Nika Chaikina, the best thief in the world, is recruited by agent Delta from International Control Agency. "ICA" was created in the late 40's for one purpose - to prevent armed conflicts around the world, and it copes with its task perfectly (for example, the peaceful outcome of the Cuban missile crisis is the merit of "ICA"). Nika, who was codenamed "The Red Fury", begins her most exciting and dangerous adventure ever...
Camulodunum Londinium Verulaneum Three town writhe under Boudica’s wrath as she leads her Iceni warriors on intent on destroying all things Roman – be it Roman temples, Roman villas, or entire families sympathic to Rome. At stake is the Roman consul’s reputation. Will Suetonius Paullinus be able to confront mass of tribal warriors with only 10,000 legionaries? Or will he endure the ultimate disgrace of losing Britannia – to a woman! Paullinius’s tribune, Julius Agricola and Rhianna, Boudica’s youngest daughter, become ensnared in this horrific historical revolt against Rome’s injustice and ‘Pax Romana’- Rome’s peace. Just as Julius and Rhianna discover their love, after she gives him her Iceni pendant intended for her betrothed, they are ripped apart and hurled back into the reality of their opposing worlds that are determined to destroy the other. Who will survive?
Following the tragic events that led the Blood Angels to the brink of civil war, the Chapter's strength has been badly depleted. The Blood Angels must act, and act quickly, before their enemies learn of their weakness and attack.
View our feature on Kasey Mackenzie’s Red Hot Fury. Introducing a sizzling new urban fantasy series featuring Marissa Holloway, an immortal Fury who doesn't just get mad...she gets even. As a Fury, Marissa Holloway belongs to an Arcane race that has avenged wrongdoing since time immemorial. As Boston's chief magical investigator for the past five years, she's doing what she was born to do: solve supernatural crimes. But Riss's investigation into a dead sister Fury leads to her being inexplicably suspended from her job. And to uncover the truth behind this cover-up, she'll have to turn to her shape-shifting Warhound ex for help.
Lainey Kade has been spurned twice since the death of her true love in a logging accident. Now there's been talk. "That Lainey, she's a shrew all right. Not ever going to marry, likely." Seeing herself as an unlovable vixen on whom God has turned His back, she hardens herself to the prospect of such a painful emotion again. Walking away from love's possibilities and from trusting God, Lainey looks for solace instead in seeking adventure and breaking the rules. Zane and Kelly Beaumont are drifters, brothers suffering their own disillusionment and bitter degrees of "soldier's heart" since the Civil War. When their paths join Lainey's, risky actions and emotions long thought buried set their course on edge. Then the Great Peshtigo Fire sweeps across the young Wisconsin wilderness, swallowing thousands of lives and 2,400 square miles in its wrath. And Lainey realizes that if she allows the spark of love inside her to flame again, it may tear them each apart.
Determined to find her true mother, Flora Fyrdraaca, accompanied by her red dog, embarks on a journey filled with magical encounters, pirate battles, and unexpected romance.
Professor Malik Solanka, retired historian of ideas, irascible doll maker, and since his recent fifty-fifth birthday celibate and solitary by his own (much criticized) choice, in his silvered years found himself living in a golden age. Outside his window, a long humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired. The city boiled with money. Rents and property values had never been higher, and in the garment industry it was widely held that fashion had never been so fashionable. - from Fury From one of the world’s truly great writers comes a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnight’s Children have a time and place been so intensely captured in a novel. Salman Rushdie’s eighth novel opens on a New York living at break-neck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated self-made millionaire originally from Bombay, arrives in this town of IPOs and white-hot trends looking, perversely, for escape. He is a man in flight from himself. This former philosophy professor is the inventor of a hugely popular doll whose multiform ubiquity – as puppet, cartoon and talk-show host – now rankles with him. He becomes frustratingly estranged from his own creation. At the same time, his marriage is disintegrating, and Solanka very nearly commits an unforgivable act. Horrified by the fury within him, he flees across the Atlantic. He discovers a city roiling with anger, where cab drivers spout invective and a serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete, a metropolis whose population is united by petty spats and bone-deep resentments. His own thoughts, emotions and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. He becomes deeply embroiled in not one but two new liaisons, both, in very different ways, dangerous. Professor Solanka’s navigation of his new world makes for a hugely entertaining and compulsively readable novel. Fury is a pitiless comedy that lays bare, with spectacular insight and much glee, the darkest side of human nature.
A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries. Men are disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They're the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and riots against raids to gentrification and police brutality, the survivors face inaction from the law and disinterest from society at large. But as the missing grow in number, those left behind begin to realize that whoever or whatever is taking these men has been doing so for longer than is humanly possible. Woven into their stories is David Demchuk's own personal history, a life lived in fear and in thrall to horror, a passion that boils over into obsession. As he tries to make sense of the relationship between queerness and horror, what it means for gay men to disappear, and how the isolation of the LGBTQ+ community has left them profoundly exposed to monsters that move easily among them, fact and fiction collide and reality begins to unravel. A bold, terrifying new novel from the award-winning author of The Bone Mother.
Mary-Anne is on cloud nine – a loving husband, an adorable son, a positive pregnancy test. Perfect. But to protect her family, she must keep a dark secret. On the way to work, a coven of warlocks kidnaps and sacrifices her into the fiery pits of Hell. In the smouldering abyss, the Devils’ Gaolers are relentless in her torture, seeking out her darkest fears. This fear channels back to the mortal plane and fuels the warlock’s dark, terrible magic. Yet, the warlocks crave ultimate power, requiring more sacrifices – her husband and son. But how can she save her family when trapped and tortured in eternal damnation? Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Keywords: magic , warlocks , hell , devil , paranormal mystery and action adventure , end of the world prophecy , Satan , police detective , strong female anti-hero , family , end of days , end of the world , strong female lead fantasy , strong female characters, urban fantasy , superheroine , female superhero , demonic superpower , female protagonist, demon , warlocks, zombies, vampires
Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way. Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.
