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From New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell comes a dark story of murder, mystery, and a brotherhood steeped in a bloody past.

As a young reporter, Arthur Crane exposed the secrets behind the Orchid Killer, a cult murderer from the late '60s whose crimes blackened the end of the Summer of Love. Half a century later, Arthur wakes to find an orchid resting on his pillow, a symbol of death from a killer connected

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Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family -- bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna -- have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone.

With her feet firmly planted in the present, Apep no longer a threat, and twins on the way, Lex is ready to settle back into her normal life-or what qualifies as normal now that her family knows everything about the secret world of the Nejerets, mythic gods of time. But an innocent day trip to Seattle feels off to Lex the moment she steps onto the ferry, and an unsettling dream quickly turns into an all-too-real nightmare. When past and future dangers...

Bitten by a vampire, first night on the job! Sarah Anderson has finally found her dream job: Clerk of Court for the Washington DC Night Court. Then she's attacked by a vampire defendant. James Morton, Sarah's alluring boss, saves her life by letting her drink his own vampire blood. But then he insists on self-defense training that's nearly as dangerous as a courtroom bloodsucker. Soon, Sarah lives a double life. By night, she works with James to...

Two strangers are bonded by a lust for revenge—and each other—in this Carpathian novella from Christine Feehan’s “erotic, gripping series that has defined an entire genre” (J. R. Ward). 
Blaze McGuire knows who killed her father and she has merciless plans for payback. Until a phone call from a seductive stranger pleads with her to wait. Retribution is in his blood, too. Now, he and Blaze will be united...

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The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. Who were these beings? Traces of them could be found scattered on planets everywhere, some very recent, but the aliens themselves were never encountered. They were obviously just as advanced technologically as humans and obviously looking for planets to expand to, just like humans. But what would happen when the two races, human and alien met? From history it was...

This collection includes nearly 200,000 words of kick-ass action, mystery, magic, and sass:Book 4: Soul EaterBook 5: JudgementBook 6: Afterlife Humans know that immortals live among them, and the world is forever changed... Kat Dubois saved the human world from a deadly virus...and she couldn't be more miserable. Her life as she knew it is over. She has become a prisoner held captive in a gilded cage, courtesy of her newfound fame. She spends her...

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-- —good or evil? And are there others out there like him?