Ten years ago, Orien, crown prince of the Seleighe, was captured by his mortal enemies, locked in a dungeon, and turned into a vampire. Four years ago, Cullen, a Healer's brother, disobeyed his Mistress' orders, thus sealing his fate for all eternity.
When ten-year old Jacob Lane's parents mysteriously vanish, she is sent to Darkbrook, the only school of magic in the United States. While there, she stumbles upon a series of mysterious deaths. Nine students have died in the past one hundred years. Nine ghosts haunt the halls of Darkbrook. Will Jacob be the tenth ghost, or will she be able to stop a witch's reign of terror with the help of her friends?
When Ophelia's family decides to open up their castle for guests, Jacob is invited to join in on the fun. 'Spend the night in a vampire's castle and live to tell the tale' is supposed to be a fund-raiser to help Ophelia's family pay the bills. (It costs quite a bit to heat a castle, after all.) But when the truth of an old secret is uncovered, what began as an innocent business venture soon turns deadly when the vampire hunters get involved.
What Jacob and Ophelia find in the eighth room uncovers a mystery that dates to Darkbrook's beginnings, and might save the Selkies from extinction. With the help of the youngest member of the Wild Hunt, they must foil the Finfolk who desire the Selkie's destruction... or die trying.
After Niklas' picture shows up in too many newspapers to count, Darkbrook is forced to go on the defensive. But there are more than dragonhunters in the forest, and as Jacob learns how to use her newfound talents, she helps to right an old wrong and must battle a teenage wizard intent on proving--once and for all-that magic is real.
Long before Russell Moore ever met Karen Montgomery or set foot in Beth-Hill, he was a vampire hunter. A very good vampire hunter. Quite possibly the best vampire hunter of them all. He brought down whole nests of vampires, caring little about the consequences of his actions; anyone who lived with or helped the vampires were enemies. It was easier that way, not to think of them as people....Only an idiot would go so far as to capture a vampire hunter and try to reform him--or her.
When Karen finally does confront Ivy, a night clerk she has never met, she is thrust into a conflict centuries old, that make her previous troubles pale in comparison....
Karen Montgomery is embroiled in another otherworldly adventure... A member of the Wild Hunt wants help to find peace between who he once was and who he is now. A little girl has gone missing. And the one most likely responsible for her disappearance is the one Karen must prove innocent.
In the third Karen Montgomery story, an innocent attempt to rid the library of a plague of ladybugs turns sinister when a rogue vampire hunter gets the contract.
A darker history lies at the heart of Terrin's treachery, and only Skade knows the true reason why Terrin would murder his own brother and attempt to destroy both Alban and the vampire to achieve his goals. The Ghost who resides in Skade's mirror--her servant and slave--holds one of the keys to Terrin's madness, but more than one person wishes for the past to remain the past and the future to hold no shadows of what might have been...
Events that were set in motion ten years ago come to a head as Skade and Nicodemus struggle to free Alden and the vampire from Terrin's grasp. Old secrets come to light when Skade's exiled son is forced to face his past--or die trying to redeem himself once and for all. Can the crimes of the past truly be forgiven? Only time will tell, but time is running out...
With his power crushed, Terrin is forced to take drastic measures to regain his sons and the power they possess. But he has an ally inside Espen's house who works to further his plans. Skade's son courts redemption to try to save his mother's life, and the vampire dreams a dream that might save them all--or damn them to failure if they do not succeed. This is the conclusion of the Shadows Trilogy.
The Wild Hunt roamed the forest outside of Beth-Hill until the Council bound them for a hundred years--a lifetime, to a human, but only a passing thought to one such as Gabriel. But a century has put its mark even on the Master of the Wild Hunt, and as the Council's binding draws to a close, old enemies reappear to ensure that the Wild Hunt is bound again, to a Master--or Mistress--much worse than the Council could ever become.
Erialas Morgan brought his mother back to life with a spell that shouldn't exist, but he acted out of desperation and love. There are others who wish to use that same spell for their own gain--and to destroy the Wild Hunt once and for all...
When you fall in love with royalty, you might as well stick your head in a noose. So Bannor Starfist learns, at the end of a rope. Then things get worse.
Surviving a battle to the death with a god would tax the greatest of heroes, but for Bannor Starfist it is only the beginning of something much worse--a war with a whole pantheon of gods!
Bannor and Wren are on another adventure doing what they do best... getting into and out-of trouble. The two savants embark on a simple reconnaissance mission with their new friends from the Shael Dal. Naturally there are the little bumps that make the danger duo's life so interesting--massacres, spies, and hostile alien assassins...
16/05/2012
Writers Exchange is thrilled to announce the beginning of another mid-grade reader series by Margaret Pearce...
TITLE: The Wingless Fairy Series Book 1: Rebecca and the Changeling
Author: Margaret Pearce
GENRE: Mid-Grade-Reader/Fantasy
ISBN: 978-1-921636-91-2
Word Count: 17,204
A fairy princess bored with her existence breaks a few rules, gets into mischief, and ends up getting her wish never to be bored granted.