Download or read book The Blood Bargain written by Ian Fortey and published by Scare Street. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil from beyond this dimension yearns to be unleashed… After waking in a field surrounded by corpses, Vincent Donnelly’s fractured mind was filled with strange voices… Souls trapped inside him, wanting to be set free. And he has no idea who he really is or what led him to his fate… Forced to aid the malevolent creature known as Razul, Vincent travels back to where it all started. There, Razul orders what remains of his cultists to complete the sinister ritual they began. But Razul no longer holds sway over his followers. They have made a new blood bargain, with a being of even greater power. Vincent discovers that he was part a ritual gone wrong in the past… A ritual intended to use him as a host for a being of pure Chaos. Unless Vincent can stop this dark ritual, this entity will wreck unimaginable destruction upon the earth. But the key to ending the wrath of Chaos itself may lie in a twisted deal with Razul. A bargain that could cost Vincent his mortal soul…

Download or read book The Blood Bargain written by Macaela Reeves and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the world is torn apart by the living dead, the last traces of humanity regroup in the country only to be confronted with a new horror; vampires. Driven by the depletion of their food source, these vampires offer protection for the surviving humans in exchange for blood. An offer that is begrudgingly accepted, forcing the last humans on earth into an uneasy alliance with their predators.

Download or read book The Blood Bargain written by Michael Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blood Bargain written by Maria Lima and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is not right at Wild Moon Ranch... Keira Kelly has settled in with handsome Adam Walker, but happy-ever-after is not so easy when your vampire lover seems determined to deny his true nature. With Adam starving himself of blood and growing weak, Keira needs to work out how to persuade him to take care of himself, something she's fi nding diffi cult to do -- even with the advice of her brother Tucker, a millennium-old ex-Viking shapeshifter. And people have started disappearing in the Rio Seco area, making Keira worry about what this could mean, both for her friends in Rio Seco and to the community she and Adam have been creating at the ranch. But her investigation only seems to bring more trouble, especially when a clue leads her to an abandoned cemetery that Keira knew well when she was younger...one that has always been extremely important to her magical family. Evil is defi nitely walking once again in the Texas Hill Country. Can Keira discover where the danger lies...before danger discovers her?

Download or read book Blood Bargain written by Liza Street and published by Liza Street. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold fast to your hat—the Great Winter has finally arrived. Gracie and her posse are no strangers to supernatural scuffles, but the long-dreaded Great Winter ushers in foes they’ve never faced before. The chill makes these foes resistant to charms and half-mad, fearless of their own extinction. Worse, because of Boone’s nature, Gracie fears losing him to the magical winter blight sweeping through the land. With a dark and dangerous faction of outlaws threatening to open the Rift, it’s up to Gracie and her posse to preserve some semblance of order and keep the Rift closed. Their lives, their very souls, and the fate of the Rift Territory depend on it. Blood Bargain is the final thrilling installment in USA Today bestselling author Liza Street’s western gothic series. Pick up your copy of Blood Bargain for an epic, wild ride through the dark and dangerous west!

Download or read book A Bargain of Blood and Gold written by Kristin Jacques and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novice hunter with a mission. A five-hundred-year-old vampire with a strong sense of irony. A town plagued by creatures in need of saving. When Johnathan Newman arrives in Cress Haven, the last thing he expects is for his life to be irrevocably changed. Sent by a clandestine league of vampire hunters to investigate a string of murders, signs point to a vampire lurking amid the townsfolk. Johnathan's attempt to enlist the locals leads him to an unlikely partnership with Vic, the town's most eligible, enigmatic bachelor. As the pair work to solve the mystery, Vic's secrets come back to bite him. Revealed, the vampire fights his attraction to a man trained to destroy him, while Johnathan's emotions land him in the middle of forbidden desires. Even if Vic isn't the murderer, how can Johnathan yearn for his natural enemy? As Vic leads Johnathan into encounters with terrifying beings straight from children's nightmares, Johnathan learns that not only is the world stranger than he knew, but that those he once trusted have far darker intentions that will place hunter and vampire at the center of a conflict between realms. Cress Haven holds more sinister secrets than its resident vampire, a secret so great, it could unleash Hell itself.

Download or read book Matters of the Blood written by Maria Lima and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you thought your family was strange... Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, and grimoire) to Canada. But family duty means still having to keep an eye on cousin Marty -- a genetic aberration who turned out 100% human, poor guy. And recently Keira's been having violent dreams -- or are they visions? -- featuring Marty as the victim of a vicious murder. Something sinister seems to be brewing in little Rio Seco. Can Keira get to the bottom of it all while avoiding entanglement with her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson? And what does she plan to do about the irresistible and enigmatic Adam Walker? When this old friend shows up as the new owner of a local ranc and wants to get better acquainted, Keira is more than happy to be welcoming...until she suspects that Adam could be intimately connected to the dangerous doings in Rio Seco.

Download or read book Blood Heat written by Maria Lima and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas is heating up. . . . The summer heat wave that’s hit Rio Seco, Texas, has even the vampires complaining, but now that Keira—the Kelly Heir—is 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 at which she and her consort, vampire ruler Adam Walker, 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. 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. . . .

Download or read book Blood Sacrifice written by Maria Lima and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All’s fair in blood and war. . . . Talk about wedding crashers from hell. Keira Kelly and her sexy vampire king, Adam, are about to tie the proverbial knot—sort of—when an uninvited blood relative shows up to cast a long, dark shadow over the happy occasion. Adam’s brother Gideon comes bearing the one-size-fits-all gift of bad news: an ancient, convoluted Challenge thrown down upon the entire Kelly clan. It seems the dreaded forces of the Dark Fae have declared war on Keira’s family, and at stake is the land that is rightfully theirs. But while the Kellys gather their troops in a historic San Antonio hotel to strategize, there’s mayhem back in Rio Seco. The old cemetery is vandalized, fires break out, and—worst of all—the Kelly clan matriarch and leader, Keira’s great-great-grandmother Minerva, goes missing. Should Keira risk breaking the Challenge rules by returning to her beloved home, or should she continue the waiting game that seems the only other option? With everything she loves and maybe even her life on the line, she has only one chance to get the answer right.

Download or read book Of Blood and Spells written by R.L. Perez and published by Willow Haven Press. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 2746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic is born of the darkest of spells... Dive into this collection of paranormal stories, where three witches defy the laws of time and learn that dark magic isn’t always as it seems—from a headstrong witch who falls through time to Cuba in 1898, to a cursed witch who is forced to work alonside an enemy vampire, to a demon assassin who falls in love with her target. This three-series collection will take you on an adventure filled with dark magic, time travel, and enchanting romance that spans lifetimes. This collection includes: Timecaster Chronicles Twisted by Time Devoured by Darkness Bound by Blood Nightcaster Chronicles The Cursed Witch The Fallen Demon The Lost Phoenix Bloodcaster Chronicles The Demon's Kiss The Angel's Vow The Reaper's Call

Download or read book Shadow Blade written by Seressia Glass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Kira Solomon, normal was never an option. Kira's day job is as an antiquities expert, but her true calling is as a Shadowchaser. Trained from youth to be one of the most lethal Chasers in existence, Kira serves the Gilead Commission, dispatching the Fallen who sow discord and chaos. Of course, sometimes Gilead bureaucracy is as much a thorn in her side as anything the Fallen can muster against her. Right now, though, she's got a bigger problem. Someone is turning the city of Atlanta upside down in search of a millennia-old Egyptian dagger that just happens to have fallen into Kira's hands. Then there's Khefar, the dagger's true owner -- a near-immortal 4,000-year-old Nubian warrior who, Kira has to admit, looks pretty fine for his age. Joining forces is the only way to keep the weapon safe from the sinister Shadow forces, but now Kira is in deep with someone who holds more secrets than she does, the one person who knows just how treacherous this fight is. Because every step closer to destroying the enemy is a step closer to losing herself to Shadow forever....

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Download or read book The Witch s Wrath written by Ian Fortey and published by Scare Street. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark hunger lurks within an unsuspecting town… After waking in a field surrounded by corpses, Vincent Donnelly was forced to confront the spirit of a deadly necromancer. Now another lost soul, Selena, speaks to him. And if Vincent is to have any hope of solving the mystery of his past, he must heed her ghostly call… As they travel to the quaint town of Burnham, Massachusetts, Selena informs Vincent that she was once a witch, and claims he brutally murdered her. Vincent has no memory of hurting anyone, but someone killed those people in the field… Could it have been him? As he struggles to piece together his dark past, sinister forces are closing in. And Vincent is not the only one who hears the whispers of the dead. A local townswoman, bent on avenging her friend’s death, has found a way to communicate with a powerful ghost. Together, they drain the spiritual energy of all around them. And unless Vincent can convince Selena to help, this malevolent force will reduce everyone in town to a shriveled husk… including Vincent himself.

Download or read book Jigsaw of Souls Series Books 1 3 written by Ian Fortey and published by Scare Street. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirits trapped in his head plague a man with no past… For Vincent Donnelly, waking up in a field in the middle of nowhere was just the beginning. Frantic and terrified, he has no idea who he is, or how he got there. Nor does he know the five dead bodies lying next to him. All he knows for sure is that he hears whispering in his head. Voices that are not his own… This digital box set contains books 1–3 of the Jigsaw of Souls series: Curse of the Necromancer (Book 1): With no memories or friends to rely on, Vincent finds himself drawn to the town of Alder Falls. Somehow, he is certain this place is connected to his hazy past. But the local townsfolk urge him to leave before nightfall. For when the sun sets, the dead walk these shadowy streets and prey upon the living... The Witch’s Wrath (Book 2): As he struggles to piece together his dark past, Vincent finds out he is not the only one who hears the whispers of the dead. A local townswoman from the quaint town of Burnham, Massachusetts has found a way to communicate with a powerful ghost. And this malevolent force is bent on transforming everyone into something less than human… The Blood Bargain (Book 3): Still with no idea who he really is or what led him to his fate, Vincent travels back to where it all started. There, discovers that he was part a ritual gone wrong in the past… A ritual intended to use him as a host for a being of pure Chaos... Join Vincent as he pieces together the puzzle of his past. Grab your copy of Jigsaw of Souls Series Books 1–3 today!

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Download or read book Kingdom of the Cursed written by Kerri Maniscalco and published by Jimmy Patterson. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes the sizzling, sweepingly romantic sequel to Kingdom of the Wicked. One sister. Two sinful princes. Infinite deception with a side of revenge . . . Welcome to Hell. After selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath, where she's introduced to a seductive world of vice. She vows to do whatever it takes to avenge her beloved sister, Vittoria . . . even if that means accepting the hand of the Prince of Pride, the king of demons. The first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. With back-stabbing princes, luxurious palaces, mysterious party invitations, and conflicting clues about who really killed her twin, Emilia finds herself more alone than ever before. Can she even trust Wrath, her one-time ally in the mortal world . . . or is he keeping dangerous secrets about his true nature? Emilia will be tested in every way as she seeks a series of magical objects that will unlock the clues of her past and the answers she craves . . .

Download or read book Kingdom of the Wicked Digital Omnibus written by Kerri Maniscalco and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BARNES & NOBLE BEST OF 2022 SELECTION Take a trip to hell with this bestselling Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy! This digital omnibus includes Kingdom of the Wicked, Kingdom of the Cursed, and Kingdom of the Feared! Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself... And an intoxicating romance. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe -- witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost -- even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia's side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women's murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems... With nonstop action, sizzling romance, and unpredictable twists, this blockbuster series and its "page-turning plot is a force to be reckoned with" (Booklist).