Victor Gischler

In the first installment of the A Fire Beneath the Skin trilogy, the city of Klaar has never fallen. No enemy has ever made it across the Long Bridge or penetrated the city's mighty walls. Even when a powerful invading army shows up at the gates, the duke and his daughter, Rina Veraiin, are certain that it poses little threat. But they are cruelly betrayed from within and, in a horrific spasm of violence, the city is brought to its knees. With the help of her bodyguard, Kork, the battle-trained young Rina narrowly escapes the slaughter and makes her way to the lair of an ancient sorcerer--the Ink Mage--who gifts her with a strange, beautiful set of magical tattoos. Now a duchess in exile, Rina sets out on a quest to reclaim what is rightfully hers, aided by a motley assortment of followers who will help her in her cause--some for noble reasons and others for their own dark purposes. With the enemy's agents nipping at her heels, Rina must learn to harness her new and startling magical powers if she is to assert her rightful place as ruler of Klaar.

Ink Mage

In the second installment of the A Fire Beneath the Skin trilogy, Rina Veraiin has youth, beauty, and strength. She is a born warrior, able to outride any man, deal death with her fierce blade, and command awesome and mysterious forces granted to her by a set of magical tattoos. Now as the newly minted duchess of Klaar, Rina confronts a menace that threatens her world in a divine conflict that will push her newfound abilities to their limits. As sinister and magical forces unite against her, Rina's only chance at stopping them is to gain new tattoos that will increase her powers beyond anything she has known before. United with her few trusted companions, she makes her desperate quest across a bloodshed-ravaged land while war brews among the gods. With the enchanted world of Helva hanging in the balance, Rina must learn to wield extraordinary power to save herself and her people, before unimaginably powerful forces--and the savage fury of the gods--tear apart the land forever.

The Tattooed Duchess

When the gods go to war, who will stand against their divine fury? In the thrilling conclusion to the A Fire Beneath the Skin trilogy, the enchanted kingdom of Helva faces a nightmarish future of endless bloodshed, and Rina Veraiin--a young warrior-duchess armed with mysterious, magical tattoos--must use her fantastic powers to save her home from eternal war. As her far-flung friends scour Helva for additional tattoos to increase her formidable abilities, Rina reckons with an enigmatic death priest...the one whose contract grants her extraordinary magic but demands an awful price. When her debt comes due, can Rina make the ultimate sacrifice? Deities clash and allies succumb as Rina strives to fulfill her obligation and confront her strange and shocking destiny. Becoming an ink mage taxed Rina's resources to their very limits; now she must become something else, something more, something awesome and terrible. If she fails, her world will fall.

A Painted Goddess

Peyne Erlich's mission from the king is to learn everything he can about the rival kingdom's magical ink mage warriors. What he finds is Zayda Yond. Ever since Zayda was sold into servitude by her financially destitute father, her masters have taught her a punishing lesson: erase the past. Collared with an unmovable band of exotic metal, she faces a future of slavery. She's also become an ink mage, marked with a tattoo that enables her to experience the world as no one else can--a powerful honor, yet one out of her control. Now, Zayda dreams only of escape. She gets her chance when a scuttled ocean passage leaves her in a longboat, and in the company of another lone survivor, Peyne, a foreign envoy--spoiled, noble, a libertine, and a gambler. He's also a skilled fighter. And when they make it to land, in wild and unfamiliar jungle territory, he's the only person Zayda can trust. Then come rumors of a lost desert city said to hold the key to removing Zayda's collar. Shadowed by enemies who want to use her power to win their own war, Zayda must fight for her freedom--whatever the cost. And Peyne will do anything to help her.

Warrior Prime

Joss Whedon

After being turned away by Buffy, Spike goes on a soul-searching trip to the dark side of the moon where he encounters dangerous demons that lead him back to Sunnydale.

A Dark Place

Carter Sloan is a bioengineered agent in the far future, abandoned in deep freeze until the Nazi government awakened him and gave him a last assignment which will require him to fight and screw his way across the galaxy. Explosive and pulpy science fiction with lots of sex and even more swearing.

Gestapo Mars

Angel's attempts to keep London from being taken over by supernatural forces is challenged when he finds himself going down a dark path, while Faith teams up with Buffy before going corporate.

Angel and Faith

Gun monkeys

Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape filled with hollow reminders of an America that no longer exists. The highways are lined with abandoned automobiles; electricity is generated by indentured servants pedaling stationary bicycles. What little civilization remains revolves around Joey Armageddon's Sassy A-Go-Go strip clubs, where the beer is cold, the lap dancers are hot, and the bouncers are armed with M16s. Accompanied by his cowboy sidekick Buffalo Bill, the gorgeous stripper Sheila, and the mountain man Ted, Mortimer journeys to the lost city of Atlanta -- and a showdown that might determine the fate of humanity.

A Novel

Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse

Angel is troubled by a spate of nightmares but has to leave the investigation to Faith and Fred. Discovering that Angel's dreams aren't victimless, they follow the trail to a slew of missing students from a local prep school. Meanwhile, having joined Buffy and her gang to battle a fearsome and powerful new enemy in the States, Angel returns to London in the midst of the vampire threat. But he hasn't returned alone and he, Faith and Fred suddenly have double the trouble - the fight is on in Magic Town!

A little more than kin

Angel & Faith

Stay

The deputy

Mark Billingham

Laura Lippman

Duane Swierczynski

Ken Bruen

Jeff Abbott

Colin Cotterill

Jason Starr

Steve Brewer

Reed Farrel Coleman

An Anthology of Geezer Noir

Damn Near Dead

Sinfonia di piombo

"With gangs of vampires bringing trouble to the streets of Magic Town, Angel and Faith have their work cut out for them--not only protecting the citizens from the vampire terrorists but also dealing with the source of the trouble: Drusilla and the uberdemon Archaeus. Having failed to gather Angel and Spike to his side, Archaeus is building his family with Dru and looking for a way to gain true control of Magic Town through Nadira and her magic. Angel, Faith, Fred and Illyria, and Koh will pit their newly formed family against Archaeus's brood of blood and misguided magic in a battle for London!"--

"Angel, Faith, and their friends fight to save London's Magic Town from the demon Archaeus's army of vampires"--Provided by publisher.

Victor Gischler

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