Category: Urban Fantasy

By Richard Kadrey

Getting out of hell is simply the start

What do you do after you've escaped Hell, long gone again, exposed the genuine nature of God, after which controlled to develop into the recent Lucifer?

good, if you're James Stark, you should work out easy methods to run Hell whereas additionally attempting to come back out of it . . . back. Plus there's the small subject of surviving. simply because everybody in Heaven, Hell, and in among desires to be the quickest gun within the universe, and the right way to accomplish that is to take down Lucifer, a.k.a. James Stark.

And it's unlike being in L.A. is any better—a serial-killer ghost is operating wild and Stark's angelic regulate ego is hiding one of the misplaced days of time with a mystery cabal who can rewrite fact. commencing to take care of humans and lifestyles back is a true whinge for a stone-cold killer.

By Michael Griffo

Within the city of Eden in northwestern England stands the particular boarding institution often called Archangel Academy. historic and implementing, it's a spot packed with secrets and techniques. similar to its scholars. . .

For Michael Howard, being plucked from his Nebraska homeland and despatched millions of miles away is as shut as he's ever come to a miracle. In Weeping Water, he felt trapped, by myself. At Archangel Academy, Michael belongs. And in Ciaran, Penry, and particularly Ciaran's enigmatic half-brother Ronan, Michael unearths friendship deeper than he's ever known.

But Michael's basically starting to comprehend what makes the Academy so certain. Ronan is a vampire—part of a hybrid extended family who're outcasts even between different vampires. in the Academy's confines exists a ruthless international of lethal rivalries and transferring alliances, of clandestine love and forbidden temptations. and shortly Michael will confront the future that introduced him here—and a possibility extra robust than he can think. . .

Michael Griffo is an award-winning author and certainly one of six playwrights whose occupation can be tracked through WritersInsight.com until eventually 2010. he's a graduate of latest York college, has studied at Playwrights Horizons and Gotham Writers Workshop, and has written a number of screenplays.

By Alex Archer

While her longtime good friend claims to have proof of massive Foot's life, archaeologist Annja Creed can't face up to checking it out for herself—she's been debating the topic for years. Annja's interest leads her deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, to satisfy Jenny the place the meant path has been left by way of the single and in basic terms Sasquatch.
But whilst Annja arrives on the vacation spot, a bunch of armed thugs warn her to depart the realm, and her buddy is nowhere to be came upon. Now the quest for Sasquatch becomes a rescue undertaking, and Annja has in basic terms her instincts to lead her in a wooded area jam-packed with predators, scavengers and spirits. And an individual, or anything, doesn't wish her there….

By John Birmingham

For enthusiasts of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an action-packed new city myth sequence that includes a tricky, bleakly humorous, down-on-his success oil rig employee with an not going future as a monster-slayer and savior of the planet.

“Monsters,” stated Vince Martinelli. “There are monsters at the rig, Dave.”
 
Dave Hooper has a hangover from hell, a terrible ex-wife, and the fangs of the IRS deep in his aspect. the very last thing he wishes is an explosion at paintings. a true explosion. On his off-shore oil rig.
 
But this can be no twist of fate, and regardless of the scoop reviews, Dave is familiar with that terrorists aren’t guilty. He is aware simply because he killed one of many things responsible.
 
When he wakes up in a medical institution mattress guarded through military SEALs, he realizes this can be greater than only a undesirable acid journey. Yeah, Dave’s had a number of. This journey is much weirder.
 
Killing a seven-foot-tall, tattooed demon has reworked the obese, balding protection supervisor into whatever else totally. An honest-to-A$%& monster-slayer.

By Amanda M. Lee

Iciness has hit Hemlock Cove – and never in a enjoyable method.
The chilly climate is maintaining such a lot travelers out of city, that's simply wonderful with the Winchester witches. They’re utilizing the lull with a view to recharge and take a holiday – whether Aunt Tillie is inflicting her ordinary havoc.
All that comes crashing down, although, whilst a wide yacht is located deserted in a close-by channel and there’s blood at the deck. For Bay, issues cross from undesirable to worse whilst neighborhood legislations enforcement is joined via a federal consultant within the kind of Landon Michaels – her former flirt accomplice and attainable boyfriend.
Landon has come to city for greater than simply the case, although; he’s right here to make amends. or even if Bay is able to settle for his apology, that doesn’t suggest her relatives is. Landon might be the following to win her again, yet he’s additionally a guy on a challenge – and that venture is fact. He desires to understand the Winchester kin mystery – even if Bay is able to percentage it or no longer.
Landon isn’t the one customer in Hemlock Cove, both. Thistle’s father – Ted Proctor – is usually on the town. He says he’s there to shop for a few estate for a company consortium – yet he’s having mystery conferences and hiding a bevy of truths from his daughter and her busybody cousins – anything that units the entire relatives on aspect.
When you couple that with the recent new handyman, the hipster snowboarders and Aunt Tillie’s rage approximately her wine closet being confiscated for a brand new furnace, it’s one other fun-filled secret for the Winchester witches and Hemlock Cove – so long as every body can continue to exist the snow, and the killer that hides in it, that's.
Note: those books are filled with sarcasm and are slightly snarky -- so learn provided that you love to chuckle and also you aren't simply indignant. this is often the 3rd publication within the depraved Witches of the Midwest secret sequence.

By Tim Waggoner

Uploaders Note: I wasn't definite approximately importing this one, I'm nonetheless no longer. i attempt to keep away from importing something that turns out too indie or is self released. howdy, I'm a pirate, yet these are my ethics what am i able to say.

The sequel to Nekropolis

Meet Matt Richter. inner most eye. Zombie.

His suggest streets are the town of the useless, the shadowy realm referred to as Nekropolis. In e-book one of many sequence, Richter battled werewolves, vampire lords and mammoth silverfish!

That used to be not anything to the difficulty awaiting him on Nekropolis’ lifeless Streets…

By Darynda Jones

Paranormal deepest eye. Grim reaper extraordinaire. no matter what. Charley Davidson is again! And she's consuming copious quantities of caffeine to stick wakeful simply because, whenever she closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the part-human, part-supermodel son of devil. convinced, she did imprison him for all eternity, yet come on. How is she presupposed to clear up a lacking individuals case, care for an ego-driven health care provider, calm her curmudgeonly dad, and tackle a bike gang hell-bent on homicide whilst the devil's son simply won't surrender?

By R. S. Belcher

R.S. Belcher, the acclaimed writer of The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana launches a gritty new city fable sequence set in today's seedy occult underworld in Nightwise.
In the extra shadowy corners of the area, frequented by way of angels and demons and every thing in-between, Laytham Ballard is a legend. It's stated he raised the lifeless on the age of ten, stole the Philosopher's Stone in Vegas again in 1999, and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito Queen. clever within the hidden methods of the evening, he's additionally a cynical bastard who stopped taking into consideration himself because the reliable man decades ago.

Now a promise to a demise pal has Ballard at the path of an escaped Serbian warfare legal with pals in either low and high places--and a sinister heritage of blood sacrifices. Ballard is hell-bent on making Dusan Slorzack pay for his various atrocities, yet Slorzack turns out to have actually dropped off the face of the Earth, past the achieve of his enemies, the Illuminati, and perhaps even the satan himself. to discover Slorzack, Ballard needs to stick with a winding, treacherous course that stretches from Wall road and Washington, D.C. to backwoods hollows and truckstops, whereas risking what's left of his very soul . . . .

By Rick Gualtieri

There are purposes the undead worry the night...

Bill Ryder - gamer, geek, and mythical vampire - has girl issues. the lady he wishes is lethal to him. the woman who wishes him is lethal to every person else. He's trapped within the so much deadly love triangle he can think and it's simply going to get worse.

On the eve of conflict, The Icon - historical foe of the vampire race - has arisen. Panic is ready to wreck out in the undead ranks and invoice is stuck smack dab in the midst of it. future has positioned them on a cataclysmic collision direction, yet there's only one small trap: he's in love with her.

Now he unearths himself in a race opposed to supernatural assassins to save lots of the individual fated to wreck him. discuss being damned in case you do...

Unsure of his allies and outnumbered via enemies, invoice needs to dig deep inside of himself and locate the religion to be successful - simply because if he fails, it'll be greater than simply his social existence in tatters.

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Holier Than Thou, ebook 4 in The Tome of Bill sequence, is a foul-mouthed paranormal dance with dying, future, and attempting to get a date.

By Juliet Dark

A can't-miss learn for fanatics of Deborah Harkness and Karen Marie Moning, The Angel Stone weaves a story of historical folklore and exciting delusion with a passionate love tale that transcends time.
 
For Callie McFay, a half-witch/half-fey professor of folklore and Gothic literature, the struggle to save lots of the enchanted city of Fairwick, ny, is way from over. After a adversarial takeover by means of the Grove-a sinister workforce of witches and their cohorts-many of the neighborhood fey were banished or killed, together with Callie's one real love. And rather than the spirit of tolerance and concord, the recent management at Fairwick collage has fostered an air of possibility and mistrust.
 
along with her special magical talents, Callie is the single person who can rescue her buddies from exile and fix order to the school-a activity that calls for her to discover the Angel Stone, a mythical talisman of giant strength. Propelled on a unprecedented quest again to seventeenth-century Scotland, Callie dangers her lifestyles to acquire the stone. but whilst she encounters a pretty incarnation of her misplaced love, she unearths the larger chance is to her center. because the destiny of Fairwick hangs within the stability, Callie needs to make a wrenching selection: reclaim an opportunity for everlasting ardour or store every thing she holds dear.

Praise for The Angel Stone
 
"Intelligently written and visually beautiful . . . This tale is a sheer delight."-RT e-book Reviews
 
"Dark skillfully entwines the earlier and current, the mundane and magical, love and loss, to spin a superbly nuanced and sensuous story rooted in legend and lore."-Booklist
 
Praise for Juliet Dark
 
"Dark's letter-perfect gothic sort is a delightful tribute to earlier gothic novels, and the magical components, together with incubi, fae, vampires, and witches, make this a stellar romance."-Booklist, on The Demon Lover
 
"Fast relocating . . .  should still entice readers of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels."-New York magazine of Books, on The Water Witch

From the exchange Paperback edition.