Kresley Cole delivers a breathtaking tale of a brutal vampire soldier about to know love for the first time ... and a Valkyrie aching to be touched. Gena Showalter puts a daring spin on a tale of huntress and hunted ... and concocts a sensual chemistry that is positively explosive.

In order to protect Jack from two of the most horrific Arcana, The Lovers, and the vast army they command, Evie leaves the comfort offered by Death and joins her allies in a frozen and perilous post-apocalyptic wasteland, but for her battle plan to succeed, she must persuade Death and Jack to work together.

"In Kresley Cole's celebrated story The Warlord Wants Forever, the first of her Immortals After Dark series, vampire Nikolai Wroth will stop at nothing to find his Bride, the one woman who can make his heart beat again. He can hardly believe when Myst the Coveted, a beautiful Valkyrie, awakens him, body and soul. She has eluded him for years, but he finally has power over her. Now, he will make her pay for the agonizing lust she subjected him to for...

As a boy, Thronos, prince of Skye Hall, loved Lanthe, a mischievous Sorceri girl who made him question everything about his Vrekener clan. But when tragedy struck in the midst of their families' war, Thronos was left with a seething need for the beautiful enchantress who scarred him, body and soul. Lanthe, a once formidablesorceress struggling to reclaim her gifts, has never forgotten the magnificent, silver-eyed boy who protected her until she...

Tormented in unimaginable ways... Coming off torture at the hands of his warlock captors, Munro MacRieve never expected to find his mate, or to lose her just as abruptly. Driven to desperation, the ruthless warrior uses his enemies' own powers to reunite with her -- in the distant past. Stolen from her time... When a crazed werewolf crashes her wedding, Kereny "Ren" Codrina does what any cunning huntress would do: she captures him. Yet she finds herself...

"As a boy, Abyssian 'Sian' Infernas had his heart shattered by a treacherous fey beauty who died before he could exact vengeance. Millennia later, a curse has transformed him into a demonic monster--just as she's been reincarnated. Sian captures the delicate but bold female, forcing her back to hell. Princess Calliope 'Lila' Barbot's people have hated and feared Abyssian and his alliance of monsters for aeons. When the beastly demon imprisons her...

Conrad Wroth, a half-mad vampire imprisoned in a haunted manor to prevent him from harming others, finds himself tormented by the ghost of the once-famous ballerina Neomi Laress and decides to set her free in order to take her as his own.

Shadow's Claim features Prince Trehan, a ruthless master assassin who will do anything to possess Bettina, his beautiful sorceress mate, even compete for her hand in a blood-sport tournament - to the death. HE WON'T BE DENIED Trehan Daciano, known as the Prince of Shadows, has spent his life serving his people - striking in the night, quietly executing any threat to their realm. The coldly disciplined swordsman has never desired anything for himself...

Arcana means secrets.... These vignettes provide the beginning of the end, and the apocalypse, through the eyes of characters in the Arcana Chronicles. All over the world, those connected in some way to the lethal Arcana game-- like Death, Jack, and Fortune-- must first survive a horrifying night of blood and screams. Some will have to grapple with new powers; all will be damned to a hellish new existence of plague, brutality, desolation, and cannibalism....

"When Evie receives life-changing - and possibly game changing - news, she has trouble believing it. Why doesn't she feel any different? Is it possible someone she trusts might by lying? Tensions seethe inside the castle of lost time as Evie starts to doubt her own sanity. Answers can be found outside their stronghold, but will Death help her find them - or prevent her from learning the truth about her future and Jack's possible survival? A mysterious,...