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In this urban fantasy, rock and roll musicians with supernatural powers gets trapped in an alternate universe—inside one of their band member''s minds. A trap set for the band goes from bad to worse as organist and resident sorcerer Adrian badly bungles his escape spell. Trapped inside Adrian''s shadow, the band struggles to orient themselves and escape not only from their pursuing enemies, but from the darker manifestations of Adrian''s soul. And once they do get out from inside their own wizard''s tortured mind, they''ll still have to deal with the fallen angels that trapped them in the first place.

In this urban fantasy, a musician with a death wish goes up against a demon from hell with help from the members of his rock band. Bass player Mike Archuleta is down on his luck in a major way. The shattered survivor of a misspent youth, he is haunted by the ghost of his dead brother, and is now driven to planning his suicide. Halfway through the show that''s supposed to be his last, a hellhound bursts into the club and attacks the band. The band members pull out karate moves, guns, and even a sword . . . and then things start to get strange. Can Mike survive the show? What can he do about his brother''s ghost? And what kind of band is this, anyway?

Rock musicians battle against ancient deities in order to rescue one of their own from the effects of poisonous snake venom. The Snake Handlin'' Man is Eddie Marlow, make-do guitarist, ex-Marine, and the world''s best tambourine player, ever.When an attack of flying snakes in a roadside diner leaves the band''s organist fighting for his life, Eddie leads the band into the lair of a snake-worshipping cult in a desperate attempt to collect the sovereign remedy for snakebite: the milk of a lamia.Can the band find a cure before Adrian''s time is up? Why is the town''s preacher obsessed with the ancient Israelite serpent icon, the Nehushtan? And can the band get out of town before the snake god Apep arrives?</

In this steampunk historical fantasy, literary legends choose sides in the oncoming Civil War in an action-filled adventure. City of the Saints is a four-part gonzo action steampunk adventure tale. 1859. War among the states looms. Sam Clemens, US Army agent, is tasked with getting Brigham Young''s Kingdom of Deseret, with its air-ships and phlogiston guns, into the war on the side of the Union. Clemens rides west aboard the amphibious steam-truck the Jim Smiley, but his competition is fierce: the explorer Captain Richard Burton for Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and as agent of the clandestine Confederate leadership, Edgar Allan Poe, who travels disguised as an exhibitor of Egyptian antiquities, armed with cunning clockwork weaponry. But will even the hypnotic hypocephalus and the flesh-eating scarabs be enough when the machinating Danites spring their coup?

In this urban fantasy, the fifth book in a pulp fiction series, a rock band''s shapeshifting drummer goes up against monsters, faeries and her own past. The band heads to Hell, taking a short cut through Mab''s Queendom. They''re sidetracked when old enemies intercept them and capture Jim, forcing Twitch to confront her own past as well as Infernal pursuit, the Queen''s Rangers and the Queendom''s native monsters.Can the band find and rescue their lead singer? How will they escape Mab''s wrath? And what are they going to do about Rahab the dragon?

A CANNONBALL RUN ACROSS AN AMERICA FULL OF MAGICSilas Danger can't stop running. The year is 1975. Silas drives a red Pontiac GTO. Trapped in the back of his muscle car are the ghost of his sister Betty and half of the demon that killed her. He doesn't know how she died, and he hasn't figured out how to save her yet, but he knows that if he spends three days in any one place, the other half of the demon will catch up, kill him, and drag Betty down to hell. Silas works as a scout, messenger, courier, herald, and sometimes spy across the weird, fragmented, magical world of Other America. Dodging bridge trolls as well as alien grays, lamiae along with snallygasters, undead blues singers and also bison-headed giants, he runs errands in exchange for information that will help him save his sister. This time, he's hired to run a deck of Tarot cards from New York to San Francisco on a tight schedule. The first complication comes when the dame with the card deck won't just hand them over, she insists on coming along. The second is that everyone else in Other America seems to know that Silas has the cards, and everyone seems willing to kill to get them.