evil twin but an eviler one, too.

Angel meant to stop a war. Instead, she may have caused one. With everyone out for her blood, Angel is forced to hide in the last place she wants to be. But hiding will only be an option for so long. Somehow, she must make amends for her mistakes and find a way to save Southern Archaides from those who seek to destroy it. But matters are more complex than she knows. Angel thinks she has all the answers. She has no idea how wrong she is. And as the lines between enemy and friend begin to blur, she finds her heart drawn to two different men.

Talk about seeing the sunny side of things: when Thomas is turned into a vampire, he sees the terrifying transformation as a gift from God. Being a vampire is not a death sentence but a second chance at life for him, and he sets off to do God's work in his new role. Too bad there are older vampires who do see their transformation as a curse and resent God. A battle ensues, pitting vampire against vampire and threatening the existence of everyone.

According to the prophet Ranajee, demons live among us in human form. They exploit man's vulnerability to place everyday people in a condition of suffering that exists right here on Earth. As more demons enter our world, this condition will never end until all of humankind is enslaved. Ranajee, however, is the pen name of a mysterious and seemingly ageless leader of a cult of demon-hunters known as the Church of Infinity. It is their chosen task to eradicate, with extreme prejudice, those who endeavor each day to hasten the end of mankind.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast, sight unseen. When he sees the state of it, he questions the wisdom of his move but starts to renovate the house for his wife, Lauren, to join him there. When the villagers see smoke rising from the chimney of the neglected house, they are disturbed and intrigued by the presence of the incomer, intrigue that begins to verge on obsession.

One dark, moonlit night, two artists met at the Lake Drummond Hotel, built directly on the borderline of North Carolina and Virginia. One was a young woman with the ability to see spirits trapped in trees and stone, anchored to the earth beyond their years. Her gift was to draw them, and then to set them free. The other was a dark man, haunted by dreams and visions that brought him stories of sadness and pain, trapped in a life between the powers he sensed all around him and a mundane existence attended by failure.

The first victim lived just long enough to describe his attack. First came a deep growling, then a sudden thrust for his throat. He died... convinced he'd been attacked by a werewolf. The grisly murders of Rochester's huge film manufacturing complex puzzled Chief of Detectives Tom McCabe. A werewolf prowling the corridors of the huge facility... attacking middle-management-level employees? Preposterous. But just to be on the safe side, he'd called in Ryerson H. Biergarten, the well-known parapsychologist.