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Worst. Birthday. Ever. My first boyfriend dumped me, my dad is who knows where, I have some weird virus that makes me want to hurl, and now my ex is licking another girl's tonsils. Oh, and I'm officially the same age as my brother was when he died. Yeah, today is about as fun-filled as the swamps of Dagobah. But then weird things start happening, like I make something materialize just by thinking about it.

A field trip brings Cordelia Liu face-to-face with a dangerous phantom capable of reanimating dead animals, and a team of professional ghost hunters. She needs to know more about both, no matter the risk. It'll mean getting her friends to join her and the ghost hunters at a strange village called Shady Rest where ghosts peacefully reside. But soon, they realize that Shady Rest is not what it seems.

Shunned by her coven, Willa escapes to the one place no witch belongs, Charleston, a city of vampires. Embracing her new life, she opens a book store, but one terrible night she ends up on the wrong side of a pair of fangs.

When ancient evil stirs, Ed Vesser and Serena Taylor will discover they have one thing in common: a burning desire to stay alive as they learn that some secrets were meant to stay buried.

A serial killer terrorizes the peaceful community of Shallow Front. Detective Trent Holloway, a fifteen-year veteran of the police force, must stop this sly and devious killer who is as depraved as he is elusive.

Mayana and Ahkin know the bloodthirsty Tzitzimime star demons will come for the Chicome people with the eclipse. But as they gather support to fight back, the Chicome Empire does all it can to keep them apart.

"Werewolves, hell hounds, and other canines take centre stage in these nineteen holiday-themed stories."--

Peter Brett's The Desert Spear continues the post-apocalyptic adventure he began in his highly acclaimed debut, The Warded Man. The world remains under siege by demonkind stalking the land when the sun goes down. But a new hero has risen from the desert. Claiming to be the mythical Deliverer, Ahmann Jardir now rides alongside the allied desert tribes of Krasia. Jardir and his fellows are on an epic quest to vanquish the demons plaguing the world and bring humanity back from the brink of extinction.

On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men, both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all. Arlen Bales denies he is the Deliverer at every turn, but the more he tries to be one with the common folk, the more fervently they believe.With The Warded Man and The Desert Spear, Peter V. Brett surged to the front rank of contemporary fantasy, standing alongside giants in the field such as George R.R.

Here bestselling author Jeaniene Frost has amassed all of her extra writings from the Night Huntress series which have been heretofore hidden on old disks and CDs, in long-forgotten emails, and guarded behind password-protected files to reveal the what-could-have-beens in the lives of Cat, Bones, Mencheres, Vlad, and more.