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City of Dragons, Book TwoPenny Caspian here. Another day, another dead dragon shifter in Sea City. This one's Fletcher Remington, a rich playboy who enjoyed surfing and heroin until he disappeared without a trace. Detective Lachlan Flint and I are on the case, mixing it up with the upper crust to find out what happened to him.Speaking of Lachlan and me—we're in a holding pattern. He's afraid to get close to me, because he's apparently so mesmerized by the taste of my blood that he's afraid he'll lose control and hurt me. I keep saying that I can take care of myself, but it's like he's deaf.And the one time he does actually get swept up in the moment and kiss me again, my ex shows up. Yeah, the abusive jerk has powerful magic now—I don't know from where—and he's got no qualms about using it to beat me senseless and pummel Lachlan too.My ex wants me back, but that's never going to happen.

City of Dragons, Book SixI'm Penny Caspian, and my life is damned near perfect. I have a beautiful new baby who I love so much it hurts, and his dad, Detective Lachlan Flint, is still as wonderful as he's ever been. We never thought we'd ever be this lucky, but here we are.Of course, the Eaglelinx corporation is still using their candies to create rogue dragons. I swore I'd stop them, but I've been a bit busy changing diapers and doing night feedings the past nine months. When Eaglelinx threatens to use their influence to take my hotel, I realize my time is running out. I have to stop them now.But we've just taken on a new murder case. Beckett James Stanley, a figure from the early days of gargoyle rights, has been killed while he lay in his hospital bed. We've got to find the murderer and bring him or her to justice.It's fine, though. I've got this. I can do it all and still be home in time to put my son to bed.

Jesse Talon thinks her biggest problem's going to be sorting through her feelings for Wyatt Flint. Now that Wyatt's a Section X agent too, they work together. She figures her attraction to her partner Duke might end up being an issue as well.What she doesn't expect is to discover that her boss, Morgan Steele, has absorbed the power of the evil sea monster the Green King, and that they're all going to have to try to find a way to stop her.Suddenly, complicated relationship issues are looking like a walk in the park.

Welcome to Ravenridge College.Get drunk. Make stupid decisions. And kick serious interdimensional butt.Petra Brightshade was under the impression that college meant going to, like, classes. But she was recruited to this "e;prestigious mage college"e; because she's something called a primal. Her innate magic is uniquely suited to fighting monstrous creatures from another dimension. Those creatures are pouring through a breach in the fabric of the universe right into the college's library.Join Petra and her friends as they fight evil hard and party even harder. This set includes the first three books of the series, Witch Slap. Witch and Moan, and Witch, Please.

City of Dragons, Book FourNot only are rogue dragons real, they're attacking my hotel. Every few days, there's another one, terrorizing me, my unborn baby, my boyfriend Lachlan Flint, my friends, and my guests. I have to figure out what's drawing them there and stop them from coming, if only because Clarke Gannon the dragon slayer keeps showing up, and I don't much like her.Lachlan and I are dealing with a case involving stolen magical artifacts and a gargoyle matriarch who doesn't have much faith in our skills.When the case and the attacking rogues converge one day, we run smack into Lachlan's past. He used to work undercover for magical narcotics, and now the vampire gang he infiltrated might offer our only hope to stop the rogues and protect our child.But to do that, we'll need to go undercover again, into the depths of the dangerous magical underworld.

Hello, Square One. So nice to see you again.To save Logan, Petra Brightshade had to reopen the breaches she just freaking closed. Now, she and her fellow primals are right back where they started.And it's worse, because the interdimensional monsters are now in attack mode. They've got a plan to take over our entire world, and they're not going to stop until they succeed.Or until Petra and the others stop them. Which they will do. Come hell or high water or the closing of their favorite bar—Wait. What?Barley and Bells is indefinitely closed?It may be their darkest hour yet.

Welcome to Ravenridge College.Get drunk. Make stupid decisions. And kick serious interdimensional butt.Petra Brightshade was under the impression that college meant going to, like, classes. But she was recruited to this "e;prestigious mage college"e; because she's something called a primal. Her innate magic is uniquely suited to fighting monstrous creatures from another dimension. Those creatures are pouring through a breach in the fabric of the universe right into the college's library.Petra would rather carve the word "e;primal"e; into her own stomach than fight those freaking creatures. She's been fighting them her whole life, and they haunt her nightmares.But that hot gargoyle that recruited her said that she was pretty much the only hope to save the world. And he's intriguingly straight-laced. She can't help but want to loosen him up a bit. And it's true that the other primals seem to subscribe to the philosophy, "e;Fight hard. Party harder."e;So, Petra's in. She's going to fight. As soon as she gets some coffee, that is.

Petra Brightshade gets captured and then wakes up on a circus train in a car with some elephants, with a dampener on her wrist that keeps her from using her primal magic.It's not exactly her favorite day ever.When she finds out she's been captured because her blood is the only thing that can reopen the breaches she just closed, she knows she's got to escape, find the others, and figure out some way to stop her captors once and for all.No way is she reopening the breaches. No effing way.

City of Dragons, Book SevenWhen my fiancé Lachlan Flint finds out that his daughter's killer has been murdered in a locked cell with no apparent entry points, he says he has to take a crack at the case. He says it's a thought experiment, but I'm fairly sure it's about closure. Nothing has had a deeper affect on Lachlan than the death of his daughter.Normally, I'd be all for closure, but things are getting bad with the Green King. The ancient sea monster attacked my hotel with a supernatural tidal wave that closed me down for business and put us all in danger. I want to figure out how to stop the Green King, not go off and try to solve murders.But, as I said, nothing has had a deeper affect on Lachlan, so off we all go to Texas, where we're neck deep in prison politics and shady suspects.All the while, the Green King closes in.

Life's a witch, and then you die. And if you're Petra Brightshade, it happens accidentally, when you bleed out in an attempt to save the world from monsters. Or at least, it half happens. The human part of Petra has been dead for nearly a year now, and she misses it. When she finds out a new professor at Ravenridge College knows a spell to bring back her humanity, she's got to have it.Of course, the professor's got some secrets of his own. He's being chased by his own monsters—not metaphorical ones, real ones—who are trying to kill him. But Petra manages to make a deal with him. He gives her the spell, she helps him out.Sure, that's dangerous, and so is doing the spell. Pfft. Petra can handle danger.Now, the hangovers after the parties her friend Reid Darkmore keeps throwing? Those are brutal.

The Mission: Secure Wyatt Flint's cooperation and collect a series of specialized magical objects.Who is Wyatt Flint? Not covered in debrief.Cooperation in what? Not covered in debrief.Purpose of objects? Not covered in debrief.Obscure directives are just another day at the office for Section X agent Jesse Talon. She's used to it. As long as she's got a strong drink and her magic gun Sweetcheeks, she's got this.Sure, Wyatt isn't cooperating, despite her resorting to seduction techniques. Sure, she's got some other issues, like trying to win a gun fight in a tight, sequined dress, or her partner trying to gamble away the magic crystals they need, or the rogue British agent who's got it out for all of themOr—oh, yeah—the fact that the apocalypse might have started.But definitely, she's, um, got this.

Petra Brightshade manages to get the human part of her restored. Awesome. If only everything else didn't go to hell at the same time. Apparently, she's a magnet for angry psychos. Go figure.Chased out of her own city and on the run, Petra's got to make a choice. One, do a ritual to undo her spell, take away her humanity and restore her invulnerability, thereby rendering the aforementioned angry psycho's quest to kill her null and void. Which sounds great and all, except for it means watching the future she wants with her boyfriend Logan Gray go up in smoke.Or two, do nothing and keep fighting against an adversary she can't kill.

When Naelen Spencer shows up at Clarke Gannon's apartment saying he wants to hire her to hunt his sister down, she's got zilch inclination to actually take that job.For one thing, she's not actually looking for an employer. For another thing, Naelen is the kind of rich, entitled playboy that she hates. For a third thing, he's a dragon shifter, and she's a dragon slayer. Those things don't mix.Sure, okay, she doesn't kill shifters, only soulless, monster dragons that do nothing but burn, kill, and destroy.And fine, he does happen to have eyes like the sky in high summer and a deep voice that makes her feel warm all over.And all right, she needs the money he's offering. She could use it to help her sister, who's never caught a break her entire life.But screw that guy.That's what she wants to say, anyway. Instead, she ends up taking him up on his offer, and then she's flying off in a private jet to get mixed up with a creepy country town, a nest of powerful vampires, and a bunch of potent magical objects.For fans of Laurell K Hamilton, Patricia Briggs, Jennifer Estep, Charlaine Harris, Ilona Andrews, Annie Bellet, and Pippa DaCosta

Plans to rise up against the cruel regime of the witches are well underway. Bree West works to convince her herd of unicorns to join the fight, while Jack Bastian reaches out to other werewolves. All the while, Jack keeps up the pretense of working with the witches against the unicorns.The biggest challenge the pair face is their overwhelming attraction for each other, even though they know they must not allow themselves to succumb to it. Bree must remain a virgin to be tied to the unicorns, and the unicorns are necessary for the rebellion. But whenever they are close to each other, the temptation to touch is an alluring siren's song.Then the high witch discovers Jack's treachery.Her anger is boundless.

Clarke Gannon can longer deny her feelings for dragon-shifter Naelen Spencer. Unfortunately, her feelings for gargoyle Logan Gray haven't gone away. A harrowing four months held captive by the psychotic vampire Ronan Cunningham has left the three bonded by their shared trauma and a thirst for vengeance against the vampire. Clarke can't choose between Naelen or Logan, and the three are inextricably tangled together.Cunningham now has seven of nine very powerful magical objects. He can't get the other two or he'll be unstoppable. So, together, Clarke and her guys go looking for one of the remaining objects in an old southern mansion complete with gargoyle servants who turn to stone on turrets and eerie noises that come from the attic.They aren't there long before they're face-to-face with danger. The Brotherhood rides in on motorcycles with guns. Rogue dragons swoop in through windows. And they hear that a reprobate mage is lurking outside, eager for some vengeance of his own.

Bree West and Jack Bastian are now connected, to each other, and to the new black unicorn, Jonquil. With Jonquil's new powers, the unicorns have begun plans to crush the regime of the witches once and for all.Then the witches attack, vaporizing a unicorn with their deadly new weapon. Powered by the alicorn sword, it is a bomb that can wipe out swaths of unicorns and humans alike. Now, conquering the witches is a dangerous and risky proposition.But Bree has a plan. With the help of scavengers and thieves from her past, she and Jack will sneak into the high witch's fortress, dismantle the bomb, and take back the alicorn sword.

City of Dragons, Book OnePenny Caspian is hiding something.But it's not that she killed the young dragon shifter girls that are washing up on the beach, no matter what Detective Lachlan Flint seems to think.That detective, well, she thinks he's hiding something, too, with his handsome features and his drawling southern accent—what's he doing all the way up north in Sea City, anyway? Why's this guy the magical creatures detective, anyway? He doesn't know anything about magical creatures. He keeps asking for her help in understanding the dragon shifter community, since he needs Penny's expertise.And sure, Penny used to be part of that world. Dragons like to keep their glittering riches close, after all, and she was a pretty, poised part of her husband's hoard. Like all dragons, she had the mating bond to keep her there.It's no one's business why she's not there any more, or why she left her destined mate.One thing is for sure, it would be incredibly stupid to go and play detective with Lachlan Flint all over the city, exposing herself to the world of dragon high society. She just got away from all that.But dragon girls' lives are on the line. The killer isn't going to stop. And if she could help the investigation…Why does she always do the stupid thing?

Camber Fordham, female alpha of the Northeast pack, is in the capital city for two reasons. One: save her fellow alpha Judah. Two: capture Aston Waterfield so that she can honor the deal she made with the bloodhounds. Aston will remove their kill chips.But none of that is possible when Camber is blood bonded to the vampires and compelled to forget her past.It will take every connection she has and every skill she possesses to complete this mission. But first she has to remember the mission exists.

An uneasy alliance between the former vampire king, Viggo Heathcote, Camber Fordham, and her new mate Landon Bowie, has been formed to search for those stolen by the powerful dark figure.Viggo claims to love Camber's sister Desta, and says he will do anything to rescue her, but Camber doesn't trust him, and Landon straight-up hates him. This doesn't make it easy to deal with attacking bloodhounds and faulty blood magic, even in the best of circumstances.But then the three of them are captured by the dark figure as well. Now, in order to save the people she cares about, Camber must also escape. And there is no way out.

The full moon calls. At night, in the dark, and it hurts. Camber Fordham lives inside the fences erected by the vampire ruling class, fences created to keep the werewolves out. Werewolves live beyond the fences, deep in the woods. Camber feels the call, so she will shift soon. When her sister felt the call, she disappeared one night before the change and came back a vampire. But that's not a solution. Her sister only lives because the vampire king took a shine to her. There's a strict moratorium on creating new vampires. And anyway, Camber doesn't like her sister's life in the city, even if she's looked appreciatively into the ice blue eyes of her sister's human boyfriend, Landon. No, Camber wants the trees and the sky and the open air. So, when the moon is fat and round and white, she climbs the fence, leaving behind everything she's ever known. The first person she sees is Landon. But he's not human anymore.

Strap in and enjoy a rollicking ride through worlds of magic with five sizzling series starters from some of today's hottest urban fantasy storytellers. Scratch the surface of the real world to find alchemy, were-creatures, and witches waiting! Prepare to fall in love with sexy alphas and the kickass heroines they live to chase. But be sure to keep your hands inside the ride at all times – because when it comes to these urban fantasy tales, love just might bite… From USA Today Bestselling Author Aimee Easterling - Shiftless: After years of suppressing her inner wolf, Terra struggles to forget her old pack. But when her past finally comes calling, she has no choice but to reclaim the predator within. From USA Today Bestselling Author Sylvia Frost - Moonbound: Seven years ago, werebeasts murdered Artemis's family and marked her as the mate of a monster. Now that monstrous mate has tracked her down and threatens to make her his own.  From Bestselling Author Val St. Crowe: A Symphony of Howls: Camber lives in a world where werewolves are shot on sight, and she is feeling the call of the moon. If she hopes to survive, she must leave behind everything she's ever known, crossing the fences that keep werewolves out, venturing into the wild woods beyond. From Bestselling Author Marina Finlayson - Moonborn: Since childhood, Garth has lived on the edges of the pack, the human stepson of the pack leader and an eternal outsider. He always dreamed of becoming a werewolf—until one day he got his wish.  From Bestselling Author L. M. Hawke - Black Moon Sing: A dark force is targeting a secret enclave of shapeshifters in the desert southwest, delivering them to grisly fates. Suspected of witchery and cast out of her human society, it's up to Ellery Chee, a lone coyote shifter, to stop this dangerous magician before her world disappears into thin air.