After the fall of civilization, a hierarchical society was born where blood determines everything. The rich steal both the blood and lifespans of the poor, rejoicing in their eternal lives. Nagi is a commoner doomed to an early death, while Saya is a royal gifted with eternal youth. When their unlikely paths cross in a twist of fate, their innocent love sets the gears in motion to tear down the walls of a society built upon tremendous inequality and discrimination.
Together at last, Nagi and Saya reconvene with Cobalt at the newly-seized Ronadyphe Prison, only to receive unexpected company as Lernaean tips his hand and offers to join forces. Thus forms a revolutionary army of commoners, Crestfolk, and nobles, ready to march on the royal capital and depose the False Sovereignâbut is it enough to liberate Agartha? Can Saya reconcile the peopleâs desire for a True Sovereign with her desire to live freely with her hard-won friends? Can Nagi live up to the demands of being the True Sovereignâs closest confidant? Blood will tell.
"We're here to assist with your transition to Featherstone Academy."Suddenly thrown into a world representing bloodlines I know nothing about, forcing my past I refuse to remember into the present, has my world turned upside down.It doesn't matter that I didn't want to go to college, it doesn't matter that I don't want to be here.I'll follow the rules or risk my life. The organization that runs the criminal underworld is no joke.Apparently I'm an Ace now, but few are happy about my arrival.Secrets have me wanting to run for the hills.Boys have curly hair, skull tattoos, big mouths and gentle caresses.A diamond has me wanting to make the world a better place.For a lone ranger, my small world just got bigger.What are you willing to do to survive?#AceholesMy Bloodline is the first book in the Featherstone Academy SeriesSome readers may consider this a Dark read. With that in mind it is recommended for readers 17+This is a full length Reverse Harem College romance novel, meaning the main character has more than one love interest. It also includes foul language and sexual scenes. All sexual scenes are consensual.
Veteran reporter Irene Kelly investigates a story she covered early in her career about human remains discovered in a buried car and the disappearance of a wealthy family.
Bloodline: a gritty historical novel about the Mafia in 1920s New York, from Edgar Award-winning author Warren Murphy. The Falcones are an immigrant family living in New York City in 1920. Their patriarch, Tony, is a respected policeman. His sons, Tommy and Mario, both served in the Great War and are now upstanding citizens-a cop and a priest. But their cousin Nilo has a dark past, and he fled to America after causing several deaths in a fight in Italy. Nilo soon falls in with Don Maranzano, a Mafia boss who comes from his hometown in Italy. Maranzano grooms Nilo as a "real estate broker," but after a few months, Nilo is offered the chance to do some serious work. He becomes a useful still-wrecker, assassin, and skilled criminal. The papers give him the name "Kid Trouble." Tommy and Mario try to turn a blind eye, but it's hard to hide his underworld affiliations. As conflicts in the city begin to erupt into a violent war involving gangsters from all parts of the country, Tommy and Mario struggle to stay out of the dark world into which Nilo has dragged the family. But when things take a turn for the worse, the Mafia may be the only place for them to go.
Witness the beautifully violent return of the world's deadliest assassin! A life spent in silent pain has led Elektra to the precipice of despair. As she prepares to shed her past, everything you know about her will change as Elektra hits levels no other Marvel character can touch! Now, Elektra braves the dangers of Monster Island - and the psychotic killer Bloody Lips - in her search for the elusive assassin known as Cape Crow! But the hunt becomes murkier when the hit is revealed as more than it seems...and this might be one quest Elektra's not prepared for. Will Marvel's deadliest femme fatale defeat Cape Crow and collect the biggest bounty of her career? Or will she do what she's never done before - protect the mark, and help the hardened killer and his son escape? COLLECTING: ELEKTRA 1-5
The ninth volume in the New York Times best-selling Cradle series! It's time to go back home. In the years since Lindon left Sacred Valley he has attained power beyond anything his family thought possible. Now he'll have to put those powers to the test because a Dreadgod is on its way. Lindon and his allies set out to evacuate the valley before the arrival of the Wandering Titan but their sacred arts are weakened by an ancient curse. They'll have to persuade the squabbling inhabitants of Sacred Valley to leave behind their home and set off into the outside world. But it has been a long time since Lindon left and more has changed than he realized. He has always sought power to save his family...but now he might be too late.
A Nephilim, a demon and a mage walk into a psychiatric hospital. This isn't a joke. There's no punch line. My name is Alessia Hastings. Welcome to my personal hell. My weekly visit to Nanna's psychiatric hospital ends with me in a celestial jail cell. Now an impossibly gorgeous Nephilim with a face I want to kiss, and an attitude I want to punch, tells me I'm not quite human.Too bad they can't figure out exactly what I am. Only that my magic is dangerous. Which means I've earned a one way invitation to Bloodline Academy: A secret magical school that teaches the next generation of supernatural monsters how to go bump in the night.You'd think the resident Fae mean girls, the shifters, and bloodthirsty vamps would be my biggest problem at the Academy. But it's the strange voices in my mind that truly scare me. Because Hastings women have always heard voices, and the ones in my head are telling me there's something worse out there hunting me. Finishing this semester alive is going to be treacherous. Not making it through could mean the end of the world. No pressure, right? Bloodline Academy is the first book in this Australian Young Adult Urban Fantasy series. Filled with pulse-pounding action, snarky dialogue and slow burn romance. Think Buffy meets Shadowspell Academy with a side order of Supernatural.
In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.
