Fantasy Dreamer's Ramblings

Short list this week but I may have missed some. I've been slacking a bit lately on keeping up with the new releases...I hope to catch soon. Maybe. ;)

Remember Daylight Savings is officially over, if your area participates, at 2:00 a.m. today so don't forget to "fall back" one hour. Ah! An extra of sleep, read, watch movies, gamer or fill in the _____. Enjoy the extra hour!

Bitten in Two by Jennifer Rardin
Release Date: 11/8/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Jaz Parks #7 
Author's Website: www.JenniferRardin.com 
 
Summary:  
Jaz Parks here. I. Am. Pissed. Just as Vayl and I arrive in Morocco to secure an ancient artifact, he wakes up calling me by another woman’s name. And it’s not even a good one. But since any form of argument transforms him into an unholy terror, I’m forced to play along until the gang and I can figure out what kind of power has so vastly altered his perceptions.

So it’s time for me to do what any well-trained assassin in my position might do. I attack. What follows is a hair-raising, breath-taking bullet train ride to the finish as the crew battles on multiple fronts. I now know what I have to do – I must return to hell one last time. 

Hunger Aroused by Dee Carney
Release Date: 11/8/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: NA 
Author's Website: DeeCarney.com 
 
Summary:  
Jasmine is sick in bed when a sexy stranger breaks in and reveals she’s suffering an irreversible case of vampirism. And because her turning wasn’t approved by the Council, he must kill her once the transition is complete. In the meantime, the executioner offers to ease her torment with chocolate, hot peppers or sexual release. Fortunately for them both, Jasmine’s kitchen is bare...

Corin’s honor demands he do his duty, but he cannot execute the lovely woman while any part of her humanity remains. He must also find and kill her sire. Jasmine denies ever having contact with a vampire, causing Corin to question the justice of his orders. Sensing his hesitation, the Council dispatches another executioner, forcing the pair to make a run for it.

Every hour they spend together, every sensual encounter they share, finds them growing closer. Now Corin will have to choose: kill the woman he loves, or go against everything he believes to set her free.

Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Release Date: 11/9/2010

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Genre: Horror 
Series: Short Stories Collection 
Author's Website: StephenKing.com 
 
Summary:  
A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King. 

"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger . . ." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922," the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

"Fair Extension," the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage.

Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form. 

Muse and Reverie by Charles de Lint
Release Date: 11/9/2010

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Genre: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy 
Series: Short Stories Collection 
Author's Website:  
 
Summary:  
Muse and Reverie is an all-new collection of short fiction in Charles de Lint’s “Newford” universe—the fifth such collection since 1993, and the first since 2002. Previous collections are Dreams Underfoot, The Ivory and the Horn, the World Fantasy Award-winning Memory and Dream, and Tapping the Dream Tree.

 The city of Newford could be any city in North America, bursting with music, commerce, art, love and hate, and of course magic. Magic in the sidewalk cracks, myth at the foundations of its great buildings, enchantment in the spaces between its people. In this new collection, de Lint explores that magic and those spaces, shedding new light on the people and places that readers of novels like Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl, and The Mystery of Grace have come to love. 

Contents: 

*Somewhere In My Mind There Is a Painting Box 
*Refinerytown 
*A Crow Girls Christmas--with MaryAnn Harris 
*Dark Eyes, Faith and Devotion 
*Riding Shotgun 
*Sweet Forget-Me-Not 
*That Was Radio Clash 
*The Butter Spirit's Tithe 
*Da Slockit Light 
*The Hour Before Dawn 
*Newford Spook Squad 
*In Sight 
*The World in a Box

Phantom Prospect by Alex Archer
Release Date: 11/9/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Rogue Angel #27 
Author's Website: NA 
 
Summary:  
Intrepid treasure hunters believe they have discovered the final resting place of Fantome, a legendary warship that wrecked off Nova Scotia almost two hundred years ago. She was rumored to have gone down with an extraordinary treasure. But circling beneath the ocean's surface waits something unbelievable...and terrifying. Some unfortunate divers have encountered a massive, thought-to-be-extinct shark known as the megalodon. 

Archaeologist Annja Creed has always had a healthy respect for sharks. But when a researcher friend asks for her help, Annja braves the deep, cold waters of the Atlantic, determined to discover the truth. Instead she finds herself hunting an unknown traitor on a sabotaged ship. With death waiting both above and below the ocean's surface, Annja must battle her most dangerous enemy yet. 

The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
Release Date: 11/9/2010

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Genre: Steampunk Fantasy 
Series: Stand Alone 
Author's Website: GhostMedicine.com 
 
Summary:  
Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury. 

There is war in Marbury. It is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys. Conner is there, too. But he’s trying to kill them. 

Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with an English girl, and afraid he’s losing his mind. 

Conner tells Jack it’s going to be okay. 

But it’s not. 

Andrew Smith has written his most beautiful and personal novel yet, as he explores the nightmarish outer limits of what trauma can do to our bodies and our minds.

Trio of Sorcery by Mercedes Lackey
Release Date: 11/9/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Short Stories 
Author's Website: MercedesLackey.com 
 
Summary:  
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mercedes Lackey presents three exciting short urban fantasy novels featuring three resourceful heroines and three different takes on the modern world and on magics both modern and ancient. 

Arcanum 101:  Diana Tregarde, practicing witch, romance novelist, Guardian of the Earth. Studying at Harvard, Diana is approached by Joe O’Brian, a young cop who has already seen more than one unusual thing during his budding career. The distraught mother of a kidnap victim is taking advice from a “psychic” and interfering in the police investigation. Will Diana prove that the psychic is a fake? Unfortunately, the psychic is not a fake, but a very wicked witch—and the child’s kidnapper. 

Drums:  Jennifer Talldeer, shaman, private investigator, member of the Osage tribe. Most of Jennie’s work is regular PI stuff, but Nathan Begay brings her a problem she’s never seen before. His girlfriend, Caroline, is Chickasaw to his Navaho, but that’s not the problem. Somehow, Caroline has attracted the attention of an angry Osage ghost. Thwarted in love while alive, the ghost has chosen Caroline to be his bride in death. 

Ghost in the Machine:  Ellen McBridge: computer programmer extraordinaire, techno-shaman. The programmers and players of a new MMORPG find that the game’s “boss,” a wendigo, is “killing” everyone—even the programmers’ characters with their god-like powers. A brilliant debugger, Ellen discoveres that the massive computing power of the game’s servers have created a breach between the supernatural world and our own. This wendigo isn’t a bit of code, it’s the real thing . . . and it’s on the brink of breaking out of the computers and into the real world.

The Painted Boy by Charles de Lint
Release Date: 11/11/2010

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Genre: YA Urban Fantasy 
Series: Stand Alone 
Author's Website:  
 
Summary:  
Jay Li should be in Chicago, finishing high school and working at his family's restaurant. Instead, as a born member of the Yellow Dragon Clan--part human, part dragon, like his grandmother--he is on a quest even he does not understand. His journey takes him to Santo del Vado Viejo in the Arizona desert, a town overrun by gangs, haunted by members of other animal clans, perfumed by delicious food, and set to the beat of Malo Malo, a barrio rock band whose female lead guitarist captures Jay's heart. He must face a series of dangerous, otherworldly--and very human--challenges to become the man, and dragon, he is meant to be. This is Charles de Lint at his best!

If I have missed any new book release(s) within the Speculative Fiction genre i.e. Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Horror, Fantasy and YA Paranormal/Fantasy for this week, and you would like me to include them in my new release calendar below, please use this form to pass the book's information to me.

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Happy Halloween! I hope everyone has had a fun Halloween weekend.

I've changed the format up a bit. I'm not going to include the ISBN, publisher or book format anymore. It was very time consuming trying to hunt this information down, especially when several sources listed different publisher for the same book. Also, now a days a book is usually issued in more than one format on release day i.e paper, audio and electronic.

I have always and will continue to link to Goodreads for each book so you can see all the different formats available, read any reviews that may be listed and Goodreads has links to purchase the books, you don't even need a membership to view this information. In case your wondering, a Goodreads' membership is free. To me, Goodreads has always been a one stop-source for books in any format.

Enjoy!

Edge of Twilight by Maggie Shayne
Release Date: 11/1/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Wings in the Night #10 
Author's Website: MaggieShayne.com 
 
Summary:  
His name is Edge, and he is the last of a band of Immortals who have been hunt4ed down and murdered by Frank Stiles -- an enemy determined to unlock their deepest secrets. Vengeance has become Edge's obsession. To claim it, he must find the young woman whispered to be the Golden Child.

A legend among the undead, Amber Lily is the only half human, half vampire ever born, and is possessed of power even she is unaware of. Amber alone understands the dangerous threat of Frank Stiles. Only she may hold the key to his vulnerability . . . and his doom.

Amber shares Edge's need to get to Stiles. But she needs to keep him alive for reasons of her own. Edge is exciting and dangerous, and despite her own instinct for self-preservation, Amber is drawn into his hunt. In doing so, she will cast her fate to the wings of the night, to a passion that may be her destiny, to an evil she may not be able to defeat -- to the edge of twilight where only the Immortals belong.

Luck of the Wolf by Susan Krinard
Release Date: 11/1/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: NA 
Author's Website: SusanKrinard.com 
 
Summary:  
Branded an outcast by the noble branch of his werewolf clan, Cort Renier had come to San Francisco seeking fortune—and revenge. What he found was a mysterious beauty who could not—or would not—reveal who she truly was. At first glance she seemed vulnerable and afraid, like so many girls caught up in the debauchery of the city's whiskey-soaked gambling dens. But one look into her stunning turquoise eyes and he knew he'd found the winning hand.

Aria di Reinardus had reasons of her own for concealing her identity, but Cort's kisses were more than enough to convince her to go along with his plan to transform her into a missing heiress and return her to her "family." But they were not the only ones with secrets to keep and vengeance in mind, and they were about to discover that some destinies couldn't be outrun....

The Shifters by Alexandra Sokoloff
Release Date: 11/1/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: The Keepers Trilogy #2 
Author's Website: AlexandraSokoloff.com  
 
Summary:  
Charged with overseeing the shapeshifters of New Orleans, Caitlin MacDonald has her reasons for being wary of their kind. So when charismatic bounty-hunting shifter Ryder Malloy blows into town claiming to be on the trail of a horde of malevolent entities called Walk-Ins, Caitlin has no reason to trust him—with her city or her heart. But as tourists start dropping dead from supernatural possession, Cait must team with Ryder to navigate his shadowy, ephemeral world...

Fiercely independent, Ryder usually hunts alone—but this case requires an exception. To prevent a supernatural massacre, he needs the beautiful Keeper on his side—and, if possible, even closer. In his world, appearances can be deceiving and deadly. And the only way they'll survive is if this woman who tempts him like no other trusts in him completely....

The Wolf Prince by Karen Kelley
Release Date: 11/1/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Stand Alone 
Author's Website: AuthorKarenKelley.com 
 
Summary:  
Darcey is used to being a man magnet - for men who want her money. But when a hot hunk named Surlok saves her from a wolf attack, she can't help but think he's different from the rest. So what if he's broke - and claims to be a prince from another planet? All he needs is a little grooming. If only he would stop scaring off the maids by swimming naked in her pool. Not that Darcey minds...Especially since life is becoming way more fun with Surlok in her guest house. Suddenly this pampered princess doesn't mind camping - as long as she gets to cuddle with Surlock. But then he changes into a wolf before her eyes, proving he's the alien he says he is. At least that doesn't mean he's right about her being an alien. Or does it? There's only one way to find out. She's already given into her lust. Now she'd just have to surrender her heart to the very human emotion threatening to consume her...

Touch of Temptation by Rhiannon Byrd
Release Date: 11/1/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Primal Instinct #6 
Author's Website: RhyannonByrd.com 
 
Summary:  
THE MORE DANGEROUS THE DESIRE…
THE MORE DELICIOUS THE SURRENDER
Kellan Scott, the Lycan shape-shifter, has vowed to redeem his playboy past…even allowing himself to be captured by his enemies to save a woman he’s never met. Once imprisoned, stealing into Chloe Harcourt’s cell is the easy part— withstanding her irresistible beauty is next to impossible.

Chloe has struggled to keep her unusual powers over other people’s emotions in check, never trusting that any man could truly love her for herself. Until her mesmerizing rescuer awakens a primal craving for contact.

Their all-consuming passion is their strongest weapon against their sadistic captor. But Kellan’s biggest battle may still lie ahead: to convince Chloe he’s worthy of her undying love…or die trying.

Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts Edited by Stephen Jones
Release Date: 11/1/2010

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Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy 
Series: Anthology 
Author's Website: StephenJonesEditor.com 
 
Summary:  
IN THE DARKNESS, SOMETHING WICKED SPREADS ITS WINGS

THE ETERNAL BATTLE between fallen angels and their Heavenly counterpoints plays out daily here on Earth. Without warning, ordinary people find their lives forever changed by the intervention of divine beings. But meddling with the living does not always go according to plan and the angels themselves fall under an all-too-mortal spell--longing for love or thirsting for wicked revenge.

With stories from such world-renowned authors of fantasy and horror as Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Graham Masterton, Robert Silverberg, Michael Marshall Smith, Lisa Tuttle, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Jane Yolen, Visitants presents a breathtaking collection of stories in which Heaven's hosts reveal themselves on Earth and fallen angels struggle toward final redemption.

Afterlight by Elle Jasper
Release Date: 11/2/2010

 Goodreads 
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Dark Ink Chronicles #1 
Author's Website: ElleJasper.com 
 
Summary:  
 The Dupres have been Savannah's guardians, appointed by a band of root doctors and hoodooists, for nearly two hundred years. They've all grown...complacent. Now, the Arcos brothers, who've long been entombed at Bonaventure, have been inadvertently freed by a group of teenagers horsing around in the cemetery. Determined to take revenge on the city who entombed them, the Arcos' gather strength in the city's youth. Within the moon's full cycle, the gang's quickening will be complete--they'll become vampires. Newlings, out of control and craving human blood will ravage the city. The one thing the Arcos' didn't count on was the powerful love of a sister. Riley Poe will stop at nothing to get her brother back. The one thing Riley didn't count on was the powerful love of a vampire. Eli Dupre will do anything to get her. Follow Riley, Eli, and the vampires of the Dupre House into the shadowy, underside of Savannah. 

Blood Spells by Jessica Andersen
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Nightkeepers #5 
Author's Website: JessicaAndersen.com 
 
Summary:  
Mayan lore and modern science warn that 12/21/2012 will bring a global cataclysm. Dark forces stand poised to crush mankind. The only hope rests with a secret group of modern magic-wielders called the Nightkeepers. But as Patience White-Eagle and her husband, Brandt, team up as a mated warrior pair, they will face a deadly threat that will test their powers—and their love...

Confessions of a Vampire's Girlfriend by Katie Maxwell aka Katie MacAlister
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy 
Series: Omnibus 
Author's Website: KatieMacAlister.com 
 
Summary:  
GOT FANGS? 
Originally published January 2005 

All sixteen-year-old Francesca Ghetti wants to do is have a normal life where she’s one of the crowd, blending in so no one will know just how much of a freak she is. Dragged to Europe by her mother to join GothFaire, a travelling band of psychics, magicians, and assorted other oddities, Fran has to cope with not only the normal angst of always being a fish out of water, but also with her own fate as a psychometrist. 

Enter one Moravian Dark One (referred to by most people as vampires) named Benedikt who claims Fran is the key to redeeming his soul, a mysterious horse who seems to have an involved past, an immortal friend who remembers what Mozart was like, and a demonologist who thinks he’s Elvis, and you can understand why Fran despairs of ever fitting in. 

CIRCUS OF THE DARNED 
Originally published January 2006 

I’ve given up all hope of having a normal life. As if things weren’t freaky enough traveling around Europe with a group of witches, mediums, and magicians who make up my home-away-from-home (aka the GothFaire), now I also have to cope with a mysterious man who wants to steal my horse, and a time-travel counselor who insists I’m Cleopatra reincarnated. 

I just want to go on a date with Benedikt, but when your boyfriend’s a vampire, nothing is easy. Not only is Ben keeping secrets from me, but somehow, I raised an entire battlefield of warring Viking ghosts–all of whom refuse to be sent back. 

Crossroads by Moira Rogers
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Southern Arcana #2 
Author's Website: MoiraRogers.com 
 
Summary:  
He’s the last man she should ever want. She’s the last woman he can ever have. 

Coming from a family with psychic gifts, Derek Gabriel was aware of but separate from the dangers of the supernatural world, until a rogue wolf shifter stripped away his humanity. The change he barely survived didn’t drive him insane, but the cultural bias against him as an inferior transformed wolf might. And it doesn’t help that he’s fallen for the daughter of the most powerful wolf in the country. 

Almost from the moment she was born, Nicole Peyton started planning her escape from the strict confines of elite shapeshifter society, an old-fashioned world where women are valued only for their bloodlines and bank accounts. In New Orleans she has a bar she loves, friends in decidedly low places, and a smoldering sensual tension with an incredibly attractive and deliciously unsuitable man. 

Their forbidden longing erupts into unbridled need—until Nick’s sister burns into town with a strike team hard on her heels. Saving her means Nick has to play by the Conclave’s rules…and give up the man she is growing to love 

Unless Derek does something completely crazy—issue a challenge that could shake the foundations of their world 

Warning: This book contains forbidden lust, strip poker, instinct-driven sex in odd places, devious shapeshifters, and love and loss in a world of paranormal politics and supernatural schemes. 

Devil at Midnight by Emma Holly
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Midnight #9 
Author's Website: EmmaHolly.com 
 
Summary:  
For years, mercenary captain Christian Durand has done everything he can to protect his men. When a beautiful ghost appears to offer comfort, he assumes the strain has finally pushed him over the edge. All he knows for certain is that this woman tugs at both his heart and desires. But now that a vampire queen has set her immortal sights on Christian, he must choose between his darker urges and a powerful love that spans centuries.

Enemy Within by Marcella Burnard
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Science Fiction Romance
Series: Enemy #1 
Author's Website: MarcellaBurnard.com 
 
Summary:  
After a stint in an alien prison torpedoes her military career, Captain Ari Idylle has to wonder why she even bothered to survive. Stripped of her command and banished to her father's scientific expedition to finish a PhD she doesn't want, Ari never planned to languish quietly behind a desk. But when pirates commandeer her father's ship, Ari once again becomes a prisoner.

Pirate leader Cullin Seaghdh may not be who he pretends to be but as far as Cullin is concerned, the same goes for Ari. Her past imprisonment puts her dead center in Cullin's sights and if she hasn't been brainwashed and returned as a spy, then he's convinced she must be part of a traitorous alliance endangering billions of lives. Cullin can't afford the desire she fires within him and he'll stop at nothing, including destroying her, to uncover the truth.

Firewalker by Allyson James
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Stormwalker #2 
Author's Website: AllysonJames.com 
 
Summary:  
When Mick goes missing, it's up to Janet to find him and figure out how to keep him safe. She'll need a little help from her friends, old and new: Nash and Coyote; Cassandra, a wicked Wicca, and a few strange beings who are stirring things up in Magellan. 

Game Over by Taylor Keating
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Guardian #1 
Author's Website: TaylorKeating.com  
 
Summary:  
Video game designer River Weston is ready to sell her soul to smooth out the glitches in her latest project. When she unwittingly taps into a parallel dimension via cutting-edge technology, a Dark Lord is quick to take her up on her inadvertent offer. Trapped in the world she thought she’d created for her game, River finds herself in a very real alternate dimension that she must escape from before her soul can be used to unleash evil--upon this dimension and many others. 

River’s only ally is the sexy and mysterious Chase Hawkins.  A prisoner of the Dark Lord, Hawk is a man adrift—literally. His body safe at home under the watchful care of the Guardians’ scientists, his astral-traveling spirit has been enslaved by his people’s worst enemy, the Dark Lord. Clinging desperately to his sense of self, Hawk is determined to turn the tables on his captor before the connection to his body is lost.  When the beautiful, achingly familiar River enters the picture, he vows he will do everything he can to save her from her bleak fate.

Drawn together with an inescapable force, Hawk and River must wrest her soul from the Dark Lord’s grasp before it’s too late.

In Dreams Begin by Skyler White
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Stand Alone 
Author's Website: SkylerWhite.com 
 
Summary:  
“Close your eyes tightly—tightly—and keep them closed . . .”

From a Victorian Ireland of magic, poetry and rebellion, Ida Jameson, ...more “Close your eyes tightly—tightly—and keep them closed . . .”

From a Victorian Ireland of magic, poetry and rebellion, Ida Jameson, an amateur occultist, reaches out for power, but captures Laura Armstrong, a modern-day graphic artist instead. Now, for the man or demon she loves, each woman must span a bridge through Hell and across history . . . or destroy it.

“Every passionate man is linked with another age, historical or imaginary,
where alone he finds images that rouse his energy.” W. B. Yeats

Anchored in fact on both sides of history, Laura and Ida, modern rationalist and fin de siècle occultist, are linked from the moment Ida channels Laura into the body of celebrated beauty and Irish freedom-fighter Maud Gonne. When Laura falls—from an ocean and a hundred years away—passionately, Victorianly in love with the young poet W. B. Yeats, their love affair entwines with Irish history and weaves through Yeats’s poetry until Ida discovers something she wants more than magic in the subterranean spaces in between.

With her Irish past threatening her orderly present and the man she loves in it, Laura and Yeats—the practical materialist and the poet magus—must find a way to make love last over time, in changing bodies, through modern damnation, and into the mythic past to link their pilgrim souls . . . or lose them forever.

In the Company of Vampires by Katie MacAlister
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Dark Ones #8 
Author's Website: KatieMacAlister.com 
 
Summary:  
If only a broken heart were all she had to deal with…

…but there are Viking ghosts, gods, werebeings, and one sexy as sin vampire on Francesca’s case. And her biggest trouble is Loki, the trickster god.

When Fran arrives at Goth-Faire to deal with him, things go from bad to worse, for her immortal ex, Benedikt, is there…with a new girlfriend.

Shapesifters, Vikings, and a town filled with deranged opera fans…it’s a good thing Fran’s no ordinary mortal…

Jeweled by Anya Bast
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance Erotica 
Series: NA 
Author's Website: AnyaBast.com 
 
Summary:  
Defined by magic. Ruled by desire. 

In the Court of Edaeii, magic-imbued Evangeline is rewarded for her gift with a sapphire stone set in the perfect curves of her flesh. Her greatest rival in the royal court is the enigmatic Anatol, instilled with his own powers to manipulate illusion. He may better her in magic, but he is her absolute equal in a ferocious sexual energy begging for release. 

They share something else—they’re both targets of low-born revolutionaries bent on over-throwing the palace of the privileged few. Rescued from the mobs by Gregorio, a brilliant insurgent, they’re given sanctuary. But in this warm refuge, Evangeline soon finds herself torn between the magic of one man she has always desired, and the excitingly new and radical moves of another. For her, there is only one choice. 

Evangeline, Anatol and Gregorio come together as one to explore the possibilities of love beyond reason, and to indulge—for as long as they can survive—in pleasure without limits.

Living Nightmare by Shannon K. Butcher
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Sentinel Wars #4 
Author's Website:  ShannonKButcher.com 
 
Summary:  
For nine years, the Sentinel Nika has had one goal—to save her younger sister from the Synestryn who hold her captive. Now, the psychic bond Nika forged with her sibling on that terrible night is fading, and time is running out. But the one man who can unlock the power inside her may be the greatest danger to her.

Magic at the Gate by Devon Monk
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Allie Beckstrom #5 
Author's Website: DevonMonk.com 
 
Summary:  
Allie Beckstrom's lover, Zayvion Jones, is a Guardian of the Gate, imbued with both light and dark magic and responsible for ensuring that those energies don't mix. But Zayvion lies in a coma, his soul trapped in death's realm. And when Allie discovers that the only way to save Zayvion is to sacrifice her very own magical essence, she makes a decision that may have grave consequences for the entire world.

Marked By The Moon by Lori Handeland
Release Date: 11/2/2010

Goodreads 
Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Night Creature #9 
Author's Website: LoriHandeland.com 
 
Summary:  
Julian Barlow was once a Viking. Then he watched his brother fall in battle, shouted his fury to the heavens and changed. He became the berserker of legend, a warrior who, in the heat of combat, transforms into a wolf.

Centuries later, he's settled into his own Alaskan village full of werewolves; he has a wife he adores. Until Alexandra Trevalyn, werewolf hunter, kills her. Dying is too easy for the woman who murdered his wife, so Julian devises a better way for Alex to suffer.

He'll make her just like him.

Pegasus by Robin McKinley
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: 
Series: Stand Alone 
Author's Website: RobinMcKinley.com 
 
Summary:  
A gorgeously-written fantasy about the friendship between a princess and her pegasus

Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylviianel is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday. The two species coexist peacefully, despite the language barriers separating them. Humans and pegasi both rely on specially-trained Speaker magicians as the only means of real communication.

But it’s different for Sylvi and Ebon. They can understand each other. They quickly grow close—so close that their bond becomes a threat to the status quo—and possibly to the future safety of their two nations. 

Play of Passion by Nalini Singh
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Psy/Changeling #9 
Author's Website: NaliniSingh.com 
 
Summary:  
In his position as Tracker for the SnowDancer pack, Drew Kincaid must rein in rogue changelings who've lost control of their animal halves- even if it means killing those who've gone too far. But nothing in his life has prepared him for the battle he must now wage-to win the heart of a woman who makes his body ignite...and who threatens to enslave his wolf.

Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here by Christine Warren
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: The Others #10 
Author's Website: ChristineWarren.net 
 
Summary:  
Danice Carter wakes up naked and confused. She can't figure out how she got into bed with a man she's never met, because there is no way she would forget meeting McIntyre Callahan. The man is everything she's ever fantasized about, a mind-bendingly mouth-watering hunk...who is just as puzzled about what's going on as she is.

When they discover the explanation involves a fugitive from Faerie, some very tricky magic, and a theoretical hotel room, things start to get a little weird. Good thing the attraction between Danice and Mac makes all the sense in the world. 

Rebel by Zoe Archer
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: The Blades of the Rose #3 
Author's Website: ZoeArcherBooks.com 
 
Summary:  
On the Canadian frontier in 1875, nature is a harsh mistress. But the supernatural can really do you in...

A Lone Wolf

Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He’s the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he’s always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed...

And The Woman Who Left The Pack

Astrid has traveled this path before. Once she was a Blade of the Rose, protecting the world’s magic from unscrupulous men, with her husband by her side. But she’s loved and lost, and as a world-class frontierswoman, she knows all about survival. Nathan’s searing gaze and long, lean muscles mean nothing but trouble. Yet something has ignited a forgotten flame inside her: a burning need for adventure, for life—and perhaps even for love...

Sea Storm by Christine Feehan
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Drake Sisters: #1, #3 
Author's Website: ChristineFeehan.com 
 
Summary:  
In one trade package together for the first time-two stories of the Drake Sisters from the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon. 

This two-in-one package from the #1 New York Times bestselling Drake Sisters series includes: 
Magic in the Wind 
Ever since Damon Wilder sought refuge in Sea Haven, he's heard the same breathless rumor so suggestive that it carries him to Sarah's cliff-top home. But Damon has not arrived alone. Two men have tracked him to Sea Haven, and into the shadows of Drake House, where Sarah hides her own secrets. And danger is just a whisper away. 

Oceans of Fire 
A gifted daughter in a magical bloodline, Abigail was born with a mystical affinity for water, and possesses a strong bond with dolphins, swimming among them in the waters off Sea Haven. Until she witnesses a murder on shore, and flees for her life-right into the arms of the Interpol agent who once broke her heart.

The Greyfriar by Clay & Susan Griffith
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Steampunk 
Series: Vampire Empire #1 
Author's Website: ClayAndSusanGriffith.blogspot.com  
 
Summary:  
In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. Millions of humans were killed outright. Millions more died of disease and famine due to the havoc that followed. Within two years, once great cities were shrouded by the grey empire of the vampire clans. Human refugees fled south to the tropics because vampires could not tolerate the constant heat there. They brought technology and a feverish drive to reestablish their shattered societies of steam and iron amid the mosques of Alexandria, the torrid quietude of Panama, or the green temples of Malaya.

It is now 2020 and a bloody reckoning is coming.

Princess Adele is heir to the Empire of Equatoria, a remnant of the old tropical British Empire. She is quick with her wit as well as with a sword or gun. She is eager for an adventure before she settles into a life of duty and political marriage to man she does not know. But her quest turns black when she becomes the target of a merciless vampire clan. Her only protector is The Greyfriar, a mysterious hero who fights the vampires from deep within their territory. Their dangerous relationship plays out against an approaching war to the death between humankind and the vampire clans.

The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire is the first book in a trilogy of high adventure and alternate history. Combining rousing pulp action with steampunk style, The Greyfriar brings epic political themes to life within a story of heartbreaking romance, sacrifice, and heroism.

The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: YA Paranormal 
Series: NA 
Author's Website: SarahSmith.com 
 
Summary:  
Since losing both of her parents, fifteen-year-old Katie can see and talk to ghosts, which makes her a loner until fellow student Law sees her drawing of a historic house and together they seek a treasure rumored to be hidden there by illegal slave-traders. 

Law Walker knew Katie Mullens before she was crazy. Before her mother died. Law knows Katie’s crazy now, but she’s always been talented. And she keeps filling sketch pads even though her drawings have gone a little crazy as well—dark, bloody. What Law doesn’t know is that these drawings are real. Or were real. Katie draws what she sees—and Katie sees dead people. People who have died—recently, and not so recently—in accidents, from suicide, even a boy who was trapped in a house that burned down more than 100 years ago. And it’s this boy who makes Law want to get to know Katie all over again. So what if his dad doesn’t want him dating a white girl? So what if people think Katie is dangerous? The ghost boy is hiding a secret that Law needs to know—and it’s much bigger, much more shocking than anyone ever expected.

Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Fantasy 
Series: The Wheel of Time #13 
Author's Website: DragonMount.com | BrandonSanderson.com 
 
Summary:  
The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight.

The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age.

Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Tel’aran’rhiod and find a way—at long last—to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever.

Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways—the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn—have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other men’s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.

This penultimate novel of Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling series—the second of three based on materials he left behind when he died in 2007—brings dramatic and compelling developments to many threads in the Pattern. The end draws near.

Dovie’andi se tovya sagain. It’s time to toss the dice.

Trolls in the Hamptons by Celia Jerome
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Willow Tate #1 
Author's Website: CeliaJerome.com  
 
Summary:  
Willow Tate is a graphic novelist who earns enough money at her craft to keep her rent-controlled Manhattan apartment and still put food in the fridge. But when she decides to write about a ten-foot-tall troll who's a superhero, one suddenly appears, causing mayhem in Manhattan. 

When no one else can see the stony red giant, Willy thinks she's gone crazy, until she meets Agent Grant from the Department of Unexplained Events. According to him, Willy has managed to break ages-old cosmic laws that could destroy the Earth as we know it. Now she has to help him save the world, rescue a little boy, and stop a murdering kidnapper who wants to use the power of a little village in the Hamptons to become master of the universe...

Wolfsbane by Patricia Briggs
Release Date: 11/2/2010

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Genre: Fantasy 
Series: Aralorn #2 
Author's Website: PatriciaBriggs.com 
 
Summary:  
Shapeshifting mercenary Aralorn leads a dangerous existence. Now she must return home for her noble father, the Lyon of Lambshold, has passed away. But when Aralorn and her companion Wolf arrive, they find he’s not dead, but ensorcelled by the ae’Magi, using him as a conduit to destroy Aralorn and Wolf. She must overcome this mysterious mist or fall to the blackest of magic.

The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Release Date: 11/3/2010

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Genre: Fantasy 
Series: The Inheritance Trilogy #2 
Author's Website: NKJemisin.com 
 
Summary:  
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it. . . 

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The past weeks for this October have been terrific for new releases and it's going out with a big bang of new releases on it's last week. I bet you can find at least one book this week you'd like to read. ;)

Demon's Fall by Karalynn Lee
Release Date: 10/25/2010

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Genre: Fantasy Romance 
Series: Stand Alone Novella 
Author's Website: KaralynnLee.com 
Publisher: Carina Press 
ISBN: 9781426890680 
Media: eBook 
 
Summary:  
She was an angel at the gates of Hell. 

When Kenan, an incubus, finds a caged angel for sale in the Hellsgate marketplace, he sees her as a challenge. Certain that his skills in seduction will work as well on a heavenly creature as they do on mortal women, he buys Jahel, intent on having her soul as a novelty in his collection. 

Knowing he must gain Jahel's trust if she is to come to his bed willingly, Kenan treats her more as his guest than as his slave. When she reveals what brought her to the mouth of Hell in the first place—retrieving the soul of a young girl she was guarding—he even offers to help her complete her mission. 

Though he has promised Jahel freedom, Kenan soon realizes she has captured his heart instead. And as their passion for one another grows, they find themselves caught in a struggle between Heaven and Hell, one that will lead them to the very edge of the apocalypse...

A Darker Shade of Dead by Bianca D'Arc
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Guardians of the Dark #3
Author's Website: BiancaDArc.com 
Publisher: Brava 
ISBN: 0758247311 (ISBN13: 9780758247315) 
Media: Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Intrigue, terrifying betrayals, and a dangerously commanding hero make Bianca D’Arc’s newest paranormal romance an irresistible temptation…

Tapped for a classified military program, Dr. Eileen McCormick has nothing left to lose. Bad enough her genetic experiments were used to turn innocent victims into zombies; worse still, a ruthless ex-colleague is threatening to expose her unless she joins his sinister research project. Now the only way she can set things right is to develop an antidote under the watchful blue eyes of Commander Matt Sykes. And the last thing Eileen needs is Matt’s penetrating gaze, easy understanding, and compelling kiss uncovering all her deepest secrets…

Matt has a sixth-sense for lies as well as danger, and Eileen promises plenty of both. She’s the only person who can eradicate the zombie virus before it reaches epidemic proportions, but he still can’t let her passionate determination affect his steely cool…or keep him from discovering where her true loyalties lie. But as the clock ticks down, Matt and Eileen’s uneasy trust may be their only way to avert catastrophe—if it doesn’t get them killed first… 

Another Pan by Daniel Nayeri, Dina Nayeri
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: YA Paranormal 
Series: Another #2 
Author's Website: DanielandDina.com 
Publisher: Candlewick Press 
ISBN: 0763637122 (ISBN13: 9780763637125) 
Media: Hardcover 
 
Summary:  
Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling and her insecure freshman brother, John, are hitting the books at the Marlowe School. But one tome consumes their attention: THE BOOK OF GATES, a coveted Egyptian artifact that their professor father believes has magical powers. Soon Wendy and John discover that the legend is real—when they recite from its pages and descend into a snaking realm beneath the Manhattan school. As the hallways darken, and dead moths cake the floor, a charismatic new R.A. named Peter reveals that their actions have unleashed a terrible consequence: the underworld and all its evil is now seeping into Marlowe. Daniel Nayeri and Dina Nayeri return to reimagine Peter Pan as a twisty, atmospheric, and fast-paced fantasy about the perils of immortality.

Blood Heat by Maria Lima
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Blood Lines #4 
Author's Website: MariaLima.com 
Publisher: Pocket 
ISBN: 143916777X (ISBN13: 9781439167779) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Texas is heating up. . .

The summer heat wave that’s hit Rio Seco, Texas, has even the vampires complaining, but with Keira—the Kelly heir—home from Vancouver, the weather isn’t the only thing too hot to handle. Keira should be setting up her court and planning the big reception where she and her consort, vampire ruler Adam Nightwalker, will receive the magical leaders from the local area, but pomp and circumstance just aren’t Keira’s thing, especially not with trouble smoldering in her domain. A werewolf couple has mysteriously gone missing from a local pack, and when Keira is asked by their leader to investigate, she finds that some dissatisfied neighbors may have been taking—well—strong action against the wer community … action that could be repeated, and could involve Keira and those she loves. So, with the reception looming and danger fast blazing out of control, the pressure is on Keira to keep Texas safe for supernaturals. Sometimes, it’s just not that great to be Heir…. 

Blood Prophecy by Stefan Petrucha
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Fantasy 
Series: NA 
Author's Website: Petrucha.com 
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing 
ISBN: 0446555991 (ISBN13: 9780446555999) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Man and monster are in his blood. . . 

His name is Jeremiah Fall. A soldier of fortune, he has been fighting his own war for 150 years--ever since the beast in him was born.

Desperate to restore his lost humanity, Fall crosses the sands of Egypt, discovers a lost city off the coast of France, and finally arrives at the birthplace of all mankind. Shunning daylight and feeding only when he must, he battles the monster who transformed him forever. He can share his deepest secret with no one . . . not even the beautiful woman he starts to love, the only human who grasps the mysteries of an ebony stone as old as creation itself. 

Across the world, across time, Fall seeks the stone's secret. But has he found a cure for himself or unleashed a final curse on all mankind?

Crown of Crystal Flame by C.L. Wilson
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Fantasy Romance 
Series: Tairen Soul #5 - Final book in this series 
Author's Website: CLWilson.com 
Publisher: Avon 
ISBN: 0062018965 (ISBN13: 9780062018960) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Elvish Seers had long foreseen an extraordinary destiny for Ellysetta Baristani. Already, she had won the heart of the Fey King, saved the offspring of the magical tairen, and fought beside her mate against the threatening evil of Eld.... But the most powerful -- and dangerous -- Verse of her Song had yet to be sung. As a cataclysmic battle draws nigh and evil tightens its grip upon her soul, will Ellysetta secure the world for Light or plunge it into Darkness for all eternity?

Daughter of Darkness by V. C. Andrews
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Darkness #1 
Author's Website: CompleteVCA.com 
Publisher: Pocket Star 
ISBN: 1439155011 (ISBN13: 9781439155011) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
When I was a little girl, Daddy told me never to fear the dark. “We exist because of the darkness,” he told me. “All of you are daughters of darkness.”

Beloved bestselling author V.C. Andrews’s passion for vampires comes to spellbinding life in a long-awaited novel of dark desires as all-consuming—and forbidden—as in Flowers in the Attic. One night, with the sound of a young man’s scream, high school senior Lorelei discovers that her stern but loving father, who adopted Lorelei and her sisters as infants, is no ordinary man. He has raised his beautiful girls for one purpose: to lure young men into their world of shadows. Like her sisters, Lorelei has been trained in the art of seduction and warned never to fall in love. But when she meets a handsome and charming classmate, she boldly defies her family and follows her heart—even if love is a poison. . . .

Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Fever #4 
Author's Website: KarenMoning.com 
Publisher: Dell 
ISBN: 0440244404 (ISBN13: 9780440244400) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback (First published August 2009)
 
Summary:  
They may have stolen my past, but I’ll never let them take my future.

When the walls between Man and Fae come crashing down, freeing the insatiable, immortal Unseelie from their icy prison, MacKayla Lane is caught in a deadly trap. Captured by the Fae Lord Master, she is left with no memory of who or what she is: the only sidhe-seer alive who can track the Sinsar Dubh, a book of arcane black magic that holds the key to controlling both worlds. 

Clawing her way back from oblivion is only the first step Mac must take down a perilous path, from the battle-filled streets of Dublin to the treacherous politics of an ancient, secret sect, through the tangled lies of men who claim to be her allies into the illusory world of the Fae themselves, where nothing is as it seems—and Mac is forced to face a soul-shattering truth. 

Who do you trust when you can’t even trust yourself? 

Drink of Me by Jacquelyn Frank
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Stand Alone 
Author's Website: JacquelynFrank.com 
Publisher: Zebra 
ISBN: 1420109855 (ISBN13: 9781420109856) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
In a world where emotion can be a deadly weapon, one slight, battered runaway holds the key to a dark and twisted enigma…

Drink of me, she whispers, her silver eyes trusting, pleading. What female dares speak such words to one of the Sánge? His people are scorned by every race for their fierce sensuality, their fearful rituals. And as Prime, Reule is the most telepathically gifted of them all.

But nothing has prepared him for the intensity of emotion radiating from the outlander rescued by his Pack. Terrified, tormented, but beautiful beyond measure, Mystique shatters his legendary control. As she reaches for him in the steamy heat of the healing baths, he knows this blind need can have but one end…

In blood, in knowledge, in ecstasy. 

Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Alien Huntress #6 
Author's Website: GenaShowalter.com 
Publisher: Pocket Star 
ISBN: 1439175772 (ISBN13: 9781439175774) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
New York Times bestselling sensation Gena Showalter enthralls with a dark, tantalizing world of humans, otherworlders, powers beyond imagining, and a seductive vampire undone by his insatiable hunger for one woman. . . .

Growing up poor on New Chicago’s meanest streets, Ava Sans had two options: be the predator, or be the prey. No contest. Now, working for Alien Investigation and Removal, she’s been ordered to capture the biggest, baddest warrior of all—a vampire too beautiful to be real, with the ability to manipulate time. Once the leader of the entire vampire army, McKell has been deemed savage and unstable, spurned even by his own kind.

To McKell, humans should be nothing more than sustenance. Yet the petite, golden-skinned Ava is a fascinating contradiction—vicious yet witty, strong yet vulnerable, lethal but fiercely loyal.  Against his better judgment, McKell craves that loyalty, and much more. When the chase leads to seduction, McKell and Ava will race to discover the truth about his past. But the answers will come at a price, even for a woman who thought she had nothing left to lose. . . . 

Elegy Beach by Steven R. Boyett
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy Post Apocalyptic 
Series: Change #2 
Author's Website: SteveBoy.com 
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) 
ISBN: 0441019439 (ISBN13: 9780441019434) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback (First Published November 2009) 
 
Summary:  
Twenty-seven years ago, technology died. The fundamental laws of the universe had inexplicably changed. Now, Fred Garey's best friend Yan believes he's found a way to reverse the Change. But Fred fears the repercussions of such drastic, irreversible steps.

Entice Me at Twilight by Shayla Black
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Doomsday Brethren #4 
Author's Website: ShaylaBlack.com 
Publisher: Pocket 
ISBN: 1439166773 (ISBN13: 9781439166772) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Simon Northam, the Duke of Hurstgrove, straddles two worlds. Born into the British peerage and a life of luxury, he believed he knew who and what he was—until he found out he was a wizard. As a new member of the Doomsday Brethren, Duke must conceal his new identity from his family…and from his brother’s betrothed, Elisabeth, the woman he wants as his mate. But there’s more to Elisabeth than Duke knows—she’s an Untouchable, a human completely immune to magic. And evil wizard Mathias needs her to help him resurrect an ancient witch. Now, Duke must find a way to stop Mathias, protect Elisabeth, and make her his mate before it’s too late. 

Eternal : More Love Stories with Bite by P. C. Cast
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: YA Paranormal Romance 
Series: Anthology 
Author's Website: PCCast.net 
Publisher: Smart Pop 
ISBN: 1935618016 (ISBN13: 9781935618010) 
Media: Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Now Eternal: More Love Stories With Bite presents all-new YA stories featuring vampires, the romantic heroes and heroines that still hold the reading public enraptured. A mix of writers from the first anthology and new contributors makes for a fresh new collection with all of the dark romance of its predecessor, and a book that’s sure to thrill vampire romance fans old and new.

Authors: Heather Brewer, Rachel Caine, Claudia Gray, Nancy Holder Jeri Smith-Ready and Lili St. Crow.

The book includes an original introduction by Cast.

Geist by Philippa Ballantine
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Fantasy 
Series: Book of the Order #1 
Author's Website: PJBallantine.com 
Publisher: Ace 
ISBN: 0441019617 (ISBN13: 9780441019618) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Between the living and the dead is the Order of the Deacons, protectors of the Empire, guardians against possession, sentinels enlisted to ward off the malevolent haunting of the geists... 

Among the most powerful of the Order is Sorcha, now thrust into partnership with the novice Deacon, Merrick Chambers. They have been dispatched to the isolated village of Ulrich to aide the Priory with a surge of violent geist activity. With them is Raed Rossin, Pretender to the throne that Sorcha is sworn to protect, and bearer of a terrible curse. 

But what greets them in the strange settlement is something far more predatory and more horrifying than any mere haunting. And as she uncovers a tradition of twisted rituals passed down through the dark reaches of history, Sorcha will be forced to reconsider everything she thinks she knows. 

And if she makes it out of Ulrich alive, what in Hell is she returning to?

Ghost Town by Rachel Caine
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: YA Urban Fantasy 
Series:  Morganville Vampires #9 
Author's Website: RachelCaine.com 
Publisher: NAL Hardcover 
ISBN: 0451231619 (ISBN13: 9780451231611) 
Media: Hardcover 
 
Summary:  
The fragile peace between humans and vampires in Morganville is in trouble, and when Claire takes drastic action, she's put under serious pressure to re-establish the barriers that keep the town residents inside, and wipe the memories of those who leave. But working with her half-crazy vampire boss Myrnin means that things don't always turn out as planned ... and as the people of Morganville begin acting strangely, Claire and her friends must solve the mystery and try to put things right. But one by one, her allies are turning on her ... even the ones she trusts most. 

Harvest Hunting by Yasmine Galenorn
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series:  Otherworld/Sisters of the Moon #8 
Author's Website: YasmineGalenorn.com 
Publisher: Berkley 
ISBN: 0515148539 (ISBN13: 9780515148534) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
We're the D'Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae means our supernatural talents can go haywire at any time. My sister Camille is a wicked good witch whose life recently took a drastic turn. Menolly's a vampire who's still getting the hang of being undead. And me? I'm Delilah, a werecat with a very interesting love life. But life isn't all fun and games. We're on the trail of the demon general who has decided that we've become quite a nuisance...

It's Samhain, and the Autumn Lord, has called for my training to begin with the Death Maidens...and I find that I like it. But we've got problems: werewolves are going missing and a new magical drug, "Wolf Briar," is being used as a weapon. My dear Chase and I have come to a delicate crossroads and there's no turning back from our decision. And most dangerous of all: Stacia Bonecrusher has put a bounty on our heads. Now it's a race to take out the demon general before she realizes the sixth Spirit Seal is within her reach... 

Haunted by Your Touch by Jeaniene Frost, Sharie Kohler & Shayla Black
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Anthology 
Author's Website: JeanieneFrost.com | ShaylaBlack.com | SharieKohler.net 
Publisher: Pocket Star 
ISBN: 1439166765 (ISBN13: 9781439166765) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Enter the dark realm of Nocturna in Jeaniene Frost’s red-hot tale, where blisteringly sexy Raphael dominates the demons of a lawless dimension and tries to help a beautiful young woman avenge her cousin’s disappearance. Shayla Black’s gorgeous Doomsday Brethren hero, Raiden, vows to fight for his magical lover and their unborn youngling—no matter the cost—after he drives her into the arms of another man and she falls under attack. Lycans rule the night in Sharie Kohler’s suspenseful story, as a fiery woman stalks mysterious Luc, the undeniably hypnotic being she believes can save her from turning . . . if she kills him. Danger beckons in these captivating paranormal tales that will tempt readers to the edge and leave them begging for more.

Heaven's Spite by Lilith Saintcrow
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Jill Kismet, Hunter #5 
Author's Website: LilithSaintcrow.com 
Publisher: Orbit 
ISBN: 0316074179 (ISBN13: 9780316074179) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback  
 
Summary:  
When a new hellbreed comes calling, playing nice isn't an option. Jill Kismet has no choice but to seek treacherous allies - Perry, the devil she knows, and Melisande Belisa, the cunning Sorrows temptress whose true loyalties are unknown.

Kismet knows Perry and Belisa are likely playing for the same thing--her soul. It's just too bad, because she expects to beat them at their own game. Except their game is vengeance.

Nobody plays vengeance like Kismet. But if the revenge she seeks damns her, her enemies might get her soul after all...

Highborn by Yvonne Navarro
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Dark Redemption #1 
Author's Website: YvonneNavarro.com 
Publisher: Pocket 
ISBN: 1439191735 (ISBN13: 9781439191736) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE. BRYNNA MALAK MIGHT BE THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE.

Brynna is a fallen angel trying to earn redemption. She’s escaped from Hell in search of a new life on Earth, but Lucifer’s deadliest hunters are hot on her trail. Police Detective Eran Redmond is after her for a different reason: he needs Brynna to help him find a serial killer who is terrifying Chicago . . . and the trail leads them right to Hellspawned demons of the most dangerous kind. She’s also got a very human problem: dealing with a stubborn, attractive cop who makes her long for everything she knows she can’t have.

Staying alive long enough to earn a shot at Heaven will mean breaking some major rules in the mortal world, as she learns just how complicated and wonderful being human can be. With so much stacked against her, even Brynna has to wonder if she’s crazy. But she’s not giving in without a fight.

Not a chance in Hell. . . 

His Darkest Embrace by Juliana Stone
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: The Jaguar Warriors #2 
Author's Website: JulianaStone.com 
Publisher: Avon 
ISBN: 0061808806 (ISBN13: 9780061808807) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
A solitary hunter with no regard for the human world, Jagger Castille is a shifter living on the edge. It will take the woman who calls him enemy to give him a reason
to live.

Jagger is a creature of the night--Skye Knightly soars in the sun. Natural adversaries, they have been joined by destiny in a mission entrusted to Skye's family centuries ago: Nothing less than the salvation of the Earth.

Wounded and bitter, Jagger sought escape in the solitude of the jungle, driven by a need to disappear forever… until a mysterious shifter who calls to his soul and feeds a yearning long forgotten, pulls him from his dark path. A courageous warrior, Skye's passion is equal to Jagger's own—but can she trust a man on the edge? A man whose secrets are as devastating as her own?

Each is the other's sole hope for survival. But a dark and twisted truth is leading them toward the ultimate sacrifice for a love they may never live to claim. 

How to Lose a Demon in 10 Days by Saranna DeWylde
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: 10 Days #1 
Author's Website: SarannaDewylde.com 
Publisher: LoveSpell 
ISBN: 0505528673 (ISBN13: 9780505528674) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
GOT DEMON?

Grace does. She’s got more demon than she can saddle. In fact, she’s got a sinfully sexy Crown Prince of Hell named Caspian. She’s also got ten days to get rid of him or Bad Things shall ensue. See, her Russian mobster ex-boyfriend didn’t take kindly to her smutty Mephistophelean contract. It's not that she's conspiring with fiends; that was his idea. It’s that she’s conspiring against him with outrageous devilry that runs the gamut from embarrassing to a dead hooker turned dominatrix demon gunning for his soul.

One should never trust demons, let alone shag them. They don’t have hearts. Yet Grace is buying hers some slightly tarnished armor and hoping that once he’s been shoveled into it, kicking and screaming, he’ll find it’s just his size. This wicked witch needs a white knight—or at least a Prince of Darkness for a Happily Ever After. 

Misguided Angel by Melissa de la Cruz
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: YA Urban Fantasy 
Series: Blue Bloods #5 
Author's Website: Melissa-delaCcruz.com 
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH 
ISBN: 1423121287 (ISBN13: 9781423121282) 
Media: Hardcover 
 
Summary:  
After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence--with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silverbloods.

As the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler closer to a terrifying crossroads--and a choice that will determine the destiny of all vampires. 

Shotgun Sorceress by Lucy Snyder
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Jessie Shimmer #2 
Author's Website: LucySnyder.blogspot.com 
Publisher: Del Rey 
ISBN: 0345512103 (ISBN13: 9780345512109) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
For Jessie Shimmer, everything changed when she went to hell and back to save her lover, Cooper Marron. After tangling with supernatural forces and killing an untouchable spirit lord, Jessie finds herself gifted—or perhaps cursed—with dark powers. And when she and Cooper make love, her pleasure throes light the whole house on fire. What is a sorceress to do?

Jessie is about to find out. The circumstances of her birth, the mystery of a father she never knew, and the help of a cuddly ferret turned fearsome monster have made Jessie not just an outlaw from mundane society, but an accidental revolutionary in the magic realm. Encountering portals stitched into thin air and a fiercely sexy soul harvester, Jessie rushes headlong among enemies, horrors, wonders, and lovers into a place of self-discovery—or destruction. 

Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: The Dresden Files 
Author's Website: Jim-Butcher.com 
Publisher: Roc Hardcover 
ISBN: 045146365X (ISBN13: 9780451463654) 
Media: Hardcover 
 
Summary:  
We are delighted to announce a project fans have long been clamoring for: "Side Jobs," a compilation of Dresden Files short stories. Slated for November 11th, this anthology brings together the following stories: 
- "Restoration of Faith" 
- "Vignette" 
- "Something Borrowed" -- from My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding 
- "It's My Birthday Too" -- from Many Bloody Returns 
- "Heorot" -- from My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon 
- "Day Off" -- from Blood Lite 
- "Backup" -- novelette from Thomas' POV, originally published by Subterranean Press 
- "The Warrior" -- novelette from Mean Streets 
- "Last Call" -- from Strange Brew 
- "Love Hurts" -- from Songs of Love and Death 
And exclusive, all-new material!

Soul Stealers by Andy Remic
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Steampunk Fantasy 
Series: Clockwork Vampire Chronicles #2 
Author's Website: AndyRemic.com 
Publisher: Osprey Publishing, Limited 
ISBN: 0857660675 (ISBN13: 9780857660671) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback (First Published April 2010) 
 
Summary:  
The sequel to Kell's Legend -- more blood-soaked, action-packed, vampire-laced dark epic fantasy. Kell is being hunted. The vampires are fighting back against him, and the mighty hero finds himself the prey of two beautiful but deadly vampire assassins. Their bronze fangs are coming for him. He will strike back.

Stronger than Sin by Caridad Piñeiro
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series: Sin #2 
Author's Website: Caridad.com 
Publisher: Forever 
ISBN: 0446543845 (ISBN13: 9780446543842) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Dr. Liliana Carrera nearly lost her life to Wardwell scientists. She won't let them harm other innocent victims, like her new patient, Jesse Bradford. The former pro athlete had the best hands in the NFL . . . until an injury forced him to undergo Wardwell's experimental gene therapy. Now Jesse's gorgeous body is superhuman-but his strength comes at a price.

With Wardwell threatening his family, Jesse can't tell Liliana all he knows. Yet he can't resist her compassion . . . or her healing, erotic touch. As their passion flares, Jesse's body becomes dangerous and volatile. For evil men are plotting to change the face of humanity-and will destroy whoever stands in their way.

Tempted by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: YA Paranormal 
Series: House of Night #6 
Author's Website: PCCast.net 
Publisher: St. Martin's Press 
ISBN: 0312609388 (ISBN13: 9780312609382) 
Media: Paperback (First published October 2009) 
 
Summary:  
So…you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break.  Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the High Priestess in training and her gang.  Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions.  Speaking of stress, the dark force lurking in the tunnels under the Tulsa Depot is spreading, and Zoey is beginning to believe Stevie Rae could be responsible for a lot more than a group of misfit red fledglings.  Aphrodite’s visions warn Zoey to stay away from Kalona and his dark allure, but they also show that it is Zoey who has the power to stop the evil immortal.  Soon it becomes obvious that Zoey has no choice: if she doesn’t go to Kalona he will exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her.  Will Zoey have the courage to chance losing her life, her heart, and her soul?  Find out in the next spectacular installment in the House of Night Series, Tempted. 

The Emerald Flame by Frewin Jones
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: YA Paranormal 
Series: Warrior Princess #3 
Author's Website: AllanFrewinJones.com 
Publisher: HarperTeen 
ISBN: 0060871490 (ISBN13: 9780060871499) 
Media: Hardcover 
 
Summary:  
Branwen has accepted the role that the Shining Ones have bestowed upon her. She is now in the next stages of her journey—this time on a seemingly impossible mission to rescue the spirit of the wind. With her fearless friend Rhodri by her side, the spirits guiding her, and growing feelings for the dashing Iwan, Branwen must overcome terrifying odds if she is to succeed in her quest. 

This heart-pounding teen series, which School Library Journal calls “exciting from start to finish,” will appeal to fans of Tamora Pierce and takes readers on a mystical adventure as Branwen answers the call of her destiny. 

The Exorsistah by Claudia Mair Burney
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: YA Paranormal 
Series: Exorsistah #1 
Author's Website: RagaMuffinDiva.blogspot.com 
Publisher: Pocket Star 
ISBN: 1451610939 (ISBN13: 9781451610932) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
She just wants a home, a hottie, and some kickin’ boots. Does she really have to fight the devil to get them?

After the creep who’s married to her friend Kiki tries to assault her, Emme Vaughn finds herself in an all-night Walgreens at 3 a.m. with a quarter in her pocket and a rumble in her stomach. She sure does wish she’d gotten to eat her french fries before she had to kick and run. But God has his plan, and apparently tonight he means for her to whip some serious demon butt.

Ever since her mom went crazy, Emme’s been wary of the gift they share for seeing demons, but she’s not about to let one get to her. So when an ugly beast lurks into Walgreens behind a dude who’s clearly up to no good, Emme tells it exactly where it can go. Problem is, the beautiful guy beside her at the magazine rack just helped her conquer the nasty duo, and now he wants her to join a group of demon-fighters led by an aging exorcist bombarded by requests to deliver people from evil. Shoot, and all she really hoped for was some breakfast.

The Fledgling Handbook 101 by P.C. Cast, Kim Doner
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: YA Paranormal 
Series: House of Night 
Author's Website: PCCast.net | KimDoner.com 
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin 
ISBN: 0312595123 (ISBN13: 9780312595128) 
Media: Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Merry meet, fledgling.  I trust this guide will serve you well…. Every vampyre fledgling who arrives at the House of Night receives a copy of "The Fledgling Handbook 101", and now, fans can have one, too, with this gorgeous must-have edition.  Inside you’ll find original stories, the complete vampyre history, inside info into rituals, vamp biology, and the Change, and much more.

The Road to Bedlam by Mike Shevdon
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Courts of the Feyre #2 
Author's Website: Shevdon.com 
Publisher: Angry Robot 
ISBN: 0857660616 (ISBN13: 9780857660619)
Media: Mass Market Paperback (First Published July 2010) 
 
Summary:  
The sequel to Sixty-One Nails.

"THERE'S BEEN AN ACCIDENT. IT'S YOUR DAUGHTER." 

But Alex isn't dead. She's been snatched because she came into her magical power early. Her father, Niall Petersen, must use his own wayward magic to track her down and save her from the madness of Bedlam. 

File under: Urban Fantasy [ Undying Madness / Insane Magic / Secret Realities / Stolen Children ]

The Spirit Rebellion by Rachel Aaron
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Fantasy 
Series: The Legend of Eli Monpress #2  
Author's Website: RachelAaron.net 
Publisher: Orbit 
ISBN: 0316069116 (ISBN13: 9780316069113) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Eli Monpress is brilliant. He's incorrigible. And he's a thief.

He's also still at large, which drives Miranda Lyonette crazy. While she's been kicked out of the Spirit Court, Eli's had plenty of time to plan his next adventure. But now the tables have turned, because Miranda has a new job -- and an opportunity to capture a certain thief.

Things are about to get exciting for Eli. He's picked a winner for his newest heist. His target: the Duke of Gaol's famous "thief-proof" citadel. Eli knows Gaol is a trap, but what's life without challenges? Except the Duke is one of the wealthiest men in the world, a wizard who rules his duchy with an iron fist, and an obsessive perfectionist with only one hobby: Eli.

It seems that everyone is hunting for Eli Monpress. 

Vampire Uprising by Marcus Pelegrimas
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Urban Fantasy 
Series: Skinners #4 
Author's Website: MarcusPelegrimas.com 
Publisher: Eos 
ISBN: 006198633X (ISBN13: 9780061986338) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
A legendary Skinner has passed. Among the articles he left behind are runes, potions, and powerful weapons to aid in the ongoing war against the unspeakable creatures that prowl the shadows outside normal human consciousness. But there is something else: the remains of a terrifying beast no other Skinner has ever encountered. And it isn't dead.

Skinners, partners, lovers, Cole Warnecki and Paige Strobel are well armed with the tools the late Jonah Lancroft provided. But even his best weapons may not be enough to defeat the monstrosity they now face. A new terror has risen up to infect them both with its virulent malevolence, even as Paige confronts the secrets of her astonishing past. The purest evil walks the world again—the First Deceiver, humankind's darkest nightmare, the self-proclaimed King of the Full Bloods. 

When Wicked Craves by J.K. Beck
Release Date: 10/26/2010

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Genre: Paranormal Romance 
Series:  Shadow Keepers #3 
Author's Website: JKBeck.com 
Publisher: Bantam 
ISBN: 0440245796 (ISBN13: 9780440245797) 
Media: Mass Market Paperback 
 
Summary:  
Their love could bring the most potent pleasure—or the darkest nightmare.

A danger to both the human and shadow communities, Petra Lang is cursed never to love. For one touch of her skin unleashes the vilest demons imaginable. Sentenced to death by the shadow authorities, who fear she’ll turn her curse against them, Petra is rescued at the last instant by vampire advocate Nicholas Montegue. As their bodies merge and transform into mist, Petra feels an urgent erotic longing.

Nicholas fought long and hard to save Petra—and nearly paid the ultimate price. He risked his own life to spare hers, yet he knows he can never give in to the explosive attraction he feels for her. But the deep yearning they share can only be deferred for so long. Together, they must find a way to lift the curse. For only a love this strong has the power to overcome such monstrous evil.

Orphan of Destiny by Michael P. Spradlin
Release Date: 10/28/2010

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Genre: YA Fantasy 
Series: The Youngest Templar #3 
Author's Website: MichaelSpradlin.com 
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile 
ISBN: 0399247653 (ISBN13: 9780399247651) 
Media: Hardcover 
 
Summary:  
SPOILER ALERT: This book is the third book in a series and should be read after Keeper of the Grail and Trail of Fate.

Tristan and his companions—the fiery archer Robard Hode and the assassin maid Maryam—have escaped to England. But tragedy has occurred to Tristan's beloved abbey while they were on the Third Crusade, and Robard's home in Sherwood Forest suffers under the rule of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Many obstacles still prevent them from delivering the Holy Grail into safe hands. Tristan must defeat the evil Sir Hugh in one final battle. And he must learn the secret of his birth, a secret Richard the Lionheart and Eleanor of Aquitaine are willing to kill to protect!

Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
Release Date: 10/28/2010

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Genre: SciFi 
Series: Culture #9 
Author's Website: Iain-Banks.net 
Publisher: Orbit 
ISBN: 0316123404 (ISBN13: 9780316123402) 
Media: Hardcover 
 
Summary:  
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.

It begins with a murder.

And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.

Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.

Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into reality.

It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.

SURFACE DETAIL is Iain M. Banks' new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.

Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck
Release Date: 10/28/2010

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Genre: YA Paranormal 
Series: NA 
Author's Website: NA 
Publisher: Penguin Group 
ISBN: 0803734549 (ISBN13: 9780803734548) 
Media: Hardcover 
 
Summary:  
Kerry is chosen by the coolest clique in school and so she thinks life has finally begun. But then it seems all over when her three friends are killed in a shocking car accident. Or are they? Only weeks after the accident, Kerry receives a text from one of the girls: We're all 3 here at my aunt's in the city. Take the 3:50 train. B there.

Exhilarating, terrifying suspense is crossed with a thought-provoking examination of peer pressure in Richard Peck's return to his contemporary teen- and ghost-story roots. This is a master author's gift to the Gossip Girl/Twilight generation: his own smart, stylish, and fun take on the paranormal.

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