Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives. The doctors attribute this to her head injury, but no one can explain how a bracelet engraved with her name ended up at the scene of the accident. A bracelet no one has ever seen before.
Classmate Evan Whittaker paid Julia no attention before the accident, let alone after. Now suddenly he's volunteering to tutor her and offering to drive her home. She can't ignore that his new obsession started after his two-day disappearance last week and that he wears a pendant she's been drawing for months. When the police show up one night looking for Evan, he begs Julia to run with him, convincing her that Monica is still alive. Julia agrees to go, never guessing where he's really from.
Includes the short story 'Emergence.'
Everything Emma Thompson owns fits in a suitcase she moves from one roach infested motel to another. She and Jake, her five year old son who can see the future, are running from the men intent on taking him. Emma will do anything to protect him even when it means accepting the help of a stranger named Will. Jake insists she needs Will, but Emma's never needed help before. And even though she's learned to trust her son, it doesn't mean she trusts Will.
Mercenary Will Davenport lives in the moment. Hauling Emma to South Dakota should have been an easy job, but his employer neglected to tell him about Emma's freaky son and the gunmen hot on her trail. Instinct tells him this job is trouble, but nothing can prepare him for Jake's proclamation that Will is The Chosen One, who must protect Emma from the men hunting her power. A power she doesn't know she has.
Will protects Emma and Jake on a cross-country chase from the men pursuing them, while struggling with memories from his past, his apprehension of Jake, and his growing attraction to Emma. Will's overwhelming urge to protect Emma surprises him, especially since it has nothing to do with his paycheck and possibly everything to do with the tattoo Jake branded on his arm. Rich and powerful men are desperate to capture Emma, and Will must discover why before it's too late.
My name is Rachel Sambrook, and I thought I understood the world...until I discovered the world is full of living, breathing monsters.When I teamed up with Lea, I thought we had stopped the experiments on vampire blood.All we did was open a can of wolves we had not expected. The clues we find take us halfway across the world and, to my irritation, leave us depending on two men.One, a werewolf who has his own set of secrets.And the other, a Cazador like Lea...only this one is human and more tempting than I'd like to admit.The only way to win this new fight will be to trust one another. If we don't, then none of us will survive the bite that is coming...
Julia Phillips' world is an alternate universe away. Trapped in a land where government leaders want her dead, Julia is forced to run for her life with Evan and Reece, the two boys who brought her here. They're on their own in a hostile landscape ruled by scavengers and thieves. But Evan is battling a deadly infection, and Julia finds herself racing against time as she tries to find the medicine that will save his life. She and Reece find an unlikely ally-Jo, a girl they free after finding her captured by bandits. As the four travel across the country, Julia has something else to worry about-her memories are slowly being replaced by the Julia of Evan and Reece's world. Will they find a way to send Julia home before it's too late? Or will Julia's body and mind be trapped there?
For centuries, Phoebe Whelan's family of witches and mages has guarded the Book of Sindal, a tome filled with spells so evil it could destroy the world. After their parents' death six years ago, it's up to Phoebe and her older and younger sisters-Rowan and Celeste-to guard the book with their magic and their supernaturally fortified land. But Celeste's expression magic is wild and untamed, and without their mother's calming influence, Celeste is slowly going mad.
When the book-and Celeste-go missing, the Valarian Small Council believes Celeste stole the deadly book of spells. When they assign Captain Brandon Cassidy, the head of the Magical Protective Force and Phoebe's former high school crush, to look for book, and things get a whole lot more complicated
Soon it becomes apparent a dark force has taken the book, which will only open with the blood of all three Whelans. The Dark Set has the strongest sister, now it needs the blood of the other two. Brandon's mission quickly changes to include her protection, but Phoebe's goal has remained the same-find the book and her sister, prove Celeste's innocence, and let nothing get in her way, including her reawakened feelings for the man at her side.
Book two of the Book of Sindal series
Rowan might be the firstborn of the Whelan sisters, but her magic is far from first class. Outshone by her younger sisters' rare and powerful gifts hasn't been easy, but she has always taken her position as leader of their family seriously. Even more seriously when her sisters are endangered and they lose-yet again-the Book of Sindal, a magical tome of evil spells and incantations their small coven of three has been tasked to protect.
When the Dark Set, a group of mages determined to take over the magical community comes for Rowan, she turns to an unexpected and very human source. Local cop Logan Gillespie might not be a mage, but he's not to be underestimated.
The question is why Rowan? As the weakest witch, she shouldn't be of interest to the Dark Set. Yet they're sure she's the secret to unlocking the power of the book.
Can she convince them they're wrong? She has to find a way because the lives of her sisters, Logan, and possibly the world depend on it.
Includes the short story 'Middle Ground.'
Everything Emma loves has been ripped away-Jake, Will, and her unborn baby. Within minutes of confronting her new reality, Emma is thrust in the middle of a war between two supernatural beings and she's the prize. To save her son she must choose a side, but Emma wonders if there's another option-Water.
He was losing his mind.
You can't love someone you don't know.
The Vinco Potentia thinks Will knows something about a woman he doesn't remember. Will's only memory of Emma is their few minutes together in the forest, but he is consumed with emotions for her-love and belonging. When his best friend shows up and helps Will escape, his story seems off and Will wonders what he's hiding.
You are not bound to destiny.
The book stolen from the Vinco Potentia holds the key to a new set of rules and everyone involved will stop at nothing to get it. Torn between her destiny and her desires, Emma will face her biggest sacrifice yet.
My name is Leah, and I am a Cazador. Trained to hunt and kill vampires over three-hundred years ago, my training became essential once I became one of those monsters.The underbelly of the supernatural world has begun to bleed into the human world, and journalist Rachel Sambrook is asking too many dangerous questions. Unwittingly, she's revealed a conspiracy I had hoped would never become a reality: using vampire blood for human experiments.As I attempt to contain her, she's by my side, and the truth of just how deep the darkness goes is exposed. Unfortunately, the consequences have also brought forth the creatures that hide around every corner, thirsty for flesh.The only question remaining is which one of us will survive the inevitable bloodbath?
Includes the short story 'Homecoming.'
A mother desperately searches for her son...
Realizing she's capable of more than she ever suspected...
While resisting the pull of a mysterious man who offers more questions than answers...
Emma Thompson and Will Davenport may have escaped from the Vinco Potentia, but the secret political organization is far from their only problem. The trail to Jake is growing colder every day, but when Emma begins to display unusual powers of her own, Will wonders if her role in the prophecy is more significant than anyone ever believed.
To find out, they delve into Emma's past while she struggles against a subconscious force - a force that takes the form of a man who knows too much, shares too little, and may be the biggest threat to her future yet.
