Darker (Alexa O'Brien Huntress Book 6) - By Trina M. LeeChapter OneSin and sacrilege. From fornication and bloodletting to death and obsessed addiction, those two words summed up the vampires’ world quite nicely. The Wi...
Dark Wolf (Spirit Wild) - By Kate DouglasAcknowledgmentsI’ve wanted to write this series since the day I typed the final page of Wolf Tales 12, but for a long time I wasn’t sure if I’d have that chance. Publ...
Dark Serpent - By Kylie Chan1ZhenwuJohn pushed more of the blasted papers to the side of the desk, then realised that he didn’t have anywhere to put the keyboard, so he added the papers to the pile of student files on...
Dark of the Moon - By Tracy BarrettPrologueIt isn't true what they say about my brother—that he ate those children. He never did; he didn't even mean to hurt them. He wept as he held out their broken bodies, his so...
Dark Magic (The Chronicles of Arandal) - By Rebecca YorkChapter OneAt night, Galladar prowled the great castle un...
Damon - By Teresa GabelmanChapter 1Nicole Callahan’s piece of crap on wheels slid sideways into the wet parking lot, the muffler clanged loudly as she slammed her brakes to stop in front of the old warehouse. Man, she h...
Damned - By Brittany BookerCHAPTER 1LizzieThis is a serious matter, Tommy, my mother yelled.Yes, yes it is, I thought as I leaned in closer to the mirror in my room, holding up a shirt to wear. Someone breaking into our hou...
That Which Bites- By Celis T. RonoTEN YEARS PRIOR…A PALLID, MALNOURISHED GIRL of twelve sniffed and blew her nose. It was her second viewing of Billy Jack, a tawdry vigilante movie from the 1970s she had come upon in the F...
Cursed Bones - By David A WellsChapter 1Isabel woke with a start, her heart hammering in her chest, her hand instinctively going for the hilt of her dagger. Once she realized where she was, she eased herself back onto her b...
Conspiracies (Mercedes Lackey) - By Mercedes LackeyONEIt was Christmas morning, and as she woke in a bed that still seemed strange, Spirit White had never in her life felt less festive.It didn’t help, of course, that this...
Complete El Borak - By Robert E. HowardCHAPTER 1The tall Englishman, Pembroke, was scratching lines on the earth with his hunting knife, talking in a jerky tone that indicated suppressed excitement: I tell you, Ormond, that pea...
Club Dead - By Charlaine HarrisChapter OneB ILL WAS HUNCHED over the computer when I let myself in his house. This was an all-too-familiar scenario in the past month or two. He’d torn himself away from his work when I...
City of Ruins - By Kristine Kathryn RuschONEThe Ivoire dipped, then rose, then flipped and doubled back. Inside the bridge, the crew could feel no difference despite the rapid movements. The only way anyone could tell if somet...
Celestial Beginnings (Nephilim Series) - By Rebekah DamielsPrologueThere once was a time when everything was right and peaceful in heaven. God had his angels that were his trusted servants, and his archangels that were strong an...
Cause of Death: Unnatural-By Eliza FordThe Cause of Death Series – Book 1Em's head had been killing her all day. The three bodies lying on the ground in front of her weren't making it any better.There was an itc...
Cast into Doubt - By Patricia MacDonaldPROLOGUEPrajit Singh didn’t want any drama on his shift. He needed time to concentrate. So far, it had been a quiet night, and that was the way he preferred it. Drivers came and w...
Caradoc of the North Wind - By Allan Frewin JonesCHAPTER ONEBranwen ap Griffith narrowed her eyes against the glare of the sunlit snow. Through the brittle black branches of a sheltering rowan, she could see that the sky had...
Cannot Unite (Vampire Assassin League) - By Jackie IvieCHAPTER ONEFlaked iron oxide.Jeannette rubbed the particles between her latex-gloved thumb and fingers, watching the rust turn to fine granules that floated down and became du...
By the Sword - By Sara FlowerChapter OneTalya squinted, scanning the vast coastline of Cardamon. As usual, nothing appeared to be amiss. But she could feel that something wasn’t right. It was in the air like an oncoming...
Burn Bright - By Marianne de PierresRetra pressed her fingers to her thigh. The intense pain from her obedience strip had receded to a steady throb and nausea. Perhaps that was the worst it would get, now that she’d le...
Burden of the Soul - By Kate Grace1.It was in the early hours of my sixteenth birthday that a thought rolled around in my head, keeping me awake until I was willing to accept it—that I, Clara Gaber, was completely average...
Broods Of Fenrir - By Coral MoorePrologueBrand spat a mouthful of blood onto the frozen ground. The sharp flavor coated his tongue. He rolled to his feet, favoring the cracked rib from the blow that had sent him flying. The...
Broken Wings (An Angel Eyes Novel) - By Shannon Dittemore1PearlaHell is loud.Talons scratch at the stone floor and clack against the pillars circling the chamber as the great hall fills. Hisses and snarls sound all around, but...
Brilliant Devices - By Shelley AdinaChapter 1The Evening StandardOctober 9, 1889TITANS OF MODERN INDUSTRY DIE IN TRAIN CATASTROPHEIn a tragedy that strikes at the very foundations of society on two continents, one of London’...
Break Out - By Nina CroftChapter OneRico hurled himself behind the huge trunk of a tree and stood, back pressed against the rough bark as the missiles whizzed past.An arrow thwacked into the wood behind him, and every muscle...
Bound by Prophecy (Descendants Series) - By Melissa WrightChapter OneThe GirlThey called it a thinning of the blood. Though most of our ancestors’ magic had slowly weakened, it still left us the ability to hold sway over...
Bonded by Blood - By Laurie LondonCHAPTER ONEMACKENZIE FOSTER-SHAW spotted the cemetery sign at the last minute and squeezed the brakes, spinning out her white Triumph motorcycle in a spray of dirt and gravel. She meant to lea...
Blue Violet - By Abigail OwenChapter 1The first day was always the worst. Ellie Aubrey stood in the administrative office, as she had many times before, and shifted from foot to foot. She waited with growing boredom for one ...
Bloodlust - By Michelle Rowen1RAVENOUS WAS THE PERFECT NAME FOR A PLACE LIKE this.I’d arrived at the seedy North Hollywood bar a half hour ago. A friend had sent an email earlier today asking me to meet him here tonigh...
Blood Secrets - By Jeannie HolmesprologueNO MOON SHONE IN THE SKY WHEN HE DUMPED THE body. He hardly recognized the mangled mess before him as the vibrant young woman he’d known, even though their affair had been brief....
Blood Past - By Samantha YoungPrologueThe FlightThe blood of the Blessed splattered walls and chairs and pooled on the floor like something from a fantastical graphic novel. It was a massacre.Stellan?!Eden pushed at Noah, who ke...
Blood of Aenarion - By William KingPrologue79th Year of the Reign of Aenarion, the Cliffs of Skalderak, UlthuanFrom high atop the cliffs of Skalderak, Aenarion looked down on the camp of his enemies. The Chaos worshippers’...
Blood Moon (Silver Moon, #3) - By Rebecca A. Rogerschapter OneTo be honest, I’m tired of stepping in chicken poop. The crap is everywhere, this place stinks, and this is definitely not what I had in mind when I once s...
Blood for Wolves - By Nicole TaftChapter 1Come on. I stared at the wolf from my hiding place. She was so close to being in my sights. Just a little more.The alpha female scanned the area before encouraging her pups to leav...
Blind God's Bluff A Billy Fox Novel - By Richard Lee ByersCHAPTER ONEIt wasn’t weird that I was running away. It was weird that I met a man with no eyes running in the opposite direction.A few minutes earlier, I&rs...
Bless The Beauty - By Stacey KennedyChapter OneThe warm salty rush poured through my mouth as my fangs retracted back into my gums. An explosion of energy coursed through my veins, as it always did after I drank a mortal&rsq...
Blade Song - By J.C. Danielschapter OneMy sword arm is mighty.I will not falter.I will not fail.My aim is true.My heart is strong.I’m the descendant of some legendary badasses and I’ll damn well make myself wake up...
BlackMoon Beginnings - By Kaitlyn HoytChapter OneSchool. That place where we are forced to go five out of seven days a week. It’s a place of ‘learning,’ as so many call it, yet I can’t wrap my head aro...
Black Halo - By Sam SykesPrologueThe Aeons’ GateThe Sea of Buradan … somewhere …Summer, getting later all the timeWhat’s truly wrong with the world is that it seems so dauntingly complex at a glance and so despair...
Black Feathers - By Joseph D'LaceyPROLOGUEWhen the final days came, it was said that Satan walked the Earth in the guise of a crow. Those who feared him called him Scarecrow or sometimes Black Jack. I know him as the Cr...
Bitterblue - By Kristin CashorePROLOGUEWHEN HE GRABS Mama's wrist and yanks her toward the wallhanging like that, it must hurt. Mama doesn't cry out. She tries to hide her pain from him, but she looks back at me, and...
Biting Cold - By Chloe NeillCHAPTER ONEON THE ROAD AGAINLate NovemberCentral IowaIt shone like a beacon. More than a thousand feet of skyscraper, the lights at the top of its antennas blinking through the darkness that blankete...
Bird - By Rita Murphy1Wysteria did not care where I had come from or where I had been. Nor did she care that I was small and delicate in nature and easily carried off by the wind. She cared only that I stay with her in...
Beyond Here Lies Nothing - By Gary McMahon– From the diary of Jack Pollack, April 1974PART ONEThe Gone-Away GirlsPromise me that you won't try to save me.– Abby HansenCHAPTER ONEIT STARTS, FOR him, with an ending...
Between the Lives - By Jessica ShirvingtonPREFACEI am a liar.Not compulsive.Simply required.I am two people. Neither better than the other, no superpowers, no mystical destinies, no two-places-in-one-time mechanism – but two p...
Between - By Kerry SchaferPrologueLater she will remember him so: impatient with the waiting, restless feet carrying him back and forth in the grassy space in front of the fountain. She will remember the murmur and splash of ...
Better off Dead A Lucy Hart, Deathdealer - By Eva SloanChapter 1SOMETHING glinted out in the cool September night and caught Lucy Hart’s eye. She peered out the large picture window over the kitchen sink and scanned the...
Betrayal - By Lee Nichols1It’s not easy watching a friend get buried, especially when you were responsible for his death.We’re here today to mourn the untimely passing of Coby Jameson Anders. Sixteen years old, honor...
Belka, Why Don't You Bark - By Hideo FurukawaI want to set them loose.—Siberia (the sleeping land), 199XThe snow had let up, but the temperature remained below zero. The road was hemmed in on each side by a forest of w...
Before (The Sensitives) - By Dawn Rae MillerBEFOREThe man with the caterpillar eyebrows won’t stop talking. So far, he’s told me about his school days–years and years and years ago!–and his off-campus exploi...