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Lydia is a young, mixed-race vampire living in London. On her own for the first time, she struggles to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger for blood.

If Thorne and Stephanie are going to have a future together, they'll first need to deal with their past, because the mad scientist who created Thorne is now after Stephanie.

Barnaby should have been killed but instead was left on the steps of the church, supposedly an orphan. A decade later, Grayson Sherbrooke discovers Barnaby's father, but their reunion is fraught with danger.

Londoners Paul and Tricia Feenan sell up to escape to the isolated Holiwell village where Tricia has inherited a property. Scattered throughout the settlement are centuries-old stones used during the Great Plague as boundary markers that the infected weren't allowed to cross.

Frances, you can call her Frankie, was not a happy baby. She was born amidst chaos, to loving but unprepared parents. Dying dramatically in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town just fueled her temper. As a ghost, it's not so easy for Frankie to hide her rage, especially when suspicious visitors to her ruined home seem to have a keen and ominous interest in her. But when you were born with a storm inside you, sometimes the only way to calm it is to finally let it out.

Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person to believe in witchcraft, until she sees a tarot card book that hints at upcoming magic. But first she will have to make peace with the ghosts of her complicated past.

Women are being taken in Virginia, and FBI agent Mark Frampton is determined to put a stop to it. Certain he's closing in on the killer known as The Embracer, Mark is less than thrilled when he's partnered with rookie agent Colleen Law, worried she's a liability when there's so much at stake. But Colleen has talents that extend beyond the usual investigative toolbox. She can hear the voices of the victims in her head, and they're telling her she and Mark are near to uncovering the truth.

1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename her Marie Antoinette. When they were only children, the sisters discovered a book of spells that work with dark and unpredictable consequences. In a time of vicious court politics, they use the book to take control of their lives. But every spell requires a sacrifice. And as love between the sisters turns to rivalry, they will send Europe spiraling into revolution.

Dr. Sergei Karlovich, codenamed Seagull, is one of the most brilliant, powerful, and dangerous of Russian operatives. He seeks a hideous form of revenge for what Luc Ponti and his SPI (Super Paranormal Intelligence) Team wrought on his daughter, Tamara Carlin, a Russian double agent within the CIA. Should Seagull succeed, it could place the world in jeopardy of falling under Rus­sian global dominance.

Actor Steve Hendrickson shares a collection of his favorite ghost stories to tell on Christmas Eve, including a solo adaptation of A Chrismas Carol by Charles Dickens.