Despite the hour, customers already flooded the market, men, women, and children of every color and race looking for the magic cure to their problems. They were what allowed the poachers to exist. The...
Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that’s everything.
Damn it all. Ascanio!The bouda sauntered forward, a picture of pure innocence on his face.What the hell are you doing? I growled.He pulled on a disarming smile like a shield. Following you.Why?Because...
Dali elbowed Jim in the ribs. What he meant to say was he is sorry that duties of his office and his own paranoid nature caused him to overreact. Jim looked like someone had hit him on the nose with a...
Curran’s hair fell to his shoulders. Long, blond, luxuriously wavy, it framed his face like a mane. He sat in a room in the Pack Keep, reading a battered paperback under a cone of electric light from...
Curran roared. The blast of noise erupting from his mouth was like thunder. I clenched up, fighting the urge to step back. Yes I can, he snarled. Listen: this is me telling you what you will not do. I...
Curran lunged through the windowHe was huge, neither a man, nor a lion. Curran’s usual warrior form stood upright. This creature moved on all fours. Enormous, bulging with muscle under a gray pelt str...
Curran looked at me. What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?
Curran got rid of Ascanio and saddled me with not one, but two bodyguards. God help anyone who dared to look at me funny. They would rip him to pieces, just to outdo each other.
Curran gave me a flat look. I can always drive to a burger joint instead. Oh, so you'd throw a burger down my throat and expect making out in the back seat?He grinned. We can do it in the front seat i...
Curran could be described in many ways: dangerous, powerful . . . insufferable. Elegant usually wasn’t one of the adjectives used, and as he walked next to me, I wished I had a camera so I could comme...
Curran and Kate stood by the door.I can’t believe you decided to come down here and check on me, she said.The guy once handed you a fan and told you to fan yourself if the sight of his naked torso was...
Christopher nodded. Well, can I come with you to see the horses? I promise to be good and not scare them.Sure, why not. Teddy Jo waved his arms. The entirety of Hades can come. We’ll have a party.Chri...
Cerise ran through the course in her mind. Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path. She paused, not sure if she’d said it correctly. Three miles, stream on the r...
Can he keep from throwing his hissy fit until he gets to the cauldron?I don’t know. You’re not impressed by his warp spasm, huh?He grimaced. It’s abhorrent. Total loss of control. No beauty to it, no...
Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but y...
Built in an elegant fusion of Italianate, French, and early Disney styles, this magnificent estate offers a thousand bathrooms for all of your executive Cinderella needs...
Breaking and entering was an essential part of the shapeshifter courtship.
Bleed him and I'll skewer you like a stuck pig, I said through clenched teeth.No, you will try. You'll wave your sword around and talk a lot of shit and then back off at the last minute. And then I'll...
Besides, if I’d decided to pull Carver’s spine out of his body, I would’ve done it already. Can you actually do that? Curran frowned. I don’t know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above th...