The Bearkiller and Mackenzie clans have begun to meet their most basic needs of food and security, but will they survive the new threats of the roving bands of raiders and the bubonic plague.. M..

The Lord Protector of Portland and his barons have begun their campaign of terror and conquest into the eastern farming and ranching communities controlled by the Mackenzies, the Bearkillers and their allies.The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable—and plunged the world into a dark age humanity was unprepared to face..

Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world.

Will they be able to break the code in time to avert disaster?.

Lady Juniper recounts the capture of one of the Lord Protector’s most precious treasurers, the Princess Mathilda Arminger.Will Signe Havel ever forgive her husband for fathering Juniper Mackenzie’s son Rudi? Will Sir Nigel find a home in the Willamette Valley? And what will happen when the Norman Arminger attempts to reclaim the princess and wreck his revenge on the Mackenzies and the Bearkillers?.Having escaped the clutches of the Lord Protector, Sir Nigel Loring, his son Alan and Little John Hordle have joined with the Mackenzie’s and the Bearkillers. While Sir Nigel reveals that the Lord Protector has procured a deadly new weapon.

Even more dangerous, and perhaps Arminger’s most powerful weapon of all, is his ruthlessly cunning consort, Lady Sandra.

Will the Mackenzie and Beakiller’s supposed allies in Corvallis ever move to assist them against the tyranny of the Dread Lord? And what of the mysterious Abbott Dmwoski in his fortified Mount Angel, will he and his monks emerge in time to turn the tide of the war?. While, Lady Juniper and the Clan Mackenzie take to the hills with a guerrilla style campaign against the Marchwarden Conrad Renfrew.

Will aid arrive in time or will Mike Havel and his family be defeated by Norman Arminger and his mad grab for power?What of the secret plan now afoot between the Mackenzie’s and the forces at Mount Angel, will the Abbot Dmwoski and his forces be able to break the siege of their monastery in time to come to the aid of Lady Juniper and her Witch Army?And will Princess Mathilda be able to protect her blood-brother Rudi in the court of her mad father the Lord Protector and scheming mother the Lady Sandra?.Rudi Mackenzie has been abducted by the forces of the Portland Protective Association whose forces have pushed the Bearkillers and Mackenzie’s to the edge of brink defeat.

Carter's going to find out who did it, and he's going to make them pay.

If all his plans go perfectly, he might survive the week.. Everything is trying to kill him and nothing is as it seems. He can be anyone.

.Stephen Blackmoore's dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.

If he doesn't figure out what it is and put a stop to it fast, Quetzalcoatl won't just kill him, he'll burn the whole damn city down with him.The fourth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.

Another mage is pulling them through the cracks and turning them into deadly weapons..

Long live the Necromancer.The Necromancer is dead. Somebody with the power to bring him back from the dead. But somebody on Earth isn't done with him, yet.

Also on the case is Detective Connor Lopez, a sexy cop who has a thing for Esther, but who fears that she and Max may be a bigger problem than the vanishing performers.Since the show must go on—and the astronomical rent must be paid—Esther, Max, and their friends pursue Evil to its lair in their fearless determination to find the missing performers and restore harmony to the city that never sleeps..

A struggling actress, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York City from Evil, a skeptical cop—and double the number of wiseguys that there should be….

Acting jobs don't grow on fire escapes, so struggling actress Esther Diamond is outraged when her guest role as a hooker on controversial TV drama The Dirty Thirty is jeopardized by zombies, angry spirits, and a voodoo curse. But will Esther's courage backfire and end up leading her to become a human sacrifice on the altar of the sinister supernatural powers that are taking over New York City?. Maximillian Zadok, combat the Evil forces at work—all while attempting to salvage her love life with her would-be lover, Detective Connor Lopez.

Everything you know about vampires is wrong, as struggling actress Esther Diamond discovers after taking a job as a victim in The Vampyre, an off-Broadway cult hit in Manhattan.

In the days leading up to Christmas, struggling actress Esther Diamond is working as a singing-and-dancing elf at Fenster & Co, a major Manhattan department store. Semi-retired hitman Lucky Battistuzzi is also nosing around, since the mob resents being implicated in thefts they didn't commit. But when supernatural mishaps occur, Esther realizes this is more than the usual holiday insanity—it's time to call in her friend Max, Manhattan's resident mage.

Esther and Lucky soon realize that something strange is going on in Chinatown, where mysterious gourmet fortune cookies are inflicting deadly mystical curses on the hapless victims who receive them as gifts—and before long, Esther learns that Detective Lopez is one of the recipients. As preparations heat up for the Chinese New Year, when the icy streets will be filled with costumed lion dancers, firecrackers, and dense crowds, Esther and Lucky summon the help of their friend Max, a semi-immortal mage, to help them save Chinatown and Lopez—though he doesn't deserve it—from the menace of a maniacal murderer.

She's hired to reprise her guest role as prostitute Jilly C-Note on The Dirty Thirty, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department...

Now with their goddess murdered and her temple destroyed, they are among the last of their kind. Surviving on the fringes of society, Aral becomes a drunken, broken, and wanted man, working whatever shadowy deal comes his way.

After his goddess was murdered, Aral found refuge in the shadow jack business, fixing problems for those on the fringes of Tien’s underworld.Former temple assassin Aral Kingslayer has a price on his head and a mark on his soul.

But Aral has a new life now, with a fresh identity and new responsibilities. And while he isn’t keen on letting the past back in, the former assassin soon finds himself involved in a war that will leave him with no way out and no idea who to trust…. Jax claims that the forces that destroyed everything Aral once held dear are on the move again, and she needs his help to stop them.

After the fall of the goddess of justice, temple assassin Aral Kingslayer lost his purpose in life and turned to the bottle.

Once one of the world’s greatest assassins, Aral Kingslayer has finally reclaimed his swords and his soul. As a friend, Aral owes her his loyalty. As a Blade, he owes her anything she asks, including his life.

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From acclaimed short-fiction star Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper that launches a high-stakes space adventure trilogy.Fergus Ferguson, repo-man, has one job: find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. But when a cable car explosion launches Cernee into a civil war, Fergus finds himself caught in the crosshairs.

Accompanied by an untrustworthy detective who suspects Fergus is the art thief and the sole friend who escaped the attack, Fergus must follow the tenuous clues to locate and save his friends. Many years and many jobs later, Fergus reluctantly agrees that now is the time to return the motorcycle and face his family. It was his first theft, and nothing he's stolen since has been anywhere near so easy, or weighed so heavily on his conscience. He’s been recovering from that experience in the company of friends, the Shipmakers of Pluto, experts at crafting top-of-the-line AI spaceships.

R. Tolkien himself.