Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father — the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. But she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter who specializes in tracking down rogue vamps, and is forced into an unwilling partnership.

Bones will help her find her father but realizes that Cat’s hunting skills are lacking. He trains her until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs.

But before she can enjoy her newfound status as a kick-ass vampire hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side – and decide if she can trust Bones with not just her life, but her heart as well.

Then, as she and her uncle are about to unveil their hot vampire-themed restaurant, a brutal murder leaves them scrambling for a chef. Can Quincie make their new hire into a believable undead before opening night with fake fangs, a cheap cape, and red contact lenses? Or is there more to this earnest face than meets the eye?

As human and preternatural forces clash, a deadly love triangle forms, and the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Who’s playing whom? And how long can Quincie play along before she loses everything?

Colin Murphy, a former Navy SEAL, is seeking a quiet place to heal the scars earned in war. But when someone starts killing local vampires and torturing their mates, Colin sets out to find the killers and stop them, even if that means hunting with vampires.

Following her Sire’s trail of death to a small town in northern Washington, Sophia soon joins forces with Colin. But they must race to uncover the killers before the next dead vampire becomes Sophia herself.

Learning his true identity, Richard accepts his destiny as the only man who can stop the bloodthirsty killer Darken Rahl. Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword and invoke something more noble within himself as the final confrontation with Darken Rahl looms.

The importance of Wizard’s First Rule goes beyond these achievements. Goodkind took on the toughest of all literary challenges: to tell an electrifying story of action, violence, and adventure that would also make people think, and that would influence the choices and actions of its readers.

Just a week after arriving home, Jenetta receives word that Region Two has been invaded by the Tsgardi. Determined not to let the news interfere with her mother’s joy of having her three daughters with her, she doesn’t mention the invasion but she’s soon summoned to Space Command Supreme HQ to discuss the situation.

Although Jenetta hopes to quickly squash this situation, she doesn’t know that the Tsgardi invasion is not an isolated event. Three other interstellar powers have joined the Tsgardi, hoping to further the invasion before Space Command can move security forces into place. Jenetta’s tiny fleet will face an armada a thousand warships strong. It’s not just another day at the office . . . .

A mix-up with their reservations forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner’s daughter, Elettra. The four kids discover an amazing coincidence — they all have birthdays on February 29, Leap Day. That night, a strange man gives them a briefcase and asks them to take care of it until he returns. Soon afterward, the man is murdered.

The kids open the briefcase. In it they find a series of clues that take them all over Rome, through dusty libraries and dark catacombs, in search of the elusive Ring of Fire, an ancient and extremely powerful object.

In the first book of the Century quartet, author P. D. Baccalario begins a mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.

Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Despite the best efforts of the superheroes, the police, and the military, the hungry corpses rose up and overwhelmed the country. The population was decimated, heroes fell, and the City of Angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland like so many others.

Now, a year later, the ex-heroes must overcome their differences to protect the thousands of survivors sheltered in their film studio-turned-fortress, the Mount. The heroes lead teams out to scavenge supplies, keep the peace within the walls of their home, and try to be the symbols the survivors so desperately need.

For while the ex-humans walk the streets night and day, they are not the only threat left in the world, and the people of the Mount are not the only survivors left in Los Angeles. Across the city, another group has grown and gained power.

And they are not heroes.

Facing the perilous realities of Civil War–era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive. In the tradition of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, A Wish After Midnight is the affecting and inspiring tale of a fearless young woman’s fight to hold on to her individuality and her humanity in two different worlds.

Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless.

Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders’ webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael’s world changes forever. . . .