Losing blood doesn't always mean you're bleeding. You think you know what it means to lose blood?Zero does. One of her members broke the rule: no werewolf shall harm or kill another. But the replacement is an overeager fool who refers to himself as the Fed. He'll risk everything to prove his worth. And he's out for revenge.Rainer does. Her parents, her sister, her husband, her child...her blood. The werewolves took everyone she loved, and she's vowed to never let it happen again. But when she finally opens herself up, she puts a whole new family in the werewolves' path. She'll risk everything to stop the wolves. Now, she's out for revenge.Sam does. With her mother gone, Sam is finally forging a relationship with her father. So she isn't sure what to think when Rainer shows up, stinking of smoke and death, and tells Sam and her dad that they must come with her. For their safety.But Sam is...

"Monsters have never been so much fun." —Stuart Gibbs, New York Times bestselling author of the Spy School series on The Supernatural Society Welcome back to East Emerson, a town chock-full of monsters, in this spooky and hilarious middle grade series about three kids who must unravel centuries of secrets to save the day. Will Hunter just wants a quiet day in East Emerson. But instead: A bully won't leave him alone at school His mom is struggling to make ends meet Together with friends Ivy and Linus, he's had to save the town from a pet-napping vampire and a werewolf armyWhen someone starts raising the dead all over town, it's up to Will, Ivy, and Linus to unlock the centuries of secrets hiding underground and prevent a terrifying monster from being unleashed. And if they fail, it won't just mean the end of East Emerson—but the end of the...

Spending Thanksgiving trapped in a hotel with a man I can't stand, really isn't my idea of a good time, but that's what's happening anyway.I've hated River Santos since I first started working for the airline. I was warned to stay away from him by more than one flight attendant, my best friend included. River was your typical pilot: cocky, arrogant, and left a trail of broken hearts in his wake.At least that's what I'd always been told. And so far, he'd done nothing to dissuade my negative opinions of him.But one unprecedented snowstorm later and I find myself spending time with a guy I thought I knew, but didn't really know at all. I don't want to like him, but he's making it difficult. And we have more in common than I ever thought possible.What happens when you stop hating your enemy and start wanting him instead?

Lawrence Block's "lost" stories, complete and uncut for the first time since their original publication!The focus and subject matter of mid-century men's adventure magazines (MAMs) could be wide-ranging, and versatile storytellers able to confidently navigate genres, approaches, and authorial voices found regular, lucrative work in their pages. Among those talented writers was a notable newcomer: Lawrence Block-though his initial pieces would see print under various pseudonyms. Not the Lawrence Block you know, who is among the most widely read, respected, and celebrated writers of crime and mystery fiction in the world. A writer internationally read and internationally honored, upon whom The Mystery Writers of America bestowed the title of Grand Master. A writer with over 65 years of professional experience in damn near every kind of writing, whose essays, magazine columns, and non-fiction...

When prospector William Crowley found a fabulous diamond, he thought he'd made his fortune, but three months later he lost it in a poker game. William never saw his diamond again. Fifteen years later William's son Jackson discovers that the diamond is again at stake in a poker game, this time presided over by the entrepreneur Meeker Trent. With the help of his father's old friends Finbar Stuart and Preston McBryde, Jackson vows to win it back. But the game attracts a motley collection of card sharks and gunslingers, and they soon discover that winning the game will be only half the battle. The hardest task will be staying alive for long enough to leave the poker table.

Where there's Smoke, there's fire, and Gia is a flame so bright, she'll burn you.With the Council under attack and one of its leaders kidnapped, the surviving members go to warbefore it's too late to save their empires and get back what's been taken from them.Smoke doesn't mind doing the dirty work, but when it comes to Gia, he wants to keep her clearfrom the blood bath about to ensue.He doesn't know she carries a deadly secret that will change everything between them.Teamed up with an ally to locate their missing leader, the danger heightens and so does their attraction.Until they're incapable of stopping the inevitable.But once Gia reveals the truth to Smoke, his world is twisted in a way that can never be undone.The war for the Council has nothing on the war for her heart.

Technology becomes self-aware—and goes haywire—in this comedic science fiction adventure by New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster.   Without warning, kitchen appliances, laundry machines, and every other electronic gadget humans came to depend upon ceased to perform the tasks they were manufactured to do. Ignoring their programming, these devices now sought the meaning of life from an intelligence nonhuman in origin.   Their quest ends in the most unexpected of places. Beneath the grounds of an upstate New York retirement community lies an alien spaceship. Inert for millennia, the machines have awakened the ancient intelligence within it. Programmed to wage war against an enemy race, the spaceship threatens to destroy the entire galaxy. And now the fate of all organic andinorganic life lies with five senior citizens—and a food processor . . .