Sherrilyn Kenyon / Kinley MacGregor

For as long as she has lived, Kateri Avani has been plagued with dreams she doesn’t understand. Images of places she’s never been and of a man she’s never met. In spite of her background, she refuses to believe in anything supernatural. But it's hard to deny something when it comes and kicks in your front door, and brings you face to face with the warrior who has haunted you your entire life…

Ren Waya came back from the dead to help prevent a devastating prophecy from coming true — and to fight an evil that once possessed him. An evil that still owns a large chunk of his soul. Now, the last thing he wants is to be responsible for someone else. Ever. Even if he doesn't make sure Kateri fulfills her role, time itself will come undone. Still, it's hard to help someone when you know she is either the key to your ultimate salvation...or your utter destruction.

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Keteri's Profile

Lydia has the powers of a Dream-Hunter and has been trained by Solin (see The Dream Hunter) in her powers, but as a half-breed Oneroi/Kattagaria Jackal he's kept her sequestered from the Dream-Hunters and denizens of Olympus. But when Noir captured Solin (see Dream Warrior) she goes to Azmodea to try to rescue her foster-father.

Seth was a demi-god, son of Egyptian Set and slave of Noir and Azura. Charged to torture Solin for the location of the Key to Olympus, or be tortured for failure. When he captures Lydia he decides to use her to coerce Solin into cooperating.

But will she be the key to his freedom from servitude to a being he hates with all his being or the final link in the loss of all he wishes?

Seth's Profile

Lydia's Profile

Jess "Sundown" Brady. Gunslinger. Outlaw. Bank Robber. Killed by his only friend in 1873 and sworn into service to Artemis for his retribution. A "young" Dark-Hunter recently moved to Las Vegas in the aftermath of Devil May Cry to learn that a human leading Daimons is hunting Dark-Hunters in the old west. And he's next on the list!

Abigail Yager. Orphaned as a toddler, raised by Apollites and Daimons. Trained to hunt and kill the Dark-Hunters she's been taught are evil. Specifically sighted on Sundown who she believes killed her family.

Can they overcome their mutual hatred in time to stop a world-altering disaster? (Builds up to the "Time Untime" of the prophecy of 2012.)

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Abigail's Profile

Samia, Queen of the Amazona, grand-daughter of Hippolyta herself, swore her service to Artemis when her own sister murdered her husband, her toddler daughter and unborn baby. She's served as a Dark-Huntress for several thousand years with little regrets. Until she meets a particular bear...

Deveraux "Dev" Peltier, Ursulan (were-bear), one of the Peltier "quad". Footloose and Fancy Free womanizer who only has liasons with human women because he really doesn't want to be mated. Do the fates have another plan in mind for him?

Hunted by Stryker, who is convinced that Samia's power is what he needs to kill his father Apollo, can Sam and Dev overcome Stryker's forces & the demons who also seem to be hunting them?

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Sam's Profile

In the world of the Were-Hunters, like stays with like. Species don’t mix and they definitely don’t fall in love. But from the moment Aimee Peltier took in a wounded wolf, her heart wouldn’t listen to what her head told her.

However, Fang Kattalakis isn’t just a wolf; he is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the lyncanthropes. His brothers are the wolf representatives and Aimee’s mother represents the Bear clan. Aimee is the heir apparent for her species. There is no way these two can ever be together and they know it.

But when war comes to Sanctuary, the establishment run by Aimee’s family, sides must be chosen and enemies are forced into shaky alliances and people we love will die.

Fang Kattalakis's Profile

Aimee Peltier's Profile

Crates. A Titan, son of Warcraft and Hatred, who fought for the Olympians, he has stood at Zeus' right-hand since that great battle. But his refusal to slay Leta's infant daughter has placed him in the sights of Zeus himself. Exiled from Mt. Olympus, stripped his his godhood, his heart replaced with that of a human, and tortured every day for over 6,000 years, Crates (now calling himself Jericho) thought he knew what hatred was. Now he really does.

Delphine. Half-human Oneroi sent by Zeus and Nike (Crates' sister) to sway Jericho to their side. Can she break through six thousand years of Zeus' cruelty to find the true soul of a god who is the actual son of Hatred?

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Delphine's Profile

When Strykerius (yes, the Daimon king) was just a mortal 14-year old demi-god son of Apollo he met, fell in love with, and wed the Apollite daughter of a fishmonger, Zephyra. Apollo made him divorce her for an arranged marriage which lasted only a few years as Apollo's Apollite curse ended so many relationships and lives for the next 11,000 years.

After Stryker releases primoridial War, an assassin is sent to eliminate Styker with no regards to the results if he is killed. Events unfold that require Stryker, Zephyra, Medea, and the other Daimons to actually call a truce with Acheron, Sin, Katra, Savitar and Jared to save the world so they can fight each other another day.

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Zephyra's Profile

Medea's Profile

Fury Kattalakis was born one of three Arcadian (human) children and three Katagaria (wolf) children in one litter. The wolf-babies were sent to be with their father and their mother kept the "human" children to raise. But when puberty hit, Fury's base nature became a wolf, much to his surprise. Attacked, grievously wounded, and left for dead by his own mother he eventually made his way to the pack of his sire, where he hid his identity from his sire, his new pack and even his three Katagaria litter-mates. He'd learned his lesson on trusting others.

Now, his brothers know who he is and he is accepted, but he holds himself apart from others, his ability to truly TRUST destroyed by the past betrayal. But when he re-encounters the Arcadian girl he considered his best friend can the two of them both overcome their distrust of each other and their natures to make peace and end a threat to all Katagaria?

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Angelia's Profile

When a customer service rep assigned to customer complains gets sick and tired of his job and his life, he makes a wish that will change his world and everything he thought he knew. Now, he's an angel (Hell-chaser!) in training!!!

READ THIS BEFORE BAD MOON RISING

Zeke's Profile

Everything to-date has led to this point. Travel back in time 11,000 years and witness the birth of Acheron, how he grew up, how he lived before he became the ancient warrior figure we've seen in almost every book and story up till now.

Witness the curse that created the Daimons, try to follow the logic that led to the creation of the Dark-Hunters, learn who the Simi is, answer those questions you've been asking about Acheron's reasong for being so secretive, and discover some of his powers as he discovers them himself.

Then, re-witness some of the events from the earlier books from Ash's point-of-view and check in with the characters from the earlier stories. Finally, as the story progresses, decide if Acheron is ready to accept his past and allow true happiness into his life... A story ELEVEN THOUSAND YEARS in the telling!

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Soteria's Profile

Once Xypher was Onerio, a dream-god, helping to heal others through their dreams. Then Satara pulled him onto a dream so vivid and rich with emotion, he turned Skotos, addicted to emotions and possessed of an addict's need to induce fear in dreamers. Till a dreamer died. For that he was executed, even though he didn't kill the dreamer, his lover Satara did the deed, and swore that if he'd cover for her she'd rescue him somehow. Then, after his death, she deserted him; worse, she made sure she knew he'd been duped.

Now Xypher has a limited time to be human and free of Hades torments. His one goal: to kill Satara. Satara, in her panicked fear has a special set of bracelets put on Xypher and a human, Simone, a New Orleans pathologist with a pet ghost. The bracelets will cause Xypher to die if Simone is killed and vice-versa. Can Xypher keep Simone, and thus himself, alive long enough to kill Satara in the short time he's free and what will happen to her when his time runs out?

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Simone's Profile

Five thousand years ago, Zeus cursed all the gods and demi-gods of dream to live without emotion, to have it beaten and tortured out of them, any cross-breed children to be put to death. The Oneroi Leta's infant daughter and her mortal husband were murdered on the say-so of the king of the Olympian gods. That day Leta swore to hunt Dolor, the personification of pain, until he could pay for killing her baby. Deeply wounded in battle with Dolor, Leta has been in a healing sleep, waiting for someone to be stupid enough to summon Dolor, to wake and resume her vengeance.

Aidan O'Connor achieved all his dreams as a movie-star beloved by his fans, until his own brother and nephew turned on him and broke his heart. He has exiled himself from the rest of the world, nursing his hurt and anger. But now someone had summoned Dolor to kill him, to hurt him.

Leta feels sympathy for the hurt and anger Aidan feels, but needs those emotions to fuel her powers; it's the only way to save Aidan and defeat Dolor. But to leave Aidan emotionally wounded and hurting with rage goes against the healing her powers demand of her...

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Aidan's Profile

For millennia, Sin has sought to regain his powers and take revenge on Artemis for stealing his powers and his god-head. But now he has bigger fish — or in this case, demons — to fry. The lethal gallu that were buried by his pantheon are stirring, and they are hungry for human flesh. Their goal: To destroy mankind. Sin is the only one who can stop them... if a certain woman doesn’t kill him first.

Enemies have always made strange bedfellows, but never more so than when the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Now a man who only knows betrayal must trust the one person most likely to hand him to the demons. Artemis may have stolen his godhood, but this one has stolen his heart. The only question is: Will she keep it... or feed it to those who want him dead?

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Katra's Profile

An aside with Nick as he makes a huge mistake in his misguided desire for vengeance against Acheron.

Nick's Profile

Arikos, ex-Oneroi Skotos, enamored of the strong emotions he experiences in the dreams of Dr. Megeara Kafieri bargains for a month as a human with full emotions with Hades. The price is the life of his target, Geary.

As a human, he helps Geary on her quest to discover the true location of Atlantis. Led by the subliminal guidance of Apollymi herself since Geary is a blood-descendant of a true Atlantian, she's actually found Atlantis, but Atlantis can NEVER be uncovered.

Hunted by the Dolophoni and aided in her quest with deception by Katra, the Abadonna, will Geary and Arik live their full month and at the end of their time, will Arik actually be able to kill Geary and deliver her soul to Hades?

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Geary's Profile

Over five hundred years ago, Esperetta, Dracula’s daughter witnessed her beloved husband kill her equally adored father and ran from the man she thought she loved but now believed to be a monster. As the years passed, and she didn't age or die, she realized her soul was bound to her husband’s. Velkan was a Dark-Hunter, immortal; and with she with him.

Hunted across the globe by the members of a religious sect, can the ill-fortuned lovers reconcile in time to save their own lives?

Velkan's Profile

Esperetta's Profile

As a Dark-Hunter and an immortal pirate who once intimidated the entire Spanish Maine, Rafael Santiago thinks he has it made.

Until his Squire writes a story that threatens to expose their covert world and Celena shows up to kill him for the story.

In order to protect his Squire, he is now forced to endure Celena who is the greatest aggravation of his life.

Celena, for all her bluster, only wants what’s best for all Dark-Hunters, but there’s something about Rafael that makes her want to forsake her deepest held oath.

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Celena's Profile

Susan Michaels, human journalist who was ruined by a bad source.

Summoned to a local animal shelter by her veterinarian best friend, she adopts a strange cat even though she's allergic and is pulled into the Dark-Hunter/Were-Hunter/Apollite/Daimon politics and has to rework her entire view of the way the world works.

As they're hunted by Apollites, Daimons and humans alike, can the overcome the hostility of the squires, and Ravyn's family as well as Susan's allergy to Ravyn?

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Susan Michaels's Profile

Half-dead, he was taken to Sanctuary when he was barely more than a cub. The bears took pity on him, but with every passing year as he grew older, they became more and more aware of his powers and his strength, afraid his imbalance may endanger their family, their club, their limani.

But when he meets Maggie, for the first time in his life he wants to fit in, if only for her. But her father is a public figure and the only way he can be with her may endanger the secret all the denizens of the supernatural world must protect...

Hunted by those who believe that any relationship he may have with the woman he loves and by those who believe that his very hybrid nature is abomination, can the two lovers find some way to survive in their very different worlds, together?

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Maggie's Profile

Styxx's Profile

One solitary night, hunting, alone in my element, I was fighting the Daimons. The next thing I knew a human, self-styled "vampire slayer" stabbed me. Tabitha Devereaux is unlike any woman I have ever known. Human; rich in friends and family; a capable fighter, despite her gender and her mortality; owner of a decadent shocking store. She's beguiling, provocative, alluring... beautiful.

There’s only one small problem. She happens to be the twin to the wife of a man who hates me with all his being. With reason. He was tortured and crucified by my own grandfather, and I look almost exactly like my namesake.

Now, Tabitha and her sister are being stalked by an undying evil bent on revenge. One who refuses to rest until everyone Tabitha holds dear is dead.

--------------------~Valerius Magnus

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Tabitha's Profile

Dante Pontis, Regis Katagarian Panthiras, and owner of Dante's Inferno is in Atlanta for Dragon-Con to scope out bands for his club with his brothers Romeo and the terrible two, Michaelgelo & Leonardo (Mike & Leo). What he never expects to find is an Arcadian pantherswan on the run from her enemies.

Pandora Kouti is at Dragon-Con, her first foray into the madness that is the "human" world. Searching for help [Acheron] to prevent a heat -driven assault she would much rather avoid, panic sets in when she encounters four unknown male Katagaria panthers.

Afraid she's to be ravaged with the help of her traitorous horomones, she takes a chance and finds her destiny.

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Pandora's Profile

Bride McTierney has had it with men.

They're cheap, self-centered, and never love her for who she is. But though she prides herself on being independent, deep down she still yearns for a knight in shining armor. She just never expected her knight in shining armor to have a shiny coat of fur...

Deadly and tortured, Vane Kattalakis isn't what he seems. Most women lament that their boyfriends are dogs. In Bride's case, hers is a wolf. A Were-Hunter wolf. Wanted dead by his enemies, Vane isn't looking for a mate. But the Fates have marked Bride as his. Now he has three weeks to either convince Bride that the supernatural is real or he will spend the rest of his life neutered — something no self-respecting wolf can accept...

But how does a wolf convince a human to trust him with her life when his enemies are out to end his? In the world of the Were-Hunters, it really is dog-eat-dog. And only one alpha male can win.

Vane's Profile

Bride's Profile

What do you get when you take one immortal Viking warrior no one can remember five minutes after he leaves their presence, an Apollite heiress on the run for her life, and one seriously pissed off demigod? Basically, you get my life.

It started out simple enough. I went to save a woman one night in a club. The next thing I knew, the doorway to hell had opened and out stepped Daimons the likes of which I'd never seen before. Led by the son of Apollo, they are out to end the curse that has banished them all to darkness. The only problem with that is they have to kill Cassandra Peters to do it and if she dies, so dies the sun, the earth and all who dwell here. Life's just a bowl full of cherries, ain't it?

Brought together by fate, it's now my job to protect a daughter of the very race I have been hunting for centuries. Neither of us dares to trust the other. But she is the only one who remembers me... More than that, with her courage and strength, she is the only one who has ever touched a heart that I thought died centuries ago.

The only way for a Dark-Hunter to regain his soul is through the love of a woman. But what happens when that woman isn't exactly human?

--------------------------Wulf Tryggvasen

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Cassandra's Profile

Insanity: A condition many say I suffer from after being alone for so long. But I don't suffer from my insanity —I enjoy every minute of it.

Trust: I endured a lifetime as a Greek slave of the Romans, then 900 years as an exiled Dark-Hunter. Now I'm tired of enduring. I want the truth about what happened the night I was exiled — I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Astrid (Greek, meaning star): An exceptional woman who can see straight to the truth, despite her blindness. Brave and strong, she is a point of light in the darkness. She touches me and I tremble. She smiles and my cold heart shatters.

Zarek: They say even the most damned man can be forgiven. I never believed that until the night Astiid opened her door to me and made this feral beast want to be human again. Made me want to love and be loved. But how can an ex-slave whose soul is owned by a Greek goddess ever dream of touching, let alone holding, a fiery star?

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Astrid's Profile

James Cameron Patrick Gallagher came into the world with a chip on his shoulder. The son of poor immigrants, he rose through the ranks of the Irish mob to be a major crime boss. Quick to anger, he took nothing from anyone and refused to be tamed until the day a Portuguese immigrant’s daughter crossed his path.

Instantly in love, Gallagher defied everyone to claim her for his own. He adored his wife and was trying to go straight when fate intervened. As he rushed to the hospital to be with her while she labored to bring their son into the world, he was shot dead by the authorities. He had surrendered to the cops, but they shot him dead in cold blood.

Barely one hundred years old, he is one of the youngest of the Dark- Hunters and is still getting used to his powers and responsibilities. He is still wild and untamed, and extremely unpredictable.

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Haunted by recurring nightmares of terrifying beasts, Erin McDaniels is afraid to sleep — until a hero arrives in her dreams to save her... and makes erotic, incredible love to her. But can she find him again when she is awake?

Not what he seems, V’Aidan walks a shadowy line on the world of the Oneroi. Lethal and cold, he takes no prisoners and stops at nothing. No one is sure which side he’s on... Other than his own.

V'Aidan's Story

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Erin's Profile

Dear Reader,

Life is great for me. I have my chicory coffee, my warm beignets and my best friend on the cell phone. Once the sun goes down, I am the baddest thing prowling the night: I command the elements, and I know no fear. For centuries, I’ve protected the innocent and watched over mankind, making sure they are safe in a world where nothing is ever certain. All I want in return is a hot babe in a red dress, who wants nothing more from me than one night. Instead, I get a runaway Mardi Gras float that tries to turn me into roadkill and a beautiful woman who saves my life, but can't remember where she put my pants. Flamboyant and extravagant, Sunshine Runningwolf should be the perfect woman for me. She wants nothing past tonight, no ties, no long-term commitments.

But every time I look at her, I start yearning for dreams that I buried centuries ago. With her unconventional ways and ability to baffle me, Sunshine is the one person I find myself needing. But for me to love her would mean her death. I am cursed never to know peace or happiness — not so long as my enemy waits in the night to destroy us both.

-------------------Talon of the Morrigantes

Talon's Profile

Sunshine's Profile

Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be immortal? To journey through the night stalking vampires that prey on humans? To have unlimited wealth, unlimited power? That is my existence, and it's dark and dangerous. I play hero to thousands, but am known to none. And I love every minute of it.

Or so I thought until one night when I woke up handcuffed to my worst nightmare: a conservative woman in a button-down shirt. Or in Amanda's case, one buttoned all the way up to her chin. She's smart, sexy, witty, and wants nothing to do with the paranormal — in other words, me.

My attraction to Amanda Deveraux goes against everything I stand for. Not to mention the last time I fell in love it cost me not only my human life, but also my very soul. Yet every time I look at her, I find myself wanting to try again. Wanting to believe that love and loyalty do exist.

Even more disturbing, I find myself wondering if there's any way a woman like Amanda can love a man whose battle scars run deep, and whose heart was damaged by a betrayal so savage that he's not sure it will ever beat again.

------------------Kyrian of Thrace

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Amanda's Profile

For Channon there's only one way to finally uncover the secrets of the intricate embroidery — by following the seductive stranger into a fantastic alternate world of magic, danger and erotic adventure.

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Channon's Profile

Dear Reader,

Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day.

As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander's sexual fantasies, I found the first woman tin history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and into the world. She taught me to love again.

But I was not born to know love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As a general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet now I have found Grace--the one thing my wounded heart cannot survive without. Sure, love can heal all wounds, but can it break a two-thousand-year-old curse?

------------------Julian of Macedon

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Grace's Profile

Devyn Kell's knowledge of women, gambling and medicine was as vast as the cosmos. But what he knew about a spaceship's maintenance system wouldn't fill a moon crater. So when irresistible Alix Garran told him that his vessel's rear stabilizer was down, Devyn hired her as his engineer. While she taught him about his ship's nuts and bolts, he longed to tutor her in the mechanics of love. Fleeing her past, Alix wanted a life free of trouble. Yet no sooner had she signed on with Devyn than they were outrunning the authorities and heading toward Paradise City where even assassin's weren't safe. But Alix didn't know what real danger was until Devyn's burning kiss awakened her restless spirit with a taste of heaven.